Welcome to the home page of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Melbourne. This is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental programme, offering a range of courses in these areas in a series of undergraduate majors, postgraduate coursework programmes and research degrees.
The undergraduate majors, the Graduate Certificate and Diploma and the Postgraduate Diploma allow you to combine subjects from different Schools in the Arts Faculty and selected subjects from the Faculties of Music and Architecture, Building and Planning.
If you are interested in undertaking a research degree (MA or PhD), please contact staff in the relevant Department.
There are many discussion groups, seminars and conferences in these fields: see the links under Seminars and Conferences on this page.
Latin Reading Group
The next meeting of the Latin Reading Group will be at 1:00 on Thursday 17 May in the Baillieu library, commencing Alain of Lille's Complaint of Nature.
Early Modern Reading Group
The next meeting of the Early Modern Reading Group will be at 1:00 on Thursday 17 May in Room 242, John Medley East Tower, continuing Gorboduc, or Ferrex and Porrex from the start of Act 5.
Gannôt... or not? Gardens, Groves and the Asherah
A paper by Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne for the Ancient World Seminar at 1:00 on Monday 21 May in room 124, Old Arts.
An Angel's View of Heaven: The Mystical Cosmology of Pintorichhio's 1503 “Coronation of the Virgin”
A paper by Professor Keith Hutchison, University of Melbourne for the Early Modern Circle at 6:15 on Monday 21 May in the North Theatre, first floor, Old Arts.
Middle English Reading Group
The next meeting of the Middle English Reading Group will be at 12:00 on Tuesday 22 May, continuing the alliterative Morte Arthure from line 1498.