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Recent Events:

Get Medieval at the Movies! A Film Screening of The Northman and conversation with Dr. Jacob Bell (Viking Historian and TTU professor) 

Date and Time: Wednesday, October 15, 6:00 PM 
Location: Firehouse Theatre, LHUCA, 511 Avenue K, Lubbock, TX. 
$5 admission and Free for students and seniors. Tickets and information here: https://lhuca.org/events/the-northman-movie-screening-discussion/ Please come out and support MRSC and enjoy a good movie (with popcorn!) 

2025 Hub City Renaissance Faire: The Feast of Fools 

Date and Time: Saturday, October 18, 11:00 AM- 8:00 PM 
Location: LHUCA, 511 Avenue K, Lubbock, TX. 
$5 admission and Free for children 12 and under. 
Tickets and information here: https://lhuca.org/renaissance-faire/ 
MRSC will have a booth at the faire that will feature a Double-T Mini-Printing Press, Renaissance Apothecary with a Nostradamus Pomander-making activity, and a free samples of Leonardo da Vinci's favorite soup! 

4th Annual John M. Howe Lecture in Medieval and Early Modern History 

Featuring Cristina Soriano of University of Texas, Austin: 
“Queens, Kings, Dances and Feasts: Black Communities and Colonial Anxieties in Transimperial Trinidad, 1805” 
Date and Time: Friday, October 24, 5:30-6pm (Reception) 6-7pm (Talk) 
Location: Humanities Building 001

NEW BOOKS by our MRSC Faculty:

 

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John Beusterien and Stephen West (2025). Elephants and Ivory in China and Spain. Cambridge University Press

Gaming the Medieval English Text

Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell (2025). Gaming the Medieval English Text: “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript . Medieval Institute Publications. https://wmich.edu/medievalpublications/news/2025/09/couchandbell-gawain

no book cover Jacob Bell (2025). The Documentary Politics of Conquered England's Queens: New Translations of the "Encomium of Queen Emma" and the "Life of King Edward". Arc Humanities Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/elephants-and-ivory-in-china-and-spain/9BD27E7357136E47CDA415B42D79A8C0