About

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) was founded in 1981 as a state-wide research unit charged with stimulating the interdisciplinary exploration of medieval and Renaissance culture. Its activities cover a period roughly from AD 400 to 1700. ACMRS coordinates programs at ASU, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Among the activities and programs the center sponsors are a semi-annual distinguished lecture and ad hoc lecture series, an annual distinguished visiting professorship, an annual conference, a public symposium, and a summer study-abroad program at the University of Cambridge. The Center also awards undergraduate and graduate certificates in medieval and Renaissance studies to students completing required coursework.

MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
• Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Brepols Publishers)
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, an online bibliography and digitized library
• Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Brepols Publishers)
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, an interdisciplinary journal (AMS Press)
• Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, a resource of first resort, completed in 2010
• Klaeber’s Beowulf, the 4th version of the most important edition of the poem ever published

MAJOR RESEARCH FUNDING SOURCES

• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and U.S. Universities
• Iter Inc., (University of Toronto)
• Samuel Kress Foundation
• Institute for Humanities Research