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Upcoming Events

October
10
Date
Thursday, October 10, 2024. 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
370

Arches Like Rainbows and Floating Palaces: Ottoman Water Architectures

Focusing on Ottoman architecture from the fifteenth and…

October
16
Date
Wednesday, October 16, 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.

[co-sponsored by English Department]

October
23
Date
Wednesday, October 23, 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.

[co-sponsored by History Department]

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
Wednesday, May 8, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
As always, the weekly workshop will be held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM with lunch provided.

Customarily, the economic history of the Indian Ocean is examined through the prism of trade. Trade holds an understandable attraction to…

Date
Wednesday, May 1, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
As always, the weekly workshop will be held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM with lunch provided.…

An eagle will come whose flight will weaken the lion” – with these words begins a short prophecy that spread far and wide in the Holy Roman Empire…

Date
Wednesday, April 17, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
As always, the weekly workshop will be held in the German Studies Library in Pigott Hall (Bldg 260, Rm 252) from 12-1:15 PM with lunch provided.…

The four decades that separate the fall of the last republic in 1530 from the coronation of Cosimo de’ Medici as grand-duke by the pope in Rome in…