Medieval Studies

Medieval Studies: Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Arts and Science

Degree Programs

Medieval Studies

MA and PhD

Fields:
- Auxiliary Sciences;
- History and Religion;
- Language and Literature;
- Music and Art;
- Philosophy and Theology

Collaborative Specializations

The following collaborative specializations are available to students in participating degree programs as listed below:

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- Medieval Studies, PhD
Book History and Print Culture
- Medieval Studies, MA, PhD
Food Studies
- Medieval Studies, PhD
Jewish Studies
- Medieval Studies, MA, PhD
Sexual Diversity Studies
- Medieval Studies, MA, PhD
Women and Gender Studies
- Medieval Studies, MA, PhD

Overview

The Centre for Medieval Studies is concerned with the history, thought, and artistic expression of the various cultures of Europe and adjacent regions over the course of a millennium (circa 500 to 1500). The Centre for Medieval Studies in Toronto has an international reputation, resting on the wide-ranging interests of its faculty, the calibre and preparation of its graduates, and its outstanding library facilities.

The Centre for Medieval Studies provides interdepartmental programs in the medieval period. Students are expected to cross the limits of traditional subjects, and research is especially encouraged in often-neglected boundary areas between traditional departments.

The centre offers its students training in basic skills and tools in order to read the materials remaining from the medieval past and to explore them with learning and imagination. All students entering the centre are asked to improve their proficiency in Latin before registration, since there are Medieval Latin requirements for all degrees. Examinations in Medieval Latin are set at the beginning of the Fall session and at the end of the Spring session. All incoming students must take the Level One Latin examination at the beginning of the Fall session for placement purposes.

Contact and Address

Web: medieval.utoronto.ca
Email: medieval.studies@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-4884

Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
3rd Floor, 125 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7
Canada

Medieval Studies: Graduate Faculty

Full Members

Akbari, Suzanne - BA, MA, MPH, PhD

Bartlett, Kenneth - BA, MA, PhD

Black, Deborah - BA, MA, PhD

Bowen, William - BA, BMus, MA, PhD

Brilli, Elisa - MA, PhD (Director)

Caskey, Jill - AB, MA, MPH, PhD

Cochelin, Isabelle - DipdESup, BA, MA, PhD

Cohen, Adam - PhD

Dewar, Michael - BA, MA, DPhil

Dimnik, Martin - BA, MA, MDiv, DPhil

Everett, Nicholas - BA, MA, PhD

Gervers, Michael - BA, MA, PhD

Ghosh, Shami - BA, MA, PhD

Gillespie, Alexandra - BA, BSc, PhD

Ginther, James - BA, MA, PhD

Guenther, Sebastian - MA, PhD

Haines, John - BSc, BA, MA, PhD

Hall, Bert - BA, PhD

Herren, Michael - PhD

Holmstedt, Robert - BA, MA, PhD

Iglesias, Yolanda - BA, BA, MA, PhD

Keith, Alison - BA, MA, PhD, FRSC

King, Peter - BA, PhD

Kivimae, Juri - AM, PhD

Kullmann, Dorothea - PhD

Magee, John - BA, MA, PhD

Meyerson, Mark - BA, PhD

Miles, Brent - PhD

Momma, Haruko - BA, MA, MA, PhD

Percy, Carol - BA, MA, DPhil

Pickavé, Martin - MA, PhD

Pierno, Franco - BA, MA, PhD

Robins, William - BA, MPH, PhD

Ross, Jill - BA, MA, PhD

Rozemond, Marleen - BA, PhD

Saleh, Walid - BA, MA, PhD

Silano, Giulio - BA, LLB, BEd, MA, PhD

Smith, Kyle - BA, MA, PhD

Stock, Markus - MA, PhD

Subtelny, Maria - BA, PhD

Terpstra, Nicholas - BA, MA, PhD

Welsh, Jarrett - BA, MA, PhD

Members Emeriti

Armstrong, Lawrin - BA, MA, MA, MDiv, PhD

Burke, James - BA, MA, PhD

Dutka, JoAnna - BA, MA, PhD, ARCT

Eisenbichler, Konrad - BA, MA, PhD

Farge, James - BA, MA, PhD

Frank, Roberta - BA, MA, PhD

Goffart, Walter - AB, AM, PhD

Harvey, Elisabeth Ruth - BA, MPH, PhD

Healey, Antonette - BA, MA, PhD

Hillgarth, Jocelyn - BA, MA, PhD

Jeauneau, Edouard - BTh, PhD

Johnston, Alexandra - PhD

Kaczynski, Bernice - BA, MPH, PhD

Mayer, Hartwig - PhD, PhD

McConica, James - STB, BA, MA, DPhil, FRHistS

McDonough, Christopher - BA, MA, PhD

McDougall, Ian C - BA, MA, PhD

Northrup, Linda - BA, MA, PhD

Pietropaolo, Domenico - BSc, MA, PhD

Stock, Brian - AB, PhD

Taylor, Robert - PhD

Associate Members

Billett, Jesse Dean - AB, MPH, PhD

Dinkova-Bruun, Greti - MA, PhD

Hadisi, Reza - PhD

Hannam, Walter Andrew - AB, MA, MPH

McSheffrey, Shannon Grace - BA, MA, DA

Rasmussen, Ann Marie - BA, PhD

Medieval Studies: Medieval Studies MA, PhD Courses

Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS)' website which lists the courses that will be offered this year as well as those offered by associated departments. A graduate course is understood to require at least two hours per week of class meeting and such research hours as may be required.

Art History

Course Code	Course Title
FAH1118H	The Medieval Treasury
FAH1119H	Global Medieval Art in China
FAH1127H	Early Medieval Art

Book History and Print Culture

Course Code	Course Title
BKS1001H	Introduction to Book History
BKS1002H	Book History in Practice
BKS2000H	Advanced Seminar in Book History and Print Culture
BKS2001H	Individual Practicum in Book History and Print Culture

Classics

Course Code	Course Title
CLA5007H	Criticism of Latin Poetry

Comparative Literature

Course Code	Course Title
COL5032H	Feminist Approaches to Medieval Literature
COL5086H	Literature, Culture, and Contact in Medieval Iberia

English

Course Code	Course Title
ENG1001H	Old English I
ENG1002H	Introduction to Old English II: Beowulf
ENG1551H	The Canterbury Tales

French Language and Literature

Course Code	Course Title
FRE1164H	Initiation au français médiéval
FRE1203H	Séminaire de littérature II : période

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Course Code	Course Title
GER1200H	Middle High German

History

Course Code	Course Title
HIS1213H	Medieval Institutes of Perfection (joint graduate/undergraduate)
HIS1215H	Social Change in Medieval England, 1154–1279
HIS1221H	Topics in Early Modern European Social History

Italian Studies

Course Code	Course Title
ITA1200H	Dante
ITA1202H	Dante as a Reader of Augustine's City of God: Augustinian Textual Communities at the Beginning of the 14th Century
ITA1203H	Boccaccio
ITA1330H	Petrarch and Petrarchism
ITA1535H	Topics in Italian Literature
ITA1540H	Renaissance Italian Theatre
ITA1597H	The Commedia dell'Arte

Medieval Studies

Course Code	Course Title
MST1000Y	Medieval Latin I
MST1001Y	Medieval Latin II
MST1002H	Advanced Medieval Latin: Boethius (Prerequisite: Latin Level I.)
MST1003H	Professional Development for Medieval Studies PhDs (Credit/No Credit)
MST1015H	Medieval Representation of Sexual Diffidence
MST1020H	The Medieval Latin Epic (Prerequisite: Latin Level II.)
MST1021H	The Bibliographic Imagination in the Middle Ages
MST1022H	Transmission and Reception: the Survival and Use of the Latin Classics (Prerequisite: Level One Latin Pass, or permission of instructor. MST1104H or MST1105H is recommended.)
MST1023H	Early Medieval Latin and Greek Poetry
MST1101H	Codicology (Prerequisites: Latin Level I and either MST1104H or MST1105H.)
MST1102H	Practical Palaeography
MST1104H	Latin Palaeography I (Prerequisite: Latin Level I.)
MST1105H	Paleography II (Prerequisite: either Latin Level I or MST1104H.)
MST1107H	Latin Textual Criticism (Prerequisite: Latin Level I and either MST1104H or MST1105H.)
MST1110H	Diplomatics and Diplomatic Editing (Prerequisite: Latin Level I.)
MST1115H	English Palaeography
MST1117H	Medieval English Handwriting, 1300–1500
MST1327H	Death, Dying, and Society in Medieval Northern Europe
MST1370H	From Farm to Market: Social and Economic Transformation in Medieval Europe
MST1371H	Old English Philology: Grammar (Prerequisite: ENG1001H or equivalent.)
MST1372H	Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: the Great Divergence Debate
MST1373H	English Language and Literature in Transition, 1100–1250
MST1383H	Poetry and Prose of the Vercelli Book
MST1384H	The Exeter Book of Old English Verse (Prerequisite: ENG1001H or equivalent.)
MST1388H	The Junius Manuscript: Old Testament Narratives (Prerequisite: ENG1001H or equivalent.)
MST1398H	Alfredian Prose (Prerequisite: ENG1001H or equivalent; MA Latin.)
MST1422H	Introduction to the Study of Magic in the Middle Ages
MST2001H	Old Saxon
MST2007H	Old High German
MST2010H	Old Norse I
MST2015H	Studies in Old Norse Texts (Prerequisite: MST2010H or equivalent.)
MST2018H	Introduction to Celtic Latin (Prerequisite: MST1001Y or a pass of Level 2 Latin Exam.)
MST2029H	Introduction to Old Irish (Exclusion: MST2030Y.)
MST2030H	Old Irish Texts (Prerequisite: MST2029H or equivalent. Exclusion: MST2030Y.)
MST2030Y	Old and Middle Irish
MST2031H	Topics in Medieval Celtic Literature
MST2032H	Medieval Irish Poetry 500–1600
MST2033H	Textual Studies in Medieval Irish Poetry
MST2037H	Legendary History of Britain and Ireland from Celtic Sources
MST2038H	Medieval Brittany
MST2040H	Beginnings of Medieval Rhetoric and Poetics
MST2048H	Music in Medieval Life
MST2042H	Medieval Literary Theory in the Later Middle Ages
MST2051H	Introduction to Middle Welsh
MST2052H	Medieval Welsh Texts
MST2055Y	Studies in Middle Welsh Texts
MST3015H	Introduction to Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic)
MST3016H	Intermediate Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic) (Prerequisite: MST3015H.)
MST3021H	Boethius
MST3022H	Consolation Through the Ages: Later Medieval Approaches to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
MST3035H	Medieval Representations of Death, Sickness, and Crime (1100–1500)
MST3123H	Introduction to Medieval Medicine
MST3124H	Medieval Studies in the Digital Age
MST3126H	The Apocalypse in Medieval English Literature
MST3127H	Texts and the City in Medieval Northern Europe
MST3135H	Digital Old English
MST3140Y	Medieval Catalan Language and Literature
MST3150H	Medieval French Epic: Kings and Heroes
MST3152H	Introduction to Medieval Occitan
MST3153H	Medieval Occitan Literature
MST3155H	Middle French Literature
MST3159H	Classical Antiquity in the French Middle Ages
MST3160H	Introduction to Romance Philology: From Vulgar Latin to the First Literary Texts
MST3163H	Medieval French Historiography
MST3164H	Medieval French Romance: The Grail
MST3205H	Violence in Medieval Society
MST3207H	Decretists and Decretalists: Canonical Jurisprudence 1140–1300
MST3225H	Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
MST3226H	Medieval Mediterranean History
MST3231H	Clio's Workshop: Introduction to Historical Methods
MST3232H	Vernacular Literature in Medieval Europe: Status and Function (Prerequisite: basic reading knowledge of Latin and at least one medieval vernacular language.)
MST3235H	Communal Florence, 1150–1530
MST3237H	Monastic Rules and Customaries
MST3241H	Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
MST3242H	Carolingian Europe 750–900 CE
MST3244H	Saints of Early Medieval Italy
MST3251H	The Merovingians
MST3253H	Emperor, Antichrist, World-Wonder: Frederick II of Sicily
MST3261H	Cluny in the Central Middle Ages
MST3263H	Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature
MST3301H	Themes in Medieval Philosophy
MST3309H	Birth of the Will: Augustine and Anselm
MST3310H	Thomas Aquinas
MST3311H	Topics in Medieval Metaphysics
MST3321H	Philosophy of Mind in the Middle Ages
MST3322H	William of Ockham
MST3327H	Free Will and Human Action in Medieval Philosophy
MST3346H	Medieval Islamic Philosophy
MST3347H	Late Antique and Early Medieval Philosophical Commentators
MST3501H	Introduction to the Medieval Christian Liturgy
MST3601H	Medieval Spanish Sources in Context
MST3602H	Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages
MST3604H	The Culture of Food, Cooking, and Diet Through Daily Life and Tradition in Medieval Europe
MST3606H	Historical Archives in the Digital Age: Books Along the Silk Roads
MST5001H	Topics in Medieval Art History
MST5002H	Topics in Medieval History
MST5003H	Topics in Medieval Languages and Literatures
MST5004H	Topics in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Textual Cultures
MST5005H	Topics in Medieval Musicology
MST5006H	Topics in Medieval Religion and Theology
MST9310Y, H	Directed Reading
MST9315H	Directed Reading

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

Course Code	Course Title
NMC2090Y	The Prophet and the Caliphates: Early Islamic History to 1258
NMC2221H	Persian Mirrors for Princes
NMC2226H	Medieval Persian Historiography and Diplomatics

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Course Code	Course Title
SLA1104H	Introduction to Old Church Slavonic (Credit/No Credit)
SLA1109H	Studies in Old Church Slavonic