The Medieval Research Centre was established in 1996 to co-ordinate interdisciplinary research and teaching in medieval subjects across the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester, and to host conferences, colloquia and a programme of lectures and seminars by local and visiting speakers.

The College has more than 20 research-active medievalists on the staff, who work within the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, the School of English, the School of Historical Studies (including the Centre for English Local History) and the Department of the History of Art and Film, with research interests in fields ranging from late antique archaeology to the visual culture of the sixteenth century. The Centre regularly attracts funding for major research projects. The Centre has a lively post-doctoral and postgraduate culture, whose members are either working on innovative research projects or studying for Masters and Research Degrees in the full range of disciplines represented within the College. A new interdisciplinary Medieval Studies MA programme is under development.

We welcome enquiries from prospective students and scholars wishing to develop research projects and links with the Medieval Research Centre at Leicester.

New MA and PhD scholarships announced (Jan 2012)
Medievalists are eligible and encouraged to apply for several new PhD and MA scholarships and bursaries in College of Arts and Humanities (AHRC and University-funded).
Applications are open now. See here for further details.

Manuscripts Online: Written and Early Printed Culture from 1000 to 1500 is a new collaborative project between the universities of Sheffield, Leicester, Glasgow, Birmingham, York and Queen's, Belfast funded by JISC and co-directed by Michael Pidd, University of Sheffield and Dr Orietta Da Rold, University of Leicester. Manuscripts Online will be a sister site to the JISC‐funded Connected Histories (1500‐1900) website and will extend the model of data clustering and federated searching developed by providing access to written and early printed primary sources for the period 1000 to 1500.

A five-year project on The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: evidence, memories, inventions, funded by The Leverhulme Trust begins in January 2011. Five post-doctoral Research Associate appointments have been made and work begins in the autumn 2011.  More information.

Shazia Jagot, a PhD student in the School of English studying Arabic science and philosophy in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, has been awarded a visiting scholarship by the Council of British Research in the Levant for the academic year 2011-12. Read more ...