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Three Yale Ph.D. students were selected for the 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation fellowship, which is awarded by the American Council of Learn

Co-authored by Medieval Studies PhD candidate Estelle Guéville and David Joseph Wrisley, Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities:

Edward Peters, recipient of Yale’s first PhD in Medieval Studies in 1967, passed away at his home in Guilford on November 6, 2024. 

The Atlantic recently profiled Medieval Studies alumna Lisa Fagin Davis and her longtime frenemy, the Voynich Manuscript: you can find the essay here!

The distinguished medieval intellectual historian Marcia Colish, a Yale GSAS alumna and longtime member of the Medieval Studies community, passed away

Medieval Studies certificate student Isaidy Medina (Silliman ‘25) is leading the revival of Vexillum, an undergraduate journal for medieval

A featured conversation with Medieval Studies core faculty member Tarren Andrews, assistant professor in Ethnicity, Race and Migration studies!

Yale’s Travis Zadeh discusses his new book, “Wonders and Rarities,” which examines a seminal 13th-century work of natural history and cosmology.

Vexillum, the Undergraduate Journal for Medieval Studies, invites students from any discipline to submit papers related to medieval studies!

Jared Brunner, a Yale undergraduate who is majoring in Humanities and Philosophy and pursuing the new Medieval Studies certificate