Greetings from Rare Book School!
Our summer 2026 course schedule features nearly 50 classes, including in-person offerings at three new course locations: York in the United Kingdom, North Bennet Street School in Boston, and the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Center. For more in-depth course descriptions and past student feedback, visit our website: https://rarebookschool.org/schedule/.
Offerings that may be of particular interest to medievalists and early modernists include:
- H-25. Fifteenth-Century Books in Print & Manuscript, taught by Paul Needham & Eric White at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
- H-205. Censorship from the Inquisition to the Present, taught by Ada Palmer at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
- M-20. Seminar in Western Codicology, taught by M. Michèle Mulchahey at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia
- M-65v. From Poggio to Mabillon: The Study of Latin Manuscripts in the First Age of Print, taught by Anthony Grafton (online only)
- M-70.The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts, taught by Heather Wolfe at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia
For the best chance of being admitted, please submit your application(s) by the first-round deadline on 17 February. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all available seats have been filled, but many of the classes will fill in the first round of admissions decisions. For information about the application process, visit rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/application.
Please contact rbsprograms@virginia.edu with questions. We hope you’ll join us this summer!
