TRADITIO: SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS

Abstract

The first volume of TRADITIO was published in 1943. Publication was interrupted a few times, so that the current issue is volume 72; but 2018 marks TRADITIO’s seventy-fifth year. Leading in to this anniversary, the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University sponsored a conference at the Lincoln Center campus of the university on March 25, 2017, under the title “The Generative Power of Tradition: A Celebration of Traditio, 75 Years.” The program was planned by three members of the Editorial Board at Fordham University: Fr. Martin Chase, S.J., the Associate Editor, Dr. Mary Erler, and Dr. Nina Rowe, along with the editor. The conference was arranged by Dr. Susanne Hafner and Dr. Laura Morreale, the director and associate director of the Center for Medieval Studies. Sessions on mysticism, editing manuscripts in the digital age, Jews and Christians, and popular religion were presented. The opening address at the conference, “New Seeds, New Harvests: Thirty Years of Tilling the Mystic Field,” was delivered by Dr. Barbara Newman of Northwestern University and is printed in this issue.