Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary programme of study administered by the Centre for Medieval Studies. The Centre brings together a significant array of academic talent from a range of disciplines working on medieval-related subjects.
Dr John Gagne, Dr Juanita Ruys, Professor Jonathan Wooding.
History, School of Humanities (SOH)
Masters/PHD
Academic staff have expertise in a broad range of areas, including medieval history and archaeology, religion and myth, music, art and sculpture, languages and literatures. Discipline areas include: Arabic, Art History, Byzantine Studies, English, French, German, History, Islamic Studies, Italian, Jewish Studies, Medieval Latin, Music, and Religious Studies. Academic staff have been remarkably successful in obtaining research grants. Over 16 Members of the Centre have held research grants of one kind or another, some more than once, in the period 1997-2007. They have also published prolifically, producing over 50 books in the same period. The Centre also has its own publications series, Making the Middle Ages, which to date has published eight volumes. It currently has two postgraduate students and two postdoctoral research fellows who are conducting significant projects on Medieval Cosmology and on Medieval Latin Literature.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 477