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| Collegium Medievale | |
|---|---|
| Name | Collegium Medievale |
| Established | 1978 |
| Type | Research institute |
Collegium Medievale is a scholarly research institute dedicated to the study of medieval and early modern European history, paleography, codicology, theology, law, and material culture. It functions as a convergence point for historians, philologists, archaeologists, art historians, and musicologists engaged with medieval sources, manuscripts, liturgy, and institutions from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. The institute emphasizes primary-source scholarship, interdisciplinary collaboration, and training in archival methods.
Collegium Medievale was founded amid a postwar revival of medieval studies influenced by scholars from France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Scandinavia, Russia, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, India, China, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and international bodies such as UNESCO and scholarly societies like the International Medieval Congress, Medieval Academy of America, Society for Medieval Languages and Literatures, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Vatican Library, Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, British Library, National Archives (UK), Archives Nationales (France), State Archives of Venice, Archivo General de Indias, Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Archivo General de la Nación (Argentina), Historical Museum of Vienna influenced early networks. Early directors drew on models from École pratique des hautes études, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Columbia University, Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard University, University of Bologna, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Paris (Sorbonne), and regional institutes such as the Institute of Historical Research and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.
The Collegium's mission aligns with international standards promulgated by Council of Europe, European Research Council, and funding agencies like Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, National Endowment for the Humanities, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Swiss National Science Foundation, Fonds de recherche du Québec, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Graduate and postdoctoral programs connect with degree-granting partners including University of Paris, University of Bologna, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Toronto, University of Chicago, Heidelberg University, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Utrecht University, Leiden University, KU Leuven, University of Salamanca, University of Barcelona, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Lisbon, Stockholm University, and University of Copenhagen. Collaborative programs include fellowships named after figures like Émile Durkheim, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Carlo Ginzburg, Jacques Le Goff, Georges Duby, Henri Pirenne, Frances Yates, E. A. Lowe, Luca Pacioli.
The curriculum prioritizes manuscript studies, teaching paleography, codicology, diplomatics, liturgical studies, and legal history with seminars referencing canonical collections such as the Decretum Gratiani, Corpus Iuris Civilis, Capitularies of Charlemagne, Magna Carta, Domesday Book, Liber Augustalis and texts including Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied, The Divine Comedy, Summa Theologica, Peter Lombard's Sentences, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius as contextual sources. Methodologically, programs integrate approaches developed by Fernand Braudel, Marc Bloch, Carlo Ginzburg, Natalie Zemon Davis, Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff, R. W. Southern, M. M. Postan, E. H. Carr, Robert Bartlett, Gerd Schwerhoff, Jean-Claude Schmitt, Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, and digital methods from projects like Mapping Medieval Capitals, Digital Scriptorium, Monastic Matrix, Europeana, Pelagios, and Text Encoding Initiative.
Faculty positions have been held by medievalists associated with institutions such as Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, University of Bologna, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Heidelberg University, LMU Munich, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, Leiden University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Collège de France, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, University of Salamanca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Paris-Sorbonne, University of Zurich, University of Geneva, University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews, Trinity College Dublin, University of Toronto, McGill University, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Seoul National University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Tokyo, Keio University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, National Autonomous University of Mexico and others. Visiting scholars have included winners of awards such as the Balzan Prize, Holberg Prize, Kluge Prize, Wolf Prize, British Academy Medal, Pulitzer Prize (for historical works), MacArthur Fellowship, and Guggenheim Fellowship.
The Collegium issues a monograph series in collaboration with publishers like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill, Brepols, Martinasset, Routledge, Routledge Medieval Worlds, Palgrave Macmillan, De Gruyter, Bloomsbury, Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, Princeton University Press, and journals including Speculum, Journal of Medieval History, Early Medieval Europe, Viator, Medium Aevum, Renaissance Quarterly, Traditio, Revue Mabillon and edited volumes appearing in series by Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Digital outputs participate in platforms like JSTOR, Project MUSE, OpenEdition, Google Books, HathiTrust, and repositories such as Zenodo, HAL, ARROW, and institutional archives associated with CERN-hosted projects and national libraries.
Recurring events include thematic conferences on topics such as Carolingian Renaissance, Gregorian Reform, Investiture Controversy, Crusades, Reconquista, Hundred Years' War, Avignon Papacy, Council of Trent, English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, Fourth Lateran Council, Treaty of Verdun, Treaty of Westphalia, Council of Constance, Peace of Augsburg, Italian Wars, Ottoman–Habsburg wars; specialized workshops on paleography, diplomatics, numismatics, sigillography, heraldry, textual criticism, and public lecture series in partnership with institutions like Getty Research Institute, Royal Historical Society, British Museum, Louvre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Museo Nazionale Romano, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of London, Smithsonian Institution, Newberry Library, Folger Shakespeare Library.
The Collegium operates archival reading rooms, a conservation lab, a digital humanities center, a paleography lab, and seminar rooms adjacent to or in collaboration with repositories such as the Vatican Library, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Austrian National Library, National Library of Spain, National Library of Portugal, Royal Library of Belgium, Congressional Research Service, National Archives and Records Administration, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, and university collections at Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, Biblioteca Marciana. Governance combines a scientific advisory board drawn from members of Academia Europaea, British Academy, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Société des Antiquaires de France, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino and administrative structures modeled on institutes like Max Planck Society, CNRS, Institute for Advanced Study, and consortiums similar to European University Institute.
Category:Medieval studies institutes