Michelle Hamilton offers a new perspective in the field of medieval studies in her new book The Study of al-Andalus: the Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe. This volume brings scholarship on Andalusi culture to an English-speaking audience and casts Monroe’s work into greater relief as part of—and as a foil to—current debates about Muslims and the cultures and traditions of the Arabic-speaking world.
The talk will compare Japan and Europe, discussing whether and where religion (in Japan a combination of local deity worship, Buddhism, and sometime Confucianism, in Western and Central...
What can we learn from medieval manuscripts by observing their material design? This lecture explores this question by focusing on such design features as the size and position of the...
Our point of departure is a vignette from Midrash Lamentations Rabbah featuring repeated confrontations between the biblical patriarchs and God over salvation and restoration. Through this...
This talk surveys Jewish responses to the Black Death before focusing on a community in Catalonia that was nearly annihilated by plague-related violence.
The Justininiac Plague (541 to ca. 750 CE), a recurring pandemic ofYersinia pestis infection that impacted communities across the Mediterranean reaching as far north as Britain, has played...
