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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At this year’s Fort Tryon Medieval Festival, my colleague Peyton Seabolt and I gave a panel discussing different kinds of animals and their uses during the Middle Ages (complete with puppets!). The Fort Tryon Medieval…
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On April 28, 2022 the Center for Medieval Studies returned to tradition and welcomed Elizabeth Comuzzi, the newest Medieval Studies faculty member, to give a talk based on her findings from the archives of the…
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Fordham Medieval Studies was well-represented at this year’s Moravian University undergraduate conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, hosted at the historic campus of Moravian University in Bethlehem PA on Saturday December 4, 2021. The…
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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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On October 20, Fordham University in collaboration with Les Enluminures hosted a webinar entitled The Now of the Rose. Fordham faculty, students, and external guests heard from Stephen G. Nichols, Professor Sandra Hindman, Melanie Garcia…
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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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This post our first in a new series, in each of which we will pick the brain of a different Fordham medievalist. This Friday, Fordham medievalists will have a chance to hear from Dr. Brian…
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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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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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