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ARCHAEOLOGISTS REVEAL JEWELS OF AN ANGLO SAXON PRINCESS AT KIRKLEATHAM MUSEUM

Carnivalesque XXXiii

Carnivalesque XXXiii is up at Blogenspiel--Ancient/Medieval this time.
http://blogenspiel.blogspot.com/2007/11/carnivalesque-xxxiii.html

More Medieval News

U of C boasts medieval bestseller

Beowulf: A hero for our times

U. South Carolina: Beowulf at U. South Carolina exhibit coincides with
new movie

Young Vikings help to make their vessel shipshape

Archeologists Discovered a 10th Century Tomb in Pskov

15th-century castle reopens to the public

Temp Lecturer in Belfast

Queens University Belfast

Temporary Lecturer in Byzantine Studies

Institute of Byzantine Studies (School of History and Anthropology)

Ref: (07/100171)

This post is available for 10 months and the post holder will participate
fully in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes and in the
Institute’s vigorous research culture. Informal enquiries may be made to
Dr. Anthony Hirst, email: a.hirst@qub.ac.uk.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held on week beginning 17
December 2007.

Salary scale: £30,012 - £44,074 per annum (including contribution points)

Closing date: 4.00pm, Friday 30 November 2007

Please visit our website for further information and to apply online at
www.qub.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively contact the Personnel Department,
Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN. Telephone (028) 90973044 or (028)
90973854 (answering machine). Fax: (028) 90971040 or e-mail on
personnel@qub.ac.uk

The University is committed to equal opportunities and to selection on
merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first
instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent
subject to availability of funding.

Residential Fellowships

Residential Fellowships, Koc University Research Center for Anatolian
Civilizations, Istanbul

Koc University is accepting applications for junior and senior
residential fellowships for the 2008-2009 academic year at its Research
Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul. Koc University invites
applications from junior and senior scholars specializing in the
archaeology, art, history, and applied disciplines of Anatolia (and
Istanbul) during the Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman eras.
The deadline for applications is December 15, 2007. For an on-line
application form and information about the residential fellowship program
and the RCAC,
please visit http://rcac.ku.edu.tr


Alessandra Ricci
Associate Director
RCAC - Research Center fo Anatolian Civilizations
Koc University
Istiklal Caddesi - Nur-i Ziya Sok. 5
Istanbul - Beyoglu
aricci@ku.edu.tr

Objects in motion Conference

You are invited to a one-day colloquium entitled:

OBJECTS IN MOTION: THE CIRCULATION OF RELIGION AND SACRED
OBJECTS IN THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD

Date: Friday, 2nd May 2008, from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Location: The Bard Graduate Center for Studies
in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
38 West 86th Street, New York, NY, 10024
Tel.: 212.501.3000 Website: http://www.bgc.bard.edu/

Confirmed Speakers: Matthew Canepa, Anthony Cutler, Georgia Frank,
Henry Maguire, Hallie Meredith, Patricia Cox Miller, and
Ann Marie Yasin

Further details will be circulated in January 2008.

Hallie Meredith
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th Street
New York NY 10024
meredith@bgc.bard.edu

Anglo-Saxon Conference

he Anglo-Saxon Church in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries



A one-day research symposium at the University of Leeds

hosted by the School of English and the Institute for Medieval Studies



10 January 2008



10.00 a.m. coffee

Programme begins at 10.30 a.m

1.00-2.00 p.m. lunch

Programme ends no later than 4.30 p.m.




Organiser: Professor Joyce Hill j.m.hill@leeds.ac.uk

Venue: Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place (on main campus)

http://webprod2.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap/detail.asp?ID=546


Approaches to the campus by all routes and forms of transport can be found by following the links on

http://webprod2.leeds.ac.uk/campusmap/index.asp



Following on from the symposia held during last academic year, and at the request of those who contributed to these two lively and informative events, I have put together a further one-day programme on aspects of the Anglo-Saxon Church in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. The subject in January 2007 was What do we mean by the Benedictine Reform? and in March 2007 it was The Secular Church in Eleventh Century England. This third symposium will embrace the monastic and the secular church across the tenth and eleventh centuries.



The speakers are Julia Barrow (Nottingham), Jesse Billett (Cambridge), Richard Gameson (Durham), Catherine Karkov (Leeds), and Tom Pickles (Oxford).



There will be opportunity for some questions after each paper, and there will be a round-table discussion at the end of the day.



Postgraduate students are most welcome.



Anyone who wishes to attend is requested to complete the registration form below, and return it to Professor Hill, at the School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT by 14 December 2007.



Please circulate this information and the accompanying form to colleagues and students.






ADVANCE NOTICE



10 April 2008 at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute



Propaganda, Piety and Polemic: Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England



Information about this one-day research symposium will be circulated early in 2008





The Anglo-Saxon Church in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries University of Leeds, 10 January 2008



REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT FORM


Name_____________________________________________________________________

University affiliation________________________________________________________


Status (please delete as appropriate):
member of staff at a university/registered postgraduate student

Email address______________________________________________________________

Limited accommodation will be available with colleagues for those otherwise unable to attend.
Overnight accommodation needed (please indicate which night)___________________

Special requirements________________________________________________________

Registration and lunch charges

· If you are registering as a postgraduate student and wish to have lunch, there is a charge of £8. Alternatively, there are snack bars and sandwich shops nearby where you can easily buy something inexpensive.

· For postgraduates who choose not to have the symposium lunch, there is no charge, although you are still asked to send in the registration form.

· If you are a speaker or are chairing a session, the charge for lunch is £8.

· For all other participants, the registration fee, including lunch, is £16.
Tea and coffee will be available to all participants, in the morning, at lunchtime, and in the afternoon.

Amount and method of payment
If paying by credit card, please note that the University levies a 2% charge

Card type (Visa/Mastercard/Access)__________________________________

Name of card holder ______________________________________________

Card number___________________________ Expiry date____________________

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Signature_____________________________________ Date_______________________

Please arrange for payment of £_____________________________________________


If paying by cheque, please make it payable to The University of Leeds. Amount: £________

Please send the completed form (with cheque if this is the chosen method of payment), to Professor Joyce Hill, School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT.

Postgraduates should register for the symposium by sending in the form, even if they have no payment to make. In this case, registration can be by email to j.m.hill@leeds.ac.uk

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 14 December 2007

Conference

Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies at Princeton
University

Coming Together: Taverns, Leisure, and Public
Gathering in the Middle Ages

5 April 2008

Call for Papers

The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton
University invites graduate students to submit paper
proposals for its annual graduate conference: "Coming
Together: Taverns, Leisure and Public Gathering in the
Middle Ages." We are pleased to announce this year's
keynote speaker, Margot Fassler, Robert Tangeman
Professor of Music History and Liturgy at Yale
University.

Opening with an address by Professor Fassler on the
Gamblers' Mass and liturgical parody in the Carmina
Burana collection, the conference invites students to
re-think the concepts of work and play and to study
the different ways in which public gatherings were
woven into the social fabric of the Middle Ages. In
keeping with the Program's aim to promote
interdisciplinary exchange among medievalists, we
encourage proposals from a variety of chronologies,
geographies, and disciplines. Topics could include,
but are of course not limited to:

•taverns and inns
•harvest boons
•social and performative aspects of folklore or
courtly poetry
•compositional play in literary, musical, or visual
art
•hunting
•liturgical drama
•holy days
•eating and feasting
•tournaments
•games and sports
•rustic mirth

In order to encourage participation of speakers from
outside the northeastern United States, we are
offering a limited number of modest subsidies to help
offset the cost of travel to Princeton. Please note
that financial assistance is not available for every
participant; a committee will assign subsidies to
students who have the farthest distance to travel.
Every speaker will have the option of staying with a
resident graduate student as an alternative to paying
for a hotel room.

Papers should take no more than twenty minutes to
deliver. Please submit a 250-word abstract of your
project by 7 January 2008 to Jamie Kreiner
(jkreiner@princeton.edu) or Chris Kurpiewski
(ckurpiew@princeton.edu).

MAMA

REMINDER



CALL FOR PAPERS



MAMA 32





The 32nd annual MAMA (Mid-America Medieval Association)

conference will take place Saturday, February 23, 2008,

at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, MO.



To give a paper or organize a 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. Your host is Professor Mark Adderley.



Keynote speaker:



Dr. Daniel C. Scavone, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Indiana-Evansville.



Graduate students do not forget to submit your paper for the Jim Falls Paper Prize. See MAMA webcite for details.



For hotels, information about Missouri Valley, and directions, please check our webcite:

www.midamericamedievalassociation.org

Rood and Ruthwell Back

Colleagues,

I finally have my "Rood and Ruthwell: The Poem and the Cross" on-line
here at my new academic home. It took some time to update the internal
links and all--I'm sure there are some shortcuts to formatting out
there, and maybe one day I'll learn them. Anyway, if you visit the site,
please let me know of any broken links, etc.

So here it is:
http://facstaffweb.montevallo.edu/bruceam/Rood&Ruthwell/default.shtm

Thanks,

Alex

Alexander M. Bruce, Ph.D.
Professor of English and
Chair, Department of English and Foreign Languages
Comer Hall, Station 6420
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL 35115
Phone: (205) 665-6420
Fax: (205) 665-6422

News

Really didn't find anything this week:


EU funds Fountains Abbey project

Visiting Prof wanted

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anglo-Saxon Literature

One-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Anglo-Saxon
literature. 9-month contract, beginning August 15, 2008. PhD and
college-level teaching experience required. Teaching duties include
undergraduate and graduate courses in Anglo-Saxon literature, Old
English, Beowulf, and early Medieval Literature and Culture, as well
as survey classes in British and Irish Literature and composition.
3/3 course load.

Our 40+ member department offers B.A. and M.A. degrees in a
nationally ranked teaching and research urban university of 17,000
students. Send letter, official transcripts, cv., and three recent
letters of recommendation by December 1 to Peter J. Bellis, Chair,
Department of English, 217 Humanities Building, University of Alabama
at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260. UAB is an EO/AA employer
and actively seeks applications from women and minority candidates.

New Book

A Viking Slave’s Saga (Jan Fridegård's Trilogy of Novels about the Viking Age)

Translated by Robert E. Bjork

Winner of the 1987 Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation

This trilogy centers on a 9th-century thrall named Holme, his wife, Ausi, and their daughter, Tora, and chronicles Holme's struggle against his Viking enemies, initially as a relatively helpless blacksmith slave who witnesses his chieftain order Holme's newborn baby put out in the forest to die. It also relates the beginning of the clash, which becomes more and more violent as the trilogy proceeds, between paganism and Christianity in Sweden. A missionary enters Holme’s world in the first novel, tries but gradually fails to convert the recalcitrant Swedes, and is finally offered as a bloody sacrifice to Odinn, Thor, and Freyr. Other Christian missionaries, modelled on Ansgar, the archbishop of Hamburg, and his companion, Witmar, who conducted the first recorded mission to Sweden in c. 830 AD, arrive in the second novel, which likewise pits Holme and the slaves he represents against the freemen and Christians. The last novel finishes the story of the increasingly oppressive and ruthless incursion of Christianity into the North and ends in predicable tragedy for the protagonist.

Reprint in one volume of:
Land of Wooden Gods (Trägudars land, 1940),
People of the Dawn (Gryningsfolket, 1944), and
Sacrificial Smoke (Offerrök, 1949).
All three published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1989, 1990, 1991.

2007 / 368 pages / ISBN: 978-0-86698-375-4 / ACMRS Occasional Series Volume 4 / $43, £30

How to order A Viking Slave’s Saga

Available in North America through
Cornell University Press Services
PO Box 6525
Ithaca, NY 14851
FAX: (800) 688-2877 (U.S. only)
PH: (800) 666-2211; (607) 277-2211
Email: orderbook@cupserv.org

Available outside North America through
NBN International
Plymbridge House
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Plymouth
Devon, PL6 7PY UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1752 202301
Fax: +44 (0) 1752 202333
Email: orders@NBNInternational.com

New Book

The first book from the project `Storehouses of Wholesome Learning:
Accumulation and Dissemination of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early
Middle Ages' (www.storehousesoflearning.com) has come out. The title is:

Foundations of Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the
Early Middle Ages, ed. Rolf H. Bremmer Jr and Kees Dekker, Mediaevalia
Groningana n.s. 9. Louvain: Peeters, 2007. For further details, see
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=8336

Patristics Carnival

The Patristics Carnival is up at: The God Fearin' Forum

CFP

Call for Papers: 'Manuscripts and Miscellaneity, c. 1450-1720'

University of Cambridge, UK, 3-4 July 2008

An international conference organized by Scriptorium: Medieval and
Early Modern Manuscripts Online.

Speakers to include: Barbara Benedict, Julia Boffey, Victoria Burke,
Margaret Connolly, Alexandra Gillespie, Earle Havens, Arthur Marotti,
Steven May, Marcy North, Fred Schurink, John Thompson

Commonplace books, collections, miscellanies; collections of lyric
verse, extracts from authors, sacred and profane, topographical,
heraldic and legal information, estate and household accounts and
recipes. How do we describe or classify manuscripts with such
miscellaneous contents? What importance did such objects, frequently
used for several different purposes over the course of their lives,
have in the manuscript culture of the late medieval and early modern
periods? And in what ways can recent critical interests in the
material history of the book and of the history of reading practices
help us to understand them?

In addressing these questions, this conference will bring together
literary scholars and cultural historians, codicologists and
historians of the book. It will foster discussion of manuscript
miscellanies written or compiled between the mid-fifteenth and
early-eighteenth centuries: their contents, their material forms, how
they were written and read, the ways in which their contents were
arranged and disposed (within single books or across sequences of
books), who owned them and how they used them, and the places that
they might have had in the schoolroom or university, home or library.

It will also question the very concept of miscellaneity, in relation
to other kinds of compilation and collection, and to other methods of
book-classification - is miscellaneity a helpful critical,
methodological or bibliographical term? And how do we view the
miscellany differently in this age of digital facsimiles and
hypertext?

We have limited space for further papers at the conference, and would
like to invite proposals in the following or related areas, though by
no means restricted to them:

•Concepts of miscellaneity (as collection, variety, multiplicity)

•The categorizing / classification of miscellaneous manuscripts (within
libraries or criticism)

•Manuscript and printed miscellanies and their relation

•Commonplace books

•Poetic miscellanies

•Household miscellanies (and the miscellany in the home)

•Religious miscellanies

•The ownership and circulation of miscellanies

•Female writers and miscellanies

•Education (miscellanies in the school, university, educational theory)

•The materiality of the miscellaneous manuscript (layout or arrangement of
books, their material structures and construction)

•Contemporary editing or printing of miscellanies

•The manuscript miscellany in the digital age

Please send proposals, or enquiries, to Dr Christopher Burlinson,
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge (cmb29@cam.ac.uk) by 31
January 2008.

We hope to be able to arrange accommodation in Cambridge for our
speakers and attendees, but cannot guarantee the availability of
accommodation to those who register for the conference after 31
January 2008. In order to register for the conference, please contact
Dr Christopher Burlinson (cmb29@cam.ac.uk) as soon as possible.


-- Dr Christopher Burlinson
Fellow and Director of Studies for Part II English
Emmanuel College
Cambridge

Senior Research Associate
Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
Faculty of English
9 West Road
Cambridge

Tel.: 01223 331970 (college) / 767310 (faculty)
e-mail: cmb29@cam.ac.uk

Art and Archaeology at Princeton

The Department of Art and Archaeology
of Princeton University

presents

The Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture


Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University

“Competing Faces in Early Christian Art and the
Monopoly on Christ’s Likeness”

Monday November 12
4:30 pm

101 McCormick Hall
Princeton University

What is Masculinity? How useful is it as a Historical Categpry?

What is Masculinity? How useful is it as a Historical
Category?

Birkbeck College, University of London, 14th, 15th &
16th May 2008.

Conference weblink:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/whatismasculinityconference

In recent years, there has been an explosion in
scholarship that questions masculinity in history. This
vibrant new approach has incorporated many different
theoretical and empirical considerations in historical
scholarship. This conference, held at Birkbeck College,
University of London on 14th, 15th & 16th May 2008,
fosters discussion across fields and time period
specialism. We have groundbreaking papers in
contemporary and modern, early modern, medieval,
Classical, Ancient and non-western history, from
historians throughout the world who are working in the
general field of masculinity studies. The conference
will provide discussion of the latest thinking, debates
and contention in this field, that it will serve as a
review of ‘where we are now’ in terms of scholarship in
the field of masculinity studies. There will be three
plenary lectures, by John Tosh (Modern), Alexandra
Shepard (Early Modern) and Ruth Mazo Karras (Medieval),
and a Round Table discussion with Harry Brod
(Philosophy), Thomas Hubbard (Classics) and the three
plenary speakers.

Belgium Archaeology

From Celia Chazelle and the EMF list:
A notice that Bailey Young, History Department, Eastern Illinois
University sent my way:

He is now recruiting students for the eighth season of the Summer
Archaeology in Belgium Program and would appreciate help in bringing
it to the attention of interested students. The dates are June
29-August 2, 2008, and the program centers on the excavation of
Walhain Castle, near Louvain-la-Neuve, the partner in this project.

Students earn four credits awarded as they prefer in either History
or Earth Sciences (Honors students have special Honors credit). The
course is open to all students in good standing*; there are no
prerequisites, and no previous background in archaeology is required.
While the site is located in Wallonia, and students with some
background in French will have ample opportunity to use it (the
co-director on site is a Belgian archaeologist, and there are often
Belgian students also working on the dig) all work is done in
English, and no language background is required.

*Teams are typically made up of students from a variety of
institutions, who enroll as guest students at EIU through the School
of Continuing Education; credits are transferable.

The cost of the program, which includes tuition and fees, board and
lodging --but not overseas airfare-- is estimated at around $5000.

For further information, please contact:
Bailey K. Young
History Department
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Ave
Charleston IL 61920
217-581-6357

BSANA at Congress

BSC Listserve FWD from Linda Safran, BSC President

To the Membership of the BSANA:

The Governing Board of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America,
Inc., invites members of the organization to submit proposals for
BSANA-sponsored sessions on any theme relating to Byzantine studies to be
given at the Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10,
2009. The proposal should include the call for papers (approximately one
page in length) and cite suggested speakers.

Proposals should be submitted by email to Linda Safran, BSANA President:

linda.safran@utoronto.ca

by December 15, 2007. The proposals will be reviewed by members of the
Governing Board, and the organizer(s) of the selected panel(s) will be
notified in January.

For details about Kalamazoo, sponsored sessions, and deadlines for the
conference, please see:

http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions.html

Please note: final proposals for the BSANA-sponsored sessions(s) must be
submitted to the Kalamazoo organizers by May 15, 2008, for the 2009
conference.

Only proposals from BSANA members in good standing—-those who have paid
their 2007 dues--will be considered. To pay 2007 dues in order to be
eligible for consideration, download the dues form from the BSC/BSANA
website and submit it with your check in US dollars to the BSANA Treasurer
immediately: http://www.byzconf.org/current/2007/AnnualDuesForm.html

Sincerely,

Linda Safran
President, BSANA, Inc.

Gorgias Press Book Sale

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* Title: Hieronymi Quaestiones Hebraicae in Libro Geneseos
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* Author: Paul de Lagarde
* Series: Analecta Gorgiana
* Series Volume: 72
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Book Description

Written in the scholarly Latin of his day, Lagarde considers in this brief study the questions Jerome raises on the Hebrew of the book of Genesis. In an abridged commentary form, Lagarde follows the questions in the order in which the book of Genesis presents the material. Beginning with the creation, Lagarde skips along to the phrases of Jerome’s text that raise questions and provides his insights about them. Presuming that the reader of the Vulgate will understand the Latin of the original, the comments on the material are likewise written in Latin. In such a brief treatment, naturally the entire book of Genesis cannot be explicated, but a sufficient amount of material is addressed to reward the effort of the exegete who works through Lagarde’s observations. As useful now as when it was initially published, Lagarde’s understanding of the Latin of Genesis is worth the exploration.

Paul Anton de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a biblical scholar and student of ancient languages. Having studied at Berlin, Halle, London, and Paris, he had a wide exposure to international thought. He eventually taught at Göttingen. Despite his participation in the anti-Semitism of his day, he was a gifted student of Semitic languages. His voluminous linguistic works are still recognized for their insights into oriental languages. He made important contributions to the study of Syriac, Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Coptic, as well as Greek and Latin.

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MARCO Manuscript Conference CFP

all for Proposals
Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Texts in Motion"
February 8-9, 2008
Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

There is still time to submit a proposal for the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville's two-day workshop on manuscript studies, to
be held in February of 2008 and sponsored by the Marco Institute for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The workshop, organized by
Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English),
is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants will
be invited to share both their successes and frustrations, and to
work together towards developing better professional skills for
textual and paleographical work in Medieval Studies.

Last year's workshop focused on how the non-textual aspects of
manuscript presentation influence the way texts are read; this year's
workshop, "Texts in Motion," will consider the effect of time on
texts. Virtually all manuscript texts vary to some degree from one
copy to another; some texts underwent more radical expansion,
continuation, or revision, by their authors or others, and
significantly different versions of the same text circulated
alongside one another. These multiform texts raise a number of
challenging questions for a modern editor: what is the relationship,
both textual and contextual, between the different versions of the
text? Which version should form the basis for an edited text? How
can the range of textual differences be represented? How much of
this material ought to be presented? Is it possible, finally, to
capture the spirit of a medieval text in motion? We invite proposals
for presentations by anyone working on texts that have undergone
significant changes through time—abbreviation, expansion,
continuation, excerpting, quotation in other texts, dramatic changes
in format or context, even glosses and translations. The theme is
meant to be understood as broadly as possible, and we welcome
proposals that expand our definition of "text" to material objects
besides manuscripts, such as images, inscriptions, relics, or
buildings.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank. Individual
90-minute sessions will be devoted to each presentation; participants
will introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to
working with this material, and exchange ideas and information with
other participants. We particularly invite proposals describing works
in progress, unusual textual problems, practical difficulties, and
new or experimental models for studying or representing texts.
Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.

The deadline for applications is November 1, 2007. Applicants are
asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their
project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, U of Tennessee, 301
McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or (preferably) via email to
.

The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to
present their work but may be interested in learning more about
manuscript studies. Non-presenters will not receive a stipend, but
are encouraged to participate fully in discussions and other
activities. Those wishing to attend should visit
for more
information.

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New issue of the Old English Newsletter:

Vol. 40 no. 3 of the _Old English Newsletter_ is now online. This
issue features

- a survey of Old English studies in France by André Crépin and Leo
Carruthers
- a classroom edition of Ælfric's _Letter to Brother Edward_ by Mary Clayton
- a review of recent Old English grammars and readers by Andrew Scheil
- a heartfelt tribute to Stephen Glosecki by Jill Frederick,
Marijane Osborn, and Elaine Treharne
- new reports, conference abstracts, publications, and announcements

Please visit the online _OEN_ at <http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/>.