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SUMMARY:From Aquileia to Cologne: Reconsiderations of early Latin exegesis
DESCRIPTION:A reception will follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nThe first generation of Latin biblical exegetes\, who were active as early as the mid-third century\, has recently come into clearer focus through new manuscript finds and author attributions\, allowing us to rewrite the history of this important genre in the Latin West. In a way\, however\, the picture has also become less clear\, in particular if we contextualize these late ancient texts in a broader\, late ancient to early medieval tradition. Neither the absolute chronology nor the interrelations between early Bible commentaries\, nor\, indeed\, the names of their authors are as uncontroversial as has been suggested. The picture that emerges is one of a complex textual tradition\, but also of the intentional shaping of an idealized scholarly past. \n\nHildegund Müller is a specialist of late antique Latin literature\, both poetry and prose\, especially the Latin Church Fathers. She has published a critical edition of a part of Augustine’s Psalm Sermons (Enarrationes in Psalmos) for the CSEL series\, as well as numerous studies on this and other late antique sermon collections. Her interest in late antique homilies covers widely different aspects\, such as their relation to classical rhetoric\, their use of Biblical and other sources\, the way they are shaped by improvisation and orality\, and their Nachleben in the Middle Ages. Her other field of interest is the Latin Middle Ages\, especially poetry and (early) exegesis. She wrote her dissertation on an exegetical collection from the late Carolingian era (the so-called ‘Luculentius’ homiliary) and published articles on poetry from the 11th and 12th centuries. Her favorite classical authors are Cicero and Horace.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/from-aquileia-to-cologne-reconsiderations-of-early-latin-exegesis/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Translating the Crusades: Historical Legacies of the Orientalist Translation Movement
DESCRIPTION:A reception will follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nPublished between 1872–1906\, the five volumes of the Recueil des historiens des croisades: historiens orientaux contain abridged editions and French translations of medieval Arabic sources relating to the crusading period. This collection has influenced how generations of historians have engaged with Arabic-Islamic perspectives on the crusades\, a key historical facet of Christian-Muslim relations. Even today\, non-Arabists remain reliant upon the Recueil and other contemporaneous translations. By subjecting the Recueil to close scrutiny from a general perspective and on the basis of concrete case studies\, this paper engages with ongoing debates\, over the relevance and legacy of scientific projects produced in the heyday of Orientalist and colonialist thought. \n\nJames Wilson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and Department of History at the University of Konstanz\, Germany. He obtained his PhD from Queen Mary\, University of London in 2020\, and his first monograph\, Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades\, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/translating-the-crusades-historical-legacies-of-the-orientalist-translation-movement/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium - "Carolingian Past\, Crusading Present\, Apocalyptic Future: Reintegrating the Treasury of Saint-Sernin of Toulouse within its Liturgical Space"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2025. Catherine Fernandez\, Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art\, will give this lunch time talk. \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided. \nThis talk provides an overview of a book-in-progress that considers the function and reception of several extraordinary treasury objects associated with Charlemagne\, which were housed in the pilgrimage shrine of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse: the first-century Roman cameo known as the Gemma Augustea\, the eighth-century Godescalc Evangelistary\, and an eleventh-century ivory oliphant. By taking into account the treasury’s distinctly Toulousan context\, this paper contends that such objects were deployed liturgically to promote a particular facet of Saint-Sernin’s institutional memory\, which celebrated the emperor as imperial donor and elevated him to the role of holy proto-crusader. \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 (March 4) through Thursday (March 6).  Come browse! \n\nThe next faculty colloquia for spring will be on Wednesday\, April 16 at 12:00 pm with Sarah Anderson (English).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-carolingian-past-crusading-present-apocalyptic-future-reintegrating-the-treasury-of-saint-sernin-of-toulouse-within-its-liturgical-space/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Musicology Colloquium: "Assessing the Dendermonde Codex: Hildegard of Bingen's response to Guibert of Gembloux"
DESCRIPTION:Guibert of Gembloux would become Hildegard of Bingen’s final secretary (after Volmar †1173 and Godfrey of Disibodenberg †1176)\, and one of the authors of her Vita\, but during the two-year period from 1175-1177\, he was one of her most demanding and persistent correspondents. Towards the end of their epistolary exchange\, Hildegard unexpectedly sent him a collection known today as the Dendermonde Codex\, formerly housed at the St. Peter and Paul Abbey\, and now at the Maurits Sabbe library (KU Leuven). Well-known to musicologists and performers of Hildegard’s music\, Dendermonde is one of two main manuscripts that transmit her musical repertory. While its music section has been available in facsimile edition since 1991 (van Poucke)\, the music is only one part of the compilation manuscript (described as a miscellany in the KU Leuven catalogue); it also transmits Hildegard’s least studied of her three visionary texts—the Liber Vitae Meritorum\, visionary works of Elisabeth of Schönau\, and an anonymous dialogue between a priest and the devil. In this paper\, Jennifer Bain will present a codicological and comparative manuscript analysis that will correct a fundamental error in the literature in how the content of the manuscript is described and challenge repeated assumptions about the so-called incomplete status of the music section. Through a review of the relationships amongst the items in this collection\, alongside an examination of the correspondence between Guibert and Hildegard\, she will consider the purpose of the manuscript as a whole.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/musicology-colloquium-assessing-the-dendermonde-codex-hildegard-of-bingens-response-to-guibert-of-gembloux/
LOCATION:First Floor Reading Room\, Mendel Music Library
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SUMMARY:International Career Paths and Methodologies in Medieval Studies
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE \nLunch with medievalists from the University of Zürich’s Romanisches Seminar \nQ and A facilitated by: \nRichard Trachsler\, Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature\, Romanisches Seminar\, Universität Zürich and Julien R. Stout\, Assistant Professor of French and Italian \nSponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies and the Department of French and Italian \n\nRichard Trachsler is full Professor for Medieval French and Occitan Literature at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) after holding positions in Paris IV-Sorbonne (France) and Göttingen (Germany). He is the current president of the Collegium Romanicum\, the Association of Romance Philologists of Switzerland and of the Société des Anciens Textes Français. He is also Honorary International President of the ICLS and of the International Reynardian Society. Richard Trachsler has a long experience as co-editor of a book series in France and Italy and is co-editor of the Revue critique de Philologie Romane (since 2007) and Reynardus (since 2010). He is also one of the interim editors of Encomia\, the journal of the ICLS that will evolve from a bibliographical bulletin in to a scientific journal. He serves on the advisory board of many journals and books series in Europe (B\, I\, D\, UK\, CH\, F\, NL) and the US. He has held Visiting Professorships in Paris (Ecole des Chartes\, 2010 and 2017 and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 2018)\, Cagliari (2010 and 2012)\, Bologna (2022)\, Bergamo (2024)\, and has obtained a Sassoon Fellowship for the Bodleian Library in Oxford (2019) and a Visiting Professorship at Corpus Christi in Cambridge (2024 postponed). His main interest lies in Medieval narrative literature and text editing on which he has extensively published in French\, English\, Italian and German. To date\, he has (co-)authored 8 books\, (co-)directed 14 volumes and published some 150 articles.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/international-career-paths-and-methodologies-in-medieval-studies/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Colloquium - Consuming Ecologies: Environment and Society in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE \nColloquium – Consuming Ecologies: Environment and Society in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages \n29 March 2025 | 9am-6pm | A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building and Zoom \nRegistration for in-person attendance \nRegistration for Zoom \nThis one-day workshop aims to investigate late antique and early medieval ecologies as unfolding socio-environmental formations. Recent scholarship has highlighted some of the messy ecological entanglements that gave root to political ideologies and homegrown squashes across the Mediterranean world—feeding hairy pigs alongside persistent imageries. Digging deeper into the matter of ecologies\, this workshop explores the emergence of socio-environmental assemblages in the past through the prism of consumption. The undetermined precarity of ecological forms that characterise the present is not merely a feature of capitalist modernity. It is indebted to the longue durée entanglement of individuals and communities with non-human forms of life. The colloquium therefore poses the question of how different forms\, materialities\, commitments\, and ideologies of consumption in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages endangered ‘consuming ecologies’: that is\, socio-environmental formations emergent out of human appetites that simultaneously swallowed human and non-human labour\, knowledge\, and lives. What lifeways\, spaces\, and practices arose as a result of living in devouring formations\, co-created by people\, non-human animals\, climatic events\, things\, states\, plants\, and geological forces? \nSince the concept of ecologies asks us to bring together evidence traditionally studied by different disciplines\, the workshops will gather scholars working in different fields (history\, archaeology\, palynology\, literature\, papyrology etc). Our goal is to facilitate conversation about ecologies and consumption across disciplinary\, temporal\, and geographical boundaries. Each speaker is therefore invited to present a case study of their choice drawn from around the late antique and early medieval world that they consider to have purchase on the concept of consuming ecologies. \nMore Information on the EHL website. \nThe Environmental History Lab is supported by a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council. The Colloquium is co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, the Department of Classics\, the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity\, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/colloquium-consuming-ecologies-environment-and-society-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Sophomore Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Medieval Studies for lunch on April 4 to learn all about the minor\, related courses\, events\, and the vast resources for medieval studies at Princeton. \nThrough a flexible model wherein independent work may take various forms and coursework may intersect students’ plans of study in various ways\, the minor is designed to welcome students with any degree concentration. All students are welcome! \nLunch will be provided.  \nAbout the minor \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. 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.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-sophomore-open-house/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chanyu 單于 or Huangdi 皇帝—Rex or Augustus: Royal and Imperial Titles in the Post-Roman West and Early Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:The collapse of the Western Jin dynasty (265-316) in northern China and the dissolution of the Roman west (c. 476) saw the rise of multiple conquest states founded by military elites of foreign origin. In light of the different forms of titulature adopted by these regimes\, this talk will discuss the ways in which these new states situated themselves along a spectrum of distinction from\, and assimilation to\, the respective imperial traditions. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/chanyu-%e5%96%ae%e4%ba%8e-or-huangdi-%e7%9a%87%e5%b8%9d-rex-or-augustus-royal-and-imperial-titles-in-the-post-roman-west-and-early-medieval-china/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "From the diversity of history to the history of diversity: the example of Gregory of Tours"
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies for our final faculty colloquium of the year. Helmut Reimitz\, Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History\, will give this lunch time talk. \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 (April 15) through Thursday (April 17).  Come browse!
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-from-the-diversity-of-history-to-the-history-of-diversity-the-example-of-gregory-of-tours/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Reunions Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Council’s Program in Medieval Studies presents this Reunions discussion featuring current and former directors: \n\nBeatrice Kitzinger\, Art & Archaeology\nHelmut Reimitz\, History\nModerated by William C. Jordan\, History\, Emeritus\n\nSpeakers will touch on successful initiatives\, current challenges\, and expanding partnerships. Join your friends from Medieval Studies for a great conversation. Refreshments will be served! \n\nPost Panel Special Collections Visit \nAfter the panel\, we’re hoping to organize a visit to the Firestone Special Collections for a small group of alumni. Space is limited. If interested\, please email Anna D’Elia.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-reunions-panel/
LOCATION:217 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies and CSLA Welcome Back Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Program in Medieval Studies and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) for a Welcome Back Reception on Tuesday\, September 9. \nWe look forward to gathering with you at the start of the new academic year! Brief remarks and introductions will start at 5:00pm. \nPlease RSVP to Anna D’Elia. This event is only open to Princeton University students\, faculty\, and staff. \nIf you know new members of the community who might like to attend–incoming graduate students\, postdocs\, visiting students and researchers\, etc.–please help us reach them by forwarding this message. \n*In case of rain\, we will be located in the first floor of Scheide Caldwell House.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-csla-welcome-back-reception-2/
LOCATION:Scheide Caldwell House & Joseph Henry House Courtyard
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium - "Diversity\, identity\, sin: New reflections on the 'birth of the French author' in medieval manuscript culture"
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies for our first faculty colloquium of the year with Julien Stout\, Assistant Professor of French and Italian. \nLunch will be provided. Please RSVP. \nThis event is only open to Princeton University faculty\, students\, and staff. \n\nBased on Prof. Julien Stout’s new book L’Auteur retrouvé\, this presentation examines a key chapter in the history of authorship—a topic which\, as current debates on generative AI and the criminal liability of writers and creators show\, is anything but “dead”. \nFocusing on vernacular manuscript culture from the 12th to early 14th centuries\, the book explores how the notion of authorship was both invented and subverted in early French-language collections arranged by author. \nThe central argument is that\, in the High Middle Ages\, the “French author” remained a marginal\, often ludicrous idea compared to the established Latin and Occitan traditions of the time. Despite being celebrated in monumental manuscripts\, French writers were often depicted as self-deprecating figures who claimed ownership only of what God could not author—their own sins\, turned into poetry. \nBy examining collections featuring authors such as Adenet le Roi\, Rutebeuf\, and Adam de la Halle\, this presentation argues that French poets—and the editors who transmitted their works—played a key role in redefining authorship\, engaging with broader cultural debates about evolving notions of “identity” and “diversity\,” understood both as individuality and as moral/aesthetic deviation. \n**Location is subject to change pending Fall classroom assignments. \n\nBook Exhibit \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) each semester to view recently acquired titles in all subject areas of Medieval Studies. The books for fall 2025 will be on display from the afternoon of Tuesday (September 9) through Thursday (September 11). Come browse!
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-diversity-identity-sin-new-reflections-on-the-birth-of-the-french-author-in-medieval-manuscript-culture/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop - “Shelf Portrait: The book collection of a sixteenth-century scholar on the margins of the Mamluk elite”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our first LAMB Workshop of the year. Stephanie Luescher (Near Eastern Studies) will present her paper\, “Shelf Portrait: The book collection of a sixteenth-century scholar on the margins of the Mamluk elite.” 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 Alice Morandy or Anna D’Elia 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. \nSponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers\, or views presented. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-shelf-portrait-the-book-collection-of-a-sixteenth-century-scholar-on-the-margins-of-the-mamluk-elite/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club - Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
DESCRIPTION:Welcome back! The first meeting of the Medieval Book Club will take place on Thursday\, September 29\, 2025\, at 6 pm at Scheide Caldwell House 209. \nWe will be discussing Jamie Kreiner’s Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (2020)\, which has won multiple prizes in medieval history and environmental history (see additional information below). \nDinner will be provided. If you would like to join\, please RSVP here by September 20\, 2025. \nStudents of all years and departments are welcome! Historians\, engineers\, philosophers\, artists – the Middle Ages have something for everyone. \nThis meeting is for Princeton University students only.  \n\nJamie Kreiner\, Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (2020) \nFrom the publisher’s website: \nFrom North Africa to the British Isles\, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and transformed the way that people thought about the world around them. In this world\, even the smallest things could have far‑reaching consequences. \nKreiner tracks the interlocking relationships between pigs and humans by drawing on textual and visual evidence\, bioarchaeology and settlement archaeology\, and mammal biology. She shows how early medieval communities bent their own lives in order to accommodate these tricky animals—and how in the process they reconfigured their agrarian regimes\, their fiscal policies\, and their very identities. In the end\, even the pig’s own identity was transformed: by the close of the early Middle Ages\, it had become a riveting metaphor for Christianity itself. \nFrom reviews: \n“One of the most original books I’ve read in a long time.” — Julia Smith\, Chichele Professor of Medieval History\, University of Oxford \n“Jamie Kreiner’s book has a stunning range\, from Iceland to the Islamic lands\, showing how we cannot understand the medieval world at all unless we understand pigs. This was one of the most insightful and satisfying reads I have had for ages.” — Chris Wickham\, author of last year’s Medieval Book Club book The Donkey and the Boat
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-legions-of-pigs-in-the-early-medieval-west/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Seminar Series - "Publishing in Medieval Studies"
DESCRIPTION:Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP . \nThis lunch talk will focus on book publishing across Medieval Studies from the editor of the ICMA | Viewpoints book series at the Pennsylvania State University Press and of The Middle Ages book series at the University of Pennsylvania Press. \nBetancourt’s visit will continue with a lecture hosted by the Department of Art & Archaeology\, Like the Dawn of Creation: Byzantine Fragments in the Queer Imagination\, on October 2 at 4:30pm in 010 East Pyne. \nRoland Betancourt is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art. He also holds the distinction of Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California\, Irvine and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is an expert on the art and culture of the Byzantine Empire\, and his work also looks at the uses of the medieval past in the modern world. His book\, Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality\, Gender\, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton\, 2020)\, won the Jerome E. Singerman Prize from the Medieval Academy of America and was a finalist for the Award of Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies by the American Academy of Religion. His forthcoming book\, Disneyland and the Rise of Automation\, will be out with Princeton University Press in early 2026. \n\nThis seminar is part of our Fall 2025 Medieval Studies Seminar Series. Additional talks in this series will be held on October 22 with Eric Goldberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)\,  November 6 with Ophelia Hostetter (Rutgers University-Camden) and December 4 with Antony Eastmond (the Courtauld).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/publishing-in-medieval-studies/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T180000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies faculty and students for our first coffee hour of the year! Refreshments will be served. \nThis event is open to Princeton University students and faculty only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-student-coffee-hour/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251022T120000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Seminar Series - "Rapine\, the Carolingians\, and the Transformation of Frankish Society"
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided. \nRecent reevaluations of the Carolingian Europe in the ninth century overlook a momentous development in Frankish society: kings’ mounting difficulties in supplying their armies and maintaining discipline among their soldiers. Owing to dynastic conflicts and Viking invasions\, later Carolingian warfare shifted from short summer campaigns on distant frontiers to year-round mobilizations in the empire’s heartlands. This transformation strained Frankish military organization and resulted in soldiers seizing supplies from the common people and abusing them. Such brutal behavior alarmed kings\, churchmen\, and chroniclers\, who described it in the legal and moral language of rapina or “rapine” (violent theft). This research project investigates this growing problem of rapine\, the efforts of Charlemagne’s descendants to curb it\, and how their failure to do so helps explain the transformation of Frankish society and collapse of the Carolingian empire in the late ninth and tenth centuries. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.  \nEric J. Goldberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1998 and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He specializes in the history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages\, and his research focuses on the politics and culture of the Merovingian\, Carolingian\, and Anglo-Saxon worlds. His first book\, Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German\, 817-876\, offers the first study in English of the reign of Charlemagne’s grandson\, Louis the German (840-876). His second book\, In the Manner of the Franks: Hunting\, Kingship\, and Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe explores the fascinating and little-understood history of hunting from the late Roman empire to the turn of the first millennium. Professor Goldberg has been awarded fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study\, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Counsel for Learned Societies\, the Medieval Academy of America\, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. He was a tenured professor at Williams College before coming to M.I.T. in 2009. He was born and raised in San Francisco. \n\nThis talk is part of our Fall 2025 Medieval Studies Seminar Series. Additional talks in this series will be held on November 6 with Ophelia Hostetter (Rutgers University-Camden) and December 4 with Antony Eastmond (the Courtauld).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-eric-goldberg/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T192000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club - Impostures by al-Ḥarīrī
DESCRIPTION:The next meeting of the Medieval Book Club will take place on Thursday\, October 30 at 6 pm in Scheide Caldwell House 209. \nWe will be discussing Impostures by al-Ḥarīrī (2020)\, translated by Michael Cooperson.  \nThe link to RSVP and request a copy of the book will be available shortly. \nThis meeting is for Princeton University students only.  \n\n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-impostures-by-al-%e1%b8%a5ariri/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Seminar Series - "Who is Queer Translation and What is She\, that all her Queens Commend Her?: (Re)Translating Verse from the Old English Exeter Book"
DESCRIPTION:Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP. \n\nTranslation always fails\, at some level. \nTranslation theory has long argued that rendering a text from source to target is imprecise\, messy\, subject to the translator’s desire\, & bound in preconceived narratives about the source culture. Old English poetry is all-too-often read as a monolithic expression representing the ideas\, language\, & beliefs of an entire culture — particularly upon moral or ethical values useful to modern mythologies of a national past. For instance\, scholars have been happy to assume that Queerness had no legitimate place in early England — yet those categories do not exist before the nineteenth century’s “discovery” of heteronormativity. \nThis workshop is based on a simple idea: instead of failing to succeed in locating our Queer ancestors in early English literature\, let’s set out to Fail right up front — and Fail as gloriously as we can. Come have lunch with Dr. Ophelia Eryn Hostetter *12 as we work together at a translation practice located in disruption\, deformation\, play\, Queer joy\, and\, of course\, Failure in the most stylish way possible. \n\nOphelia Eryn Hostetter (she/her) is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Camden\, teaching & researching medieval literature and culture\, 500–1500 CE. Her first book\, Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance\, argues the vital connection between food and cooking & the political ambitions of these texts. Dr. Hostetter’s second book\, Teaching “Beowulf”: Practical Approaches (DeGruyter\, 2024\, with Larry Swain)\, is a co-edited collection of pedagogical essays for teachers of this ancient epic. She is also an avid translator\, working from Old English\, Latin & Old French\, frequently publishing her work in literary journals\, & runs the Old English Poetry Project\, an open-access archive of this impressive body of verse rendered into a fresh\, contemporary voice. Dr. Hostetter’s current project questions the way that Old English poetry has traditionally been translated\, limiting how it is interpreted\, obstructing innovative approaches\, and impeding inclusivity in the field. This approach informs her translation work and brings in queer theory\, translation theory\, glitch\, hip hop\, & affective studies alongside more traditional methods such as codicology\, linguistics\, and historicism. Dr. Hostetter’s teaching involves the interplay between medieval and modern\, revealing what the Middle Ages can reveal about our contemporary world. She also is active in public-facing research\, operating a Substack\, Translations Beyond the Horizon\, as well as anticipating the publication of The Queer Life of Riddles (punctum\, 2025) a collection of creative-critical translations of Old English riddles. She is eager to work with students interested in pursuing their own independent research\, in a wide variety of areas. \n\nThis talk is part of our Fall 2025 Medieval Studies Seminar Series. The next talk in this series will be held on December 4 with Antony Eastmond (the Courtauld).
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/who-is-queer-translation-and-what-is-she-that-all-her-queens-commend-her-retranslating-verse-from-the-old-english-exeter-book/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T163000
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SUMMARY:English Medieval Colloquium: “Lely-wyte\, clene with pure virginyté”: The N-Town Nativity\, the Virgin Mary\, and Trans Misogyny
DESCRIPTION:English Medieval Colloquium presents:\nWed\, Nov 12 • 4:30 – 6 pm • 103 Chancellor Green\n“Lely-wyte\, clene with pure virginyté”: The N-Town Nativity\, the Virgin Mary\, and Trans Misogyny\nNat Rivkin\, Vanderbilt University Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow \nAbstract: This talk examines how the Virgin Mary’s immaculate childbirth in the N-Town Nativity illuminates recent scholarship on trans misogyny. I argue that the N-Town Nativity diagnoses Mary’s enduring virginity after childbirth as itself a form of gender variance\, and the play punishes the doubtful midwife Salomé for her lack of faith in another’s claim to womanhood. Moreover\, this early Christian drama allows scholars today to contest the hostile myth that trans misogyny is at once natural and biblically sanctioned. It is Mary’s durable yet opaque virginity that generates the anatomical scrutiny too often evoked by contemporary trans femininities. \n\nPresented by the Department of English.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/english-medieval-colloquium-lely-wyte-clene-with-pure-virginyte-the-n-town-nativity-the-virgin-mary-and-trans-misogyny/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies faculty and students for our next coffee hour on Wednesday\, November 19. We will discuss the Spring 2026 Medieval Studies course offerings. \nRefreshments will be served. \nThis event is open to Princeton University students and faculty only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-student-coffee-hour-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Workshop: Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Marie-Louise James and Erica Passoni \nNovember 20–21\, 2025 \nThursday – Friday \nNovember 20: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm\, Rocky/Mathey Theater \nNovember 20: 4:30 – 6:00 pm\, 46 McCosh Hall \nNovember 21: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm\, 103 Chancellor Green \n\nThis two-day event fosters graduate-led research and discussions in the humanities on the ethical\, symbolic\, and cultural meanings of the womb across traditions and epochs. The womb has long been a site where competing values around autonomy\, gender\, sexuality\, and power converge. Participants will explore how womb-related knowledge—spanning literature\, philosophy\, the history of medicine\, religion\, art\, music\, and law—shapes understandings of personhood\, agency\, and moral authority. At its core\, the workshop undertakes a sustained inquiry into how human societies have imagined reproduction and human difference. The workshop features a variety of formats\, including graduate student research presentations\, roundtables\, and a keynote lecture by Professor Terri Kapsalis (School of the Art Institute of Chicago). \nTerri Kapsalis is the author of Jane Addams’ Travel Medicine Kit (commissioned by the Hull-House Museum\, a collaboration with forensic scientists\, installed in Jane Addams’ bedroom as an alternative label alongside her kit for a “slow museum” experience)\, Hysterical Alphabet (WhiteWalls\, based on primary medical writings on hysteria from ancient Egypt to the present and written like a Victorian children’s alphabet book\, also a multi-media performance with film and live soundtrack performed with John Corbett and Danny Thompson throughout the U.S.)\, and Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum (Duke University Press – the only book reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine\, The Village Voice\, and a medical fetishist site The Amateur Gynecologist.) \nThis workshop is open to the public and to all Princeton graduate and undergraduate students regardless of identity. \n\nHosted by the Department of German\, Princeton University. \nCo-sponsored by: \nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion \nCommittee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies \nDepartment of Anthropology \nDepartment of English \nDepartment of French and Italian \nDepartment of German \nDepartment of Music \nDepartment of Religion \nHumanities Council \nProgram in European Cultural Studies \nProgram in Medieval Studies \nUniversity Center for Human Values
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/graduate-student-workshop-imaginations-of-the-womb-uterine-imaginaries/
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SUMMARY:Byzantium\, the Caucasus and artistic borders in the medieval world
DESCRIPTION:Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP. \nThis lecture will consider some of the issues raised by trying to write a ‘national’ history of art in the twenty-first century. Eastmond will address the questions he is facing as he tries to write a history of the arts of Georgia in the Caucasus. How do we define the borders and benefits of a ‘national’ art\, particularly as art history takes an increasingly global and transnational turn? What value is there in defining an art by geography\, language\, religion and/or ethnicity? And how can we deal with the fuzzy and porous borders that demarcate political\, cultural and religious space in the middle ages? Eastmond will evaluate the risks of his approach\, and try to defend his belief that it is possible to write a national art history without nationalism. \nAntony Eastmond is AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art\, University of London. He is currently a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. He has worked extensively on the arts of Byzantium and the Caucasus\, and on the fuzzy frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Ironically his last book\, Tamta’s World (2017)\, argued against the delimiting of art history by borders of language\, ethnicity\, religion or geography. \nThis is the last talk in the Fall 2025 Medieval Studies Seminar Series. \n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-lunch-talk-with-antony-eastmond/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T170000
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SUMMARY:Art as Proof: Statues and High Relief as Ideological Statements at the Time of the Image Controversy\, c.750–850?
DESCRIPTION:Weitzmann Lecture—Keynote for Dec. 6 Index of Medieval Art Conference \nAt a synod convened by Emperor Louis the Pious in Paris in November 825\, Frankish clerics debated the correct use of images in churches. After carefully considering texts and the traditions of the Church\, they confirmed the long-attested view that the Incarnation (the pivotal Christian doctrine that God took on human form in Jesus Christ) legitimizes images. They also established that images should neither be worshiped nor destroyed. In fact\, images could be used to instruct people about religion and morals and to elevate the mind to spiritual things. In this lecture I shall limit myself to considering the presence of high-relief and three-dimensional images in repoussé metalwork or other media in western churches before and after the Paris Synod\, in the period of the image controversy (c.720s–850). Generally lost\, high-relief and three-dimensional images are recorded in written sources. \nHigh-relief and three-dimensional images from Rome\, Gaul/Francia\, England\, and Langobardia have occasionally been mentioned in studies on early medieval art\, either to retrace the re-birth of three-dimensional statuary or to discuss image worship. They have also been occasionally construed as attestations of iconophilia\, that is an attitude in favor of sacred images. Whether this kind of image might have functioned as an ideological statement should be evaluated not only by considering the specific circumstances in which they were situated\, but also the broader body of evidence offered by written sources and material culture between the fourth and the ninth centuries in various regions of the West. I set out to do this in my paper. \nFor full details\, please visit the Department of Art & Archaeology website.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/art-as-proof-statues-and-high-relief-as-ideological-statements-at-the-time-of-the-image-controversy-c-750-850/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:Art as Proof in the Ninth Century
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date for the next Index of Medieval Art conference\, “Art and Proof in the Ninth Century.” Organized by Professors Beatrice Kitzinger and Charlie Barber in collaboration with the Index and co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology\, the conference will follow on the department’s 2025 Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture by Francesca dell’Acqua (Università di Salerno) on December 5\, which will double as the conference keynote. \nFor full details\, please visit the Index of Medieval Art website.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/art-and-proof-in-the-ninth-century/
LOCATION:Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
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SUMMARY:2026 Intensive Introductory Workshop in the Palaeosciences for Pre-Modernists
DESCRIPTION:Details\n\nEvent Description\n\nThis entry-level workshop will introduce participants from the fields of history and archaeology to the palaeoecological sciences and their relevance to historical and archaeological research. Beginning with an overview of palaeoecology\, how it works and how it can be used\, the program will offer brief surveys of a number of key ecological sciences\, with the focus this year on stable isotope analysis and sedimentary geochemistry\, speleothems\, ice cores\, and palynology\, with attention paid to data presentation\, reconstruction of past vegetation\, climate and land cover\, and sampling strategies. \nIn particular\, the program will explain how such proxies are interpreted\, the conceptual basis for the reconstructions derived from them\, and the assumptions\, uncertainties\, and statistical methods for data transformation that accompany their use. The focus is on the Mediterranean Basin\, but examples will also be drawn on from other world regions. \n\nAn intensive 5-day workshop\nEntry-level: no previous knowledge of the subject required\nGeared towards younger scholars (junior faculty members and graduate students)\nFor scholars in the humanities and social sciences\n\nApplication Process and Deadlines\nThere is a limited number of places available. Those interested should submit a brief statement of interest (no more than 200 words)\, with their current position/program\, to John Haldon (jhaldon@princeton.edu) by November 15th 2025. The subject line of the email should read “Application for Palaeoscience Workshop.” Successful applicants will be notified by December 1st 2025. \n\nThis workshop is sponsored by High Meadows Environmental Institute\, the Department of Art & Archaeology\, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, the Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/2026-intensive-introductory-workshop-in-the-palaeosciences-for-pre-modernists/
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SUMMARY:The Muslim Sensorium: From the 10th-century Brethren of Purity to Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī (d. 1954)
DESCRIPTION:**Due to winter weather\, this lecture\, originally scheduled for Monday\, January 26\, has been postponed to Tuesday\, January 27 at 4:30pm in 0-S-6 Green Hall.  \nA reception will follow the lecture.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP Here. \nIn recent years\, the senses have become the object of renewed interest in the humanities and social sciences\, including within the study of Islamic intellectual history. This talk surveys models of the human sensorium articulated in the Islamic world from the 10th to the 20th century CE. It focuses on chapters devoted to the senses in five major Arabic encyclopedias of knowledge: (1) the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity (Iraq\, 10th c.); (2) Avicenna’s Book of Healing (Persia\, 11th c.); (3) al-Jildakī’s Proof on the Secrets of the Science of Balances (Egypt\, 14th c.); (4) al-Majlisī’s Oceans of Lights (Persia\, 17th c.); and (5) Muḥammad Farīd Wajdī’s Encyclopedia of the Twentieth Century (Egypt\, 20th c.). The talk traces how theories of sensory perception differed and evolved across a millennium of Islamic thought in the Nile-to-Oxus region\, exploring continuities and shifts shaped by Graeco-Islamic philosophy\, the magico-theurgical tradition\, Shiʿi devotion\, and modern Muslim scientism. \n\nChristian Lange (PhD Harvard\, 2006) is Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University\, the Netherlands. His publications include Justice\, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008)\, Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions (2016)\, and most recently (as co-editor)\, Islamic Sensory History\, Vol. 2: 600-1500 (2024). Since 2017\, he’s been the Principal Investigator of the Utrecht-based research group SENSIS: The senses of Islam\, funded by research grants of the European Research Council and the Dutch Science Organisation.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/muslim-sensoria-in-premodern-arabic-encyclopaedias-from-the-brethren-of-purity-4th-10th-c-to-al-majlisis-oceans-of-lights-11th-17th-c/
LOCATION:0-S-6 Green Hall
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Medieval Studies Coffee Hour - Discussion with Christian Lange
DESCRIPTION:**Due to winter weather\, we had to postpone Christian Lange’s lecture\, originally on January 26\, to January 27 at 4:30pm and cancel this coffee hour discussion. \nWe will schedule another coffee hour discussion to replace this one. But for now\, please plan to join us for our next scheduled coffee hour on February 19. \nWe apologize for the inconvenience. Please email Anna D’Elia with any questions. \n 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-coffee-hour-3/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LEGAM Working Group - “Of Cookbooks\, Algorithms\, and Rules"
DESCRIPTION:The next meeting of the Legal Document\, Aesthetics\, and the Materiality of Law (LEGAM) working group\, entitled “Of Cookbooks\, Algorithms\, and Rules\,” will be in the first week of the spring semester on Wednesday\, January 28\, at 5 PM in Scheide 203. During the meeting\, we will discuss Lorraine Daston’s Rules. A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton University Press\, 2022). You can register for the meeting here. \nThis working group is organized by Tobias Scheunchen. Books can be picked up from his office in Scheide 204 on Monday\, December 1. Or you can reach out to him at scheunchen@princeton.edu \nAs always\, please note that taking a book copy constitutes a commitment to read and discuss with the group.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/legam-working-group-of-cookbooks-algorithms-and-rules/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics - Medieval Arabic Legal Documents
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to kick off the spring series of Comparative Diplomatics with Amel Bensalim who will walk us through some medieval Arabic legal documents from Egypt. \nTo receive the image(s)\, edition(s)\, and translation(s) of the document(s) to be discussed\, sign up here. \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 a few days ahead of time\, provide the group with an edition\, a translation and an image of the original.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-medieval-arabic-legal-documents/
LOCATION:210 Dickinson Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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