Patristics Carnival

Patristics Carnival is up!

Anglo-Saxonists!

Reminder for Anglo-Saxonists and Related Scholars:

Abstracts for International Society of Anglo-Saxonists meeting for 2009 are due TOMORROW, Oct. 15, 2008.

http://www.arts.mun.ca/isas/index.php

nglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database (ASKED)

The launch the Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database (ASKED), a new database of burial records from the early Kentish kingdom.

The seminar will be of interest to students, amateur groups, field units and research professionals engaged in the study of early Medieval burial. please pass this on to anyone you feel may be interested.

Wednesday November 5, 2008 from 5.30 to 7pm

Room 612
UCL Institute of Archaeology
31-34 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PY

Third Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS—please post and distribute

Third Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium

February 19-20, 2009

University of South Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, FL

Keynote Address sponsored by USF Humanities Institute:* Michael Sells, **John
Henry Barrows Professor, University of Chicago: "Mysticism, Longing and the
Erotic in the Writings of 13th-century Sufi Master Ibn al-Arabi"***

The Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of South
Florida seeks papers from graduate students and recent M.A. or Ph.D.
recipients for its Third Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium. This
year's theme is "*Comparative Mysticism of the Middle Ages: Textual
Traditions, 600-1600." * We encourage topics on mystical expressions in the
medieval world comparing religions, cultures and/or gender.

Subjects for proposals may include, but are not limited to:

· Poetry and lyric

· Cross-cultural and religious influences

· Manuscript illumination

· Spain, Iberia and beyond

· Mystical forms of dissent and their repression

· The role of mystic in society



Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr. Jane Marie
Pinzino, Symposium Coordinator at jpinzino@lib.usf.edu by November 14, 2008.
Notification of acceptances will be emailed by November 28, 2008. Please
include the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email address. Each
paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation.



For more information, please visit:
http://www.lib.usf.edu/public/index.cfm?Pg=AnnualSacredLeavesGraduateSymposium

ARTS OF THE EAST-BYZANTINE STUDIES IN PRINCETON--A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE Thursday, October 16th 2008, Frist Campus Center, Multipurpose Room(B04 B-C),

ARTS OF THE EAST-BYZANTINE STUDIES IN PRINCETON--A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE

Thursday, October 16th 2008, Frist Campus Center, Multipurpose
Room(B04 B-C), Princeton University, 9.00-5.30

Speakers will include: Slobodan Curcic, Princeton University, Nancy
Sevcenko, Independent Scholar, Anthony Cutler, Penn State University,
Sofia Kotzabassi, University of Thessaloniki, Catherine Jolivet-Lévy,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne), Eunice and Henry
Maguire, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Ousterhout, University of
Pennsylvania, Helen C. Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gary Vikan,
The Walters Museum, Don C. Skemer, Princeton University, Linda
Safran, University of Toronto.

Full program is on the Index of Christian Art website

(http://ica.princeton.edu)

To be followed by a reception in the exhibition “The Greek Book from
Papyrus to Printing”, Main Gallery, Harvey Firestone Memorial
Library, Princeton University. Curated by Don C. Skemer, Curator of
Manuscripts.

Gemstones in Late Antquity

BRITISH MUSEUM BYZANTINE SEMINAR
RECENT RESEARCH ON ENGRAVED GEMSTONES IN LATE ANTIQUITY, AD 200-600

A three-day conference on Thursday 28th May, Friday 29th May and Saturday
30th May 2009 to be held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, the Great
Court, British Museum, London.

Roger Pearse strikes again

For those who may find it useful, I've scanned and placed online
Weiskotten's English translation (1919) of Possidius' Life of St.
Augustine. It's here:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/possidius_life_of_augustine_02_text.ht
m

Possidius was a friend of Augustine's, and his biography remains the
principal source for the life of the saint.

Other English translations of the Fathers can be found in the
collection:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers

I also do a CDROM of the collection; if people would like to support
the site, you can purchase it from here:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/all_the_fathers_on_cd.htm

At the moment sales of these are being spent on commissioning
translations of three untranslated texts; the "Gospel problems and
solutions" of Eusebius of Caesarea; the "Apologeticus ad imperatorem"
of Cyril of Alexandria; and the "Commentary on the Nicene Creed" of the
Arabic writer Al-Majdalus.