The team of English Medieval Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum specializes in different aspects of the languages, literatures, and cultures of England and beyond from c. 500 until c. 1500.
We invite students of B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik, M.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik, and M.Ed. English to discover the richness and variety of medieval England by visiting
Our teaching evolves around Old and Middle English key texts in both poetry and prose, and in the epigraphic as well as in the manuscript context. To approach and appreciate medieval sources in the original, we transmit to our students skills in Philology, Literary Studies, and Historical Linguistics as well as interdisciplinary methods and approaches.