
Welcome to CMEMS, 2024-2025!

Weekly Workshop
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Upcoming Events
Date
Friday, April 11, 2025. 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
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450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
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"The Loving Moon of the Medieval World"
Comparative Methodologies is a…
News
Awarded to: Lane B. Baker, “The Sound of Sin: Episcopal Noise Regulation in the Later Middle Ages,” Viator 52, no. 2.
Professor Dorin's first book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe, has won the following prizes: Salo Baron Book Prize | American Academy for Jewish Research
A World Made by Travel: A Digital Grand Tour, published June 2024.
Workshops and Research Groups
CMEMS sponsors and co-sponsors a wide range of workshops and research groups at Stanford!
Each of the research groups provide a range of possibilities for students and faculty to engage in discussion and debate about medieval and early modern scholarship.
- The focal point of CMEMS, this lunchtime workshop exists to engage the interdisciplinary cohort of medieval and early modern scholars at Stanford in an ongoing discussion and collaboration.
- Organizing research workshops, reading groups, and medieval Latin lessons, this workshop serves graduate students at Stanford on any aspect of the Middle Ages broadly understood.
Recent Happenings

Date
Monday, March 10, 2025. 5:30pm
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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Eternal Night: Caves and Ritual Imagination in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
This paper explores the role of caves as sacred…
Date
Wednesday, March 5, 2025. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
The weekly workshop is held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM on Wednesdays. Lunch is provided.

Date
Monday, March 3, 2025. 11:30am
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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Of Bodies and Spirits: Present-day Byzantine Music Notation and its Liturgical Use in the Services
After an initial discussion of…