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**Greetings!**

This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the early modern period ca. 1350-1800, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. We are announcing in person and online events and activities that take place in the greater Boston area (broadly conceived). Please forward announcements of events, including exhibits and application deadlines for future conferences in our region. We’re planning a mailing roughly every two weeks—please therefore send notices of events at least two weeks in advance. Please forward announcements in the format requested at the end of this message, to: <earlymod@fas.harvard.edu>.

For security reasons the list will usually not disseminate zoom links directly, but we can list an email contact to which to write for further details about attending. Alternatively, we can circulate registration information for events. All times are Boston/Eastern times.

(An asterisk indicates a new event listing; two asterisks indicate a change or update.)

## **Upcoming Events**

**Friday, September 11, 2026, 3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT**

[Newton's Matter Theory: Between Mechanism and Hylomorphism](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/newtons-matter-theory-between-mechanism-and-hylomorphism)

Sponsor: History of Philosophy Workshop, Harvard

Speaker: **Patrick Connolly** (Johns Hopkins University)

Location: Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard, Cambridge MA

**Sunday, September 13, 2026, 3:00PM EDT**

[The Blue Heron Songbook: From Burgundy to Broadway](https://ci.ovationtix.com/36126/production/1285986?performanceId=11852461)

Sponsor: Blue Heron — season benefit event

Performers: **Michael Barrett**, **Cody Bowers**, **Paul Guttry**, **Corey Dalton Hart**, **Kim Leeds**, **David McFerrin**, and **Jason McStoots**, with Brian Moll (piano) and Scott Metcalfe (harp)

Location: Sureau Family Discovery Barn, Nashoba Brooks School, 200 Strawberry Hill Road, Concord, MA 01742

**Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT**

[Harvard Early Modern World Fall Aperitivo](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-early-modern-world-fall-aperitivo-0)

Sponsor: Harvard Early Modern World initiative

The aperitivo features faculty flash-talks by

**Cécile Fromont** (History of Art and Architecture), "Slavery, Colony, Beauty"

**Nathan Perl-Rosenthal** (Center for European Studies), "Empires of Privateering: The Case of La Cloche (South China Sea, 1713)"

**Jennifer Oliver** (Romance Languages and Literatures), "Forging French Fictions"

**Robert Darnton** (History), "Revolution, Information, and the Role of Writers in Eighteenth-Century France"

Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge MA

**Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 5:00PM EDT**

[Lewys Glyn Cothi: revisiting the manuscripts of a Welsh pencerdd](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/lewys-glyn-cothi-revisiting-manuscripts-welsh-pencerdd)

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Celtic Literature and Culture

Speaker: **Gruffudd Antur**, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth

Location: Warren House, Kates Room (201), 11 Prescott St, Cambridge, Massachusetts

**\* Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT**

[Jews in Old Rus': A Documentary History](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/jews-old-rus-documentary-history)

Sponsors: Center for Jewish Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)

Speaker: **Alexander Kulik**, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in conversation with **Michael Flier** (Harvard University), **Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern** (Northwestern University), **Antony Polonsky** (Museum of the History of Polish Jews), and **Michelle Viise** (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)

Location: Online, via Zoom (RSVP required)

**Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 5:00PM EDT**

[Teaching 'Otherwise': Premodern Popular Pedagogy](https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events/sharing-news-five-college-medieval-studies-seminar-susan-phillips-northwestern-university)

Sponsor: Five College Medieval Studies Seminar (UMass Amherst Renaissance Program)

Speaker: **Susan E. Phillips**, Northwestern University

Location: South College E470, UMass Amherst

**\* Thursday, September 17, 2026, 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT**

[Learning to Talk Shop: Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England (Book Talk)](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/learning-talk-shop-mercantile-mischief-and-popular-pedagogy-premodern-england-book-talk)

Sponsors: English Medieval Colloquium, the Medieval History Graduate Workshop, the English Renaissance Colloquium, the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of History, all Harvard University

Speaker: **Susan Phillips**, Northwestern University

Location: Robinson Hall, Lower Library, Harvard Yard

**Thursday, September 17, 2026, 5:30PM - 7:30PM EDT**

[Opening Event in Book History](https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/event/opening-event-book-history)

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book

The event features microtalks by members of our community.

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA. Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center.

**\* Friday, September 18, 2026, 9:00AM - 5:00PM EDT**

[NEQ Symposium on Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2026](https://www.masshist.org/events/neq-symposium-environmental-histories)

Co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and The New England Quarterly, with additional support from the Norman B. Leventhal Map &amp; Education Center at the Boston Public Library

Location: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA (in person)

**\* Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT**

[White Ethiopian Girls haunting the Western Renaissance and Baroque Imagination](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/white-ethiopian-girls-haunting-western-renaissance-and-baroque-imagination)

Sponsor: Hiphop Archive &amp; Research Institute at the Hutchins Center

Speaker: **Jean-Frédéric Schaub**, EHESS Paris

Location: 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 2R, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

**\* Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT**

[Book Talk on Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-performing-enlightenment-buddhism-and-theater-early-modern-china)

Sponsor: Asia Center Author Book Talk Series, co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Speaker: **Mengxiao Wang**, University of Southern California

Location: Online, via Zoom (RSVP required)

**Thursday, September 24, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT**

[Letters from the Augsburg Collegium Medicum and German Physicians / Practicing Healers](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/letters-augsburg-collegium-medicum-and-german-physicians-practicing-healers)

Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group

Speaker: **Courtney Greer-Soliday** (G3 PhD, History of Science)

Location: Science Center 252, Harvard University

**Thursday, September 24, 2026, 4:30PM EDT**

[Writing into Nothingness](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/writing-nothingness)

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on France and the World

Speaker: **Joanna Stalnaker**, Columbia University

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University (Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center)

**Thursday, September 24, 2026, 5:30PM EDT**

[Colossal Engineering in Carioca](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/colossal-engineering-carioca)

Sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Visual Representation, Materiality, and Medium

Speaker: **Erika Naginski**, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Location: Sackler Building, Room 422, at 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, 02138

**Thursday, September 24, 2026, 5:30PM EDT**

["The Idea of 'A New Antiquity'"](https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/335652-alessandra-russo-columbia-university-the-idea-of-a-ne)

Sponsor: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World at Brown University

Speaker: **Alessandra Russo** (Columbia University)

Location: Andrews House, 13 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906

**\* Thursday, September 24, 2026, 6:00PM EDT**

[Race, Slavery, and Transatlantic Scribal Politics](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/race-slavery-and-transatlantic-scribal-politics)

Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Studies

Speakers: **A. Veronique Charles**, Columbia University; **Fauve Vandenberghe**, Harvard University/University of Ghent

Location: Barker Center, Room 114, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA

**Saturday, September 26, 2026, 1:00PM - 3:00PM EDT**

[Medusa's Bestiary Opening Reception (Artist in Residence)](https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events/medusas-bestiary-opening-reception)

Sponsor: UMass Amherst Renaissance Program

Featuring: **Lauren Levato Coyne**, 'Medusa's Bestiary: Embodiments &amp; Ecologies'

Location: See event page

**\* Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Boger Hall, Room 315**

“Shared Shelves: Book Collecting and the Making of Prestige between Quattrocento Italy and the Ottoman Empire”

Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Seminar and the History Department, both at Wesleyan University

Speaker: **Samet Budak** (Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University)

In-person, Wesleyan University, Boger Hall

Attendees must RSVP in advance to receive a pre-circulated paper. To RSVP please contact Joseph Ackley at <jackley@wesleyan.edu>.

**Thursday, October 1, 2026, 12:00PM EDT**

[JCB Reads: Kenneth J. Banks, author of A Sea of Possibilities: The Revolutionary Atlantic World of Captain Thomas Allen](https://jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-reads-kenneth-j-banks-author-of/)

Sponsor: John Carter Brown Library (JCB Reads)

Speaker: **Kenneth J. Banks**

Location: Virtual

**\*\* Friday, October 2, 2026, 5:00PM EDT**

[Richard Burbage's Henry V: Collaboration and Rethinking Dramatic Authorship](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/richard-burbages-henry-v-collaboration-and-rethinking-dramatic-authorship)

Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies and Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium

Speaker: **Tanya Pollard**, Brooklyn College and CUNY

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA. Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center.

**Monday, October 5, 2026, 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT**

[A Conversation on Petrarch's "Canzoniere: A New Translation"](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/conversation-petrarchs-canzoniere-new-translation)

Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center public event

Speakers: **Andrew Frisardi**, **A.M. Juster**, and **Kate van Orden**

Moderator: **Ramie Targoff**

Location: Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard

**Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 5:15PM EDT**

[The Book of Job in the Republic of Letters: The Reception of Hugo Grotius's Annotata ad Vetus Testamentum (1644)](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-job-republic-letters-reception-hugo-grotiuss-annotata-ad-vetus-testamentum-1644)

Sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard University

Speaker: **Michael Legaspi** (St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary). Comment: **Gabriel Parlin** (Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard)

Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge MA

**\* Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 5:30PM EDT**

[George Herbert and the Heresy of Paraphrase](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/george-herbert-and-heresy-paraphrase)

Sponsor: Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium

Speaker: **Gabriel Bloomfield**, Smith College

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University

**Thursday, October 8, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT**

[Locanadarpaṇamu (A Mirror for the Eyes)](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/locanadarpanamu-mirror-eyes)

Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group

Speaker: **Sri Sathvik Rayala** (G1 PhD, History of Science)

Location: Science Center 252, Harvard University

**\* Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 5:00PM - 6:15PM EDT**

[The Constitutionalization of Politics in Founding-Era Pennsylvania](https://www.masshist.org/events/founding-era-pennsylvania)

Sponsor: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society

Speaker: **Tingfeng Yan**, University of Chicago. Comment: **Mary Sarah Bilder**, Boston College

Location: Online, via Zoom

**\* Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT**

[Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/palimpsests-past-and-present-sufis-and-sultans-makli-necropolis-1380-1660)

Sponsor: Fall 2026 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art &amp; Architecture

Speaker: **Fatima Quraishi**, Princeton University

Location: 485 Broadway, Room 422, Cambridge, MA

**Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT**

[Five College Medieval Studies Seminar with Stacey Murrell (Amherst College)](https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events/sharing-news-five-college-medieval-studies-seminar-stacey-murrell-amherst-college)

Sponsor: Five College Medieval Studies Seminar (UMass Amherst Renaissance Program)

Speaker: **Stacey Murrell**, Amherst College

Location: See event page

**Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT**

[Scytale: A Historical Analysis of Cryptography, Military Intelligence, and Military Science: Ancient Secrets, Messages, and Sensitivity](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/scytale-historical-analysis-cryptography-military-intelligence-and-military-science-ancient)

Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group

Speaker: **Xiao Di "Janice" Tong** (H-Net Reviews Editor)

Location: Science Center 252, Harvard University

**Thursday, October 22, 2026, 5:30PM EDT**

["Solitary Wandering and Civic Pleasures: Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran"](https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/335654-farshid-emami-rice-university-solitary-wandering-and-)

Sponsor: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World at Brown University

Speaker: **Farshid Emami** (Rice University)

Location: Andrews House, 13 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906

**Saturday, October 24, 2026, 3:00PM EDT**

[Divine Songs: Secular chansons &amp; sacred transformations](https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/divine-songs/)

Sponsor: Blue Heron

Program: Franco-Flemish chansons and the sacred motets and masses that borrow their tunes — music by Binchois, Du Fay, Ockeghem, Agricola, La Rue, and Bauldeweyn

Location: First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

**Monday, October 26, 2026, 12:00PM EDT**

[JCB Reads: Erika Valdivieso, author of Empire's Companion: Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica](https://jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-reads-erika-valdivieso-author-of-empires-companion-virgilian-epics-from-colonial-iberoamerica/)

Sponsor: John Carter Brown Library (JCB Reads)

Speaker: **Erika Valdivieso**

Location: Virtual

**\* Thursday, October 29, 2026, 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT**

[High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/high-stakes-big-data-existential-entanglements-abbasid-nilometer-cairo)

Sponsor: Fall 2026 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art &amp; Architecture

Speaker: **Heba Mostafa**, University of Toronto

Location: 485 Broadway, Room 422, Cambridge, MA

**Monday, November 2, 2026, 5:00PM EST**

[What is Sacred about Emotions? A Historical Exploration of Emotion in Hasidism](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/what-sacred-about-emotions-historical-exploration-emotion-hasidism)

Sponsor: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar on Jewish Cultures and Societies

Speaker: **Leore Sachs Shmueli**, Bar Ilan University

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University (Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center)

**Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:15PM EST**

[A Cooler Art History of European Landscape](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/cooler-art-history-european-landscape)

Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group

Speaker: **Kirsten Burke** (Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows)

Location: Science Center 252, Harvard University

**\* Thursday, November 5, 2026, 5:00PM - 6:15PM EST**

[The Ecology of Land Deeds in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic](https://www.masshist.org/events/ecology-of-land-deeds)

Sponsor: Environmental History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society

Speaker: **Zoe Zimmermann**, Princeton University. Comment: **Christine M. DeLucia**, Williams College

Location: Online, via Zoom

**\*\* Friday, November 6, 2026, 5:00PM EST**

[Hamlet's "Garbage" and the Tragedy of Waste](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/hamlets-garbage-and-tragedy-waste)

Sponsors: Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies and Harvard English Department Renaissance Colloquium

Speaker: **Matthew Ritger**, Dartmouth College

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA. Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center.

**Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 5:15PM EST**

[A Closer Look at the Crespi Chronicle: An Illustrated History of Mankind in the Early Renaissance](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/closer-look-crespi-chronicle-illustrated-history-mankind-early-renaissance)

Sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in the History of the Book and Early Modern Workshop in the Department of History, Harvard University

Speaker: **Paolo Sachet** (Sapienza University of Rome and Institut d'Histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva)

Location: Basement Seminar Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St, Cambridge MA

**Saturday, November 14, 2026, 1:00PM - 2:30PM EST**

[Grounded Knowledge: Fruition](https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/events/grounded-knowledge-fruition)

Sponsor: UMass Amherst Renaissance Program (Renaissance of the Earth)

With: **Ellena Baum**, Renaissance of the Earth Teaching Fellow

Location: See event page

**\* Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 4:30 p.m., Boger Hall, Room 315**

“Ruling Women and Their Concubines, 1109-1435”

Sponsor: Renaissance Seminar, Wesleyan University

Speaker: **Stacey Murrell** (Assistant Professor of History, Amherst College)

In-person, Wesleyan University, Boger Hall

Attendees must RSVP in advance to receive a pre-circulated paper. To RSVP please contact Joseph Ackley at <jackley@wesleyan.edu>.

**\* Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 5:00PM - 6:15PM EST**

[War, Disease, and the Atlantic Maritime Economy, 1775-1800 - A Panel Discussion](https://www.masshist.org/events/war-disease-atlantic-maritime-economy)

Sponsor: Pauline Maier Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society

Speakers: **Ken Banks**, Wofford College; **Julia Mansfield**, Villanova University. Comments by **Denver Brunsman**, George Washington University

Location: Hybrid (Massachusetts Historical Society, in person, and online via Zoom)

**Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 5:00PM - 7:00PM EST**

[Book Discussion: "Antiquity Made Whole: The Renaissance Continuation of Ancient Literature"](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-discussion-antiquity-made-whole-renaissance-continuation-ancient-literature)

Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminars on Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome and on History of the Book, and the Renaissance Colloquium in the Department of English, Harvard University

Author: **Leah Whittington** (English, Harvard)

Respondents: **Gordon Teskey** (English, Harvard), **Eric Weiskott** (English, Boston College), **Megan Heffernan** (English, DePaul) and **Stephen Hinds** (Classics, University of Washington, Seattle)

Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA. Please use the main entrance to enter the Barker Center.

**Thursday, November 19, 2026, 12:00PM - 1:15PM EST**

[The Earth Turned Inside Out: Sino-European Exchange and the Cross-cultural History of Early Modern Seismology](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/earth-turned-inside-out-sino-european-exchange-and-cross-cultural-history-early-modern)

Sponsor: Harvard Early Sciences Working Group

Speaker: **Seongun Park** (G7 PhD, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

Location: Science Center 252, Harvard University

**\* Thursday, November 19, 2026, 6:00PM - 7:30PM EST**

[Entangled with the River: The Making of Safavid Isfahan from Watershed to Body](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/entangled-river-making-safavid-isfahan-watershed-body)

Sponsor: Fall 2026 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art &amp; Architecture

Speaker: **Sahar Hosseini**, University of Pittsburgh

Location: 485 Broadway, Room 422, Cambridge, MA

**\* Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 5:30PM EST**

[Graduate Student Talks](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/graduate-student-talks-jude-willoughby-and-sean-coomey-both-harvard-english)

Sponsor: Renaissance Colloquium, English Department, Harvard University

Speakers: **Jude Willoughby** and **Sean Coomey** (both Harvard English)

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University

**Thursday, December 3, 2026, 5:30PM EST**

["Pathology or Moral Sin? Physicians and Lovesickness in Early Modern Italy"](https://events.brown.edu/early-modern-world/event/335655-eva-del-soldato-university-of-pennsylvania-pathology-)

Sponsor: Center for the Study of the Early Modern World at Brown University

Speaker: **Eva Del Soldato** (University of Pennsylvania)

Location: Andrews House, 13 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906

**\*\* Friday, December 4, 2026, 5:00PM EST**

[Electrical Narratives: Visual Art, Rape, Race, and Religion in Hester Pulter's The Unfortunate Florinda and Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece](https://earlymodernworld.fas.harvard.edu/event/electrical-narratives-visual-art-rape-race-and-religion-hester-pulters-unfortunate-florinda)

Sponsors: Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar on Shakespearean Studies and Renaissance Colloquium, English Department, Harvard University

Speaker: **Erika Boeckeler**, Northeastern University

Location: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room), Harvard University, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA. Please use the main entrance to enter Barker Center.

**Friday, December 18, 2026, 8:00PM EST**

[Christmas in Medieval England](https://www.blueheron.org/concerts/christmas-in-medieval-england/)

Additional performances: Saturday, December 19, 2026 at 3:00PM and 8:00PM

Sponsor: Blue Heron

Program: 15th-century English music for the season — plainchant, carols, antiphons, and polyphonic Mass settings

Location: Cambridge and Newton, MA — see event page for venues and times

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