Czech expert: Only 30% of collapsed Cologne archives to be saved
Turning an ancient page in history
Minister Unveils Plans To Preserve And Manage Walled Town
A major project, to identify castles and tower-houses which could be
suitable for future restoration and development
Local Skills and Materials Revitalise Lindisfarne Priory
Charles Bridge builders used modern methods
Expert restoration work for historic stained glass
ARMENIANS RENOVATE UNKNOWN JEWISH CEMETERY
Mayor backs bid to put Bede on world map
A road paved with sarcophagi found in Novgorod
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Seventeenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
*****CALL FOR PAPERS******
The seventeenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place March 11-13 2010 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome.
The conference will be held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. The college, located on Sarasota Bay, is adjacent to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which will offer tours arranged for conference participants. Sarasota is noted for its beautiful public beaches, theater, art and music. The average temperatures in March are a pleasant high of 77F (25C) and a low of 57F (14C).
More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions: http://faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies
The deadline for abstracts is October 1, 2009. Send inquiries and abstracts (email preferred, no attachments please) to:
nmyhill@ncf.edu
Nova Myhill
Division of Humanities
New College of Florida
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota FL 34243
The seventeenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place March 11-13 2010 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference’s broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome.
The conference will be held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. The college, located on Sarasota Bay, is adjacent to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which will offer tours arranged for conference participants. Sarasota is noted for its beautiful public beaches, theater, art and music. The average temperatures in March are a pleasant high of 77F (25C) and a low of 57F (14C).
More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions: http://faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies
The deadline for abstracts is October 1, 2009. Send inquiries and abstracts (email preferred, no attachments please) to:
nmyhill@ncf.edu
Nova Myhill
Division of Humanities
New College of Florida
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota FL 34243
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
HA CFP
Call for Papers
The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe invites submissions for our upcoming issues. In each issue, we plan to publish papers on any topic that falls approximately in the era between 300 and 1200 CE and within the general geographical region of Northwestern Europe and periods, and areas. Each issue contains:
*a general section of papers and notes that covers any topic in our range of dates and geography;
*a themed section of papers on an announced topic;
*a Forum section of review essays, special topics, and the like;
*a number of columns dealing with aspects of Early Medieval scholarship and research
Thus, The Heroic Age publishes the following types of materials:
*Feature Articles;
*Notes;
*Review Essays;
*Editions and Translations;
*History by Biography;*Book Reviews;
*Film and Television Reviews.
The following special sections are planned for future issues:
Issue 15: Ten Year Anniversary Issue: The World of Late Antique Britain.
For our ten-year anniversary, The Heroic Age is planning to revisit the topic of its first issue, the Matter of Arthur. Issue 15 will have three sections. The first will be historical, examining the world of Late Antique Britain, 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 "understudied" early medieval authors. Deadline for submissions is November 2009.
Issue 16: Alcuin and His Impact
Alcuin spans the Anglo-Saxon and Continental worlds and his influence is felt far beyond his own period and place. This issue seeks to explore the man, his times, and his influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations.The Heroic Age
Issue 17: Carolingian Border-Lands.
This issue seeks to explore the lands and peoples surrounding the Carolingian kingdom(s) and their impact on the Carolingians.
Future planned issues include themed sections on Old French/Provencal/Occitan studies, Charlemagne, Rise of the Normans, and Study of the Bible in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe.
Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submission should be sent to Larry Swain at haediting@yahoo.com
The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe invites submissions for our upcoming issues. In each issue, we plan to publish papers on any topic that falls approximately in the era between 300 and 1200 CE and within the general geographical region of Northwestern Europe and periods, and areas. Each issue contains:
*a general section of papers and notes that covers any topic in our range of dates and geography;
*a themed section of papers on an announced topic;
*a Forum section of review essays, special topics, and the like;
*a number of columns dealing with aspects of Early Medieval scholarship and research
Thus, The Heroic Age publishes the following types of materials:
*Feature Articles;
*Notes;
*Review Essays;
*Editions and Translations;
*History by Biography;*Book Reviews;
*Film and Television Reviews.
The following special sections are planned for future issues:
Issue 15: Ten Year Anniversary Issue: The World of Late Antique Britain.
For our ten-year anniversary, The Heroic Age is planning to revisit the topic of its first issue, the Matter of Arthur. Issue 15 will have three sections. The first will be historical, examining the world of Late Antique Britain, 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 "understudied" early medieval authors. Deadline for submissions is November 2009.
Issue 16: Alcuin and His Impact
Alcuin spans the Anglo-Saxon and Continental worlds and his influence is felt far beyond his own period and place. This issue seeks to explore the man, his times, and his influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent generations.The Heroic Age
Issue 17: Carolingian Border-Lands.
This issue seeks to explore the lands and peoples surrounding the Carolingian kingdom(s) and their impact on the Carolingians.
Future planned issues include themed sections on Old French/Provencal/Occitan studies, Charlemagne, Rise of the Normans, and Study of the Bible in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe.
Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and conform to The Heroic Age's in-house style. Instructions may be found under Submission Instructions. All submissions will be reviewed by two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submission should be sent to Larry Swain at haediting@yahoo.com
Medieval News
Pope creates 5 saints including Portuguese warrior (and another medieval
saint)
Archaeologists to hunt for traces of medieval monastery
site is home of book of deer
Intact runestone found in church car park
Ancient medieval buildings found beneath Cathedral Square
Alan Vince, Archaeologist who transformed the study of Anglo-Saxon and
medieval ceramics Obit
4,300 medieval coins unearthed at Carevi Kuli
Hunt for long lost Monastery of Deer makes some discoveries
Archaeologists keen to trace origins of Roman skeleton
Destruction and Decay of Byzantine Buildings
Christian relics found in northern Iraq, more on a story from last week
Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome
Ancient boat remains found
Medieval fort opens its gates to the public
From the Americas, Airport dig yields new anthropological discovery
saint)
Archaeologists to hunt for traces of medieval monastery
site is home of book of deer
Intact runestone found in church car park
Ancient medieval buildings found beneath Cathedral Square
Alan Vince, Archaeologist who transformed the study of Anglo-Saxon and
medieval ceramics Obit
4,300 medieval coins unearthed at Carevi Kuli
Hunt for long lost Monastery of Deer makes some discoveries
Archaeologists keen to trace origins of Roman skeleton
Destruction and Decay of Byzantine Buildings
Christian relics found in northern Iraq, more on a story from last week
Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome
Ancient boat remains found
Medieval fort opens its gates to the public
From the Americas, Airport dig yields new anthropological discovery
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Postcolonizing the Medieval Image
Postcolonizing the Medieval Image
Postgraduate Study Day
Thursday 17 September 2009 10.00-17.00
School of Fine Art, University of Leeds
Keynote Lecturer: Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, co-editor of Postcolonial
Approaches to the European Middle Ages
Short papers and presentations are invited from MA and Ph.D. students
working on projects that link the postcolonial with medieval images. The
study day will be open to art historians, historians, literary scholars
and anyone else interested in the visual.
The keynote lecture will be followed by workshops for MA and PhD students
on topics such as periodization and temporality, geographies, borders and
border crossing, translation subversion and appropriation, especially as
they apply to visual culture.
Participation will not be limited to medievalists.
A limited number of student bursaries for both UK and international
students will be available.
For further information please contact Dr. Eva Frojmovic
(e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk) or Professor Catherine Karkov
(c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk), School of Fine Art, University of Leeds.
The “Postcolonizing the Medieval Image” research network is supported by
the AHRC. More information about the network is available at:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/Pages/ResearchDetail.aspx?id=144078
Postgraduate Study Day
Thursday 17 September 2009 10.00-17.00
School of Fine Art, University of Leeds
Keynote Lecturer: Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, co-editor of Postcolonial
Approaches to the European Middle Ages
Short papers and presentations are invited from MA and Ph.D. students
working on projects that link the postcolonial with medieval images. The
study day will be open to art historians, historians, literary scholars
and anyone else interested in the visual.
The keynote lecture will be followed by workshops for MA and PhD students
on topics such as periodization and temporality, geographies, borders and
border crossing, translation subversion and appropriation, especially as
they apply to visual culture.
Participation will not be limited to medievalists.
A limited number of student bursaries for both UK and international
students will be available.
For further information please contact Dr. Eva Frojmovic
(e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk) or Professor Catherine Karkov
(c.e.karkov@leeds.ac.uk), School of Fine Art, University of Leeds.
The “Postcolonizing the Medieval Image” research network is supported by
the AHRC. More information about the network is available at:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundedResearch/Pages/ResearchDetail.aspx?id=144078
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