Buckle with embossed head in profile, 400-600. Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 5th-6th century. Gold, lapis lazuli, and glass. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1948.23. Public ...

“Our Connected Past: Mobility, Borderlands and Global Connections in the Pre-Modern World” Recent scholarship has sought to break down the old conception of the pre-modern world as being fixed and ...

Contrary to common belief, some medieval women wielded significant power. Nuns in France’s Normandy region, for example, carried enormous influence and legal control over the people — including men — ...

On Wednesday, November 13, Molly Taylor-Poleskey, Harvard's Map Librarian, will visit UMass Lowell to give a lecture related to her recently published book: "The Great Elector's Table: The Politics of ...

The Department of History presents the 2025 Dr. H. Nicholas Hamner Lecture. Dr. Thomas E. Burman will be giving a lecture titled "Choosing Eschatologies in the Medieval Mediterranean: Ramon Martí (fl.

While today’s students use PDF files and watch video documentaries, one professor maintains that an often overlooked medium plays a key role in human history — parchment, the thin material made from ...

*Colleen Ho, University of Maryland, “Greatest Hits of Mongol History,” October 12. *Colleen Ho also delivered “The Unintended Legacy of the Middle Ages: White Supremacism’s Obsession with Medieval ...

Piero Capelli, Professor of Hebrew in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, visited William & Mary to deliver the annual Milton & Shirley G. Salasky ...

The Ewing Lecture Series was established in 1973 to honor Robert H. Ewing for his 27 years of teaching and service at Lycoming College. A revered teacher and friend of the College, his life was ...