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 — ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture began in 1993 with Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale University and has since featured distinguished scholars from universities across the world.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Medieval historian William Chester Jordan, Ph.D., of Princeton University will speak at this year’s annual Ewing Lecture Series. His talk, entitled “The Harvest Indeed ...

Scott G. Bruce, professor of medieval history and director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, gave this year’s annual University of ...

A series of free lectures on how life was lived during the early Medieval times in take place soon in the Glendalough Visitor Centre.The OPW have organised a visit from some of the foremost ...

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.

Dr. Karen Youmans of Oklahoma City University will present “Saints in the Medieval Imagination,” as part of a free Medieval Fair Department lecture series on Friday, February 23rd from 6:30 to 7:30 ...

Join us for this year's Loew Lecture with Nicholas Paul, Professor of History at Fordham University. The title of his lecture is What a Cross is Worth: Crusaders, Relics, and Status between the Middle ...

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King," the third book in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be ...

The Department of Art History and Art will host Nina Rowe, professor at Fordham University, for the Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art. Rowe will present “Nero’s Pregnancy and the Body Politic” ...

The annual Medieval Fair of Norman is next weekend, but the University of Oklahoma is hosting a public lecture to help residents learn more about the history before the fun. Tonight at 6:30, the OU ...