Friday, July 20, 2007

http://tiruncula.typepad.com/bloggyu/2007/07/book-proposals-.html

Over at Bloggy U the issue of Book Proposals and how do one has been broached. Anyone with advice, knowledge, experience, and insight is welcome, nay, begged, cajoled, etc., to post.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Conference-Toronto

Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Conference
Power & Patronage in the Middle Ages
University of Toronto
14-15 March 2008

Call for Papers

The Annual Conference of the Centre for Medieval
Studies will take place 14-15 March 2008 at the
University of Toronto, and will explore the role and
function of medieval patronage in all its forms, from
patron-client relationships in the Late Antique
Mediterranean to civic patronage systems in Late
Medieval Europe, and from networks of economic and
political power to structures of literary and artistic
production.

The keynote speaker, Richard Firth Green, Humanities
Distinguished Professor of English and the Director of
the Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at The
Ohio State University, will give a talk on Humphrey de
Bohun and the translation of Guillaume de Palerme into
English.

The organizing committee invites proposals for topics
relating to medieval patronage in any of its forms;
those proposals that cross over traditional
disciplinary boundaries are especially welcome. Please
send a 200-word abstract, a one page CV, contact
information, as well as any audio-visual requirements
by 15 September 2007 to the address below.

The Centre for Medieval Studies will be changing
locations within the university over the summer, so
electronic submissions are especially encouraged.


medieval.conference@utoronto.ca

-or-

Annual Conference
Centre for Medieval Studies
39 Queen’s Park Crescent
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 2C3

Any inquiries can be directed to
medieval.conference@utoronto.ca

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Fulgentius Online

The English translation of
Fulgentius, The Mythographer, Translated from the Latin with
Introductions by Leslie George Whitbread, 1971
has been made available on-line for non-commercial use by Ohio State
University Press.
See http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/openaccess.htm
The same site also has Timothy E. Gregory, Vox Populi: Violence and
Popular Involvement in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth
Century A.D., 1979.

Regards,
Genevra Kornbluth

A Resource to Know

The following resource is good if you're doing manuscripts in France:

here

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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Journal of Late Antiquity

NEW JOURNAL

JOURNAL of LATE ANTIQUITY

The Johns Hopkins University Press

The Journal of Late Antiquity (JLA) is a multi-disciplinary
and inter-disciplinary journal covering the world of Late
Antiquity, broadly defined, including the late Roman,
western European, Byzantine, Sassanid, and Islamic worlds,
ca. AD 250-800 (i.e. the late and post-classical world up to the
Carolingian period). JLA also fills a serious void in the
English-language scholarship, for there currently is no
English-language journal devoted to Late Antiquity. JLA will
provide space for scholarship dealing with both practical
and theoretical issues and will bridge the gap between
literary and material culture scholarship. JLA also will serve
an advocacy role for late antique scholarship by providing
not only a previously lacking publication venue for all late
antique scholars but also a venue for emerging late antique
scholars who have trouble finding the proper niche for
publication. JLA will accommodate not only for medium
and (if deemed particularly significant) longer length
articles specifically devoted to original research, but also for
brief notes discussing significant observations that might
not otherwise find their way into the scholarship.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Scholars of Late Antiquity are invited to submit previously
unpublished material for consideration for publication in
JLA. Contributions should have a clearly stated thesis and
argument firmly based in the use of primary source
material We particularly encourage submissions relating to
the relationship between material culture and traditional
literary sources. If there is a single theme that we would
expect all of the contributions to manifest, it would be that
in some manner they illuminate Late Antiquity as a discrete
period with its own unique identifying characteristics.

Submissions may be forwarded in e-format (WORD or
WORDPERFECT) to
Ralph W. Mathisen, Managing Editor, at ralphwm@uiuc.edu
and ruricius@msn.com

Queries on books for consideration for review may be forwarded
to one of the JLA Review Editors: Hagith Sivan
(helenasivan@yahoo.com), Richard Lim (rlim@smith.edu), or
Dennis Trout (troutd@missouri.edu)

SUBSCRIPTIONS

One-Year Subscriptions to JLA are available at the following rates:

Individuals (paper OR online) $30.00
Institutions (paper OR online) $75.00
Institutions (paper AND online) $105.00

To subscribe, call 1-410-516-6987 or tollfree, 1-800-548-1784

For further information about JLA, contact Ralph Mathisen
(ralphwm@uiuc.edu or ruricius@msn.com)