History of art and classics professor wins book prize

“Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art,” written by Benjamin Anderson from the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the 2020 Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy of America.The annual award recognizes a distinguished book on medieval art history.Anderson is an associate professor in the departments of History...

2020 MSSC: The Medieval At Home

Medieval Literature Lecture Series

Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97

Professor Emeritus Brian Tierney, who taught medieval history at Cornell for 33 years and was recognized as a leading authority on medieval church law and political thought, died Nov. 30 in Syracuse. He was 97.

Tierney taught in the Department of History from 1959 until his retirement in 1992 as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies.

Medieval Studies Student Colloquium 2020: "The Medieval at Home"

The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University is pleased to announce its thirtieth annual graduate student colloquium, which will take place on the 15th of February 2020 at the A.D. White House on Cornell’s Ithaca, NY campus.This year's colloquium focuses on medieval domesticity. The domestic sphere includes the political, everyday,...

Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable, Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 schedule for the Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable is now available.In these monthly workshops students and faculty meet to discuss works-in-progress by members of the Medieval Studies community. All are welcome! The Medieval Studies Graduate Student Roundtable, Fall 2019Fridays 2:00-3:30PM27 September: Thari Zweers,...

Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series, Fall 2019

The Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series resumes in Fall 2019, with three Cornell medievalists giving free lunchtime presentations on current issues and/or works in progress. All Brown Bag Lunch talks will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall, room 350, from noon to 1 p.m., and are free to the public. Thursday, October 17: Erik Born (German...

Application portal opens for new Klarman Fellowships

“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."

The Medieval Roundtable: Graduate Student Works in Progress

The Medieval Roundtable: Graduate Student Works in ProgressFridays at 4:00pm in the Olin Library Room 303.Spring 2019 schedule:2/15, Alice Wolff, "Materials as Power: Glass in Anglo-Saxon England"3/15, Thari Zweers, "Who Caused the Peasants' Revolt? A Tale of Blame in Two Texts: John Gower's Mirour de L'Omme and his Vox Clamantis"4/19, ...

Doctoral Student Wins MAA Prize

John Wyatt Greenlee, a doctoral student in medieval studies, was recently awarded the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize by the Medieval Academy of America for his work on the Mandeville Map Project.The Medieval Academy of America awards five prizes per year, one in each of five categories. The criteria for the Digital Humanities and...