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CMS is accepting IDF Applications!

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The Center for Medieval Studies is accepting IDF proposals. Deadline: October 22, 2018.

McNally Graduate Fellowship

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Up to two $1,000 McNally Graduate Fellowships available. Application deadline: Feb 15, 2018.

Medical Materialities Symposium

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Join scholars from science and the humanities as they explore the materiality of the human body.

MMRL 2018

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Not yet accepting applications for the 2018 Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory

IDF Proposals

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AY 2018-19 Application Deadline Passed. Stay tuned for next cycle.

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Ready for Game of Thrones Season 6?

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CLA Medievalists compare the machinations of Westeros to actual history and make their predictions of what comes next for Cersei, Arya, Daenerys, and … Jon Snow?

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We Need New Categories

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CLA's collaborative explorations of the premodern era are so impressive that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced a grant of more than $600,000 to create the initial structures for a newly integrated Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World (CSPW) at the University of Minnesota.

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Upcoming Events

October 25, 2018

CMS Lecture: ʿĀlimāt: Female Religious Scholars of Classical Islam

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The Center for Medieval Studies presents: "ʿĀlimāt: Female Religious Scholars of Classical Islam" Asma Sayeed Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California-Los Angeles

November 1, 2018

CMS Lecture: Before and Beyond Domesday: Rewriting the History of the Conqueror&...

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The Center for Medieval Studies and the Premodern Workshop present: "Before and Beyond Domesday: Rewriting the History of the Conqueror's Survey and Its Documentation" Carol Symes...

November 8, 2018

CMS Lecture: The Hallowed Women of Holy Saturday in the Vita Christi of Isabel de...

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The Center for Medieval Studies presents: “The Hallowed Women of Holy Saturday in the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena (1430-1490)” Steven McMichael Department of Theology University of St...

November 15, 2018

CMS Lecture: Byzantium as an Argument in Today's Russia

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The Center for Medieval Studies presents: "Byzantium as an Argument in Today's Russia" Sergey Ivanov School of Philology National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow

November 29, 2018

CMS Lecture: Picturing the Venetian State: Celebrations of Dogaressa Morosini and...

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The Center for Medieval Studies presents, as part of the James Ford Bell Library Festivals Program: “Picturing the Venetian State: Celebrations of Dogaressa Morosini and Doge Grimani”...

December 6, 2018

CMS Lecture: From the Oral Word to the Parchment: the Greatest Problem of Medieval...

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The Center for Medieval Studies presents: "From the oral word to the parchment: the greatest problem of medieval culture" Anatoly Liberman German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Studies University...

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