Jesús Velasco, Yale University

"Cracking the Code: A Conversation with Jesús Velasco”
Author Jesús Velasco discusses his new book Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) with Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

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Dirceu Marchini Neto, University of Tocantins

“Collations: Imagining Crusade in Medieval Portugal: The Hospitallers and the Relic of the Holy Cross”

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

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Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, cosponsored with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and the Center for the Study of World Religion

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/female-sultanfemale-pope-shajar-and-mamluk-...

Medieval Studies Seminar, Cosponsored by the German Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/tolerance-religious-ambiguity-reading-wolfram-von-eschenbach%E2%80%99s-parzival-post-secular-conte-0

Please RSVP by Thursday, 22 February to Joseph Shack (josephshack@g.harvard.edu)

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

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Please RSVP by November 13 to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu).

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

Eva Schlotheuber, University of Düsseldorf

Letters from the Convent: The Late Medieval Benedictine Nuns of Lüne Writing on Daily Life, Amor Dei, and Politics

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

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Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

Cosponsored by the History of the Book seminar

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/broken-books-digital-methods-reconstructing-dismembered-manuscripts

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/plus-quam-civile-bellum-emisidore-sevilleem

Please RSVP by March 23 to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu)

The Greek East and the Spiritual Franciscan View of History

Medieval Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center

http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/greek-east-and-spiritual-franciscan-view-history

Please RSVP by March 2 to Hannah Weaver (hannahweaver@g.harvard.edu)

Christine Ferlampin-Acher (Université de Rennes 2) Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Seminar 

Jerome Singerman (University of Pennsylvania Press) Talk to be followed by panel discussion on The Polygraph Test: Multiple Authorship and Scholarly Enterprise in the Twenty-First Century. Panelists: Jerome Singerman (University of Pennsylvania Press), Michael Papio (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dana Polanichka (Wheaton College) and Daniel Smail, (Harvard University)

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard Program in Folklore and Mythology, the Harvard Provostial Fund, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and the Royal Gustav Adolf Academy (Uppsala). For more information, please refer to the conference website.

Monica Green (Arizona State University) Two translators, each working on his own, performed comparable feats at the end of the 11th and the end of the 12th century, respectively. Constantinus Africanus, coming from what is now Tunisia to southern Italy, translated at least two dozen Arabic medical works into Latin, for the first time making the medical thinking of the Islamicate world available in Latin. Then, about 100 years later, an anonymous Jewish convert whom we know only by his self-imposed epithet, “Doeg ha-Edomi,” did much the same thing, translating two dozen...

Christine Desan (Harvard Law School), Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard University), Lianna Farber, (University of Minnesota), Daniel Smail, (Harvard University)