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 a restaging of one two plays which we contributed to a production of the Corpus Christi Cycle at the...
2025-09-29 - Our awesome new sticker!
2025-09-18 - For centuries, syphilis and other treponemal diseases (bejel and yaws) were understood as “New World” exports, brought to Afro-Eurasia as part of the Columbian Exchange after 1492. But recent paleopathology and aDNA studies have demonstrated the presence of these diseases in the “Old World,” too, while Dr. Salmon’s own...
2025-09-01 - Our medieval acting troupe of Illinois students, faculty, staff, and alumni participated in an epic production of the Corpus Christi Cycle at...
2025-09-01 - We are delighted that Kalani Craig has joined us as a faculty affiliate in Medieval Studies! 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 history, and network analysis to explore conflict in medieval European history and trains students and...
2025-05-14 - 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 Remaking of the Silk Road (Princeton University Press, 2023), re-...
2024-12-17 - 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 Program in Medieval Studies at Illinois: Carol Symes (History), D. Fairchild Ruggles (Islamic Art...
2024-10-15 - This fall, we are thrilled to have added thirteen new faculty to the Program in Medieval Studies: scholars from the fields of Anthropology, Art History, Classics, English, History, Library and Information...
2024-04-12 - 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.
2024-04-10 - Prof. Padraic Rohan -- Transforming Empire: The Genoese from the Crusades to Columbus
2024-04-05 - Medieval Black London: The Before Lives of the Archive of Transatlantic Slavery
2024-03-13 - Prof. Gian Piero Persiani: Readers, Recipients, and Fans of Poetry in Tenth-Century, Courtly Japan
2023-10-31 - On August 15, 2023, Brepols released a new book: Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature: Studies in Honor of Charles D. Wright. For 32 years, Professor Charlie Wright taught in the English department at the University of Illinois, serving as Associate Head of English from 1995 to 1997 and the Director of Medieval Studies from 2011 to 2015. His wide-ranging...
2023-04-21 - On April 21, 2023, Medieval Studies partnered with the Spurlock Museum for a film screening and falconry demonstration, and attendees flocked to the event! Local falconry enthusiasts joined the Medieval Studies community for a screening of the 2020 documentary film Overland, as well as a talkback with the film's director, Revere...