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A Biographical Bet: Fortune, Limits, and New Directions of Dante’s New Lives
“Vite nuove. Biografia e autobiografia di Dante” (Fayard & Carocci, 2021) aimed less to chronicle the life of Dante Alighieri than to raise essential, still unanswered...
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The Black Madonna for Racial Liberation
Join the Medieval Institute, the Initiative on Race and Resilience, and the departments of Africana Studies, Program of Liberal Studies and Theology for the final webinar in...
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William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
In collaboration with the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, the Devers Program initiated a series dedicated to the publication of the most significant current...
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Sacred Art and the Journey Toward Justice
Join the Medieval Institute and the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary’s College for the third in our webinar series on pilgrimage – Pilgrimage for Healing and Liberation....
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Neo-Old English, Anglo-Saxonism and the New English Nationalism
The Medieval Institute is pleased to present the seventeenth annual lecture in the Graduate Student Invitation Series with Chris Jones, ESRR Professor of English, University of...
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2023 Mathews Byzantine Lecture – Writing Byzantine History with the Archives of Mount Athos: The Odds and Perils of Uneven Sources
Byzantine documents preserved in the archives of the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece are by far the most extensive and valuable body of documentation from the Byzantine...
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Becoming a Pilgrim People
Join the Medieval Institute and the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary’s College for the second in our webinar series on Pilgrimage! How can the practice of pilgrimage...
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Pilgrimage in the Global Middle Ages: Hospitality and Encounter
Join the Medieval Institute and the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion for the first in a webinar series on pilgrimage. Why did medieval people go on pilgrimage,...
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In the Name of the Father: Translation and Anxiety in Medieval Castile (1250-1369)
After the Christian conquest of Muslim Seville in 1248, Christian leaders did not erase all traces of Islamic presence, but instead adopted Islamic elements in some of the new...
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The Literary Canon of Early Venetian Humanism (1374-1446) between the Classics and the Moderns
In the first half of the fourteenth century, the Veneto region played a pivotal role in the early developments of Italian Humanism. In this same period, cities such as Padova and...
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Fifth Annual Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellowship Workshop: “Settlement, Space, and Society in Rural Byzantium”
Each year, our Byzantine Studies Program offers a workshop with the year’s Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. This year’s workshop, “Settlement, Space, and Society in...
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Lecture: Andrea Robiglio, “Introduction to Romance Philosophy: On the Benefit to Medieval Studies of the Study of their Philosophy”
The Medieval Institute is pleased to present the final installment, rescheduled from fall 2021, of its 75th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series with Andrea Robiglio, SIEPM Fellow at...
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