The workshop focuses on the literature, history, and culture of the Middle Ages, defined roughly as 500 AD to 1500 AD. The Middle Ages is a vast period that witnessed profound social, political, religious, cultural, linguistic, and artistic transformations. The workshop makes possible encounters between scholars from across the University, including the departments of English, History, Art History, Music, Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Divinity School..