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Student Research Summer 2022: A Week in Prague on the Trail of Clerical Concubinage

  • Posted on November 29, 2022
  • Alice Grissom

This summer I received the Mary Magdalene Impact Fellowship to support a research project mapping allegations of clerical concubinage in a set of visitation records from the archdiocese of Prague, recorded 1379-1382. Although clerical marriage…

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Crusading Studies

Medieval Movie Night: Kingdom of Heaven, November 17, 2021

  • Posted on November 19, 2021December 22, 2021
  • Daniel Berardino

On Wednesday the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies hosted a movie night, as is traditional. Many students attended in person and there was pizza and fellowship. But as we often have in COVID times, there…

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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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Events

Fordham’s Collegium Musicum Prepares for Upcoming Concert

  • Posted on December 3, 2019June 22, 2020
  • Mikayla Fenley

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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Alumni

Fordham Medieval Studies at the Fort Tryon Medieval Festival, this Sunday, September 30 11:30 AM-6:00 PM

  • Posted on September 24, 2018April 9, 2019
  • Christina Bruno

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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Alumni

What a year! (2017-2018 Edition)

  • Posted on August 26, 2018September 20, 2018
  • Nicholas Paul

Time has flown by, and we’re saying goodbye to many of our students who have just defended their MA theses. But what a year it has been!

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Graduate Studies

Gardening at The Met Cloisters

  • Posted on August 9, 2018September 20, 2018
  • Christina Bruno

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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Digital Humanities

Fordham Medieval Students and Faculty Present at Kalamazoo

  • Posted on May 15, 2018September 20, 2018
  • Nicholas Paul

  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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Art History

A Comparative Celebration of Eastern and Western Easter Traditions

  • Posted on April 30, 2018September 20, 2018
  • Katy McCombs

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…

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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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