Contrary to common belief, some medieval women wielded significant power. Nuns in France’s Normandy region, for example, carried enormous influence and legal control over the people — including men — ...

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Medieval historian William Chester Jordan, Ph.D., of Princeton University will speak at this year’s annual Ewing Lecture Series. His talk, entitled “The Harvest Indeed ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture began in 1993 with Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale University and has since featured distinguished scholars from universities across the world.

A series of free lectures on how life was lived during the early Medieval times in take place soon in the Glendalough Visitor Centre.The OPW have organised a visit from some of the foremost ...

The Department of History presents the 2025 Dr. H. Nicholas Hamner Lecture. Dr. Thomas E. Burman will be giving a lecture titled "Choosing Eschatologies in the Medieval Mediterranean: Ramon Martí (fl.

Join us for this year's Loew Lecture with Nicholas Paul, Professor of History at Fordham University. The title of his lecture is What a Cross is Worth: Crusaders, Relics, and Status between the Middle ...

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King," the third book in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be ...

The Department of Art History and Art will host Nina Rowe, professor at Fordham University, for the Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art. Rowe will present “Nero’s Pregnancy and the Body Politic” ...

More than 60 performers participated in this year's cultural showcase which highlights and celebrates — through performance — diverse cultures of the Caribbean and Latin American students at Bates.