The doctoral programme (starting from the academic year 2018/19) gathers together a unique équipe of scholars engaged in research on the birth and historical development of languages and literary traditions in Medieval Europe (Latin, Greek, Romance, Germanic) on the written cultures which have preserved and transmitted them as well as on the formation and development of modern and contemporary literatures in Romance languages, both in Europe and on the American continent. It includes palaeographers, philologists and textual critics, specialists in Middle Latin, Medieval Germanic Languages, Romance Philology, Old French, Provençal, Galician, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French and Hispanic-American Literatures.