Giving Day 2024
Thursday, March 14
Thursday, March 14
Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.
Saturday, March 2 on Zoom
Simone Pinet will give the Romance Studies annual faculty lecture entitled "Silence, Voice, Noise: Sound Scenes from the 'Poem of the Cid'"
Select Thursdays, 4:30-6:00pm in Olin Library 703
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Women’s Public Language in the 'Old English Apollonius of Tyre'" in Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 59, No. 1 (2023).
Wednesday, Feb 21 at 4:30pm
Olin Library 107
Thomas' edition and translation of Fr. Franck Quoëx's "Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas: Sacrifice and Salvation History" has been published as part of the Thomistic Ressourcement Series (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023).
A specialist in the study of Latin manuscripts and the history of universities, John was a part of the Cornell community for more than 50 years, teaching medieval intellectual history, historiography and paleography – the study of historical writing systems and manuscripts.
Michael Alan Anderson (Eastman School of Music) will be presenting on, "Sounding the Saints in Books of Hours," at 5:15 PM on Monday, October 30 (AD White House and Zoom)
The conference will be held virtually over Zoom on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024.
David Albertson (USC) will be presenting on, "What Does Geometry Have to Do with Mysticism? Space and Interiority in Medieval Christian Thought," at 5 PM on Sept. 29 (401 Physical Sciences Building)
Recent Medieval Studies PhD graduate, Paul Vinhage, was named a 23/24 Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
Cornell’s Medieval Studies Program invites you to our Fall 2023 Opening Reception
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Alice Wolff, was awarded this fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year!
Thomas' edition and translation of Honorius Augustodunensis's 'Gemma animae' (with his collaborator Gerhard Eger) has been published by the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (Harvard University Press)
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Tyler Wolford, was awarded this fellowship to work on his project, "Mountain Resilience: Settlement on Mount Latros and Mykale in Middle Byzantine Western Asia Minor" next year in Istanbul.
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Alice Wolff, was awarded this prize for her excellent Freshman Writing Seminar teaching
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Sarah LaVoy, was nominated for and awarded this fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year!
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4:30pm on Friday, May 26 in the Hans Bethe House dining room.
April 22
10:00-1:30: Lecture in Kaufmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall
1:30-4:00: Workshop in Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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Thursday, March 16, 4:15-6pm, Olin Library B-32
The 2023 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), "Lacunae," will be held virtually on Zoom on Saturday, March 11, starting at 9:00 AM Eastern Time.
Manning and Jed Sparks combined the capabilities of their respective labs, the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory and the Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory (COIL), to scrutinize samples from the Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, a human-made 53-meter-tall structure located west of Ankara, Turkey.
Join us in congratulating Ross Brann, Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, on this honor.
This spring we have an exciting line-up of lectures, workshops, MSGA roundtables, a book launch for Prof. Benjamin Anderson's forthcoming co-edited volume, and the 33rd annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, "Lacunae."
Dante King, Secretary of the Medieval Studies Graduate Association, describes the 2022 Festival of Medieval Readings.
The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 33rd annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which takes the idea of “Lacunae” as its theme.
On November 8, as part of the “Producing the Middle Ages” event series, the Medieval Studies Graduate Association (MSGA) and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly hosted a screening of David Lowery and A24’s The Green Knight (2021) followed by an accompanying panel discussion.
Sophia's essay, 'The Carolingian Gender Reform: Making Monastic Women Female in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries', won the 2021-2022 prize from the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
4:45-8 PM EDT
Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences 3: Rethinking the Paradigm conference keynote lecture is on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 7pm and is open to the public.
Join us this fall for our Medieval Studies hosted and co-sponsored events
Monica Green, independent scholar, “Between Samarqand and Granada: The ‘Wind’ of Plague Moves Through the Islamicate World”
September 23, 12:25 - 2:20, via Zoom
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
The Cornell Medievalist Community is invited to our Fall 2022 Opening Reception.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
4:45-6:30pm
Hans Bethe House
Join us to celebrate our graduates!Friday, May 27, Celebratory Reception4:30–6:00pm, 125 Hans Bethe HouseSaturday, May 28, Ceremony10:00–11:30am, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall (English Lounge)
Reconstruction and Repossession in Rome’s Early Medieval Charitable HostelsGregor Kalas (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)Tuesday, May 3 | 4:45 ESTGuerlac Room, AD White HouseRome's xenodochia, or hostels for foreigners, operated as charities sponsored by aristocrats prior to the year 600 CE. This talk examines the reuse of ancient...
The 2022 Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, "Consuming the Middle Ages," will be held virtually on Zoom on Saturday, April 23rd, starting at 10:30 AM EDT. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Cord Whitaker (Associate Professor of English, Wellesley College), speaking at 3 PM EDT on The “Ubermensch” and the “Race Man”: W. E. B. Du Bois and the...
Second-year Medieval Studies graduate student Ryan Randle has published a provocative piece, “Medieval Arthuriana Was Always Scary, but Not in the Way You’d Think: On Sir Gawain and The Green Knight,” in the Bright Lights Film Journal. Highlighting the oft forgotten terrors of sexual violence in medieval Arthurian literature, a far cry from the...
Fourth-year Medieval Studies PhD candidate Alice Wolff is lead author of an article recently published in Weed Science (Cambridge University Press), “In the Ruins: The Neglected Link between Archaeology and Weed Science.” Alice and her co-authors chart new interdisciplinary avenues for research at the intersection of archaeobotany and weed ecology...
On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
Please help the Cornell Medieval Studies Program do even more by supporting us today – it’s quick and easy. Just visit this link on March 16 to make your gift. Every little bit helps! Diex vos sait, sæl og blessuð, السلام عليكم, and hello from the Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University! It’s been awhile… Our gradual reemergence from this...
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Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester! The Roundtable is a community space where everyone's voice and presence are valued whether or not they have expertise on the topic being presented. It is both a space for graduate students to receive feedback on their works in progress and an opportunity for faculty...