California Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2018

The Fall 2018 session of the California Medieval History Seminar meets at the Huntington Library to discuss four pre-distributed research papers. Participants are scholars in the field at various stages of their careers. All attendees at the seminar are expected to read the papers in advance and discuss the research. Speakers and paper topics are announced by e-mail. Click here for additional information about the seminar.

These are the papers under discussion at this seminar:

• Anthony Perron (Loyola Marymount University), “Outlaw Corpses, Hostage Cadavers: Exhumation as Social Discipline and Legal Strategy”
• Kristina Markman (UCSD), “Through Enemy Eyes: Representing Conflict on the Rus’ian-Lithuanian Frontier”
• Elizabeth Comuzzi (UCLA), “Estimating Medieval Urban Populations: a New Approach”
• Kevin Roddy (UC Davis), “History and Literature in Symbiosis: The Dairymaid in Chaucer’s ‘Nuns’ Priest’s Tale’”

Advance registration is required. To register for this seminar, or to be added to the announcement list, please write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

Seating is limited and by advance 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.