The Program in Medieval Studies combines the best aspects of an interdisciplinary program with the focused training required for academic careers in a variety of traditional disciplines. The program’s faculty members are drawn from nearly every humanities department at Cornell, offering expertise in disciplines and area studies spanning more than a millennium of languages and cultures—from Old and Middle English literature to Byzantine monuments, from Icelandic sagas to Andalusian architecture, from medieval Latin literature and philosophy to Islamic legal history.
Upcoming Medieval Studies Events
New Books from Program Faculty
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Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics
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Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Towards a Critical Historiography
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Kuśiññe Kantwo: Elementary Lessons in Tocharian B
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Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies between Magic and Science
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Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us
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The Byzantine Neighbourhood
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Veronica Franco in Dialogue
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Iberian Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and the Tropes of Exceptionalism