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Welcome to our new Ph.D. Students

August 12, 2020

The start of a new school year brings us the opportunity to warmly welcome our incoming Ph.D....

Welcome Back to the Medieval Institute

August 10, 2020

Though we're all keenly aware that this semester is a little (or a lot) different,...

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Religion & Literature 51.1 Features ND Alumni and Special Forum on Old English Literature

July 27, 2020

Manuscript leaf showing the Last Judgement (London, British Library, Stowe MS 944, fol. 7r). From...

Congratulations to MI Faculty Fellows on Milestones and Promotions

July 13, 2020

Each summer the Office of the Provost at the University of Notre Dame publishes a...

Medieval Institute DGS receives Outstanding Mentor Award from the GSU

June 29, 2020

Professor C. J. Jones, Director of Graduate Studies Congratulations to Medieval Institute Director of Graduate...

Prayer For Unity Walk For Justice Mc 17 Feature

Notre Dame community gathers in support of unity and racial justice

June 15, 2020

With the image of “Christ the Teacher” on the south façade of Hesburgh Library as...

Medieval Cheesemaking with Leslie Lockett

June 01, 2020

Leslie Lockett, Ph.D. '04 In Fall 2018, the Medieval Institute published an Alumni Spotlight feature on...

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Congratulations to our 2020 Graduates

May 18, 2020

Each May the Medieval Institute conducts an intimate, all-Latin graduation ceremony in the atmospheric Alumni...

Three Cheers for Our Graduate Students!

May 11, 2020

The university may be closed for on-campus activities at present, but our graduate students are...

From the Medieval Studies Research Blog: "Theodore Metochites’s 'Lament on Human Life,' A Later Byzantine Perspective on the Anxiety of 'Instability'"

May 06, 2020

Alas, alas, Life, you monstrous thing replete with every kind of misfortune, breeder of misfortune,...

ND Medievalists Win Awards from ACIS

May 04, 2020

The Medieval Institute is pleased to congratulate MI Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Irish Language and...

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Medieval Studies Major Leads to Successful Career Outcomes

April 29, 2020

Undergraduate students who complete a major in Medieval Studies here at the most renowned center...

From the Medieval Studies Research Blog: "Internet Trolls: Monsters Haunting the World Wide Web"

April 27, 2020

In continuing our previous conversation surrounding the semantics of trǫll in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, and the evolution...

Medieval Bible Features Prominently in McGrath Institute MOOC

April 22, 2020

Beginning Ash Wednesday, February 26, and continuing until Pentecost Sunday, May 31, the McGrath Institute for Church...

MI Faculty Fellow's New Book Selected as Feminae Translation of the Month

April 20, 2020

Women’s History in the Age of Reformation: Johannes Meyer’s Chronicle of the Dominican Observance (PIMS, 2019)...

VIDEO: Flash Interview with Medieval Institute Ph.D. candidate Carlos Diego Arenas Pacheco

April 15, 2020

Meet Carlos Diego Arenas Pacheco, a medievalist and Ph.D. candidate here at the Medieval Institute, and...

MI Alumna Appointed to New Papal Commission to Study Women Deacons

April 13, 2020

Dr. Catherine Brown Tkacz. Photo: Ukrainian Catholic University The Medieval Institute is pleased to congratulate...

How to be a Stay-at-Home Medievalist

April 08, 2020

Are you under a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order? We've got you covered! The Medieval Institute might...

‘We are all in this together’: How A&L faculty rapidly adapted their courses for distance learning

April 06, 2020

From philosophy to musical theatre to economics, Arts and Letters faculty are using technological innovations...

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From the Medieval Studies Research Blog: "Dragonomics: Smaug and Climate Change"

April 01, 2020

‘Dragon Hoard,’ Stephen Hickman (1985). Today, we talk about dragons. I refer specifically to the...