October 9, 7:30 pm (note change to the usual time)
CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Ave.), room 4406

Marcia Colish
Professor emerita, Department of History, Oberlin College

“The Boys on the Beach: Children’s Games and Baptismal Grace in the Middle Ages.”

While medieval Christians firmly agreed that baptism was a sacrament of necessity,…[Read more]

Addendum: December 11, 7:00 pm

“Emotions and the Guts: French Marian Miracle Stories”

Evelyn Birge Vitz
Department of Comparative Literature
New York University

Friends of the Saints Schedule 2015–2016

September 11, 7:00 pm

“Cynewulf’s Epilogues: Self-portraits of the Poet as Thresholds”

Haruko Momma
Department of English
New York University

October 9 (with Medieval Club of New York), 7:30 pm

“The Boys on the Beach: Children’s Games and Baptismal Grace in the Middle Ages”

Marcia Colish
Depart…[Read more]

13 March, 7:00 pm, CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave.), Pearl Kibre Medieval Study
‘Saint Fernando III, The Bastard King of León: Illegitimacy in Medieval Iberia’
Sara MacDougall
Department of History
John Jay College

13 February, 7:00 pm, CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave.), 5th Floor History Department Lounge ‘Renovatio, Continuity, Innovation: Legitimation and Collective Memory in Byzantine Italy (7th – 9th centuries)’
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen
Department of History
Queensborough Community College

Spring Speakers Schedule

13 February: ‘Renovatio, Continuity, Innovation: Legitimation and Collective Memory in Byzantine Italy (7th – 9th centuries)’
Nicole Lopez-Jantzen
Department of History
Queensborough Community College

13 March: ‘Saint Fernando III, The Bastard King of León: Illegitimacy in Medieval Iberia’
Sara MacDougall
Departmen…[Read more]

12 December, CUNY Graduate Center (Room 5114), 7:00 pm
‘Religious Reform as Emotional Reform at the Eleventh-Century Monastery of Fécamp’
Lauren Mancia
Department of History, Brooklyn College,

10 October, CUNY Graduate Center (Room 5105), 7:00 pm
‘The invention of a saint’s Legend: Christian and pagan literary sources of the Vita et Passio S. Eugeniae’
Gordon Whatley
Department of English
Queens College and the Graduate Center

FoS is sponsoring a session at the Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo: ‘Material Engagements with the Friends of God in Post-Roman Europe.’

Chad Turner, CUNY Graduate Center, ‘The Role of the Laity and the Ordering of Society in Aelred of Rievaulx’s De sanctis ecclesiae Hagulstadensis’

Christine Libby, Indiana University Bloomington, ‘…[Read more]

10th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
November 7, 2014

Persecution, Punishment and Purgatory in the Long Middle Ages

The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, the CUNY Graduate Center’s student-run organization for medieval studies, announces its tenth annual Graduate Student Conference at t…[Read more]

29 August, Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St, New York, NY 10011, 6:00 pm gather for drinks
Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine
Serinity Young
Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures
Queens College

Fall Schedule

29 August, Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St, New York, NY 10011, 6:30 pm gather for drinks
Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine
Serinity Young
Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures
Queens College

10 October, CUNY Graduate Center (Room TBA), 7:00 pm
‘The invention of a saint’s L…[Read more]

Call for papers for the May 14-17, 2015, Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University

Sponsored by The Friends of the Saints.
Panel theme: ‘Material Engagements with the Friends of God in Post-Roman Europe.’

Association with and promotion of holy figures and their relics has long been recognized as a way those in the Middle Ages laid claim…[Read more]