The Center for Medieval Studies

For the past twenty-five years, the Center for Medieval Studies has hosted one or two conferences each year. Recent conferences have included:

• Orthodox Readings of Augustine (June 2007)
• The French of England: Multilingualism in Practice, c. 1100-c.1500 (March 2007)
• Host of the 15th International New Chaucer Society Meeting (July 2006) co-sponsored with the NYC Medieval Studies Doctoral Consortium.
• Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing, and Household (March 2005)
• The Discourse of Law and Justice in Medieval Europe (March 2004)
• The Virgin Mary in Cross-Cultural Perspective (March 2003)

•       Ecclesia Semper Reformanda: Vatican II, Aggiornamento & Church Reform before Modernity (3-4 August 2002)  
  Published:  Christopher M. Bellitto and Louis I. Hamilton, eds. Reforming the Church before Modernity: Patterns, Problems and Approaches 
  (Ashgate, 2005)

• Co-host of the 77th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (April 2002)
• Medieval Women and Power Revisited: Challenging the Master Narrative (March 2001)   
• Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe (29-30 September 2000)
• Education in the Middle Ages (March 2000)
• The Debate About Women, Men and Gender in Medieval Culture (March 1999)
• The Liturgy of Rome in the Eleventh Century (September 1998)
• Parchment and Politics: Writing, Images and Authority in the Middle Ages (April 1998)
• Medieval Cultures in Contact (March 1997)
• Learning, Literacy and Gender in the Middle Ages (March 1996)
• Family in the Middle Ages (March 1995)

•       Violence in the Middle Ages (April 1994)

•       Communities and the Ideas of Community in the Middle Ages (March 1993)

•       The Medieval Expansion of Europe, 1250-1492 (March 1992)

• Medieval Spirituality (March 1991)

•       Gender and Society II.  Men in the Middle Ages (May 1990)

                     Published: Clare A Lees, Thelma Fenster, and Jo Ann McNamara, eds. Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages
                     (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

• Europe in the Age of the Hundred Years War (March 1989)

•       Gender and Society I: Gender and the Moral Order (March 1988)

                     Published: Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea.  Special Issue: “Gender and the Moral Order of Medieval Society.”  Volume LXIV, 1989.

• War and Peace in Medieval Society (27-28 February 1987)

•        The Impact of Monasticism on Medieval Society (March 1986)

• Women and Power: Intrigue, Influence, and Insubordination in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (March 1985)

                      Published: Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds., Women and Power in the Middle Ages (University of Georgia Press, 1988)

• The Age of Wyclif: A Commemoration of the Sixth Centenary of His Death (October 1984)

•       Conciliarism and Conciliarity in the Late Middle Ages: Perspectives East and West (March 1983)

• Matter of Britain: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (October 1982)

•       St. Francis of Assisi: Symposium on the 800th Anniversary of His Birth (April 1982)

• The Medieval Woman: Image and Reality (October 1981)

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