Trivium is a multidisciplinary research centre within the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University. Its purpose is to increase dialogue and encourage the study of classical, medieval, and early modern cultures, society, and everyday life. The members of the centre work mainly with history, literature, and philosophy. Trivium serves as a research network, promoting research on social and cultural change as well as longue durée continuities. Its research aims at the crossing of borders through the approaches used, the methodology applied, and the topics selected.