Why medieval studies

There is too the Medieval Papacy. The present Pope spent last weekend watching a football match with 70, of his fans and was more than instrumental in bringing down the Berlin Wall in If you want to understand how a man who wears skirts and has no army can shake the continent of Europe not necessarily for the better , I recommend you take a look at Gregory VII.

The wonderful thing for me is that the controversies of Medieval study are red-blooded and without end. I want to understand why the stone of Scone matters so much to Scots Nationalists that they stole it from London in I want to understand the origins of English Law, and see why the seventeenth-century revolutionaries fussed so much about a document of , Magna Carta.

One copy of this is kept in an atom bomb proof display case in Washington by an American billionaire. I want to know why it matters so much to him and his country. I know a family, a Muslim family, who are the hereditary keepers of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and have been for a thousand years because Christians could not trust each other to do it.

November 3, , - CET. Watch the video and read more. A focus on medieval Latin, Slavonic, Byzantine, or early modern Ottoman culture. Comparative and multidisciplinary postgraduate education. All aspects of history and culture between c. Four internationally highly competitive degree programs. News November 8, November 8, When you study at the CMS, you will become part of a large, multicultural, sociable community of MA and PhD students from around the world, and from a wide variety of backgrounds.

York is a friendly, welcoming, inspiring place to live and work — especially if you have an interest in medieval history, art, archaeology or literature. Medieval Studies University. Why study Medieval Studies at York?

Access a wealth of resources in the wider university As a postgraduate student at the CMS you will have access to a wealth of world-class resources to support your studies.