2026 Grigsby Lecture Series Presents: Turks, Ottomans, and World Conquest in the Medieval French Imagination

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

5:30 PM (refreshments beginning at 5:00)

Umrath Lounge

Dr. Markus Cruse is a scholar exploring the relationship between writing, performance, travel, and material culture in the Global Middle Ages and early modern period. He is the author of Illuminating the Roman d'Alexandre (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264): The Manuscript as Monument, as well as the forthcoming monograph The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France: Texts, Objects, Encounters, 1221-1422, which is the first comprehensive history of contact between France and the Mongols.

Please join us on this journey through the world of medieval intercultural communication. All are welcome!