Medieval Studies

The Medieval Studies program was one of the first interdisciplinary programs to be established at UT, and it has a proven record of interdisciplinary faculty cooperation.  Students majoring in Medieval Studies will take courses in disciplines as varied as architecture, art history, foreign language, history, literature, philosophy, political science and religious studies.  Although the scope of the Medieval Studies program has traditionally been Europe between 500 and 1500, the program is flexible enough to allow students to focus on this period in Asia if they wish or to widen the time period studied to include the Late Classical world and the beginnings of the early modern or Renaissance world.

A concentration in Medieval Studies offers the opportunity to deepen one's self-awareness and broaden one's view of the range of human possibilities by studying a very different and remote culture, its conditions of life, social and political institutions, values and ideals, and modes of perception and expression.

Contact Information

Dr. Heather Hirschfeld
Riggsby Director

Vera Pantanizopoulos-Broux 
Program Coordinator
Temple Court, Room 208
804 Volunteer Blvd.
University of Tennessee
Knoxville , TN 37996

Phone: (865) 974-1859
Email: vpantani@utk.edu