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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

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

Andrew O’Sullivan at the Folger Institute

  • Posted on July 18, 2016
  • Kevin Vogelaar

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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Digital Humanities

Heather Hill at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

  • Posted on July 8, 2016
  • Kevin Vogelaar

Over the week from June 5 to June 11, 2016, Heather Hill had the opportunity to visit the beautiful campus at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, for the annual Digital Humanities Summer…

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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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Events

Review: Master Class on Medieval Maps with Paul Harvey

  • Posted on April 12, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

In conjunction with the Center for Medieval Studies’ recent Oxford Outremer Map Colloquium, Paul Harvey (Professor Emeritus, University of Durham) taught a master class on medieval maps to a very lucky group of Fordham graduate students…

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Digital Humanities

Week in Review: Workshop on Databases for Medievalists with Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

  • Posted on February 12, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

This 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…

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Events

Fordham’s First Latin Bootcamp: Fun for the Whole Community

  • Posted on November 18, 2015January 22, 2016
  • Alexa Amore

On the evening of Friday November 13th, Fordham University kicked off its first annual Biduum Latinum Fordhamense, otherwise known as “Latin Bootcamp,” co-sponsored by the Classics department, the Center for Medieval Studies, GSAS Futures and the…

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