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American Dark Age
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3rd Annual Lux Veritatis Lecture & Reception ~ Join us on Thursday, September 10th at 5pm

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How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkers

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the future of the medieval past is in your hands

the medieval past is in your hands

Medieval Studies Event Calendar

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Medieval Studies News

Michael Zimmerman -- Triple Major in Medieval Studies, History, and Classics -- Featured in New Video
Michael Zimmerman ('27) plays a featured role in a new short video made by LAS
Medieval Studies Research Lab
The Program in Medieval Studies has recieved a PURSUE Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to find a pilot program offering paid research opportunities to undergraduates.  The proposal process was led by...
Kalani Craig receives Cohen Innovation Award for digital and public history project
Medievalist and historian Professor Kalani Craig is one of eleven faculty members across campus to receive the Cohen Innovation Award from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.The...
Keidrick Roy to deliver 3rd annual Lux Veritatis Lecture on September 10, 2026
 Join us for this public lecture -- and reception to follow -- at the Levis Faculty Center on Thursday, September 10th from 5:00-7:00 pm.  We welcome Keidrick Roy,...
New book by James Pilgrim reveals how early modern Italian painters shaped and were shaped by their environments
The University of Chicago press has just published Pastoral’s End: Art, Ecology, and Catastrophe in Renaissance Italy, Prof....
Warren Brown lays out the stakes of our new Merovingian manuscript acquisition
In 2025, our Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired an extraordinarily rare manuscript fragment: a leaf from an administrative book made at one of the oldest medieval monasteries, the Abbey of St. Martin at Tours in Merovingian Gaul (France) and dating to the 7th century. It was later reinforced...
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The Program in Medieval Studies offers a robust slate of events to pique all kinds of interests. Our mission is to foster the interdisciplinary and collaborative study of histories, literatures, languages, beliefs, ideas, arts, environments, and archaeologies across the medieval globe. 

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Alumni/ae News Spotlight

James Terrasi (B.A. Medieval Studies and History)

James Terrasi graduated in 2022 with a major in both Medieval Studies and History. His History honors thesis (advised by Carol Symes and examined by Eleanora Stoppino and Brian Walters) provided a new translation and analysis of the Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum, an anonymous account of the First Crusade. In the autumn of 2022, he began a Master's program in Medieval Studies at Fordham University, where he developed an interest in the social and economic history of the medieval Mediterranean. At Fordham, he had the opportunity to do archival work in...