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Fisher House and More House both began as residences for men, while classrooms and faculty offices were located in Teefy Hall to the south. The Queen's Park Building to the north was built for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. A student-faculty centre was built in 1968 as an extension of Brennan Hall.
Historians believe that by the beginning of the 13th Century Oxford's student population exceeded fifteen hundred and was equal in size to the town's non-student population. [2] Throughout this period, students and their masters lived either as lodgers or as private tenants in accommodation owned by the townsfolk.
The institute was founded in 1962 and offered the United States's first publicly awarded Master of Arts degree in medieval studies. [2] Presently, the institute organizes the International Congress on Medieval Studies (an annual academic conference held for scholars specializing in, or with an interest in, medieval studies). [3] [4] [5]
The College of Arts and Letters is affiliated with the Notre Dame Medieval Institute, that is regarded among the best centers for Medieval Studies. [24] It is ranked number #6 by U.S. News & World Report. [25] The institute was formally founded in 1946, but it was created on a pre-existing program of medieval studies that dated back to the 1930s.
In 1964 the University of Toronto established the Centre for Medieval Studies as part of the School of Graduate Studies, for students pursuing a master's degree or doctorate in medieval studies. Teaching at these levels gradually passed from the institute to the centre. (The centre officially uses the spelling "medieval" while PIMS uses ...
The Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS) at the University of Leeds, founded in 1967, is a research and teaching institute in the field of medieval studies. It is home to the International Medieval Bibliography and the International Medieval Congress .
Around the same time as the first North American Medieval Studies institutions were founded, the UK saw the development of some scholarly societies with a similar remit, including the Oxford Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature (1932) and its offshoot the Manchester Medieval Society (1933). [7]: 112–13
The medieval well located in the front quadrangle. The inscription reads "haurietis aquas in gaudio de fontibus salvatoris" In the centre of the quadrangle is a medieval well, which was uncovered in 1926 during the construction of a new lecture room and accommodation. This well is believed to be the original from which St Edmund himself drew water.