Please join us for the next workshop, Friday February 24, from 12-1:30 in Wieboldt 207, in which we host Serge Lusignan, Professor of History at the University of Montreal. Prof. Lusignan will deliver a lecture entitled: “The contribution of historical sociolinguistic to history: the case of Picard French (XIIIth-XVth century).” Please note, this meeting has […]

Please join us on Friday, January 27, from 12-1:30 in Wieboldt 207. Willemien Otten, Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity in the Divinity School, will share her work on “The Reception of Augustine in the Early Middle Ages (c. 700 – c. 1200): Presence, Absence, Reverence, and Other Modes of Appropriation.” Adrian Guiu, PhD […]

Please join us on Friday, January 13, from 12-1:30 in CWAC room 152. Rainbow Porthé, PhD candidate in Art History, will share her dissertation chapter-in-progress on “Le Roi-mort, vive le roi: The Tombs of René D’Anjou.” Rainbow’s chapter and related images are posted below under password protection. Please email Jessica Andruss (andruss@uchicago.edu) to request the password. David Reher, […]

Please join us for our final meeting of the quarter on Friday, December 2, in Wieboldt 207, from noon to 1:30 pm. Prof. Olivia Remie Constable, Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, will talk about her paper: ““Food and Meaning: Christian Understandings of Muslim Food and Food Ways, 1250-1550.″ The […]

We are delighted to host Brigitte Buettner, Professor of Art History at Smith College, at the next meeting of the Medieval Studies Workshop. Please join us on Friday, November 18 in CWAC 156 from noon to 1:30pm to discuss Professor Buettner’s paper, “Medieval Mineralogy in Text, Image and Imagination.” The response will be provided by […]