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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Holiday Dessert Hour
DESCRIPTION:Our final dessert hour of the year before the holidays – the holiday dessert hour – is going to be a truly special event – the director of the program\, Professor William Jordan\, is going to present (exclusively for the junior and senior academy of the program) his idea for a future research project – more on his mind than on paper or hard drive. The ca. 15-minute presentation will give us a unique opportunity to listen to a highly distinguished medievalist on how they think about a research project in the making\, and how we can think with him\, reflect upon\, and even help to shape the future directions of this research. It’s going to be a lot of fun and\, we hope you can join us! \nThis dessert hour is for students only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-holiday-dessert-hour/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club
DESCRIPTION:For our next session\, the Medieval Studies Book Club voted to read the medieval chapters of ‘Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History’ by Nur Masalha. \nAll interested graduate students are warmly welcome! As always\, dinner will be provided. \nIf you would like to join\, please send an email to Mo van de Wege at mv9132@princeton.edu by Sunday\, October 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/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hellenic Studies / Medieval Studies Film Screening: Agora
DESCRIPTION:Hellenic Studies and Medieval Studies students are invited to a special HLS/MED film screening and dinner on Thursday\, November 14 at 5pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell House. \nScreening of Agora – Directed by Alejandro Amenábar| 2009 | 126 minutes \nIn the 4th century A.D.\, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) teaches her scientific beliefs to a class of male students. Among them is lovestruck slave Davus (Max Minghella)\, the equally smitten Orestes (Oscar Isaac) and young Christian man Synesius (Rupert Evans). Hypatia dismisses all of their advances\, but this romantic drama pales in comparison to a rising battle between Christians and pagans on the streets of soon-to-be war-torn Alexandria. \nRSVP to Anna D’Elia\, and include any dietary restrictions or allergies in your response. \n\nOur final film screening for the fall semester in this series will be The Lion in Winter\, on December 5 at 5:00 pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell House.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/hellenic-studies-medieval-studies-film-screening-agora/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “Precarity and Local Loyalties in Byzantine Provincial Governance\, c. 1261-1341”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our final LAMB workshop of this term on Tuesday\, November 19 at 6pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss James Cogbill’s paper “Precarity and Local Loyalties in Byzantine Provincial Governance\, c. 1261-1341.” Amel Bensalim 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. \nWhether you’ve never been before or you are a LAMB regular\, we look forward to seeing you at the final workshop of 2024! \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-precarity-and-local-loyalties-in-byzantine-provincial-governance-c-1261-1341/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Middle Ages in Catalan Historiography and Imagination
DESCRIPTION:A reception will follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nIn the nineteenth century\, a literary movement within Catalonia known as the Renaixença revived the Catalan language and national sentiment.  As was the case with other politically subordinated nations\, a Romantic revival centered on the medieval period.  Catalonia has not only been independent but dominated the medieval Crown of Aragon and this expansionist era as well as the legacy of Romanesque art and medieval Catalan literature were the basis for both elite and popular manifestations of pride and an identity that questioned Spanish state rhetoric about unity. \n\nPaul Freedman has been a Professor of History at Yale since 1997.  Before that he taught at Vanderbilt University.  He received his doctorate from Berkeley in 1978. \nHis teaching and research have concentrated on medieval Catalonia\, the peasantry and luxury products.  Freedman is the author of The Diocese of Vic (1981); The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia (1991); Images of the Medieval Peasant (1999) and Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (2008).  The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages in Enlightenment Catalonia appeared in 2023. \nFreeman has also written on modern as well as medieval food and cuisine\, including Ten Restaurants that Changed America\, (2016)\, American Cuisine and How It Got This Way\, (2019) and Why Food Matters (2021).  He is co-author of a children’s book (ages 10 and up) entitled Bite by Bite: American History through Feasts\, Food and Side Dishes\, published this year. Read more.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-middle-ages-in-catalan-historiography-and-imagination/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "Recipe or Ritual? The Problem of Magic in Medieval Alchemy"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2024. Jennifer M. Rampling\, Associate Professor of History\, will give this lunch time talk. \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided. \nIn the European Middle Ages\, practitioners of both alchemy and magic sought to manipulate nature\, although in different ways. Sometimes the boundary between them is hard to discern. This paper investigates how magical ideas may have influenced some late medieval alchemical recipes\, especially in England—and whether modern attempts to reconstruct these practices in a laboratory can shed light on how they were meant to be read. \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 Wednesday (November 20) through Friday (November 22).  Come browse! \n\nFaculty Colloquia for Spring 2025  \n\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-recipe-or-ritual-the-problem-of-magic-in-medieval-alchemy/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Medieval Coinage at Princeton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of medieval coinage at Princeton! On the occasion of gifts of medieval coins to the Princeton University Numismatic Collection by two Princeton Ph.D.’s\, Michael McVaugh *1965 and Jaroslav Folda *1962\, there will be an event open to all in Firestone Library Special Collections\, C Floor\, on Thursday Nov. 21 at 4:30. The donors will speak briefly on their collections\, followed by an exhibition of some of the highlights of Princeton’s existing holdings of medieval coins. Light refreshments will follow. \nThis event is open to Princeton faculty\, staff\, and students.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/a-celebration-of-medieval-coinage-at-princeton/
LOCATION:Firestone Library Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Hellenic Studies / Medieval Studies Film Screening: The Lion in Winter
DESCRIPTION:Hellenic Studies and Medieval Studies students are invited to a special HLS/MED film screening and dinner on Thursday\, December 5 at 5pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell House. \nScreening of The Lion in Winter – Directed by Anthony Harvey | 1968 | 134 minutes \nIt’s Christmas 1183\, and King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) is planning to announce his successor to the throne. The jockeying for the crown\, though\, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John (Nigel Terry) to take over. Henry’s wife\, Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn)\, has other ideas. She believes their son Prince Richard (Anthony Hopkins) should be king. As the family and various schemers gather for the holiday\, each tries to make the indecisive king choose their option. \nRSVP to Chris Twiname\, and include any dietary restrictions or allergies in your response.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/hellenic-studies-medieval-studies-film-screening-the-lion-in-winter/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:Demestvo presents: Lost Polyphonies
DESCRIPTION:On December 5th\, Demestvo presents “Lost Polyphonies”: a program showcasing the earliest traditions of vocal polyphony from Europe\, performed alongside contemporary compositions that engage with these chant traditions. The concert will feature music from Russia\, Georgia\, Byzantium\, France\, and England\, including world premieres of newly transcribed chants that have not been heard for over 300 years. Alongside these pieces\, Demestvo and guest artists will perform new works by Princeton graduate composers Justin Wright\, Lucy McKnight\, and Caroline Shaw. \nNamed after a Slavic polyphonic chant tradition\, Demestvo is a quartet founded by musicology PhD student and soprano Anastasia Shmytova. Conceived as part of her dissertation research on medieval Slavic chant and early polyphony\, Demestvo is committed to bringing the unique sound world of this unheard music to contemporary audiences. \nThis event is sponsored by the Music department of Princeton University\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, REEES\, the Slavic Department\, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, Scala Foundation\, the Department of French and Italian\, the Graduate School\, Medieval Studies\, and the Center for Culture\, Society and Religion.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/demestvo-presents-lost-polyphonies/
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SUMMARY:Boethius: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a symposium honoring the life\, work\, and legacy of Boethius on the occasion of the (supposed) 1500th anniversary of his death! \nShort talks and discussions will be led by                   \nClaire Apostoli (Classics)                  \nWilliam C. Jordan (History)                  \nBeatrice Kitzinger (A&A)                  \nAnne E. Lester (IAS/Johns Hopkins)                  \nDaniela Mairhofer (Classics)                  \nHelmut Reimitz (History)\nBrent Shaw (Classics) \nfollowed by drinks and light snacks in Prentice Library. \nRSVP by Thursday November 28th\, 2024 to Claire Apostoli\, apostoli@princeton.edu. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Classics\, the Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/boethius-a-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: Making Money in the Early Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:For our next session we’ll read ‘Making Money in the Early Middle Ages’ (2023) by Rory Naismith. \nIn ‘Making Money in the Early Middle Ages’\, Naismith “counters the conventional view of early medieval currency as the domain only of elite gift-givers and intrepid long-distance traders. Even when there were few coins in circulation\, Naismith argues\, the ways they were used—to give gifts\, to pay rents\, to spend at markets—have much to tell us.” \nAs always\, dinner will be provided. If you would like to join\, please send an email to Mo van de Wege at mv9132@princeton.edu by Monday\, November 18 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-making-money-in-the-early-middle-ages/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: Wisdom’s House\, Heaven’s Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:For our next session\, we will read the newest book by our very own Teresa Shawcross: ‘Wisdom’s House\, Heaven’s Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages’ (2024). Teresa Shawcross’ ‘Wisdom’s House\, Heaven’s Gate’ takes “as its starting point an investigation into the physical topography and symbolism of the two cities of Athens and Jerusalem\, this book offers a cultural history of the rival superpowers — the Byzantine Empire and Fatimid Caliphate — that between them dominated the Mediterranean world during the Central Middle Ages.” \nTeresa Shawcross will also be there to talk about her new publication.  \nDinner will be provided. If you would like to join\, please send an email to Mo van de Wege at mv9132@princeton.edu \nThese meetings are for graduate students only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-wisdoms-house-heavens-gate-athens-and-jerusalem-in-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250910T120000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250929T180000
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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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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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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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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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