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Alice Wolff (Ph.D. 2025, Cornell Medieval Studies) and Antonio DiTommaso (Professor, Cornell University) published their article, "To know diverse manner of weeds: the development of weed identification manuals in early modern England and their influence on North American guides" in Weed Technology, 2025
Thomas' translated edition of Radulph of Rivo's 'On the Observance of Canons' (with his collaborator Gerhard Eger) has been published by Brepols as part of their Library of Christian Sources series.
The Cornell Medieval Studies Program is pleased to announce the 36th annual Medieval Student Colloquium (MSSC) in person at Cornell University's A.D. White House on Saturday, February 21, 2026. The theme this year is "Mirror Worlds".
Thomas' translated edition of Jean-Baptiste le Brun des Marette's 'Liturgical Travels Through France' (with his collaborator Gerhard Eger) has been published by Os Justi Press as part of their series in Liturgical History and Reform.
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
Maimonides, one of the most significant intellectual figures of the medieval period,worked as a physician, thought like a scientist, and served as a leader of the Jewish community in Cairo.
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
S. Gottfried won the Carol Kaske Prize for the essay, "We’re Off to the Wild Woods: A Phenomenological Investigation of the First Branch of the Mabinogi"
Willow Groundwater-Schuldt won the Tom Hill Graduate Essay Award for her essay, "The Hysteric Kriemhild"
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.”
Alice awarded a James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence honorable mention.
March 13, 2025
Medieval Studies PhD candidate, Zachary Thomas, was nominated for and awarded this fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year!
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.
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
The article, “Anglo-Saxonism and Indigenous Dispossession: Land-Grab Universities and the Emergence of Medieval Studies” is in Speculum's Centennial Issue (January 2025).
Sturt Manning, received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) in Boston in November.
Medieval Studies has created new prizes for students. Submissions for both prizes are due Jan. 31 and will be judged by a faculty panel in the Medieval Studies Program.
Alice Wolff, current Medieval Studies graduate student, publishes her article "A thorny problem: defining weeds from the medieval to the present" in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
The Nov. 2 conference will focus on an interdisciplinary approach.
Sophia D'Ignazio, Cornell Medieval Studies Ph.D. 2022, publishes her article "Schoolgirl Grammar: Reading and Writing Beyond the Classroom" in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 123.4.
Sarah LaVoy-Brunette and Jordan Chauncy, Ph.D. candidates in Medieval Studies, have published a co-authored article, "Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald’s Wolves," in Medieval Ecocriticisms 4 (2024).
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
The Medieval Studies program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 35th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which will take place in person at Cornell University in the A.D. White House on Saturday, February 22nd 2025.
Please join us at the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable this semester!
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
May 28 and 29: Physical Sciences 401 May 30: Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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.
Among the faculty members being recognized this year for exceptional teaching and mentorship are Liliana Colanzi, Durba Ghosh, and Nick Admussen.
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!