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Frank Coulson Lectures on a Fragment of an Ovid Translation by Giovanni de Virgilio in the Walsh Library
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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MVST Alumni Nathan Melson and Samantha Sabalis Present at the 2017 IUDC
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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37th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies: Part 1
This past 25 March, the Center held its 37th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies. This year’s conference, “The Generative Power of Tradition: A Celebration of Traditio, 75 Years,” explored both the power…
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Parchment Making Workshop at Pergamena, 5 November
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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Rebecca Bartels Recounts A Lecture Given by Consuelo Dutschke at Colombia University
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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Crosspost From History Blog: Summer Postcard: The Medievalist’s “Grand Tour”
Original post by Professor Nicholas Paul from: http://history.blog.fordham.edu/?m=201608 The next postcard in our series about the summer wanderings and adventures of Fordham historians sees PhD candidate Lucy Barnhouse undertake a medievalist’s version of the Grand Tour,…
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Andrew O’Sullivan at the Folger Institute
Andrew O’Sullivan spent this past 23-27 of May at the Folger Institute in Washington, D.C. He attended there the Institute’s Orientation to Research Methods and Agendas with the intention of gaining a better understanding of…
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Alexa Amore (Medieval Studies) returns from walking the Camino de Santiago
Every year, students at Fordham University have the unique opportunity to walk the Camino de Santiago through the study abroad course Study Tour: Medieval Spain. This summer, graduate student Alexa Amore (MA Program, Medieval Studies) accompanied Professor David…
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CMS Sends Off the Medieval Studies MA Class of 2016 with Farewell Conference!
The Center for Medieval Studies threw a farewell party and conference for our graduating Master’s students on Saturday, May 7th. All seven students who will graduate in August, Alexa Amore, Heather Hill, Scot Long, Anna Luykanova, Alex Profaci,…
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