The Program in Medieval Studies combines the best aspects of an interdisciplinary program with the focused training required for academic careers in a variety of traditional disciplines. The program’s faculty members are drawn from nearly every humanities department at Cornell, offering expertise in disciplines and area studies spanning more than a millennium of languages and cultures—from Old and Middle English literature to Byzantine monuments, from Icelandic sagas to Andalusian architecture, from medieval Latin literature and philosophy to Islamic legal history.
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Medieval Studies News
Book brings elusive Greek technical writer into focus
Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.
Read more2024 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC): "Subjectivities"
Saturday, March 2 on Zoom
Read moreMedieval Studies faculty lecture, Thursday 15 February
Simone Pinet will give the Romance Studies annual faculty lecture entitled "Silence, Voice, Noise: Sound Scenes from the 'Poem of the Cid'"
Read moreSpring 2024 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable
Select Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm in Olin Library 703
Read moreSophia D'Ignazio, Ph.D. 2022, publishes article in Medieval Feminist Forum
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Women’s Public Language in the 'Old English Apollonius of Tyre'" in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 59, No. 1 (2023).
Read moreZachary Thomas publishes translated edition in the Thomistic Ressourcement Series
Thomas' edition and translation of Fr. Franck Quoëx's "Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas: Sacrifice and Salvation History" has been published as part of the Thomistic Ressourcement Series (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023).
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