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Warren Brown lays out the stakes of our new acquisition
In 2025, our Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired an extraordinarily rare manuscript fragment: a leaf from an administrative book made at one of the oldest medieval monasteries, the Abbey of St. Martin at Tours in Merovingian Gaul (France) and dating to the 7th century. It was later reinforced...
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Craig Perry's new book draws a standing-room-only crowd
  On Thursday, February 26th, we welcomed Prof. Craig Perry (Emory University) to campus, where his presentation drew a large, attentive crowd to learn about his new book: a global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish...
Keidrick Roy
Keidrick Roy to deliver 3rd annual Lux Veritatis Lecture on September 10, 2026
 This fall, Illinois will welcome Keidrick Roy, an assistant professor of Government at Dartmouth College and author of American Dark...
Calderwood
Eric Calderwood's *On Earth and in Poems* Shortlisted for the Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
The shortlist for the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies has been named. The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs administers this...
new books 2025
Medieval Studies Celebrates Five New Books by Faculty Affiliates
 
Sister Haggadah
The Legal Value of Written Records for Jews and Christians in Medieval Provence
Visiting scholar Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) drew a large audience to his fascinating talk on the records produced by public notaries in late-medieval Provence. As he showed, virtually all social and economic relations could be guaranteed by a notarial act by the end of the fourteenth...

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James Terrasi (B.A. Medieval Studies and History)

James Terrasi graduated in 2022 with a major in both Medieval Studies and History. His History honors thesis (advised by Carol Symes and examined by Eleanora Stoppino and Brian Walters) provided a new translation and analysis of the Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum, an anonymous account of the First Crusade. In the autumn of 2022, he began a Master's program in Medieval Studies at Fordham University, where he developed an interest in the social and economic history of the medieval Mediterranean. At Fordham, he had the opportunity to do archival work in...

Trilingual Psalter made for Roger II of Sicily (London, British Library Harley 5786
A Slave Market: From the Maqamat by al-Hariri, Painted by al-Wasiti, 1237
runic inscription on bone
Codex Mendoza, fol. 68r (Paris, BnF MSS mexicain 396)
Carolingian Codex