We are delighted that Kalani Craig will join us as a faculty affiliate in Medieval Studies in August. Professor Craig's research and teaching specialties converge at the intersection of digital methodologies and medieval history. She uses digital methods like text mining, spatial...

 Xin Wen (文欣) is an historian of medieval China and Inner Asia (PhD Harvard University) and an associate professor in the Departments of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. His first book, the prizewinning The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the...

The newest issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *Volume 100, Number 1* (January 2025), marks the Medieval Academy of America's Centennial with a spotlight on "Medieval Studies and Its Institutions." The lead article is a collaboration among three scholars representing the...

This fall, we are thrilled to have added thirteen new faculty to the Program in Medieval Studies: scholars from...

 Our medieval acting troupe of Illinois students, faculty, staff, and alumni will be participate in an epic production of...

Materia Medica and the Globalization of Knowledge in Early Medieval England Early Medieval England boasts the earliest collection of vernacular medical texts north of the Alps. Many are translations of classical materials; others are native Old English “folk” medicine, charms, prognostics, and...

The Program in Medieval Studies is delighted to congratulate Prof. Hermann von Hesse, whose recent fellowship award will support the research and writing on his book project: Love of Stone Houses: Urban Merchants, Ancestral Spaces and Sacred Objects on Africa’s Gold Coast, 1700-1890.

Medieval Black London: The Before Lives of the Archive of Transatlantic Slavery

Prof. Padraic Rohan -- Transforming Empire: The Genoese from the Crusades to Columbus