Welcome to the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
The study of the Middle Ages has long been a major research and teaching interest at the University of St Andrews. The Department of Mediaeval History was founded in 1955, expanding to be the largest of its kind in the world, with a long and illustrious history of excellence in the field. The inter-disciplinary Institute of Mediaeval Studies brings together over thirty full-time academic staff of international standing and a number of research associates. Subjects taught include History (political, religious, social, cultural, legal), Mediaeval languages and Literatures (Arabic, French, Old and Middle English, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Old Norse and Welsh), Art History and Theology. Students can also take modern language classes as needed for their research.
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 the Institute was formally launched with a lecture given by Prof Gerd Althoff of the University of Münster: Forms and Functions of Irony in Medieval Politics. Building on a long tradition of research and teaching on the Middle Ages at St Andrews, the new inter-disciplinary Institute of Mediaeval Studies brings together over thirty full-time academic staff of international standing and a number of research associates.
View Pictures from the launch of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies
NewsAnnual Lecture: Ordinary Beauty in the Middle Ages The Annual Lecture of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies will be delivered by Professor Mary Carruthers on Wednesday 17th February 2010 at 5pm in the New Arts Building Lecture Theatre and will be followed by a reception in the Main Foyer of the New Arts Building. All very welcome! Professor Carruthers is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature and Professor of English at New York University. She is author of several seminal works, including 'The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric and the Making of Images 400-1200' (Cambridge, 1998). While she is in St Andrews Professor Carruthers will lead a workshop on her most famous work, 'The Book of Memory' (Cambridge, 1990. second edition 2008), at 4.15pm on Thursday 18th February in the New Seminar Room, St John's House. All welcome.
DONALD BULLOUGH FELLOWSHIP FOR A MEDIAEVAL HISTORIAN
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Forthcoming EventsMediaeval Studies Research SeminarsMonday, 15th Feb 2010 Nicola Clark (Oxford) At 5.15pm, Old Class Library, St John's House View full Candlemas Semester programme Please visit our conference and seminar pages for a complete list of forthcoming events Gender and Transgression 2010The third annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages will take place in the Institute of Mediaeval Studies from Friday 23rd – Saturday 24th April 2010. This year’s keynote speaker will be Emeritus Professor RI Moore (University of Newcastle). Proposals for papers are now being accepted at genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk. Please see the “Conferences” section of this website for further details. Forthcoming WorkshopDr Katherine Wilson will hold a one day workshop entitled 'The Production, Commercialism and Consumption of Luxury Textiles in Italy and the Burgundian Netherlands c. 1400-1600' in Upper and Lower College Hall, on Friday 30th April 2010. Further details to follow, for more information contact kaw21@st-andrews.ac.uk Award WinnersDr Bettina Bildhauer has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, a prestigious prize by the Leverhulme Trust. She will be working on the German late Middle Ages and the way they are perceived in modernity.
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Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
University of St Andrews
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St Andrews
Fife
KY16 9QW
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