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The Venerable Blog

The Official Blog of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University

Student Life

Alexa Amore (Medieval Studies) returns from walking the Camino de Santiago

  • Posted on June 29, 2016June 29, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

Every year, students at Fordham University have the unique opportunity to walk the Camino de Santiago through the study abroad course Study Tour: Medieval Spain. This summer, graduate student Alexa Amore (MA Program, Medieval Studies) accompanied Professor David…

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Events

CMS Sends Off the Medieval Studies MA Class of 2016 with Farewell Conference!

  • Posted on May 9, 2016May 13, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

The Center for Medieval Studies threw a farewell party and conference for our graduating Master’s students on Saturday, May 7th. All seven students who will graduate in August,  Alexa Amore, Heather Hill, Scot Long, Anna Luykanova, Alex Profaci,…

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Events

Fordham Students Participate in Parchment Making Workshop at Pergamena

  • Posted on April 19, 2016April 25, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

On Saturday, April 16, a group of Medieval Studies graduate students, along with undergraduate students taking Dr. Nina Rowe’s Illuminated Manuscripts course and other Medieval Studies majors and minors, visited Pergamena, the only parchment-making workshop…

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Art History

In the glasing y-wroght: Medieval Glass as Material Medium and Message

  • Posted on April 19, 2016April 25, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

The 2016 Harvard Medieval Material Culture Lectures and Workshops were held Monday, April 4- through Thursday, April 7 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Featured lecturers were Elizabeth Pastan of Emory University and Patrick Degyrse of University of…

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Student Life

Heather Hill (Medieval Studies) Presents at North Carolina State University’s Graduate Student History Conference

  • Posted on April 12, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

On Saturday, April 2, Medieval Studies MA Heather Hill presented a paper at North Carolina State University’s Graduate Student History Conference. This paper, entitled “Textual Inheritance: A Theory for Agency of Women in English Books…

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Events

Review: Master Class on Medieval Maps with Paul Harvey

  • Posted on April 12, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

In conjunction with the Center for Medieval Studies’ recent Oxford Outremer Map Colloquium, Paul Harvey (Professor Emeritus, University of Durham) taught a master class on medieval maps to a very lucky group of Fordham graduate students…

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Events

Review: Manuscript as Medium: 36th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies

  • Posted on March 29, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

The 36th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies took place this past 5-6 March in the Lincoln Center Campus. The aim of the conference this year was to explore the employ, design, intended…

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Medieval Studies

Review: Fordham at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America

  • Posted on March 15, 2016March 15, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

What happens when several hundred medievalists from all different fields gather in one place for a weekend? The Medieval Academy of America meeting – dozens of fascinating panels and papers on a wide variety of topics.…

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Student Life

Graduate students Alex Profaci and David Smigen-Rothkopf collaborate with television producer on “Lords of the Darkness”

  • Posted on March 8, 2016March 9, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

Last semester, Medieval Studies students David Smigen-Rothkopf and Alexander Profaci worked with Julian Hobbs, former Executive Producer at the History Channel and now co-President of Talos Films, on “Lords of the Darkness: a Historical Docu-Drama”…

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Events

Week in Review: Dee Dyas (University of York) delivers lecture on Medieval Pilgrimage

  • Posted on February 29, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

What was it actually like to be a pilgrim at a shrine in the Middle Ages? On February 23rd, Dr. Dee Dyas (Department of History, Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, University…

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