Medieval Literacy, Utrecht University

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Study of Literacy and Communication in the Middle Ages:

The Sonderforschungsbereich 496 “Symbolische Kommunikation und gesellschaftliche Wertesysteme vom Mittelalter bis zur Französischen Revolution” at the Universität Münster is the successor of
Sonderforschungsbereich 231 “Träger, Felder, Formen pragmatischer Schriftlichkeit im Mittelalter”http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/MittelalterSchriftlichkeit/ (see also USML6b and USML6a).
Research Project 1 of the Centre of Medieval Studies of Bergen University concerns itself with ‘The Arrival of Writing’ http://www.uib.no/cms/research/writing.htm
The National Centre of Competence in Research “Mediality. Historical Perspectives” at Zürich University deals with the historicity of media and mediality http://www.mediality.ch/index.php
An international research programme on Urban Medieval Literacy, is coordinated by Utrecht University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
At the yearly International Medieval Congress, hosted by the Institute for Medieval Studies of the University of Leeds (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/index.html), sessions on ‘Literacy and Communication’ are grouped into a strand.

Medieval Studies at Utrecht University

Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. The portal http://www.medieval-studies.org/ gives access to all information about research and teaching at Utrecht University concerning the Middle Ages. The Utrecht medievalists carry out their research under the aegis of the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC) of the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University. They are organised in the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies (UCMS)