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Department of Medieval Studies

The Department of Medieval Studies offers multidisciplinary courses on both the Master’s and the doctoral levels to medievalists from diverse backgrounds such as history, art history, archaeology, philology, philosophy and theology.

Jun
Stephen Greenblatt headshot

NZD Annual Lecture Series | Stephen Greenblatt: Reports from a Besieged City | Lecture 3: Diogenes' Barrel

Stephen Greenblatt
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Jun
Stephen Greenblatt headshot

NZD Annual Lecture Series | Stephen Greenblatt: Reports from a Besieged City | Lecture 2: Marlowe's Theater of Cruelty

Stephen Greenblatt
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Jun
Stephen Greenblatt headshot

NZD Annual Lecture Series | Stephen Greenblatt: Reports from a Besieged City | Lecture 1: Siege Stories

Stephen Greenblatt
Jun
Meister_der_St._Lambrechter_Votivtafel_Alte_Galerie_Schloss_Eggenberg_Universalmuseum_Joanneum

Doctoral defense of Karen L. Stark

Karen L. Stark
May
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

Medieval Studies in the World and 30 Years of Medieval Studies at CEU

Gábor Klaniczay
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002 Tiered Room
May
Manuscript 8 of the Monasterium “Bethlehem” of the Zusters Clarissen-Coletienes in Ghent, fol. 160r

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski | The Two Faces of Illness: Functions of Miraculous Healing and Holy Suffering in the Two Lives of Saint Colette of Corbie (1381–1447)

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Apr
Medievalisms

The Middle Ages as a Digital Experience (Online Conference) | April 21–23

Mar
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Bruno De Nicola (ÖAW): Islamic Manuscripts from the Mongol Empire: Challenges and Possibilities

Bruno De Nicola
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C210
Mar
Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt

Giulia Rossetto (ÖAW) | Written on the Margins: Multilingual Annotations in the Byzantine Prayerbooks of Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai)

Giulia Rossetto
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C210
Mar
Hamarneh

The Sixth Century in the Levant: Changes and Challenges

Basema Hamarneh
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered
Mar
Mithraeum at Oltari Photo Silnovic 2014

Doctoral defense Nirvana Silnović

Nirvana Silnovic
Mar
György Endre Szőnyi

Promiscuous Angels: Enoch, Blake, and a Curious Case of Romantic Orientalism

György Endre Szőnyi
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 (Tiered Room)
Mar
Autograph of Maximilian I

Andreas Zajic and Jonathan Dumont (ÖAW) | Bonds of Trust and Informal Power within the State Bureaucracy: The Habsburg Monarchy under Maximilian I

Andreas Zajic, Jonathan Dumont
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C210
Feb
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Katja Weidner (University of Vienna): How the Whale Got Its Fragrance: A Look at Medieval Bestiaries and Beyond

Katja Weidner
Feb
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Houses of Worship, Objects of Heritage: On Intersections of Post-Imperial Memory and Religion

Jeremy Walton
Feb
Cyril of Alexandria

Blessings, Bribes & Bishops: Cyril of Alexandria, the Council of Ephesus (431) and the Making of Orthodoxy

Volker L. Menze
Jan
Praiser-Kapeller Lecture

Signs of the End of Times? The Turn of the First Millennium AD, the Oort Minimum and Natural Disasters in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Tiered D-001
Jan
Capture d'ecran

Emotions and Nation: Making Community, Communion and National Subjects in the Narrative Sources of Brabant and Bohemia (1300–1400)

Éloïse Adde
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C210
Dec
ACML

Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture - Coincidence or Intention: Foundations on Solid Rock

Lioba Theis
Dec
Kreuztriptychon-Ausschnitt-Wiener Hofburg

Ferdinand Opll (University of Vienna): Early Modern Town Maps and Views of Vienna and Their Importance in an International Context

Ferdinand Opll
Dec
Menze seminar

Research Seminar: The Last Pharaoh of Alexandria: Patriarch Dioscorus and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire

Volker L. Menze
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 |
Nov
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Armed Citizens in Town. Control of Weapons and Armories

Nov
Cut of Crux's manuscripts (Třeboň, State regional archives, A 17, fol. 417r)

Lucie Doležalová (Charles University): The Graphomaniac Crux de Telcz (1434–1504) and Peculiarities of Late Medieval Manuscript Culture

Lucie Doležalová
Nov
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Lilly Stammler (Sofia University): The "Life of Andrew the Fool" and Some 14th-Century Literary Collections on the Balkans

Lilly Stammler
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | A211
Nov
Gewölbe Minoritenkirche

DAAD Workshop 3 | Borders and Interactions: Monastic Regions, Cult Centers and Pilgrimages

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001 Tiered Room