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Archive: September 2011 (2 Posts)

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

An Interview with Jim Thurn, Preservation Specialist

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

This week’s interview is with Jim Thurn, a Preservation Specialist in the Preservation Directorate’s Conservation Division. Describe your background. I grew up in Syracuse, New York, in a family of eight children.  As an outdoors type, I was fortunate to grow up in close proximity to Lake Ontario and the Adirondack Mountains.  My family and I …

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Templar Secrets at the Law Library of Congress?

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

This month marks the ten year anniversary of Italian scholar Barbara Frale’s discovery of lost medieval documents relating to the trial of the Knights Templar. Frale, a scholar of medieval paleography, was doing historical research at the Vatican Secret Archive when she uncovered a fourteenth century manuscript which recounts a previously unknown chapter in the history …