California Medieval History Seminar

The winter session of California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss four pre-distributed research papers. Participants are expected to read the papers in advance and come prepared to discuss them. Speakers and paper topics are announced by e-mail. To be added to the announcement list contact us.

Advance registration is required — write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu to register.

These are the papers under discussion at this seminar:

• Margaret Trenchard-Smith (Independent Scholar) – “Unfit to Nurse: Ancient and Medieval Medical Writers on Women and Infants Disqualified from Breastfeeding”
• Maureen C. Miller (University of California, Berkeley) – “Clothing as Communication? Vestments and Views of the Papacy c. 1300”
• Marie Kelleher (CSU Long Beach) & Adam Franklin-Lyons (Marlboro College) – “Crisis Event or Crisis Era – the Famines of 1333 and 1374 in Catalonia”
• Monica Keane (Independent Scholar) – “The Decameron’s Tuscan Tradition: Love, Literature and Florence”

Seating is limited and by pre-registration only. A fee may apply.

More information about the seminar is at cmrs.ucla.edu/seminars

Support for the California Medieval History Seminar is provided by the Armand Hammer Endowment for the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and by the Huntington Library.