The Medieval Colloquium at Northwestern University brings medievalists from different academic specialties and institutions into dialogue with one another. The study of medieval cultures is necessarily interdisciplinary. To that end, the Colloquium allows scholars using multiple intellectual approaches to participate in conversations about a shared set of cultural artifacts and contexts.
The Colloquium is administered by faculty and advanced graduate students and funded by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and various Northwestern departments and programs. All Colloquium events are designed to appeal to broad audiences and are open to the public.
Portrait of Chaucer as a Canterbury pilgrim, Ellesmere MS, England,14th c.; Birth and Baptism of St. Jerome, France, c. 1495-1515.; Book of Hours, Paris, c. 1460-1465.; Gustave Doré, The Company of Souls upon the Cliff from Dante’s Purgatorio, 1861.; Nobles feasting, Bayeux Tapestry, France, 11th c.; The Worcester Fragments, MS Lat. liturg. d. 20, England, late 13th-early 14th c.
