Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

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 Cent

re 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.

Congratulations to two of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto's graduates, Bard Swallow and Emma Gabe...
06/02/2026

Congratulations to two of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto's graduates, Bard Swallow and Emma Gabe. Bard Swallow has been awarded this year's Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies from the Canadian Society of Medievalists, and Emma Gabe has received an honourable mention for the same prize!
https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/bard-swallow-awarded-leonard-boyle-dissertation-prize
https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/emma-gabe-awarded-leonard-boyle-prize-honourable-mention

Read "The Gentildonne of Fabriano: Forging Women’s Voices in Sixteenth-Century Italy" by Laura Ingallinella (Department ...
06/02/2026

Read "The Gentildonne of Fabriano: Forging Women’s Voices in Sixteenth-Century Italy" by Laura Ingallinella (Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese & LAS, University of Toronto / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto) in 'Renaissance Quarterly' Volume 79, Number 2.

This essay examines a sixteenth-century literary forgery known as the “gentildonne of Fabriano” or “petrarchiste marchigiane,” a miniature collection of poems attributed to three fictitious medieval Italian women—Leonora della Genga, Livia dei Chiavelli, and Ortensia di Guglielmo—modeled...

06/01/2026

OPEN ACCESS🏆
Samuel Cardwell, The Idea of Evangelisation: ‘Mission’, Theology and Scripture from the Early Church to the Age of Bede (The British Academy, June 2026)

https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805965787

The evangelisation of the peoples of western Europe to Christianity was arguably the single most important historical development of the early Middle Ages, shaping not only the beliefs and religious practices but also the social, political, cultural and intellectual landscape of the last 1,500 years. Although much has been written on the conversion period, little has been done to understand the development of the Christian impulse to spread the Gospel ‘to the ends of the earth’. When and why did Christians develop the idea of the evangelisation of all peoples? When and why did they begin to express this idea by deliberately setting out to evangelise pagan peoples? How did the conception or expression of the idea of evangelisation change over time? How did authors interpret key scriptural texts to justify or explain their views on evangelisation? This book offers the first book-length, diachronic study of these questions. Through contextualised close readings of authors writing mostly in Latin between the fourth and the eighth centuries (including Augustine, Patrick, Gregory and Bede), it argues for a gradual but fundamental transformation in Christian thinking about evangelisation. This in turn provides new insights into the origins of Christian mission.

06/01/2026

Happy Monday 🙂

Last chance! Submit your papers and proposals by this Monday, June 1! uoft.me/MAA2027Note that current MAA membership is...
05/29/2026

Last chance! Submit your papers and proposals by this Monday, June 1!
uoft.me/MAA2027

Note that current MAA membership is not required for submission, but you must be a member by the time you register for the conference.

The countdown to the deadline begins!
Submit your papers and proposals by JUNE 1 for the 102nd Annual Meeting of The Medieval Academy of America, held at the University of Toronto, April 15-17, 2027.
https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/2027-maa-annual-meeting-call-papers

Today! 2026 Scholars-in-Residence undergraduate students' poster presentations are on display in the foyer of Victoria C...
05/29/2026

Today! 2026 Scholars-in-Residence undergraduate students' poster presentations are on display in the foyer of Victoria College in the University of Toronto from 10:30 am-12:00 pm, and again from 2:00-3:00 pm!

This will include students working on projects overseen by Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto faculty members Cillian O’Hogan (‘Manuscript Traces: Tracking a Latin Author across the Middle Ages’) and Adam Cohen (‘Canada’s Synagogues: An Architectural Survey’, co-supervised by Prof. Jessica Mace).

A full list of projects can be found here:

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