Francisco Cintrón Mattei Wins the Grand Prize in the Middle Ages for Educators Sweet 16 Competition March 24, 2025 Francisco J. Cintrón Mattei, PhD Candidate, Medieval Institute, University…
New From the Research Blog: "From Grendelkin to the NorthFolk NightMarket: Storytelling, Wintering and an Immersive Dramatization of Beowulf" March 10, 2025 …
New From the Medieval Research Blog: "The Anti-Latin Polemic of Metropolitan Ephraim of Kiev" March 05, 2025 St. Peter of Antioch,…
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Epithets, Epistles, and Erasmus, Oh my [most serene king of Britain]!" February 05, 2025 Detail, Two Studies of the Left Hand of Erasmus…
From the Medieval Research Blog: "'Dressing Up': Medieval Fables, Fashion, and Social Instability" November 18, 2024 Woodcut of The Ass and the Lion Skin, from a 1479 incunabulum of Heinrich Steinhöwel’s...
From the MI Podcast: "Taking 'Eating Your Words' Literally," with Dr. Katherine Storm Hindley November 11, 2024 Listen…
Medieval Sites in Italy, Syria, Turkey and Vietnam added to World Heritage List October 16, 2024 From Medievalists.net: Ruins from a Late Antique and Medieval town Twenty-five…
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Poetry as a Quadrivial Art?" September 11, 2024 Coëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop?) (French, active about 1450 – 1485), Philosophy Presenting the Seven...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Medieval Rabbits: Ancient Symbolism, English Migration, and Manuscript Marginalia" June 24, 2024 Roman mosaic depicting a hare, dated to the 4th century and discovered in Cirencester, England....
From the MI Podcast: "Finding Bede with Dr. Michelle P. Brown" (Part 2) May 08, 2024 Listen Now Check out the latest…
From the MI Podcast: "Uncovering Bede's Theory of Everything with Dr. Michelle P. Brown" (Part 1) May 06, 2024 Listen Now Check out this recent…
MI Podcast Recap on the Blog: "The Exciting Adventures (and Misadventures) of Stained Glass" with Dr. Rachel Koopmans May 01, 2024 This week, we’re looking back at an earlier episode of “Meeting in the Middle Ages.”...
From the MI Podcast: "Trial by Combat with Dr. Mireille J. Pardon" April 03, 2024 Listen Now Check out this recent episode…
Rare Books and Special Collections exhibit manifests Medieval maps February 26, 2024 Mapping the Middle Ages: Marking Time, Space, and Knowledge explores the tension between literal and...
From the MI Podcast: "Touring through Centuries of Philosophy with Dr. Peter Adamson" February 12, 2024 Listen Now Check out this recent episode…
‘A ticking clock’: Ground-based survey research by A&L faculty shows severity of damage to Ukrainian cultural sites, need for urgency January 24, 2024 Ian Kuijt, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, and William Donaruma, a professor of...
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...
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.…
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Imagining the Medieval Bestiary" December 06, 2023 Unicorn from Aberdeen Bestiary…
New Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Opens Dec. 1 December 04, 2023 Download a PDF with images of works of art and the building Opening of new...
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…
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...
A Medievalist's Adventures in TikTok May 30, 2023 Dr. Mireille Pardon, 2022–2023 Mellon Faculty Fellow at the Medieval Institute and Assistant Professor of...
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Medieval Justice: Reconciliation and Revenge in a Fifteenth-century City" April 10, 2023 The following Medieval Research Blog story was written by our 2022–2023 A. W. Mellon Junior...
From the Medieval Research Blog: Longfellow’s Tales of the Wayside Inn: Early American Medievalism and Ethnonationalism March 20, 2023 American mythology is filled with larger-than-life figures, like the axe-wielding Paul Bunyan and the rattlesnake-handling...
Fellow Organizes Pilgrimage for Healing and Liberation March 06, 2023 Medieval Institute Public Humanities Fellow Annie Killian, Ph.D., has organized a series of spring-semester events...
From the MI Podcast: "Crossing Religious Borders" with Spencer Hunt February 27, 2023 Listen Now Check out this…
From the Medieval Research Blog: "Wolves and Ravens and Bears, Oh My! The Northman and the Beasts of Battle" December 19, 2022 King Aurvandill and young Hamleth take part in Heimir the Fool’s animalistic ritual in The...
