Sewanee Medieval Studies

04/01/2017

Good luck to Will Salzer, comping in Medieval Studies!

06/18/2016

New website and information coming soon!

10/07/2013

Please check out the new website for the 2014 Sewanee Medieval Colloquium: http://medievalcolloquium.sewanee.edu/

Plenary Speakers: William M. Reddy , Duke University, and Miri Rubin , Queen Mary, University of London Roundtable: "Scholastic Emotions," chaired by Mark D. Jordan , Washington University, St. Louis This conference will explore the place of emotions in medieval culture, history, literature, philoso...

05/31/2013

Hopefully, this won't be behind a firewall - going abroad changes your brain (as does learning a foreign language). And in good ways!

People who study overseas say the experience changes lives. A Ph.D. candidate agrees and puts the effect in neurological terms: It "rewires the brain."

03/31/2013

It is International Hug a Medievalist Day!

Check out the mention in the New Yorker, and hug a medievalist!

02/15/2013

Check out the Beowulf manuscript, now free online through the British Library!

The manuscript of Beowulf, the greatest poem in the Old English language, can now be viewed online for the first time. Made around the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready (978-1016), this manuscript committed to parchment a tale that (in some modern scholars' opinion...

01/15/2013

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce its Third Annual Undergraduate Conference entitled “Corpus: the Body in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.” The conference will take place on April 19, 2013 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We are currently welcoming abstracts from interested undergraduates.

Please see the attached call for papers. Submissions should be postmarked no later than February 4, 2013.

Thank you in advance for your consideration and help in publicizing the 2013 Marco Undergraduate Conference with colleagues and in your classes! More information is forthcoming online at http://web.utk.edu/~marco.

Please contact conference organizer Matthew Ylitalo at [email protected] or [email protected] with additional questions.

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies evolved out of the very successful interdisciplinary program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

12/18/2012

Welcome home, Jordan Sharpe, Ellen Doster, and Clara Wild! They have spent the last semester at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Oxford University. If you are interested in spending a semester at Oxford, please contact Dr. Irvin or Dr. Ridyard, and look at the information linked below. Sewanee usually has about 3 spots per year.

The Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies was founded in 1975 by Drs John and Sandy Feneley: first, to establish in Oxford a permanent institute for the interdisciplinary study of the medieval, Renaissance and early modern periods; second, to provide an academic training for overseas students wh...

11/30/2012

Interested in medieval languages? The University of Texas, Austin has online tutorials for Old English, Old French, Old Norse, Old Church Slavonic, and many more!

Early Indo-European Online. These online Language Introductions are designed to provide the ability to read early Indo-European texts, with or without the help of translations.

10/19/2012

Read this before applying to grad school. It is a tough market out there.

Many people with master's degrees and Ph.D.'s are surviving on government assistance, and their numbers are rising fast.

10/04/2012

There is interest brewing in a Classics House on campus - please check out the Sewanee Classics Page or contact Nathan Stewart if interested.

09/26/2012

Seniors! Please take a look at this opportunity to do your postgrad work at Cambridge!

Gates Cambridge Scholarships are highly-competitive full-cost awards open to students from every country of the world (except the United Kingdom) to pursue graduate study or research at the University of Cambridge. About 100 Gates Cambridge Scholarships are offered each year to students of exception...