Call for Papers
We are inviting postgraduate students in all disciplines to submit proposals for
20-minute papers for the 4th Annual MANCASS Postgraduate Conference "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes", 3rd- 4th March, 2008.
This year's conference will focus on:
o The attitudes shown by Anglo-Saxons towards different subjects such as learning, religion, gender, politics, life or death.
o Post-medieval attitudes towards the Anglo-Saxon world.
All proposals should not exceed 300 words.
Selected papers will be published in the online journal, "The Proceedings of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Postgraduate Conference".
All proposals should be directed to Fran Álvarez at
Fran.Alvarez@manchester.ac.uk or Kathy Mair at
Katherine.F.Mair@student.manchester.ac.uk
The deadline for proposals is December 14, 2007
--
Francisco Jose Alvarez Lopez
PhD Candidate
English and American Studies
The University of Manchester
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Journal of Late Antiquity
Dear Members of the Late Antiquity Community and other interested folks--
The website for the Journal of Late Antiquity at the Johns Hopkins
University Press now is ready to be accessed, with such things as
subscription forms (it's very reasonably priced!) and library
recommendation forms (please, please recommend the journal to your
library!). Please consult at:
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_late_antiquity/
We also take this opportunity again to solicit new, previously
unpublished, scholarship for the journal. As noted on the JHU
website, “The journal provides a venue for multi-disciplinary
coverage of all the methodological, geographical, and chronological
facets of Late Antiquity, going from AD 250 to 750, ranging from
Arabia to the British Isles, and running the gamut from literary and
historical studies to the study of material culture. One of the
primary goals of the journal is to highlight the status of Late
Antiquity as a discrete historical period in its own right.”
Submissions may be up to 8,000 words in length, but we’re also are
happy to consider much briefer notes. For information, please consult
me, Ralph Mathisen, at ralphwm@uiuc.edu.
Ralph W. Mathisen, Managing Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity
Professor of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies
Dept. of History, MC-466
309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
217-244-5247, FAX: 217-333-2297
The website for the Journal of Late Antiquity at the Johns Hopkins
University Press now is ready to be accessed, with such things as
subscription forms (it's very reasonably priced!) and library
recommendation forms (please, please recommend the journal to your
library!). Please consult at:
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_late_antiquity/
We also take this opportunity again to solicit new, previously
unpublished, scholarship for the journal. As noted on the JHU
website, “The journal provides a venue for multi-disciplinary
coverage of all the methodological, geographical, and chronological
facets of Late Antiquity, going from AD 250 to 750, ranging from
Arabia to the British Isles, and running the gamut from literary and
historical studies to the study of material culture. One of the
primary goals of the journal is to highlight the status of Late
Antiquity as a discrete historical period in its own right.”
Submissions may be up to 8,000 words in length, but we’re also are
happy to consider much briefer notes. For information, please consult
me, Ralph Mathisen, at ralphwm@uiuc.edu.
Ralph W. Mathisen, Managing Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity
Professor of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies
Dept. of History, MC-466
309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
217-244-5247, FAX: 217-333-2297
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Pilgrimage Website
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
Just to inform you of the launch of a new website about Pilgrimage at
http://www.york.ac.uk/projects/pilgrimage/
Just to inform you of the launch of a new website about Pilgrimage at
http://www.york.ac.uk/projects/pilgrimage/
CFP
"Old Gems in New Settings"
NEMLA, Buffalo, NY, April 10-13, 2008
This panel invites papers on the teaching of early British literature in
survey courses. Practical pedagogical explorations are welcome, as well as
papers addressing theoretical concerns. How are concerns about manuscript,
generic, and cultural contexts transformed when medieval texts are placed
in the context of a survey course for modern students? How are medieval
works changed when seen in the contexts of post-medieval works? Send one-
page abstracts to Rebecca Lartigue at rlartigu@spfldcol.edu . DEADLINE
EXTENDED TO 10/10/07.
NEMLA, Buffalo, NY, April 10-13, 2008
This panel invites papers on the teaching of early British literature in
survey courses. Practical pedagogical explorations are welcome, as well as
papers addressing theoretical concerns. How are concerns about manuscript,
generic, and cultural contexts transformed when medieval texts are placed
in the context of a survey course for modern students? How are medieval
works changed when seen in the contexts of post-medieval works? Send one-
page abstracts to Rebecca Lartigue at rlartigu@spfldcol.edu . DEADLINE
EXTENDED TO 10/10/07.
Manuscripts in the Netherlands Online
Medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands on the web
The Hague, September 21 - Today all medieval manuscripts in the
Netherlands are available on the website Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch
Collections (MMDC), www.mmdc.nl. The website provides a portal to a
database with short, uniform descriptions and photographs of all
medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands, about 6000 items in all. Jos
Biemans, Special Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies launched the
website today in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, by making the first click
on the homepage.
Medieval snapshot
Medieval manuscripts provide a fascinating snapshot of the cultural and
intellectual life of this period. Until now, information about these
manuscripts and the related knowledge and expertise was dispersed, but
MMDC brings all of this material together. MMDC has been set up by the
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the university libraries of Leiden, Amsterdam,
Utrecht and Groningen, and the Atheneumbibliotheek Deventer and it is
partly financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO).
One website for all manuscripts
MMDC is focussed on creating possibilities for progressive research
based on medieval manuscripts, by building a database with uniform
descriptions, digital images and links to facsimile editions and
subject-specific websites. This way, all the disseminated information
about medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands has been brought together
and made available through one database. To benefit international use,
all information is published in English.
Virtual platform
The website also contains more information on medieval books in the
Netherlands. This website will function as a virtual platform for
researchers and students in palaeography, art history, philology and
other fields. Visitors will find an overview of all Dutch institutions
with medieval books, along with information on the history of the
collections, contact information and procedures of requesting
manuscripts. The website also contains digital versions of several key
out-of-print books about medieval manuscripts and an illustrated
overview of medieval script.
For questions you can contact Saskia van Bergen, project coordinator
Parchment to Portal, tel.: 070-3140430, e-mail: saskia.vanbergen@kb.nl
The Hague, September 21 - Today all medieval manuscripts in the
Netherlands are available on the website Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch
Collections (MMDC), www.mmdc.nl. The website provides a portal to a
database with short, uniform descriptions and photographs of all
medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands, about 6000 items in all. Jos
Biemans, Special Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies launched the
website today in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, by making the first click
on the homepage.
Medieval snapshot
Medieval manuscripts provide a fascinating snapshot of the cultural and
intellectual life of this period. Until now, information about these
manuscripts and the related knowledge and expertise was dispersed, but
MMDC brings all of this material together. MMDC has been set up by the
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the university libraries of Leiden, Amsterdam,
Utrecht and Groningen, and the Atheneumbibliotheek Deventer and it is
partly financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO).
One website for all manuscripts
MMDC is focussed on creating possibilities for progressive research
based on medieval manuscripts, by building a database with uniform
descriptions, digital images and links to facsimile editions and
subject-specific websites. This way, all the disseminated information
about medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands has been brought together
and made available through one database. To benefit international use,
all information is published in English.
Virtual platform
The website also contains more information on medieval books in the
Netherlands. This website will function as a virtual platform for
researchers and students in palaeography, art history, philology and
other fields. Visitors will find an overview of all Dutch institutions
with medieval books, along with information on the history of the
collections, contact information and procedures of requesting
manuscripts. The website also contains digital versions of several key
out-of-print books about medieval manuscripts and an illustrated
overview of medieval script.
For questions you can contact Saskia van Bergen, project coordinator
Parchment to Portal, tel.: 070-3140430, e-mail: saskia.vanbergen@kb.nl
Medieval News of Last Week
The news of last week:
A little slow getting this up:
Gilded Horns Stolen in Denmark
AND: Danish Police Recover
Archaeologists hunt fire disaster
EXCLUSIVE: MOVIE FOOTAGE FROM MIDDLE AGES!
CAMPAIGNERS FIGHT TO SAFEGUARD RUINS
Treasure trove is found in Cumbria
Rain uncovers Viking treasure trove
Car park dig for medieval castle
A little slow getting this up:
Gilded Horns Stolen in Denmark
AND: Danish Police Recover
Archaeologists hunt fire disaster
EXCLUSIVE: MOVIE FOOTAGE FROM MIDDLE AGES!
CAMPAIGNERS FIGHT TO SAFEGUARD RUINS
Treasure trove is found in Cumbria
Rain uncovers Viking treasure trove
Car park dig for medieval castle
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Anglo-Saxon Charters
Anglo-Saxon Charters Series: Texts Now Available Online
Since 1973 the texts of Anglo-Saxon charters, together with translations of those extant in an Old English version, have been published by archive in the Anglo-Saxon Charters series. The series has been guided by an advisory committee, chaired since 1991 by Professor Nicholas Brooks, under the aegis of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. To date eleven volumes have been published; others are in an advanced state of preparation.
Thanks to a grant from the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, David Pelteret has prepared an online plain-text version of all the published charters, supplemented by the charters whose publication is forthcoming from the Bath archives edited by Susan Kelly and those of Christ Church, Canterbury, edited by Nicholas Brooks and Susan Kelly. To encourage exploration of these texts, he has also provided working translations of all Latin documents from St Paul’s, London, Malmesbury Abbey and Bath as well as some of those from Christ Church, Canterbury, to which have been added the translations of Old English texts made by the editors of the various volumes.
The texts and translations have been placed on Simon Keynes’s ‘Kemble’ website at http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/kemble/pelteret/2%20Index.htm, where they are available without charge. Individual charters can be accessed either by their Sawyer catalogue number (a revised listing of all extant Anglo-Saxon charters originally compiled by P. H. Sawyer in 1968: see http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/eSawyer.99/eSawyer2.html) or by their number within each volume in the Anglo-Saxon Charters series. Full bibliographical details have been provided for every charter so that the apparatus criticus for each text and the extensive commentaries on individual charters found in recent volumes of the Anglo-Saxon Charters series can easily be located.
Since 1973 the texts of Anglo-Saxon charters, together with translations of those extant in an Old English version, have been published by archive in the Anglo-Saxon Charters series. The series has been guided by an advisory committee, chaired since 1991 by Professor Nicholas Brooks, under the aegis of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. To date eleven volumes have been published; others are in an advanced state of preparation.
Thanks to a grant from the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, David Pelteret has prepared an online plain-text version of all the published charters, supplemented by the charters whose publication is forthcoming from the Bath archives edited by Susan Kelly and those of Christ Church, Canterbury, edited by Nicholas Brooks and Susan Kelly. To encourage exploration of these texts, he has also provided working translations of all Latin documents from St Paul’s, London, Malmesbury Abbey and Bath as well as some of those from Christ Church, Canterbury, to which have been added the translations of Old English texts made by the editors of the various volumes.
The texts and translations have been placed on Simon Keynes’s ‘Kemble’ website at http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/kemble/pelteret/2%20Index.htm, where they are available without charge. Individual charters can be accessed either by their Sawyer catalogue number (a revised listing of all extant Anglo-Saxon charters originally compiled by P. H. Sawyer in 1968: see http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/eSawyer.99/eSawyer2.html) or by their number within each volume in the Anglo-Saxon Charters series. Full bibliographical details have been provided for every charter so that the apparatus criticus for each text and the extensive commentaries on individual charters found in recent volumes of the Anglo-Saxon Charters series can easily be located.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Mirator
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Learned and Popular in Medieval Christianities?
Conceptualising differences in medieval religiosities
Mirator - a multilingual electronic journal devoted to medieval
studies (http://www.glossa.fi/mirator) - will in autumn 2008 publish
a theme issue with the provisional title 'Learned and Popular in
Medieval Christianities?'. In a given medieval culture, not all
people approached religion or expressed their piety in the same way.
There was acknowledged and sanctioned diversity, such as different
saints' cults or religious organisations, as well as undesirable and
even prohibited diversity, practices labeled superstitious or
heretical. How useful are the concepts 'learned' and 'popular' in
approaching these differences? What is 'learned', what is 'popular',
within a given context? Are they opposites, or rather intertwined? If
there were significant differences in approaches to Christian life,
where in the social structure did the dividing line run? Between the
clergy and 'laymen' or between ecclesiastical and secular elite and
the rest of the society? What about variety within learned - or
popular - religious cultures? How did people in the middle ages
define these concepts?
We seek contributions examining these and related questions, such as
interaction between clergy and congregations, and prescriptions and
practices, as well as suitable case studies on e.g. saints' cults,
reform movements or heresies, and medieval theories or visualisations
of religion. We especially welcome inspiring ways of conceptualising
contemporaneous differences in medieval religiosities, furnished with
informative examples.
We invite contributions from scholars of all disciplines working on
medieval religion or devotion. Please send a one-page proposal for a
15-page article in English, and your CV, to the editor in chief
(mirator@glossa.fi) by the 31st of October. The editorial board will
perform a preliminary selection of the contributions to be included
in the issue. The selected authors will be asked to turn in a
finished article by the 1st of February 2008, for external review.
Mirator - a multilingual electronic journal devoted to medieval
studies, is published by Glossa, the Society for Medieval Studies in
Finland (http://www.glossa.fi). Mirator is an open access publication
adhering to a double blind referee-system.
Yours,
Jesse Keskiaho, editor in chief.
Conceptualising differences in medieval religiosities
Mirator - a multilingual electronic journal devoted to medieval
studies (http://www.glossa.fi/mirator) - will in autumn 2008 publish
a theme issue with the provisional title 'Learned and Popular in
Medieval Christianities?'. In a given medieval culture, not all
people approached religion or expressed their piety in the same way.
There was acknowledged and sanctioned diversity, such as different
saints' cults or religious organisations, as well as undesirable and
even prohibited diversity, practices labeled superstitious or
heretical. How useful are the concepts 'learned' and 'popular' in
approaching these differences? What is 'learned', what is 'popular',
within a given context? Are they opposites, or rather intertwined? If
there were significant differences in approaches to Christian life,
where in the social structure did the dividing line run? Between the
clergy and 'laymen' or between ecclesiastical and secular elite and
the rest of the society? What about variety within learned - or
popular - religious cultures? How did people in the middle ages
define these concepts?
We seek contributions examining these and related questions, such as
interaction between clergy and congregations, and prescriptions and
practices, as well as suitable case studies on e.g. saints' cults,
reform movements or heresies, and medieval theories or visualisations
of religion. We especially welcome inspiring ways of conceptualising
contemporaneous differences in medieval religiosities, furnished with
informative examples.
We invite contributions from scholars of all disciplines working on
medieval religion or devotion. Please send a one-page proposal for a
15-page article in English, and your CV, to the editor in chief
(mirator@glossa.fi) by the 31st of October. The editorial board will
perform a preliminary selection of the contributions to be included
in the issue. The selected authors will be asked to turn in a
finished article by the 1st of February 2008, for external review.
Mirator - a multilingual electronic journal devoted to medieval
studies, is published by Glossa, the Society for Medieval Studies in
Finland (http://www.glossa.fi). Mirator is an open access publication
adhering to a double blind referee-system.
Yours,
Jesse Keskiaho, editor in chief.
Vikings: Melbourne Symposium
*VIKINGS AND THEIR ENEMIES*
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/vikings/
*A symposium at the University of Melbourne, 24 November 2007*
*Supported by the ARC Network for Early European Research*
Most peoples of early Europe had contact with vikings as they
traded, raided and settled across a wide geographical area.
Traditionally vikings have been seen as enemies of the peoples they
encountered, and of the Christian church. This symposium invites a
broad exploration of the concept of 'viking enemies' from the
traditional to emerging concerns such as the challenging climate of
the Scandinavian homelands, the arrival of Latin-based culture or
the current marginalisation of medieval studies within many
Australian universities.
Due to the wide sphere of viking activity, researchers working in
virtually every area of early European studies can contribute to
this theme. It is hoped that this symposium will bring together
post-graduates, early career researchers and senior academics from a
variety of disciplines to exchange views and perceptions of vikings
and their enemies.
Papers relating to any aspect of the theme 'Vikings and their
Enemies' are invited for the symposium. Please submit your
proposal including an abstract of 100-200 words, working title and
your contact details to the symposium convenor, Dr Katrina Burge,
School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
(k.burge@unimelb.edu.au) by *1
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/vikings/
*A symposium at the University of Melbourne, 24 November 2007*
*Supported by the ARC Network for Early European Research*
Most peoples of early Europe had contact with vikings as they
traded, raided and settled across a wide geographical area.
Traditionally vikings have been seen as enemies of the peoples they
encountered, and of the Christian church. This symposium invites a
broad exploration of the concept of 'viking enemies' from the
traditional to emerging concerns such as the challenging climate of
the Scandinavian homelands, the arrival of Latin-based culture or
the current marginalisation of medieval studies within many
Australian universities.
Due to the wide sphere of viking activity, researchers working in
virtually every area of early European studies can contribute to
this theme. It is hoped that this symposium will bring together
post-graduates, early career researchers and senior academics from a
variety of disciplines to exchange views and perceptions of vikings
and their enemies.
Papers relating to any aspect of the theme 'Vikings and their
Enemies' are invited for the symposium. Please submit your
proposal including an abstract of 100-200 words, working title and
your contact details to the symposium convenor, Dr Katrina Burge,
School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne
(k.burge@unimelb.edu.au
MAMA CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR MAMA 32:
MAMA (MID-AMERICAN MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION) WILL MEET SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
23, 2008, AT MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE, MARSHALL, MISSOURI. YOUR HOST
WILL BE PROFESSOR MARK ADDERLEY, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING A PAPER/PANEL, PLEASE SEND A
ONE PAGE ABSTRACT ON ANY MEDIEVAL TOPIC TO mama32@sbcglobal.net
TELEPHONE: 660-831-4231; FAX: 660-831-4039. THE DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 14, 2007.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
DR. DANIEL C. SCAVONE, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF
INDIANA-EVANSVILLE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
MARK ADDERLEY, JIM FALLS
PRESIDENT SECRETARY-TREASURER
MAMA (MID-AMERICAN MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION) WILL MEET SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
23, 2008, AT MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE, MARSHALL, MISSOURI. YOUR HOST
WILL BE PROFESSOR MARK ADDERLEY, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING A PAPER/PANEL, PLEASE SEND A
ONE PAGE ABSTRACT ON ANY MEDIEVAL TOPIC TO mama32@sbcglobal.net
TELEPHONE: 660-831-4231; FAX: 660-831-4039. THE DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 14, 2007.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
DR. DANIEL C. SCAVONE, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF
INDIANA-EVANSVILLE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
MARK ADDERLEY, JIM FALLS
PRESIDENT SECRETARY-TREASURER
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
News of the Week
The medieval news of the week:
The week's medieval related headlines:
Prague's famed Charles Bridge to undergo renovation
The Byzantine castle 'Hieron Oros' remains vulnerable
Archaeologists Study Terrain Outside Medieval Fortress Cherven
Roberta Frank in the Sports Pages
Medieval Cambodian City Was World's Largest
A bit overstated but.....
Revealedix: the Gaul of Asterix was no joke
Ring declared treasure
Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover Christian Necropolis on Perperikon
Ottoman Turks possibly perpetrated massacre during 14th Century
Bulgarian siege:
The week's medieval related headlines:
Prague's famed Charles Bridge to undergo renovation
The Byzantine castle 'Hieron Oros' remains vulnerable
Archaeologists Study Terrain Outside Medieval Fortress Cherven
Roberta Frank in the Sports Pages
Medieval Cambodian City Was World's Largest
A bit overstated but.....
Revealedix: the Gaul of Asterix was no joke
Ring declared treasure
Bulgarian Archaeologists Discover Christian Necropolis on Perperikon
Ottoman Turks possibly perpetrated massacre during 14th Century
Bulgarian siege:
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