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Medievalia Fordhamensia 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 read- ing 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 ap- proach 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. 3 Faculty News 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 man- uscript 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.
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