About
Meet Us in the Middle Ages: The Crossroads of Everything
Medieval people made the modern world. Greek, Arab, and Latin natural philosophers built our scientific tradition. European poets and story-tellers invented vernacular literature while reading classical poetry and Middle-Eastern frame tales. Rabbis, priests, and imams—as they talked, and squabbled, with each other—constructed our religious traditions. Our representative democracies and university systems are essentially medieval institutions.
Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute, with fifty faculty fellows from thirteen different departments and an unparalleled library and growing manuscript collection, is the nation’s largest and most prestigious center for understanding the Middle Ages. Our conferences and lecture series bring the world’s leading scholars to campus, while our graduate and undergraduate programs train future medieval scholars and leaders in all walks of life.
Join us all—faculty, students, visiting fellows, friends and supporters—at this historical crossroads: help us explore it, map it, and make it known in our research, teaching, and community engagement.
Belonging and Engagement
Partners
- College of Arts & Letters
- Byzantine Studies
- Center for Italian Studies
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of Art, Art History, and Design
- Department of Classics
- Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Department of English
- Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
- Department of German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies
- Department of History
- Department of Music
- Sacred Music at Notre Dame
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
- Department of Theology
- Devers Program in Dante Studies
- Gender Studies Program
- History of Philosophy Forum
- Program of Liberal Studies
- The Program in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies
- Nanovic Institute for European Studies
- Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
- Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
- Hesburgh Libraries
- Notre Dame London
- Notre Dame Rome
- Notre Dame Jerusalem
- Notre Dame Dublin
- Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
- Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
- Workshop on Ancient Philosophy