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With the arrival of an unconventional and accomplished historian, the study of medieval history at Harvard may be more accessible not only to undergraduates concentrating in the field, but to a larger audience. Daniel L. Smail, currently a professor of history at Fordham University, will join Harvard’s Department of History on January...
...Fordham, where he teaches the political, legal, and social history of medieval Europe, Smail is unique in his anthropological approach...
...tend to be less interested in looking at origins of such-and-such modern practice, and more interested in using the Middle Ages as a foil for modernity, as a mirror to understand our own culture,” Smail said...
...courses, “A Natural History,” Smail attempts to frame the history of humanity within a timespan of several million years. Beginning from the Australopithecine genus, Smail traces human development from its early stages through the agricultural revolution to the early-modern period in Europe...
...plans to companies with 100 or fewer employees; this year it is on pace to sell twice that many. "It's no secret to most Americans that neither the government nor the company you work for is going to be there for you in retirement," says Peter Smail, president of Fidelity's Institutional Retirement Services Co. This fall Fidelity will begin offering a cyber version of the traditional 401(k), known as the e401(k). It's a full-service 401(k), in which fixed percentages of employee savings are matched by employers in a tax-deferred investment fund administered...