Yale Medieval Lunch Series
The Yale Medieval Lunch Series is an interdisciplinary colloquium that meets weekly throughout the academic year. As a venue for twenty presentations through fall and spring semesters, the lunch colloquium is the program’s primary forum for exchanging ideas, sharing research findings, and illuminating works in progress among Yale’s broad and diverse community in Medieval Studies.
The lunch colloquium draws on the skills and expertise of departmental faculties, graduate students, research scholars, postdoctoral fellows, librarians, curators, and occasional visitors from outside universities. In the past two years alone, 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, Italian, Spanish, French, Slavic and Near Eastern languages.
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2011-2012
September 13, 2011
Kristina Hosoe, History.
"Benedict of Aniane, Benedict of Nursia, Martin of Tours, Wandregisil of Fontenelle: Which of These Saints Is Not Like the Others?"
September 20, 2011
Kevin Pool, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese.
"Of Pilgrim Professors and Missing Manuscripts"
September 27, 2011
Greg Bryda, graduate student, History of Art, and Medieval Studies
“Nada Dada: the pseudo-Dionysius and Hugo Ball”
October 4, 2011
Beatrice Gruendler, Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
“Book Culture before Print: An Arabic Case Study.”
October 11, 2011
Lauren Mancia, graduate student, History
“Battle Ducale: Monks and the Dukes Who Loved Them (Until They Didn't)"
October 18, 2011
Paul Evans, Yale Ph.D.
"A few Days Spent on a Beinecke Manuscript of Carolingian Capitularies"
October 25, 2011
Marita von Weissenberg, graduate student, History
“From classroom assignment to conference paper: Lessons from the Yale Law Library Rare Books Collection.”
November 1, 2011
Robert Nelson, Professor, History of Art
“The first Canonical Icon”
November 8, 2011
Anita Savo, graduate Student, Spanish & Portuguese
"Another Don Juan's Twice-Told Tale”
November 15, 2011
Junius Johnson, Divinity School
"Seraphic Grace: St. Bonaventure's Christian Platonism."
November, 29, 2011
Ben Yousey-Hindes, Program Manager,Yale Development.
"Bishops inter inimicos fidei in the thirteenth century"
January 10, 2012
Marcia Colish, Visiting Fellow, History
“Henry of Livonia: Cultural Anthropologist malgre’ lui”
January 17, 2012
Walter Goffart, Senior Research Scientist, History
“Bede as a Deliberate Historian.”
January 24, 2012
Abbey Agresta, graduate Student, History,
"The Doctor and the Notary: A Jewish Latinate Will from Fourteenth-century Catalonia."
January 31, 2012
Cherie Woodworth, independent scholar at the Center for Comparative Research, Yale
"Abduction from the Seraglio"
February 7, 2012
Ana Del Campo, Fulbright Fellow
"My Heart is Raging, it Cannot Find Solace: A catalogue of Mourning Gestures through some Literary Iberian Sources"
February 14, 2012
Andrew Kraebel, graduate student English and Medieval Studies
"The Manuscript Tradition of Richard Ullerston's Expositio canticorum Scripturae'."
February 28, 2012
Joseph Stadolnik, graduate student, English and Medieval Studies
“Placing the Miracle Plays of Beinecke MS 841.”
March 20, 2012
Elizabeth Hebbard, graduate student, French and Medieval Studies
“Rhyme and Reason: The Invocation of Saints in the Old French Fabliaux.”
April 17, 2012
Mary Katherine Hurley, Visiting English
“Dangerous Knowledge: Magicians and Monsters in the Old English Wonders of the East”
April 24, 2012
Hadi Jorati, graduate student, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Medieval studies
"A tale of two Narratives and (at least) four Authors"
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2010-2011
September 21, 2010
Eric Weiskott, graduate student, English
"Chaucer the Forester: the Friar's Tale, forest history, and officialdom"
September 28, 2010
Cherie Woodworth, independent scholar at the Center for Comparative Research, Yale
“Counterfeits and Contrary Evidence. Dynastic Legitimacy in 15th c. Moscow”
October 5, 2010
Laura Miles, graduate student, English
"The Gospel According to Margery”
October 12, 2010
Kevin Poole, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
“Using and Abusing Medieval Studies in Franco’s Spain”
October 19, 2010
Ed Peters, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
“A Talk About a Paper”
October 26, 2010
Jacqueline Jung, Assistant Professor, History of Art
"The Roasted Chicken of Chartres Cathedral: How to Reach the Masses with Gothic Architecture"
November 2, 2010
Carol Chiodo, graduate student, Italian
“Tutti i frutti. The Frozen Fruit of Inferno 33”
November 9, 2010
Paul Freedman, Chester D Tripp Professor of History
“Mastic from Chios: A Unique Product?”
November 16, 2010
Samantha Katz, graduate student, Medieval Studies
“‘A Mother to Me and a Daughter to You’: The Spiritual Direction of Elizabeth Barton, OSB”
November 30, 2010
Nienke Venderbosch, graduate student, English
“Beowulf's Grendel in the Nineteenth Century”
January 18, 2011
Elizabeth Walgenbach, graduate student, Medieval Studies
“Outlaws, Excommunicants, Rejects”
January 25, 2011
Ben Yousey-Hindes, PhD in medieval legal history
“Facebook for Priests”
February 1, 2011
Mark Anderson, graduate student, History
“Late Ancient Hospitals from the 4th to the 7th c. CE”
February 8, 2011
Lauren Mancia, graduate student, History
“John of Fécamp and Devotion at his Monastery”
February 15, 2011
Abigail Agresta, graduate student, History
“Meaning and Social Use of an Urban Garden: The Wedding Feast of Lorenzo de' Medici”
February 22, 2011
Maria Clara Iglesias, graduate student, Italian
“Flesh and Spirit: Vices of Food and Language in Domenico Cavalca's Pungilingua”
March 1, 2011
Unn Falkeid, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Italian
“Thorn in the Flesh. Pain and Poetry in Petrarch’s Secretum”
March 22, 2011
Micha Perry, Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellow, Judaic Studies
“Popular Images of Bilingual Documents in Medieval England”
March 29, 2011
Ephraim Shoham, Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
“A Renegade Cleric, Two Thieves and Some Jews: Evidence of Jewish Involvement in Crime from the Eleventh Century Rhineland”
April 5, 2011
Walter Goffart, Senior Research Scientist, History
“An Experimental Introduction to Christianity for Today’s Students of Medieval History”
April 12, 2011
Christopher Platts, graduate student, History of Art
“Theodore Metochites, St. Michael the Archangel, and the Fate of a Soul: Reconsidering Art and Eschatology in a Late Byzantine Funerary Chapel in Istanbul”
April 19, 2011
Sarah Novacich, graduate student, English
“The Inward Map”
April 26, 2011
Hadi Jorati, graduate student, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
“Did the Mathematician Kill the King? A Mediaeval Murder Mystery”
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2009-2010
Marcia Colish, Visiting Fellow in the History Dept., coordinator
April 20, 2010
Andrew Kraebel, graduate student, English and Medieval Studies
“The Wycliffite Bible Prologue and the Translation of Academic Discourse”
April 13, 2010
“To Speak of Silence: Clemence of Barking's 'Life of St. Catherine' and Her Vision of Female Wisdom”
April 6, 2010
Francesca Trivellato, Associate Professor, History
“A Forgotten Legend about Medieval Jews and the Origins of Financial Capitalism”
March 30, 2010
Michael Sargent, Professor, English, Queens College, CUNY
“The Function of Textual Criticism at the Present Time”
March 23, 2010
Walter Goffart, Senior Research Scholar, History
“The Many Faces of Burgundy”
March 2, 2010
Azélina Jaboulet-Vercherre, graduate student, History
“Is Drinking Proper to Man?”
February 23, 2010
Howard Bloch, Professor, French
“Viollet le Duc and the Culture Wars of the 19th Century”
February 16, 2010
Kevin Poole, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
“Of Dogs, Frogs, and Pimps: Defining the Antichrist in Eighth-Century Spain”
February 9, 2010
Cherie Woodworth, independent scholar at the Center for Comparative Research, Yale
“Black Sea, White Sea, Red Sea, Blue Sea: Color and Toponyms in the Medieval World”
February 2, 2010
Elizabeth Archibald, English
“What Is ‘Educated’? Questions and Answers from Carolingian Classrooms”
January 26, 2010
Micha Perry, Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellow, Judaic Studies
“Textual Transmission and the Transformation of Culture: The Medieval Jewish Case”
December 8, 2009
Cherie Woodworth, independent scholar at the Center for Comparative Research, Yale
“Ashkenazi Jews of Kiev: Urban Networks on the Medieval Slavic Frontier”
December 1, 2009
Colleen Farrell, graduate student, History
“Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The Creation of the Cult of St. Anne at Chartres”
November 17, 2009
Kathryn James, Assistant Curator for Early Modern Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Library
“Finding Manuscripts in the Beinecke Library Collection”
November 10, 2009
Philip Slavin, postdoctoral affiliate, Economic Growth Center
“How Great Was the Great Famine? Between Ecology and Institutions”
November 3, 2009
Sara McDougall, postdoctoral fellow, NYU Law School
“Abandoned Wives and the Law in Medieval Champagne”
October 27, 2009
E-Ching Ng, graduate student, Linguistics and Medieval Studies
“Swinging the Top: A Crux in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre”
October 20, 2009
Roberta Frank, Professor, English
“The Weirdest Poetry Ever Written: A New Edition with English Translation”
October 13, 2009
Jonathan Cayer, graduate student, French
“‘By God I'll Kill Them All’: Raoul de Cambrai, God, and the Longinus Legend”
October 6, 2009
Beatrice Greundler, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“The Apostille (Tawqi'): Royal Brevity in the Pre-Modern Appeals Court”
September 30, 2009
Marcia Colish, Visiting Fellow, History
“The Play's the Thing: Fact and Fiction in Medieval Staged Baptism”
September 22, 2009
Dimitri Gutas, Professor of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“Medieval Translations, Modern Politics”
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2008-2009
Jackie Jung, Assisstant Professor in Art History and Marcia Colish, Visiting Fellow in History, coordinators
April 15, 2009
Adam Franklin Lyons, graduate student, History
“Economic Models of the Crisis of the Fourteenth Century”
April 1, 2009
Christopher Baswell, Professor, English, Barnard College and Columbia University
“Medieval Crippling and the Ethnic Uncanny”
March 25, 2009
“Chevax le Roi Artu: The Horses of Yale 229”
March 4, 2009
Andrew Kraebel, graduate student, English and Medieval Studies
“The Education of Anselm of Laon: Some Evidence from the Psalms Commentaries”
February 25, 2009 Paul Bushkovitch, Professor, History
“Orthodoxy and Islam in Medieval Russia”
February 18, 2009
Daniel Stein Kokin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Judaic Studies
“The Alphabetic Cross: Judaism and Hebrew in the Church Dedication Rite”
February 11, 2009
“Old Wine in New Bottles: The Digital Middle Ages”
January 28, 2009
Cherie Woodworth, independent scholar at the Center for Comparative Research, Yale
“Racism, Slavery, and Xenophobia before the Modern Era: Curious Examples from Russia, 13th-16th Century”
November 18, 2008
Cherie Woodworth, independent scholar at the Center for Comparative Research, Yale
“Princely Saints and Dynastic Legitimacy in Russia: Not What You Thought”
November 11, 2008
Youval Rotman, Associate Professor, History
“What's a child's will? Child's agency and child labour in the Middle Ages and in the twenty-first century”
November 4, 2008
Philip Slavin, Postdoctoral fellow in Economic History
“A Case Study of England in Late-Medieval Crisis”
October 21, 2008
James Rodriguez, graduate student, History of Art
“Virgin Martyr, Warrior, Iconoclast: The Changing Image of St. Marina of Antioch”
October 14, 2008
Annemarie Weyl Carr, Emeritus Faculty University Distinguished Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University
“The Holy Sepulchre of St. John Lampadistes, Cyprus”
October 7, 2008
Mitchell Merback, Professor, Art History, Johns Hopkins University
“Relics and Immanence in German Pilgrimage Culture”
September 30, 2008
Jackie Jung, Assistant Professor, Art History
“The Baby Jesus and the Play of Art in a Medieval Convent (or, How the Nuns of Katharinenthal Got Their Own Knives)”
September 16, 2008
Alastair Minnis, Professor, English
“Wyclif's Eden: Sex, Death and Dominion in Paradise”
