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In the -Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies- course, interdisciplinary collaboration already begins during the undergraduate phase. Exchanges and interdisciplinary collaboration are at the centre of the master's course in 'Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies': course coordinator Lukas Reddemann ( left ) and director of studies Prof. Karl Enenkel (3rd from left) take a look at medieval material with students Hannah von Legat and Luca Hollenborg. WWU - Peter Leßmann Visit Münster University's Department of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period on the third floor of Bogenstraße 15/16, not far from Prinzipalmarkt, and you'll find yourself standing between dark brown bookshelves reaching up to the ceiling. You immediately notice a large desk with chairs: an entirely usual picture for a library - and one that perfectly suits the master's course in "Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies" (IMAS) which is based there and which links up the subjects of History, Philosophy and Philology and brings them together - literally - round a table. Anyone enrolling for this course learns a lot, from several angles, about textual scholarship, oral and written traditions, history and cultural history in the period from 500 to 1500 CE. "We are convinced that it is important to examine the cultural history of the Middle Ages in an interdisciplinary way," says Prof. Karl Enenkel, Director of Studies and holder of the Chair of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period at the University of Münster.