Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Davis-Secord (Ph.D.'07) March 18, 2024 Professor Sarah Davis-Secord (Photo Credit: Dan Komoda, Institute for Advanced Study) The Medieval Institute is...
Don't miss these special events at MAA 2024! March 06, 2024 The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place next Thursday...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "The Stag and the Dogs: A Medieval Fable" February 21, 2024 Hunters with dogs pursuing a deer, Getty Museum MS 27, f.67v. Fables—short moralized narratives, often...
Home Chapels Are Blessing Backyards Across America February 14, 2024 WSJ: Over the past three decades, chapels have gained in popularity with modern-day homeowners. Photo:...
From the MI Podcast: "Touring through Centuries of Philosophy with Dr. Peter Adamson" February 12, 2024 Listen Now Check out this recent episode of Meeting in the Middle Ages, the Medieval...
Lessons for senior living community design from medieval Flanders February 07, 2024 Ashley Straub ’24 is a B.A. student at the University of Notre Dame majoring in...
MAA 2024 at Notre Dame January 31, 2024 The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place in South...
VIDEO: "Game Day 2023: Irish Dance (Ceíli) Tailgate" January 22, 2024 Earlier this fall, the Medieval Institute and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies co-hosted a...
Welcome Back! January 17, 2024 Welcome back to our faculty, students, and staff, for another semester together! We hope...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Aglæca: Awesome Opponent or Uncanny Invader?" January 15, 2024 Beowulf Manuscript, atol æglæca “terrible æglæca” BL, Cotton Vitellius a.vx. f145v. One of the most...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "The Quadrivium and the Stakes for Ordering the Mathematical Arts" January 08, 2024 Fyodor Bronnikov, Pythagoreans’ Hymn to the Rising Sun, 1869. Oil on canvas. Legend has it...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Imagining the Medieval Bestiary" December 06, 2023 Unicorn from Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Library MS 24, f15r). Medieval bestiaries, which flourished...
Winter School in Latin Paleography and Codicology in Rome November 29, 2023 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana What better place to learn about the Latin paleography and codicology than...
From the MI Podcast: "Discussing Donkeys in Lion-Suits with Dr. Emily Mahan" November 27, 2023 Listen Now Check out this recent episode of Meeting in the Middle Ages, the Medieval...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Aþum Swerian: Swearers of Oaths?" November 20, 2023 Beowulf is a story about a doomed people who are destined for annihilation as a...
VIDEO: "Meeting in the Middle Ages" November 13, 2023 Have you wanted to learn more about the Medieval Institute's podcast, Meeting in the Middle...
Alumni Spotlight: Shannon Dunne (B.A. '98) November 06, 2023 Irish Dance Performer Shannon Dunne The Medieval Institute is pleased to present our Fall 2023...
From ABC57 News: "Creepy Chronicles: Notre Dame's rare books collection" October 30, 2023 From ABC57 Watch the video The Hesburgh Library Rare Books and Special Collections includes handwritten...
Call for Proposals for Speculations, The Centennial Issue of Speculum October 23, 2023 From the Medieval Academy of America Call for Proposals for Speculations: The Centennial Issue of...
From the MI Podcast: "Leaving the Beaten Path with Dr. Andrea Roboglio" October 09, 2023 Listen Now Check out this recent episode of Meeting in the Middle Ages, the Medieval...
(Bloomberg) Denmark’s First Viking Queen Was Likely More Powerful Than the King, Research Finds October 04, 2023 The Jelling Stones in Jelling, Denmark; photo taken by Casiopeia and used under a Creative...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Gendering the Harpy: Mythology, Medievalism, and Macabre Femininity" October 02, 2023 Inside one of the chambers of the Capuchin Crypt in Rome, Italy, courtesy of the...
From the MI Podcast: Medieval Vistion Quests with Dr. Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan) September 20, 2023 Listen Now Check out the two most recent episodes of Meeting in the Middle Ages, the...
Notre Dame medievalist community shines in fellowships, publications, and research September 18, 2023 MI door logo As we start a new year, we look back over the summer...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Longfellow’s Christianizing Rhetoric: ‘Preached the Gospel with His Sword’" September 13, 2023 Miniature of Olaf Tryggvason in Flateyjarbók (1387). Henry Longfellow’s “Musician’s Tale: The Saga of King...
Courtney Luckhardt (Ph.D. '11) Wins Prestigious Fellowship in Tübingen September 11, 2023 In July we posted the great news that one of our Ph.D. candidates, Jeffrey Berland,...
Join us for the 2023 Conway Lectures! September 06, 2023 Each Fall, the Medieval Institute hosts the Conway Lectures, a lecture series that brings senior...
VIDEO: AI Meets Medieval Studies at Notre Dame September 04, 2023 "The amount of writing produced on physical media since antiquity is staggering, and very little...
New MAA Podcast on "The Multicultural Middle Ages" August 30, 2023 This year, the Medieval Academy of America launched an exciting new podcast: The Multicultural Middle...