Access to the College Green area of campus will be restricted until further notice. Current students, faculty and staff with a valid Penn card may enter and exit Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center through the Rosengarten Undergraduate Study Center on the ground floor, and may enter and exit the Fisher Fine Arts Library through the 34th Street entrance to Meyerson Hall.

Network maintenance: On Wednesday, May 15, 7am to 9am, Franklin, Colenda, and other locally-hosted applications will be down for maintenance.

The Henry Charles Lea Lecture Series

This lecture series honors Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909), one of America's greatest historians of the Middle Ages.

Lea's Library and papers are housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The lecture has been hosted annually by the Penn Libraries since 2004.

Past Lea Lecturers

2008-2009: Ruth Mazo Karras, Professor of History, University of Minnesota

'A Scandal to the Whole Clergy': Priests and their Partners

2008: Jonathan Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge

Some Modern Approaches to the History of the Crusades

2007: Pawel Kras, Catholic University of Lublin

John Wyclif's Writings in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia and Poland

2006: Dyan Elliott, Vanderbilt University

Life is Hell: The Twelfth-Century Encounter with Dualism

2005: Peter Biller, University of York

2003: R.I. Moore, University of Newcastle

The War Against Heresy in Medieval Europe

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