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The Venerable Blog

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

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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Events

John D. Niles Brings Old English Manuscripts and Medicines to Fordham

  • Posted on October 30, 2017September 20, 2018
  • Nicholas Paul

Medieval Studies kicked off its 2017 event series with a visit from a world renowned scholar of Old English literature and culture. John D. Niles. Dr. Niles, professor emeritus a the University of California-Berkeley and…

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Digital Humanities

Alisa Beer Holds Manuscript Encoding Workshop at Columbia

  • Posted on June 2, 2017September 3, 2017
  • Laura Morreale

Alisa Beer (PhD, History) was fortunate enough to hold an internship with Consuelo Dutschke at the Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library in the Spring semester of 2017, through a joint program with the…

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Events

Parchment Making Workshop at Pergamena, 5 November

  • Posted on November 18, 2016November 18, 2016
  • Kevin Vogelaar

This past 5th of November, Dr. Hafner brought both her Manuscript Culture class and a collection of brave volunteers to Pergamena, one of the few tanneries left in the United States and one of the…

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