Monday, January 28, 2008

News of the Week

Anglo-Saxon treasures will stay in region - vow

Same story, different take: MP in plea over ancient treasure

Event passed, but only thing I found on it: MEDIAEVAL FIND TO BE TOPIC
OF DISCUSSION AT MUSEUM


Medieval splendour as Ruins welcomes visitors

'Too good to be true' Thomson ivory declared genuine





Jan 28:

Birthday:
1457 Henry VII (Tudor) of England

Death:
814 Charlemagne; Louis "the Pious" inherits Frankish Empire
1232 Pedro de Montaigu, 15th Master of the Templars
1256 St. Peter Nolesco

Events:
893 Coronation of Charles III, "the Simple" as King of France
1077 King Henry IV submits to the Pope at Canossa
1256 William, King of the Romans, was killed
1393 "Bal des Ardents;" Death of the Count de Joigny, Yvain de Foix,
Aimery Poitiers, and Huguet de Guisay


Jan 20:
Saints:
591 St. Sulpicius

Deaths:
1118 Pope Paschal II

Events:
904 Sergius III crowned pope - beginning of the "Pornocracy"
1327 Coronation of Edward III of England


Jan 30:
Saints:
680 St. Bathild, Queen to Clovis II of France
Holiday of Three Hierachs (Eastern Orthodox)

Events:
435 Rome made peace with the Vandals, ending the "Fall"
1118 Election of Gelasius I as Pope
1328 King Edward III of England re-marries Phillippa of Hainaut
1349 Election of Guanther of Schwarzberg as King of Germany
1380 St. Catherine of Siena suffers a stroke
1487 Bell chimes invented


Jan 31:
Saints:
410 St. Marcella
626 St. Aidan (Madoc) of Ferns

Events:
314 St. Sylvester becomes Pope
1298 Peace of Tournai
1405 Jean de Bethencourt goes to France to obtain materials to
establish a colony on the Canary Islands

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Journal of Late Antiquity

ALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

JOURNAL OF LATE ANTIQUITY

The Journal of Late Antiquity, sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity and
published by Johns Hopkins University Press, provides a venue for
multi-disciplinary coverage of all the methodological, disciplinary,
geographical, and chronological facets of Late Antiquity, covering the late
Roman, European, North African, Byzantine, Sassanid, and Islamic worlds, and
going from ca. AD 200 to 800 (i.e. the late and post-classical world up to the
beginning of the Carolingian period), ranging from Arabia to the
British Isles,
and running the gamut from literary and historical studies to the study of
material culture.

Scholars of Late Antiquity are invited to submit previously unpublished
original research for consideration for publication in JLA.
JLA provides a venue for both medium (6-8,000
word) and longer (10,000 words and up) length articles, as well as for brief
notes discussing significant observations that might not be published
at all or
end up lost footnote in a study on a different topic).

Contributions should have a clearly stated thesis,
argument, and conclusion based on literary and material primary sources.
Submissions may be based on traditional literary texts, on material
culture, or
on a combination of sources. If there is a
single theme that we would expect all contributions to manifest, it would be
that in some manner they illuminate Late Antiquity as a discrete period with
its own unique identifying characteristics.

Submissions may be forwarded in e-format (WORD or WORDPERFECT in a
Truetype Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS) to, and authorial guidelines
(including information on foreign language fonts) may be requested from,

Ralph W. Mathisen, Managing Editor,
Professor of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies
ralphwm@uiuc.edu and ruricius@msn.com
Dept. of History, MC-466
309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
217-244-5247,
FAX: 217-333-2297

Subscriptions to JLA are priced as follows:

Annual Subscriptions:
Individual Print Subscription 1 year (2 issues) Price: $30.00
Institution Print Subscription 1 year (2 issues) Price: $75.00
Individual Print Subscription 2 year (4 issues) Price: $60.00
Institution Print Subscription 2 year (4 issues) Price: $150.00

Electronic Subscription:
1 year electronic access Price: $30.00
2 year electronic access Price: $60.09

The first issue of JLA is in press and will be published in the
Spring of 2008.

For subscription and other publication information, please consult
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_late_antiquity/

Studies in Iconography Out

The most recent volume of the journal, Studies in Iconography (Volume
28, 2007) has just been published and includes the following Articles:

>> Dorothy F. Glass: “‘Quo Vadis’: The Study of Italian
Romanesque Sculpture at the Beginning of the Third Millennium” Laura
E. Cochrane: “The Wine in the Vines and the Foliage in the Roots”
Richard K. Emmerson: “A “Large Order of the Whole”:
Intertextuality and Interpictoriality in the /Hours of Isabella
Stuart/”


>> Charles S. Buchanan: “An Illustrated Romanesque Hagiographic
Lectionary (Lucca: Biblioteca Capitolare, Passionario C):
Inspiration, Formulation, and Reception”


>> Karl Fugelso: “Defining the State in /Commedia/ Miniatures:
Pictorial Responses to Dante’s Condemnation of Florence”


>> Penny Howell Jolly: “Rogier van der Weyden’s “Pregnant”
Magdalene: On the Rhetoric of Dress in the /Descent From the Cross/”
>> Reviews - Vol 28 (2007):
>> Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern
>> By Karen Blough
>>
>> Ingrid Gardill, Sancta Benedicta: Missionarin, Märtyrerin,
Patronin; Der Prachtcodex aus dem Frauenkloster Sainte-Benoîte in
Origny
>> By Judith Oliver


>> David McKitterick, ed., The Trinity Apocalypse (Trinity College
Cambridge, MS R.16.2) /
>> By Brent A. Pitts


>>
>> Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment
in Medieval Culture
>> By Madeline H. Caviness


>> Anne-Orange Poilpré, Maiestas Domini: Une Image de l’église en
Occident (Ve-IXe siècle)
>> By William J. Diebold


>> Heather Pulliam, Word and Image in the Book of Kells
>> By Anne-Marie Bouche


>> Kathryn Starkey, Reading the Medieval Book: Word, Image, and
Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm
>> By Michael Curschmann


>> Marina Vidas, The Christina Psalter: A Study of the Images and
Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript
>> By Elizabeth S. Hudson

MA in Icelandic Studies

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Iceland would like to draw attention to the programme MA in Medieval Icelandic Studies.
The deadline for applications is March 1st. For further information see the web-site http://www.hug.hi.is/page/ma_icel


Ulfar Bragason, Research Professor, Head of Department
Arni Magnusson Institute for Icelandic Studies
International Department
Sigurdur Nordal Office
P.O. Box 1220
121 Reykjavik
www.arnastofnun.is
tel. (+354) 562 6050

Position

-Leave replacement position: visiting assistant professor of medieval literature at Fordham University's Rose Hill (Bronx) campus. One-year position, potentially renewable for a second year, to teach undergraduate electives and core courses, possibly graduate. Degree in hand absolutely required; strong teaching experience preferred. Please send ONLY letter and CV by February 15 to Medieval Literature Search, Department of English, Fordham University, Bronx, New York 10458-9993. Fordham is an independent, Catholic university in the Jesuit tradition and welcomes applications from men and women of all backgrounds. Fordham is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Workshp

Third Annual Workshop

DISEASE, DISABILITY AND MEDICINE IN EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
AD 400-1200

THE IMPACT OF DISEASE: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS

Rewley House, Oxford

5-6 July 2008


Call for Papers

The conference aims to be a forum for scholars working on the topic in a
variety of disciplines and regions of Northern Europe. We invite session
proposals and offers of individual papers that address the topic of the
conference from a range of different angles, such as archaeology,
palaeopathology, as well as linguistic and historical evidence. Papers
relevant to early medieval disease and disability in general will also
be considered. Abstracts (300 words maximum) should be submitted
electronically to S.E.E.Crawford@bham.ac.uk by 1 March 2008 at the
latest.


Organising Committee

Professor Robert Arnott
Dr Sally Crawford
(Centre for the History of Medicine
University of Birmingham Medical School)
Dr Christina Lee
(School of English Studies, University of Nottingham)

For further information about the conference please contact Professor
Robert Arnott at R.G.Arnott@bham.ac.uk

Bone Dreams Conference

Bone Dreams: Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
Faculty of English, University of Oxford, April 26th, 2008

This is an international one-day conference exploring relationships
between Anglo-Saxon culture and literature and their revisioning in
twentieth-century writing and visual culture.
For further information, including a draft schedule and registration
form, please access the following link:
http://www.medieval.ox.ac.uk/bonedreams.html All welcome.

David Clark (Leicester) dc147@le.ac.uk
Nicholas Perkins (St Hugh's College, Oxford)
nicholas.perkins@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk