I would suggest that you browse around the 'net for Mediaeval Archaeologists, see which schools they went to, maybe send them an email. Should be a pretty good way to get started.

Cheers, and let us know what you find,

Richard

The Medieval Period was actually fairly long, widespread, and encompassed a period of longterm, radical change. Thus, it is an important part of history, especially if you plan on working in CRM in Europe, or teaching.

Your first decision needs to be what area you want to study - Europe, Middle East, Eastern Europe - or even better, what particular cultural group(s) you would like to study. The best place to sudy is in the region/country you have chosen, but this may be a problem due to your language abilities. However, the UK and Ireland have numerous really fine schools and the Medieval stuff has not been heavily worked over, so there's still a lot to do. Use the Internet to find the schools and see what they teach, and who teaches it. Good luck! 8-)

I presume you have already browsed/subscribed to these sites, or similar:

http://www.medievalarchaeology.org/

http://www.squinch.und.edu/


I might suggest that you contact our member BAJR, he should have a good understanding of where your search should begin as well.

I was just going to ask about this subject. I am looking into the Templar fortifications, as well as the crusades, with the added history of the Jews during that time. I am willing to travel overseas for my grad work, but I am wondering which country would be my best bet.

Hi,
I did a masters degree in the UK in medieval Archaeology and I really enjoyed the experience.  It is true that the medieval period is long and full of subjects to specialize in....I naively looked at a book on Vikings that I had an emailed the author, who was a professor in Iceland.  He very kindly gave me a list of people I could study with around the world and I went from there.  For graduate study you really need to know what you want to specialize in, and who does that research.  I thought I wanted to do a PhD, so I thought doing a one year masters first was a good way to test the waters.  I learned so much in that time including the fact that I couldn't afford to do a PhD and it wasn't the right path for me anyway.  But I loved living in the UK and there are post-study visas you can get to stay and work for a year or two afterwords.  One thing to realize is that UK universities are happy to take US students because we pay more tuition and that after a two year post-study visa it is difficult to find a work based visa that you will qualify for if you are an archaeologist (sadly the wages are just as bad in the UK).

The University of Glasgow has a good Medieval Arch program, also York and Nottingham (probably many more, but those are a few off the top of my head!)

To 'Ancient Digger' I have a friend studying Crusader Castles at the University of Glasgow, but I don't think there are a lot of faculty members to support that type of research there, but there are a few elsewhere in the UK...maybe one at Cardiff? or somewhere else in Wales, but I'm not sure which city. 

Good luck!