Forwarded by Celia Chazelle at EMF
Forwarded from BSC -
BSC FWD from Glenn Peers, UT Austin
Information below is also attached
The Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology
SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION
The Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology and the Pontifical
Commission of Sacred Archaeology offer an annual award of 5.200,00 euros
(4.000,00 for residents of the Roman province) for qualified applicants,
no older than 35 years of age. The scholarship may be renewed for two
subsequent years of study at the Institute, thereby allowing the student
to attend the continuing second and third years of specialization, during
which time the end-of-year examinations are regularly passed. Proficiency
in the Italian language is required, as well as a graduate degree or
equivalent diploma (Maitrises Lettres, Histoire, Histoire de l'Art et
Archéologie, Master of the Arts, etc.), as well as any title that can
attest to the specific aptitudes of the candidate. An "undergraduate" or
"abbreviated" degree is insufficient; furthermore, the applicant’s degree
must have been received at least four years after graduation from his or
her secondary school.
All applicants are required to submit (before April 15 of the year prior
to instruction at the Institute) the following to the Rector of the
Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology with an attached cover
letter:
a) Document such as birth certificate including the following information:
place and date of birth, residence, nationality.
b) Transcript including grades received in each course, as well as all
examination scores.
c) Copy of the degree thesis and other original works (edited or not).
d) Transcript indicating all the languages which the candidate knows or
has studied (proficiency in Italian is required; Latin and Greek are also
indispensable for reading literary and epigraphic sources).
e) Letters of recommendation from at least one university professor, under
whom the candidate has worked or works, or has completed some study
activity or research.
f) Any documentation indicating the candidate's activity in the field of
Christian archaeology (i.e. scholarships, excavations, congresses...).
g) Six passport size photos.
Applications that do not contain all required documents or that arrive
later than April 15 will not be considered.
Photocopies of degrees, although not validated, are acceptable.
Documentation will be returned to all candidates after review.
The council of professors at the Pontifical Institute of Christian
Archaeology will review all applications and notify the winner. Within 15
days of notification, the winner must accept the established norms: that
he or she will not seek any other form of fixed remuneration during the
duration of the scholarship. Furthermore, the student is expected to
complete all requirements according to the program at the Institute.
Assistance at all lectures is obligatory for all subjects. In addition to
assisting regularly at all lectures within the course of specialization,
the winner is expected to actively participate in the life at the
Institute: library, photo archives, publications, guided visits, special
courses, cataloguing, etc. and in the institutional activities of the
Commission.
The payment of the scholarship will take place each month, from November
to June, in the amount of 650,00 euros (500,00 euros for residents of the
Roman province).
Secretary Rector
Pontifical Commission Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology
of Sacred Archaeology (President of Commission)
Prof. Fabrizio Bisconti Prof. Danilo Mazzoleni
BORSA MONS. PATRICK SAINT-ROCH
A second scholarship, generously funded in honor of Msgr. Patrick
Saint-Roch’s legacy at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology,
is also available.
This second scholarship is for the same amount and bears the same
conditions as that previously listed. However, the Borsa Mons. Patrick
Saint-Roch is reserved only for non-Italian students.Non-Italian students
may submit an application for both scholarships.
President of the Comission
Prof. Philippe Pergola
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
New Books of Interest
1. John D. Niles, Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Texts
SEM 13 (October 2006)
XVI+332 p., 8 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2006, Hardback
ISBN 978-2-503-51530-4, EUR 60.00
This book consists of a close study of a number of verse texts chiefly drawn from the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. All of these texts are enigmatic. Some are outright riddles, while others (such as the elegies) are riddle-like in their manner of simultaneously giving and withholding information. The author approaches these poems as microcosms of the art of Old English poetry in general, which (particularly in its more lyrical forms) relies on its audience's ability to decipher metaphorical language and to fill out details that remain unexpressed. The chief claim advanced is that Old English poetry is a good deal more playful than is often acknowledged, so that the art of interpreting it can require a kind of 'game strategy' whereby riddling authors match their wits against adventurous readers. Innovative readings of a number of poems are offered, while the whole collection of Exeter Book riddles is given a set of answers posed in the language of the riddler. The literary use of runes in The Rune Poem, The Husband’s Message, and Cynewulf’s runic signatures comes under close scrutiny, and the thesis is advanced that Anglo-Saxon runes (particularly those that lacked stable conventional names) were sometimes used as initialisms. The book combines the methods of rigorous philology and imaginative literary analysis.
2. John D. Niles, Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts
SEM 20 (March 2007)
XIV+374 p., 4 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2007, Hardback
ISBN 978-2-503-52080-3, EUR 80.00
Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts develops the theme that all stories- all 'beautiful lies', if one considers them as such- have a potentially myth-like function as they enter and re-enter the stream of human consciousness. In particular, the volume assesses the place of heroic poetry (including Beowulf, Widsith, and The Battle of Maldon) in the evolving society of Anglo-Saxon England during the tenth-century period of nation-building. Poetry, Niles argues, was a great collective medium through which the Anglo-Saxons conceived of their changing social world and made mental adjustments to it. Old English 'heroic geography' is examined as an aspect of the mentality of that era. So too is the idea of the oral poet (or bard) as a means by which the people of this time continued to conceive of themselves, in defiance of reality, as members of a tribe-like community knit by close personal bonds. The volume is rounded off by the identification of Bede's story of the poet Cædmon as the earliest known example of a modern folktale type, and by a spirited defense of Seamus Heaney's recent verse translation of Beowulf.
SEM 13 (October 2006)
XVI+332 p., 8 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2006, Hardback
ISBN 978-2-503-51530-4, EUR 60.00
This book consists of a close study of a number of verse texts chiefly drawn from the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. All of these texts are enigmatic. Some are outright riddles, while others (such as the elegies) are riddle-like in their manner of simultaneously giving and withholding information. The author approaches these poems as microcosms of the art of Old English poetry in general, which (particularly in its more lyrical forms) relies on its audience's ability to decipher metaphorical language and to fill out details that remain unexpressed. The chief claim advanced is that Old English poetry is a good deal more playful than is often acknowledged, so that the art of interpreting it can require a kind of 'game strategy' whereby riddling authors match their wits against adventurous readers. Innovative readings of a number of poems are offered, while the whole collection of Exeter Book riddles is given a set of answers posed in the language of the riddler. The literary use of runes in The Rune Poem, The Husband’s Message, and Cynewulf’s runic signatures comes under close scrutiny, and the thesis is advanced that Anglo-Saxon runes (particularly those that lacked stable conventional names) were sometimes used as initialisms. The book combines the methods of rigorous philology and imaginative literary analysis.
2. John D. Niles, Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts
SEM 20 (March 2007)
XIV+374 p., 4 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm, 2007, Hardback
ISBN 978-2-503-52080-3, EUR 80.00
Old English Heroic Poems and the Social Life of Texts develops the theme that all stories- all 'beautiful lies', if one considers them as such- have a potentially myth-like function as they enter and re-enter the stream of human consciousness. In particular, the volume assesses the place of heroic poetry (including Beowulf, Widsith, and The Battle of Maldon) in the evolving society of Anglo-Saxon England during the tenth-century period of nation-building. Poetry, Niles argues, was a great collective medium through which the Anglo-Saxons conceived of their changing social world and made mental adjustments to it. Old English 'heroic geography' is examined as an aspect of the mentality of that era. So too is the idea of the oral poet (or bard) as a means by which the people of this time continued to conceive of themselves, in defiance of reality, as members of a tribe-like community knit by close personal bonds. The volume is rounded off by the identification of Bede's story of the poet Cædmon as the earliest known example of a modern folktale type, and by a spirited defense of Seamus Heaney's recent verse translation of Beowulf.
Porphyry
More from Roger Pearse
I have scanned an English translation of various works by Porphyry,
including the De Abstinentia, Sententiae, Letter to Anebo, Isagoge,
etc. All that is missing is the Letter to Marcella.
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers#Porphyry
The collection as a whole is at:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers
There is also a CDROM of the site available:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/all_the_fathers_on_cd.htm
All the best,
Roger Pearse
I have scanned an English translation of various works by Porphyry,
including the De Abstinentia, Sententiae, Letter to Anebo, Isagoge,
etc. All that is missing is the Letter to Marcella.
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers#Porphyry
The collection as a whole is at:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers
There is also a CDROM of the site available:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/all_the_fathers_on_cd.htm
All the best,
Roger Pearse
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Burhs
An Interesting Conference Coming Up
Burhs and the origins of early English towns
Birkbeck College are running the following Saturday day school: ³Burhs and
the origins of early English towns¹ on Saturday 31st March 2007.
FFAR107NACS
Saturday 31 March 2007
10.00am -5.00pm
Venue Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London
Fee £35 (£15 concessions)
Chaired and Organised by Dr Stuart Brookes
The Viking period of the late ninth and tenth century saw the foundation
throughout England of many fortified towns, or burhs, which brought
together for the first time defence, markets, churches, and local
government at a central place. Many of these settlements developed into the
important towns of medieval England, and beyond. But some did not. This day
school will look at the origins and development of some of our earliest
towns, and consider the ways in which individual sites became the
political, social, and economic focus for a rural society, as well as chart
the success and failure of some early boroughs.
Provisional Programme:
10.00-10.30
Dr Stuart Brookes: Introduction to Burhs and the origins of early English
towns.
10.30-11.30
Dr Andrew Reynolds: Avebury and the archaeology of communications
11.30-11.45
Tea Break
11.45-12.45
Dr John Baker: Anglo-Saxon burhs and territorial defence: the place-name
evidence
12.45-2.00
Lunch
2.00-3.00
Dr Oliver Creighton & Deirdre O¹Sullivan: Burh to Borough: The Wallingford
Research Project
3.00-3.15
Tea Break
3.15-4.15
Gustav Milne: Lundene Burh to London Town
4.15-4.45
Dr Stuart Brookes: Summary of Day
For further details about the day school please contact the Archaeology
desk on 0207 631 6627 or email archaeology@fce.bbk.ac.uk. You can also
enrol by calling Central Enrolments on 0207 631 6651.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/all_courses/archaeology.html
D.Calliste
Programme Manager
Archaeology
Burhs and the origins of early English towns
Birkbeck College are running the following Saturday day school: ³Burhs and
the origins of early English towns¹ on Saturday 31st March 2007.
FFAR107NACS
Saturday 31 March 2007
10.00am -5.00pm
Venue Malet Street, Birkbeck College, London
Fee £35 (£15 concessions)
Chaired and Organised by Dr Stuart Brookes
The Viking period of the late ninth and tenth century saw the foundation
throughout England of many fortified towns, or burhs, which brought
together for the first time defence, markets, churches, and local
government at a central place. Many of these settlements developed into the
important towns of medieval England, and beyond. But some did not. This day
school will look at the origins and development of some of our earliest
towns, and consider the ways in which individual sites became the
political, social, and economic focus for a rural society, as well as chart
the success and failure of some early boroughs.
Provisional Programme:
10.00-10.30
Dr Stuart Brookes: Introduction to Burhs and the origins of early English
towns.
10.30-11.30
Dr Andrew Reynolds: Avebury and the archaeology of communications
11.30-11.45
Tea Break
11.45-12.45
Dr John Baker: Anglo-Saxon burhs and territorial defence: the place-name
evidence
12.45-2.00
Lunch
2.00-3.00
Dr Oliver Creighton & Deirdre O¹Sullivan: Burh to Borough: The Wallingford
Research Project
3.00-3.15
Tea Break
3.15-4.15
Gustav Milne: Lundene Burh to London Town
4.15-4.45
Dr Stuart Brookes: Summary of Day
For further details about the day school please contact the Archaeology
desk on 0207 631 6627 or email archaeology@fce.bbk.ac.uk. You can also
enrol by calling Central Enrolments on 0207 631 6651.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/all_courses/archaeology.html
D.Calliste
Programme Manager
Archaeology
An Interesting Piece on Merovingian Artefacts
From Diane Brisco via Ansax and Celia Chazelle via EMF:
> A BBC report - with great pictures - of a new exhibition of Merovingian
> artefacts seized by Soviet forces in Germany at the close of WW II:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6445989.stm
> A BBC report - with great pictures - of a new exhibition of Merovingian
> artefacts seized by Soviet forces in Germany at the close of WW II:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6445989.stm
Upcoming Lecture at Bryn Mawr
The Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies
at Bryn Mawr College
presents
Guy Strousma
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"The Scriptural Movement of Late Antiquity: A
Reappraisal"
Friday, 23 March
4:30 p.m.
Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library
Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lecture in
the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library.
For more information, please call: 610-526-5198; or
e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu
at Bryn Mawr College
presents
Guy Strousma
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"The Scriptural Movement of Late Antiquity: A
Reappraisal"
Friday, 23 March
4:30 p.m.
Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library
Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lecture in
the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library.
For more information, please call: 610-526-5198; or
e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu
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