The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted March, 2004

Here on the grounds of the University of Toronto at the Institute at 59 Queen's Park Crescent East is a unique Ontario Heritage Trust plaque. The text is written not only in English and French but also in Latin. It says:

Plaque coordinates: 43.6656 -79.39135

In the 1920s, Professor Étienne Gilson, a noted French mediaevalist, and Henry Carr, C.S.B., of St. Michael's College, conceived a unique plan for a graduate centre for mediaeval studies. When it was founded in 1929, the Institute of Mediaeval Studies was the only specialized institution in its field. In 1939, as war threatened European centres of learning and cultural heritage, Pope Pius XII granted the Institute a papal charter. The Pontifical Institute's initial emphasis on mediaeval philosophy, especially the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, soon broadened into an historical approach that draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines. The Institute in known internationally for its research, teaching, library, and scholarly publications.

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