# Welcome to the Centre for Medieval Studies
**Source**: https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/
**Parent**: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/
- [Centre for Medieval Studies - Home](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/)
- [MA Medieval Studies](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/ma-medieval-studies/)
- [PhD Medieval Studies](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/phd-medieval-studies/)
- [Our staff](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/our-staff/)
- [Our research](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/our-research/)
- [Activities](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/activities/)
- [Resources](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/resources/)
- [Our graduates and careers](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/graduates-and-careers/)
- [York Medieval Press](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/york-medieval-press/)
- [Contact us](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/contact/)
# Welcome to the Centre for Medieval Studies
World views: [Liber Floridus](https://lib.ugent.be/catalog?q=archive.ugent.be:018970A2-B1E8-11DF-A2E0-A70579F64438) (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](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/ma-medieval-studies/)
[## PhD](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/phd-medieval-studies/)
[## Research](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/our-research/)
## Events
Mon
23
Mar
[Control Issues: Music and Sexuality in thirteenth-century Legal, Doctrinal, and Literary Discourses](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/events/2026/ismrthomson23march/)
6.00PM, Online
Professor Matthew Thomson (University College Dublin)
Wed
25
Mar
[Dante Day - exhibition and poetry reading](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/events/2026/danteday-exhibitionandpoetryreading/)
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](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/events/2026/davis16aprmedlitsseminar/)
1.00PM, SLB/005, Spring Lane Building
Dr Isabel Davis (Natural History Museum, London)
> [More events](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/events/).
## News
[BBC Sounds In Our Time - Margaret Beaufort](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/news/bbcsoundsinourtime-margaretbeaufort/)
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Two CMS graduates appear on the latest episode
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[Alumni job news](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/news/drakesenatehouse/)
Thursday 12 March 2026
Becca Drake has just started working with Senate House as their Printer in Residence.
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[Publication News - Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/news/nudingpublication/)
Sunday 8 March 2026
Congratulations to Emma Nuding, who’s new book is now out!
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View our [news archive](https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/news/).
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