Calendar of Events

Are you curious about manuscripts? Do you want to see how they are studied but don’t know where to start? Join the Princeton Paleography Lab (PPLab) for the first talk […]

Speaker: Lee Mordechai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow 2023-24) *Light refreshments will be served starting at 4:00 pm.* Registration is required for virtual attendance only. […]

Please join us on November 14 for the next LAMB workshop in 203 Scheide Caldwell. We will read and discuss Ksenia Ryzhova's paper entitled "Food Fight: Economic and Political Relations […]

Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies) will be presenting on “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives.” All are welcome. […]

The Race Before Modernity Book Club (RBMBC) welcomes you to our next event featuring Pamela Patton, Director of The Index of Medieval Art. We will read three of her most […]

Katja Krause is a historian of science and medicine, and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond. She received her PhD in 2014 from King’s College London for her dissertation entitled “Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Beatific Vision: A Textual Analysis of his Commentary on the Sentences in Light of Its Greek, Arabic, and Latin […]

Please join us on November 14 for the next LAMB workshop in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will read and discuss Yusuf Umrethwala's paper entitled "And To Our Master, The Illustrious Caliph, Belongs The Lofty Resolution Regarding This, If God Wills": Written Petitions And The Administration of Justice in Fatimid Egypt. This workshop is for Graduate […]

Speakers: Matthieu Boyd ('03), Professor of Literature and Chair of the School of the Humanities, Fairleigh Dickinson University Sarah-Jane Murray (*03), Associate Professor of Great Texts & Creative Writing, Honors College, Baylor University The anonymous fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé (“Moralized Ovid”) is a translation into French of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and much of the accumulated mythographical commentary in Latin. It […]