Please join us for the inaugural lecture of our new annual speaker series focused on medieval manuscripts, in celebration of the OSU Library’s new collecting area!

How should we interpret the sometimes silly, inane, even shocking images we find decorating the borders of later medieval prayer books and other manuscripts? Using approaches from queer theory and the digital humanities, this talk explores this curious imagery and the roles it played in shaping medieval readers’ experiences of gender, sexuality, embodiment, religion, and more.