Faculty

Faculty specializing in Medieval Studies are drawn from

Courses

Resources

  • → Strozier Library
    • The Strozier Library has an extensive collection of critical materials for medievalists.
  • → Special Collections
    • Special Collections at FSU has an impressive array of medieval manuscript materials, early printed books, and wonderful collections, such as the entire Kelmscott Press publications, including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
  • → Ringling Museum of Art
    • John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is an extraordinary resource for medievalists.
  • → Microforms
    • Extensive collections of microfiche, microfilm, and digital reproductions of manuscripts and medieval art are held by the FSU Library.
  • → Facsimiles

Conferences

Student Organization

Contact: Elaine Treharne
English Department
Florida State University
422 Williams Building
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1580

Phone: 850 644 5191
Fax: 850 644 0811


 
 

Medieval Studies at Florida State University

Medieval Studies at Florida State University is a growing and dynamic area of teaching and research. Colleagues in Departments in the Colleges of Arts and Science, Fine Arts, and Communications contribute to the promotion of interdisciplinary research into the Middle Ages (c. 400-1500), teaching a wide variety of courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and supervising numerous masters' and doctoral dissertations in all areas of the field. The subjects taught include Archaeology, Art and Architectural History, Book History, History (social, economic, political, ecclesiastical, intellectual and gender), Language and Literature (including Old and Middle English, Old Norse, Medieval Welsh, Middle Dutch, Classical and Medieval Latin, Church Slavic/Old Russian, Spanish, Italian, Insular French and French), Manuscript Studies (including British and Continental palaeography, codicology, and illumination), and Musicology.


 

Upcoming Events

PROFESSOR GREG WALKER
Masson Professor, University of Edinburgh
MEDIEVAL PUBLICATIONS' SEMINAR, OCTOBER 16TH, 2008, 4PM

PROFESSOR PAMELA SHEINGORN
Professor of History, Medieval Studies and Theatre Graduate Center, CUNY
ART HISTORY ANNUAL LECTURE, OCTOBER 17TH, 2008

PROFESSOR DONALD SCRAGG
Professor Emeritus of Anglo-Saxon Studies University of Manchester
MEDIEVAL PUBLICATIONS' WORKSHOP AND LECTURE, JANUARY 13TH-14TH, 2009

DR CHRIS JONES
Professor, English Poetry, St Andrew's University
MEDIEVAL PUBLICATIONS' WORKSHOP & POETRY READING MARCH 3RD-4TH, 2009

PROFESSOR PAUL STROHM
Anna Garbedian Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
MEDIEVAL PUBLICATIONS' WORKSHOP, MARCH 29TH, 2009

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS WORKSHOP
The Making of Books and Inks
FEBRUARY, 2009

VAGANTES
The Eighth Annual Medieval Conference
MARCH 5TH-7TH, 2009

And watch out for: FSU.ORG (Florida State University Outside Reading Group presents 'The Sonnet')


 

News

Nancy Bradley Warren has been promoted to a full Professor. Congratulations, Nancy! She also recently gave a lecture at the University of Tennessee MARCO symposium. The talk was entitled 'Words Made Flesh, Flesh Made Words: Julian of Norwich and Her Legacies in Early Modern English Religious Cultures'.

Rick Emmerson recently gave a lecture at Princeton University entitled '"Visualizing the Visionary: John in his Apocalypse." He has also just been elected to the Board of Advisors to the International Center for Medieval Art and appointed chair of its Publications Committee.

Elaine Treharne has been elected an Obermann Scholar by the University of Iowa, for its Obermann Center Summer 2008 Research Seminar on 'Medieval Manuscript Studies and Contemporary Book Arts: Extreme Materialist Readings of Medieval Books'. She has also been elected as a Member of The Bibliographical Society.

Anne Coldiron participated in an NEH summer seminar for professors on the History of the Book 1450-1700. The group worked in archives and at early presses in Antwerp, Brussels, London, and Oxford.