Where the Middle Ages Begin
Ireland’s Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs, Jimmy Deenihan, launched two new postgraduate Masters programmes, in ‘Public History and Cultural Heritage’ and ‘Digital Humanities and Culture’ at Trinity College Dublin earlier this week, which will add a new dynamic to the development of country’s cultural heritage. The programmes have been developed under the umbrella […]
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have received a major collection of 280 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, valued at over $20 million, from long-time benefactors and Library Board members Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg. To promote the use of this and other manuscript collections at Penn, the Libraries will create the Schoenberg Institute for […]
Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio is set to offer a summer program in Latin this summer. Under the direction of Dr. Matthew Ponesse, Associate Professor of History, the program is aimed at students pursuing graduate studies in the fields of medieval history, literature, philosophy, or theology. The summer program begins on June 13th, with […]
U.S. News and World Report has released its 2012 rankings for Best Graduate Schools, with Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California – Berkeley coming up as among the top places for medievalists. In the category of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, the University of Pennsylvania was ranked first, followed by Harvard University, […]
The Richard III Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Mahoney as the new administrator for the Richard III Student Programs. These programs encompass the Richard III Scholarship for Medieval Studies and The John Davey Research Grant for Medieval Studies. A past member of the Board of Directors and former editor of […]
Grammar and Her Children: Learning to Read in the Art of the Twelfth Century Cleaver, Laura Marginalia, Vol. 9, (2009) Abstract The inclusion of the liberal arts in the sculptural programmes of a handful of twelfth-century French church façades proclaimed the importance of education as a means of understanding God and his creation. The arts of […]
The University of Missouri is home to over 30 000 students and hosts 280 degree programs, including medieval and Renaissance Studies at the undergraduate and graduate level. Mizzou, as the university is affectionately known, was founded in the year 1839 in the city of Columbia, and has seen its reputation grow in recent years as […]
Heather Hirschfeld, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, associate professor of English, has been named the new Riggsby Director of the university’s Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Hirschfeld is set to begin work Jan. 1, 2011. A specialist in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama and a UT faculty member since 2000, Hirschfeld said she looks […]
Just five months after she graduated from University of California – Santa Cruz with a bachelor’s degree in history, Cynthia Thickpenny received a life-changing phone call. She learned in late November that she had just won a Marshall Scholarship–one of the most prestigious awards that American undergraduates can receive–to study at the University of Glasgow […]
Thomas F.X. Noble, chair of the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected vice president of the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) in 2011 and will become its president in 2012. Noble is a professor of history and former director of the Medieval Institute in Notre Dame’s College of Arts […]
Oxford University has launch a new centre to study the archaeological and cultural heritage of Asia. The Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture, based in the University’s School of Archaeology, was officially opened yesterday and is set to become the only Asia-specialist centre of archaeological research and teaching in Europe. Although Asia has […]
Dr. Maren Clegg-Hyer’s passion for and knowledge of medieval literature is enough to inspire even the most indifferent, clock-watching students. The assistant professor of English has been teaching for about 17 years, the past three of which have been guiding Valdosta State University undergraduates through epic prose. “I fell in love with medieval English literature […]
Dr Simone Celine Marshall has been named one of the 2010 recipients of the University of Otago’s Early Career Awards for Distinction in Research for her work work on medieval literature. The awards are given out by the university for outstanding research achievements and comes with $5000 to support their research and scholarly development. Dr […]
The society aims to focus on how the general public views the Middle Ages through various media, an to interact with authors, filmakers, festival organizers, etc, who help shape the image of medieval society in the contemporary world.
We interview John D. Hosler, associate professor of history at Morgan State University. Professor Hosler talks about going from a graduate student to becoming a tenured professor, and the work a historian needs to do to reach that level. We also talk about his book ‘Henry II: a Medieval Soldier at War, 1147-1189′ and his […]
Undergraduate students attending Winthrop University in South Carolina can now study for a new minor program: medieval studies. Approved in April 2009, the 18-hour interdisciplinary minor offers three dozen courses – both existing and newly created – that are particularly useful to students studying fields such as history; English; political science; philosophy and religious studies; […]
Peter Mack, Professor of English at the University Warwick, has been appointed as the new Director of the Warburg Institute at the University of London. He will begins his appointment on October 1, 2010, overseeing one of the most important academic institutions for the study of the influence of classical antiquity on all aspects of […]
Discusses the famous writers J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and the influence of medievalism on their storytelling.
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