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Mediaeval Studies

13 January 2022

Mellon Fellowships 2022–2023

The 1 February applications deadline for post-doctoral Mellon Fellowships for the academic year 2022–2023 is approaching quickly.

04 January 2022

PIMS Library Closed

In light of the present COVID situation, the PIMS Library will remain closed for now. We plan to re-open on Tuesday 1 February 2022 if the situation has improved.

30 November 2021

Institute Mellon Fellows and Visitors: Changes and Opportunities

The Academic Council of the Institute would like to announce a new deadline and application form for scholars who are applying to become Institute Visitors, as well as a new teaching opportunity for the Institute’s Mellon Fellows.

27 November 2021

Kenneth Duggan at Vancouver Island University

Congratulations to Kenneth Duggan, a Mellon Fellow at PIMS in 2019-2020, who will start a permanent job in the department of history at Vancouver Island University on 1 January 2022.

22 October 2021

A Symposium for a PIMS Publication

Johns Hopkins University's Stulman Program in Jewish Studies has organized a virtual Book Symposium on a recent PIMS publication, Pinchas Roth's In This Land: Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence. The symposium will take place on Sunday 31 October via Zoom.

08 October 2021

Medieval Women Workshop IV in January

30 August 2021

PIMS Library Reopening

The PIMS Library has received approval to reopen on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. A set of rules and safety protocols will apply.

30 August 2021

The Shook Common Room in September

We were hoping to be able to open the Laurence K. Shook Common Room to students and scholars this September, but right now we are keeping an eye on the situation. We will post updates on decisions and protocols on this website, so please check back regularly.

19 July 2021

Talia Zajac at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester

Congratulations to Talia Zajac (Mellon Fellow, 2020–2021), who started a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library at the University of Manchester this past May.

15 June 2021

Good News for Former Mellon Fellows

Congratulations to Benjamin Barootes and Lydia Walker on their recent appointments.

11 May 2021

Announcement of New PIMS Praeses

The Board of Governors of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of the Very Rev. Professor Augustine Thompson, O.P. as Praeses, with effect 1 February 2022.

14 January 2021

Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies, 2021

Out of an abundance of caution, we have taken the difficult decision to cancel the Institute’s Manuscript Studies Programme for 2021, which had been scheduled to take place at the Angelicum in Rome this summer.