Calendar of Events

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 […]

For our next session we’ll read ‘Making Money in the Early Middle Ages’ (2023) by Rory Naismith. In ‘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, […]