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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, October 30, 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 Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures]

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.

What is concubinage? Who is a concubine? This talk studies the practice of concubinage among the merchant class and urban poor and focuses on the…

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.

The history of Hamlet criticism can be characterized by polarized perspectives attending either to the material dimensions of print and production…