Thursday, February 26th at 5:00pm in 1080 LCLB

Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: Professor Craig Perry (Emory University)

Craig Perry

 

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Eric Calderwood's *On Earth and in Poems* Shortlisted for the Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
The shortlist for the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies has been named. The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs administers this...
new books 2025
Medieval Studies Celebrates Five New Books by Faculty Affiliates
 
Sister Haggadah
The Legal Value of Written Records for Jews and Christians in Medieval Provence
Visiting scholar Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) drew a large audience to his fascinating talk on the records produced by public notaries in late-medieval Provence. As he showed, virtually all social and economic relations could be guaranteed by a notarial act by the end of the fourteenth...
A scene from *The Road to Calvary*
Medieval Studies Players Perform at the Humanities Open House
Our medieval acting troupe of Illinois students, faculty, staff, and alumni restaged The Road to Calvary on Saturday, October 4th:  a black comedy about bumbling soldiers tasked with bringing Jesus and the cross to Calvary, as part of the Humanities Open House.   This was...
Turfan
An Envoy State: Turfan and the Integration of Medieval Eurasia
On Friday, October 3rd, Professor Xin Wen  enthralled a large audience with an overview of his recent book and then presented a new case study to buttress its argument. That book,...
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Medieval Studies dominates the LAS Majors and Minors Fair!
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James Terrasi (B.A. Medieval Studies and History)

James Terrasi graduated in 2022 with a major in both Medieval Studies and History. His History honors thesis (advised by Carol Symes and examined by Eleanora Stoppino and Brian Walters) provided a new translation and analysis of the Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum, an anonymous account of the First Crusade. In the autumn of 2022, he began a Master's program in Medieval Studies at Fordham University, where he developed an interest in the social and economic history of the medieval Mediterranean. At Fordham, he had the opportunity to do archival work in...

Trilingual Psalter made for Roger II of Sicily (London, British Library Harley 5786
A Slave Market: From the Maqamat by al-Hariri, Painted by al-Wasiti, 1237
runic inscription on bone
Codex Mendoza, fol. 68r (Paris, BnF MSS mexicain 396)
Carolingian Codex