An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
An institute for advanced studies in the intellectual and material cultures of the Middle Ages
This page is devoted to news about the Institute, its fellows and programs, as well as items of interest to the wider medieval community.
Publications
The Institute has launched a new Festschrift in honour of James Carley, Books and Bookmen in Early Modern Britain. This collection of eighteen essays explores how early modern uses of books have changed our reception of premodern writing.
Courses
Applications are now open for the 2019 Manuscript Studies Programme, which will convene in Toronto from 3 June to 12 July 2019.
Courses
Applications are now open for the 2019 Manuscript Studies Programme, which will convene in Toronto from 3 June to 12 July 2019.
Appointments
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies welcomes Professor Deanne Williams as the York Fellow at PIMS for the 2018–2019 academic year.
PIMS
Dr Richard Alway, after 10 years of voluntary leadership of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, has indicated to the Board of Governors his intention to retire once his successor has been chosen.
Appointments
Congratulations to Katie Bugyis, currently Mellon Fellow at PIMS, on being selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for 2018–2019!
Miscellanea
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.
Courses
Applications are now open for the 2018 Manuscript Studies Programme, which will convene in Rome from 4 June to 13 July 2018.
Prizes & Awards
Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Institute Librarian and Fellow, was named the new Canadian representative to the International Medieval Latin Committee at “Medialatinitas 2017,” its 8th meeting held in Vienna, Austria 17–21 September, in recognition of her remarkable accomplishments as a medieval Latinist and philologist.
Miscellanea
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.”
Courses
The Institute is pleased to announce a new course offering for the Winter term 2018, to be taught by the Institute's Leonard E. Boyle Professor of Manuscript Studies and Director of PIMS' Rome-Toronto Programme in Manuscript Studies, M. Michèle Mulchahey, together with Institute Fellow and Librarian, Greti Dinkova-Bruun.
Appointments
The President and Fellows of the Institute are pleased to announce the election of new Mellon Fellows for the academic year 2017–2018.
PIMS
The website for the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America is now live.
Courses
Applications are now open for the 2017 Manuscript Studies Programme, which will convene in Toronto from 5 June to 14 July 2017 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of our founder Étienne Gilson’s arrival in Toronto.
Appointments
Rachel Koopmans has been appointed a member of the RSC’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
PIMS
Attention all scholars and book-lovers: the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library is holding a book sale until 7 October.
Appointments
We are happy to announce that on 11 August 2016, James P. Carley was elected as Master of the Worshipful Company of Barbers.
Prizes & Awards, Publications
The Vernam Hull Memorial Prize for the year 2015 has been awarded to Professor Ceri Davies, Emeritus Professor of Classics at Swansea University, for John Prise. Historiae Britannicae Defensio / A Defence of the British History, published by PIMS.
PIMS, Prizes & Awards
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies held a special convocation on 20th May in St Basil’s Collegiate Church to confer an honorary degree on His Highness the Aga Khan.
PIMS
Summer hours at the PIMS Library will be starting at the end of April.