Pop-up Exhibit: "The Crusades Come to Cambridge" (Houghton Library)
Date and Time
March 19 - March 21, 2025
All day
Location
Edison and Newman Room, Floor 1, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard (open to the public)
Come see a selection of items from the Riant Collection, curated by 2024 Houghton visiting scholar Laura Morreale. One featured manuscript, MS Riant 81, contains three large circular charts with rotating volvelles used to calculate the date when Easter occurs, which have posed some interpretive challenges.
Read more about how Visiting Fulbright scholar Anthony Harris helped to decipher the charts.