On October 2nd, the Annual Medieval Festival was held at Fort Tryon Park. This event is organized by NYC Parks and the Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation, with the support of the Fort Tryon…
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Monday, November 25th marked one of the final rehearsals for Fordham’s Collegium Musicum as they prepared for their upcoming concert My Bestial Half: A Roman de Fauvel. The vocalists and instrumentalists practiced hard under the…
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Now veterans of the annual Fort Tryon Medieval Festival, Fordham Medieval Studies reflects on its second appearance at the 35th iteration of the popular fête. Much more linen and wool (and maybe polyester) were worn…
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Galina Krasskova, grad student and performer, writes of Collegium’s Thursday, November 29 performance: Thursday, November 29th saw the second performance of Fordham’s Medieval and Renaissance music group, the Collegium Musicum Fordhamense, and it was a…
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The Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University feels even more medieval than usual this week, as preparations for the 34th Annual Fort Tryon Medieval Festival are now well underway, with costumes and armor scattered…
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At the northern edge of Manhattan, nestled atop a hill in peaceful, leafy Fort Tryon Park, is a small slice of the Middle Ages: the Met Cloisters. Beyond its impressive collection of medieval art, this…
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Fordham graduate students recently had the opportunity to participate in a class coinciding with the Morgan Library and Museum’s exhibit Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders (June 8-September 23). The show examines the varied depictions of monsters…
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On April 1st of this year, approximately 1.2 billion people celebrated Easter in the Catholic Church. Seven days later, approximately 225 – 300 million people celebrated Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The date of…
Continue ReadingThis post is cross-blogged from Fordham News. The Très riches heures, a book of prayers commissioned for a French prince, is one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts of the 15th century. It contains dozens…
Continue Reading“In mid March 2015 – toward the end of New York’s perpetual winter – I took the subway up to Dykman Street and trekked up the snowy hills of Fort Tyron Park to reach…
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