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Through a wide variety of subjects drawn from a number of disciplines, this program provides a curricular framework for exploring topics in ancient and medieval studies which range from the history of ideas and institutions to that of material artifacts, literature, and certain of the original languages. The program spans the 6,500 years between 5000 B.C. and 1500 A.D.

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Friday, May 24, 2013 - 17:48
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 18:46

Dig a castle in Belgium this summer!

Join the international Walhain excavation team...

Friday, October 19, 2012 - 18:56

"Consilience: Science and the Human Past"
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of...

Monday, October 15, 2012 - 15:25

January 17 and 18, E51-095
Anne McCants, Margo Collett

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January 10-18, 2013

Now in its eighth year, this program of the MIT History Faculty...

Chartres Cathedral north portal, 4 evangelists & St. Peter. 12th-13th c. A. McCants
Chartres Cathedral, south buttresses 12th-13th c. A. McCants
Stained glass window,Notre Dame Cathedral, 12th-13th c. A. McCants