FellowSpeak: "Down and Out and Pregnant in Medieval France"
Sara McDougall, Institute for the Humanities Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow, Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York
This talk will address the meaning and consequences of extramarital pregnancy for women in medieval France, married and unmarried, low and...
Traditions Entwined: Writing Judeo-Persian Poetry in Fourteenth-Century Iran
Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In this talk Rubanovich will look into several episodes from the Bereshit-nāma with an aim to explore Shāhīn’s (fl. in the first part...
The Premodern Colloquium. Why did we get the historiography of the Inkas so wrong?
Bruce Mannheim, U-M Anthropology
The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous activity. We meet...
Medieval Lunch. Lorenzo di Marco’s Souvenir Shop and the Holy House of Loreto: Using Material Culture to Investigate a Late-Medieval Cult.
Emily Price, History
The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University...
Medieval Lunch. Dialogue and Diplomacy: Capuchin-Franciscans at the Safavid Court
Golriz Farshi (Middle East Studies); Richard Reinhardt (Anthro-History)
The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University...
The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring'
Christiane Gruber, Professor and Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan
Along with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the...
The Premodern Colloquium. Paul Binski, University of Cambridge
Gothic Art, Realism and Genre: Thoughts on Erich Auerback
The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous activity. We meet...
Undeceived Depiction and Fictional Viewing in the Middle Ages
Paul Binski, Cambridge University
The Forsyth Distinguished Lecture Series Free & open to the public.
The Premodern Colloquium. Ramon Llull’s folding forests: the world, the tree, and the book.
Blake Gutt, Michigan Society of Fellows
The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous activity. We meet...
