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The Venerable Blog

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

Classics

Frank Coulson Lectures on a Fragment of an Ovid Translation by Giovanni de Virgilio in the Walsh Library

  • Posted on May 6, 2017September 3, 2017
  • Kevin Vogelaar

This past 27 April, Dr. Frank Coulson of Ohio State University gave a lecture on a manuscript he discovered in the Walsh Library.  Coulson believes that Walsh Library MS Item 14, a 15th century manuscript…

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Alumni

MVST Alumni Nathan Melson and Samantha Sabalis Present at the 2017 IUDC

  • Posted on May 6, 2017September 3, 2017
  • Kevin Vogelaar

This past 21 April, Bernard College hosted the annual Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium Medieval Conference.  Each year PhD students come from the various IUDC participant institutions to present some aspect of their research to their peers…

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Alumni

2017 Compatible Careers Talk and Workshop

  • Posted on May 6, 2017September 3, 2017
  • Kevin Vogelaar

This past 11 April, the Center for Medieval Studies hosted its annual “Compatible Careers” event.  Each year, the Center asks alumni to share their experiences of finding jobs after their graduations that go beyond 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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Manuscript Studies

Rebecca Bartels Recounts A Lecture Given by Consuelo Dutschke at Colombia University

  • Posted on November 18, 2016
  • Kevin Vogelaar

On October 28th, students of Dr. Hafner’s Manuscript Culture class attended a lecture at the Butler Library in Columbia University in order to hear a private seminar from Consuelo Dutschke, curator of the Medieval and…

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Events

Katherine Briant Curates Book Viewing at the Mertz Library, NYBG

  • Posted on October 15, 2016October 27, 2016
  • Kevin Vogelaar

On September 30th, Katherine Briant of Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies curated a viewing of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in the Mertz Library’s Rare Book and Folio Room as part of the first…

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Events

Fordham Students Participate in Parchment Making Workshop at Pergamena

  • Posted on April 19, 2016April 25, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

On Saturday, April 16, a group of Medieval Studies graduate students, along with undergraduate students taking Dr. Nina Rowe’s Illuminated Manuscripts course and other Medieval Studies majors and minors, visited Pergamena, the only parchment-making workshop…

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Faculty News

Nina Rowe (Dept. of Art History) awarded prestigious NEH and ACLS Fellowships

  • Posted on February 26, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

Dr. Nina Rowe, Chair of Fordham’s Department of Art History and Music, has been awarded year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for her…

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