Hèléne Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish scholar whose focus is medieval history and the history of food. Her meticulously ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

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In the annals of Albany cultural history, Charles Gehring stands alone. He is the ultramarathon man of 17th-century Dutch translation, the greatest of all time. Gehring, whom friends call Charly, was ...

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