CARMEN

The Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network

CARMEN is a worldwide network of national associations of medievalists, individual universities across the globe, and related public and private bodies who are actively involved in research of the Middle Ages.

The broad aims of the project are:

To foster international research projects and networks, thus securing greater research funding. The universities of Bergen, Bristol, Western Australia and York are all recognised world-leaders in interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages. By collaborating closely with comparable institutions worldwide CARMEN can deliver global impact. From a European centre of gravity this core-group aims to transform the nature of interdisciplinary research into the Middle Ages and crucially its funding. The transformation involves aligning the humanities with social sciences and sciences. Current collaborative research projects focus on regional identities, manuscripts and semantic web technology, multilingual communities, GIS mapping of historical Europe, and medieval medicine and disability