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 takes place on Tuesdays from noon to 1:00 in HQ 276 (320 York St) (except where noted).
2023-24
*Updates ongoing*
September 5
Meet & Greet
September 12
Kim Lifton, ‘Looking Down: Glossing the Floor of Great Malvern Priory with Text’
September 19
Arkady Martine, ‘Premodern Research and New Cultures of Writing (in HQ 107)
September 26
Rachel Wilson, (paper title tbd)
October 3
Trisha Gupta (KCL), ‘The Coexistence—Or Lack Thereof—Of Courtly Love and Chivalry in Le Morte d’Arthur, The Faerie Queene, and Shrek’
October 10
Michelle Keefe, ‘Framing Initiation within the Dura-Europos Baptistery: A Ritual Interpretation of the Painting of the Woman at the Well’
October 24
Estelle Guéville, ‘Unknown Hands: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts and their Female Scribes’
October 31
(no talk scheduled)
November 7
Harriet Soper, ‘Age Identity in The Book of Margery Kempe’
November 14
(no talk scheduled)
November 28
Camila Marcone, (paper title tbd)
December 5
December 12
January 16
January 23
January 30
February 16
February 13
February 20
February 27
March 5
March 26
April 2
April 9
April 16
April 23
April 30
May 7