The Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) at the University of York is one of the world’s leading centres for postgraduate study and research into the Middle Ages.
Our vision of medieval studies situates world-leading expertise on the European Middle Ages, 400-1550, within a wider Afro-Eurasian framework, with current concentrations of excellence in medieval England and its neighbours, the built environment, religion and dissent, gender and sexuality, Viking studies and Islamic cultures.
We draw upon expertise from the departments of Archaeology, English and Related Literature, History and History of Art, as well as from Computer Science, Language and Linguistic Sciences, Music and Physics. Our teaching and research is shaped by long experience of innovative interdisciplinary collaboration, extending across the Humanities to the Natural Sciences.
We are a welcoming and supportive community, fully committed to diversity and inclusivity in our study of the Middle Ages.
‘How I miss the good times we have lost': fourteenth-century longing for the past
5.30PM, K/133, King's Manor, University of York, YO1 7EP Hybrid Event
Dr Hannah Skoda (St John’s College, Oxford)
“The 'British Problem' and Late Medieval Urban History”
1.00PM, V/N/123
Dr Eliza Hartrich, Department of History/CMS
Stained Glass Masterclass 2024
10.00AM, The Huntingdon Room, King's Manor, University of York
Friday 8 March 2024
N/EMICS Interdisciplinary Conference, June 1-2, 2024. Invitation for 20-minute papers relating to the theme of texture.
Thursday 7 March 2024
We are delighted to announce that Eleanor Johnson (MA in Medieval Archaeology) has won the Richard III Society Dissertation Prize for the best 2022-3 MA dissertation submitted on a topic relevant to the period of Richard III.
Friday 1 March 2024
Two new books from York Medieval Press’ Health & Healing in the Middle Ages series
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