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Upcoming Events

October
9
Date
Wednesday, October 9, 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.
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]

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, April 3, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Many people in late-medieval England, regardless of their gender or vocation, read as holy women. Some of the greatest hits of religious…

Date
Wednesday, March 13, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Workshops are held in person on Wednesdays, 12-1:15pm in Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room 252.
Date
Wednesday, March 6, 2024. 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Location
Workshops are held in person on Wednesdays, 12-1:15pm in Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room 252.

Gratian’s Decretum, the foundational textbook of medieval canon law, illustrates its paradigm of sexual consent with the twin examples of Lucretia…