Universidade Santiago de Compostela Doctorate in Medieval Studies
Universidade Santiago de Compostela

Universidade Santiago de Compostela

Doctorate in Medieval Studies

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

PhD

3 years

Spanish, Galician

Full time

Oct 2026

EUR 200 / per year

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About: The Doctorate in Medieval Studies focuses on in-depth research into medieval history, literature, culture, and art. This program encourages interdisciplinary approaches and aims to cultivate critical thinking and analytical skills through rigorous study of primary sources and scholarly debate.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue careers in academia, research, archiving, cultural heritage management, and publishing. There are also opportunities in historical consulting and roles within museums and educational institutions.

The Doctorate in Medieval Studies is a unique offer at SUG and constitutes a novel alternative in the field of Humanities. Its main objective is to provide students with interdisciplinary and transversal training, so that they acquire the highest level of professional and research training.

Medieval studies in Santiago have consolidated and recognized national and international groups, as well as stable and leading lines of research that will allow the most qualified students to obtain the best national and regional funds to carry out their doctoral thesis. In addition to these guarantee references, the Doctorate has collaboration agreements with select state and European centers, in order for those students who wish to do so in the same research stays that enrich their scientific career. The Program aims to recover the Middle Ages with the appropriate combination of specialization and dissemination, so that doctors trained in the same can face solid research and professional experiences, which contribute to the conservation, enhancement and dissemination of the cultural heritage of an essential historical period in the formation of European civilization.

Lines of investigation

  • Latin and medieval philology
  • Literary traditions in vernacular languages
  • Edition and transmission of medieval texts
  • Medieval civilization in its historical dimensions
  • medieval art history
  • Books, memory and archives in the Middle Ages