The best aspects of an interdisciplinary program with the focused training required for academic careers

Academics

Since 1966, Cornell’s Program in Medieval Studies has combined 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 are drawn from nearly every humanities department at Cornell; together, they offer expertise in a wide array of disciplines and area studies spanning more than a millennium of languages and cultures—from Old and Middle English literature to Byzantine monuments; from Viking studies to Andalusian architecture; from Chinese intellectual history to Islamic legal history.

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Student Groups

The Medieval Studies Graduate Association is an independent entity. Its funds are purely and wholly for the disposal of its own working brief. The MSGA is dedicated to being a forum for sustained discussion and debate within the student medievalist body on campus and to strengthening connectivity between these students.

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Quodlibet provides a lively forum for all those interested in all things medieval on campus, and organizes a series of lectures to highlight current research topics relating to medieval studies.

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Medieval Language Reading Groups

Spring 2024

Language	Day and time (all times listed as Eastern/Ithaca time)	Location	Group leaders
Latin	Mondays, 2-3pm Starts 12 February	Klarman G44	Andrew Hicks (ajh299)
Old French	Mondays, 3-4pm Starts 5 February	Feb 5: Olin Library 402 Feb 12 -- end of semester: Klarman G44	Thari Zweers (tlz5) Chiara Visentin (cv284)
Old English	Biweekly*, Thursdays, 11am - noon	Zoom (email Lisa or Lars for the link)	Lisa Camp (lc939) Lars Johnson (log6)
Middle English	Biweekly*, Fridays, 5-6pm	Zoom (email Lisa or Ryan for the link)	Lisa Camp (lc939) Ryan Randle (rar348)
Old Norse Icelandic	Wednesdays, 4-5pm	Zoom (email Tom Hill for link)	Tom Hill (tdh1)