The goals of the Institute are to advance and promote scholarship in all aspects of medieval culture, to develop the distinctively international character of medieval studies at Boston University, to provide a format for the thematic and administrative coordination of medieval activities within the University community, and to cultivate productive intellectual collaborations with other institutes and centers including the Center for Judaic Studies and the proposed Institute of Editorial, Textual, and Bibliographical Studies.
In the implementation of these goals, the Institute will draw on important existing strengths, chiefly, a critical mass of faculty in medieval history and related disciplines. To the Institute these scholar-teachers will bring not only geographic expertise spanning Western Europe and the Mediterranean basin, but individual research programs that are informed by common, overarching interests in such topics as communication across social, economic, religious, and cultural boundaries. By providing a forum and a stimulus for comparative investigation of these questions, the programs of the Institute will highlight and complement existing programmatic resources, including curricular offerings in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as international programs of Boston University in Oxford, Grenoble, Padua, and Madrid. Extending membership in the Institute to specialists in the adjoining historical periods of late antiquity and early modernity will provide an opportunity to assess, reflect, and elaborate on the pivotal nature of medieval institutions and worldviews, while underscoring the centrality of medieval studies to any full understanding of world history.
Upcoming Events:
- The Institute will be hosting its next conference, "The Culture of Water", on April 9 and 10.
- We are proud to announce our newest conference, "Literacy and Numeracy in Late Medieval Italy." This conference will take place on Wednesday, April 26.
Recent Events:
- The Institute recently hosted the 25th anniversary of the New England Medieval Conference, entitled "Prophets and Prophecy".
Thomas F. Glick, Director
Institute for Medieval History
Boston University
Boston, MA 02115
phone: 617-353-8314
fax: 617-353-2556
e-mail: tglick@bu.edu
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