Sarah LaVoy-Brunette

Sarah LaVoy-Brunette awarded a Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship, Yale

Sarah LaVoy-Brunette will be in residence at Yale during the 2025/26 academic year as a Henry Roe Cloud Fellow in support of her dissertation, “Converting the Wilderness: The Legacies of Settler Colonialism in Early Medieval England and Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nihgeh.”

Dissonance and Dysphoria

MSSC 2025: Dissonance and Dysphoria

On Saturday, February 22, the 35th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium will take place at the A.D. White House on Cornell's Ithaca campus.

Peter Loewen

Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences

Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.

Book cover: The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria

Book brings elusive Greek technical writer into focus

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.

Historical black and white image of a young man reading

James John, medieval historian, dies at 95

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.

Jewel of the Soul

Zachary Thomas publishes book

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)

Roman Syria Mosaic depicting a rooster, AD 450–550 Gift of Professor and Mrs. Meyer Abrams Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art
Although many mosaics enriched the floors of Roman buildings, much like carpets, they were sometimes placed on walls as well. This mosaic is believed to have originated in an early Christian church in Homs, Syria. In Christian iconography, roosters symbolize Christ’s resurrection because they are the first to greet the dawn.

Giving Day, 16 March, 2023

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The growth rings inside a juniper tree, combined with isotope records, helped researchers pinpoint a likely culprit for the collapse of the Hittite Empire: three straight years of severe drought, approximately 1198–96 BC, in an already dry period.
The growth rings inside a juniper tree, combined with isotope records, helped researchers pinpoint a likely culprit for the collapse of the Hittite Empire: three straight years of severe drought, approximately 1198–96 BC, in an already dry period.

Medieval Studies faculty member, Sturt Manning, published in Nature

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.

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