Medievalia Fordhamensia

Volume 35 The Center for Medieval Studies 2014/15

Faculty A Note from the Director

*Susanne Hafner, Director, German In recent years, calls for more internationalization and globalization have re- *Laura Morreale, Associate Director sounded on American campuses. For medievalists, this is not a novel idea: Working Andrew Albin, English with sources that largely originated in Europe and Asia and which require foreign – *Susanna Barsella, Italian & MVST and mostly dead – languages has always been central to our profession. The Ford- William Baumgarth, Political Science ham medievalist faculty is quite international, too: Ten of the thirty-three colleagues Eric Bianchi, Art History and Music currently teaching medieval courses were born and raised in a country other than the United States, whereas six of our American colleagues acquired their degrees outside Martin Chase, SJ, English & MVST the US. But wherever the members of this multilingual and multicultural group John R. Clark, Classics might have grown up, been educated and trained, they have all grown roots at Ford- Christopher Cullen, SJ, Philosophy ham. Brian E. Davies, OP, Philosophy For the past twenty years, this resident Fordham faculty has been complemented Robert Davis, Theology by a constant stream of Medieval Fellows and Visiting Fellows. These post-doctoral scholars have come to the Center for Medieval Studies to spend several months, a George E. Demacopoulos, Theology semester, or even a year exclusively on their research, making use of the excellent *Mary C. Erler, English library and research opportunities available to them at Fordham and in New York. Thelma S. Fenster, French (Emerita) The past academic year 2014/15 has seen a particularly impressive cohort: Nicola Maris Fiondella, English (Emerita) Bergamo from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Helen Bir- Isabelle Frank, Dean, PCS kett from the University of Exeter, Emma Campbell from the University of War- wick, Isabelle Levy from Harvard, Elena Putti from the University of Milan, Chelsea Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Theology Shields-Más from Suffolk County Community College, and David Wrisley from the Richard Gyug, History & MVST American University of Beirut. (For more information on their research while at Franklin Harkins, Theology & MVST Fordham, please refer to page 17.) Joel Herschman, Art History (Emeritus) While the Medieval Fellows are enjoying the peace and quiet of their Fordham J. Patrick Hornbeck, Theology & MVST office or library carrel, they are also invigorating the intellectual life at the Center for Javier Jiménez-Belmonte, Spanish Medieval Studies. Collaboration happens naturally and often quite spontaneously. In fall 2014, fellows E. Campbell and D. Wrisley, together with associate director John Kezel, Campion Institute Laura Morreale, discovered common research questions which led to an impromptu Gyula Klima, Philosophy workshop on “What is the Vernacular?” Similarly, Dr. Wrisley and graduate student Joseph Koterski, SJ, Philosophy David Levine bonded over their shared interest in digital humanities and combined Maryanne Kowaleski, History & MVST forces to offer a workshop on “Spatiality and Digital Mapping” to the Fordham com- Kathryn Kueny, Theology munity. The Old French scholars in residence this year joined our Old French reading group and introduced participants to texts on which they were working. This Joseph Lienhard, SJ, Theology way, they were not only preparing the ground for the presentations they would con- Susanna McFadden, Art History tribute to the Center’s lecture series, they also mentored our graduate students by Wolfgang Müller, History allowing them close insight into the process of conducting a long-term research pro- Alex Novikoff, History ject. The convivial space of FMH 405C, which serves as the Center’s reference li- Astrid M. O’Brien, Philosophy (Emerita) brary, the graduate assistants’ workspace, and the location for shared meals and scholars’ teas, facilitates this informal learning environment: We have all learned Joseph O’Callaghan, History (Emeritus) something new, gained new insights, and collaborated on projects small and large, Thomas O’Donnell, English just by talking to each other. Elizabeth Parker, Art History (Emerita) This collaboration does not end when the Medieval Fellows return home. Elena *Nicholas Paul, History Putti, who generously contributed to Fordham’s “French of Italy” website during her *Giorgio Pini, Philosophy summer in New York, continues to send us materials from Turin’s archives. Previous fellows have returned for conferences and co-edited books. Fordham medievalists, in Nina Rowe, Art History turn, visit their colleagues at their respective universities to give lectures, attend con- Brian Reilly, French ferences, or work on common projects. Twenty years after its inception, the Medie- George Shea, Classics (Emeritus) val Fellows program is the perfect example of what it means to be the member of an Cristiana Sogno, Classics intellectual community. We are looking forward to welcoming the fellows of the *Maureen Tilley, Theology years to come! Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, English *Suzanne Yeager, English & MVST

* Executive Committee 1

PARTICIPANTS FOR THE 2014 PANEL INCLUDE:

Brian Klinzing, Senior Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations, BrightFocus Foundation (Medical Research Foundation) Yvonne Rode, Instructor/Special Collections Librarian, Westchester Community College (Librarianship and Digital Humanities) Rebecca Slitt, Managing Editor, Choice of Games (Writing, Editing, Instructional Design) Gilbert Stack, Director of Assessment and Accreditation Fordham University (University Administration) Kathryn Treadway, Technology and Product Specialist, Macmillan Higher Education (Publishing)

Laura Morreale, Fordham University, moderator.

2  Medieval Studies Graduate Courses  Fall 2015 Spring 2016

MVST 5077 Editing Medieval Texts MVST 4004 Medieval Pilgrimage (Reilly), R 5:30-8:00 (Gyug, Yeager), R 2:30-5:00 ENGL 6209 Themes in Preconquest Literature ENGL 6215 Medieval British Historical Writing (Chase), T 4:00-6:30 (O’Donnell), F 2:30-5:00 ENGL 6231 Late Medieval Women: Reading, Texts, Audiences HIST 8110 Seminar: Church Law and Medieval Society (Erler), M 2:30-5:00 (Mueller), W 2:30-5:00 HIST 6078 The Crusader States: HIST 5201 Twelfth Century Renaissance The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1291 (Novikoff), T 5:30-8:00 (Paul), W 5:30-8:00 HIST 5553 Book History: Text, Media, and Communication HIST 7110 Proseminar: Church Law and Medieval Society (Rigogne), W 5:30-8:00 (Mueller), M 5:30-8:00 PHIL 5012 Introduction to St Augustine PHIL 7039 Aquinas’s Philosophy of God (Pini), W 11:30-1:30 (Davis), W 7:00-9:00 PHIL 7042 Buridan on the Soul THEO 5300 History of Christianity I (Klima), T 1:30-3:30 (Lienhard), W 5:00-7:30 LATIN 6521 Latin Paleography THEO 6305 Introduction to Rabbinic Literature (Clark), R 6:30-8:30 (Gribetz), T 1:00-3:30 THEO 6463 From Lollards to Luther (Hornbeck), R 9:00-11:30

 Summer 2015 Courses  Summer Session I

MVST 5200 Medieval Iberia, Novikoff, 4 credits, MW 4:00-7:00 This course examines and evaluates the interaction among the three religious cultures of medieval Iberia: Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. Readings and discussion will cover the successive historical periods of medieval Iberia (ca. 600-1500), but a major focus of the class will be a holistic approach to intellectual traditions and cultural interactions among the three groups. To this end, a substantial amount of attention will be devoted to considering the architectural, poetic, musical, and polemical interactions that shaped the countries we now call Spain and Portugal. This class will also take advantage of New York’s exceptional museum and library collections. MVST 8999 Tutorial: Study Tour of Medieval Spain, Myers, 4 credits This tutorial will offer graduate students the opportunity to gain credit by walking the Camino de Santiago, the traditional pilgrimage route from France across Spain to Santiago de Compostela, the legendary burial site of St. James. LATIN 5090 Latin for Reading, Sogno, 0 credits, TR 6:00-9:00 FREN 5090 French for Reading, Latour, 0 credits, TR 1:00-4:00 SPAN 5090 Spanish for Reading (LC), Lenis, 0 credits, TR 6:00-9:00

Summer Session II

LATN 5093 Ecclesiastical Latin, Clark, 3 credits, TWR 6:00-9:00 Study of the structure, form and vocabulary of Church Latin, focusing on the Bible, the Church Fathers, and medieval thinkers.

Professional Issues in Medieval Studies Workshops 

Fall 2014 Spring 2015

“R” for the Digital Humanities How to Write an Academic CV Brian Reilly (Fordham University) Susanne Hafner (Fordham University) Co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:30 p.m. Monday, September 22, 2014,1:00 p.m.

Spatiality and Digital Mapping Compatible Careers for Medievalists David Wrisley (American University of Beirut) Moderator: Laura Morreale (Fordham University) Co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:30 p.m.

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Andrew Albin (English) has been awarded two fellowships for Brian Davies, OP (Philosophy) published Thomas Aquinas's the 2015-2016 academic year, one from 'Summa Theologiae': A Guide and Commentary for Oxford Uni- the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, one from the American versity Press: Oxford, 2014. On February 6th 2015, he delivered Council of Learned Societies. Both fellowships will contribute a lecture at the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London, entitled to his continuing work on his alliterative translation of and com- “Aquinas on What God is Not.” He currently has a contract with mentary on English mystic Richard Rolle's treatise, the Melos Oxford University Press for a new book, nearly finished, enti- amoris. Albin's book will be published by the Pontifical Insti- tled Thomas Aquinas's 'Summa Contra Gentiles': A Guide and tute of Mediaeval Studies and will include a record- Commentary. ing of fifteenth-century sacred music associated with a key manuscript witness, much of it never before recorded, performed by Robert Davis’ (Theology) book, The Weight of Love: Affect, the early music performance group Sine Nomine. Albin deliv- Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure, will be ered the keynote address, “Towards a Material Listening: Rol- published by Fordham University Press in 2016, and his article lean Mysticism, Angelic Song, and the Vocal Codex,” for the “Hierarchy and Excess in Bonaventure’s Itinerarium Mentis in inaugural Hudson Valley Medieval and Early Modern Under- Deum” will appear in the October 2015 issue of Journal of Reli- graduate Symposium on February 7, 2015. Students in his gion. In April, Dr. Davis presented a paper on acedia and Car- Spring 2014 interdisciplinary capstone course, “Medieval Dra- thusian contemplation at the American Comparative Literature ma in Performance,” performed their adaptation of the fifteenth- Association conference in Seattle. century morality play, Everyman, at Summit Rock in Central Park on April 26, 2015. Their performance was filmed and will Mary Erler's (English) career at Fordham was recognized at a soon be available online in a media-rich digital archive hosting conference in her honor on March 7, 2015: “Reading and Writ- the video alongside students’ critical reflections on the ing in City, Court, and Cloister.” Papers on this subject were play, their performance, and the performance of medieval drama given by five friends and colleagues: Caroline Barron, Universi- in the modern day. ty of London; Joyce Coleman, University of Oklahoma; Sheila Lindenbaum, University of Indiana; Kathryn Smith, NYU; and Eric Bianchi (Art History and Music) will be on leave in 2015- Michael Sargent, CUNY. The papers were introduced by for- 16. He will be in residence at the Italian Academy for Ad- mer Ph.D. students of Dr. Erler: Allison Adair Alberts, Maija vanced Studies at Columbia University, where he will pursue a Birenbaum, Heather Blatt, Lara Farina, and Cathryn McCarthy. project on Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher and seventeenth- A Festschrift on the topic of medieval reading is planned. century musical culture. Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Theology) was thrilled to join the Ford- ham Medieval Studies community this year. She has a number of forthcoming articles: “Take to Heart these Instructions: The Shema in the Second Temple Period, a reconsideration,” in the Journal of Ancient Judaism; “Pregnant with Meaning; Wom- en's Bodies as Metaphors for Time in Biblical, Second Temple, and Rabbinic Literature,” in The Construction of Time in Antiq- uity; “A Matter of Time: Writing Jewish Memory into Roman History,” in Association for Jewish Studies Review, Christopher Cullen, SJ (Philosophy) delivered a paper entitled and “Between Narrative and Polemic: The Sabbath in Genesis "Aquinas's Natural Theology and Lateran IV," at the American Rabbah and the Babylonian Talmud,” in Genesis Rabbah: Text Maritain Association's annual conference at the University of and Contexts. This summer, she will split her time between San Francisco, 26-28 February 2015. Cullen published an article Israel and Switzerland, where she will be working on a book on entitled, "The Doctrine of Analogy among the Thomists: A De- constructions of time in rabbinic sources and participating in bate Renewed," in Nova et vetera 12, 3 (2014). He delivered the conferences on medieval polemics and ancient travel. In Fall following papers: "Community, Religion and Virtue in Modern 2015, she will be teaching a new graduate seminar on rabbinic Liberal Democracies," at the Columbia Faculty Seminar on Ca- literature, and in Spring 2016, she will be teaching a new under- tholicism and Modernity, October 21 2014; "Virgil the Philoso- graduate course on the history of ancient and medieval Jeruslem pher," at the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy at Fordham from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives. University on Oct. 24, 2014; “Empire in the Political Thought of St. Bonaventure,” at the International Medieval Congress, in Richard Gyug (History and Medieval Studies) has been enjoy- Leeds, July 7-10, 2014; “Philosophy within the Limits of Reli- ing a leave of absence in 2014-15 to work in Ita- gion Alone: Henri de Lubac on Final Causality,” at ly on the Monumenta liturgica beneventana, a project to edit and the Dominican Colloquium in Berkeley, held at the Dominican study works in the Beneventan script of southern Italy and Dal- School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, matia. During the year, he published an article on episcopal cer- July 16-20, 2014. Cullen will be participating in a round-table emonies in southern Italy and Dalmatia in the journal Arti mu- panel on “Philosophical Questions in the Sentences Commen- sices, published in Zagreb, and completed articles for the jour- tary of St. Bonaventure” (a new translation), at the International nal Questiones medii aevi novae, for a volume in memory of Congress on Medieval Studies, at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May Don Faustino Avagliano, former archivist of Montecassino, and 14-16, 2015, and will speak on “Natural Theology and Lateran for a Festschrift. In addition, he completed a section on the bibli- IV,” at an 800th Anniversary Conference of Concilium Later- cal fragments at Montecassino for an exhibition catalogue. In anense IV, to be held in Rome, November 25-29, 2015. May, he will be presenting on Beneventan manuscripts at Kala- 4  Faculty News, continued  mazoo, and in June-July, teaching an advanced course on liturgi- Susanne Hafner (Modern Languages) has just finished her first cal manuscripts for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Stud- year as Director of Medieval Studies. She had two articles ac- ies' diploma program in manuscript studies at the American cepted, one on “Medieval Margenitalia” and one on “Teaching Academy in Rome. Dante Kinesthetically” for the new edition of the MLA’s Ap- proaches to Teaching Dante’s Comedy. In the summer, she will participate in the NEH seminar on “The Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts” at the University of Iowa’s Center for the Book, where she will be joined by Fordham alumnae Heather Blatt and Marjorie Harrington. She is looking forward to teaching a course on Medieval Bavaria next spring, which will include a spring break study tour to her alma mater, Regensburg.

 Medieval Studies Undergraduate Courses Fall 2015 

MVST MVST 4007 Medieval Foundations of Modernity (Interdisciplinary Capstone Core) (Barsella) - MR 11:30-12:45

MVST 4008 Medieval Autobiographies (Interdisciplinary Capstone Core) (Gyug) - MR 2:30-3:45 Classics LATN 1001 Introduction to Latin I (TBA) - TF 11:30-12:45, (Kelley) - TWF 10:30-11:20; (TBA) - TF 10:00-11:15 (LC) LATN 1501 Intermediate Latin I (TBA) - TWF 11:30-12:20, (Clark) - MR 11:30-12:45; (TBA) - TF 11:00-12:45 (LC) LATN 2001 Latin Language and Literature (Clark) - MR 10:00-11:15 LATN 3000 Latin Poetry (Sogno) - MW 11:30 –12:45 LATN 3300 Advanced Latin (Clark) - MR 2:30-3:45

English ENGL 2000 Texts and Contexts: Chaucer and Shakespeare (Erler) - MR 10:00-11:15/11:30-12:45 ENGL 2000 Texts and Contexts: Medieval Chivalry (EP2)(Wogan-Browne) - MR 8:30-9:45 ENGL 3107 Chaucer (Advanced Literature Core) (TBA) - MR 4:00-5:15 ENGL 3131 Medieval Tolerance/Intolerance (Advanced Literature Core) (Wogan-Browne) - TF 11:30- 12:45

History HIST 1300 Understanding Historical Change: Medieval (TBA) - MW 4:00-5:15; (TBA) TF 1:00-2:15 HIST 1850 Understanding Historical Change: Jews in the Ancient and Medieval World (Teter) MR 4:00 -5:15 HIST 3012 Medieval France (Advanced History Core/Professional and Continuing Studies) (Novikoff) R 6:00-8:45 HIST 3211 Medieval Sinners and Outcasts (Advanced History Core) (Mueller) - MR 11:30-1245 HIST 3270 The Crusades (Advanced History Core) (Paul) - MR 11:30-12:45 Philosophy PHIL 3552 Medieval Philosophy (Pini) - TF 2:30-3:45 (LC)

Theology THEO 3316 Byzantine Christianity (Sacred Texts and Traditions) (Miller) - MR 8:30-9:45 THEO 3330 Medieval Theological Texts (Sacred Texts and Traditions) (Davis) - TF 1:00-2:15; TF 2:30- 3:45 THEO 3332 Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle Ages (Sacred Texts and Traditions) (Jamer) - TF 11:30-12:45 THEO 3330 Medieval Theology Texts (Mcinemy) - TBA THEO 5300 History of Christianity I (Lienhard) - W 5:00-7:30

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J. Patrick Hornbeck II (Theology and Medieval Studies) con- The volume Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, by Jo- tinues to serve as chair of the Theology Department. In fall 2015 seph T. Lienhard, SJ (Theology) in the series Ancient Chris- he will be teaching an interdisciplinary graduate seminar, "From tian Commentary on Scripture was just published in Korean Lollards to Luther," that covers his primary period of re- translation, joining previous translations into Italian, Spanish, search. Having served as co-organizer of the Lollard Society's Russian, and Chinese. most recent conference, which took place at Fordham in summer 2014, he and fellow co-organizer Michael Van Dussen are cur- In the past year Matthew McGowan (Classics) published two rently editing a volume of essays from that event enti- peer-reviewed articles, “What distinguishes Ovid’s Pythagoras tled Europe After Wyclif (Fordham University from the Pythagoras of Ausonius and Martianus Capel- Press). Hornbeck's own book, A Companion to Lollardy is under la?” Anabases. Traditions et Réceptions de l’Antiquité 19 (2014) review at Brill. He is currently planning to teach a study-abroad 189-204; “Teaching Latin in NYC’s Public Schools.” Classical course on the Jesuits in summer 2016 and is beginning to con- World 107 (2014) 255-271; and a review: “Caesar, princeps, ceptualize a new major project, possibly on historiography and Augustus, god: The shifting identities of Rome’s first emperor,” Tudor cardinal Thomas Wolsey. in The University Bookman Fall 2014, posted online in Essays. He has two more articles forthcoming, “Pythagoras and Numa: Exile at the beginning of Roman religion and law,” in Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry: Essays in Honor of Fred Ahl, ed. Phillip Mitsis & Ioannis Ziogas; “Ovid’s Autobi- ography (Tr. 4.10): Identity and Individuality in the Poetry of Exile,” in Pushing the Boundaries of Historia: Essays in Greek and Roman History and Culture in Honor of Blaise Nagy, eds. Mary English & Lee Fratantuono. Most recently, a volume co- edited with Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (CUNY), Classical New York: The Influence of Greece & Rome on NYC's Art & Archi- Maryanne Kowaleski (History and Medieval Studies) taught an tecture, 1830-1940, has been accepted for publication with interdisciplinary capstone course on the archaeology and history Fordham University Press. of medieval London at Fordham's London Centre in Spring 2015. While in London she gave papers at the Late Medieval Laura Morreale (Medieval Studies) was invited to Venice, Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, at the University Italy in October 2014 to speak about the French of Italy website of York, and at a British Academy conference; the latter two in a conference entitled, “Il Franco-Italiano, Definizione tipolo- papers drew on the England's Immigrants project for which she gia fenomenologia,” and was interviewed about French- serves on the International Advisory Board. For 2015/16 she has language writing in Italy by the Canadian Broadcasting Compa- received a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, ny for an upcoming radio pod-cast on Marco Polo. She and Dr. as well as a Huntington Library fellowship. She is currently co- Nicholas Paul are currently editing a volume of essays coming writing an article on 'Black Death Bodies' with Sharon DeWitte, out of the 2014 French of Outremer conference, and she pub- an osteoarchaeologist, and completing a paper on London's met- lished an article in the December 2014 issue of the Journal of ropolitan and maritime networks for a conference in St Peters- Medieval History entitled “French-language documents pro- burg (Russia) in June. Her article on 'Coastal Communities in duced by the Hospitallers, 1231–1310.” She also served as pro- Medieval Cornwall' appeared recently in The Maritime History ject manager for the Center’s forthcoming Oxford Outremer of Cornwall (University of Exeter Press, 2014).

 Fall 2014 Lecture Series 

The Ars Disputandi and the “Art” of Disputation Alex Novikoff (Fordham University) Monday, September 15, 1:00 p.m., Walsh Library, O’Hare Special Collections Room

Genre Trouble: Translating Textual and Sexual Identities in Old French Saints’ Lives and Romance Emma Campbell (University of Warwick) Friday, October 10, 4:00 p.m., McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge

Mass Transit: Mass Book Design in the Twelfth Century Andrew Irving (The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church) Thursday, November 6, 1:00 p.m., Walsh Library, O’Hare Special Collections Room

Islamicate Worlds, the Late Medieval Court of Burgundy and the Mediterranean: Representations, Encounters, Debates David Wrisley (American University of Beirut) Tuesday, December 9, 6:00 p.m., McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge 6  Faculty News, continued 

Map Project, which can be accessed after June 15 at http://  MVST Graduate Courses Fall 2014  frenchofoutremer.com/omeka/exhibits/show/oxford-outremer-map. MVST 5070 Manuscript Culture She gave a talk at the opening event of the Fordham GSAS Futures (Hafner), F 1:00-3:30 initiative, entitled “A Different Path,” about varying career options ENGL 5208 The English Language 1154-1776 for graduate students, and (Chase), M 2:30-5:00 welcomed back many ENGL 5264 Chaucer Fordham medievalist al- (Yeager), R 2:30-5:00 ums at the annual HIST 6153 Medieval Society and Economy “Compatible Careers for (Kowaleski), T 4:00-6:30 Medievalists” panel on HIST 7070 Proseminar: Medieval Intellectual Cultures April 14, 2015. (Novikoff), W 5:00-7:30 PHIL 7076 Metaphysical Themes in Duns Scotus Wolfgang Müller (History) has spent the spring semester on a (Pini), M 5:30-7:30 leave of absence in Germany, where he organized an interdiscipli- THEO 6196 Early Christian Rituals nary conference on “Medieval Western & Arabic Jurisprudence – (Peppard), M 9:30-11:30 Distant Twins?” at Nymphenburg Castle in Munich, April 9-10, THEO 6360 Alexandrian Theology 2015. An article he co-authored with Monica Green and Kathleen (Lienhard), M 5:15-7:45 Walker-Meikle, “Diagnosis of a ‘Plague‘ Image: A Digital THEO 6367 Byzantine Christianity: History and Theology Cautionary Tale,” in: The Medieval Globe 1 (2014): Pandemic (Demacopoulos), W 11:45-2:15 Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, ed. FREN 5090 French for Reading Monica Green, 209-226, appeared in print earlier this year. The full (Lynch) W 8:30-11:00 text is also available online (http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/ GERM 5001 Graduate Reading in German I viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=medieval_globe). Dr. Mül- ler is scheduled to teach the proseminar/seminar sequence on Medieval Law & Society this coming fall.

Alex Novikoff (History) has been active on the speaking circuit in 2014-2014. He was an invited participant in workshops and conference at Cambridge University, Oxford University, Ben Gurion Uni- In the Fall semester of 2014 Nicholas Paul (History) enjoyed a versity, and Madrid’s Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científi- busy, productive and highly enjoyable research leave as Visiting cas (CSIC) in the Summer and Fall of 2014, and in September de- Fellow of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. September livered the first lecture of the Fall 2014 lecture series at Fordham’s 2014 saw the publication of an article entitled “In Search of the Center for Medieval Studies. In February 2015 he gave the keynote Marshal's Lost Crusade: The Persistence of Memory, the Prob- address at the Graduate Medieval Studies conference at University lems of History, and the Painful Birth of Crusading Romance,” of California, Berkeley, and in May will be speaking at the Henri in the Journal of Medieval History 40:3. In the period of the Pirenne Medieval Seminar at the University of Ghent. He published research leave, supported by a Fordham Faculty Fellowship, Dr. “Peter Abelard and Disputation: A Reexamination” in the journal Paul performed archival research in Namur, Belgium while con- Rhetorica (December, 2014), and his edited reader on the renais- tinuing to edit and translate the text of James of Ibelin's legal sance of the twelfth century (University of Toronto Press) is ex- treatise for the Fordham French of Outremer Legal Text Project pected in late 2015. Beginning fall 2015, he will serve as Chair of and acting as the blogger for the Fordham History Department. Undergraduate Studies at Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies. In January, Dr. Paul returned to Fordham as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the History Department and taught a class Joseph O'Callaghan’s (History, Emeritus) book, The Last Cru- on medieval nobility. Dr. Paul has presented the fruits of his sade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada appeared in recent archival research at Cambridge, the Institute for Histori- 2014 from the University of Pennsylvania Press, along with the cal Research in London, the University of Wales Aberystwyth, paperback edition of The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle Bristol University, and at the Medieval Academy of America's for the Strait, originally published in hardback in 2013. These two Annual Meeting at Notre Dame. In April 2015 he will be pre- volumes complete a trilogy that began with Reconquest and Cru- senting at the Medieval Seminar at Columbia University and as sade in Medieval Spain, also published by University of Pennsylva- the Dorothy Ford Wiley Lecture at the University of North Car- nia Press, in 2003, and in paperback in 2004. He also published an olina at Chapel Hill. Together with Fordham PhD student Tobi- article, “Una ley de las Cortes de Sevilla de 1252 incorporada en la as Hrynick, he will be presenting on the Oxford Outremer Map Primera Partida del rey don Alfonso X, el Sabio,” Anuario de His- project at Saint Louis University and in July is giving a paper toria del Derecho Español 84 (2014): 789-796. about aristocratic performances on the crusading frontier at the Leeds International Medieval Congress. In 2015-6 Dr. Paul During the 2014-2015 Thomas O'Donnell was at Stanford Univer- looks forward to continuing his work editing two treatises on a sity on a Stanford Humanities Fellowship, and he will hold an relic of the True Cross from Namur while also working together ACLS Fellowship until the end of calendar year 2015. Dr. O'Don- with Dr. Laura Morreale on an edited collection of the papers nell is working on finishing his monograph on community literature from the 2014 Fordham Medieval Conference. Later in 2015 an in eleventh- and twelfth-century England. This summer he will be article will appear in French History entitled “Origo Consulum: attending the IMC in Leeds with a paper on monastic reform, the Rumors of Murder, a Crisis of Lordship, and the Legendary Ori- common life, and talking cats. gins of the Counts of Anjou.” 7

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Nina Rowe is Chair of the Department of Art History and Mu-  2014/15 Graduation Notices  sic. She is at work on a new project, examining late medieval, illuminated, Middle High German World Chronicle manuscripts, and will co-organize the 2016 conference of the Center Doctoral Degrees for Medieval Studies, “Manuscript as Medium.”

Christiana Sogno’s paper on “The Ghost of Cicero's Letters: Brendan Palla (MA Phil, 2008) received the PhD in Philosophy in Epistolography and Historiography in Senatorial Letter- February, 2015. His thesis was entitled, “Aquinas on Two Prob- Writing,” appeared in the Fall 2014 issue of the Journal of Late lems for Free Choice” (mentor: Gyula Klima). Antiquity. In February 2015, she went to the University of Ghent

for an international conference entitled: “New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits (19th century through present),” Eric Rapaglia (MA Phil, 2008) received the PhD in Philosophy in where she presented a paper on the work and intellectual milieu May 2015. His thesis was entitled, “Must God Create a World? of François Paschoud. She applied for a Fordham Research Aquinas’s Answer and Kretzmann’s Critique” (mentor: Joseph Grant and received funding to cover costs for her co-edited vol- Koterski, SJ). ume, A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide to Late An- tique Letter Collections, under contract with the University of Shane Wilkins (MA Phil, 2007) received the PhD in Philosophy in California Press. After serving as the chair of the Classics de- February, 2015. His thesis was entitled “A Hylomorphic Theory partment and co-director of the Comparative Literature program, of Composite Material Substances” (mentor: Gyula Klima). she will teach a course on Latin for Reading this summer.

Maureen A. Tilley (Theology) is a co-author of the recently MA Graduates in Medieval Studies published Christianity in Roman Africa: the development of its practices and beliefs with J. Patout Burns, Jr. and Robin M. Jen- Madelyn Burt, thesis, “Gentrifying the Neighborhood: Cornish sen (Eerdmans, 2014). Her chapter "Donatist Sermons" is slated Office Holders in the Age of the Wars of the Roses” (mentor: to appear later this year in Preaching in the Latin Patristic Era: Maryanne Kowaleski, reader: Nicholas Paul) Sermons, Preachers, Audiences, ed. by Anthony Dupont

(Peeters). Rachel Butcher, thesis, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Late

Medieval English Bedchamber” (mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (English) spent Spring 2014 at the reader: Nina Rowe) Princeton Institute for Advanced Study working on her new

book, Women, Multilingualism and Literate Culture in late Me- Amy Hall, thesis, “No Does Not Always Mean No, Boys Will Be dieval England, and continued work in Fall 2014 based in the Boys, and the Devil Made Me Do It: Sexual Agency in UK with the support of a single semester Faculty Fellowship the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso, el Sabio” (mentor: and an NEH grant. She spoke in March 2014 at the medieval- Richard Gyug, reader: Susanne Hafner) ists’ seminar in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for

Advanced Study, Princeton, and in April at the Medieval Acade- Sarah O’Brien, thesis, “The Languages of Labor in the Works of my Conference on “The Invisible Archive: French in Later Me- John Gower” (mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, reader: Thomas dieval England”, University of California at Los Angeles, CA. O’Donnell) In June 2014 she gave a plenary lecture at the Barnard College

Conference on Women and Community in the Ancien Régime: Christian Rolka, thesis, “Flotan on þam Folce: The Battle of Mal Traditional and New Media, on “French Theology in English don in Its Own Time” (mentor: Martin Chase, reader, Suzanne Convents: Regional and Supra-regional Women’s Communities Yeager) in Medieval England.” In October 2014, she spoke at Central European University, Budapest on “Multilingualism and Medie- val England,” and in November at King’s College, London on “After Arundel and After Gerson: Francophone Spirituality in BA Graduates Fifteenth-Century England.” In January 2015 she gave an invited lecture at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville: ‘Re- Rebecca Bartels (major) thinking Language Acquisition and Literary History,’ and guest Richard Bordelon (minor) seminar ‘What is a literature? And can you have one in the ver- Alana Hughes, a minor in MVST, will be awarded the Medieval nacular?’; in February at Northwestern University, IL, on Studies Prize at FCRH Encaenia. “Francophone Spirituality in Late Medieval England” and in Abigail Kayser (major) March 2015 was an invited speaker at the British Academy con- Teresa Klatecki (major) ference on Aliens, Foreigners and Strangers in Medieval Eng- Reed LaHaye (major) land, 500–1500 to deliver a paper on “Making a Home with Taylor McCreary (major) God: Elite Women as Aliens in Late Medieval England.” She Ashley Rainge (major) published “The Tongues of the Nightingale: hertely redyng at Mary Young (major) . English Courts”, in New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall, ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John J. Thompson and Sa-

8  Faculty News, continued 

rah Baechle (Notre Dame University Press: October 2014), pp. coming this year in Arthuriana. This past September, she gave 78-98; put into press several volumes of the FRETS (French of the paper, “Life on the Margins: Mediterranean Voyaging and England Translation Series), academically co-edited with Thel- the Lived Experience of Sea Travel,” at the William and Mary ma Fenster; put Audio Readings in the French of England on- Annual Symposium on Pilgrimage Studies. She looks forward line at the Fordham legacy website for the French of England, to offering her conference paper, “Virtual Crusading: Remem- and designed a new graduate course, Sir Thomas Malory: Politi- bering Warfare in Medieval Pilgrim Accounts,” in the special cal, Religious and Literary Cultures of the Fifteenth Century for session, Traveling Selves: Creating the Pilgrim Persona, which Spring 2015. she has organized with Dr. Anthony Bale for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, this May. Dr. Suzanne Yeager (English and Medieval Studies) enjoyed serv- Yeager is currently at work co-organizing a graduate course ing as Undergraduate Chair of Medieval Studies in 2014-2015, with Dr. Richard Gyug on medieval pilgrimage, to be offered at during which time she recruited for the CMS Major/Minor, ad- Fordham in Spring 2016, and was awarded a Fordham Faculty vised current Majors and Minors, and directed undergraduates Fellowship for Fall 2015. She looks forward to dedicating her through their first academic conference experiences. She has academic leave to a project on sea-faring pilgrims. been at work on several projects related to medieval travel, including her forthcoming study, “Fictions of Espionage: Perform- ing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer,” which will appear in The Oxford Handbook to Chaucer in 2016 (Oxford University Press). Her interview on the reception of the Marco Polo manuscripts will appear within a project organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), in the IDEAS Radio Podcast, “Everything I know about China I learned from Marco Polo. Her entries, “English Medieval Pilgrimage to Jeru- salem,” and “The Jews in Medieval England,” are forthcoming from The Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature (Wiley- Blackwell), and Yeager’s review of Adrienne Williams Bo- yarin’s edition of The Siege of Jerusalem (2014) will be forth-

Manuscript as Medium

36th Annual Conference • Center for Medieval Studies • Fordham University • Saturday, March 5-6, 2016

Speakers Include:

Jessica Brantley (Yale University)

Kathryn Rudy (University of St. Andrew)

Andrew Taylor (University of Ottawa)

This conference is devoted particularly to current concern with manuscripts in all their physicality. Across the disci- plines, investigators delight in the sometimes untidy, often beautiful, pages of manuscripts—bound as apparently heterogeneous miscellanies, glossed and amended over the centuries, enhanced with illuminations or with print- ed illustrations latterly pasted in. We welcome papers on any topic related to these issues, including technical in- vestigation of production; manuscripts and monastic communities; image and text on the manuscript page; Jewish- Christian relations and sacred books; Islam, the west and manuscripts; manuscripts as stand-ins for sacred or political figures; the hybrid manuscript-print codex in the age of incunabula; accessibility and immateriality of the manuscript in the digital age.

We invite abstracts for traditional twenty-minute presentations or short contributions to a Flash Session; each Flash paper will be 5 minutes long and should be accompanied by a focused visual presentation.

Please submit an abstract and cover letter with contact information by September 15, 2015 to Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405b, Bronx, NY 10458, by e-mail to [email protected], or by fax to 718.817.3987. 9  Update on Digital Profile of CMS 

The 2014-2015 academic year has seen several additions to the

The Center for Medieval Studies Fordham CMS digital profile. Among these are the French of regrets the passing of one of our own. Italy TimeMap (at frenchofoutremer.com/omeka/exhibits/show/ french-texts-in-italy), plotting the production of French-language

texts in Italy spatially and chronologically, and the Oxford Outremer Map Project, (frenchofoutremer.com/omeka/exhibits/ show/oxford-outremer-map), a digital restoration of a map of the Father Louis B. Pascoe, S.J. Holy Land first created by Matthew Paris. Check out both of these maps, and send your ideas on some possible interpretations of

died on Monday, April 27, 2015, at Paris’ markings on the “Mysteries of the Map” page, included in the project. Murray-Weigel Hall, Bronx, NY. Digital training in the Center intensified this year, due largely to Father Pascoe was born on May 26, 1930, formal and informal coaching by our year-long Medieval Fellow, and entered the Society of Jesus at the Dr. David Joseph Wrisley. With Dr. Wrisley’s help, students and

Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues, Wernersville, faculty in the Center have learned to work with DH resources such as Gephi, Carto DB, AbbyyFineReader, AntConc, PA, on July 30, 1952. GeoNames and Palladio, among others. One of the culminating projects of this collaboration will be the integration of some of Dr. Notes of Condolence may be sent to Fr. Pascoe’s Wrisley’s data from his project, Visualizing Medieval Places last surviving brother: (visualizingmedievalplaces.wordpress.com), exploring different ways of visualizing real place names from literary and non-literary Ronald Pascoe, Sr. texts in medieval French, with texts coming from the French of R.D. #1 Box 14 Italy repertoire. Additionally, Dr. Wrisley offered advice on bring- Carbondale, PA 18407 ing the Oxford Outremer Map Project to its final form.

Our twitter and Facebook accounts continue to expand the interna- Requiescat in Pace tional reach of the Center through the efforts of MVST MA student David Levine. We now have over 750 Facebook followers and 360 followers on Twitter, all of whom receive news directly from the Center, as well as information on other events of interest to medievalists.

The Center for Medieval Studies welcomes the following incoming students: Katherine Briant majored in English at the University of Rochester. Her research interests include embodiment and violence in Middle English texts, Chaucer's Wife of Bath in post-medieval literature, and digital humanities. Kasey Fausak is from Staten Island, NY, and received her B.A. in Medieval Studies from Fordham College Lincoln Center in 2013. She is interested in pre-Conquest Irish history and is excited to continue studying in the MVST department at Fordham! Sarah Kam-Gordon comes from LA with a MA in History from CSU Northridge and a BA in Political Science from Azusa Pa- cific University. She is eager to move to New York with her husband and pets to study the literature and cultural history of late medieval England and France to address questions of court culture, kingship, and identity in relation to Arthurian literature. A native of Westchester, New York, Scott Long studied Spanish, Classics, and Medieval Studies at Bates College. His interests mainly center on Spain in the Middle Ages, medieval philosophy, and manuscript studies. Andrew O'Sullivan received his BA in German language and literature from Fordham College at Rose Hill and plans to study medieval reading practices and the history of the English language. Since 2009 he has worked as an editor and developer of ele- mentary English language arts programs, and as a result he has an abiding interest in literacy education and its place in society. Kevin Vogelaar from Ellenville, New York, graduated from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in History and minor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. His studies focus on 8th-12th century Medieval Iberia with particular attention to interfaith social and intellectual exchanges in Córdoba under Umayyad rule.

Michael Weldon was born and raised in the Bronx. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1995 and is very interested in an art history concentration in the Medieval Studies Program.

We also welcome a visiting student this fall. Katrine Funding Højgaard comes from Denmark with a bachelor’s degree in History. Her academic interests include cultural history, history of mentalities and cultural encounters, with a special focus on marginalized existences. Moreover, she is interested in literature and writing in the Middle Ages and has been working intensively with medieval manuscripts, doing an internship at the Centre for Manuscripts & Rare Books at the Danish Royal Library. 10  Student News 

This year, Jacob Archambault (Philosophy) will present the  MVST Graduate Courses Spring 2015  following papers: “The Teaching of the Trivium at Bec and its

Bearing upon the Anselmian Programme of Fides Quaerens MVST 5707 Meditation, Contemplation, and the Spiritual Senses Intellectum” at Reading Anselm: Context and Criticism. Boston (Albin, Davis), W 5:00-7:30 College. Boston, MA. July 27-30, 2015; “The Monadother- ENGL 5261 Sir Thomas Malory: Political, Religious, and gy,” at Emmanuel Levinas across the Generations and Conti- Literary Cultures of the Fifteenth Century nents: North American Levinas Society annual Meeting 2015 at (Wogan-Browne), M 5:30-8:00 Purdue University, July 27-30, 2015; “The Teaching of the Triv- HIST 8070 Seminar: Medieval Intellectual History ium at Bec and its Bearing upon the Anselmian Programme (Novikoff), R 5:30-8:00 of Fides Quaerens Intellectum” at the International Medieval HIST 6076 Noble Culture and Society Congress, University of Leeds, July 6-9, 2015. His presentations (Paul), T 5:00-7:30 to date include “Interpretations of Quantifiers and Logical Hylo- PHIL 5010 Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas morphism” at Aristotelian solutions to Contemporary Philo- (Klima), T 11:00-1:00 sophical Problems, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort PHIL 5012 Introduction to St. Augustine Wayne, April 25-26, 2015; “Is the reticulational model of scien- (Cullen), R 2:30-4:30 tific change based on a misunderstanding? Revisiting the Lau- PHIL 6460 Intentionality dan-Kuhn debate,” at Long Island Philosophical Society Confer- (Klima), F 11:00-1:00 ence. St. John’s University. Queens, April 18, 2015; “Monotonic THEO 6194 History, Theory, and Pre-Modern Christianity and Non-Monotonic Variations on Anselm’s Proof” at the (Dunning), W 11:45-2:15 st 1 World Congress on Logic and Religion, João Pessoa, Paraí- THEO 6425 Augustine in Context ba, Brazil; April 1-5, 2015; “Consequence and Proportionality (M. Tilley) M 9:00-11:30 in Boethius’ De Topicis Differentiis” at Analogical Reasoning – THEO 6444 Medieval Modernisms East and West: Formal Models and Practical Applications, Uni- (Moore), T 4:00-6:30 versität Heidelberg, Germany, November 24-25, 2014; GERM 5002 Graduate Reading in German II “Leibnizian Intelligibility” Eighth annual conference of the (Hafner), TF 11:30-12:45 Leibniz Society of North America, University of South Florida, ITAL 5090 Italian for Reading Tampa, October 31-November 2, 2014 and “Authority, Order of (Long) W 11:30-2:00 Reading, and Authenticity in Two Medieval Manuscripts of the Logica Vetus,” at the International Medieval Congress, Uni- Elizabeth Kuhl (History) had an article published in versity of Leeds, July 7-10, 2014. the December 2014 issue of the Journal of Medieval History, entitled “Time and Identity in Stephen of Rouen's Draco Nor- Matthew Briel (Theology) was selected to participate in the mannicus.” Lumen Christi seminar, The Thought of John Henry Newman at Merton College, Oxford, July 2015. He will also present a con- David Levine (MVST) has two upcoming presentations, the ference paper entitled “Gennadios Scholarios’ Thomistic De- first at the HASTAC Conference at Michigan State on the bene- fense of Aristotle,” at Never the Twain Shall Meet. Latins and fits of using GIS to link history, environmental studies, and ar- Greeks Learning from Each Other in Byzantium in Stockholm in chaeology, and the second at the Keystone DH Conference on June 2015. using Omeka as a tool to study large manuscript traditions. This year, David helped organize the Digital Mapping Series with Steven Bruso’s (English) article, “The Sword and the Scepter: Alisa Beer and Dr. David Wrisley at Fordham, and will be at- Mordred, Arthur, and the Dual Roles of Kingship in the Allitera- tending the DHSI in Victoria, BC, with a scholarship from the tive Morte Arthure” has been accepted by Arthuriana and is DHSI and another from the ACH. David also spent this year forthcoming. He presented an extract from a dissertation chapter coordinating the Fordham Graduate Student DH Group, updat- at the Tolkien Days conference at The Ohio State University in ing the Medieval Manuscripts at Fordham database, and work- February, entitled, “‘Doughty Men’: The Male Body, Hardship, ing on a DH website to represent Fordham in the larger academ- and Wounds in The Lord of the Rings.” He will be presenting ic community. another extract from a dissertation chapter at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May, entitled, Matthew Lootens (Theology) presented a paper entitled “‘Medieval Muscularity’: The Form of the Knightly Male “Naming God, Defining Heretics, and the Development of a Body.” Textual Culture: Gregory of Nyssa and the Eunomian Contro- versy,” at the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting this Jeffrey Doolittle (History) is finishing up an article entitled past January. He is currently serving as a Research Associate at “Negotiating Murder in the Historiae of Gregory of Tours,” the Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame, for the which has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming vol- years 2014-2016. ume edited by Larissa Tracy on murder in the Middle Ages and published by Boydell and Brewer. Last May, he won the 2013 Medieval Studies Joseph O'Callaghan Essay Prize for “The Log- ic of Early Medieval Medicine: The Design and Use of Medical Texts from Montecassino (MSS 69 and 97),” an essay he sub- mitted for Richard Gyug's Medieval Religious Cul- tures seminar. 11  Student News, continued  Fall 2015 Conferences: Turner Nevitt (Philosophy) presented a paper, “Annihilation, Re-creation, and Intermittent Existence in Aquinas,” at a session of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics at the the American Catholic Philosophical As- RELIGIOSITY IN LATE MEDIEVAL sociation meeting in Washington, DC, October 10-12, 2014. A version is forthcoming in The Problems of “Gappy Exist- SCANDINAVIA ence” and Personal Identity, ed. Gyula Klima and Alexander The aim of this conference is to work towards a more nuanced Hall. Turner has a paper forthcoming in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, “Aquinas on the Death of Christ: A understanding of medieval religiosity in Scandinavia, with a spe- New Argument for Corruptionism.” He will participate in a cial focus on late medieval and early modern material, as sources summer writing workshop, “Exploring the Interim State Writ- from this period open up. The conference is co-organized by ing Workshop,” directed by Kevin Timpe and Tim Pawl, Karoline Kjesrud, Postdoctoral Fellow in Old Norse Philology at funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the Immortality Project at UC-Riverside, the University of Saint Thomas, and the University of Oslo, former Medieval Fellow Mikael Males, Northwest Nazarene University. Finally, he has recently been and Martin Chase, SJ. appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University The conference will take place at the Lincoln Center Campus, of San Diego, and will be starting his job in September, 2015. South Lounge, on Friday, September 25, 2015. In February, David Pedersen (English) presented “Longing for Eden: The Sincerity of the Wife of Bath's Tale,” at the  Illinois Medieval Association Annual Conference at St. Louis University. In May he will be presenting “Anxiously Pursu- ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ing Peace: The Seafarer and the OE Consolatio,” at the Inter- BYZANTINE STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF national Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. In ad- NORTH AMERICA dition, his paper “Wyrd ðe Warnung...or God: The Question of Absolute Sovereignty in Solomon and Saturn II,” was ac- Fordham will co-host the second and final days of the annual meet- cepted for publication at Studies in Philology. It will appear ing of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America in the fall 2016 issue. Finally, David was awarded a Senior (BSANA), which will take place from October 23-25, 2015, at the Teaching Fellowship through the Medieval Studies Program Lincoln Center Campus for the 2015-2016 academic year.

INTRODUCING: FORDHAM’S OXFORD OUTREMER MAP PROJECT

Matthew Paris (d. 1259) is renowned among medievalists for his famous illustrated Chronica Majora and his maps of Britain and the pilgrimage route to the Holy Land.

Less well known is the map featured in this project, Oxford Corpus Christi College MS 2*, which depicts the lands of the eastern crusading frontier - la terre d’Outremer. Paris drew his Outremer Map on the reverse of an earlier, elaborately painted image so that his map was obscured by the dark colors bleeding through from the image on the reverse.

In its original form, both the map and what he wrote on it, including the map's labels and short notes, are difficult to read.

The aim of this project is to digitally restore and exhibit the map, and in doing so offer a new interpretive lens for the artifact Paris left to us over 700 years ago.

VISIT US AT:

frenchofoutremer.com/omeka/exhibits/ show/oxford-outremer-map

“My heart is in the East But I am far in the West”

With these words, the medieval Andalusian poet Ju- dah ha-Levi began his lament over Jerusalem and articulated his desire for “one glimpse” of the city’s sacred landscape.

What has made Jerusalem so beloved to – and the object of continual strife for – Jews, Christians, and Muslims?

This course will explore the ancient and medieval history of Jerusalem, from its Jebusite inhabitants before the time of King David through Suleiman’s construction of the modern city walls in the 1540s. Students will learn to analyze a variety of sources: art and architecture, biblical and qur’anic texts, exegetical materials, travel narratives, maps, poetry, and literature, through which we will explore the themes of sacred space, conquest, destruction and lament, pilgrimage, and religious polemic.

 MVST Undergraduate Courses Spring 2015 

MVST MVST 6465 Study Abroad: Medieval London (Interdisciplinary Capstone Core, History) (Kowaleski), TBA MVST 4998 Study Tour: Medieval Spain (EP3, Interdisciplinary Capstone Core) (Myers), TBA Art History ARHI 3350 Age of Cathedrals (Rowe), MR 11:30-12:45 Classics LATN 1002 Introduction to Latin II (Penella), TF 1:00-2:15; (Kelley), TWF 10:30-11:20; (McKenna), MW 1:00-2:15 (LC) LATN 2001 Latin Language and Literature (Clark), MR 10:00-11:15; (Penella), TWF 11:30-12:20; (Foster) TF 8:30- 9:45 (LC) English ENGL 2000 Texts and Contexts: Medieval (TBA), MR 10:00—11:15; (TBA) MR 11:30-12:45 ENGL 3102 Medieval Drama (Theater, Interdisciplinary Capstone Core) (Albin), MR 10:00-11:15 (LC) ENGL 3125 Beowulf in Old English (Advanced Literature Core) (Chase), MR 2:30-3:45 ENGL 3140 Myth of the Hero: Memory in the Middle Ages (Advanced Literature Core, EP3) (Yeager), TF 1:00-2:15/ 2:30-3:45 ENGL 4141 Death in the Middle Ages (Advance Literature Core EP4, Values Seminar) (Erler), TF 10:00-11:15 ENGL 5261 Malory: Poltical, Religoius, & Literary Cultures of the Fifteenth Century (Graduate Course Open to Undergraduates) (Wogan-Browne), M 5:30-8:00 History HIST 1300 Understanding Historical Change: Medieval (Beer), TWF 11:30-12:20 HIST 3050 Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Spain (Novikoff), TF 11:30-12:45 (LC) HIST 3051 The Black Death (Overty), MR 10:00-11:15 HIST 3205 Medieval Medicine (Barnhouse), MR 8:30-9:45 Music MUSIC 3110 Music before 1600 (Bianchi) 10:00-11:15 Theology THEO 3310 Early Christian Writings (Mercer) MR 8:30-9:45; (Lienhard) MR 11:30-12:45 THEO 3314 St. Augustine of Hippo (Lienhard) MR 10:30-11:15 THEO 3316 Byzantine Christianity (Demacopoulos) MR 2:30-3:45 THEO 3715 Classic Islamic Texts (Globalism) (Rashid), WF 10:00-11:15 THEO 3832 Christian Thought and Practice I (Tilley), TF 11:30-12:45 13

14  Alumni News 

Christopher Adams (MA Philosophy, 2011) was just promoted This year, Sam Z. Conedera, SJ, (MAPR, 2012) is publishing a from Software Engineer to Application Architect at Venmo, a book with Fordham University Press entitled Ecclesiastical technology company in New York City that builds and runs the Knights: The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330. He is now popular payments mobile app. He was featured in a recent issue studying theology at Gregorian University in Rome in prepara- of Inside Fordham for his successful transition from a liberal tion for his ordination to the priesthood. arts training to a tech-based career. Damian Fleming (BA, MA MVST, 1999) has been awarded an Nicolas Agrait’s (PhD History, 2003) was awarded tenure at NEH Summer Stipend for his project, “Understanding Hebrew L.I.U.-Brooklyn starting Fall 2015. His essay, “The Castilian Alphabets in Early Medieval Manuscripts.” Navy Under Alfonso XI,” was published in the collection The Emergence of Castile-León c.1065-1500; Essays Presented to Laura Gathagan (MA MVST, 1994) has recently completed a J.F. O'Callaghan (Ashgate, January 2015). It was edited by piece entitled “‘Mother of heroes, most beautiful of mothers’: James J. Todesca who is also an O'Callaghan student. Another Mathilda of Flanders and royal motherhood in the eleventh cen- article, “Por la guarda de la mar: Castile and the Struggle for the tury,” for Motherhood, Authority & Ambition: Defining & Rede- Sea in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,” will be pub- fining the Image of the ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Mother, edited by El- lished in the next volume of the Journal of Medieval Military lie Woodacre and Carey Fleiner, coming out from Palgrave in History in the fall. 2016. She gave a talk entitled “Distaff Dynastic Lordship? Evi- dence from the Conquest Generation,” at the Haskins Society Christopher Bellitto (PhD History, 1997) is proud to have Conference in November 2014, and chaired a session at Kala- achieved the title of former department chair. His arti- mazoo in 2014 entitled “Many Middle Ages: Rethinking Periods cle, “Preaching Peace: Sermon Literature from the Council of and Organizing Concepts for Medieval History.” Laura is chair- Constance,” is forthcoming in Annuarium Historiae Concilio- ing a session at Leeds this year entitled“The Writers of Reform: rum, and he is completing a book manuscript on wisdom and Propagating Reform Agendas in Contemporary Histories.” aging in the Bible. In the last year, he has published essays on church history and contemporary Catholicism for Christian Cen- tury's Then and Now Blog, America, The Tablet, and Reuters; his comments have also appeared in The New York Times, Reli- gion News Service, AP and CNN.com. He is a member of the NJ Council for the Humanities Speakers’ Bureau and has given public lectures on a variety of ancient and medieval topics in Michael Laney (MA MVST 2012) is working at Michigan State libraries, community centers, and other venues. Recent confer- University Libraries in Special Collections. He has been active ence panels include advice for authors at the College Theology particularly in the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library, digitizing Society and a discussion of working with the media at the Amer- analog audio materials for a variety of projects. ican Catholic Historical Association and Kalamazoo. After earning her MA from Fordham (MA MVST, 2013) and Louise Bishop (PhD English, 1984) received the University of MLS from Indiana University, Allie McCormack began work- Oregon’s Herman teaching award in May 2014, and was in Ox- ing as the Rare Books Catalog Librarian at Baylor University in ford, UK, at the time, with 17 students from the Clark Honors July 2014. She is currently collaborating with Latin scholar College at the University of Oregon. The students were studying Daniel Nodes to prepare a transcription and translation of a at Oxford under the auspices of the Middlebury Centre for Me- Green Collection copy of the Collationes of Frater Petrus. This dieval and Renaissance Studies. She is semi-retired as an associ- June she will attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at ate professor in the Clark Honors College at the University of the University of Victoria and participate in a seminar on book Oregon as of July 1, 2014, which means that she teaches two history and textual encoding. courses a year with no other departmental responsibilities (“truly perfect”). She presented a paper, “Sic transit gloria: The Kristin Mapes (MA MVST, 2014) is working as the Digital Knight’s Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen,” at the New Chau- Humanities Specialist in the College of Arts and Letters at cer Society Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, at the end of July Michigan State University. She presented “Scholarly Social Me- 2014, and her essay, “Reginald Pecock’s Reading Heart and the dia Adoption: Locating Medieval Studies Scholars Online,” at Health of Body and Soul,” is coming out in a Boydell and Brew- the Digital Frontiers conference at the University of North Tex- er collection, Medicine, Religion, and Gender in Medieval Cul- as, and will be speaking in Leeds at a round table entitled “The ture, edited by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa. Twitterati: Using Twitter in Medieval Scholarship and Peda- gogy,” in July of 2015. Anne Marie Brady (MA History, 1998) has been awarded a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Susan J. Rucano (MA History, 2007) began teaching as adjunct Political Science. Her dissertation is titled “From No Work to Professor of History at St. Thomas Aquinas College, in Spar- Work? The Role of Job Placement and Skills Training Services kill, New York in 2009. In the fall she will teach The European in Assisting Unemployment Benefit II Recipients Find Work Middle Ages, a course she developed for the college. In addition, under Germany's Hartz IV Welfare Reforms.” Susan teaches in the General Education Department at the Col- lege of Westchester, White Plains, N.Y. Her more recent historical focus has been a study of wills, inventories, and land rec- ords of Westchester and surrounding areas for the period 1699- 1871. 15  Alumni News, continued   New Faculty 

Rebecca Slitt (MA MVST, PhD History 2007) is still living in The Center wishes to welcome Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz, western Massachusetts, working as a writer and editor for Dept. of Theology (Ph.D. Princeton) to the Fordham medieval Choice of Games. In June 2014, she presented a paper entitled community. Dr. Gribetz’ scholarship focuses on Ancient and “Viking, Gunslinger, and Madam Midshipwoman: Gender and Medieval Judaism; rabbinic literature; Jewish-Christian rela- History in Interactive Fiction,” at VUPop, the Villanova Univer- tions; time and calendars; women and gender; biblical interpre- sity Conference on Popular Culture. In December 2014, she tation; and religious polemics. Her publications include: released her first digital game, Psy High, a teen supernatural “Hanged and Crucified: The Book of Esther and Toledot Ye- romance that's a cross between 'Veronica Mars' and 'Buffy the shu,” Toledot Yeshu Reconsidered (2011); “Rabbis and Others Vampire Slayer.' You can find it here: https:// in Conversation,” Jewish Studies Quarterly (2012); “Jesus and www.choiceofgames.com/psy-high. the Clay Birds: Reading Toledot Yeshu in Light of the Infancy Gospels,” Envisioning Judaism (2013); Jewish and Christian Jennifer Speed (PhD History 2009) published a brief article in Cosmogony in Late Antiquity (co-edited, 2013); “Take to Heart the Newsletter of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese these Instructions: The Shema in the Second Temple Period, a Historical Studies entitled “Medieval Law Still Matters: The reconsideration,” Journal of Ancient Judaism (forthcoming); Fueros in Contemporary Aragon.” She also presented a paper at “Pregnant with Meaning; Women's Bodies as Metaphors for the St. Louis University Annual Symposium on Medieval and Time in Biblical, Second Temple, and Rabbinic Literature, The Renaissance Studies entitled “The Fueros de Aragón and Construction of Time in Antiquity (forthcoming); “A Matter of the Vidal Mayor: Their Context, Differences, and Why They Time: Writing Jewish Memory into Roman Histo- Matter,” as well as "The Music of the Spheres: Copernicus, ry,” Association for Jewish Studies Review (forthcoming); Kepler, and Galileo" at the University of Dayton as part of a “Between Narrative and Polemic: The Sabbath in Genesis year-long exploration of the relationship between faith and rea- Rabbah and the Babylonian Talmud,” Genesis Rabbah: Text son. and Contexts (forthcoming). She is currently working on a monograph on constructions of calendrical and ritual time in Gilbert Stack’s (MA, PhD History, 2004) novel, High Above rabbinic sources, and a project on the use of imagination in the the Waters, was published by Mundania Press in February 2015, study of late antique history. and his next novel, Forever After, has been accepted for publication at the same press.

In May, Alexandra Torregrossa (MA MVST, 2011) earned an We now have T-shirts! MS degree in Library and Information Science. Recently, she was hired on a part-time basis at a public library in Westchester Fordham Center for County. Medieval Studies T-Shirts Christine Zepeda (James) (MA MVST, 2008) was accepted to the graduate program in art history at the University of Texas at $15.00 each Austin and will be enrolling in Fall 2015. Christine will be stud- Available at the Center ying medieval manuscripts with Dr. Joan Holladay.

 Spring 2015 Lecture Series 

Seeing Irony in Chétien de Troyes’s Cligès Brian Reilly (Fordham University) Tuesday, January 20, 6:45 p.m., McGinley 236

Dramatic Contemplation: Participatory Likeness in the Play of Wisdom Eleanor Johnson (Columbia University) Monday, February 9, 1:00 p.m., Walsh Library, O’Hare Special Collections Room

Reading and Writing in City, Court, and Cloister 35th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies Saturday, March 7, 9:00 a.m., Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge, Lincoln Center

Written Languages, Translation, and Ethnicity in the Aftermath of the Norman Conquest Bruce O’Brien (University of Mary Washington) Tuesday, March 24, 1:00 p.m., Walsh Library, O’Hare Special Collections Room

16  Medieval Fellows   Visiting Fellows, continued  Dr. Emma Campbell spent the 2014 fall semester as Medieval (2007) and one about Irene, the first woman crowned as Byzantine

Fellow at the Center for Medieval Studies. She holds degrees from Emperor (2015). He is a director and founder of Porphyra, an inter- the University of Leeds and King's College London, where she national academic journal in Byzantine studies (www.porphyra.it). wrote her dissertation on Old French saints' lives under the supervision of Simon Gaunt. Following positions at Lyon and Leeds, she is Dr. Helen Birkett is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the Universi- currently associate professor of French at the University of War- ty of Exeter. Her main research interests concern monastic literary wick. Her research on Old French literature has resulted in a mono- culture and the construction of texts and narratives in the central graph, Medieval Saints’ Lives: The Gift, Kinship and Community in Middle Ages. She completed her doctorate under the supervision of Old French Hagiography (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and Christopher Norton at the University of 2008), as well as two co-edited volumes and numerous articles. York in 2009 and has since held postdoctoral fellowships at the Pon- Drawing on the concepts and methodologies of postcolonial schol- tifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, and the Institute for arship and translation studies, Dr. Campbell’s next monograph ex- Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh. She published a plores notions of translation and untranslatability in medieval fran- monograph, The Saints’ Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, cophone texts in the context of a changing picture of medieval lan- Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics, as well as several articles. At guage and culture. Fordham she is continuing research on her current project on the transmission of visionary narratives by the Cistercians of Britain and At Fordham this year, Dr. David Wrisley worked on a book pro- Ireland c.1200 and will present a paper on the manuscript context of ject entitled “Beyond Crusade: the Late Medieval Court of Burgun- these accounts at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at dy and the Islamic Mediterranean,” and completed an article, Kalamazoo. She is also using her time here to prepare a new project “Spatial Humanities: An Agenda for Pre-Modern Humanities Re- on news and communication in the Middle Ages for which she is search” for Porphyra 19 (Fall 2014). Dr. Wrisley gave a number of seeking both individual and network funding. public lectures this year, including a paper at the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies on December 9, “Islamicate Worlds, the Late Dr. Isabelle Levy is a Lecturer in the English Department/Core Curric- Medieval Court of Burgundy and the Mediterranean: Representa- ulum at Columbia University. She studies intersections between Ro- tions, Encounters, Debates.” He lectured on different aspects of mance and Semitic literary traditions of the medieval Mediterrane- digital mapping and his research on place in medieval French texts: an. During her time as a Medieval Fellow, she has been working a “Visualizing Medieval French Places: Spatial Information, Scale project entitled “Shaping Emotion in Jewish Literature of the Medieval and Literary History,” (Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard); Mediterranean,” in which she discusses the idea of Jewish ‘courtly love’ via a comparison of Hebrew, Arabic, and Romance postures to- “Lieu, Temps, Réseau: la modélisation des géographies littéraires wards love and poetry. An article, “Hybridity through Poetry: Sefer ha du moyen âge français” (Journées francoromanistes allemandes, -meshalim (The Book of Stories) and the Status of Poetry in Medieval Münster) and “How Are Medieval Places Different from Ancient Iberia,” is forthcoming in the second volume A Comparative History Ones?: Thoughts on Digital Mapping the Middle Ages” (Medieval of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. Colloquium, Columbia). In March he organized the first ever digital humanities institute in the Middle East While at Fordham in the Summer of 2104, Elena Putti served as a (dhibeirut.wordpress.com) where he taught a workshop on digital contributing researcher to discover and analyze archival docu- mapping. This summer Dr. Wrisley will be a participant in the ments for the French of Italy project, and helped to check, examine Digital Textual Studies seminar at the National Humanities Center and input data in the French of ItalyTime Map. Upon here return and will be travelling to Sydney for the Association of Digital Hu- home, she researched local archive databases to find new sources for manities Organizations annual conference to co-present a poster the project. She collaborated with the Genoese State Archive where and facilitate a workshop on peer review in the GeoHumani- she discovered several undocumented French-language documents ties. Dr.Wrisley earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1997 in Ro- from the 14th century, and maintains contact with the Turin Archive mance Languages and Literatures and is currently an Associate in search of further French-language witnesses. Elena continues to Professor in the Department of English at the American University serve as our Italian correspondent for further research activities in of Beirut. His many articles and conference presentations reflect his Italy, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Digital Humanities at the research interests in late medieval Burgundy, Mediterranean studies University of Genoa. She is an assistant professor in Art Criticism at and digital humanities. the University of Genoa and Managing of Cultural Heritage at the  Visiting Fellows  Catholic University in Milan.

Nicola Bergamo, a PhD student in Historie et Civilization at Dr. Chelsea Shields-Más is currently an adjunct professor in Histo- EHESS of Paris, spent fall 2014 as Fordham Visiting Fellow. While ry at SUNY College at Old Westbury and Long Island University - at the Center, Nicola pursued research on games in Byzantium, with Post Campus. Chelsea earned her MA in Medieval Studies and PhD particular interest on recreational, social and ludic aspects. He is in Medieval History at the University of York, UK (PhD currently dissertating on “Games in Byzantium from VI to XII cen- 2014). The PhD focused on the role of the reeve in late Anglo- tury” under the direction of Prof. Paolo Odorico, and during his time Saxon England. In addition to teaching, Fordham has provid- at Fordham. was able to focus on nomocanons and the interdictions ed Chelsea with the opportunity to further research begun during the regarding games in canon and imperial laws Nicola holds a BA and PhD. She is currently researching for an article on the moral dis- MA in Byzantine History from the University Cà Foscari (Venice, course on secular authority in late Anglo-Saxon England. This pro- Italy) and an MA from Queen’s University Belfast in Byzantine ject investigates the various strands of moralizing discourse circulat- Studies and Modern Greek. Nicola previously spent time in the US ing in the tenth and eleventh centuries (with a focus on the work of at Notre Dame where he received a fellowship from the Medieval Ælfric of Eynsham and Wulfstan, Archbishop of York), the way Institute to write a book on the Langobards, published in 2012. His these texts view secular office, and the officials that occupied it, 17 other work includes a book about Byzantine Emperor Constantine V particularly that of the reeve.

 Fordham Takes Kalamazoo, May 2015 

Center: Students:

Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies will sponsor Session Steven Bruso (English) is presenting “Medieval ‘Muscularity’: 156, ‘I just don’t want to die without a few scars’: Medieval Fight The Form of the Knightly Male Body,” during Session 414, Clubs, Masculine Identity, and Public (Dis)Order. Figuration of Male Beauty in Medieval Culture.

Mahlika Hopwood (English) is presenting “Asking the Ques- tion: Interpretive Acts and the Discourse of Compassion in Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval,” during Session 441, Early Ar- thuriana.

Boyda Johnstone (English) is presenting “Possessed by Dreams: Dream Interpretation Manuals in Late Medieval Eng- land” during Session 117, ‘Predicting the Past: Dream Symbol- Faculty: ogy in the Middle Ages.

Andrew Albin (English) is presenting “Playing Manuscripts,” David Pedersen (English) is presenting “Anxiously Pursuing during Session 478, Materiality of Music. Peace: The Seafarer and the Old English Consolatio” during Session 63, Interiority in Old English Prose and Poetry. Thelma Fenster (French) is organizing and presiding over Ses- sion 382, Early Yiddish Literature; and is presenting “Ancient Jewish History ca. 1400: Evidence from French Royal and Ducal Libraries,” during Session 511, Reading and Writing Jews and Judaism in Medieval French Literature.

Richard Gyug (History, Medieval Studies) is presiding over Ses- sion 69, In the Zone: Reconsidering the Beneventan Zone I, and presenting “The Liturgyin Chronicles of the Beneventan Zone” during Session 119, In the Zone: Reconsidering the Beneventan Alumni: Zone II. Christopher Bellitto (Kean University) is participating in Susanne Hafner (German) is presiding over Session 510, Inno- Session 433, a roundtable discussion on Medievalists in the Me- vative Words and Verses. dia.

Franklin Harkins (Theology) is presenting “God’s Will for the Heather Blatt (Florida International University) is organizing Rational Creature: Predestination and the Economy of Salvation Session 169, Revisiting Remediation. in High Scholastic Theology,” during Session 426, Heretics, In- formants, Priests: Conversion, Information, and Persecution of Theresa Earenfight (Seattle University) is participating in Ses- Heresy, 1391-1403. sion 291, a roundtable discussion on Debatable Rule: (Re) assessing Medieval Statecraft, Power, Authority, and Gender (A Brian J. Reilly (French) is presenting “Erec et Enide of Chrétien Roundtable). de Troyes” during Session 388, Reading Aloud the French of England (A Workshop); and is presiding over Session 511, Read- Damian Fleming (Indiana University, Purdue University, Fort ing and Writing Jews and Judaism in Medieval French Litera- Wayne) is presenting “‘I spent the whole morning in Hell’: Ped- ture. agogy and Dictionary of Old English,” during Session 325, In Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey II: Old English Language Suzanne Yeager (English) is presenting “Passing as Pilgrims: the and Literature; and presenting “ Chrimson ‘Can Be Set Down Place of Crusading in a Poetics of Pilgrimage,” during Session as a Sign Wherever the Writer Likes’” during Session 410, Un- 240, and organizing Session 240, Traveling Selves: Creating the settled Marks: To #;()@?:-*!... And Beyond! (A Round Table). Pilgrim Persona.

 Fordham Takes Kalamazoo, continued 

Judy Ann Ford (Texas A&M University, Commerce) is organ- John Moscatiello (University of Notre Dame) is participating in izing and presiding over Session 33, Tolkien as Translator and Session 198, a panel discussion on New Research Directions: Me- Translated. dieval Iberia (A Roundtable in Memoriam of Olivie Remie Consta- ble). Jennifer Illig (Valparaiso University) is presenting “Seven Words, Seven Sins: The Seven Deadly Sins in the English Wyc- Sarah W. Townsend (University of Pennsylvania) is presenting liffite Sermons,” during Session 251, Medieval Sermon Studies “‘Enter the City’: Crossing Linguistic Boundaries and Forming II: Preaching and the Fourth Lateran Council. Social Bonds in a Fifteenth-Century Sermon,” during Session 307 Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching from the Carolingian Pe- Donald J. Kagay (Albany State University) is presenting “Pere riod to the Fifteenth Century. III’s Wife and Military Administrator, Elionor of Sicily” in Ses- sion 559, and is organizing Session 559, Kings, Queens, and Allies in Late Medieval Warfare. Fellows:

Scott Miller (Northwestern University), is presenting Helen Birkett (University of Exeter) is presenting “You Must re- “Declawing the Pastorale: Margaret of Flanders and Her House member This: The Recording and Preservation of Exempla in Brit- at Germolles,” during Session 92, Rape, Violence, and Consent: ain and Ireland, ca. 1200,” during Session 348, Cistercian Exempla The Medieval Pastourelle, and is presiding over Session 477, Tradition. Object Iterations. Past Fellows: Kenneth Mondschein (Westfield State University/American International College) is presenting “Swordfighting 101: Aristo- Jennifer N. Brown (Marymount Manhattan College) is presenting telian Physics in the Classroom,” during Session 448, and is “A Siennese in Syon: Reading Catherine of Siena with Saint Brid- organizing Session 448, “Can These Bones Come to Life?” I: get” during Session 275, Multidisciplinary Saint Bridget: In Honor Field Reports from Re-construction, Re-enactment, and Re- of Syon Abbey’s Six-Hundredth Anniversary. creation in the Classroom, and is organizing and presiding over Session 507, “Can These Bones come to Life?” II: From Collec- tor to Curator to Craftsperson (In Memory of the Higgins Ar- mory Museum).

COMING IN SPRING 2016

19 Medievalia Fordhamensia Volume 35 The Center for Medieval Studies 2014/15

 Notabilia 

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MVST MA student Abigail Sargent was admitted to Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society.

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Dr. Alex Novikoff (History) will be taking over as the Undergraduate Chair of Medieval Studies.

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