Medieval A-musings
Medieval A-Musings #2
Money need not be metallic! Spice did serve as a form of money, from the 10th to the 14th century. It’s easy to imagine that pepper was bartered (traded for goods without following a set…
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English Department
Lecture and Master Class with Professor Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe
Last Wednesday, the Center for Medieval Studies was joined for a lecture and master class by Professor Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe (UC Berkeley – English) entitled “Error and Forgetting: On Judgement and Wandering Texts.” Professor O’Keeffe’s…
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Crusading Studies
Medieval Studies Presents Digital Research at the London Center
A new initiative of Fordham’s Office of Research under its Chief Research Officer, Professor Z. George Hong sees Fordham researchers traveling the world to form research collaborations with scholars in other countries. The Research Abroad Program…
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Digital Humanities
Fordham Medieval Students and Faculty Present at Kalamazoo
This past weekend (May 10-13) was the 53rd Annual International Conference of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. With over five hundred panels running throughout the weekend, this is the largest medieval studies conference in…
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Medieval England
Fordham Collegium’s First Performance
The Collegium Musicum Fordhamense had its first pop-up performance, “Voices of English Praise,” on Thursday March 8 at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. The concert included anthems by Thomas Tallis, polyphonic hymns by William Byrd, and…
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Valentine’s Day Vernacular Poetry Reading
This past 14 February, the Medieval Studies Department hosted their first Valentine’s Day poetry reading. In the spirit of the day, all selections discussed, in some capacity, the nature of love and its effect on…
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Andrew O’Sullivan at the Folger Institute
Andrew O’Sullivan spent this past 23-27 of May at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C. He attended there the Institute’s Orientation to Research Methods and Agendas with the intention of gaining a better understanding of…
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Esther Liberman Cuenca Awarded Prestigious Schallek Fellowship
This post is cross-blogged from History at Fordham University Fordham History Department’s own Esther Liberman Cuenca was recently awarded the Schallek Fellowship, a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant…
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