Metadata
Title
Welcome to the Centre for Medieval Studies
Category
general
UUID
baff4175ef9a4bc89ab304d5d630cb9b
Source URL
https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/
Parent URL
https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/
Crawl Time
2026-03-20T07:14:52+00:00
Rendered Raw Markdown

Welcome to the Centre for Medieval Studies

Source: https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/ Parent: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/

Welcome to the Centre for Medieval Studies

World views: Liber Floridus (Ghent University Library, MS 92, fols 226'v-226"r)

We're based in the historic Heslington Hall

York: a great medieval city

Viking ships by the River Ouse

The Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) at the University of York was founded in 1968 and 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.

## MA

## PhD

## Research

Events

Mon

23

Mar

Control Issues: Music and Sexuality in thirteenth-century Legal, Doctrinal, and Literary Discourses

6.00PM, Online

Professor Matthew Thomson (University College Dublin)

Wed

25

Mar

Dante Day - exhibition and poetry reading

4.00PM, Yorkshire Room in the Borthwick Institute for Archives followed by poetry reading in H/G21, Heslington Hall

Prof. Maria Giovanna Fadiga, the Cultural Director of Imago & Kimberly Campanello

Thu

16

Apr

A Medievalist at the Natural History Museum

1.00PM, SLB/005, Spring Lane Building

Dr Isabel Davis (Natural History Museum, London)

More events.

News

BBC Sounds In Our Time - Margaret Beaufort

Tuesday 17 March 2026

Two CMS graduates appear on the latest episode


Alumni job news

Thursday 12 March 2026

Becca Drake has just started working with Senate House as their Printer in Residence.


Publication News - Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern

Sunday 8 March 2026

Congratulations to Emma Nuding, who’s new book is now out!


View our news archive.

Follow us

Facebook

YouTube

Instagram

Bluesky