An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
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miscellaneous news and announcements
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On behalf of Dr Alicia Smith, a former Mellon Postdoctoral fellow of the Institute:
We invite expressions of interest to participate in a new series of online workshops examining how saints and holy people are represented outside the classic form of the single-text hagiography, what Thomas J. Heffernan calls the ‘sacred biography’.
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We are happy to announce that the Institute website has been converted to WordPress.
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Symposium: 19–20 October 2018
Mediaeval Studies, the multidisciplinary study of the European Middle Ages, is a discipline integral to the University of Toronto. The seeds of the enterprise were planted almost a hundred years ago on the campus of St Michael’s College.
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Professor Elza Tiner, who holds a Licentiate from the Institute and was also Visiting Fellow this past spring and summer, is helping curate an exhibit entitled “Image + Text in Renaissance Folios.”
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A book sale of medieval titles, duplicates of works already present in the PIMS Library's collection, will be open to the public from 2 October to 3 October 2015.
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James Carley, Associate Fellow at the Institute, has been featured in a recent article in The Guardian. While visiting the library at Lanhydrock in Cornwall, Carley discovered a book that he identified as having belonged to King Henry VIII.