Book of Hours, the Netherlands, second half of 15th century Medieval Studies Program Description

Cornell’s Medieval Studies Program is designed to provide students with expertise and professional success in the fields of particular departments, the members of whom will likely form the majority of the students’ Special Committees.  But Medieval Studies also presents graduate students with combinations of scholars in clusters of study that might not be as visible in traditionally defined departmental graduate training.  At the right are listed just some of the possible clusters of graduate study available in Medieval Studies, with the names of members of the Medieval Studies Graduate Field who regularly teach and mentor students in those clusters, and some information about courses or other resources.  For further information about individual faculty listed here, see http://www.arts.cornell.edu/medieval/People/faculty.htm.

This section also contains information for undergraduates and from Cornell University's Procedural Guide for the graduate field of Medieval Studies, in addition to a comprehensive list of the Medieval Studies course offerings since 1993. More information on student life is available under the "People" heading.

Archaeology; Art History; Asian Studies; Celtic Studies; English Literature & Language; Gender & Sexuality Studies; German Studies & Germanic Philology; History; Iberian Peninsula Studies; Latin Language & Literature; Linguistics; Literary & Critical Theory; Musicology; Near Eastern Studies; Old Norse Studies; Paleography & Textual Studies; Philosophy; Romance Literary & Linguistic Studies; Russian Language & Literature

 Cornell University Facilities

Undergraduate Concentration in MS

 Procedural Guide for the Graduate Field of MS

 Course Descriptions



History

Field Members:  Oren Falk, Paul Hyams, John Najemy, Eric Rebillard

The range of courses can in part be seen from individual web sites (e.g., Hyams at http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/disclaimer.html).  Special areas range from Roman and Late Antique (Rebillard) to Vikings and Icelandic Sagas (Falk) to High Medieval England and France, Law and Society (Hyams), Vengeance, Violence, Emotions (Falk and Hyams), Renaissance Italy (Najemy).  Many students also do minors on the Early Modern Period with faculty such as Rachel Weill or Duane Corpis (History).