Medieval Studies faculty
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. 

Click here for more details on the Medieval Studies Graduate Association

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.

Click here to explore the Quodlibet website

Medieval Language Reading Groups

Spring 2023

Latin Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:30 pm Sibley Hall, 211 Paul Vinhage (pav47)
Old French Biweekly, Tuesdays, 1230 - 130 pm Goldwin Smith Hall 348 Thari Zweers (tlz5)
Old English Biweekly, Thursdays, 1pm (alt with ME) Zoom

Lisa Camp (lc939)

Lars Johnson (log6)
Middle English Biweekly, Thursdays, 1pm (alt with OE) Zoom

Lisa Camp (lc939)

Ryan Randle (rar348)

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The growth rings inside a juniper tree, combined with isotope records, helped researchers pinpoint a likely culprit for the collapse of the Hittite Empire: three straight years of severe drought, approximately 1198–96 BC, in an already dry period.
The growth rings inside a juniper tree, combined with isotope records, helped researchers pinpoint a likely culprit for the collapse of the Hittite Empire: three straight years of severe drought, approximately 1198–96 BC, in an already dry period.

Medieval Studies faculty member, Sturt Manning, published in Nature

Manning and Jed Sparks combined the capabilities of their respective labs, the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory and the Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory (COIL), to scrutinize samples from the Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, a human-made 53-meter-tall structure located west of Ankara, Turkey.

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