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Upcoming Events

February
12
Date
Wednesday, February 12, 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.
February
12
Date
Wednesday, February 12, 2025. 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
370

Over the thirteenth century, a prolonged struggle over buildings and land played out in the center of the small Umbrian town of Città di Castello…

February
19
Date
Wednesday, February 19, 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.

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. 

CMEMS Weekly Workshop

  • 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.

Medieval Studies Workshop

  • 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, January 13, 2025. 5:30pm
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
007

Sanctity Elusive and Manifest: The Nilometer at al-Rawda Island and its Cosmological Entanglements

The mandate to govern Egypt has…

Date
Wednesday, December 4, 2024. 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, December 2, 2024. 5:30pm

Of all the hymnographers whose works appear in the liturgical books of Byzantium, only one—Kassia—was a woman. Living in ninth-century Byzantium…