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

Classics

Graduate Student Paleography Group

  • Posted on February 19, 2020
  • Mikayla Fenley

The Graduate Student Paleography Group led by Joseph Rudolph, English PhD candidate, meets every Monday morning to read and analyze manuscripts from various periods within the Middle Ages. Our goal is to examine different book…

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Classics

Reading [Latin] is Fun[damental]!

  • Posted on April 10, 2018September 20, 2018
  • Nicholas Paul

If there’s one skill that’s crucial for medievalists, it’s the ability to read Latin confidently and well. Sooner or later there will be Latin charters to read, religious texts to translate, laws and other literary…

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Classics

Frank Coulson Lectures on a Fragment of an Ovid Translation by Giovanni de Virgilio in the Walsh Library

  • Posted on May 6, 2017September 3, 2017
  • Kevin Vogelaar

This past 27 April, Dr. Frank Coulson of Ohio State University gave a lecture on a manuscript he discovered in the Walsh Library.  Coulson believes that Walsh Library MS Item 14, a 15th century manuscript…

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Events

Katherine Briant Curates Book Viewing at the Mertz Library, NYBG

  • Posted on October 15, 2016October 27, 2016
  • Kevin Vogelaar

On September 30th, Katherine Briant of Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies curated a viewing of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in the Mertz Library’s Rare Book and Folio Room as part of the first…

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Events

Dr. Robin Fleming Opens This Year’s Biduum Latinum at the New York Botanical Gardens

  • Posted on October 15, 2016November 4, 2016
  • Kevin Vogelaar

This past 30th of September, Dr. Robin Fleming gave a lecture in the New York Botanical Gardens’ Mertz Library as part of the first day of this year’s Biduum Latinum on the Roman importation of…

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Latin language and Literature

Scot Long and Anna Lukyanova return from the Paideia Institute’s “Living Latin” Program in Paris

  • Posted on January 25, 2016January 25, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

During Winter Break, Medieval Studies MA students Scotland Long and Anna Lukyanova spent December 27 to January 3 in Paris in the Paideia Institute For Humanistic Study’s “Living Latin” program in Paris. Their group, led…

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