2026-10-27 - Read the whole fascinating story here.In August 1995, professor Ralph Mathisen was on a road trip from Vienna to Oxford...
2026-10-27 - You can now view Professor Brown's lecture ...
2026-10-26 - Read more about Professor Craig's dynamic project here. Medievalist and historian Professor...
2026-10-24 - Host and game master Erdinç Ofli challenges contendersOn Friday, October 23rd, a keen group of medievalists gathered for pizza and a test of their trivia wits in a contest devised by graduate students Erdinç Ofli, T.J. Marko, Jose Barrett, and Kara Stogsdill. The prize was undying...
2026-10-22 - The journal French Historical Studies has released a curated issue of past articles influenced by the work and legacy of Marc Bloch (1886-1944): the great historian of medieval Europe and a leader of the French Resistance who was arrested in Lyon by the Gestapo on 8 March 1944, tortured,...
2026-08-17 - Michael Zimmerman ('27) plays a featured role in a new short video made by LAS.
2026-08-14 - 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...
2026-08-03 - 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,...
2026-07-30 - The University of Chicago press has just published Pastoral’s End: Art, Ecology, and Catastrophe in Renaissance Italy, Prof....
2026-02-27 - On Thursday, February 26th, we welcomed Prof. Craig Perry (Emory University) to campus, where his presentation drew a large, attentive crowd to learn about his new book: a global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish...
2025-11-19 - The shortlist for the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies has been named. The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs administers this...
2025-11-09 - Visiting scholar Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) drew a large audience to his fascinating talk on the records produced by public notaries in late-medieval Provence. As he showed, virtually all social and economic relations could be guaranteed by a notarial act by the end of the fourteenth...
2025-10-08 - Our medieval acting troupe of Illinois students, faculty, staff, and alumni restaged The Road to Calvary on Saturday, October 4th: a black comedy about bumbling soldiers tasked with bringing Jesus and the cross to Calvary, as part of the Humanities Open House. This was...
2025-10-04 - On Friday, October 3rd, Professor Xin Wen enthralled a large audience with an overview of his recent book and then presented a new case study to buttress its argument. That book,...