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…
Continue ReadingFordham medievalist Nicholas Paul has won the Medieval Academy of America’s 2016 John Nicholas Brown Book Prize, awarded annually for a first book on a medieval subject. His monograph, To Follow in their Footsteps: The…
Continue ReadingThis past 5 February, Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski took a break from her appointment at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to deliver a presentation and lead a workshop on how individual scholars may develop and…
Continue ReadingThe Center for Medieval Studies is excited to announce the launch of its newest digital collaborative project, Exploring Place in the French of Italy!
Continue ReadingThis past 7 January, Katherine Briant, a MA student of the Center for Medieval Studies, presented her paper, “Prostitution of Textual Reproduction from Manuscript to Print,” at the Gender and Emotion conference sponsored by the…
Continue ReadingDuring Winter Break, Medieval Studies MA students Scotland Long and Anna Lukyanova spent December 27 to January 3 in Paris in the Paideia Institute For Humanistic Study’s “Living Latin” program in Paris. Their group, led…
Continue ReadingThe Center for Medieval Studies welcomes our newest fellow, Dr. Sara Moens. Central to the research of Sara Moens is the development of monasticism during the Central Middle Ages. For her doctoral dissertation at Ghent University…
Continue ReadingThis post is cross-blogged from History at Fordham University Fordham History Department’s own Esther Liberman Cuenca was recently awarded the Schallek Fellowship, a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant…
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 ReadingKatrine Funding Højgaard, a master’s student from the History Department of Aalborg University, Denmark, came via a study abroad program to Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies for the Fall 2015 semester. Having no department in…
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