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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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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “Navigating Community: Social Networks and Dependence on the Large Estates of Late Antique Egypt”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine workshop of the year on Wednesday\, September 4 in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will discuss Lucia Waldschuetz’s paper “Navigating Community: Social Networks and Dependence on the Large Estates of Late Antique Egypt.” Mo van de Wege will comment. Dinner will be served. \nPlease RSVP and download the paper from the LAMB website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \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 Radka Pallová (rp1545@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-navigating-community-social-networks-and-dependence-on-the-large-estates-of-late-antique-egypt/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies faculty and students on Wednesday\, September 11 at 4:30 pm for coffee and tea\, dessert\, and conversation. These “dessert hours” will be held throughout the semester as an opportunity for undergraduate students to meet each other and learn about the Medieval Studies community at Princeton. All are welcome. We hope to see you there! \nAdditional Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hours will be held on the following dates: \n\nOctober 8 at 4:30 pm\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House\nNovember 12 at 4:30 pm\, Location TBD\nDecember 3 at 4:30 pm\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-student-dessert-hour/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Dance\, Madness\, Ecstasy: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:LUDUS Workshop \nMary Channen Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania) \nWhen does movement spill over from something we recognize as dance as an artistic and social form to something else? Something potentially otherworldly\, whether ecstatic or demonic? This workshop explores medieval dance practices that went outside conventional and socially accepted frameworks\, playing with the many meanings of bodily movement (and sometimes also sound) in the premodern period.  \nRSVP Here.\n \nLunch will be provided. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-dance-madness-ecstasy-a-workshop/
LOCATION:Woolworth 102
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
DESCRIPTION:With the summer coming to a close\, the Medieval Book Club would like to welcome all old and new faces back to Princeton this new academic year! We will kick off with African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Michael Gomez. \nIn African Dominion\, Michael Gomez interweaves political and social history by drawing on a rich array of sources\, including Arabic manuscripts\, oral histories\, and recent archaeological findings. Focusing on the Savannah and Sahel region\, Gomez traces the exchange of ideas and influences with North Africa and the Central Islamic Lands by way of merchants\, scholars\, and pilgrims. Islam’s growth in West Africa\, in tandem with intensifying commerce that included slaves\, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region\, culminating in the rise of empire. \nAll interested graduate students are warmly welcome! Our first gathering will be on Monday\, September 16 at 6pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell. If you would like to join\, please send an email to Mo van de Wege at mv9132@princeton.edu before Friday\, August 23 and indicate whether you would like a free copy of the book from Labyrinth and if you have any dietary restrictions. \nThese meetings are for graduate students only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-african-dominion-a-new-history-of-empire-in-early-and-medieval-west-africa/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “Dom(i)nae: The Written Women of Roman Love Elegy and Troubadour Love Lyric”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second LAMB workshop on Tuesday\, September 24 at 6pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss Lottie Page’s paper “Dom(i)nae: The Written Women of Roman Love Elegy and Troubadour Love Lyric.” Darcy Chanin will comment and dinner will be served. \nPlease RSVP 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 only to graduate students. \n\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 Radka Pallová (rp1545@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-dominae-the-written-women-of-roman-love-elegy-and-troubadour-love-lyric/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture: On How the West Became Antisemitic
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Humanities Council’s Program in Medieval Studies for an E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture with Ivan G. Marcus on Wednesday\, September 25. This event is part of Judaic Studies’ 2024-25 Lecture Series on Antisemitism. \nContrary to the widely accepted picture of Jewish history\, medieval Jews were assertive agents. The Jews of the Middle Ages were convinced of their chosenness\, and Christian rulers inadvertently reinforced Jewish solidarity by recognizing Jews as legal\, self-governing communities\, not just as individuals\, if only to tax them better. This talk reexamines not only how the Christian majority understandably affected the Jewish minority but surprisingly how the Jews – real and imagined – so challenged the Christian majority that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways between 800 and 1500. That new self-understanding remained part of European cultural identity down to the time of the Holocaust and beyond. \nOpen to the public. Refreshments will be available. \nMore about Ivan G. Marcus \nIvan G. Marcus is the Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History\, Professor of History and of Religious Studies at Yale University. He received his BA from Yale University\, his MA from Columbia University\, and his MHL and PhD from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. \nBefore joining the Yale faculty\, he was Professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America\, where he was Provost from 1991 to 1994. He has also taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Princeton\, where he has served on the Advisory Council of the Department of Religion. \nHe has written Piety and Society: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany (E. J. Brill\, 1981)\, which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award\, Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Culture and Acculturation in Medieval Europe\, which was published by Yale University Press in 1996; The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times (University of Washington Press\, 2004) based on the 1998 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures. His book Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe (UPenn\, 2018) is a chapter in the history of the book in medieval Europe. His most recent book is\, How the West Became Antisemitic (Princeton\, 2024). \nHe has received numerous fellowships including a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/e-franklin-robbins-uja-federation-lecture-on-how-the-west-became-antisemitic/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:Duke John's Skull: A Historical Whodunit
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual Medieval Studies Faber Lecture with Eric Jager (UCLA) on September 26 at 4:30 pm. \nA reception will follow the lecture. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nThe murder of Duke John of Burgundy during a parley with his royal cousin Charles\, dauphin of France\, has been called  “a tragedy on an epic scale.” The gaping ax-wound in the duke’s skull became famous as “the hole through which the English entered France” — the portal for Henry V’s conquest and a brutal English occupation. John’s demise is well documented. It took place on September 10\, 1419\, around 5 pm\, about fifty miles southeast of Paris\, on a bridge connecting the castle at Montereau to the walled town across the river.  About twenty eyewitnesses were present\, and many survived to give testimony.  Yet still today no one knows for sure how the violence began\, who precisely struck the fatal blow\, or whether in fact it was done with an ax. Fierce debate has lasted for centuries\, leading to exhumations of the duke’s skull and bones to determine the facts and reassessments of documents relating to this very old cold case. Who killed Duke John\, was it an accident or premeditated murder\, and why does the answer still matter? \nEric Jager earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Michigan and taught at Columbia University before joining UCLA\, where he teaches medieval literature and nonfiction writing. He has published scholarly books with Cornell and Chicago and trade books in the genre of “medieval true-crime.” His New York Times Best Seller THE LAST DUEL was shortlisted for a Crime Writers’ Association “Gold Dagger\,” featured on BBC Radio’s Book of the Week and adapted for the Ridley Scott film of the same title. The book has appeared in 20 languages worldwide and is the first part of a projected trilogy that includes BLOOD ROYAL (2014) and DUKE JOHN’S SKULL (in progress). \n**Location is subject to change pending Fall classroom assignments. \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/duke-johns-skull-a-historical-whodunit/
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Room 002
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SUMMARY:Hellenic Studies / Medieval Studies Film Screening: The Last Duel with Eric Jager
DESCRIPTION:Hellenic Studies and Medieval Studies students are invited to join us for a special film screening\, Q&A\, and lunch on Friday\, September 27. \n10:00 am: Screening of The Last Duel – Directed by Ridley Scott | 2021 | 153 minutes \n12:30 pm: Lunch and Q&A with Eric Jager\, Professor at UCLA and author of The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime\, Scandal\, and Trial by Combat \nJean de Carrouges is a respected knight known for his bravery and skill on the battlefield. Jacques Le Gris is a squire whose intelligence and eloquence makes him one of the most admired nobles in court. When Le Gris viciously assaults Carrouges’ wife\, she steps forward to accuse her attacker\, an act of bravery and defiance that puts her life in jeopardy. The ensuing trial by combat\, a grueling duel to the death\, places the fate of all three in God’s hands. \nRSVP to Anna D’Elia by Monday\, September 23\, and include any dietary restrictions or allergies in your response. \nPlease also join us for the annual Medieval Studies Faber Lecture with Professor Eric Jager on Thursday\, September 26 at 4:30 pm in 002 Robertson Hall\, “Duke John’s Skull: A Historical Whodunit.” \n\nThis will be the first HLS/MED film screening in a series for the fall semester. Additional film screenings will be held at 5:00 pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell on the following dates: \n\nOctober 24 – The Last Temptation of Christ\nNovember 14 – Agora\nDecember 5 – The Lion in Winter 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/hellenic-medieval-studies-film-screening-the-last-duel-with-eric-jager/
LOCATION:Frist Multipurpose Room B
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T180000
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics: “Mapping Japan in the Iberian Archive: 16th Century Accounts from the Christian Mission”
DESCRIPTION:Comparative 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: Tom Conlan (EAS/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (NES/History) \nCoordinators: Lucia Waldschuetz (History)\, Stephanie Luescher (NES). \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-mapping-japan-in-the-iberian-archive-16th-century-accounts-from-the-christian-mission/
LOCATION:Jones 202\, Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T163000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies faculty and students on Tuesday\, October 8 at 4:30 pm for coffee and tea\, dessert\, and conversation. These “dessert hours” are held throughout the semester as an opportunity for undergraduate students to meet each other and learn about the Medieval Studies community at Princeton. All are welcome. We hope to see you there! \nAdditional Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hours will be held on the following dates: \n\nNovember 12 at 4:30 pm\, 203 Scheide Caldwell House\nDecember 3 at 4:30 pm\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-student-dessert-hour-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241009T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241009T132000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "François Villon: Poet\, Cat-Burglar\, Murderer\, and Augustinian Social Theorist"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2024. John Fleming\, Louis W. Fairchild ’24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, Emeritus\, will give this first lunch time talk. \nThis paper outlines some main contours of work in progress on two cognate subjects: the structure of Villon’s most important work\, the so-called Grand Testament (1461)\, including its debt to Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose and the theory of justice outlined in Augustine’s City of God; and the context of Villon’s rediscovery as a major poet by French poets and English critics in the nineteenth century. \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 the afternoon of Tuesday (October 8) through Thursday (October 10).  Come browse! \n\nUpcoming Faculty Colloquia  \n\nThursday\, November 21 at 12:00pm: Jennifer Rampling (History)\nWednesday\, February 26 at 12:00pm: Jamie Reuland (Music)\nWednesday\, March 5 at 12:00pm: Catherine Fernandez (Art & Archaeology)\nWednesday\, April 16 at 12:00 pm: Sarah Anderson (English)
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-francois-villon-poet-cat-burglar-murderer-and-augustinian-social-theorist/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T193000
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “Tetrarchic Christianity: The Transformation of Trier and Sirmium into Competing Christian Capitals”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our third LAMB workshop on Thursday\, October 10 at 6pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss Jeremy Stitts’ paper “Tetrarchic Christianity: The Transformation of Trier and Sirmium into Competing Christian Capitals.” John Ladouceur will comment and dinner will be served. \nPlease RSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \n\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 Radka Pallová (rp1545@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-tetrarchic-christianity-the-transformation-of-trier-and-sirmium-into-competing-christian-capitals/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T163000
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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: "Deo Sancto Cocidio: Regional Gods and Roman Power on Hadrian’s Wall"
DESCRIPTION:For Zoom\, register here. \nRecent research on Hadrian’s Wall has increasingly stressed the diversity and complexity of society on the edges of Roman Britain\, along with the dynamics of imperialism on the frontier. Meanwhile\, the Wall itself offers a telling story of the intersection of natural landscapes with human ones\, moulding itself to the bones of the earth on the Whin Sill\, and tensing at strategic crux points like the Typalt-Irthing gap.  Religion can offer a particularly compelling window onto how the inhabitants of the frontier negotiated these landscapes of imperial power; at the same time\, the social functions of regional cults to local deities\, often known only through short dedicatory inscriptions\, can be exceptionally fraught to interpret. In this paper\, I use the cult of Cocidius\, a god known from the western half of Hadrian’s Wall\, to move us beyond problematic lenses of ‘indigeneity’ or ‘Celticity’ for understanding local gods\, and to consider how a more holistic approach to epigraphic landscapes can shed light on the complex intersection of religion\, landscape\, and empire on the frontier. \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-deo-sancto-cocidio-regional-gods-and-roman-power-on-hadrians-wall/
LOCATION:0-S-6 Green Hall & Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241022T120000
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “Plague\, Famine\, and Plundering Pagans: Disaster in Gildas’ De excidio Britonum”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our fourth LAMB workshop\, which features a visiting speaker\, on Tuesday\, October 22 at 12pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss Rachel Singer’s (Georgetown University) paper “Plague\, Famine\, and Plundering Pagans: Disaster in Gildas’ De excidio Britonum.” Radka Pallová will comment and lunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \n\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 Radka Pallová (rp1545@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-plague-famine-and-plundering-pagans-disaster-in-gildas-de-excidio-britonum/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T193000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities
DESCRIPTION:Our next session will be themed along the Medieval Graduate Conference on ‘Ordinary People\, Everyday Lives: Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. We will read ‘Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities’ by Susan Kilby. \nPeasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape by Susan Kilby forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. Through a wide range of textual and material sources\, Kilby seeks to reconstruct the physical and socio-cultural environment of three contrasting English villages between 1086 and 1348 as a basis for determining how medieval peasants perceived their natural surroundings. \nAll interested graduate students are warmly welcome! As always\, dinner will be provided. If you would like to join\, please send an email to Mo van de Wege at mv9132@princeton.edu before Friday\, September 27 and indicate whether you would like a free copy of the book from Labyrinth and if you have dietary restrictions \nThese meetings are for graduate students only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-peasant-perspectives-on-the-medieval-landscape-a-study-of-three-communities/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241024T170000
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SUMMARY:Hellenic Studies / Medieval Studies Film Screening: The Last Temptation of Christ
DESCRIPTION:Hellenic Studies and Medieval Studies students are invited to a special HLS/MED film screening and dinner on Thursday\, October 24\, at 5pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell House. We will be watching The Last Temptation of Christ\, directed by Martin Scorsese. \nPlease RSVP to Chris Twiname by Thursday\, October 17\, and feel free to include any dietary restrictions or allergies in your response. \nScreening of The Last Temptation of Christ – Directed by Martin Scorsese | 1988 | 163 minutes \nJesus (Willem Dafoe)\, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God\, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas (Harvey Keitel) — despite his protestations that love\, not violence\, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life\, leading him to doubt. As he is put to death on the cross\, Jesus is tempted by visions of an ordinary life married to Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey). \n\nThis will be the second in a series of four HLS/MED film screenings for the fall semester. Additional film screenings will be held at 5:00 pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell on the following dates: \n\nNovember 14 – Agora\nDecember 5 – The Lion in Winter 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/hellenic-studies-medieval-studies-film-screening-the-last-temptation-of-christ/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:Ordinary People\, Everyday Lives: Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:2024 Medieval Studies Graduate Conference\nKeynote Lecture by Anne Lester\, Johns Hopkins University: “Ordinary Things: People and Their Possessions in Conversations with the Medieval State” \nRegister and view the full schedule on the conference website. \nOur perception of the pre-modern world is often shaped by the creative expressions of its contemporaries\, such as literary works\, decorative art\, and imposing architecture designed to captivate attention. The practices and processes of everyday life\, which have left less noticeable traces\, can be harder to access\, even though it is these ordinary and mundane acts that can profoundly increase our understanding of life before modernity. Building on Bourdieu’s thesis that habitus informs practical action and Wittgenstein’s emphasis on the need to ground human experience in everyday language\, this graduate conference asks how our understanding of pre-modern societies and cultures changes if we remain faithful to what sources tell us of practices “on the ground.” As such\, this conference focuses on the lived lives of ordinary people—among others\, laborers\, artisans\, and lower clergy. We’ll explore themes of liminality and intersectionality\, practicality and processes\, customs and traditions\, and more as they relate to the quotidian in the late antique and medieval world. How did the individual perceive and navigate the world around them? What is the nitty-gritty of everyday pre-modern life\, and how do we know?  \nFor questions\, contact conference organizers Alice Morandy (amorandy@princeton.edu) or Lucia Waldschuetz (lucia.waldschuetz@princeton.edu). \n\nThis conference is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity\, the Program in the Ancient World\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology and Religion.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ordinary-people-everyday-lives-exploring-the-mundane-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:Louis A. Simpson Building\, Room A71
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T132000
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SUMMARY:The Felon and the Villain: Middle English literature and felony procedure
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided.  \nThe Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature is about how literature made felony in late medieval England. To this day\, felony is the crime of which all other crimes are lesser versions—the offense for which you forfeit a good life. But at its medieval beginnings\, legal theorists wanted very little to do with it. Crown justices found crime “boring and distasteful\,” and were happy to let much of felony’s prosecution fall to the local community. Mostly untrained in legal concepts\, these communities turned to cultural ones\, archived in sermons they heard\, plays they had seen\, and poetry they knew. In turn\, felony and its procedure—from collecting evidence to evaluating blameworthiness—became a space for writers to work out their own concerns about guilt\, social harm\, and its repair. Each chapter steps through a stage of felony procedure\, reading literary sources with legal records to argue that\, at its beginnings\, felony was a concept descended mutually from legal and literary concepts\, a shared custody that has continued to the present. \n\nElise Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of English\, Comparative Literature\, and Linguistics at California State University\, Fullerton (CSUF).  Wang’s field is medieval law and literature\, and her work investigates how “old” ideas of guilt and morality can expand our understanding of our contemporary world. \nShe has appeared on The Daily Show\, contributed to documentaries for CBS and Netflix\, delivered a TEDx talk\, and has given over a dozen invited talks and keynotes. Wang is the author of The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, which traces the medieval emergence of felony procedure and demonstrates how its beginnings still shape how we understand serious crime today. \nWang has also published articles about medieval death investigations\, the ethics of witnessing violence in both the medieval and modern context\, and trauma narratives. Before CSUF\, she taught at Duke University and in New Jersey correctional facilities. She received her PhD from Princeton University\, before which she studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. \nWang is a 2024-2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow\, an award which provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-felon-and-the-villain-middle-english-literature-and-felony-procedure/
LOCATION:397 Julis Romo Rabinowitz\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “The Typical and the Atypical: Slices of Life (as transcribed in thirteenth-century mancelles miracles)”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our fifth LAMB workshop on Monday\, November 4 at 6pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss Alice Morandy’s paper “The Typical and the Atypical: Slices of Life (as transcribed in thirteenth-century mancelles miracles).” Mark Benton will comment and dinner will be served. \nPlease RSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \n\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 Radka Pallová (rp1545@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-the-typical-and-the-atypical-slices-of-life-as-transcribed-in-thirteenth-century-mancelles-miracles/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Edge: Muslims\, Christians\, and the State in the Fatimid Countryside?
DESCRIPTION:Open to the Public. Registration Required.  \nRegister HERE. \nHow far did the reach of the medieval state go in a productive province on the margins of the Egyptian desert? This talk explores how rural Christians and Muslims navigated the demands made and the material opportunities offered by the Fatimid Caliphate\, the Islamic court system\, and the Coptic Church in medieval Egypt’s Fayyum Oasis. \nLev Weitz is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America\, Washington\, DC. A historian of the Islamic Middle East\, his scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews that have shaped the region’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. He is the author of Between Christ and Caliph: Law\, Marriage\, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018). \nSponsors: the Department of Near Eastern Studies\, the Near Eastern Studies Program\, The Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/on-the-edge-muslims-christians-and-the-state-in-the-fatimid-countryside/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241107T120000
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SUMMARY:Arabic Documents in the Egyptian Provinces: Assembling a Dossier
DESCRIPTION:Open to the Public. Registration Required.  \nRegister HERE. \nLev Weitz is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America\, Washington\, DC. A historian of the Islamic Middle East\, his scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews that have shaped the region’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. He is the author of Between Christ and Caliph: Law\, Marriage\, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018). \nSponsors: the Department of Near Eastern Studies\, the Near Eastern Studies Program\, The Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
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LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
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SUMMARY:Arabicizing Syriac Legal Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Open to the Public. Registration Required.  \nRegister HERE. \nLev Weitz is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America\, Washington\, DC. A historian of the Islamic Middle East\, his scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews that have shaped the region’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. He is the author of Between Christ and Caliph: Law\, Marriage\, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018). \nSponsors: the Department of Near Eastern Studies\, the Near Eastern Studies Program\, The Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/__trashed/
LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241112T163000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies faculty and students for our next dessert hour on November 12\, at 4:30\, in 203 Scheide Caldwell. This time we’ll have a short presentation of one of our ongoing projects – Middle Ages for Educators –  a digital platform providing students and instructors with digital resources for the study of the late Antique and medieval past – videos\, podcasts\, shorts etc. The ‘producers’ of this website\, Laura Morreale\, Jeremy Stitts and Helmut Reimitz will give you a short intro into the ongoing work and projects\, and invite you to publish your own projects\, experiments\, experiences. The presentation will be very short\, and we’ll hold a discussion over drinks\, coffee and desserts. \n\nOur final Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hour for the semester will be held on Wednesday\, December 3 at 4:30 pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell House.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-student-dessert-hour-3/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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