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

Lecture and Workshop - Professor Cynthia Brown
The University of California at Santa Barbara
Thursday, April 10, 5 p.m,
Diffenbaugh 009

"Authorial Identity and Material Culture in Late Medieval French Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: The Enduring Debate about Female Virtues"

Based on the idea that the book is a cultural artifact that contains signs of contemporary harmonies and tensions-between those who commissioned and those who fabricated the book, between authors and book owners, between individual readers and society in general --, I examine a small corpus of 'books in transition' about famous women, those appearing in script and/or print in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century France. My discussion aims to uncover the implicit associations between bookmakers' exploitation of debates about female virtue; new book forms, in particular the printed and hybrid book; and the reconfiguration of the relationships among author, patron, printer-bookseller and reader resulting from the advent of print.

Workshop the following day, Friday, April 11, a.m., Williams Building Common Room, 10.30am-11.30am

"The Transition from Manuscript to Print in Late Medieval France: Rubrics, Signatures, Authorial Images and Textual Modifications."

The workship will revolve around André de la Vigne's La Ressource de la Chrestienté (1494), which entailed a fascinating development concerning lawsuits and the changing verbal and visual image of the author in the different versions of this work dating from the end of the 15th to the early years of the 16th century.

ALL WELCOME!!

Kalamazoo 2008

    At the 43rd International Medieval Congress (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress):
  • Professor Rick Emmerson will give one of the Plenary Lectures to the conference, taking place on Friday, May 9th at 8.30pm, and entitled 'Seeing, Reading and Interpreting the Apocalypse in Complex Medieval Manuscripts'.
  • Professors Lori Walters and Nancy Warren from FSU will give papers at Session 447, sponsored by the History of Text Technologies, entitled 'Textual Cultures, Cultural Texts, 1350-1600'.
  • Professors David Johnson, Elaine Treharne and Rick Emmerson are also involved in numerous other sessions at the conference, as are graduate students, including Ginger Assadi and Carey Fee.


 

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.