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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: "The Long Shadow of the 536 CE Event"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lee Mordechai\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow 2023-24) \n*Light refreshments will be served starting at 4:00 pm.* \nRegistration is required for virtual attendance only. Zoom registration link. \nFind more information on the EHL website. \n\nThis seminar is organized by The Environmental History Lab (EHL)\, an interdisciplinary program affiliated with the Program in Medieval Studies and funded by a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council. \n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ehl-seminar-the-long-shadow-of-the-536-ce/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: "Food Fight: Economic and Political Relations Between Sicily and Ifriqiya in the 11th Century"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on November 14 for the next LAMB workshop in 203 Scheide Caldwell. We will read and discuss Ksenia Ryzhova’s paper entitled “Food Fight: Economic and Political Relations Between Sicily and Ifriqiya in the 11th Century.” \nThis workshop is for Graduate Students only. Please Please RSVP and download the paper on the LAMB Website. \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Amel Bensalim (ab7941@princeton.edu) or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-food-fight-economic-and-political-relations-between-sicily-and-ifriqiya-in-the-11th-century/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: The Emperor and the Elephant
DESCRIPTION:For the next iteration of book club\, we will be reading the brand new book The Emperor and the Elephant (Princeton\, 2023) by Samuel Ottewill-Soulsby. This work is said to provide a “new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period . . .  by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources.” Medieval studies book club is an informal and friendly environment to discuss recent works in the field and connect with fellow travelers across the university. Anyone with an interest in the material is invited. \nWe will discuss the book over lunch on Tuesday\, November 14th at 12pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell. If you would like to join\, please send an email to Albert Kohn at ak0429@princeton.edu. \nAll those who commit to joining our conversation will be offered a copy of the book at no cost. Please RSVP to Albert by Tuesday\, October 17th and indicate whether you would like a copy of the book and whether you have any dietary restrictions. \nThis meeting is for graduate students only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-the-emperor-and-the-elephant/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics: “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives”
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies) will be presenting on “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives.” \nAll are welcome. Refreshments will be served! \nConveners: Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies/History) \nCoordinators: Stephanie Luescher (Near Eastern Studies) and Lucia Waldschuetz (History) \nTo receive the edition\, translation and  image of the document discussed during each session\, sign up here. \n\nComparative Diplomatics is sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History with support from the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-how-can-jesuits-be-mistaken-for-buddhist-monks-ouchi-yoshinagas-1552-commendation-and-its-portuguese-and-latin-afterlives/
LOCATION:Jones 202\, Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Race Before Modernity Book Club: Medieval Art and Race: A Conversation with Pamela Patton
DESCRIPTION:The Race Before Modernity Book Club (RBMBC) welcomes you to our next event featuring Pamela Patton\, Director of The Index of Medieval Art. We will read three of her most recent articles\, which will be distributed upon registration. \nWe will meet on Wednesday\, Nov. 15\, 2023 at 4:30pm in Scheide Caldwell House 203. \nTo register\, please visit: https://forms.gle/8kpjnzJ6QT2hJP9f9 \nRegistration is required. \nThese meetings are for graduate students only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/race-before-modernity-book-club-medieval-art-and-race-a-conversation-with-pamela-patton/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “El Greco - Architect?”
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2023. Charlie Barber\, Donald Drew Egbert Professor of Art and Archaeology\, will present this lunchtime talk on Tuesday\, November 28. \nToday\, Domēnïkos Theotokópoulos (El Greco)\, ca. 1540-1614\, is primarily known today for his extraordinary and distinctive paintings. In the seventeenth century\, attention was also drawn to his relationship with architecture. Over the past century\, the nature of this architectural identity has generated a regular\, slight\, but unresolved conversation. In this paper\, Professor Barber would like to return to this topic\, and consider what it was that Theotokópoulos wanted from architecture and why it was possible for his near contemporaries to describe him as an architect. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-el-greco-architect/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:HOS Colloquia: Listening to Albert the Great on the Art of Becoming a Natural Scientist
DESCRIPTION:Katja Krause is a historian of science and medicine\, and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond. She received her PhD in 2014 from King’s College London for her dissertation entitled “Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Beatific Vision: A Textual Analysis of his Commentary on the Sentences in Light of Its Greek\, Arabic\, and Latin Sources.” After her doctorate\, Krause was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\, where she worked on a series of articles examining the empirical turn of the thirteenth century that emerged from the appropriation of Averroes’ commentaries on the corpus Aristotelicum. In 2016/17 she served as Assistant Professor in Medieval Thought at Durham University\, UK\, and in 2017/18 was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School\, supported by the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Krause is currently Leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body\, ca. 800–1650\,” jointly with a professorship at the Technische Universität Berlin. \nKatja Krause has recently completed the edited volume Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation (edited with Maria Auxent and Dror Weil\, Routledge 2023); the volume Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek\, Hebrew\, Arabic\, and Latin Traditions (edited with Luis Xavier López-Farjeat and Nicholas Oschman) is in press. Her translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2\, with introductions and notes\, appeared in autumn 2020 with Marquette University Press. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Program in the History of Science and the Program in Medieval Studies
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/hos-colloquia-listening-to-albert-the-great-on-the-art-of-becoming-a-natural-scientist/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: "And To Our Master\, The Illustrious Caliph\, Belongs The Lofty Resolution Regarding This\, If God Wills"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on November 14 for the next LAMB workshop in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will read and discuss Yusuf Umrethwala’s paper entitled “And To Our Master\, The Illustrious Caliph\, Belongs The Lofty Resolution Regarding This\, If God Wills”: Written Petitions And The Administration of Justice in Fatimid Egypt. \nThis workshop is for Graduate Students only. Please Please RSVP and download the paper on the LAMB Website. You will receive the password to download the paper when registering. \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Amel Bensalim (ab7941@princeton.edu) or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-and-to-our-master-the-illustrious-caliph-belongs-the-lofty-resolution-regarding-this-if-god-wills/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Ovide moralisé: The Divine Comedy of Medieval France?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nMatthieu Boyd (’03)\, Professor of Literature and Chair of the School of the Humanities\, Fairleigh Dickinson University \nSarah-Jane Murray (*03)\, Associate Professor of Great Texts & Creative Writing\, Honors College\, Baylor University \nThe anonymous fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé (“Moralized Ovid”) is a translation into French of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and much of the accumulated mythographical commentary in Latin. It gathers many sources and adds to them\, forming a massive and coherent\, if not seamless\, whole that invites comparison with Dante’s masterwork in various ways: its scope (the OM is actually five time longer)\, its use of the vernacular\, its creative relationship to the Classics (the OM is guided by Ovid as Dante is by Virgil)\, and its Christian mission. Beyond that\, without necessarily claiming that the OM matches Dante in poetic elegance\, the comparison provokes us to reassess the OM’s place in French and medieval literary history\, which has not been properly appreciated since the text could not be read by almost any modern audiences – until now. This presentation is associated with the first-ever modern translation of the Ovide moralisé (Boydell & Brewer\, 2023)\, the result of a collaboration that had its genesis at Princeton. We include discussion of the manuscripts\, some of which have now been fully digitized and permit extended study of text-image relations\, and the OM’s strategies of translation and interpretation. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department of French & Italian and the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-ovide-moralise-the-divine-comedy-of-medieval-france/
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Room 002
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “Engaging the Sensoria in Premodern Qur’an Commentary"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2023. Tehseen Thaver (Religion) will present this lunchtime talk on Wednesday\, December 6. \nWhat is the relationship between Qur’an exegesis\, ritual practice\, and the formations of religious identities and communities? This is the central question this presentation will address by focusing on the first complete and extant Persian Qur’an commentary to have been composed by a Twelver Shi‘i scholar\, Shaykh Abu al-Futuh Razi (d. 1157)\, titled The Cool Breeze of Paradise and Breath for the Soul. Through a close reading of Razi’s exegesis I show the interaction of Qur’an exegesis\, Shi’i rituals of remembrance and the cultivation of distinct sensorial reactions and capacities – an important medium for the narration\, transmission\, and indeed determination of religious identities. I argue that Razi’s commentary served the dual role of “explanatory written text” and “oral ritual telling\,” while establishing its authority in each of these contexts. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-engaging-the-sensoria-in-premodern-quran-commentary/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: "EHL and ART478 Present… A Viking Funeral!"
DESCRIPTION:The students from ART478 “The Vikings: History and Archaeology” will present their final research projects as a collaborative scripted performance of a Viking funeral. The event is open to the public\, and will be held in the Chancellor Green Rotunda from 4:30-6:00pm on Thursday December 7. Come learn how the medieval Norse buried their dead\, as well as how modern scholars can use archaeological evidence to recover individual life stories and experiences. \n*In-person only\, no hybrid option. Light refreshments will be served starting at 4 pm.* \n\nThe Environmental History Lab is supported by a David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council and the Program in Medieval Studies. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ehl-seminar-ehl-and-art478-presents-a-viking-funeral/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: Wickham's Donkey and the Boat
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final book club meeting of the semester on December 14th @ 6pm. We will discuss the new and much anticipated book by Chris Whickham\, The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy\, 950-1180.  \nThe Medieval Studies book club is an opportunity to connect with graduate students from around the university who are interested in the medieval world. Anyone with an interest in the material and a commitment to participating in our informal discussion are invited to join! \nPlease email Albert Kohn at ak0429@princeton.edu by Monday\, November 20th to RSVP. In your email\, let Albert know if you would like a hard copy of the book (a digital copy is available in the library) and if you have any dietary restrictions.  \nAbout The Donkey and the Boat: “A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries\, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies\, and their relationships with each other.” \nThis meeting is for graduate students only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-wickhams-donkey-and-the-boat/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: "Widowhood in Syriac Mesopotamia\, 6th-7th c. CE"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine workshop on Thursday\, February 1\, at 12 pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will discuss Emily Chesley’s (History) paper “Widowhood in Syriac Mesopotamia\, 6th-7th c. CE\,” with comments by Rachel Richman (NES). \nLunch will be provided! \nRSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \nGrad students and faculty welcome! \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Amel Bensalim (ab7941@princeton.edu) or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-widowhood-in-syriac-mesopotamia-6th-7th-c-ce/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first book club meeting of the spring semester on February 15th at 6pm. We will be reading The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road (2023) by Princeton’s very own Xin Wen. The book sheds new light on trans-Eurasian diplomatic networks on the Silk Road using the vast resource of documents from the Dunhuang ‘library cave’. Xin Wen is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History. \nRegistration is now closed. Please email Medieval Studies Program Manager\, Anna D’Elia at anna.delia@princeton.edu\, with any questions. \nThe Medieval Studies book club is an opportunity to connect with graduate students from around the university who are interested in the medieval world. Anyone with an interest in the material and a commitment to participating in our informal discussion are invited to join! \nThis meeting is for graduate students only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-the-kings-road-diplomacy-and-the-remaking-of-the-silk-road/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: "De Diversis Artibus: A Technological Investigation of Medieval Craft"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine workshop on Tuesday\, February 20\, at 6 pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will discuss Chandler Allen’s (History of Science) paper “De Diversis Artibus: A Technological Investigation of Medieval Craft\,” with comments by Silvia Gianolio (Art & Archaeology). \nDinner and drinks will be provided! \nRSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \nGrad students and faculty welcome! \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Amel Bensalim (ab7941@princeton.edu) or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics. \n\nUpcoming Workshops  \nMonday\, March 25 at 12 pm: Daniel Berardino (History\, UC-Berkeley) presenting “An Oath of Fidelity in Cyprus: The 1191 Conquest and Mediterranean Idioms of Lordship” \nThursday\, April 11 at 6 pm: Mo Van Wege (History) presenting “A Case of Female Infidelity: Litigation in the Burgundian Liber Constitutionum 52” \nThursday\, April 25 at 6 pm: Amel Bensalim (History) presenting “A Notaries’ Notebook?: Assessing the Legal\, Notarial\, and Archival Practices of Medieval Egyptian Notaries”
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-de-diversis-artibus-a-technological-investigation-of-medieval-craft/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240221T180000
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SUMMARY:Ethiopia and the Art of Cross-Cultural Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture with Christine Sciacca on February 21 at 4:30pm. \nA reception will follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nEthiopia sits at the juncture of Africa\, Asia\, and Europe\, and historically it had access to the Mediterranean Sea\, the Nile River\, the Red Sea\, and the Indian Ocean. Its situation at the nexus of travel and trade routes resulted in cultural cross-currents between Ethiopia and its surrounding cultures. In this lecture\, Christine Sciacca\, Curator of European Art\, 300-1400 CE at the Walters Art Museum\, will discuss the current exhibit\, Ethiopia at the Crossroads\, which celebrates the exchanges that took place and the impact of Ethiopian artistic traditions from their origins to the present day. \nChristine Sciacca is Curator of European Art\, 300-1400 CE at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. She received her Ph.D.\, M.Phil.\, and M.A. in Art History from Columbia University\, and a B.A. in Art History from Cornell University. Christine was a curator of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum for ten years\, and she has worked at The Met Cloisters and The British Library. Her research concentrates on Italian\, German\, and Ethiopian medieval art\, with a focus on liturgy\, devotional practice\, and patronage. Christine’s book publications include Building the Medieval World\, Illuminating Women in the Medieval World\, and Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination\, 1300-1350. Her exhibition\, Ethiopia at the Crossroads\, is currently on view at the Walters Art Museum until March 3\, and will travel to the Peabody Essex Museum\, and the Toledo Museum of Art.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ethiopia-and-the-art-of-cross-cultural-exchange/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240228T180000
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SUMMARY:Race Before Modernity Book Club: Unpacking Historical Perspectives of Race and Ethnicity
DESCRIPTION:The Race Before Modernity Book Club (RBMBC)\, in collaboration with Princeton’s Program in Medieval Studies\, invites you to our upcoming event featuring Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study) and Helmut Reimitz (History). \nJoin us for an engaging discussion on the exploration of race and ethnicity in the premodern era! \nWe will meet on Wednesday\, February 28\, 2024 at 4:30pm in Chancellor Green 105. \nTo register\, please visit here. \nThe registration will be open until February 19\, 2024. \nThis event is open to the public
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/race-before-modernity-book-club-unpacking-historical-perspectives-of-race-and-ethnicity/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T132000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: “Burial Archaeology and the Justinianic Plague”
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2024. \nJanet Kay (Art & Archaeology) will present the lunchtime talk\, “Burial Archaeology and the Justinianic Plague.” The Justinianic Plague (541-544 CE)\, as the beginning of the sixth- to eighth-century First Plague Pandemic of Yersinia pestis\, has recently been at the center of a small but fervent debate among scholars with different methodological approaches. Kay will present models of how future research on the Justinianic Plague can more effectively use evidence from burial archaeology to understand its biological and social impact–whether that research is led by archaeologists or within interdisciplinary teams that include archaeologists in their project design. \nPlease RSVP Here. \n\nNext Medieval Faculty Colloquium for Spring 2024 \nTues\, April 9 at 12:00 pm: Stephen Teiser (Religion)
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-burial-archaeology-and-the-justinianic-plague/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "How Tang Literature Became 'Ancient': Evolving Models of Tang Dynasty Literary History in the Northern Song"
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event was rescheduled from February 20 to March 19. Please email Anna D’Elia with any questions. \nThe Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2024. Anna Shields\, Professor of East Asian Studies and Chair of Department of East Asian Studies\, will present this lunchtime talk on Tuesday\, March 19. \nThis talk explores a thread in the reception history of Tang dynasty (618-907) literature in the Northern Song (960-1127)\, focusing on emerging models of Tang literary development proposed by Song scholars. The new significance of “antiquity” as a value in Northern Song intellectual culture has been well-studied–as a catalyst for a revival of classical studies\, the development of Neo-Confucian thought\, and the flourishing of historical writing\, among other things. But the impact of these trends on Song scholars’ views of literature and its historical development is less well understood. Certain Tang writers claimed to have achieved a timeless “antiquity” in their literary writing–how did those claims shape Song scholars’ attempts to map the trajectory of Tang literature? More broadly\, to what extent could literary writing (wenzhang 文章) be conceptualized as a product of historical change? Song scholars’ answers to these questions reveal their new concern about the correct relationship of literary writing to historical circumstance\, as well as competition over a still-emerging Tang literary canon. \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided. \n\nUpcoming Medieval Faculty Colloquia for Spring 2024 \nTues\, April 9 at 12:00 pm: Stephen Teiser (Religion)
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-how-tang-literature-became-ancient-evolving-models-of-tang-dynasty-literary-history-in-the-northern-song/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy\, Culture\, and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next book club meeting on March 19th at 6pm. We will be reading Kristina Richardson’s Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy\, Culture\, and Migration (2021). This book draws on a wide array of sources to investigate the lived experiences of the Banu Sasan (later named Ghuraba or ‘Strangers’ from which the prerogative ‘Gypsies’ derives)\, in the Medieval Islamic World. \nRegistration for this meeting is now closed. Please email Medieval Studies Program Manager\, Anna D’Elia at anna.delia@princeton.edu\, with any questions. \nThe Medieval Studies book club is an opportunity to connect with graduate students from around the university who are interested in the medieval world. Anyone with an interest in the material and a commitment to participating in our informal discussion are invited to join! \nThis meeting is for graduate students only.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-roma-in-the-medieval-islamic-world-literacy-culture-and-migration/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: "An Oath of Fidelity in Cyprus: The 1191 Conquest and Mediterranean Idioms of Lordship"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine workshop on Monday\, March 25  at 12 pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will discuss Daniel Berardino’s (History\, UC Berkeley) paper “An Oath of Fidelity in Cyprus: The 1191 Conquest and Mediterranean Idioms of Lordship” with comments by Jake Ransohoff (Seeger Center PostDoc). \nLunch will be provided. \nRSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \nThis session is open to faculty. \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Amel Bensalim (ab7941@princeton.edu) or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics. \n\nUpcoming Workshops: \n\nThursday\, April 10 at 6 pm: Mo Van Wege (History) presenting “A Case of Female Infidelity: Litigation in the Burgundian Liber Constitutionum 52”\nThursday\, April 25 at 6 pm: Amel Bensalim (History) presenting “A Notaries’ Notebook?: Assessing the Legal\, Notarial\, and Archival Practices of Medieval Egyptian Notaries”
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-an-oath-of-fidelity-in-cyprus-the-1191-conquest-and-mediterranean-idioms-of-lordship/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics: “The growth of the mestizo sangley in early 17th century Manila as seen in two 1630s documents”
DESCRIPTION:This paper seeks to contribute to the growing number of studies on early modern period intercultural relations\, focusing on Chinese-Filipino-Spanish interactions in the early 1600s and the resulting rise of the mestizo sangley\, children of Filipino and Chinese unions. The paper is based on two 1630s documents in the Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás (AUST) in Manila. \n\nComparative Diplomatics is an exploratory workshop on documents in late antiquity and the middle ages with occasional forays into the modern era\, as distinct from narrative and normative long-form texts. Its goal is twofold: to stimulate the production of new translations of late antique and medieval documentary sources that can be used in the classroom\, and/or harvest some of the translations already being made; and to bring languages\, subfields and approaches into contact in order to clarify methodological questions. \nEach presenter will translate an unpublished document or retranslate a previously published document that needs fresh examination\, and roughly one week ahead of time\, provide the group with an edition\, a translation and an image of the original. \nTo receive the image(s)\, edition(s)\, and translation(s) of the document(s) to be discussed\, sign up here. \nConveners: Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies/History) \nCoordinators: Stephanie Luescher (Near Eastern Studies) and Lucia Waldschuetz (History) \n\nComparative Diplomatics is sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History with support from the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-the-growth-of-the-mestizo-sangley-in-early-17th-century-manila-as-seen-in-two-1630s-documents/
LOCATION:Jones 202\, Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:"The Greater Sea": The Black Sea and Medieval Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual Medieval Studies Faber Lecture with David Abulafia (University of Cambridge) on March 27 at 4:30 pm. \nA reception  will follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nThe role of the Black Sea in medieval trade is often seen from the perspective of its links to the so-called Silk Roads stretching all the way to China\, particularly in the wake of the Mongol conquests\, or from the perspective of its links across the Mediterranean to the Italian cities whose merchants established trading colonies on its shores. This lecture attempts to shift the emphasis towards what was going on within the Black Sea itself\, with its massive supplies of grain\, wax\, slaves – and caviar. \nDavid Abulafia is Professor Emeritus of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University\, where he is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His book The Great Sea: a Human History of the Mediterranean  (2011) won the British Academy Medal and The Boundless Sea: a Human History of the Oceans won the Wolfson History Prize. Within the Mediterranean\, he has written extensively about southern Italy in the Middle Ages and about the Catalan world. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire by King Charles III in 2023. \n\nThis event is supported by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council\, and co-sponsored by the Medieval Black Sea Project\, Center for Collaborative History. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faber-lecture/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T180000
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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: "Connecting With a Remembered Past: Uncovering the Layers of Disease\, Death\, Motherhood\, and Magic in a Late Antique Rural Roman Community"
DESCRIPTION:*Refreshments will be served after the talk.*  \nFor Zoom\, register here. \nIn the late 1980’s\, archaeologists excavating an elegant First Century Roman villa in the Tiber River Valley were surprised to discover the remains of infant cemetery. Ritual materials and paleopathological evidence suggested the formation of the cemetery had followed an epidemiological event many centuries after the villa’s collapse\, and subsequent molecular analyses confirmed the presence of Pl. falciparum malaria in at least one of the buried children. When excavations resumed in 2016\, new light was shed on the infant cemetery and the living agricultural community that had formed it in Late Antiquity. This presentation reviews in depth the novel research and analyses that have come from this project\, incorporating perspectives from bioarchaeology\, Classics\, and environmental history. The unequal burdens carried by women during this public health crisis emerges as a throughline: pregnant women would have been disproportionally affected by malaria\, potentially leaving female healers such as midwives to care for them physically and spiritually and contend with the realities of pregnancy and infant loss. Looking forward\, this presentation considers how the interdisciplinary framework utilized on this project might be applied to similar contexts throughout the ancient Mediterranean. \n\nThe Environmental History Lab is supported by a David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council and the Program in Medieval Studies. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ehl-seminar-connecting-with-a-remembered-past-uncovering-the-layers-of-disease-death-motherhood-and-magic-in-a-late-antique-rural-roman-community/
LOCATION:209 Sheide-Caldwell and Zoom
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SUMMARY:Francis and Nature
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lecture with Jacques Dalarun on April 3 at 4:30pm. \nA reception will follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nFrancis of Assisi is often cited\, including by popes\, as the precursor of our modern idea of ecology. But what about his actual relationship with “nature\,” which he never mentions in his writings? We will attempt to answer this question through a careful examination of the most authentic medieval sources – Francis’ writings and his oldest legends – first by trying to understand the message of the Canticle of Brother Sun\, then by asking about Francis’ attitude toward animals\, and finally by confronting the question of his diet. We will discover a coherent body of thought\, not to be confused with our modern ideologies\, but which can nonetheless enlighten our thinking and our choices. \n\nJacques Dalarun is a French medieval historian\, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres\, and Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. He is interested in a variety of puzzling religious experiences\, from that of Robert of Arbrissel\, founder of the mixed order of Fontevraud in the early 12th century\, to those of holy women of 13th- and 14th-century Italy. In particular\, he explores sources relating to Francis and Clare of Assisi. He has published\, in English\, The Misadventure of Francis of Assisi. Toward a Historical Use of the Franciscan Legends\, 2002; Francis of Assisi and the Feminine\, 2006; Robert of Arbrissel: Sex\, Sin\, and Salvation in the Middle Ages\, 2006; The Two Lives of Robert of Arbrissel\, Founder of Fontevraud: Legends\, Writings\, and Testimonies\, in collaboration\, 2006; Francis of Assisi and Power\, 2007; The Rediscovered Life of St. Francis of Assisi\, 2016; The Canticle of Brother Sun: Francis of Assisi Reconciled\, 2016; The Prayed Francis: Liturgical Vitae and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century\, with Marco Bartoli and Timothy J. Johnson\, 2019; To Govern is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy\, 2023; A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy. The Life of Clare of Rimini\, with Sean L. Field and Valerio Cappozzo\, 2023.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/francis-and-nature/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "How Did Governors and Buddhist Monks Deal with Epidemics in Medieval China?"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2024. Stephen F. Teiser\, D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies\, Department of Religion\, will present this lunchtime talk on Tuesday\, April 9. \nIn the spring of 902\, hoping to end a three-year epidemic\, the governor of a large province in northwest China commanded monks and nuns at more than one dozen Buddhist temples to perform rituals of chanting and confession twice each month. The bureaucrat’s autograph decree and the response of the Buddhist church survive by chance among the Dunhuang manuscripts\, a unique trove of materials discovered in 1900. The cache also preserves six liturgies composed and performed by Buddhist monks for the curing of epidemics during the ninth and tenth centuries. Based largely on manuscript sources\, this talk analyzes how rulers and clerics conceived the etiology of epidemics and what religious therapies they deployed to cure collective illness. \nSome epidemics were attributed to the ruler’s indiscretions\, while others were explained by collective karma\, individuals incurring debts from previous lifetimes\, meddling by demons\, or general catastrophes. One mechanism for cure was giving charity to Buddhist temples and dedicating the benefits to communal health. Other rituals propitiated deities\, seeking their protection and requesting them to repel malevolent spirits with supernatural force. Other therapies sought to dispatch ogres and illnesses to uninhabited realms. \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided. \n\nBook exhibit in the history reading room \nAlain St. Pierre and the Princeton University Library invite the Medieval Studies community to the History reading room in Firestone Library (Floor A: turn left out of the main staircase) on colloquium days to view recently acquired titles in all subject areas of Medieval Studies. The books will be on display from Monday (April 8) through Wednesday (April 10).  Come browse!
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-how-did-governors-and-buddhist-monks-deal-with-epidemics-in-medieval-china/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hellenic & Medieval Studies Sophomore Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join the Seeger Center’s Program in Hellenic Studies and the Humanities Council’s Program in Medieval Studies for a joint open house to learn more about the program minors\, courses\, and opportunities for involvement. \nLight refreshments will be served.  \nThe Program in Medieval Studies encourages the interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages: its art\, literature (Latin and vernacular)\, music\, religion\, science\, philosophy\, politics\, and economic and social structures. Supported by the vast resources for medieval studies at Princeton\, the program brings together faculty\, graduates and undergraduates from various departments and units across the humanities and social sciences\, as well as computer sciences and engineering. The minor’s multidisciplinary training in the study of history\, culture and society fosters students’ future work in fields such as media\, heritage management\, archives and museums\, publishing industries\, legal studies\, public scholarship and academic research. More information on the medieval studies minor can be found here.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/hellenic-medieval-studies-sophomore-open-house/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: "Saint Olav’s Axe: Driftwood\, Power\, and Artistic Invention on Medieval Iceland"
DESCRIPTION:*Refreshments will be served after the talk.*  \nFor Zoom\, register here. \nConceptions of Saint Olav\, the perpetual king and patron saint of Norway\, as a flowering tree were incorporated into the decorative program of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim\, the most northerly archbishopric in the world. This figuration of church expansion through botanical imagery is intriguing when exported to Commonwealth Iceland\, an island with a drastically different ecological context than medieval Norway. This paper will consider the ways that local prestige was constructed through imported or scavenged wood in works of art on Iceland. The status of wooden objects on Iceland\, expressions of power that were also endlessly at risk of being torn down and recycled\, highlight the contextual nature of “luxury” as well as its tenuous construction in landscapes of precarity. Iceland’s increasing dependence upon Norwegian ships carrying timber contributed to Iceland’s eventual concession to the Norwegian king in 1262\, as well as\, I suggest\, the island’s own violent deforestation. Through my analysis of legal and environmental history\, the archeological record\, and the extant corpus of medieval Icelandic art objects\, I argue that timber acquisition and works of art in wood enforced Norwegian political power and mediated nuanced economic and cultural relationships on Commonwealth-era Iceland. \n\nThe Environmental History Lab is supported by a David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council and the Program in Medieval Studies. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ehl-seminar-saint-olavs-axe-driftwood-power-and-artistic-invention-on-medieval-iceland/
LOCATION:209 Sheide-Caldwell and Zoom
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SUMMARY:Ungroomed Renaissance: Josquin's Missa L'ami Baudichon; Songs and Motets
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 12 from 5:00 – 6:00 pm – Taplin Auditorium \nConcert: “Ungroomed Renaissance: Josquin’s Missa L’ami Baudichon; Songs and Motets” \nWhat are we supposed to make of a Renaissance mass whose audible engine is a lewd song? Cut Circle explores this question through the astonishingly ungroomed Missa L’ami Baudichon. The mass anchors a wide-ranging program of sacred and secular music by Josquin des Prez (1450–1521).  \nPresented by LUDUS\, a Collaborative Humanities Project. This concert is free and open to all. \nThe concert will be proceeded by a lunch workshop on April 10 (information below). RSVP is required for the workshop. \n\nWednesday\, April 10 from 12 – 1:30pm – 127 East Pyne \nWorkshop: “Ungrooming the Voice: An Interactive Workshop on Premodern Vocal Techniques” \nWestern art music requires “groomed” voices—voices that have been trained through private lessons\, choral ensembles\, or conservatory masterclasses. But are premodern repertories well served by approaches to and attitudes about the voice that emerged no more than 200 years ago? Join the ensemble Cut Circle for an interactive workshop\, geared toward all backgrounds and experience levels—including and especially no musical experience at all–in which participants are invited to decenter received esthetic values by ungrooming their voices. \nA light lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Jamie Reuland jlgreenb@princeton.edu \n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ungroomed-renaissance-josquins-missa-lami-baudichon-songs-and-motets/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium\, Taplin Auditorium\, 08544
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Reunion Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Medieval Studies for a reunion panel featuring current and previous directors. Reunion 2024 attendees will hear about recent program developments\, partnerships across the University\, and opportunities for future success. Panelists will explore their own time as director of the program\, sharing lessons learned and ideas for further collaboration and growth within the medieval studies community at Princeton. \nSpeakers include: \n\nSara S. Poor\, German\nHelmut Reimitz\, History\nD. Vance Smith\, English\nModerated by William C. Jordan\, History
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-reunion-panel/
LOCATION:300 Wallace Hall
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