Rome: A Crossroads of Intellectual Traditions

For millennia, Rome has been a crossroads of traditions—not just for the Italian peninsula, but for ancient Greece, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. 

In the medieval period, Rome held together the traditions of pagan antiquity, the riches of Christianity from both East and West, Jewish thought and traditions, and Arabic philosophy, giving birth to renaissance humanism and even the beginnings of modernity.

The TI Ancient & Medieval Rome Program focuses on Rome as the intersection of these great traditions of East and West through the study of ancient and medieval history, philosophy, art, and religion. It will focus on key primary source documents, including texts from ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, classical Jewish and Christian sources, medieval theology and philosophy, and Thomas Aquinas. Explore our core courses.

Study, Explore, and Make Lifelong Friends

The TI Ancient & Medieval Rome Program provides an opportunity to study under prominent scholars while living in the heart of the Eternal City. Credits count toward students' degrees, and expectations are commensurate with the best universities in the United States.

As a TI Study Abroad student, you will live with like-minded young men and women in beautiful Villa Irlanda, on the grounds of the Pontifical Irish College, just steps from the Lateran Basilica and the Colosseum, within the ancient walls of the city of Rome. Learn more about Villa Irlanda. 

You will have the option of making pilgrimage visits to the historic religious sites of Rome. Organized by Dominicans of the Angelicum, these visits will take you to the splendor of the Roman catacombs, St. Peter’s Basilica, the tomb of St. Paul, the monastic cell of St. Dominic, and the tombs of Roman martyrs like St. Lawrence and St. Agnes.