Lecture | Blood & Art: The Many Lives of Medieval Wine

In partnership with the New York Medieval Society and the Medieval Academy of America, the Grolier Club will host "Blood & Art: The Many Lives of Medieval Wine," a lecture by Bruce Holsinger. The talk will explore the cultural histories of wine in the European Middle Ages through the books, documents, poems, and other written sources that shaped the vinous imagination of the era. Holsinger, the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, specializes in the literature and culture of the medieval world and is author of The Parchment Inheritance: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age (Yale, 2022), among other works. This special lecture honors the legacy of Speculum, the MAA’s premier quarterly journal devoted to the Middle Ages.

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