The Yale Medieval Lunch Series is an interdisciplinary colloquium that meets regularly throughout the academic year. It is the program’s primary forum for exchanging ideas, sharing research findings, and presenting work-in-progress within Yale’s broad and diverse Medieval Studies community.
The colloquium draws on the skills and expertise of departmental faculty members, graduate students, research scholars, postdoctoral fellows, librarians, curators, and occasional visitors from outside Yale. In the past few years, presentations have included new research from the fields of English; linguistics; history of art; religious studies; history; Judaic studies; numismatics; legal studies; economic history; paleography and manuscript studies; textual criticism; and Italian, Spanish, French, Slavic and Near Eastern languages.
Medieval Lunch is held on Tuesdays in William L. Harkness Hall (WLH), room 309
Fall 2025
September 9
Fraser Ryan (Yale Department of English) - ‘Cagey Pages: Compleynt as Codicological Effect in ‘The Fairfax Sequence’.’
September 16
Loraine Enlow (Jewish Theological Seminary/Barnard College) - ‘Philology First: Beyond Polemics in a Medieval Hebrew-Latin Psalter.’
September 23
Yasemin Gurdal (University of Cambridge) - ‘Simple Title or Title in Law? Monarchy, Inheritance, and Corporate Identity in Edward IV’s England.’
September 30
Robert S. Nelson (Professor Emeritus, Yale Department of the History of Art) - untitled talk
October 7
Agnieszka Rec & Michelle Al-Ferzly (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) - untitled talk
October 21
Tyler Sampson (Yale Institute of Sacred Music) - ‘Why Do You Say Mass?” Early Medieval Handbooks and Liturgical Learning.’
November 4
Talin Tahajian (Yale Department of English)
November 11
Jörg Sonntag (Bielefeld University)
November 18
Susanna Mackay (Yale Department of English)
December 2
Kristen Herdman (Yale Program in Medieval Studies/The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
December 9
John Noël Dillon (Yale Department of Classics/Yale Divinity School)