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Frank T. Coulson, Director of Palaeography for the Center, will take part in the summer school in medieval Latin to be held at the Biblioteca Guarneriana in San Daniele, Italy…
Professor Frank T. Coulson was appointed series editor of TEAMS Secular Commentary series at the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University
Secular Commentary Series
Medieval…
Marjorie Curry Woods, the Sue Goldston Lebermann Endowed Professor in Liberal Arts (Emerita) at the University of Texas at Austin, died on August 9, 2025. Jorie, as she was known among friends and…
The Center mourns the loss of Professor Dennis Trout of the University of Missouri. Professor Trout was an Arthur E. and Elizabeth S. Gordon fellow in the Center during the summer of 2019 while…
The family and estate of Francis Newton have generously donated his invaluable research collection to the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies where it will be permanently housed…
The Center has recently received a donation of research papers from the estate of the late Dutch scholar, Marijke van der Bijl. Marijke was a member of the research team at Utrecht University,…
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Francis Newton, Professor Emeritus of the Classics Department at Duke University and a member of the Comité international de paléographie…
Dr. Hüseyin Uzunoğlu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ancient Languages and Cultures of Akdeniz University (Antalya, Türkiye). His main field of research is Greek epigraphy in Asia…
The Center welcomes Marco Tentori Montalto, University of Mannheim.
During my stay at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies of the Ohio State University (OSU), I combine my…
Professor Harry C. Avery donated his collection of Attic squeezes to our Center in 2017. He asked that we recognize his late father-in-law, William F. McDonald, a long-time Professor of Ancient…
The Center welcomes Pablo Piqueras Yagüe, Universidad de Murcia
Visiting Fellow as a Margarita Salas Researcher
I have developed my research work in the field of the medieval…
The Moralized Ovid
By Pierre Bersuire
Edited and translated by Frank T. Coulson and Justin Haynes
An influential medieval allegorical…
Dr. Sophia Bönisch-Meyer, postdoctoral researcher at the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute in Munich, is an Arthur E. and…
My name is Gaia Gianni, and I am thrilled to be joining the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies. I obtained my PhD in Classics at Brown University in 2020 with a…
Dr. Alberto Barrón Ruiz de la Cuesta, former postdoctoral researcher of the University of Cantabria (Spain), is an Arthur E. and Joyce S. Gordon fellow at the Center. He is working in the research…
Frank T. Coulson will deliver the Endowed Lecture on the Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in May 2023…
Dr. Elena Duce Pastor, postdoctoral researcher Margarita Salas Autonoma University of Madrid/ University of Zaragoza (Spain), is a Sterling Dow Fellow at the Center, working on her project, Do…
Dr. M. Cristina de la Escosura Balbás of the University of Zaragoza is an Arthur E. Gordon fellow at the Center, working on her project:
Research (Tool) Project: Linking Center’s…
Cristiana Roffi of the University of Trento is visiting the Center to work on her project, " Recasting Ovid in Modern Germany: the game of gaze in Jörg Wickram’s Metamorphoses." This…
Marjorie Curry Woods, Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin, has generously donated her incomparable collection of microfilms and notes on medieval and renaissance manuscripts…
Director of Epigraphy and Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Classics, Fritz Graf, was elected as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Everyone in the…
Frank T. Coulson will deliver the Endowed Lecture on the Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in May 2023…
Carman Romano has been accepted into the Lincoln College Summer Course in Greek Palaeography at Lincoln College, Oxford. The school is quite competitive, so please congratulate Carman on this…
We at the Center were saddened to hear the news of the death of Christian Habicht at the age of 92. Prof. Habicht was a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced…
PABLO PIQUERAS YAGÜE will visit the Center during April, May and June to conduct research for his dissertation dealing with Pierre Bersuire’s Ovidius moraliztus. Pablo is currently a…
Frank T. Coulson, Director of Palaeography for the Center, will take part in the summer school in medieval Latin to be held at the Biblioteca Guarneriana in San Daniele, Italy from June 13-20,…
Frank Coulson, Professor of Classics and Director of Palaeography for the Center, has been promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Classics. Professor Coulson has published extensively…
In 2018, the Center will be changing the format of Texts and Contexts from a two-day conference to a one-day seminar. We hope this change will allow for a more intensive and focused examination of…
The Center would like to announce our receipt of the gift of the Avery-McDonald Collection of squeezes of Greek inscriptions from Attica. Professor John F. Newell, of the Classics Department at…
Frank T. Coulson, Director of Palaeography for the Center, will take part in the summer school in medieval Latin to be held at the Biblioteca Guarneriana in San Daniele, Italy from June 14-21,…
Frank Coulson, professor of Classics and the Director of Palaeography for the Center, has been elected a member of the Comité international de paléographie latine, which is an honorific…
Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and…
Winter School in Latin Paleography and Codicology at the American Academy in Rome, January 8-19, 2018.
David Gura (PhD Classics, 2010), currently Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts…
Patrizia Carmassi of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel will be the Virginia Brown Fellow in Palaeography at the Center during September-October, 2016. She intends to work on her catalogue…
The Center took part in the Summer School for Latin Philology held at the Biblioteca Guarneriana in San Daniele, Italy from July 14-23 (in collaboration with the University of Trieste, Udine and…
On April 28, 2016, Professor Coulson delivered a talk to Prof. Richard Trachsler’s Romance Philology Seminar at the University of Zurich concerning his current research on medieval and humanistic…
Congratulations to Classics graduate student William Little who received a Nicholas Howe Grant from the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to fund his enrollment in the Greek Palaeography…
CALL FOR PAPERS: Texts and Contexts is an annual…
The Center has recently received a generous donation of books from the library of the late Stephen J. Kersten. Steve was a student in the department in the late 1980s and is very fondly remembered…
Quinn Griffin (née Radziszewski) has accepted a tenure-track position at Grand Valley State University. Quinn wrote her dissertation on women philosophers in the Renaissance under the direction of…
Symposium with Chad Wellmon, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia to be held 4:30 pm, October 7, 2015 in room 100, George Wells Knight House, 104 E. 15th Ave…
Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and…
Texts and Contexts is an annual conference held on the campus of the Ohio State University devoted to Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunables and early printed texts in Latin and…
Introduction to Medieval Icelandic Manucripts: Lecture
Ohio Union, Ohio Staters Inc. Founders Room, 1739 N. High Street
2 pm
Elizabeth Ashman Rowe (Department of Anglo…
Eadfrith: Scribe of Lindisfarne
by Michelle Treeve
This is the tale of the making of a masterwork, a landmark in the human journey — the Lindisfarne Gospels, one of the world…