Medieval A-musings
Medieval A-Musings #2
Money need not be metallic! Spice did serve as a form of money, from the 10th to the 14th century. It’s easy to imagine that pepper was bartered (traded for goods without following a set…
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Master Class
Caroline Barron Leads a Master Class on Women’s Wills
One of the benefits of a largely-virtual semester is that The Center for Medieval Studies is able to host scholars from all over the world. On October 21st, Professor Caroline Barron joined us from the…
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Rita Orazi and Larissa Ross Present at the 2017 Hudson Valley Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium
This past 25 February, Fordham students Larissa Ross and Rita Orazi presented at the 2017 Hudson Valley Medieval and Early Modern Undergraduate Symposium at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Larissa Ross presented her paper,…
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Student Spotlight: David Pedersen Receives Teaching Position
David Pedersen is a PhD candidate in English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University. His dissertation, “Anxiously Pursuing Peace: Defining and Defending Christian Faith in Texts of Old English Reflective Wisdom,” explores the unique questions,…
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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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9 April Oxford Outremer Map Colloquium
This past 9 April, the Centre for Medieval Studies hosted the Oxford Outremer Map Colloquium at the Lincoln Centre campus. This colloquium, showcasing the work the Centre has done for the digitization project of Corpus…
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Esther Liberman Cuenca Awarded Prestigious Schallek Fellowship
This 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…
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Maryanne Kowaleski Begins Prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University
This story is cross-blogged from History at Fordham University. Last Spring, Maryanne Kowaleski, Joseph Fitzpatrick S.J. Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies was selected to hold a prestigious residential fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advances Studies…
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