Institute for Medieval Studies

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The Institute for Medieval Studies is one of the major centres for Medieval Studies in the UK. It offers interdisciplinary teaching at postgraduate level with both masters and PhD courses. It also offers discovery modules for undergraduate students with an interest in the medieval period.

The Institute for Medieval Studies fosters many interdisciplinary, international and collaborative research projects, linking up scholars within the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Culture, the University of Leeds and the wider academic community – nationally and internationally.

The Institute's particular research strengths are in social, cultural, literary and material-culture approaches to the medieval past, from the Carolingian period to the Renaissance, as well as medievalism since the nineteenth century. Geographically, the Institute's focus is on north-western Europe, Scandinavia, Central and East-Central Europe, Iberia, Mediterranean, Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa.

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University of Leeds
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