Previous Roundtables

2020

Michelle Armstrong-Partida, "Gender in the Late Medieval Mediterranean" (October 23rd)

 

2019

Cassandra Casias and Jim Morey, “How to Read an Online Dictionary Entry: Hierarchies of Information in Logeion and the OED” (October 17th)

Luke Hagemann, “Continuity in the Codes: The Alienation of State Property in the Breviary of Alaric” (May 3rd)

Kimberly E. Schrimsher, “Forging a Friendship: The Inscriptions on the Fontana Maggiore of Perugia” (April 5th)

 

2018

Allen J. Fromherz, “Carthage Must be Destroyed—Carthage Must be Remembered: Competing Visions of the Classical Past in the Medieval Central Mediterranean” (November 9th)

Kelin Michael, “At the Edge of Orthodoxy: Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis” (October 26th)

Lynn Laufenberg, “Before the Triangle Trade: Slavery in Late-Medieval Tuscany” (September 21st)

Johannes Kroh, “Bishop Adalbero of Augsburg: Policies, Relics, and Networking in East Francia” (May 2nd)

 

2017 

Philip L. Reynolds, “Conjugal and Nuptial Symbolism in Medieval Christian Thought” (April 27th)

Mary Grace DuPree, “Speaking Truth to Kings: Correctio Regum in the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Westminster, and Rouen” (March 28th)

Jenny Bledsoe, “Devotional Content and Manuscript Form: Material Metaphors and Aesthetic Status in the Katherine Group” (February 28th)

 

2016

Roxani Margariti, “Maritime Piety: Cities, Ships and Saints in the Medieval Indian Ocean” (November 21st)

Cassandra Casias, “Merovingians, Martyrs, and the Mother of God” (October 24th)

Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina, “The Baptism of Clovis: Myth, Liturgy, and the Genesis of the French Nation” (April 5th)

James Morey, “The Prick of Conscience Window: One Window, Many Manuscripts” (February 23rd)

Brian Gronewoller, “God the Author: Augustine’s Early Incorporation of Rhetorical oeconomia into his Scriptural Hermeneutic” (January 26th)

 

2015

Elizabeth Pastan, “Why call it the Bayeux Embroidery?” (November 16th)

Henry Bayerle, “Walter of Aquitaine and the Domestication of Violence” (April 28th)

Ashley Laverock, “From Suffering to Slaying: St. Margaret of Antioch as a Confessor Saint at Chartres Cathedral” (April 8th)

Judith Evans-Grubbs, “Sinner, Slave, and Saint: the enslavement of St. Patrick” (March 18th)

 

2014

Thomas J. MacMaster, “Slave-trading between Center and Periphery in the Seventh Century: a Crucial Commerce?” (December 4th)

Cassandra Casias, “Rebel Nuns and the Bishop Historian: Gregory of Tours’ Use and Misuse of Radegund” (October 30th)

Craig Perry, “The Life Course of Female Slaves in Medieval Egypt: Sources from the Cairo Geniza”/ “Domestic Slavery and the Status of Free Women in Medieval Cairo” (April 22nd)

Sarah Bogue, “Hrotsvit’s Legends as Pedagogy: The Case for Mary” (March 25th)