{"id":1219,"date":"2026-04-07T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:44:22","slug":"lecture-series-fascination-and-action-at-a-distance-in-the-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/2026\/04\/07\/lecture-series-fascination-and-action-at-a-distance-in-the-middle-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Series: Fascination and Action at a Distance in the Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of History and Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe are hosting a series of talks this spring by B\u00e9atrice Delaurenti, professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, on fascination and action at a distance in the Middle Ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 9<\/strong>, 5:15\u20136:30pm, Gilman 138D: &#8220;Fascination: An Intellectual History of the Evil Eye in the Middle Ages&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 13<\/strong>, 3\u20134:30pm, Gilman 308: &#8220;In Search of Charms Users in the Middle Ages: From Real to Imagined Practitioners&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 20<\/strong>, 12\u20131:15pm, Gilman 130D: &#8220;Carminabase, an Online Database of Medieval Charms&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>May 6<\/strong>, 12\u20131:30pm, Gilman 308: &#8220;Medieval Practices of the Evil Eye: How and Where to Find Them&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2026\/04\/Delaurent_Fascination-flyer-780x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Flyer with lecture information\" class=\"wp-image-1220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2026\/04\/Delaurent_Fascination-flyer-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2026\/04\/Delaurent_Fascination-flyer-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2026\/04\/Delaurent_Fascination-flyer-768x1008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2026\/04\/Delaurent_Fascination-flyer-1170x1536.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2026\/04\/Delaurent_Fascination-flyer-1560x2048.jpg 1560w, https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2026\/04\/Delaurent_Fascination-flyer-scaled.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of History and Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe are hosting a series of talks this spring by B\u00e9atrice Delaurenti, professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, on fascination and action at a distance in the Middle Ages. April 9, 5:15\u20136:30pm, Gilman 138D: &#8220;Fascination: An Intellectual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/singleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}