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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "François Villon: Poet\, Cat-Burglar\, Murderer\, and Augustinian Social Theorist"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2024. John Fleming\, Louis W. Fairchild ’24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, Emeritus\, will give this first lunch time talk. \nThis paper outlines some main contours of work in progress on two cognate subjects: the structure of Villon’s most important work\, the so-called Grand Testament (1461)\, including its debt to Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose and the theory of justice outlined in Augustine’s City of God; and the context of Villon’s rediscovery as a major poet by French poets and English critics in the nineteenth century. \nPlease RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided. \n\nBook exhibit in the history reading room \nAlain St. Pierre and the Princeton University Library invite the Medieval Studies community to the History reading room in Firestone Library (Floor A: turn left out of the main staircase) on colloquium days to view recently acquired titles in all subject areas of Medieval Studies. The books will be on display from the afternoon of Tuesday (October 8) through Thursday (October 10).  Come browse! \n\nUpcoming Faculty Colloquia  \n\nThursday\, November 21 at 12:00pm: Jennifer Rampling (History)\nWednesday\, February 26 at 12:00pm: Jamie Reuland (Music)\nWednesday\, March 5 at 12:00pm: Catherine Fernandez (Art & Archaeology)\nWednesday\, April 16 at 12:00 pm: Sarah Anderson (English)
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-francois-villon-poet-cat-burglar-murderer-and-augustinian-social-theorist/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “Tetrarchic Christianity: The Transformation of Trier and Sirmium into Competing Christian Capitals”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our third LAMB workshop on Thursday\, October 10 at 6pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss Jeremy Stitts’ paper “Tetrarchic Christianity: The Transformation of Trier and Sirmium into Competing Christian Capitals.” John Ladouceur will comment and dinner will be served. \nPlease RSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \n\nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Radka Pallová (rp1545@princeton.edu)or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-tetrarchic-christianity-the-transformation-of-trier-and-sirmium-into-competing-christian-capitals/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: "Deo Sancto Cocidio: Regional Gods and Roman Power on Hadrian’s Wall"
DESCRIPTION:For Zoom\, register here. \nRecent research on Hadrian’s Wall has increasingly stressed the diversity and complexity of society on the edges of Roman Britain\, along with the dynamics of imperialism on the frontier. Meanwhile\, the Wall itself offers a telling story of the intersection of natural landscapes with human ones\, moulding itself to the bones of the earth on the Whin Sill\, and tensing at strategic crux points like the Typalt-Irthing gap.  Religion can offer a particularly compelling window onto how the inhabitants of the frontier negotiated these landscapes of imperial power; at the same time\, the social functions of regional cults to local deities\, often known only through short dedicatory inscriptions\, can be exceptionally fraught to interpret. In this paper\, I use the cult of Cocidius\, a god known from the western half of Hadrian’s Wall\, to move us beyond problematic lenses of ‘indigeneity’ or ‘Celticity’ for understanding local gods\, and to consider how a more holistic approach to epigraphic landscapes can shed light on the complex intersection of religion\, landscape\, and empire on the frontier. \n\nThe Environmental History Lab is supported by a David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council and the Program in Medieval Studies. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ehl-seminar-deo-sancto-cocidio-regional-gods-and-roman-power-on-hadrians-wall/
LOCATION:0-S-6 Green Hall & Zoom
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “Plague\, Famine\, and Plundering Pagans: Disaster in Gildas’ De excidio Britonum”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our fourth LAMB workshop\, which features a visiting speaker\, on Tuesday\, October 22 at 12pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss Rachel Singer’s (Georgetown University) paper “Plague\, Famine\, and Plundering Pagans: Disaster in Gildas’ De excidio Britonum.” Radka Pallová will comment and lunch will be served. \nPlease RSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \n\nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Radka Pallová (rp1545@princeton.edu)or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-plague-famine-and-plundering-pagans-disaster-in-gildas-de-excidio-britonum/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities
DESCRIPTION:Our next session will be themed along the Medieval Graduate Conference on ‘Ordinary People\, Everyday Lives: Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’. We will read ‘Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities’ by Susan Kilby. \nPeasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape by Susan Kilby forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. Through a wide range of textual and material sources\, Kilby seeks to reconstruct the physical and socio-cultural environment of three contrasting English villages between 1086 and 1348 as a basis for determining how medieval peasants perceived their natural surroundings. \nAll interested graduate students are warmly welcome! As always\, dinner will be provided. If you would like to join\, please send an email to Mo van de Wege at mv9132@princeton.edu before Friday\, September 27 and indicate whether you would like a free copy of the book from Labyrinth and if you have dietary restrictions \nThese meetings are for graduate students only. 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-peasant-perspectives-on-the-medieval-landscape-a-study-of-three-communities/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hellenic Studies / Medieval Studies Film Screening: The Last Temptation of Christ
DESCRIPTION:Hellenic Studies and Medieval Studies students are invited to a special HLS/MED film screening and dinner on Thursday\, October 24\, at 5pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell House. We will be watching The Last Temptation of Christ\, directed by Martin Scorsese. \nPlease RSVP to Chris Twiname by Thursday\, October 17\, and feel free to include any dietary restrictions or allergies in your response. \nScreening of The Last Temptation of Christ – Directed by Martin Scorsese | 1988 | 163 minutes \nJesus (Willem Dafoe)\, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God\, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas (Harvey Keitel) — despite his protestations that love\, not violence\, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life\, leading him to doubt. As he is put to death on the cross\, Jesus is tempted by visions of an ordinary life married to Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey). \n\nThis will be the second in a series of four HLS/MED film screenings for the fall semester. Additional film screenings will be held at 5:00 pm in 103 Scheide Caldwell on the following dates: \n\nNovember 14 – Agora\nDecember 5 – The Lion in Winter 
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/hellenic-studies-medieval-studies-film-screening-the-last-temptation-of-christ/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:Ordinary People\, Everyday Lives: Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:2024 Medieval Studies Graduate Conference\nKeynote Lecture by Anne Lester\, Johns Hopkins University: “Ordinary Things: People and Their Possessions in Conversations with the Medieval State” \nRegister and view the full schedule on the conference website. \nOur perception of the pre-modern world is often shaped by the creative expressions of its contemporaries\, such as literary works\, decorative art\, and imposing architecture designed to captivate attention. The practices and processes of everyday life\, which have left less noticeable traces\, can be harder to access\, even though it is these ordinary and mundane acts that can profoundly increase our understanding of life before modernity. Building on Bourdieu’s thesis that habitus informs practical action and Wittgenstein’s emphasis on the need to ground human experience in everyday language\, this graduate conference asks how our understanding of pre-modern societies and cultures changes if we remain faithful to what sources tell us of practices “on the ground.” As such\, this conference focuses on the lived lives of ordinary people—among others\, laborers\, artisans\, and lower clergy. We’ll explore themes of liminality and intersectionality\, practicality and processes\, customs and traditions\, and more as they relate to the quotidian in the late antique and medieval world. How did the individual perceive and navigate the world around them? What is the nitty-gritty of everyday pre-modern life\, and how do we know?  \nFor questions\, contact conference organizers Alice Morandy (amorandy@princeton.edu) or Lucia Waldschuetz (lucia.waldschuetz@princeton.edu). \n\nThis conference is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity\, the Program in the Ancient World\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology and Religion.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/ordinary-people-everyday-lives-exploring-the-mundane-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:Louis A. Simpson Building\, Room A71
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SUMMARY:The Felon and the Villain: Middle English literature and felony procedure
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP HERE. Lunch will be provided.  \nThe Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature is about how literature made felony in late medieval England. To this day\, felony is the crime of which all other crimes are lesser versions—the offense for which you forfeit a good life. But at its medieval beginnings\, legal theorists wanted very little to do with it. Crown justices found crime “boring and distasteful\,” and were happy to let much of felony’s prosecution fall to the local community. Mostly untrained in legal concepts\, these communities turned to cultural ones\, archived in sermons they heard\, plays they had seen\, and poetry they knew. In turn\, felony and its procedure—from collecting evidence to evaluating blameworthiness—became a space for writers to work out their own concerns about guilt\, social harm\, and its repair. Each chapter steps through a stage of felony procedure\, reading literary sources with legal records to argue that\, at its beginnings\, felony was a concept descended mutually from legal and literary concepts\, a shared custody that has continued to the present. \n\nElise Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of English\, Comparative Literature\, and Linguistics at California State University\, Fullerton (CSUF).  Wang’s field is medieval law and literature\, and her work investigates how “old” ideas of guilt and morality can expand our understanding of our contemporary world. \nShe has appeared on The Daily Show\, contributed to documentaries for CBS and Netflix\, delivered a TEDx talk\, and has given over a dozen invited talks and keynotes. Wang is the author of The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, which traces the medieval emergence of felony procedure and demonstrates how its beginnings still shape how we understand serious crime today. \nWang has also published articles about medieval death investigations\, the ethics of witnessing violence in both the medieval and modern context\, and trauma narratives. Before CSUF\, she taught at Duke University and in New Jersey correctional facilities. She received her PhD from Princeton University\, before which she studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. \nWang is a 2024-2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow\, an award which provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/the-felon-and-the-villain-middle-english-literature-and-felony-procedure/
LOCATION:397 Julis Romo Rabinowitz\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: “The Typical and the Atypical: Slices of Life (as transcribed in thirteenth-century mancelles miracles)”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our fifth LAMB workshop on Monday\, November 4 at 6pm in Scheide Caldwell 209. We will read and discuss Alice Morandy’s paper “The Typical and the Atypical: Slices of Life (as transcribed in thirteenth-century mancelles miracles).” Mark Benton will comment and dinner will be served. \nPlease RSVP and download the paper from our website. After you RSVP\, you will receive an email with the password to download the paper. \n\nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Radka Pallová (rp1545@princeton.edu)or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-the-typical-and-the-atypical-slices-of-life-as-transcribed-in-thirteenth-century-mancelles-miracles/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Edge: Muslims\, Christians\, and the State in the Fatimid Countryside?
DESCRIPTION:Open to the Public. Registration Required.  \nRegister HERE. \nHow far did the reach of the medieval state go in a productive province on the margins of the Egyptian desert? This talk explores how rural Christians and Muslims navigated the demands made and the material opportunities offered by the Fatimid Caliphate\, the Islamic court system\, and the Coptic Church in medieval Egypt’s Fayyum Oasis. \nLev Weitz is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America\, Washington\, DC. A historian of the Islamic Middle East\, his scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews that have shaped the region’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. He is the author of Between Christ and Caliph: Law\, Marriage\, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018). \nSponsors: the Department of Near Eastern Studies\, the Near Eastern Studies Program\, The Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/on-the-edge-muslims-christians-and-the-state-in-the-fatimid-countryside/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:Arabic Documents in the Egyptian Provinces: Assembling a Dossier
DESCRIPTION:Open to the Public. Registration Required.  \nRegister HERE. \nLev Weitz is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America\, Washington\, DC. A historian of the Islamic Middle East\, his scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews that have shaped the region’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. He is the author of Between Christ and Caliph: Law\, Marriage\, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018). \nSponsors: the Department of Near Eastern Studies\, the Near Eastern Studies Program\, The Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
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LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
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SUMMARY:Arabicizing Syriac Legal Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Open to the Public. Registration Required.  \nRegister HERE. \nLev Weitz is associate professor of history at the Catholic University of America\, Washington\, DC. A historian of the Islamic Middle East\, his scholarly interests lie in the encounters among Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews that have shaped the region’s history from the coming of Islam to the present. He is the author of Between Christ and Caliph: Law\, Marriage\, and Christian Community in Early Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2018). \nSponsors: the Department of Near Eastern Studies\, the Near Eastern Studies Program\, The Program in Medieval Studies\, and the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join Medieval Studies faculty and students for our next dessert hour on November 12\, at 4:30\, in 203 Scheide Caldwell. This time we’ll have a short presentation of one of our ongoing projects – Middle Ages for Educators –  a digital platform providing students and instructors with digital resources for the study of the late Antique and medieval past – videos\, podcasts\, shorts etc. The ‘producers’ of this website\, Laura Morreale\, Jeremy Stitts and Helmut Reimitz will give you a short intro into the ongoing work and projects\, and invite you to publish your own projects\, experiments\, experiences. The presentation will be very short\, and we’ll hold a discussion over drinks\, coffee and desserts. \n\nOur final Medieval Studies Student Dessert Hour for the semester will be held on Wednesday\, December 3 at 4:30 pm in 209 Scheide Caldwell House.
URL:https://medievalstudies.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-student-dessert-hour-3/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241114T170000
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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/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T192000
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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/
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