Medieval Jewish bones reinterred in Toledo
Climate ball up in the air
Dunadd carvings revealed again
A month old, but I just found it:
Giant candle race in Italy:
Early form of recycling dug up at Berkeley
Church leaders sign heritage bid and declare Bede the Einstein of his time
Birmingham's second oldest church needs £1m to survive
Archeologists unearth early medieval village in Espoo
Woman finds treasure with metal detector
Do-It-Yourself Garden, With Moat
Ancient Buddha statue found in Afghan capital
Bloggingheads: Medieval Money
(I won't comment on the accuracy)
Rare coin fetches £9,000 at sale
1,500-Year-Old Hidden Record Of Christ's Words
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Musicatsallis : Musical iconography in the medieval choir stalls
Musicatsallis : Musical iconography in the medieval choir stalls
Dear co-medievalists,
The University of Paris-Sorbonne is proud to announce the release of a new version of the Musicastallis online database, located on new servers :
http://www.plm.paris-sorbonne.fr/musicastallis/
This website illustrates and describes more than 850 scenes carved in medieval choir stalls from Europe. This new version improves greatly the user experience by allowing iconographical sources comparision, internal and external links towards other choir stalls ensembles, UTF-8 support for multilingual requests, analogical scenes proposition, a complete bibliography, a bilingual lexicon and thematical slideshows.
The English version is partially available, but still being translated. The fully working version is currently in French.
Xavier Fresquet, Database Administrator
PhD student in Music and Musicology
University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
Frdric Billiet, Project Director
Music Department Chair
University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
Dear co-medievalists,
The University of Paris-Sorbonne is proud to announce the release of a new version of the Musicastallis online database, located on new servers :
http://www.plm.paris-sorbonne.fr/musicastallis/
This website illustrates and describes more than 850 scenes carved in medieval choir stalls from Europe. This new version improves greatly the user experience by allowing iconographical sources comparision, internal and external links towards other choir stalls ensembles, UTF-8 support for multilingual requests, analogical scenes proposition, a complete bibliography, a bilingual lexicon and thematical slideshows.
The English version is partially available, but still being translated. The fully working version is currently in French.
Xavier Fresquet, Database Administrator
PhD student in Music and Musicology
University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
Frdric Billiet, Project Director
Music Department Chair
University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
Third International MARGOT Conference: The Digital Middle Ages in Teaching and Research
Third International MARGOT Conference: The Digital Middle Ages in Teaching and Research
THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE
THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
JUNE 16-17, 2010
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK, USA
Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches � Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
SCHOLARLY FOCUS
During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- digital paleography
- translation and dictionary projects
- digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation tools, paratextual information, etc.)
- text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.)
- encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and extensions of these protocols)
- management and preservation of digital resources
- information design and modeling
- the cultural impact of the new media
- software studies
- the role of digital humanities in academic curricula
- funding and sustainability of long-term projects
PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL:
We welcome three types of submissions:
1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching 2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations
3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/ four presenters)
Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal: 1. Paper or Session title
2. Session type � Regular or Project Demonstration
3. 250 word abstract
4. Contact information and bio paragraph
The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions. The language of the Colloquium will be English.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009. For information about the conference, including proposal submissions, registration, and accommodation, please go to www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010. The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu.
We look forward to your participation.
The Conference Committee:
Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)
Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo)
Helen Swift (St. Hilda�s College, Oxford University)
THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE
THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
JUNE 16-17, 2010
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK, USA
Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches � Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
SCHOLARLY FOCUS
During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital resources in teaching and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- digital paleography
- translation and dictionary projects
- digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material culture, image annotation tools, paratextual information, etc.)
- text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.)
- encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI and extensions of these protocols)
- management and preservation of digital resources
- information design and modeling
- the cultural impact of the new media
- software studies
- the role of digital humanities in academic curricula
- funding and sustainability of long-term projects
PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL:
We welcome three types of submissions:
1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or teaching 2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations
3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and abstracts of three/ four presenters)
Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion. We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal: 1. Paper or Session title
2. Session type � Regular or Project Demonstration
3. 250 word abstract
4. Contact information and bio paragraph
The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility with the sessions that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions. The language of the Colloquium will be English.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009. For information about the conference, including proposal submissions, registration, and accommodation, please go to www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010. The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu.
We look forward to your participation.
The Conference Committee:
Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)
Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo)
Helen Swift (St. Hilda�s College, Oxford University)
International Conference on ‘Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity’, 26-28 October 2009
The Faculty of Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is pleased to announce an international conference on ‘Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity’, 26-28 October 2009. The conference programme will include fourteen keynote lectures and eleven short paper sessions. Registration, travel and accommodation information is available on the conference website, and further information can be requested from the conference secretary.
Scientific Committee
Pauline Allen (ACU Brisbane), Jean-Marie Auwers (Louvain-la-neuve), Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Leuven), David Engels (Bruxelles), Hans Hauben (Leuven), Mathijs Lamberigts (Leuven), Johan Leemans (Leuven), Hartmut Leppin (Frankfurt), Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter), Andrea Schmidt (Louvain-la-neuve), Stefan Schorn (Leuven), Ewa Wipszycka (Warsaw)
Organising Committee
Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Leuven), Shawn Keough (Leuven), Johan Leemans (Leuven), Carla Nicolaye (Leuven-Aachen), Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter)
URL: http://theo.kuleuven.be/page/esla
Secretary: shawn.keough@theo.kuleuven.be
It is well known that episcopal elections in the later Roman Empire were often a complicated and complicating event, as the controversy (and even violence) attendant upon the elections and successions of many bishops indicates. This conference will approach the phenomenon of episcopal elections and succession from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The many diverse and even conflicting aspects of this phenomenon will be addressed: the influence of doctrinal conflicts, the relationship between Church and State, patronage, local habits and regional differences, chronological developments, ethnic identity. Also relevant is the development of images of the ideal bishop, especially the manner in which such idealized representations shaped the outcome of contested elections and affected the character and exercise of episcopal authority in late antique society.
All those interested in conference registration and other information are encouraged to contact the conference secretary, Dr. Shawn Keough [shawn.keough@theo.kuleuven.be].
Scientific Committee
Pauline Allen (ACU Brisbane), Jean-Marie Auwers (Louvain-la-neuve), Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Leuven), David Engels (Bruxelles), Hans Hauben (Leuven), Mathijs Lamberigts (Leuven), Johan Leemans (Leuven), Hartmut Leppin (Frankfurt), Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter), Andrea Schmidt (Louvain-la-neuve), Stefan Schorn (Leuven), Ewa Wipszycka (Warsaw)
Organising Committee
Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Leuven), Shawn Keough (Leuven), Johan Leemans (Leuven), Carla Nicolaye (Leuven-Aachen), Peter Van Nuffelen (Exeter)
URL: http://theo.kuleuven.be/page/esla
Secretary: shawn.keough@theo.kuleuven.be
It is well known that episcopal elections in the later Roman Empire were often a complicated and complicating event, as the controversy (and even violence) attendant upon the elections and successions of many bishops indicates. This conference will approach the phenomenon of episcopal elections and succession from the broadest possible perspective, examining the varied combination of factors, personalities, rules and habits that played a role in the process that eventually resulted in one specific candidate becoming the new bishop, and not another. The many diverse and even conflicting aspects of this phenomenon will be addressed: the influence of doctrinal conflicts, the relationship between Church and State, patronage, local habits and regional differences, chronological developments, ethnic identity. Also relevant is the development of images of the ideal bishop, especially the manner in which such idealized representations shaped the outcome of contested elections and affected the character and exercise of episcopal authority in late antique society.
All those interested in conference registration and other information are encouraged to contact the conference secretary, Dr. Shawn Keough [shawn.keough@theo.kuleuven.be].
CFP: Multilingual England: What Do the Manuscripts Tell Us?
I'm organising a session "Multilingual England: What Do the
Manuscripts Tell Us?" for the 45th Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies,
13-16 May 2010. Papers may concern the Old or Middle English periods
with an emphasis on multilinguality and manuscripts, and there is room
for 3 or 4 papers. Please note that presentation time is 15-20
minutes (depending on the number of papers), so all speakers to have
sufficient time.
Abstracts of relevant papers are welcome, with the usual Sept. 15
deadline (check the congress pages
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html). The
Participant Information Form should be ready there in July.
For contacting me, please use the physical address below or my office
e-mail: Lidaka at wvstateu dot edu.
Manuscripts Tell Us?" for the 45th Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies,
13-16 May 2010. Papers may concern the Old or Middle English periods
with an emphasis on multilinguality and manuscripts, and there is room
for 3 or 4 papers. Please note that presentation time is 15-20
minutes (depending on the number of papers), so all speakers to have
sufficient time.
Abstracts of relevant papers are welcome, with the usual Sept. 15
deadline (check the congress pages
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html). The
Participant Information Form should be ready there in July.
For contacting me, please use the physical address below or my office
e-mail: Lidaka at wvstateu dot edu.
CFP: Medieval Spanish Law
Dear All,
I am organizing a session on medieval Spanish law for the
International Congress at Kalamazoo for 2010. If you are interested
in presenting in the session, please send me an abstract at
michael.mcglynn@wichita.edu .
Abstracts on any aspect of Spanish law or law and literature are
welcome.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Mike McGlynn
Wichita State University
I am organizing a session on medieval Spanish law for the
International Congress at Kalamazoo for 2010. If you are interested
in presenting in the session, please send me an abstract at
michael.mcglynn@wichita.edu
Abstracts on any aspect of Spanish law or law and literature are
welcome.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Mike McGlynn
Wichita State University
Three Medieval Hebrew biblical MSS
Three Hebrew biblical MSS
Pentateuch. Eretz Israel. 10th cent.('Crown of Damascus')
Bible. Spain 1260 ('Crown of Damascus')
Bible. Spain 1341
can be seen and downloaded at http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/index_eng.html.
The first MS was used in the Biblia Hebraica Quinta 5, Deuteronomy, 2008. Is was also published as a facsimile by
D. S. Loewinger & Malachi Beit-Arié, 1978 and 1982, The Damascus Pentateuch.Manuscript from about the Year 1000 Containing Almost the Whole Pentateuch. Jewish National and Univ. Library, Jerusalem, Hebr. Quart. 5702. Part I. Part II. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.
Pentateuch. Eretz Israel. 10th cent.('Crown of Damascus')
Bible. Spain 1260 ('Crown of Damascus')
Bible. Spain 1341
can be seen and downloaded at http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/mss/index_eng.html.
The first MS was used in the Biblia Hebraica Quinta 5, Deuteronomy, 2008. Is was also published as a facsimile by
D. S. Loewinger & Malachi Beit-Arié, 1978 and 1982, The Damascus Pentateuch.Manuscript from about the Year 1000 Containing Almost the Whole Pentateuch. Jewish National and Univ. Library, Jerusalem, Hebr. Quart. 5702. Part I. Part II. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.
Call for Papers: Fifteenth-Century Studies
Dear Colleagues,
Please find below the Call for Papers for five sessions sponsored by
Fifteenth-Century Studies at next year's International Congress on
Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (May 13-16, 2010).
I would like to call particular attention to the planned session on
Germanic Languages and Literatures. The topic is open. I am
organizing the session and welcome your abstracts.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
Associate Professor of German
Co-Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Radford Hall 316; 800 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh, WI 54901 USA
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Fifteenth-Century Studies
Call for Papers (2010) — 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
at Western Michigan University, May 13-16,
2010, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA
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1) The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Dr. Rosanne Gasse, Department
of English, Brandon University, 270 18th St. Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9,
Canada, Phone: 204727-9795; Fax 204-726-0473; Emai1:
gasse@brandonu.ca
2) Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Prof. Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian,
Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
54901-8693. Phone: 715-256-1261. Fax: 920- 424-7289. e-mail:
wade@uwosh.edu
3) Spanish Language and Literature in the Late Middle Ages
(including Catalan). Abstracts to: Prof. Roxana Recio, Modern
Languages, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178 (USA). Phone:
402-614-7370. FAX: 402-884-5691. e-mail: roxrecio@creighton.edu
4) Late-Medieval French Language and Literature. Abstracts to:
Prof. Steven M. Taylor, French and Coordinator, Medieval Studies,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA). Phone:
414-288-6309. FAX: 414-288-7653. E-mail: Steven.Tavlor@Marquette.edu
5) The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in
Northern Europe. Abstracts to: Prof. Edward L. Risden, Department
of English, St. Norbert College, 100 Grant St., Boyle Hall 330, De
Pere, WI 54115-2099 (USA). Phone: 920-403-3938; Fax: 920-403-4086.
E-mail: edward.risden@snc.edu
Requirements: one-page abstracts (with complete address of
applicant) must reach the individual organizers or the contact person
by September 5. Please fill out the A-V form, whether you need
material or not. All presentations are limited to 20 minutes.
Presenters are invited to submit their work in publishable form.
Those inquiring about publication should contact Matthew Z.
Heinzelmann (email: mheinzelma@csbsju.edu), Barbara I. Gusick (email:
bgtsud@aol.com), or Martin W. Walsh (email: narenlob@umich.edu).
Contact Person: Prof. Steven M. Taylor, Coordinator, Medieval
Studies, Marquette University. Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA).
Phone: 414-288-6309. Fax: 414-288-7653. e-mail:
Steven.taylor@marquette.edu
Please find below the Call for Papers for five sessions sponsored by
Fifteenth-Century Studies at next year's International Congress on
Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (May 13-16, 2010).
I would like to call particular attention to the planned session on
Germanic Languages and Literatures. The topic is open. I am
organizing the session and welcome your abstracts.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian
Associate Professor of German
Co-Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Radford Hall 316; 800 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh, WI 54901 USA
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Fifteenth-Century Studies
Call for Papers (2010) — 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies
at Western Michigan University, May 13-16,
2010, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA
-
1) The British Isles: Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth
and Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Dr. Rosanne Gasse, Department
of English, Brandon University, 270 18th St. Brandon, MB, R7A 6A9,
Canada, Phone: 204727-9795; Fax 204-726-0473; Emai1:
gasse@brandonu.ca
2) Germanic Languages and Literatures of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries. Abstracts to: Prof. Elizabeth Wade-Sirabian,
Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
54901-8693. Phone: 715-256-1261. Fax: 920- 424-7289. e-mail:
wade@uwosh.edu
3) Spanish Language and Literature in the Late Middle Ages
(including Catalan). Abstracts to: Prof. Roxana Recio, Modern
Languages, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178 (USA). Phone:
402-614-7370. FAX: 402-884-5691. e-mail: roxrecio@creighton.edu
4) Late-Medieval French Language and Literature. Abstracts to:
Prof. Steven M. Taylor, French and Coordinator, Medieval Studies,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA). Phone:
414-288-6309. FAX: 414-288-7653. E-mail: Steven.Tavlor@Marquette.edu
5) The Dawn of the Modern Era: Humanism and Early Renaissance in
Northern Europe. Abstracts to: Prof. Edward L. Risden, Department
of English, St. Norbert College, 100 Grant St., Boyle Hall 330, De
Pere, WI 54115-2099 (USA). Phone: 920-403-3938; Fax: 920-403-4086.
E-mail: edward.risden@snc.edu
Requirements: one-page abstracts (with complete address of
applicant) must reach the individual organizers or the contact person
by September 5. Please fill out the A-V form, whether you need
material or not. All presentations are limited to 20 minutes.
Presenters are invited to submit their work in publishable form.
Those inquiring about publication should contact Matthew Z.
Heinzelmann (email: mheinzelma@csbsju.edu), Barbara I. Gusick (email:
bgtsud@aol.com), or Martin W. Walsh (email: narenlob@umich.edu).
Contact Person: Prof. Steven M. Taylor, Coordinator, Medieval
Studies, Marquette University. Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (USA).
Phone: 414-288-6309. Fax: 414-288-7653. e-mail:
Steven.taylor@marquette.edu
Sensuous Performances: How did medieval plays engage the five senses?
Sensuous Performances: How did medieval plays engage the five senses?
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
In trying to recapture the “liveness” of medieval performances, many scholars have analyzed these events’ aural and visual elements, examining how performances in the Middle Ages engaged the eye and ear. However, performances engage all five senses for performers and audience members—both intentionally and unintentionally. This was especially true in the Middle Ages, when performances regularly took place as part of ceremonies, rituals, celebrations, and domestic events. Medieval plays not only incorporated smells, tastes, physical contact, sights, and sounds into their design, but performance events were also performed alongside other (sometimes competing, sometimes complementary) sensualities. This panel seeks work that examines not only how medieval performances engaged one or more of the senses, but also how this sensuality may have impacted a performance’s meaning and value. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details:Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2009 .
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
In trying to recapture the “liveness” of medieval performances, many scholars have analyzed these events’ aural and visual elements, examining how performances in the Middle Ages engaged the eye and ear. However, performances engage all five senses for performers and audience members—both intentionally and unintentionally. This was especially true in the Middle Ages, when performances regularly took place as part of ceremonies, rituals, celebrations, and domestic events. Medieval plays not only incorporated smells, tastes, physical contact, sights, and sounds into their design, but performance events were also performed alongside other (sometimes competing, sometimes complementary) sensualities. This panel seeks work that examines not only how medieval performances engaged one or more of the senses, but also how this sensuality may have impacted a performance’s meaning and value. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details:Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2009 .
Exploring Performative Gestures in the Middle Ages
Exploring Performative Gestures in the Middle Ages
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Recent work by David McNeill suggests that gestures do not merely support or illustrate speech, but that they play a crucial role in creating thoughts and ideas. Research in cognitive psychology that explores embodied thought affirms this suggestion. But McNeill’s conclusions also echo conceptualizations of gesture that were pervasive throughout the medieval world. In the Middle Ages, gestures did not simply make abstractions concrete, but they were also expected to give ideas, relationships, agreements, promises, and theologies actuality and reality; gesture constituted a fundamental way to make meaning in both formal and informal settings. This panel invites papers that explore how gestures and their performances functioned throughout medieval cultures. The panel welcomes diverse approaches to gesture that explore how we might identify, reconstruct, and theorize the value of gesture across a range of medieval contexts. Such contexts might include plays, spectacles, literature, devotion, music, art images and objects, domestic life, royal rituals, legal practices, courtship, warfare, professional negotiations, etc. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details:Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2009 .
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo , Michigan
13-16 May 2010
Recent work by David McNeill suggests that gestures do not merely support or illustrate speech, but that they play a crucial role in creating thoughts and ideas. Research in cognitive psychology that explores embodied thought affirms this suggestion. But McNeill’s conclusions also echo conceptualizations of gesture that were pervasive throughout the medieval world. In the Middle Ages, gestures did not simply make abstractions concrete, but they were also expected to give ideas, relationships, agreements, promises, and theologies actuality and reality; gesture constituted a fundamental way to make meaning in both formal and informal settings. This panel invites papers that explore how gestures and their performances functioned throughout medieval cultures. The panel welcomes diverse approaches to gesture that explore how we might identify, reconstruct, and theorize the value of gesture across a range of medieval contexts. Such contexts might include plays, spectacles, literature, devotion, music, art images and objects, domestic life, royal rituals, legal practices, courtship, warfare, professional negotiations, etc. The panel’s organizer welcomes work from all medieval periods and geographic regions.
Submission Details:Submit one-page abstracts and contact information to Jill Stevenson at jstevenson@mmm.edu no later than September 15, 2009 .
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Medieval News of the Week
Huns were heroes, not villains, points evidence
Medieval texts offer insights into modern East-West relations
The Viking Ship Museum will be 40 years old on 20 June
Yorkshire treasure stash unearthed after 1,000 years
Ancient burial site found at Boscastle
New Viking movie in production in Iceland
Archeologists uncover ancient J'lem aqueduct to Sultan's Pool
Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Remains of Medieval Book in Veliko
Tarnovo
Richard II porpoise recipe online
Those Medieval Monks Could Draw
Ancient Music Revived At The Lune Convent
Medieval texts offer insights into modern East-West relations
The Viking Ship Museum will be 40 years old on 20 June
Yorkshire treasure stash unearthed after 1,000 years
Ancient burial site found at Boscastle
New Viking movie in production in Iceland
Archeologists uncover ancient J'lem aqueduct to Sultan's Pool
Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Remains of Medieval Book in Veliko
Tarnovo
Richard II porpoise recipe online
Those Medieval Monks Could Draw
Ancient Music Revived At The Lune Convent
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Second Call for Papers SASMARS 2010 Afterlives: Survival and Revival
Second Call for Papers
SASMARS 2010
Afterlives: Survival and Revival
We are pleased to announce that the 20th Biennial Conference of the Southern
African Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at
Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 2-5 September 2010.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Alexandra F. Johnston, Ph.D., FRSC
President, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of the RSC: Academies
of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada.
Call for Papers
The theme of the Conference is "Afterlives: Survival and Revival". In an
effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we
encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing
this theme. The conference theme is designed to promote reflection on
appropriations, adaptations and continuities in cultural production. A
selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a
special issue of The Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance
Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).
Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
. new ways of looking at old texts
. textual appropriation and imitation
. textual transmission
. translation
. cross-currents in word and image
. ideological appropriation
. political myth creation
. archaeological recovery
. ethnicities
. retrospection
. life writing
. history of music/art/theatre
Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to the convenor,
Michael Bratchel, by 31 January 2010.
Professor M Bratchel, Department of History, University of the
Witwatersrand, JOHANNESBURG 2050, South Africa.
SASMARS 2010
Afterlives: Survival and Revival
We are pleased to announce that the 20th Biennial Conference of the Southern
African Society of Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at
Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 2-5 September 2010.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Alexandra F. Johnston, Ph.D., FRSC
President, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of the RSC: Academies
of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada.
Call for Papers
The theme of the Conference is "Afterlives: Survival and Revival". In an
effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we
encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing
this theme. The conference theme is designed to promote reflection on
appropriations, adaptations and continuities in cultural production. A
selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in a
special issue of The Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance
Studies (accredited for South African research subsidy purposes).
Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
. new ways of looking at old texts
. textual appropriation and imitation
. textual transmission
. translation
. cross-currents in word and image
. ideological appropriation
. political myth creation
. archaeological recovery
. ethnicities
. retrospection
. life writing
. history of music/art/theatre
Please send proposals (250-300 words) for 20-minute papers to the convenor,
Professor M Bratchel, Department of History, University of the
Witwatersrand, JOHANNESBURG 2050, South Africa.
Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Newsletter of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies
Number 2 for 2009 has been posted at http://sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com/.
In this issue:
1. Second call for papers: SASMARS 20th Biennial Conference, 2010
2. Announcements: Conferences, Symposia, Seminars
* The Annual Symposium of the Medieval and Renaissance Study Group of
the University of Johannesburg
* The Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa
* British Shakespeare Association
* Medieval Academy of America
* Other International Conferences in 2009 and 2010
3. Books and Journals
4. Personalia: News from our Members and Corresponding Fellows
The sidebar contains useful information and links to valuable research and
information resources.
I depend on members and fellows for information on all aspects of Medieval
and Renaissance Studies in Southern Africa and further afield. Please tell
me if there is a topic or link that you would like to see in the letter.
Since my interests lie in the early middle ages, I am aware that I might be
favouring items from that period. It is up to you to help me fill the gaps.
Sincerely
Leonie Viljoen
Studies
Number 2 for 2009 has been posted at http://sasmarsnewsletter.blogspot.com/.
In this issue:
1. Second call for papers: SASMARS 20th Biennial Conference, 2010
2. Announcements: Conferences, Symposia, Seminars
* The Annual Symposium of the Medieval and Renaissance Study Group of
the University of Johannesburg
* The Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa
* British Shakespeare Association
* Medieval Academy of America
* Other International Conferences in 2009 and 2010
3. Books and Journals
4. Personalia: News from our Members and Corresponding Fellows
The sidebar contains useful information and links to valuable research and
information resources.
I depend on members and fellows for information on all aspects of Medieval
and Renaissance Studies in Southern Africa and further afield. Please tell
me if there is a topic or link that you would like to see in the letter.
Since my interests lie in the early middle ages, I am aware that I might be
favouring items from that period. It is up to you to help me fill the gaps.
Sincerely
Leonie Viljoen
Vol 7 of JSIJ
Some articles of Late Antique and Medieval Interest:
We are pleased to announce the official publication of vol. 7 of JSIJ
(Jewish Studies - an Internet Journal), which includes the following
articles (abstracts of these articles appear at the end of this email):
Richard C. Steiner, On the Original Structure and Meaning of Mah Nishtannah and the History of Its Reinterpretation (Eng.)
Yitzhak Berger, The Commentary on Proverbs in MS Vatican Ebr. 89 and the Early Exegesis of Radak (Eng.)
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Responsive Blessings and the Development of the Tannaitic Liturgical System (Heb.)
Avraham Walfish, Creative Redaction and the Power of Desire –
A Study of the Redaction of Tractate Qiddushin: Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud (Heb.)
Ronit Shoshany, A Study of Two Tales in Midrash Ruth Zuta And Their Adaptation in Hibbur Yafeh me-ha-Yeshu‛ah (Heb.)
Itzhak Hershkowitz, Studies in the Transmission of the Oral Torah According to Maimonides' Introduction to the Mishneh Torah (Heb.)
Jair Haas, Rashbam on the Song of Songs: A Reconsideration (Heb.)
Yosef Ofer, Determining the Masoretic Text of the Bible: Rabbi Mordechai Breuer and His Methods and Sources (Heb.)
You can download (view, print, etc.) the articles by going to the
following website and clicking the appropriate links (Word or PDF):
http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/ca.htm.
We are pleased to announce the official publication of vol. 7 of JSIJ
(Jewish Studies - an Internet Journal), which includes the following
articles (abstracts of these articles appear at the end of this email):
Richard C. Steiner, On the Original Structure and Meaning of Mah Nishtannah and the History of Its Reinterpretation (Eng.)
Yitzhak Berger, The Commentary on Proverbs in MS Vatican Ebr. 89 and the Early Exegesis of Radak (Eng.)
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Responsive Blessings and the Development of the Tannaitic Liturgical System (Heb.)
Avraham Walfish, Creative Redaction and the Power of Desire –
A Study of the Redaction of Tractate Qiddushin: Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud (Heb.)
Ronit Shoshany, A Study of Two Tales in Midrash Ruth Zuta And Their Adaptation in Hibbur Yafeh me-ha-Yeshu‛ah (Heb.)
Itzhak Hershkowitz, Studies in the Transmission of the Oral Torah According to Maimonides' Introduction to the Mishneh Torah (Heb.)
Jair Haas, Rashbam on the Song of Songs: A Reconsideration (Heb.)
Yosef Ofer, Determining the Masoretic Text of the Bible: Rabbi Mordechai Breuer and His Methods and Sources (Heb.)
You can download (view, print, etc.) the articles by going to the
following website and clicking the appropriate links (Word or PDF):
http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/ca.htm.
Summer school in the study of old books
Interested in the Summer School in the study of old books? Please, forward
to those who might be.
The closing date for application is 30 June 2009
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES PH.D. PROGRAMME KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY AND INFORMATION TRANSFER Director of the Ph.D. Programme Professor
Tatjana Aparac Jelusic, Ph.D.
taparac@unizd.hr
Announces:
SUMMER SCHOOL IN THE STUDY OF OLD BOOKS
Zadar, Croatia, 28 September to 2 October 2009 http://ozk.unizd.hr/ssob/
Director of the Summer School: Associate Professor Mirna Willer, Ph.D.
mwiller@unizd.hr
The main goal of the Summer School in the Study of Old Books is to acquaint
participants with the most recent developments and newly emerged concepts in
the fields of: historical method and epistemology, old book research and
bibliography, bibliographic information organization and its relation to the
archival context, conservation and preservation; and to provide practical
introduction to old books collection management with contemporary approaches
to digitization. The Summer School also aims to provide participants with
insight into current research of old books and manuscripts, and to raise
their awareness of rich and technologically advanced research information
sources such as European Hand Press Book Database, and the Portal for
cross-searching catalogues of European manuscript materials.
The Summer School in the Study of Old Books targets doctoral students and
recent doctoral graduates studying in the fields of: history of book,
library and information sciences, archival studies, and cultural heritage
studies. It also targets the university faculty, researchers and
practitioners working in memory institutions in the fields related to the
topics of the School.
The Summer School in the Study of Old Books is planned to cover 16 lectures,
1 presentation, 2 workshops and group work sessions in 5 days.Proceedings of
the School will publish delivered lectures and accepted student essays.
Registration fee: doctoral students 100 EUR; others 200 EUR
The closing date for application is 30 June 2009.
Should you require any further information please contact Marijana Tomic at
mtomic@unizd.hr.
UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR
Ul. F. Tudjmana 24 i
23000 Zadar
Croatia
www.unizd.hr
Marijana Tomic', asistentica
mtomic@unizd.hr
Sveuc(ilište u Zadru
Odjel za knjižnic(arstvo
Ulica dr. Franje Tu?mana 24i
23000 Zadar
tel. 023/345-011
--
Mirna Willer, PhD, Associate Professor
University of Zadar
Department of Library and Information Sciences Franje Tu?mana 24 i 23000
Zadar Croatia
to those who might be.
The closing date for application is 30 June 2009
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES PH.D. PROGRAMME KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY AND INFORMATION TRANSFER Director of the Ph.D. Programme Professor
Tatjana Aparac Jelusic, Ph.D.
taparac@unizd.hr
Announces:
SUMMER SCHOOL IN THE STUDY OF OLD BOOKS
Zadar, Croatia, 28 September to 2 October 2009 http://ozk.unizd.hr/ssob/
Director of the Summer School: Associate Professor Mirna Willer, Ph.D.
mwiller@unizd.hr
The main goal of the Summer School in the Study of Old Books is to acquaint
participants with the most recent developments and newly emerged concepts in
the fields of: historical method and epistemology, old book research and
bibliography, bibliographic information organization and its relation to the
archival context, conservation and preservation; and to provide practical
introduction to old books collection management with contemporary approaches
to digitization. The Summer School also aims to provide participants with
insight into current research of old books and manuscripts, and to raise
their awareness of rich and technologically advanced research information
sources such as European Hand Press Book Database, and the Portal for
cross-searching catalogues of European manuscript materials.
The Summer School in the Study of Old Books targets doctoral students and
recent doctoral graduates studying in the fields of: history of book,
library and information sciences, archival studies, and cultural heritage
studies. It also targets the university faculty, researchers and
practitioners working in memory institutions in the fields related to the
topics of the School.
The Summer School in the Study of Old Books is planned to cover 16 lectures,
1 presentation, 2 workshops and group work sessions in 5 days.Proceedings of
the School will publish delivered lectures and accepted student essays.
Registration fee: doctoral students 100 EUR; others 200 EUR
The closing date for application is 30 June 2009.
Should you require any further information please contact Marijana Tomic at
mtomic@unizd.hr.
UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR
Ul. F. Tudjmana 24 i
23000 Zadar
Croatia
www.unizd.hr
Marijana Tomic', asistentica
mtomic@unizd.hr
Sveuc(ilište u Zadru
Odjel za knjižnic(arstvo
Ulica dr. Franje Tu?mana 24i
23000 Zadar
tel. 023/345-011
--
Mirna Willer, PhD, Associate Professor
University of Zadar
Department of Library and Information Sciences Franje Tu?mana 24 i 23000
Zadar Croatia
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Medieval News of the Week
Farmer's son unearths medieval ring
The Saxons were coming! A tiny sword stud found under a shop rewrites Welsh history
Wearmouth-Jarrow Nomination For World Heritage Site
Students unearth Saxon nunnery
Archaeologists unearth 800-year-old shoe
Medieval skeletons discovered under village church
The 7 Most Impressive Libraries From Throughout History
Not exactly Medieval, but some medieval content and items of interest to medievalists
The Saxons were coming! A tiny sword stud found under a shop rewrites Welsh history
Wearmouth-Jarrow Nomination For World Heritage Site
Students unearth Saxon nunnery
Archaeologists unearth 800-year-old shoe
Medieval skeletons discovered under village church
The 7 Most Impressive Libraries From Throughout History
Not exactly Medieval, but some medieval content and items of interest to medievalists
Monday, June 15, 2009
Summer school in the study of old books
Interested in the Summer School in the study of old books? Please, forward
to those who might be.
The closing date for application is 30 June 2009
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES PH.D. PROGRAMME KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY AND INFORMATION TRANSFER Director of the Ph.D. Programme Professor
Tatjana Aparac Jelusic, Ph.D.
taparac@unizd.hr
to those who might be.
The closing date for application is 30 June 2009
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES PH.D. PROGRAMME KNOWLEDGE
SOCIETY AND INFORMATION TRANSFER Director of the Ph.D. Programme Professor
Tatjana Aparac Jelusic, Ph.D.
taparac@unizd.hr
THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE
THIRD INTERNATIONAL MARGOT CONFERENCE
THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
JUNE 16-17, 2010
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK, USA
Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are
currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT
Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance
Groupe de recherches ? Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard
College, Columbia
University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference
is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
SCHOLARLY FOCUS
During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital
resources in teaching
and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the
current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and
curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments
in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- digital paleography
- translation and dictionary projects
- digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material
culture, image annotation
tools, paratextual information, etc.)
- text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.)
- encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI
and extensions
of these protocols)
- management and preservation of digital resources
- information design and modeling
- the cultural impact of the new media
- software studies
- the role of digital humanities in academic curricula
- funding and sustainability of long-term projects
PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL:
We welcome three types of submissions:
1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include
discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or
teaching
2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations
3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and
abstracts of three/four presenters)
Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10
minutes of discussion.
Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15
minutes of discussion.
We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal:
1. Paper or Session title
2. Session type ? Regular or Project Demonstration
3. 250 word abstract
4. Contact information and bio paragraph
The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility
with the sessions
that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions.
The language of the Colloquium will be English.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009.
For information about the conference, including proposal submissions,
registration, and accommodation, please go to
www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010.
The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please
contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu.
We look forward to your participation.
The Conference Committee:
Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)
Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo)
Helen Swift (St. Hilda?s College, Oxford University)
THE DIGITAL MIDDLE AGES:
TEACHING AND RESEARCH
JUNE 16-17, 2010
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK, USA
Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are
currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT
Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance
Groupe de recherches ? Ordinateurs et Textes) held at Barnard
College, Columbia
University, New York from June 16 to June 17, 2010. This conference
is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
SCHOLARLY FOCUS
During this two day conference, we will explore the use of digital
resources in teaching
and research in the Middle Ages. We especially encourage submissions on the
current state of the art in digital studies, on teaching and
curricula matters, and on recent new and expected future developments
in the field. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- digital paleography
- translation and dictionary projects
- digital projects in the visual and performance arts (material
culture, image annotation
tools, paratextual information, etc.)
- text corpora (creation of a corpus, search systems, etc.)
- encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts (use of XML, TEI
and extensions
of these protocols)
- management and preservation of digital resources
- information design and modeling
- the cultural impact of the new media
- software studies
- the role of digital humanities in academic curricula
- funding and sustainability of long-term projects
PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL:
We welcome three types of submissions:
1. Demonstrations/showcasing of existing projects which will include
discussion of their creation and implementation for research and/or
teaching
2. Abstracts for regular paper presentations
3. Proposals for entire sessions (including the names, titles, and
abstracts of three/four presenters)
Regular papers will last for 20 minutes, and will be followed by 10
minutes of discussion.
Project demonstrations will last for 30 minutes followed by 15
minutes of discussion.
We ask participants to include the following information in their proposal:
1. Paper or Session title
2. Session type ? Regular or Project Demonstration
3. 250 word abstract
4. Contact information and bio paragraph
The Committee will look at all the proposals and their compatibility
with the sessions
that are planned. As far as possible, we will try to avoid parallel sessions.
The language of the Colloquium will be English.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:
The deadline for submitting your proposal is Friday, October 2, 2009.
For information about the conference, including proposal submissions,
registration, and accommodation, please go to
www.barnard.edu/digitalmiddleages2010.
The website will be updated periodically. For inquiries, please
contact Prof. Laurie Postlewate: lpostlew@barnard.edu.
We look forward to your participation.
The Conference Committee:
Christine McWebb (University of Waterloo)
Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Delbert Russell (University of Waterloo)
Helen Swift (St. Hilda?s College, Oxford University)
Digital Classicist/ICS Seminar, Summer 2009
OOOOPPSS..late on this one, apologies. FYI though
Digital Classicist/ICS Seminar, Summer 2009
Friday June 12th at 16:30
STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
*Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham)*
*Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling and
Mediaeval warfare logistics*
ALL WELCOME
An introduction to the 'Medieval Warfare on the Grid' project, which
seeks to use Agent-Based Modelling to fill in some of the gaps in the
historical record of the Byzantine army's march to the Battle of
Manzikert in AD1071.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact
Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk,
Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk,
Juan.Garces@bl.uk,
Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk,
or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller
abstract can be found and audio will be uploaded shortly after the seminar
-- Simon Mahony
Research Associate
Digital Classicist
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
School of Arts and Humanities
King's College London
26 - 29 Drury Lane,
London
WC2B 5RL
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/
Digital Classicist/ICS Seminar, Summer 2009
Friday June 12th at 16:30
STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
*Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham)*
*Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling and
Mediaeval warfare logistics*
ALL WELCOME
An introduction to the 'Medieval Warfare on the Grid' project, which
seeks to use Agent-Based Modelling to fill in some of the gaps in the
historical record of the Byzantine army's march to the Battle of
Manzikert in AD1071.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact
Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk,
Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk,
Juan.Garces@bl.uk,
Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk,
or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html where a fuller
abstract can be found and audio will be uploaded shortly after the seminar
-- Simon Mahony
Research Associate
Digital Classicist
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
School of Arts and Humanities
King's College London
26 - 29 Drury Lane,
London
WC2B 5RL
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC2B_5RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2813
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
simon.mahony@kcl.ac.uk
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/
Suggest a manuscript for e-codices
*Suggest a manuscript for e-codices (Virtual Manuscript Library of
Switzerland)
*e-codices would like to encourage collaboration with researchers in the
field of manuscript scholarship by requesting that you, our scholarly
users, suggest manuscripts that are important to your research for
possible digitization and inclusion on the e-codices website.
We would like to use this collaborative method to make 25 additional
medieval and early modern manuscripts available on e-codices during the
year 2010. The manuscripts may represent any field of study, but should
be of major significance for research in the respective fields.
Please, see:
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/call-for-collaboration
Switzerland)
*e-codices would like to encourage collaboration with researchers in the
field of manuscript scholarship by requesting that you, our scholarly
users, suggest manuscripts that are important to your research for
possible digitization and inclusion on the e-codices website.
We would like to use this collaborative method to make 25 additional
medieval and early modern manuscripts available on e-codices during the
year 2010. The manuscripts may represent any field of study, but should
be of major significance for research in the respective fields.
Please, see:
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/call-for-collaboration
CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Unruly Letters & Unbound Texts"
CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Marco Manuscript Workshop: "Unruly Letters &
Unbound Texts"
The Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and
Saturday, February 5 and 6, 2010, at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty
(Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
Last year's workshop focused on "textual trauma" -- instances of
violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. This year our focus
will be on texts and manuscripts that cross or confound the
boundaries scholars have tried to place around them, that do not fit
neatly into the genres or categories of modern scholarship, or that
pose peculiar difficulties of definition, categorization or reading.
These might include: macaronic and multilingual texts, prosi-metric
and metri- prosaic texts, glosses and commentaries, diagrams and
tables, ciphers and strange alphabets, incongruous or appropriated
forms and textual designs, interpolations and conflations, marginal
commentaries that overwhelm their texts, miscellanies and composite
manuscripts, and manuscripts in the age of print. We welcome
presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any
field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or
epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each
project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its
context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and
exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in
previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a
conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and
unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations,
to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work
together towards developing better professional skills for textual
and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of
works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical
difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or
representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of
$500 for their participation.
The deadline for applications is October 1, 2009. Applicants are
asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their
project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, University of
Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email
to.
The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to
present work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of
discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. More information will
be available at
, or by
contacting Roy Liuzza at the address above.
Unbound Texts"
The Fourth Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and
Saturday, February 5 and 6, 2010, at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty
(Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).
Last year's workshop focused on "textual trauma" -- instances of
violence, deliberate or otherwise, against texts. This year our focus
will be on texts and manuscripts that cross or confound the
boundaries scholars have tried to place around them, that do not fit
neatly into the genres or categories of modern scholarship, or that
pose peculiar difficulties of definition, categorization or reading.
These might include: macaronic and multilingual texts, prosi-metric
and metri- prosaic texts, glosses and commentaries, diagrams and
tables, ciphers and strange alphabets, incongruous or appropriated
forms and textual designs, interpolations and conflations, marginal
commentaries that overwhelm their texts, miscellanies and composite
manuscripts, and manuscripts in the age of print. We welcome
presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.
The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any
field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or
epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each
project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its
context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and
exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in
previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a
conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and
unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations,
to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work
together towards developing better professional skills for textual
and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of
works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical
difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or
representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of
$500 for their participation.
The deadline for applications is October 1, 2009. Applicants are
asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their
project to Roy M. Liuzza, Department of English, University of
Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430, or via email
to
The workshop is also open to scholars and students who do not wish to
present work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of
discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. More information will
be available at
contacting Roy Liuzza at the address above.
The following link leads to the website of the Student Conference
'English Then and Now' at the Heinrich Heine University in
Duesseldorf, Germany. It is organised by BA students for students at
the BA and MA level, and has a strong (beginners?) Anglo-Saxon
component to it. Academic workshops are paired with those on
transferable skills, and all of that is part of a budding
international student network for the study of historical
linguistics. Best of all, the entire conference, including
accommodation for international students, is 10 Euro plus travel. The
programme and further details can be found at:
http://www.studentconference.de.vu/.
Dates: 10th and 11th July 2009
'English Then and Now' at the Heinrich Heine University in
Duesseldorf, Germany. It is organised by BA students for students at
the BA and MA level, and has a strong (beginners?) Anglo-Saxon
component to it. Academic workshops are paired with those on
transferable skills, and all of that is part of a budding
international student network for the study of historical
linguistics. Best of all, the entire conference, including
accommodation for international students, is 10 Euro plus travel. The
programme and further details can be found at:
http://www.studentconference.de.vu/.
Dates: 10th and 11th July 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Science and Medicine Databases
The following searchable databases are now available via the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/
eTK - a digital resource based on Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1963) and supplements.
eVK2 - an expanded and revised version of Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference. CD (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).
See the link "Science and Medicine Databases at UMKC" listed as "new" on the homepage (as well as on the "Links" page). The homepage also contains a slide show of images from Brunschwig's De arte distillandi. The citation under the slide show images is a hot link to the Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, and the images themselves are links to larger versions.
Electronic Thorndike-Kibre (eTK) and Electronic Voigts-Kurtz (eVK2)
An expanded and updated digital version of Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (TK), rev. ed. 1963 with two supplements, has been produced with the permission of the copyright holder, Medieval Academy of America. While TK consolidates all manuscript information for a text into a single entry, eTK divides entries from the book into 33,000 records, each for a manuscript witness to a text.
Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English, by Linda Voigts and Patricia Kurtz, 2nd ed. (eVK2), an updated and expanded version of the CD published by the University of Michigan Press (2000), provides more than 10,000 records for the earliest technical and learned writings in English.
The digital records in both eTK and eVK2 are organized in multiple searchable fields and allow searching of incipit words and word strings and searching by manuscript, library, author, title, subject, translator, date, and bibliography.
Both electronic references allow scholars to retrieve new information and to make connections previously unthinkable in the study of medieval science and medicine. Both tools are now freely available via a link from the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/
eTK - a digital resource based on Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy, 1963) and supplements.
eVK2 - an expanded and revised version of Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference. CD (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000).
See the link "Science and Medicine Databases at UMKC" listed as "new" on the homepage (as well as on the "Links" page). The homepage also contains a slide show of images from Brunschwig's De arte distillandi. The citation under the slide show images is a hot link to the Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, and the images themselves are links to larger versions.
Electronic Thorndike-Kibre (eTK) and Electronic Voigts-Kurtz (eVK2)
An expanded and updated digital version of Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (TK), rev. ed. 1963 with two supplements, has been produced with the permission of the copyright holder, Medieval Academy of America. While TK consolidates all manuscript information for a text into a single entry, eTK divides entries from the book into 33,000 records, each for a manuscript witness to a text.
Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English, by Linda Voigts and Patricia Kurtz, 2nd ed. (eVK2), an updated and expanded version of the CD published by the University of Michigan Press (2000), provides more than 10,000 records for the earliest technical and learned writings in English.
The digital records in both eTK and eVK2 are organized in multiple searchable fields and allow searching of incipit words and word strings and searching by manuscript, library, author, title, subject, translator, date, and bibliography.
Both electronic references allow scholars to retrieve new information and to make connections previously unthinkable in the study of medieval science and medicine. Both tools are now freely available via a link from the website of the Medieval Academy of America: http://www.medievalacademy.org/
Friday, June 12, 2009
The Heroic Age Issue 12
Please forward the following:
The Editorial Board of The Heroic Age is very pleased to announce the publication of our twelfth issue. Point your browsers to http://www.heroicage.org and click on "Current Issue." Information elsewhere on the site has also been updated including the staff, links pages, and the Call for Papers. Please take a look; comments are always welcome. I have taken the liberty of pasting below the Letter from the Editor which has some items of interest in it.
§1. Sumer is icumen in! Or so said the poet, in agreement with the weather prognosticators for once. It is both a frustration and an embarrassment that the Winter issue is seeing the light of day as summer is fast approaching, but regrettably that is too often the state of affairs in academic publishing. But it isn't for lack of trying.
§2. So, I'd like to begin by mentioning the important people who volunteer their time to make The Heroic Age happen each issue. First, and foremost, there are three people who work very hard to make each issue come together, edited, polished, and coded. Deanna Forsman, our webster, formats and codes each page on our website, including each issue, taking time from her own academic duties and courses, family, and leisure to do so. Without her efforts, there would be no The Heroic Age. Eileen Joy has done an enormous amount of work for the journal. Not only is she now editing a column for us, but she has been a reader, an editor, and copy editor. It is not as if she is not busy elsewhere: in addition to her work for us, she has been editing volumes of essays (http://www.siue.edu/babel/ProspectusFragmentsVolume.htm), putting together a new journal (www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/), blogging at In the Middle (www.inthemedievalmiddle.com), and other activities. I am very grateful for all her efforts with The Heroic Age. Last but certainly not least, Bill Schipper is our archivist and is another of those wonderful people whose helping hand is everywhere. In addition to his work with us, Bill is planning and hosting the next meeting of The International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, hosts and manages several well-known email lists in early Medieval Studies, and of course has his own work to undertake. My very grateful thanks to each of these three for their very hard work on my behalf.
§3. In addition to those three, others have had a hand in producing this issue who should be mentioned: Rolf Bremer, Tim Clarkson, Michael Treschow, Linda Malcor, Rolf Bremmer, Dan O'Donnell, and Michel Aaij have all undertaken editing at several levels. Finally, I will mention our readers, who will remain nameless for obvious reasons, but they know who they are. The only reward I can offer all these people is my sincere gratitude. If you have a moment whether via email or at a conference, please say "thanks" to these folk who have made this issue possible.
§4. Before turning to the issue itself, there are some exciting developments in connection with the links pages hosted at the journal's site. For this issue, the Anglo-Saxon links have been culled, weeded, and expanded. Ten years ago, in winter 1999, when I first split the Anglo-Saxon links off into their own subpage, I had grand plans to do the same for other subfields within the journal's purview. While it won't make it for Issue 12, there is at least one subsection and possibly two in development that will make debut appearances in Issue 13.
§5. More importantly, and in my view far more exciting, is a new development for some older but useful tools. As many know, the Richard Rawlinson Center at the Medieval Institute (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval) of Western Michigan University once hosted several online bibliographies and other projects that covered a range of subjects in Early Medieval Studies. A few years ago, some decisions were made that caused the removal of these tools from the Richard Rawlinson Center website, at that time intended to be a temporary situation. Several years later, however, the bibliographies remain inaccessible to the medieval researcher. These bibliographies are now in the process of being migrated to The Heroic Age site and will be linked off the HA links pages. There are many to thank for these developments. First, and foremost, Paul E. Szarmach, now Director of the Medieval Academy of America (http://www.medievalacademy.org), James M. Murray and Elizabeth Teviotdale of the Medieval Institute, and Bill Schipper and the good folks at Memorial University of Newfoundland (http://www.mun.ca) are all owed a deep debt of gratitude for allowing this to happen and making the migration possible. As of this writing, the first such bibliography, Robert Fulk and Kari Ellen Gade's online edition of A Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters, is almost ready to go to its new home and may be included in Issue 12's update links release.
§6. Turning to our regular features for this issue, I would like to draw your attention to a new column: Philological Inquiry written by Michael Drout and Scott Kleinman. The plan is for this to be a recurring column on philological approaches to the field. This first foray examines the word "Merovingian" in Beowulf in order to "illuminate culture, history and politics and shed new light on an old problem." Please join me in welcoming Mike and Scott and this new contribution to our columns.
§7. Eileen Joy has edited a second offering in our still new "babelisms" column. The column is devoted to publishing essays that explore convergences between early medieval and modern texts and ideas. In this issue's column, Helen T. Bennett offers a meditation on halls in Beowulf: "The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings."
§8. In Michel Aaij's Continental Business column, Michel reviews and discusses recent scholarly works on Rabanus Maurus, and Dan O'Donnell returns as columnist of Electronic Medievalia with "Byte me: Technological Education and the Humanities." This rounds out our recurring columns.
§9. Elsewhere in this issue's Forum, Jonathan Jarrett, well-known to many as the blogger behind A Corner of Tenth Century Europe (http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com) and author of the forthcoming Pathways of Power in late-Carolingian Catalonia: Charters and Connections on a medieval frontier from the Royal Historical Society, contributes to our ongoing series about current developments in subfields of medieval studies. He offers us "Digitizing Numismatics: getting the Fitzwilliam Museum's coins to the world-wide web." As this issue's installment of our series introducing projects in the field, Margaret Cormack introduces us to her site and asks for readers' aid in a column titled "Saints and Sacred Space: An Interactive Database—A Call for Collaborators." Howard Wiseman offers a review essay on a fiction novel, Albion. Finally, Cullen Chandler offers a review essay discussing several recent books on things Carolingian in his contribution titled "Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire."
§10. We have three excellent articles in this issue. Karmen Lenz examines the liturgy for St. Cuthbert in her Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert. This is followed by Douglas Simms who contributes an article focused on linguistics titled Heavy Hypermetrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems. Rounding out the General Article section is a team-sponsored article titled King Alfred's Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms by Michael Treschow, Paramjit Gill, and Tim B. Swartz that examines the attribution of these psalms to Alfred. These three very solid and interesting articles complete the issue.
§11. Looking ahead, Issue 13 is already well under way. Originally imagined as an issue to focus on medieval manuscripts, as it turns out, the issue will instead focus on translations from early medieval texts! Nonetheless, the issue will also include articles on Old Norse, Hincmar, and Arthur plus our usual columns.
§12. Issue 14 is in development as well. Its a twin-themed issue guest-edited by Andrew Rabin and Eileen Joy. Andrew is collecting and editing a group of essays on Early Medieval Law. Eileen has gathered and is editing a number of essays on the topic of theory and early medeival literature. I myself enjoy the juxtaposition of a traditional topic with a more cutting-edge, perhaps even edgeless topic and placing these in conversation. If all goes well, this issue should be published in early 2010.
§13. The Heroic Age will celebrate its first decade in 2010. We formed the board in late 1999 and published our inaugural issue in Spring 2000, imagined then as appearing quarterly. That first issue was all about Arthur. Our fifteenth issue is scheduled to be published in mid-2010 and is seeking papers on "Arthur-related" topics, revisiting the edges of that first issue. The three sections currently planned for that issue will cover the world of Late Antique Britain and Gaul, connections with the rest of the continent in Late Antiquity, and new views of the Adventus Saxonum. The second section will examine Arthur and Arthurian literature. The third section will include studies of Late Antique and Early Medieval authors.
§14. Even further ahead, Issue 16 is already gathering papers. A special section on Alcuin is being guest-edited by James LePree. Issues 17 and 18 are in the planning stages as well. One will be guest-edited by Jonathan Jarrett, mentioned above, on "Carolingian Border-lands" and Issue 18 will focus on Old French/Provencal/Occitan studies. That takes the editorial planning up through the beginning of 2012.
§15. As always, feedback is appreciated. I now turn you over to the issue itself, lest this note become as long as what it introduces! On behalf of the editorial board, our readers, and editors, I hope you the reader enjoy the issue.
The Editorial Board of The Heroic Age is very pleased to announce the publication of our twelfth issue. Point your browsers to http://www.heroicage.org and click on "Current Issue." Information elsewhere on the site has also been updated including the staff, links pages, and the Call for Papers. Please take a look; comments are always welcome. I have taken the liberty of pasting below the Letter from the Editor which has some items of interest in it.
§1. Sumer is icumen in! Or so said the poet, in agreement with the weather prognosticators for once. It is both a frustration and an embarrassment that the Winter issue is seeing the light of day as summer is fast approaching, but regrettably that is too often the state of affairs in academic publishing. But it isn't for lack of trying.
§2. So, I'd like to begin by mentioning the important people who volunteer their time to make The Heroic Age happen each issue. First, and foremost, there are three people who work very hard to make each issue come together, edited, polished, and coded. Deanna Forsman, our webster, formats and codes each page on our website, including each issue, taking time from her own academic duties and courses, family, and leisure to do so. Without her efforts, there would be no The Heroic Age. Eileen Joy has done an enormous amount of work for the journal. Not only is she now editing a column for us, but she has been a reader, an editor, and copy editor. It is not as if she is not busy elsewhere: in addition to her work for us, she has been editing volumes of essays (http://www.siue.edu/babel/ProspectusFragmentsVolume.htm), putting together a new journal (www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/), blogging at In the Middle (www.inthemedievalmiddle.com), and other activities. I am very grateful for all her efforts with The Heroic Age. Last but certainly not least, Bill Schipper is our archivist and is another of those wonderful people whose helping hand is everywhere. In addition to his work with us, Bill is planning and hosting the next meeting of The International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, hosts and manages several well-known email lists in early Medieval Studies, and of course has his own work to undertake. My very grateful thanks to each of these three for their very hard work on my behalf.
§3. In addition to those three, others have had a hand in producing this issue who should be mentioned: Rolf Bremer, Tim Clarkson, Michael Treschow, Linda Malcor, Rolf Bremmer, Dan O'Donnell, and Michel Aaij have all undertaken editing at several levels. Finally, I will mention our readers, who will remain nameless for obvious reasons, but they know who they are. The only reward I can offer all these people is my sincere gratitude. If you have a moment whether via email or at a conference, please say "thanks" to these folk who have made this issue possible.
§4. Before turning to the issue itself, there are some exciting developments in connection with the links pages hosted at the journal's site. For this issue, the Anglo-Saxon links have been culled, weeded, and expanded. Ten years ago, in winter 1999, when I first split the Anglo-Saxon links off into their own subpage, I had grand plans to do the same for other subfields within the journal's purview. While it won't make it for Issue 12, there is at least one subsection and possibly two in development that will make debut appearances in Issue 13.
§5. More importantly, and in my view far more exciting, is a new development for some older but useful tools. As many know, the Richard Rawlinson Center at the Medieval Institute (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval) of Western Michigan University once hosted several online bibliographies and other projects that covered a range of subjects in Early Medieval Studies. A few years ago, some decisions were made that caused the removal of these tools from the Richard Rawlinson Center website, at that time intended to be a temporary situation. Several years later, however, the bibliographies remain inaccessible to the medieval researcher. These bibliographies are now in the process of being migrated to The Heroic Age site and will be linked off the HA links pages. There are many to thank for these developments. First, and foremost, Paul E. Szarmach, now Director of the Medieval Academy of America (http://www.medievalacademy.org), James M. Murray and Elizabeth Teviotdale of the Medieval Institute, and Bill Schipper and the good folks at Memorial University of Newfoundland (http://www.mun.ca) are all owed a deep debt of gratitude for allowing this to happen and making the migration possible. As of this writing, the first such bibliography, Robert Fulk and Kari Ellen Gade's online edition of A Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters, is almost ready to go to its new home and may be included in Issue 12's update links release.
§6. Turning to our regular features for this issue, I would like to draw your attention to a new column: Philological Inquiry written by Michael Drout and Scott Kleinman. The plan is for this to be a recurring column on philological approaches to the field. This first foray examines the word "Merovingian" in Beowulf in order to "illuminate culture, history and politics and shed new light on an old problem." Please join me in welcoming Mike and Scott and this new contribution to our columns.
§7. Eileen Joy has edited a second offering in our still new "babelisms" column. The column is devoted to publishing essays that explore convergences between early medieval and modern texts and ideas. In this issue's column, Helen T. Bennett offers a meditation on halls in Beowulf: "The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings."
§8. In Michel Aaij's Continental Business column, Michel reviews and discusses recent scholarly works on Rabanus Maurus, and Dan O'Donnell returns as columnist of Electronic Medievalia with "Byte me: Technological Education and the Humanities." This rounds out our recurring columns.
§9. Elsewhere in this issue's Forum, Jonathan Jarrett, well-known to many as the blogger behind A Corner of Tenth Century Europe (http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com) and author of the forthcoming Pathways of Power in late-Carolingian Catalonia: Charters and Connections on a medieval frontier from the Royal Historical Society, contributes to our ongoing series about current developments in subfields of medieval studies. He offers us "Digitizing Numismatics: getting the Fitzwilliam Museum's coins to the world-wide web." As this issue's installment of our series introducing projects in the field, Margaret Cormack introduces us to her site and asks for readers' aid in a column titled "Saints and Sacred Space: An Interactive Database—A Call for Collaborators." Howard Wiseman offers a review essay on a fiction novel, Albion. Finally, Cullen Chandler offers a review essay discussing several recent books on things Carolingian in his contribution titled "Regna et Regnum: Studies of Regions within the Carolingian Empire."
§10. We have three excellent articles in this issue. Karmen Lenz examines the liturgy for St. Cuthbert in her Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert. This is followed by Douglas Simms who contributes an article focused on linguistics titled Heavy Hypermetrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems. Rounding out the General Article section is a team-sponsored article titled King Alfred's Scholarly Writings and the Authorship of the First Fifty Prose Psalms by Michael Treschow, Paramjit Gill, and Tim B. Swartz that examines the attribution of these psalms to Alfred. These three very solid and interesting articles complete the issue.
§11. Looking ahead, Issue 13 is already well under way. Originally imagined as an issue to focus on medieval manuscripts, as it turns out, the issue will instead focus on translations from early medieval texts! Nonetheless, the issue will also include articles on Old Norse, Hincmar, and Arthur plus our usual columns.
§12. Issue 14 is in development as well. Its a twin-themed issue guest-edited by Andrew Rabin and Eileen Joy. Andrew is collecting and editing a group of essays on Early Medieval Law. Eileen has gathered and is editing a number of essays on the topic of theory and early medeival literature. I myself enjoy the juxtaposition of a traditional topic with a more cutting-edge, perhaps even edgeless topic and placing these in conversation. If all goes well, this issue should be published in early 2010.
§13. The Heroic Age will celebrate its first decade in 2010. We formed the board in late 1999 and published our inaugural issue in Spring 2000, imagined then as appearing quarterly. That first issue was all about Arthur. Our fifteenth issue is scheduled to be published in mid-2010 and is seeking papers on "Arthur-related" topics, revisiting the edges of that first issue. The three sections currently planned for that issue will cover the world of Late Antique Britain and Gaul, connections with the rest of the continent in Late Antiquity, and new views of the Adventus Saxonum. The second section will examine Arthur and Arthurian literature. The third section will include studies of Late Antique and Early Medieval authors.
§14. Even further ahead, Issue 16 is already gathering papers. A special section on Alcuin is being guest-edited by James LePree. Issues 17 and 18 are in the planning stages as well. One will be guest-edited by Jonathan Jarrett, mentioned above, on "Carolingian Border-lands" and Issue 18 will focus on Old French/Provencal/Occitan studies. That takes the editorial planning up through the beginning of 2012.
§15. As always, feedback is appreciated. I now turn you over to the issue itself, lest this note become as long as what it introduces! On behalf of the editorial board, our readers, and editors, I hope you the reader enjoy the issue.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Mapping the Medieval City: space, place and identity Reminder
Mapping the Medieval City: space, place and identity
An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Swansea University, 30-31 July 2009
REGISTRATION CLOSES 22 JUNE
- Participants include Ralph Hanna (Oxford), Robert W. Barrett Jr. (Illinois), Keith Lilley (Belfast), Helen Fulton (Swansea) and Jane Laughton
- Sessions include:
-Mappings: personal, political religious
-The Fabric of the Medieval City
-Literature, Performance and Civic Identity
-Space, Memory and Gender
-Identity and Belonging: citizens, migrants and outsiders
-The City and the World: locating centres
-Recovering the Medieval City: sources and analysis
- Digital Humanities Forum
A roundtable / Q&A session discussing medieval studies and new media, as well as projects in the digital humanities more widely. Experts in Humanities Computing will be available to answer questions and offer advice
For further information and a registration form, see the project website (www.medievalchester.ac.uk), or contact Mark Faulkner (m.j.faulkner@swan.ac.uk)
An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Swansea University, 30-31 July 2009
REGISTRATION CLOSES 22 JUNE
- Participants include Ralph Hanna (Oxford), Robert W. Barrett Jr. (Illinois), Keith Lilley (Belfast), Helen Fulton (Swansea) and Jane Laughton
- Sessions include:
-Mappings: personal, political religious
-The Fabric of the Medieval City
-Literature, Performance and Civic Identity
-Space, Memory and Gender
-Identity and Belonging: citizens, migrants and outsiders
-The City and the World: locating centres
-Recovering the Medieval City: sources and analysis
- Digital Humanities Forum
A roundtable / Q&A session discussing medieval studies and new media, as well as projects in the digital humanities more widely. Experts in Humanities Computing will be available to answer questions and offer advice
For further information and a registration form, see the project website (www.medievalchester.ac.uk), or contact Mark Faulkner (m.j.faulkner@swan.ac.uk)
Friday, June 5, 2009
Dry Island Buffalo Jump
In these straitened economic times, it's going to be harder and
harder for some students to get the money together to go to
university. A bunch of lecturers in English, French, History and
Divinity from the University of St Andrews decided to write and
record a song about the recession to raise money that will provide
financial support for students in need.
They call themselves Dry Island Buffalo Jump, and you can taste and
purchase The Credit Crunch Song here
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/dibj/
for the bargainable price of a mere £1. You can't even buy a cup of
coffee for that these days.
Every single one of those hundred pennies will go into a fund which
will be used for prizes, bursaries or scholarships to support
financially disadvantaged students study at St Andrews University. If
you wish to donate more than £1 when you download The Credit Crunch
Song, you will receive the eternal gratitude of The Mighty Buffalo
and help someone to get a better education and better employment
prospects.
Once you've paid online, you'll be sent an e-mail that contains a URL
which you should copy and paste into your browser. You can download
the mp3 from this page, so watch your inbox! Once you've downloaded
the mp3 file into your computer/i-pod/boogie box, please don't share
the file with your friends and family pets; the song is for charity,
remember? Instead, if you like the song, or the idea, please forward
this e-mail and the URL instead to as many people as you know might
be interested.
Oh yes, and no expenses were claimed in the making of this song.
We can sow what we want to reap.
With love from the happy hunting grounds of the Prairies of North-East Fife,
Dry Island Buffalo Jump
-- Dr Chris Jones
harder for some students to get the money together to go to
university. A bunch of lecturers in English, French, History and
Divinity from the University of St Andrews decided to write and
record a song about the recession to raise money that will provide
financial support for students in need.
They call themselves Dry Island Buffalo Jump, and you can taste and
purchase The Credit Crunch Song here
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/dibj/
for the bargainable price of a mere £1. You can't even buy a cup of
coffee for that these days.
Every single one of those hundred pennies will go into a fund which
will be used for prizes, bursaries or scholarships to support
financially disadvantaged students study at St Andrews University. If
you wish to donate more than £1 when you download The Credit Crunch
Song, you will receive the eternal gratitude of The Mighty Buffalo
and help someone to get a better education and better employment
prospects.
Once you've paid online, you'll be sent an e-mail that contains a URL
which you should copy and paste into your browser. You can download
the mp3 from this page, so watch your inbox! Once you've downloaded
the mp3 file into your computer/i-pod/boogie box, please don't share
the file with your friends and family pets; the song is for charity,
remember? Instead, if you like the song, or the idea, please forward
this e-mail and the URL instead to as many people as you know might
be interested.
Oh yes, and no expenses were claimed in the making of this song.
We can sow what we want to reap.
With love from the happy hunting grounds of the Prairies of North-East Fife,
Dry Island Buffalo Jump
-- Dr Chris Jones
puscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Call for Submissions to Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle
Ages and Renaissance
About the Journal
Opuscula is a new high-quality peer-reviewed, on-line journal/text
series published by Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at
the University of Saskatchewan and specializing in short texts of the
Middle Ages and Renaissance. We seek submissions from scholars of a
wide variety of disciplines and will include a diverse range of
texts, including literature, philosophy, letters, charters, court
documents, and notebooks.
The goal of the journal is to establish open access to a substantial
body of small but complete texts in scholarly editions to researchers
and educators. Our first issue will be published in September 2010.
Submissions
Editions should generally be based on single witnesses although
critical editions may be considered. Where texts are not English,
translations may be appropriate but are not necessary. Texts should
generally be under 6000 words in length, and each must be accompanied
by an introduction in English of approximately 1500 words that
provides historical, literary, and bibliographic context and
codicological and palaeographic (or typographic) description. New
editions of previously edited pieces may be considered but only if
there are compelling reasons.
All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process and
submissions for review must include facsimiles of any base
manuscripts.
For more information regarding submissions or to propose a text, contact:
Frank Klaassen, General Editor
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
718 - 9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK
Canada S7N 5A5
frank.klaassen@usask.ca
Ages and Renaissance
About the Journal
Opuscula is a new high-quality peer-reviewed, on-line journal/text
series published by Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at
the University of Saskatchewan and specializing in short texts of the
Middle Ages and Renaissance. We seek submissions from scholars of a
wide variety of disciplines and will include a diverse range of
texts, including literature, philosophy, letters, charters, court
documents, and notebooks.
The goal of the journal is to establish open access to a substantial
body of small but complete texts in scholarly editions to researchers
and educators. Our first issue will be published in September 2010.
Submissions
Editions should generally be based on single witnesses although
critical editions may be considered. Where texts are not English,
translations may be appropriate but are not necessary. Texts should
generally be under 6000 words in length, and each must be accompanied
by an introduction in English of approximately 1500 words that
provides historical, literary, and bibliographic context and
codicological and palaeographic (or typographic) description. New
editions of previously edited pieces may be considered but only if
there are compelling reasons.
All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process and
submissions for review must include facsimiles of any base
manuscripts.
For more information regarding submissions or to propose a text, contact:
Frank Klaassen, General Editor
Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
718 - 9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK
Canada S7N 5A5
frank.klaassen@usask.ca
MA in Archaeology by Research
MA in Archaeology by Research - Fee Waiver
> Visualising Late Antiquity: Everyday Life AD 300-650
> Centre for Late Antique Archaeology, University of Kent
>
> The School of European Culture and Languages is able to offer two MA fee
> waivers at Home /EU rate for the academic year 2009-2010, to support
> guided research into the Visualisation of Everyday Life in Late
> Antiquity. This degree will be taught through tutorials and guided
> research, although it will also be necessary to attend lectures and
> seminars on late antique archaeology in the first term. Assessment will
> be based on a 40,000 word dissertation, though students will be asked to
> write preparatory essays in the first term, connected to their subject.
> The theme of the dissertation will be set by their supervisor and may
> include topics such as the architecture, furniture and material culture
> in late antiquity.
>
> Programme Duration: Full-time 12 months
> Start date: September 2009
>
> Entry Requirements: Applicants are generally expected to have obtained
> an upper second-class honours degree, or the international equivalent,
> in archaeology or a related field. Applicants whose first language is
> not English are expected to have obtained IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 570.
> Candidates should have an established interest in late antiquity and its
> architecture or material culture, and intend to progress to a PhD at
> Kent on this theme, if the opportunity presented itself. Excavation
> experience and organisational skills are desirable, as students will be
> expected to participate for one month in the Ostia Excavation Project,
> and offer some administrative assistance to the Centre for Late Antique
> Archaeology during the year. Knowledge of one or more modern European
> languages (French, German and Italian) would be an advantage, as would
> experience of Mediterranean archaeology.
>
> Fee Waiver: the successful candidates will be offered a fee waiver of
> 3,670 GBP to cover one year of postgraduate fees at home / EU rate. No
> maintenance fee would be offered. Fees could be repayable in whole or
> part if the degree was abandoned without completion, or if efforts made
> were deemed to fall below the acceptable minimum standard for MA work.
>
> Application Process
> To be eligible for these studentships, candidates must send to Dr Luke
> Lavan (via email) a CV and a letter explaining why they would like to be
> considered for the University of Kent studentship, accompanied by a
> piece of written work. The deadline for submissions is 16th June 2009.
> Selection will be based on written submissions, with the option of
> interview by telephone / email.
>
> Contact: Dr Luke Lavan,
> Email: l.a.lavan@kent.ac.uk
> Tel: 01227769665
> School of European Culture and Languages,
> Cornwallis North West,
> University of Kent,
> Canterbury,
> Kent CT2 7NF
> http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff/LukeLavan/
> www.lateantiquearchaeology.com
>
> Visualising Late Antiquity: Everyday Life AD 300-650
> Centre for Late Antique Archaeology, University of Kent
>
> The School of European Culture and Languages is able to offer two MA fee
> waivers at Home /EU rate for the academic year 2009-2010, to support
> guided research into the Visualisation of Everyday Life in Late
> Antiquity. This degree will be taught through tutorials and guided
> research, although it will also be necessary to attend lectures and
> seminars on late antique archaeology in the first term. Assessment will
> be based on a 40,000 word dissertation, though students will be asked to
> write preparatory essays in the first term, connected to their subject.
> The theme of the dissertation will be set by their supervisor and may
> include topics such as the architecture, furniture and material culture
> in late antiquity.
>
> Programme Duration: Full-time 12 months
> Start date: September 2009
>
> Entry Requirements: Applicants are generally expected to have obtained
> an upper second-class honours degree, or the international equivalent,
> in archaeology or a related field. Applicants whose first language is
> not English are expected to have obtained IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 570.
> Candidates should have an established interest in late antiquity and its
> architecture or material culture, and intend to progress to a PhD at
> Kent on this theme, if the opportunity presented itself. Excavation
> experience and organisational skills are desirable, as students will be
> expected to participate for one month in the Ostia Excavation Project,
> and offer some administrative assistance to the Centre for Late Antique
> Archaeology during the year. Knowledge of one or more modern European
> languages (French, German and Italian) would be an advantage, as would
> experience of Mediterranean archaeology.
>
> Fee Waiver: the successful candidates will be offered a fee waiver of
> 3,670 GBP to cover one year of postgraduate fees at home / EU rate. No
> maintenance fee would be offered. Fees could be repayable in whole or
> part if the degree was abandoned without completion, or if efforts made
> were deemed to fall below the acceptable minimum standard for MA work.
>
> Application Process
> To be eligible for these studentships, candidates must send to Dr Luke
> Lavan (via email) a CV and a letter explaining why they would like to be
> considered for the University of Kent studentship, accompanied by a
> piece of written work. The deadline for submissions is 16th June 2009.
> Selection will be based on written submissions, with the option of
> interview by telephone / email.
>
> Contact: Dr Luke Lavan,
> Email: l.a.lavan@kent.ac.uk
> Tel: 01227769665
> School of European Culture and Languages,
> Cornwallis North West,
> University of Kent,
> Canterbury,
> Kent CT2 7NF
> http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/classics/staff/LukeLavan/
> www.lateantiquearchaeology.com
>
Tolkien 2009 “Ten Years of History”
Tolkien 2009 “Ten Years of History” event to be held on August 15th-16th
2009 [no location given]
The Asociación Tolkien Argentina (A.T.A.) is a non-profit cultural and
literary association
founded by Dr. Ricardo Irigaray and Mr. Jorge Ferro in 1999
2009 marks the tenth anniversary of the A.T.A. founding and will hold, as it
is already
customary every year, an event presenting conferences, lectures and debates,
live music and parades, games and leisure activities related to Middle earth
and many other attractions linked to Professor Tolkien’s works and
fantastic-epic literature in general.
More Information: www.tolkien.org.ar
e-mail contact: jornada.tolkien@tolkien.org.ar
2009 [no location given]
The Asociación Tolkien Argentina (A.T.A.) is a non-profit cultural and
literary association
founded by Dr. Ricardo Irigaray and Mr. Jorge Ferro in 1999
2009 marks the tenth anniversary of the A.T.A. founding and will hold, as it
is already
customary every year, an event presenting conferences, lectures and debates,
live music and parades, games and leisure activities related to Middle earth
and many other attractions linked to Professor Tolkien’s works and
fantastic-epic literature in general.
More Information: www.tolkien.org.ar
e-mail contact: jornada.tolkien@tolkien.org.ar
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
GATHERING THE THREADS - WEAVING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD
REGISTRATION OPEN; CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSING 30 JUNE
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/
AEMA's sixth annual conference will be held from 30 September to 2
October 2009 at the Caulfield Campus of Monash University, Victoria.
Registration is now open and the registration form is available on
the web site, together with details of the invited speakers and
abstracts received to date.
From the Middle East to the North Atlantic, cultural differences
were woven into the new social fabric of the early medieval world.
Peoples, languages, religions, traditions and technologies were the
threads woven into the period's complex tapestry. The Australian
Early Medieval Association invites papers which explore the patterns
and intersections formed by these diverse threads.
Papers on any other aspect of early medieval research or scholarship
will also be accepted. A title and a 250 word abstract for papers of
twenty minutes in length should be submitted to the conference
convenor by June 30. Please include affiliation and contact details
with your abstract.
Presenters will be invited to publish their papers in the refereed
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association.
CONFERENCE CONVENOR
Natasha Amendola Natasha.Amendola@arts..monash.edu.au
School of Historical Studies
Building 11, Clayton Campus
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia
GATHERING THE THREADS - WEAVING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WORLD
REGISTRATION OPEN; CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSING 30 JUNE
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/
AEMA's sixth annual conference will be held from 30 September to 2
October 2009 at the Caulfield Campus of Monash University, Victoria.
Registration is now open and the registration form is available on
the web site, together with details of the invited speakers and
abstracts received to date.
From the Middle East to the North Atlantic, cultural differences
were woven into the new social fabric of the early medieval world.
Peoples, languages, religions, traditions and technologies were the
threads woven into the period's complex tapestry. The Australian
Early Medieval Association invites papers which explore the patterns
and intersections formed by these diverse threads.
Papers on any other aspect of early medieval research or scholarship
will also be accepted. A title and a 250 word abstract for papers of
twenty minutes in length should be submitted to the conference
convenor by June 30. Please include affiliation and contact details
with your abstract.
Presenters will be invited to publish their papers in the refereed
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association.
CONFERENCE CONVENOR
Natasha Amendola Natasha.Amendola@arts..monash.edu.au
School of Historical Studies
Building 11, Clayton Campus
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia
European Summer School
We are happy to announce the 1. European Summer School „Culture &
> Technology“ to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31,
> 2009
>
> http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/
>
> Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the
> Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the
> Summer School is
> directed at an international audience. Students in their final
> year, graduates,
> postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians
> and technical
> assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical,
> experimental or practical application of computational methods in
> the various
> areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so are the
> target audience of the courses.
>
> The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer
> scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities,
> who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with,
> computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise
> themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware systems
> they develop by arts and humanities-related data.
>
> The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive
> programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The
> Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the challenges
> presented by technological developments and by the integration of the
> Humanities and ICTs.
>
> Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The
> number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Applications for a
> place in a specific workshop are made on the Portal of the Summer School.
>
> Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who
> are planning,
> or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and
> describe this project in a qualified way. Young scholars of Engineering and
> Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and
> interests in
> such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their
> expectations from the Summer School with good arguments.
>
> Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the
> Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for a refund
> from another institution can apply for a contribution to their travel and
> accommodation costs.
>
> Important dates
>
> For planning reasons we ask everyone who is interested in the Summer School
> to express her or his interest asap by setting up a personal account with
> ConfTool. ConfTool is accessible from the portal of the Summer School. See
> under “registration”.
>
> People who would like to stay in one of the guest houses of the
> university are
> kindly asked to contact the organisers straight away.
>
> 15.06.2009 last day for the submission of the application for the Summer
> School via ConfTool
> 30.06.2009 communication of the selection process results
> 10.07.2009 last day for the payment of regular registration fees
> 27.07.2009 Summer School starts
>
> For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue,
> registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni-
> leipzig.de/ESU/.
>
> Technology“ to take place at the University of Leipzig, Germany, July 27-31,
> 2009
>
> http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/
>
> Funded by the University of Leipzig, the Volkswagen Foundation and the
> Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the
> Summer School is
> directed at an international audience. Students in their final
> year, graduates,
> postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians
> and technical
> assistants from all over Europe who are involved in the theoretical,
> experimental or practical application of computational methods in
> the various
> areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so are the
> target audience of the courses.
>
> The Summer School addresses also expressively engineers and computer
> scientist who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities,
> who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with,
> computational methods in the Humanities, and who wish to familiarise
> themselves with the special demands put on the soft- and hardware systems
> they develop by arts and humanities-related data.
>
> The Summer School takes place across a whole week. The intensive
> programme consists of workshops, lectures and project presentations. The
> Summer School will close with a round table discussion on the challenges
> presented by technological developments and by the integration of the
> Humanities and ICTs.
>
> Each workshop consists of a total of 15 sessions or 30 week-hours. The
> number of participants in each workshop is limited to 15. Applications for a
> place in a specific workshop are made on the Portal of the Summer School.
>
> Preference will be given to young scholars of the Humanities who
> are planning,
> or are already involved with, a technology-based research project and
> describe this project in a qualified way. Young scholars of Engineering and
> Computer Sciences are expected to describe their specialities and
> interests in
> such a way that also non specialists can follow and that they support their
> expectations from the Summer School with good arguments.
>
> Thanks to the generous support granted by the Volkswagen Foundation to the
> Summer School, participants who have no possibility of applying for a refund
> from another institution can apply for a contribution to their travel and
> accommodation costs.
>
> Important dates
>
> For planning reasons we ask everyone who is interested in the Summer School
> to express her or his interest asap by setting up a personal account with
> ConfTool. ConfTool is accessible from the portal of the Summer School. See
> under “registration”.
>
> People who would like to stay in one of the guest houses of the
> university are
> kindly asked to contact the organisers straight away.
>
> 15.06.2009 last day for the submission of the application for the Summer
> School via ConfTool
> 30.06.2009 communication of the selection process results
> 10.07.2009 last day for the payment of regular registration fees
> 27.07.2009 Summer School starts
>
> For further details, such as the schedule, planned workshops, venue,
> registration fees, accommodation ecc., see: http://www.culingtec.uni-
> leipzig.de/ESU/.
>
Palaeography and Manuscript-based Research
Palaeography and Manuscript-based Research: Intensive Postgraduate Workshop
14-15 September 2009, University College Cork
Themes covered
* Palaeography and Codicology
* Insular Scripts and Scribal Techniques
* The Corpus of Medieval Irish Manuscripts
* Modern Irish Manuscript Tradition
* The Challenges of Editing: variant copies, critical v. diplomatic
editions, normalisation, etc.
* Digital Technology and Manuscript Research
Enquiries to:
Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, Dept. of Early and Medieval Irish, University
College Cork.
c.odochartaigh@ucc.ie
14-15 September 2009, University College Cork
Themes covered
* Palaeography and Codicology
* Insular Scripts and Scribal Techniques
* The Corpus of Medieval Irish Manuscripts
* Modern Irish Manuscript Tradition
* The Challenges of Editing: variant copies, critical v. diplomatic
editions, normalisation, etc.
* Digital Technology and Manuscript Research
Enquiries to:
Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, Dept. of Early and Medieval Irish, University
College Cork.
c.odochartaigh@ucc.ie
Hortulus
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is happy to
announce that that our fourth annual issue is now online! Our new
issue showcases our top three articles by graduate students on magic
and witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.
Please take a moment to see our new issue at:
http://hortulus.net
I hope you have as much fun reading it as our team of graduate student
volunteers had bringing it to you!
Karina Marie Ash
announce that that our fourth annual issue is now online! Our new
issue showcases our top three articles by graduate students on magic
and witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the early modern period.
Please take a moment to see our new issue at:
http://hortulus.net
I hope you have as much fun reading it as our team of graduate student
volunteers had bringing it to you!
Karina Marie Ash
*Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009*
*Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009*
Fridays at 16:30 in STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet
Street, London, WC1E 7HU
(NB: July 17th seminar in British Library, 96 Euston Rd, NW1 2DW)
June 5 Bart Van Beek (Leuven)
'Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri'
June 12 Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham)
'Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling
and Mediaeval warfare logistics'
June 19 Gregory Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts)
'No Unmediated Analysis: Digital services constrain and enable
both traditional and novel tasks'
June 26 Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig)
'Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato's works'
July 3 Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)
'Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification'
July 10 Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)
'Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology'
July 17 Christine Pappelau (Berlin) *NB: in British Library*
'Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets
ancient building structures'
July 24 Elton Barker (Oxford)
'Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive'
July 31 Leif Isaksen (Southampton)
'Linking Archaeological Data'
August 7 Alexandra Trachsel (Hamburg)
'An Online Edition of the Fragments of Demetrios of Skepsis'
ALL WELCOME
We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in
the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient
world to come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar
series is the interdisciplinary and collaborative work that results
at the interface of expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer
Science.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact
Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk,
or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html
Fridays at 16:30 in STB3/6 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet
Street, London, WC1E 7HU
(NB: July 17th seminar in British Library, 96 Euston Rd, NW1 2DW)
June 5 Bart Van Beek (Leuven)
'Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri'
June 12 Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham)
'Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling
and Mediaeval warfare logistics'
June 19 Gregory Crane (Perseus Project, Tufts)
'No Unmediated Analysis: Digital services constrain and enable
both traditional and novel tasks'
June 26 Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig)
'Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato's works'
July 3 Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)
'Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification'
July 10 Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)
'Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology'
July 17 Christine Pappelau (Berlin) *NB: in British Library*
'Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets
ancient building structures'
July 24 Elton Barker (Oxford)
'Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive'
July 31 Leif Isaksen (Southampton)
'Linking Archaeological Data'
August 7 Alexandra Trachsel (Hamburg)
'An Online Edition of the Fragments of Demetrios of Skepsis'
ALL WELCOME
We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in
the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient
world to come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar
series is the interdisciplinary and collaborative work that results
at the interface of expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer
Science.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact
Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, Juan.Garces@bl.uk,
or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009.html
Rusticatio Virginiana Omnibus Destinata
SALVI (Septentrionale Americanum Latinitatis Vivae Institutum, or
North American Institute for Living Latin Studies) proudly presents
Rusticatio Virginiana Omnibus Destinata, a week of total immersion in
the Latin language with high-energy conversation exercises designed
for participants at all levels of experience in conversational Latin.
Rusticatio Omnibus will be team taught by Nancy Llewellyn and David
Morgan, with special assistance from Don Cleto Pavanetto, past
President of the Vatican's Latinitas Foundation. The dates of the
workshop are July 13 - 19, 2009.
Rusticatio Virginiana offers a series of intensive exercises that will
help you turn your knowledge of Latin into an active command of the
language. During this workshop you can expect to make significant
improvement in speaking ability and listening comprehension.
Additionally, past participants have often reported marked improvement
in sight-reading comprehension and reading speed. Most important, you
will discover the joy of self-expression and communication with others
in Latin - an experience which, over time, can make profound and
positive changes in your attitude toward the language.
Rusticatio Omnibus will be held at the beautiful Claymont Estate in
Charles Town, West Virginia. The cost is $760.00 per person,
all-inclusive, covering tuition, room, full board, all instructional
materials, and a one year membership in SALVI. Please note that
transportation to and from the workshop is not included. For a more
complete description of Rusticatio, as well as eligibility
requirements, please see the application on the SALVI website at
http://www.latin.org/omnibus.html
The deadline to enroll in this year's intensive spoken Latin workshops
is June 1, 2009. Additionally, we have modified the enrollment process
so that you can pay a portion of the total when you enroll with the
balance due by June 15, 2009. For Rusticatio Omnibus the payment
schedule would be $260 payable upon enrollment, $500 due by June 15.
Rusticatio is an initiative of SALVI, a nonprofit educational
organization committed to promoting active Latin. Created over ten
years ago in California, Rusticatio has a proven track record for
fostering growth in living Latin in a congenial and down to earth
atmosphere that is both fun and supportive. Rusticatio currently
operates at the historic Claymont Estate in Charles Town, West
Virginia, just one hour by car from Washington-Dulles International
Airport. Baltimore-Washington and Reagan Washington National Airports
are also not far away.
Nancy E. Llewellyn is Assistant Professor of Latin at Wyoming Catholic
College, as well as being vice-president of SALVI and program director
for Rusticatio Virginiana. Dr. Llewellyn holds a Ph.D. from UCLA, an
M.A from the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome (where she also
studied at the Gregorian University with Reginald Foster), and a B.A.
from Bryn Mawr College. Since 1998, she has led numerous workshops on
spoken Latin for students and teachers in California, Michigan, New
Jersey, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
David W. Morgan is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures at Furman University in South Carolina where his
academic interests (besides Latin) are Renaissance and seventeenth-
century French literature. Dr. Morgan holds a Ph.D from Princeton
University, a J.D. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. and B.S. from
Wofford College. Besides being an accomplished teacher of active
Latin, he compiles the Lexicon Latinum, an extensive English-Latin
list of modern terms and an invaluable resource for those wishing to
achieve fluency in Latin.
Msgr. Cleto Pavanetto has taught Latin, Greek, Classical literature
and related subjects for many years in the department of Christian and
Classical Letters at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. He
served for more than two decades as head of the Vatican Secretariat of
State's Latin Letters department and recently retired from his
positions as president of the Latinitas Foundation and general editor
of the Foundation's internationally-recognized quarterly journal
Latinitas.
Complete information about Rusticatio Virginiana is available on the
SALVI website; however, participants with particular queries are
welcome to contact Nancy Llewellyn directly at annula-at-latin.org.
Nancy E. Llewellyn
Vice President, SALVI
Rusticatio Virginiana Program Director
North American Institute for Living Latin Studies) proudly presents
Rusticatio Virginiana Omnibus Destinata, a week of total immersion in
the Latin language with high-energy conversation exercises designed
for participants at all levels of experience in conversational Latin.
Rusticatio Omnibus will be team taught by Nancy Llewellyn and David
Morgan, with special assistance from Don Cleto Pavanetto, past
President of the Vatican's Latinitas Foundation. The dates of the
workshop are July 13 - 19, 2009.
Rusticatio Virginiana offers a series of intensive exercises that will
help you turn your knowledge of Latin into an active command of the
language. During this workshop you can expect to make significant
improvement in speaking ability and listening comprehension.
Additionally, past participants have often reported marked improvement
in sight-reading comprehension and reading speed. Most important, you
will discover the joy of self-expression and communication with others
in Latin - an experience which, over time, can make profound and
positive changes in your attitude toward the language.
Rusticatio Omnibus will be held at the beautiful Claymont Estate in
Charles Town, West Virginia. The cost is $760.00 per person,
all-inclusive, covering tuition, room, full board, all instructional
materials, and a one year membership in SALVI. Please note that
transportation to and from the workshop is not included. For a more
complete description of Rusticatio, as well as eligibility
requirements, please see the application on the SALVI website at
http://www.latin.org/omnibus.html
The deadline to enroll in this year's intensive spoken Latin workshops
is June 1, 2009. Additionally, we have modified the enrollment process
so that you can pay a portion of the total when you enroll with the
balance due by June 15, 2009. For Rusticatio Omnibus the payment
schedule would be $260 payable upon enrollment, $500 due by June 15.
Rusticatio is an initiative of SALVI, a nonprofit educational
organization committed to promoting active Latin. Created over ten
years ago in California, Rusticatio has a proven track record for
fostering growth in living Latin in a congenial and down to earth
atmosphere that is both fun and supportive. Rusticatio currently
operates at the historic Claymont Estate in Charles Town, West
Virginia, just one hour by car from Washington-Dulles International
Airport. Baltimore-Washington and Reagan Washington National Airports
are also not far away.
Nancy E. Llewellyn is Assistant Professor of Latin at Wyoming Catholic
College, as well as being vice-president of SALVI and program director
for Rusticatio Virginiana. Dr. Llewellyn holds a Ph.D. from UCLA, an
M.A from the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome (where she also
studied at the Gregorian University with Reginald Foster), and a B.A.
from Bryn Mawr College. Since 1998, she has led numerous workshops on
spoken Latin for students and teachers in California, Michigan, New
Jersey, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
David W. Morgan is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures at Furman University in South Carolina where his
academic interests (besides Latin) are Renaissance and seventeenth-
century French literature. Dr. Morgan holds a Ph.D from Princeton
University, a J.D. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. and B.S. from
Wofford College. Besides being an accomplished teacher of active
Latin, he compiles the Lexicon Latinum, an extensive English-Latin
list of modern terms and an invaluable resource for those wishing to
achieve fluency in Latin.
Msgr. Cleto Pavanetto has taught Latin, Greek, Classical literature
and related subjects for many years in the department of Christian and
Classical Letters at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. He
served for more than two decades as head of the Vatican Secretariat of
State's Latin Letters department and recently retired from his
positions as president of the Latinitas Foundation and general editor
of the Foundation's internationally-recognized quarterly journal
Latinitas.
Complete information about Rusticatio Virginiana is available on the
SALVI website; however, participants with particular queries are
welcome to contact Nancy Llewellyn directly at annula-at-latin.org.
Nancy E. Llewellyn
Vice President, SALVI
Rusticatio Virginiana Program Director
Vagantes CFP
Call for Papers for the
Vagantes Graduate Student Conference 2010
University of New Mexico
http://vagantesconference.org
In spring 2010 the medievalist graduate students of the University of New
Mexico will have the honor of hosting the ninth annual Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference from 11 through 13 March, 2010. (For information on the program,
transportation, and accommodations, please visit http://vagantesconference.org.)
Vagantes is now the largest conference in North America for graduate
students studying the Middle Ages. Vagantes aims to provide an open dialogue among junior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies, come together to exchange ideas at Vagantes. In this manner Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget.
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited from graduate students
working on any medieval topic. E-mail a brief curriculum vita and abstract of no more than 300 words by 9 October 2009 to:
Marisa Sikes
msikes@unm.edu
Department of English Language and Literature
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This conference is partially funded by the University of New Mexico Graduate
& Professional Student Association (GPSA) Projects Commi
Vagantes Graduate Student Conference 2010
University of New Mexico
http://vagantesconference.org
In spring 2010 the medievalist graduate students of the University of New
Mexico will have the honor of hosting the ninth annual Vagantes Medieval Graduate Student Conference from 11 through 13 March, 2010. (For information on the program,
transportation, and accommodations, please visit http://vagantesconference.org.)
Vagantes is now the largest conference in North America for graduate
students studying the Middle Ages. Vagantes aims to provide an open dialogue among junior scholars from all fields of medieval studies. The conference features two faculty speakers, twenty-four student papers, and an audience of approximately 100 people. Vagantes emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship; each year, presenters from backgrounds as varied as Comparative Literature, Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Anthropology, English, Philosophy, Manuscript Studies, Musicology, and Religious Studies, come together to exchange ideas at Vagantes. In this manner Vagantes fosters a sense of community for junior medievalists of diverse backgrounds, and because the conference does not have a registration fee, this community can flourish within the margins of a graduate student budget.
Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited from graduate students
working on any medieval topic. E-mail a brief curriculum vita and abstract of no more than 300 words by 9 October 2009 to:
Marisa Sikes
msikes@unm.edu
Department of English Language and Literature
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This conference is partially funded by the University of New Mexico Graduate
& Professional Student Association (GPSA) Projects Commi
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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