*selgā: a catalogue of primary source materials for Celtic studies

*selgā (http://www.vanhamel.nl/wiki) is a new online project for Celtic studies, published by the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies, a Dutch non-profit organisation based in Utrecht. The project seeks to build a catalogue of texts and manuscripts, thereby providing a reference tool for studying written sources relevant to the field. The foundation intends to uncover a relatively untapped niche by making the catalogue available as a collaborative platform, which is based on the open-source MediaWiki software package. Scholars and students are invited to contribute to the project.
While comprehensiveness would be an unrealistic goal in the short term, *selgā has not been designed as a one-off, but as a continuous project which may be suited to accommodate smaller, more manageable ‘sub-projects’ under its umbrella. At present, over 500 texts – most of them in the realm of early Irish literature – have been indexed giving some basic information and citing relevant publications using an onboard bibliographic system. Links to online resources such as CELT and ISOS are generously included. New entries will be created and existing ones expanded and improved as the project develops.
Inquiries can be e-mailed to Dennis Groenewegen at selga[at]vanhamel.nl.

The Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, and King’s College London launched Early English Laws (http://www.earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk) at 6.00pm on Tuesday 27 March 2012. Conceived as a ten-year initiative to publish online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta, the project’s first phase is now complete. The work has been possible thanks to generous support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Early English Laws will be introduced by Michael Wood, and there will then be a brief demonstration of the website and database, followed by a reception in the Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London.
http://www.history.ac.uk/contact

Between Heaven and Earth: Law, Power, and the Social Order in Late Antiquity

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Between Heaven and Earth: Law, Power, and the Social Order in Late Antiquity,

13-16 September, 2012, Manchester, England

The format of the meeting will not be based exclusively on lectures. Rather, we envisage a mix of formats for generating discussion and exchanging expertise, including:

a)      PRIMARY SOURCE MASTER-CLASS  Contributors will pre-circulate key primary sources on a givien topic, and to lead or contribute to seminar-style discussion and/or evaluation of their significance

b)      HISTORIOGRAPHIC MASTER-CLASS Contributors will pre-circulate key secondary sources on a givien topic, and will lead a seminar-style assessment and/or re-evaluation of their significance. The sources can either be ‘landmark’ publications or publications whose importance has been overlooked or misunderstood.

c)      FIRST PERSON RETROSPECTIVE Contributors will offer a powerpoint talk or a seminar-style discussion of pre-circulated material, or a combination): In this case you would offer an informal overview of one or more of your own previous publications (similar to the American Academy of Religion ‘How My Mind Has Changed’ series or the Torino Petersen seminars).  Many scholars—and not only younger scholars!—will be intensely interested to hear ‘from the horse’s mouth’ what is really at stake in key publications.  This is especially true for publications that are not in one’s own native language—sometimes a clearer understanding of the landscape or context of a scholar’s work changes one’s understanding dramatically.

d)      OVERVIEW RETROPSPECTIVE involving a retrospective on a wider historiographical area

e)      ROUNDATABLE We welcome suggestions for plenary roundtables on key topics, along with suggestions of individuals who might contribute a five-minute ex verbal introduction of a pre-circulated handout.

f)       LECTURE (in order to make the most of the opportunity to exchange a deadline of 1 September is set for submission of lecture handouts.  This will allow them to be pre-circulated to other conference participants at the same time as the ask to please plan to pre-circulate your hand

Proposals should include a title, indication of source material to be discussed, and a short paragraph describing the argument (in the case of lectures) or theme (in the case of other formats) Please feel free to indicate an interest in more than one format for the material and  to get in touch with questions or suggestions! These should be addressed to Kate Cooper (kate.cooper@manchester.ac.uk) in the first instance.

Please find below a link to a website containing audio podcasts of the
conference 'Pagan and Christian', which some of you attended last
September. To access the podcasts click on the 'Conference Material'
tab. Please help spread the word, especially among students!

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/rf294/

Patronage in the Medieval Arts

Patronage in the Medieval Arts

A symposium, Friday and Saturday October 5^th and 6^th 2012

Princeton University

Organized by The Index of Christian Art

Speakers will include:

Adelaide Bennett, Princeton University

Sheila Bonde, Brown University

Jill Caskey, University of Toronto

Robin Cormack, University of Cambridge

Anne Derbes, Hood College

Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York University

Aden Kumler, University of Chicago

Claudine Lautier, Centre André Chastel

Julian Luxford, University of Saint Andrews

Clark Maines, Wesleyan University

Nigel Morgan, University of Cambridge

Elizabeth Pastan, Emory College

Steve Perkinson, Bowdoin College

Morgan Powell,  Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts

James Robinson, British Museum

Corine Schleif, Arizona State University

Benjamin Zweig, Boston University-

Tironian Notes Resource

I would like to draw your attention to Martin Hellmann's outstanding
web-based resource for the verification and deciphering of Early Medieval
Shorthand, a.k.a. Tironian Notes.  His "supertextus notarum tironianarum" is
a magnificent achievement, and one constantly being enriched to our enormous
benefit.  Please find it, as below, via
 
http://www.martinellus.de
 Martin Hellmann's deep understanding and years' of thoughtful and creative
toil on this wonderful instrument have made an enormous difference to my own
meager but needful progress with Notae.  A favorite turn of Lupus of
Ferrières, which Heiric of Auxerre constantly rewrites in the margins of
Lupus's letters in Notae, is "gratias habeo et ago."  My sentiment exactly,
and I expect that Heiric would approvingly rewrite and endorse that
sentiment in this case, too, as specifically and very sincerely directed to
Martin Hellmann.

This is a call for papers for the Thirty-First International Conference
of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, held at Boston College
(Massachusetts, USA), between 2–5 November, 2012. The conference, held
over three days, is comprised of twenty-five twenty-minutepapers (we
have no concurrent sessions, so all conference attendees can attend
allpapers) and three longer talks by featured speakers.  This year’s
keynote speakers will be historians Elisabeth van Houts (Emmanuel
College, Cambridge)and Marcus Bull (UNC, Chapel Hill), and
Osteoarchaeologist Angela Boyle (who will speak to us about her analysis
of the human remains uncovered in the recently discovered Weymouth mass
burial).

The Society welcomes paper proposals in the fields and periods of
medieval studies to which Charles Homer Haskins, himself, contributed.
   Although the conference is primarily a European history conference
concerned with the years between the fall of Rome and the early
thirteenth century, we encourage the submisstion of historically-minded
literature, art history and archaeology papers.

We welcome proposals both for complete sessions (of three themedpapers)
and for individualpapers.  Please send one-paragraph abstracts and c.v.s
to the Program Directors, Robin Fleming and Sally Shockro, at
haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com
<mailto:haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com>. Proposals will be accepted
between May 1 and June 1, 2012.  We will finalize the 2011 program by
August 1.

By 1 August we will also have the 2012 Haskins Society Conference
website up, which will allow you to register forthe conference on-line
and to make hotel reservations.


If you are unfamiliar with the Haskins Society Conference and would like
to get a sense of the conference, itspapers and its activities, please
take a look at the websitefor last year’s conference, which can be found at:
http://haskinsatbostoncollege.blogspot.com/2011/08/about-society.html

If you work in the field and are a friend or member of the Haskins
Society, please let us know if you have published a book in the last
twelve months, and we will add it to our website’s ever-growing list of
recent books found at:
http://haskinsatbostoncollege.blogspot.com/2010/07/book-news.html


If you would like to become a member of the Haskins Society (which comes
with discounted subscriptions to the /Haskins Society Journal/ and
/Anglo-Norman Studies/) or pay this year’s dues, please e-mail Mary
Francis Giandrea at giandrea@comcast.net <mailto:giandrea@comcast.net>.

For descriptions of the contents of the society’s journal, the /Haskins
Society Journal/, please see:
http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/listcategoriesandproducts.asp?idcategory=107. 

   And if you would like to submit an article to our journal, please
e-mail the editor, William L. North, atwnorth@carleton.edu
<mailto:wnorth@carleton.edu>.

Finally, if you have more general questions about the conference or
would like to be added or dropped from our conference e-mail list,
please contact us at: haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com
<mailto:haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com>.