Institute for Medieval Studies

[4][3]: 112–13  The centre focused on offering an interdisciplinary MA degree in Medieval Studies that drew on the skills of scholars in a range of departments whose teaching tended to be separated by institutional barriers.

[8] The foundation of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, which came amidst took place alongside a wave of new activities among Leeds medievalists (and in the context of a great expansion of the size and state funding of British universities).

Muir was succeeded by Peter Meredith;[14] subsequent directors included Lawrence A. S. Butler (1934–2014) (to 1988),[15] Wendy R. Childs,[16] and Joyce Hill.

She oversaw, in 1999, the introduction of a Ph.D. programme run by the Centre, and in 2000 the shifting of the Le Patourel Room to the University's Parkinson Building, where, as of 2019, it remained.

From this autumn a new PhD programme will teach palaeontology [presumably an error for 'palaeography'], medieval Latin, Hebrew and Greek — crucial tools for students of the period.

[19] Alongside similar UK centres at Nottingham, Reading and York, the CMS's cross-departmental and interdisciplinary teaching was credited with breathing new life into the study of the Middle Ages.

[34][3] The Bulletin began in 1995 as a stapled A5 volume of twenty-two pages, produced primarily as a means to keep the International Medieval Institute's burgeoning list of correspondents abreast of developments in the field.

As it grew over time, the Bulletin began carrying book reviews, concise overviews of developments in different fields within Medieval Studies, and research articles.