Jay Paul Gates

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English

I work primarily on Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian, and Anglo-Norman England with a particular focus on law and legal culture.

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    Jay Paul Gates created the event Teaching the Saints: Hagiography in the Classroom in the group Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar. 4 years, 10 months ago

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    Jay Paul Gates created the event Teaching the Saints Colloquium in the group Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar. 4 years, 10 months ago

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    Sara McDougall (she/her/hers) and Profile picture of Jay Paul GatesJay Paul Gates are now friends 6 years, 9 months ago

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 7 years, 4 months ago

    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]

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 7 years, 5 months ago

    Addendum: December 11, 7:00 pm

    “Emotions and the Guts: French Marian Miracle Stories”

    Evelyn Birge Vitz
    Department of Comparative Literature
    New York University

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 7 years, 5 months ago

    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]

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 7 years, 11 months ago

    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

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years ago

    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

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years ago

    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]

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 1 month ago

    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,

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 4 months ago

    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

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 4 months ago

    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]

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 5 months ago

    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]

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 5 months ago

    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

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 6 months ago

    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]

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    New announcement by Jay Paul Gates in Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 6 months ago

    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]

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    Jay Paul Gates joined the group Group logo of The Group for Group AdminsThe Group for Group Admins 8 years, 7 months ago

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    Jay Paul Gates created the group Group logo of Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography SeminarFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography Seminar 8 years, 7 months ago

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