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Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto CMS hosts one of the largest interdisciplinary medieval studies programs in the world.

The field of Medieval Studies is concerned with the history, thought, and artistic expression of the various cultures on the European continent over the course of a millennium (circa 500–1500). It arose as a challenge to traditional intellectual conventions, an alternative way of integrating bodies of knowledge that were becoming separated, and of pursuing matters that had been neglected. The Centre for Medieval Studies was envisaged by its founders not just as an institutional umbrella for traditional departments but as a meeting point at which topics and issues for multiple disciplines would be explored and studied in depth. 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 coordinates a program that includes various resources of the Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies and of a wide variety of participating departments and programs within the University of Toronto. The Centre also sponsors several major research projects, and is home to a large body of scholars, numerous publication series, and to medieval drama and music groups. The Centre represents a large and highly interactive community of professionals who work in widely diverse area.

"Honors College Marks 25 Years With Visiting Scholar’s Exploration of Religion and Justice" - Stuart and Nancy Rabinowit...
10/15/2026

"Honors College Marks 25 Years With Visiting Scholar’s Exploration of Religion and Justice" - Stuart and Nancy Rabinowitz Honors College welcomes visiting scholar and CMS Alumnus, Thomas Burman (Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame) to present “Rabbis, Priests, Imams, and Infidels: Engaging the Other’s Religion in the Medieval Mediterranean” on October 20.

Since 2001, Hofstra University’s Stuart and Nancy Rabinowitz Honors College (RHC) has encouraged students to explore ideas across disciplines and consider

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October 23-24
10/13/2026

October 23-24

An International Conference Friday, October 23, 1:30pm - Saturday, October 24, 5pm From didactic rhymes, moral tales, and instructional narratives to the complex and imaginative works of today, literature for and about children has long engaged questions of belief, morality, spirituality, and religi...

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10/13/2026

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Comment les espaces de soins étaient-ils aménagés, et quels individus y travaillaient ou y étaient soignés en Europe, du Moyen Âge à la fin de l’époque moderne ? Archéologues et historiens se sont penchés sur ces questions à l’occasion d’un colloque organisé à Cluny en 2022. Les c...

An Interview with Charlotte Steenbrugge (co-translator) and Dylan Coley (Director) of 'The Play of the Fluctuating Curre...
10/13/2026

An Interview with Charlotte Steenbrugge (co-translator) and Dylan Coley (Director) of 'The Play of the Fluctuating Currency', being performed October 15, 16, and 17!

"How Human Trafficking Fuelled Medieval Trade" cites CMS Alum David Romney Smith's 2019 article, "The business of human ...
10/13/2026

"How Human Trafficking Fuelled Medieval Trade" cites CMS Alum David Romney Smith's 2019 article, "The business of human trafficking: slaves and money between Western Italy and the House of Islam before the crusades (c.900–c.1100)".

A thousand years ago, merchants from medieval Italy were bringing expensive silks, spices and other luxury goods home from the wealthy cities of…

10/09/2026

BANNED IN 1530. ONSTAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH IN TORONTO IN 2026.

Cornelis Everaert's The Play of the Fluctuating Currency was never performed in its own time. Nearly 500 years later, PLS brings this surprisingly still-relevant play to the stage in a brand new English translation. It's a play that asks the question we're still asking today: when the economy fails, who pays the price?

And we're performing it on one of our newly built replica pageant wagons!

According to Dylan Coley, director and Victoria College alumnus, the play is "thick with sarcasm, with everyone blaming someone else for what's wrong—especially when fingers get pointed at the currency, or at 'Many People' in general, for what really is a matter of government mismanagement and abuse."

📅 October 15–17
📍 Victoria College, U of T

Join us to give this play new life, and to help us discover what a 500-year-old manuscript alone cannot show.

Presented by CRRS and PLS with support from the Jackman Humanities Institute. New English translation by Charlotte Steenbrugge and Else Streitman.

learn more: plsplayers.com/2026/10/02/the-play-of-the-fluctuating-currency/

10/06/2026

𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘅 𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘂 𝗠𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗻 𝗔̂𝗴𝗲 𝗮̀ 𝗹’𝗲́𝗽𝗼𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲
Anne Baud, Susan Boynton, Isabelle Cochelin, Anne Flammin (eds)

How were healthcare spaces set up in medieval and early modern Europe, who worked in them, and who were the patients? These questions were considered by archaeologists and historians during a conference at the abbey of Cluny in 2022. The contributions in this collection display a wide variety of approaches: some chapters focus on specific places, while others address the historical conditions of places of care in specific regions, countries, or religious orders. The first part of the volume is dedicated to Cluny, with seven articles covering the period from the tenth to the sixteenth century. They explore different phases of the monastic infirmary—drawing on manuscripts and material remains, particularly those brought to light by the archaeological excavations carried out between 2015 and 2019—as well as the town’s hospices. The second part broadens the perspective to western Europe, with nine contributions. Reflecting a diversity of approaches, these studies combine specificity with synthesis, greatly enhancing our understanding of places of care in premodern Europe.

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