Digital Humanities Course

t is a pleasure for us to announce at the Open University announced that the registration period is extended until March 13, for the two courses offered by the Digital Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD): the “Experto professional en Humanidades Digitales”http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-profesional-en-humanidades-digitales/ in its second edition (specialization course in Digital Humanities), and the “Experto Profesional en Edición Digital Académica” http://linhd.uned.es/p/titulo-propio-experto-en-edicion-digital-academica/ (specialization course in Digital Scholarly Editing).

Registration is open till 1^st December and admissions are limited. The courses will start in January 2015 and will end in September. Each of them consists of 30 units, and will be taught completely online and in Spanish.

We hope that this initiative will let users a deeper knowledge of digital humanities and digital scholarly editing. Please, feel free to circulate this message among all people that could be interested in following any of these programs.

Best regards,

Elena González-Blanco García

Director of the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED (LINHD)

http://linhd.uned.es

Rosa Sebastià
LINHD
http://linhd.uned.es/

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News of the Week

A Viking Exhibition at Manx on the Vikings:


Mead and Mince Pies included in the price of admission!!


The Glastonbury Thing--wait, they made it up for money? Huh.


The Saving of a Painting:



A Ring in Derbyshire, 1200-1400, found.


And from Asia:

9th Century poem may be "missing link" between kanji and hiragana forms




Google Cultural Institute putting British Museum artifacts online


News in the Parchment World....


English Clergy finding it difficult to maintain medieval churches in rural parishes


Anglo-Saxon MSS Going online at the BL!!


St Helen's Church Reconstructed


A Piece on Christopher Buckley and a Medieval Relic List


A Blog Piece on the Maleus Maleficarum


A Piece on the Viking Diet.

Law | Book | Culture in the Early and High Middle Ages

Call for Submissions

for an edited collection

Law | Book | Culture in the Early and High Middle Ages

Edited by Thomas Gobbitt, PhD,

Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Vienna, Austria

Article submissions are invited for an edited collection focusing on the cultural contexts of medieval manuscripts containing laws and related texts. The moments when laws and related texts were first written have often been prioritised over the subsequent dissemination, emendation, transmission and reception of their later copies. However, rather than relegating later textual witnesses as passive and often flawed copies, modern scholarship has turned to seeing each manuscript witness of a text within the contexts of its production, and as an active, equally authoritative expression of the agency of the scribes and readers in the community for which the book was produced.

We are particularly interested in contributions addressing scribal strategies and the production and use of legal documents and books of medieval law. Contributors may focus on a wide range of medieval legal texts, such as ‘barbarian’ and royal law-codes, capitularies, Canon, Roman, Civil or Common Law, treaties, formularies, charters and cartularies, as well as related works of medieval legal scholarship such as commentaries and sample pleas.

We are especially interested in interdisciplinary and transcultural medieval studies, as well as those that incorporate the disciplines of history of the law, history of the book, codicology, palaeography, diplomatics, literature, linguistics, law, legal history, history, sociology, archaeology, folklore, theology, art history, and material culture. 

Abstracts of 250-500 words for proposed articles of 7,000 to 10,000 words, including references, should be sent to thomas.gobbitt@assoc.oeaw.ac.at for consideration by 31 Dec. 2015. This volume is under consideration for the series Explorations in Medieval Culture (Brill).

The Technical Details of Everyday Life

2016 Medieval Graduate Symposium

“The Technical Details of Everyday Life” 

Keynote: Nicola Coldstream- “Behind the Scenes at the Medieval Entertainment”

Call For Papers: Topics from any discipline, any time-Late Antique to Early Renaissance 

Preference given to those that address the conference theme 

300 word abstracts are due December 1, 2016, submitted via email to Mickey.Abel@unt.edu.

Conference Dates: March 3rd and 4th, 2016 

Available Awards: $200 AVISTA Prize 

Location: University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Sponsored by AVISTA

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Tamara Bentley Caudill

Department of French and Italian
Tulane University
311 Newcomb Hall | 1229 Broadway
New Orleans, LA 70118

tcaudill@tulane.edu

Call for Papers: Death, Art and Anatomy Conference

Call for Papers: Death, Art and Anatomy Conference

by Christina Welch

 

 

Dear List Subscribers, 

 

3-6 June 2016, University of Winchester

http://carvedcadavers.wix.com/daaconference

 

The intersection between death, art and anatomy is a largely marginalised area of study, but one this conference hopes to explore.

 

A major strand of the conference will be addressing a core problem in medical history, that is the growing awareness of human anatomy in Britain between the medieval and early modern periods (c.1350-1560). This will be explored through the study and analysis of extant late-medieval carved cadaver sculptures which largely pre-date Vesalian knowledge of anatomy and suggest sculptors may have had an opportunity to study and recreate, emaciated (and eviscerated) human corpses.  This raises the question of what religious and ethical considerations surrounded the creation of such pieces, and how their creators may have gained access to the emaciated dead and/or dying. As such, central to the conference will be the presentation of a newly-commissioned carved cadaver sculpture inspired by historical counterparts, with reflections by the artist, world-leading anatomical sculptor, Eleanor Crook.  

 

Allied subjects such as medieval hospitals, visual culture and death, the inspiration of the dead in medical art, physicality and poetry, and death and medieval theology will also be explored by invited speaker.

 

Papers are invited that broadly address the theme of death, art and anatomy in the following areas:

• Death and art
• Anatomy and death
• Anatomy and art
• History of anatomy
• History of death
• Religion and anatomy
• Religion and death
• Medieval and early modern death beliefs and practices

 

Presentations should be in English, and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of 200-250 words in Word. Proposals must include name, institutional affiliation (if relevant), a short bio (no more than 100 words) and an e-mail address. Proposals for panel discussions (organised by the participants) will be considered.

 

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 11th December 2015

 

For enquires please contact Christina.Welch@winchester.ac.uk

 

It is proposed that a selection of papers will be published.