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With NEH and Fulbright Grants, Irish Language and Literature Assistant Professor and Medievalist Studies Poetics of Irish Places

January 09, 2017

Amy Mulligan, assistant professor of Irish language and literature and fellow of the Medieval Institute,...

Professor Launches Project to Advance Scientific and Theological Literacy among Madrasa Graduates in India

January 02, 2017

With a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic...

Medievalist Fellow and Colleague Honored for Career Contributions to Department of Film, Television, and Theatre

December 19, 2016

Two faculty members and former chairs who were instrumental in the development of the Department...

Medieval Institute Fellow and Program of Liberal Studies Associate Professor Wins Fellowship to Further Research on Renaissance Intellectual

December 12, 2016

Robert Goulding, Medieval Institute fellow and an associate professor in Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal...

Classics Scholar Traces History of Saint Augustine's Words

December 07, 2016

Augustine of Hippo is recognized as one of the most important church fathers and greatest...

Theology Professor and Medievalist Fellow Uses NEH Fellowship to Research Qur’an’s Portrayal of God’s Vengeance and Mercy

December 05, 2016

The Qur’an describes God as a god of mercy. The Qur’an describes God as a...

Professor Michael Bailey Lectures on Magic and Religion in the Middle Ages

November 30, 2016

On November 17th, the Medieval Institute was pleased to welcome guest speaker Michael Bailey, Professor of History...

Philosopher Wins Article Prize for Research on Aquinas, Abstractionism

November 28, 2016

How do we form abstract concepts—like “dog”—given that we only experience concrete, particular objects—like “Fido”?...

James Morton Begins Byzantine Series with a Seminar on Byzantine Canon Law in the Latin West

November 23, 2016

The Medieval Institute welcomed guest speaker James Morton, Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of...

Alumna of the Medieval Institute, Prof. Rachel Koopmans, Elected to the Royal Society of Canada

November 21, 2016

Rachel Koopmans, Associate Professor of History at the University of York in Toronto and a...

Dr. Nicola Polloni Speaks on "Translation and Appropriation: Necromancy, Astrology, Alchemy" at the Medieval Institute's Brown-Bag Seminar Series

November 16, 2016

The Medieval Institute gladly welcomed invited speaker Nicola Polloni, M.A., Ph.D, a Junior Research Fellow...

Two Arts and Letters Graduate Students Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

November 14, 2016

Graduate students Filippo Gianferrari and Adriana Monica Solomon have been awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships...

Margot E. Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy and Director of Sacred Music at Notre Dame, has been elected an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society.

November 11, 2016

Margot E. Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy and Director of Sacred Music...

Professor Peter Robinson Lectures on the Text of the Canterbury Tales at the Medieval Institute

November 07, 2016

The Medieval Institute welcomed guest speaker Peter Robinson, Bateman Professor of English at the University...

Video: Medieval studies major illustrates the story of Charlemagne's elephant

November 01, 2016

"Elephant and Castle" fresco, 12th C, San Baudelio de Berlanga, Museo del Prado When honors...

Three Questions with Medievalist and Latino Theologian Peter J. Casarella

October 26, 2016

Peter Casarella, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and interim director of...

The Medieval Institute Welcomes Professor Emeritus William J. Courtenay, This Year's Annual Conway Lecturer

October 14, 2016

The Medieval Institute was pleased to welcome this year's annual Conway Lecturer, William J. Courtenay,...

Two Medievalist Graduate Students Win Fulbright Awards in Record-Breaking Year

October 04, 2016

From investigating the lives of medieval Islamic scholars to studying 15th-century manuscripts from the confessors...

English professor wins ACLS fellowship to study medieval marginalia

September 07, 2016

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton studies medieval texts, many of them on sheepskins and fragile after hundreds of...

Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute Names Thomas E. Burman New Director

August 04, 2016

Thomas E. Burman, an esteemed scholar of medieval Christianity and Islam, has been named the...