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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 (MSGA) 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

The Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC) is an independent organization dedicated to showcasing the ideas and research of the medievalist graduate student community at Cornell and the wider world, and to strengthening the connectivity between these medievalists.   

Click here for more details on the Medieval Studies Student Colloquium

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 2025 

LanguageDay and time (all times listed as Eastern/Ithaca time)LocationGroup leaders
LatinThursdays at 3-4pm

Material Culture Lab

Goldwin Smith GM09

Andrew Hicks (ajh299)

Paul Vinhage (pav47)

Old FrenchWednesdays at 3 - 4pmGoldwin Smith Hall 160Chiara Visentin (cv284)
Old EnglishFridays at 10:30 - 11:30amOlin Library 603

Hunter Phillips (hap48)

Lars Johnson (log6)

Middle English

Thursdays at 1:30-2:30pm

First meeting: Jan 30

White Hall 114

Ryanne Berry (rrb247)

Ryan Randle (rar348)

Old Norse IcelandicFridays at 11:30am-12:30pmZoom (email Tom Hill for link)Tom Hill (tdh1)
Dutch

Biweekly Fridays at 10-11am 

First meeting: Feb 7

Rockefeller 187Thari Zweers (tlz5)

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