Middle Ages

Name: Medieval Texts Reading Group
Start: 2025-05-16T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-16T17:00:00-07:00

July 2023
Of Marginal Importance? The Role of Marginalia in Studying Late Medieval Manuscripts

July 26, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

This lecture, “Of Marginal Importance? The Role of Marginalia in Studying Late Medieval Manuscripts,” is by Tomislav Matić (Croatian Institute of History), Visiting Scholar, UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, a public event conducted at the Huntington Library. Reading a text, at least to a Medieval reader, was not a one-way process. In the Middle […]

Free
May 2025
Medieval Texts Reading Group

May 16, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

For our Spring 2025 meeting, we will meet on May 16, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, in Kaplan 193, and we will read the short Middle English poem Wynnere and Wastoure. This peculiar mid-14th-century alliterative poem (in Middle English, but don’t be discouraged! do your best!) sets two allegorical figures, Winner and Waster, against each other in […]