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Job in Medieval European history

The History Department of Emory University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Medieval European history, 400–1400. All areas and fields of specialization will be considered. Ph.D. required; teaching experience and publications desirable. Letter of application, c.v., and three confidential letters of recommendation should be sent to: Professor Sharon Strocchia, Chair, Medieval Search Committee, Dept. of History, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA 30322. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at AHA. Review of applications will begin on 1 December and continue until the position is filled. Emory University is an AA/EOE employer.

Medieval Technology and American History

Below is a link to a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded website, "Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History," which is part of the NEH "We the People Project" in American history. This website was developed by the Center for Medieval Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, in collaboration with the colleges of Liberal Arts, Agriculture, Engineering and Education at Penn State. It is an interdisciplinary website dealing with the technologies of milling and iron making as the colonists adapted medieval technology to conditions in the new world. Edsitement has recently selected the website as one of the best on-line resources for education in the humanities after meeting the criteria for intellectual quality, content, design, and classroom impact.

The site contains materials primarily appropriate for grades 6–12 with a strong emphasis on social studies, as well as science, literature, the arts and mathematics. The site also features a wealth of textual and visual materials, including a film on a Viking Age iron smelt, projects such as building a functioning clay bread oven in two sizes and a wealth of pictures from English and Colonial American Historical sites, as well as original documents. Textual materials include short essays called "one minutes essays" and in-depth articles to give the teacher more background. All material is marked with icons indicating subject matter, as well as presence of original documents and lesson plans.

http://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/

Questions may be directed to Vickie Ziegler, Dir., Center for Medieval Studies, Pennsylvania State University (vlz1@psu.edu).

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory.

Glossator is an peer-reviewed open-access journal, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY. It is available online (http://glossator.org).

Editors: Nicola Masciandaro (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Ryan Dobran (Brooklyn College, CUNY). Section Editors: Erik Butler (Emory University), Mary Ann Caws (Graduate Center, CUNY), Alan Clinton (Georgia Institute of Technology), David Greetham (Graduate Center, CUNY), Bruno Gullí (Long Island University), Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University), Jason Houston (University of Oklahoma), Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville), Sean McCarthy (Lehman College, CUNY), Sherry Roush (Penn State University), Michael Sargent (Graduate Center, CUNY), Michael Stone-Richards (College for Creative Studies), Frans van Liere (Calvin College), Jesús R. Velasco (UC Berkeley), Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Chiba University).

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Editors invite submissions for the first volume of Glossator, to be published in 2009. Glossator welcomes work from all disciplines, but especially from fields with strong affiliations with the commentary genre: philosophy, literary theory and criticism, textual and manuscript studies, hermeneutics, exegesis, et al. What is commentary? While the distinction between commentary and other forms of writing is not an absolute one, the following may serve as guidelines for distinguishing between what is and is not a commentary:

1. A commentary focuses on a single object (text, image, event, etc.) or portion thereof.

2. A commentary does not displace but rather shapes itself to and preserves the integrity, structure, and presence of its object.

3. The relationship of a commentary to its object may be described as both parallel and perpendicular. Commentary is parallel to its object in that it moves with or runs alongside it, following the flow of reading it. Commentary is perpendicular to its object in that it pauses or breaks from reading it in order to comment on it. The combination of these dimensions gives commentary a structure of continuing discontinuity, which allows it to be consulted or read intermittently rather than start to finish.

4. Commentary tends to maintain a certain quantitative proportion of itself vis-à-vis its object. This tendency corresponds to the practice of "filling up the margins" of a text.

5. Commentary, as a form of discourse, tends to favor and allow for the multiplication of meanings, ideas, and references.

Commentary need not, and generally does not, have an explicit thesis or argument. This tendency gives commentary a ludic or auto-teleological potential. Possible submissions include: critical, philological, and/or bibliographic commentaries on texts, art, music, events, and other kinds of objects. Editions and translations of commentaries, glosses, annotation, and marginalia. Historical, theoretical, and/or critical articles and essays on commentary and commentary traditions. Experimental and/or fictional commentaries and self-commentaries. Submission Deadline: 31 October 2008 Queries may be directed to Nicola Masciandaro (nicolam@brooklyn.cuny.edu)

Nous ne faisons que nous entregloser -Montaigne

Job for Historian

Medieval European History. Assistant Professor, tenure track position, August 2009. PhD expected by Fall 2009. Teaching experience preferred. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, transcript, and three letters of recommendation to Prof. John J. McCusker, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of History, Trinity University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212. All materials must be received by 26 November 2008. Trinity University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about this position, the department, and Trinity University, go to http://www.trinity.edu/departments/history/html/news/news.htm.

Position at Bard Graduate Center

The Bard Graduate Center invites applications for a new tenure-track position in medieval European material culture (rank open). The Bard Graduate Center is a graduate research institute committed to studying the cultural history of the material world, drawing on methodologies and approaches from art and design history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology. Our ideal candidate is a scholar with a broad background in medieval archeology and art history that is able to teach courses on material culture as well as decorative arts. The recipient must have a Ph.D. in hand by June 2009.

Applications are due on 15 November 2008. These should include a cover letter, c.v., sample publication (with SASE) and three letters of recommendation and should be sent to Chair, Medieval Search Committee, Bard Graduate Center, 18 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024.

Postdoctoral Fellowships 2009–2010

Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of post-doctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2009–2010. We invite applications from qualified candidates who have received the Ph.D. between 1 January 2005 and 1 July 2009. Fellows are appointed as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University and as postdoctoral research fellows. The fellowship is renewable for a second and third year. In the first year, Fellows teach one course per semester: at least one of these courses will be in the undergraduate general education program of the University. In years two and three, Fellows teach one course per year. In addition to teaching and research, the duties of Fellows include attendance at the Society's lectures and events as well as active participation in the intellectual life of the Society and of the department with which the Fellow is affiliated.

The annual stipend will be $55,000. Each Fellow will also receive a research allowance of $4,000 per annum. Our online application form can be accessed at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows. The deadline for receipt of completed applications is 6 October 2008.

New M.A.: Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures

Announcing the launch of a new M.A. at the University of East Anglia (U.K.) in Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures, 1381–1688. This MA offers the opportunity to study Medieval and Early Modern literature in its wider critical and cultural contexts and to develop an awareness of methodologies that scholars use to access this material. The course consists of specialist Medieval and Early Modern options, extended examination of continuities and change in form and genre across the period, and elective interdisciplinary modules.

The city of Norwich provides a magnificent living history resource for studying the material culture and political, religious and social history of the period and is the perfect base for using archival resources at the Cathedral Library and Norfolk and Suffolk Record offices. The course takes one year of full-time or two years of part-time study.

For international students UEA provides an International Scholarship Fund. UEA has a prominent international reputation for research and teaching and has consistently been in the UK top five for student satisfaction. For further details about the course, contact Dr Matthew Woodcock, School of Literature and Creative Writing, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. (matthew.woodcock@uea.ac.uk).

Scriptorium: Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts Online

Phase 1 of Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online,
an AHRC-funded project based at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, has now been launched.

http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk

Scriptorium will comprise full digital facsimiles of at least twenty late
medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books,
along with descriptions, transcriptions, and bibliographical information; a
set of research and teaching resources for students and scholars working on
manuscript studies; and an enhanced version of "English Handwriting: An
Online Course," our interactive palaeography tool:

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/

All parts of the site will remain freely and publicly available.

Currently, the resource includes images of St Johns College, Cambridge, MS
S.23, an early seventeenth-century poetic miscellany. More images and
information will be added progressively in the coming weeks and months, as
the site is enhanced, expanded, and developed.

New Internet Resource from Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies

The Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University is pleased to announce the launch of a new website for students, teachers, scholars, and enthusiasts of the Middle Ages.

The Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (OMSB), found at http://medievalsourcesbibliography.org, is a searchable database of texts that were written in the Middle Ages and are now available in modern editions and translations, printed or online.

We seek to include a wide array of sources: literary works, devotional treatises, philosophical writings, private letters, wills, household accounts, chronicles, court proceedings, church records, and a host of other documents. The bibliography provides fully annotated entries that include information on the genre, subject keywords, authors, manuscript sources, and contents of the original text, as well as a description of the introduction, appendices, editorial conventions, and scholarly apparatus of the modern edition, so that users from all backgrounds can evaluate the suitability of the modern edition to their needs.

Begun in the Summer of 2003, the OMSB now contains about 2,500 items, nearly 1,000 of which are on-line texts. The bibliography will continue to grow in scale and scope, and we welcome your suggestions for sources to include and your feedback as it expands.

New Electronic Journal: Different Visions

Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art (http:// www.differentvisions.org), an open source, peer-reviewed journal, is currently soliciting submissions for the second issue, to be published in 2008. The journal's focus is medieval visual culture, approached through diverse contemporary theoretical frameworks. It was be published on at least an annual basis (or more frequently, depending on the number of submissions. The first issue, which will be published by the fall of 2007, will feature some of the papers delivered in the ICMA-sponsored sessions at the Medieval Congress held at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2006 on "Madeline Caviness's 'Triangulatory' Approach to Medieval Art." The guest editor for this issue is Corine Schleif. For more information, contact Rachel Dressler, ed., Art Dept., FA 214, Univ. of Albany, Albany, NY 12222 (dressler@albany.edu).

ACLS Humanities
E-Book

The American Council of Learned Societies announces that ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) will soon be hosting an electronic version of the complete Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, edited by Paul Oskar Kristeller, F. Edward Cranz, and Virginia Brown and published by the Catholic University of America Press. Volumes will be full text and reproduced exactly as published. Vols. 1- 6 will be available some time in the spring or summer of 2008. Vols. 7 and 8 will be issued in electronic form thereafter. The entire collection will be cross-searchable and accessed either through general searches of HEB or as a discrete series. This will allow scholars to use the CTC either as a tool in itself or within the context of broader searches of HEB's collection. The electronic edition will also afford the scholarly community the ongoing opportunity to suggest corrigenda and addenda. The CTC will be included at no extra charge to faculty, students or library patrons of HEB subscribing institutions and to individuals who have purchased access to the entire HEB collection for the regular $35 annual fee through the scholarly societies that offer this as an additional benefit of membership. These currently include the American Historical Association, the Middle East Studies Association, and the Renaissance Society of America. HEB also includes nearly 500 titles in ancient, medieval and Renaissance, and early modern studies.

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Certificate

A new Medieval and Renaissance Studies Certificate as been initiated at Wichita State University to begin in the Fall of 2006. This certificate will allow students to explore the diversity of European culture and receive credit for doing so. This undergraduate program coordinates the literary, artistic, and historical study of a major formative period in world history. Interdisciplinary in nature, the program draws from WSU's course offerings in Art History, Literature, Music, Languages, Political Science, and History, promoting a broad-based understanding of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

English Heritage Historical Review Launched

English Heritage Historical Review will publish the results of research funded by English Heritage, most of which concerns the 420 or so properties owned or managed by English Heritage. The first issue contains 10 papers, including a paper on the dating of the saxon door that now serves the vestibule of the 1250 Chapter House at Westminster Abbey, but which probably came from Edward the Confessor's original abbey. Subscriptions are £20 (ehsales@gillards.com).

New International Centre for the Study of Wood-Carving

Announcement of the official opening of CISSAL, Centro Internazionale di Studi sulla Scultura e l'Arredo in Legno (The International Centre for the Study of Wood-Carving) of the Institute of Art History and Aesthetics at the University of Urbino. The Centre promotes research on wood-carving from the Medieval to the Contemporary period. CISSAL's mission is to support work in the disciplines of art history, wood-carving techniques, conservation, restoration, archives and documentation at the regional, national and international levels through meetings, seminars, publications, exhibitions. Among the Centre's specific objectives are to create a specialized library and to acquire monographs and literature on wood-carving, to make photostatic reproductions of articles and out-of-print books, to collect and catalogue materials using up-to-date methods of information technology in order to complement existing card catalogues, to create an electronic database identifying relevant local records and photographs, and to publish and diffuse the results of studies in our publication "Lignum" and/or the publication of meeting notes and/or exhibition catalogues as well as through our website (currently under construction), to support studies and research on subjects pertinent to our mission including research and teaching as regards faculty, course study in the context of degree programs, institutes and departments of the University of Urbino as well as other universities and Italian and foreign institutions, local, regional and provincial government agencies with regard to wood-carving. Anyone interested in these areas of study who would like to work with us at the Centre as partner or sponsor, or simply express an opinion on this initiative, should contact Maria Fachechi (fachechi@uniurb.it or fachechi@yahoo.com). Maria Fachechi, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte e di Estetica, Università degli Studi di Urbino, Via Bramante 17, 61029 Urbino (PU), Italy.

Special Issue on Erasmus of Rotterdam

The forthcoming number of the journal Ars et humanitas will be dedicated to Erasmus of Rotterdam, and articles (up to c. 16 pages) are welcomed until 15 September 2007. Issues in 2008 and later will be dedicated to Platina, the Birth of Europe, Satira (each number has one leading theme with c. 10 articles). Contributions in English, German, French and Italian are accepted. Contact: Natasa Golob (natasa.golob@ff.uni-lj.si).

New series: Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica Sloveniae

In autumn 2007 the first two volumes of a new series of Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica Sloveniae will be published. This collection of studies will discuss manuscripts and printed books to 1800 and will remain open to various disciplines. Volumes will concentrate on (a) specific studies, (b) catalogues of ecclesiastical collections, and (c) catalogues of different types of data. All volumes will be published in two languages (Slovenian and one major European language). The two volumes are in preparation are Luka Vidmar, Books on Roman antiquity from the private libraries of members of the Accademia Operosorum (c. 1700), and Felicijan Pevec, Ines Jerele, and Natasa Golob, Medieval manuscripts, fragments and early prints (up to 1600) from the Franciscan monastery Novo Mesto.

For 2008 two further volumes are planned: Sonja Svoljiak, The Library of Franciscan guardian Sigismund Skerpin (1750-1790), and Uria Ponikvar and Natasa Golob, Decorative bindings from the Cistercian monastery Stièna (Sitticium) up to 1550.

The catalogue Mittelalterliche Handschriften aus Kartause Seitz 1160–1560 is now available [in German], through Narodna galerija Ljubljana (info@ng-slo.si; http://www.ng-slo.si); c. 33 Euros, 146 pages, and c. 100 illustrations.

Cursor Mundi: Viator Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern World

Conceived as a companion to the journal Viator, Cursor Mundi is a new series of book-length studies of the medieval and early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like Viator, Cursor Mundi will bring together outstanding work by medieval and early modern scholars from a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing studies which focus on processes such as cultural exchange or the course of an idea through the centuries, and including investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of Europe and the Mediterranean. Cursor Mundi will be published by Brepols Publishers under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

The general editor is Christopher Baswell. Direct inquiries and manuscript proposals to Cursor Mundi executive editor, Blair Sullivan (310-825-1537; fax 310-825-0655; sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu).

New Journal: Fons luminis

Fons luminis is a new peer-reviewed journal of Medieval Studies, published semi-annually in coordination with the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. The editors are seeking submissions of articles from all areas, especially those with an interdisciplinary emphasis. Junior faculty and graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit. The deadline for submissions for the Spring issue is 1 January; the deadline for the Autumn issue is 1 June. Articles should be around 8,000 words, and should follow the Speculum stylesheet. Electronic submissions are preferred.

Submissions and subscription enquiries should be sent to Victoria Goddard and Andrew Reeves, Editors in Chief, Fons Luminis, Centre for Medieval Studies, 39 Queen's Park Cresc. E., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3, Canada (edsfl@chass.utoronto.ca; http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/fonsluminis).

New German Association for Transcultural Studies in Pre-modern History

In the current German academic system historians working in fields outside the "established" limits of European history often find themselves put into the corner of "exotic" outsiders, which is even true for people working in the very few institutes of eastern European or world history. The old "western" model is still very strong; however, at present some change seems to be under way, marked by increasing interest in transcultural and transnational as well as global history. These innovative approaches though mostly confined to historians working on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have resulted in intense discussions on the potentials of comparative analysis for historical scholarship.

In order to meet these challenges, some younger German historians have recently founded a network aiming at providing a forum for those working on transcultural topics in pre-modern history. We would especially welcome participants who feel at home with the methodological standards of historical studies, combining their historical profession with an interest in regions, religions and peoples who are not regularly included in the established agenda of German historical academics: historians working with Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Byzantine, Jewish, Indian, or other sources. Our objective is to create a forum for scholars whose contributions meet with a certain amount of scepticism with regard to their academic prospects within "general" historical studies. We turn especially to those working with primary sources (not only) written in languages outside the traditional canon of historical studies, focussed on central and western Europe.

The founding members (Dorothea Weltecke, Göttingen; Almut Höfert, Basel; Jenny Rahel Oesterle, Münster; Wolfram Drews, Bonn) would welcome participants and contributors at their next meeting scheduled to take place next spring in Göttingen. We will have one or two scholarly papers and a detailed discussion on projects and future plans. Enquiries will be answered by Dr. Wolfram Drews, Universität Bonn (wdrews@uni-bonn.de).

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History

Beginning with volume 4, 3rd series (2006), the editors of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History will be Roger Dahood and Peter E. Medine. The journal is published annually by AMS Press (New York) under the auspices of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). We review submissions year round. Because our aim is to publish shortly before the ACMRS conference in February of each year, the deadline for acceptances in the following year's volume is 1 June. We seek typescripts from c. 20 to c. 90 double-spaced pages in length on all aspects of medieval and early modern history: historiographical essays, translations, commentaries on texts, research notes, and manuscript, codicological, and bibliographical studies. From language and literature scholars we invite, in addition to the above, interpretive essays rooted in historical investigation.

Submissions should follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2003) but omit names of book publishers from citations. Pictures accompanying submissions should be clear photocopies. When an article is accepted, authors will be expected to provide 5 x 7 or 8.5 x 11 black-and-white glossy photographs and all necessary permissions. Digital images (in .tif or .eps format) are acceptable in place of glossy photographs. Essays should be submitted in one digital and two printed copies. The digital copy should be sent as an attachment in rich text format (.rtf) to rdahood@u.arizona.edu (medieval) or medine@u.arizona.edu (Renaissance/early modern). Send printed copies to the appropriate editor at the Dept. of English, Modern Languages Bldg. #67, P.O. Box 210067, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

The City and Urban Life

Contributors are invited to provide either the "Chronological Overviews" or the "City Descriptions" (or both) described below. They will be knowledgeable about urban life, with demonstrated expertise in such areas as history, geography, sociology, economic history, or archaeology; an academic affiliation is not required.

The target audience is high school and college students. The City will trace the development of urban places from the first cities to the present day. Every significant urban place will be included, both recent foundations and the ruined cities of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The data will be presented in approximately two dozen separate sections, each devoted to one geographical region. For each of these sections, The City will provide two types of information: a chronological overview and brief descriptions of individual cities in that region. Each geographical section will begin with an essay (7,000 to 28,000 words), describing institutions and historical developments shared by all cities in that region. Each section will continue with brief descriptions (150 to 800 words, arranged alphabetically) of significant cities, whether still existing or extinct. It is intended that the two sections work together synergistically. Each contributor will receive full authorial credit, a modest monetary payment, and/or a complete set copy of The City.

A complete list of all the geographical sections into which The City is divided is available on request, as is also information describing the scope of the introductory essay(s), listing the names of all cities that will be the subject of individual descriptive entries, and the "Guidelines for Contributors."

Contact: Jan Rogozinski (jan814@bellsouth.net), attaching an up-to-date resume and writing samples and indicating which geographical regions (or countries) and which eras you are interested in writing about. Preferred formats for messages are WordPerfect, Word, and Rich Text Format. Please put your name and address inside all e-mail messages, and please put your name in the subject line of your e-mails. Please label attachments to e-mail messages, giving your name and a description of the contents.

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium

Core Faculty Committee: Patricia Dailey, Columbia University, Kathleen Davis, Princeton University, Stacy Klein, Rutgers University, Haruko Momma, New York UniversitySponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; The Dean of the Humanities, New York University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of English, Rutgers University.

Contact: David F. Johnson, Executive Director, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Director, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities, 205 Dodd Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 (850-644-0314; fax: 850-644-1139).

Pegasus Press

The goal of the press has been to publish quality paperbacks in all areas of Medieval and Renaissance studies at modest cost, and the editor is always open to proposals for texts and supplementary works suitable for undergraduate and graduate studies. The list includes three series: Early European Drama in Translation, the Pegasus Shakespeare Bibliographies, and Spanish Classical Texts (texts such as Samuel Daniel's poetry and Defense of Rhyme, The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler, a verse translation of Petrarch's Canzoniere, and the A-text of Piers Plowman; as well as anthologies such as Medieval Welsh Poems and Fabliaux, Fair and Foul, both in verse translation). Pegasus also publishes substantial collections of essays and has also published the first low-cost paleographical handbook, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual.

Pegasus continues to seek proposals for books such as those described above, but, thanks to substantial developments in very-small-run printing. the press now also wants proposals for the kinds of books that it might not have been able to consider in the past. How about that minor poet you've always wanted to include on your syllabus but had to send your students to the library to read? Or that important fifteenth-century book that's never had a modern edition or translation? Or that guide you've done up for your own students and which ought to have wider circulation? Send proposals to Mario A. Di Cesare 101 Booter Road, Fairview, NC 28730 (dicesare1@ mindspring.com).

Archive Division of the University of Montreal

The Archive Division of the University of Montreal owns personal papers of late professor Hugues Shooner concerning his lifetime project, the description of all the medieval manuscripts of Thomas Aquinas. It also holds the microfilm of Jean Destrez's notes concerning all the medieval manuscripts that he had examined for his famous research on the pecia. This material remains at the disposal of specialists. Contact: Univ. de Montréal, Division des Archives, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal H3C 3J7, Canada (archives@archiv.umontreal.ca).

Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA), which will be a resource of first resort on the general model of The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed., 1996) for all key aspects of European history, society, religion, and culture, c. 500 to c. 1500, is currently being compiled. The ODMA will consist of 1,300,000 words in four volumes with approximately 7,000 entries, 60 maps, and 550 illustrations. It has an international advisory board of five, an editorial board of twenty-six, and projected contributors of nearly 800. The complete, edited text is due to be delivered to the press in late 2006 with publication in 2007.

If you would like to write entries for any of the headwords (http://asu.edu/clas/acmrs/publications.html#ODMA) send an updated c.v. and a list of the entries of interest as an e-mail attachment c/o Robert E. Bjork, General Editor, to jennifer.michaud@asu.edu with 'ODMA' in the subject line. The press prefers that contributors write a minimum of 500 words, and all entries should be written in English. Only scholars already holding the doctorate or equivalent will generally be invited to contribute, but graduate students with a particularly strong expertise in an area in which the editors need help should ask their advisers to send a separate e-mail note indicating their willingness to oversee the work on the project. Contributors writing 4,000 words or 25 entries or more will receive a free copy of the ODMA.

Literary London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London

Literary London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London is the first and only refereed academic journal to provide a common forum for scholars and students engaged specifically in the study of London and literature. It is dedicated to fostering an intellectual community that will facilitate interdisciplinary exchange. While the editorial focus of the journal is on representations of London in literature, articles in cognate disciplines that will contribute to readings of London are very much encouraged. These subject areas might include readings of London in history, drama, film, geography, art history, architecture, urban sociology, painting and engraving, etc. The journal is mutually supportive of the annual conference of the same name with which is shares a common web address (http://www.literarylondon.org).

Literary London the journal is published twice a year in March and September. Volume 3 (2), which can be accessed on our Website (http:// www.literarylondon.org), is a special issue devoted to the work of important London writer Iain Sinclair guest edited by Dr Jenny Bavidge and Dr Robert Bond. Contact: Lawrence Phillips, Editor, Literary London Journal, Dept. of English, Liverpool Hope Univ., Hope Park, Liverpool L16 9JD, U.K. (+0151 2913560).

Scarecrow Press

The historical dictionary is roughly a one-volume encyclopedia consisting of a dictionary section with entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, battles and economic, social or cultural aspects as well as a chronology, introduction and bibliography. The total size could be some 250–300 printed pages for the War volume and 300–350 pages or even more for the Historical Eras volume.

Please note that the press is seeking authors and not editors or contributors; coauthorship would be possible. For further information on Scarecrow Press and its various series of historical dictionaries consult our website: http://www.scarecrowpress.com Prospective authors should write to the series editor and include a brief cv: Jon Woronoff, Scarecrow Press, 413 route de Vesegnin, 01280 Prevessin, France (jon.woronoff@tiscali.fr).

Women's Arts News

Ohio State University Press

Medieval Forum

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching

To ensure interdisciplinary consistency for SMART, contributors should format manuscripts according to the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Papers vary greatly in length but typically are at least seven double-spaced pages. Discursive notes should be held to a minimum to facilitate an easily readable text. The concept of intellectual rigor requires that information of the type often relegated to notes be integrated with the main discussion, while the practical needs of teachers require that information about texts and sources appropriate to students at all levels be included in the text or works cited. In balancing the need for documentation with that for practicality, we urge your cooperation.

Essays submitted for publication should be sent double-spaced in triplicate, along with an IBM-compatible file on disk to Kristie Bixby, General Editor, SMART, Academic Affairs and Research, Wichita State Univ. 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0013, (316-978-3735; fax 316-978-3739; kristie.bixby@wichita.edu).

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Medieval Northwestern Europe

Art de l’enluminure

Routledge Medieval Authors

Medica: The Society for the Study of Health and Healing in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Periods

New Perspectives on the Hundred Years War

The Árni Magnússon Institute and the Sigurður Nordal Institute

The Sigurður Nordal Institute has information about an apartment that is being leased by Snorrastofa (The Snorri Sturluson Research Centre). Scholars studying the works of Snorri Sturluson, medieval Iceland, or the history and culture of Borgarfjörður will be given priority. For further information about the Sigurður Nordal Institute apartment, contact Snorrastofa at 320 Reykholt, Iceland (011-354-435-1491; fax 354-435-1492; bergur@snorrastofa.is).