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“Boccaccio, the Disguised Revolutionary” by Martin Eisner (Duke University)
Medieval and renaissance, feminist and misogynist, radical and conservative, class-warrior and aspiring aristocrat, Boccaccio has been interpreted in a variety of contradictory...
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Medieval Institute Alumni Lecture: Corrupt Officials and the Problem of Medieval ‘Government’
Join the Medieval Institute for an alumni lecture with Jonathan R. Lyon ’05 Ph.D. ’05. Professor Lyon is the Sorin and Imran Siddiqui Professor of Medieval History and the...
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The Third Annual Mathews Byzantine Lecture – Religion, Politics, and Identities in Byzantium: Aspects of Medieval Greek Homilies
Homilies, or church sermons, formed an indispensable part of European medieval rhetoric, East and West. Throughout the millennial existence of the Byzantine Empire (AD...
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The 2023 Conway Lectures: Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages (DAY TWO)
The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines. This year, our speakers...
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The 2023 Conway Lectures: Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages (DAY ONE)
The annual Conway Lectures bring senior scholars of international distinction to Notre Dame each fall to speak on topics across a variety of disciplines. This year, our speakers...
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21st Annual Mellon Colloquium: “The Invention of Homicide: Crime, Honor, and Spectacular Justice in Late Medieval Flanders”
Join the Medieval Institute for its twenty-first annual Mellon Colloquium. The colloquium is a half-day public seminar discussion with the institute’s 2022–23 Mellon Fellow,...
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Pilgrim Encounters
“We may have to turn around if the wind gets too strong,” our bus driver told me. It was pelting rain on the morning of Saturday, April 1, the day of the Medieval...
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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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