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Notices
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NEH Institute
in Barcelona
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4 July-31 July 2010.
"Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims & Jews in the
Medieval Mediterranean," an NEH Summer Institute for College
and University Professors, to be held in Barcelona (Spain).
Applications are
now being taken for the 2010 Mediterranean Studies NEH Summer
Institute. This is the second four-week Summer Institute
for University and College Professors organized by The Mediterranean
Seminar.
Faculty will include
Judith Cohen (York University), Steven Epstein (University
of Kansas), Harvey Hames (Ben Gurion University), Peregrine
Horden (Royal Holloway), Cynthia Robinson (Cornell), and
Daniel Selden (UC Santa Cruz), as well as co-Directors,
Brian A. Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita, and selected Spanish
scholars.
Our twenty-four participants
will be university and college faculty who teach American
post-secondary students. Applicants of all ranks and all
levels of institution are welcome, from all relevant Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines. Two places are
reserved for qualified graduate students (ABD/ final stages
of writing strongly preferred).
Please review the
information and the application instructions on the Institute
website. The application deadline is 2 March 2010.
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Summer Course
in Budapest
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"Lived Space in Past
and Present" is the subject of a summer course open
to scholars, students, or other interested researchers at
the Central European University (CEU), in Budapest, Hungary.
Course Dates: 2127 June
2010
Detailed course description:
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/livedspace
Course Director: Katalin Szende,
CEU, Medieval Studies Department, Budapest, Hungary
Faculty: Sarah Rees-Jones,
University of York, UK; Peter Johanek, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität,
Münster, Germany; Rossina Kostova, University of Veliko
Turnovo, Bulgaria; Anngret Simms, University College Dublin,
Ireland; Gábor Gyani, CEU, Department of History/ Eotvos
Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Target group: This summer
school encourages applications from doctoral students, post-doctoral
researchers or practicing professionals. An MA degree or
its equivalent is the minimum requirement; preference will
be given to doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers
or practicing professionals.
Language of instruction: English
Tuition fee: EUR 550. Financial
aid is available.
Application deadline: 15 February
15 2010. Financial aid is available.
Online application (from November
20): http://www.sun.ceu.hu/03-application/howto_apply.php
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| University
Teaching Scholarship at York |
A University Teaching
Scholarship is available for a PhD student in the field
of Medieval Literature and Languages. The Scholarship will
include a tuition fee waver (at home/EU rate, though overseas
students are welcome to apply) and a stipend of £5,000 per
year for up to 3.5 years. The Scholarship will have a teaching
workload of approximately 50 hours per year (including training,
preparation, and marking time).
The teaching undertaken
will depend on the holder's area of expertise: at undergraduate
level it may include literature modules on High Medieval
or Late Medieval Literature, or language and literature
modules on Latin, Old English, or Old Norse, and at MA level
language and skills modules on Latin, Old English, Old Norse,
Anglo- Norman, or Palaeography. Applications are welcomed
from students with expertise in any of these areas.
For details on how
to apply see: http://www.york.ac.uk/graduatestudy/finance/pg_teaching.htm
For further information, contact Dr Matthew Townend (mot1@york.ac.uk).
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Withdrawal
of support for BHA
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The
Getty Foundation has recently announced (30 April 2009)
that it is withdrawing its support of the Bibliography of
the History of Art (BHA), which will be forced to terminate
its production at the end of the current year unless an
alternative sponsor is found. The BHA is a critical resource
for scholars, graduate students and undergraduates providing
on-line access to international art historical bibliography
far beyond that available in other databases. For medievalists
who work mostly on European monuments, having access to
up-to-date international bibliography is particularly vital
for us and for our students. The BHA is lauded by librarians
as well as scholars. The American art librarian, Barbara
Q. Prior, recently wrote, "BHA is a cornerstone of art research.
The staff at BHA makes significant intellectual contributions
to the field by applying their sophisticated knowledge of
art theories and practices. No other databaseincluding
JSTORapproaches BHA's breadth and depth." In addition
the BHA, by furthering art historical research seems particularly
aligned with the central values of the Getty Foundation.
Faculty
and students who have used the BHA in the past, and/or would
like to use it in the future, can e-mail a brief message
to Thomas W. Gaehtgens, the Director of the Getty Research
Institute (tgaehtgens@getty.edu), expressing their deep
concern at recent developments.
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Humbolt
collaborative research grants
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Transatlantic
Cooperation in Research (TransCoop): Funding for Collaborative
Research for Scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences,
Economics, and Law
The
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports transatlantic
research cooperation between German, American and/or Canadian
scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics,
and law. Joint research initiatives can receive up to 55,000
EUR over a three-year period.
Funding
Information:
Funds
can be used:
-to
finance short-term research visits lasting up to three months.
-to
organize conferences and workshops.
-for
material, equipment and printing costs.
-for
a limited amount of research assistance.
Up
to fifteen percent of the TransCoop funds granted can be
earmarked for the German partner institution and used as
an administrative lump-sum. U.S. or Canadian sources must
match funds from the TransCoop Program.
Application
Information: Applications should be submitted jointly
by at least one German and one U.S. and/or Canadian scholar.
A Ph.D. is required of both applicants. Applications are
accepted biannually, with deadlines of 30 April and 31 October.
Applications and detailed information can be found on the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation webpage (http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/8175.html).
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Reframing
Medieval Art, by Madeline Caviness
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Reframing
Medieval Art: Difference, Margins, Boundaries, by
Madeline Caviness, a companion volume to her Visualizing
Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy
Philadelphia: (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), is
available online, but unfortunately its URL has recently
been changed. It may now be accessed at http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/Caviness/
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Invitation
to collaborate
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Ann
Buckley is seeking collaboration with colleagues working
on saints' cults as expressions of regional identity, and
in long-term historical perspective, under the following
headings:
a)
repertory: uses of liturgical texts and music, and how these
may have varied or changed over time and space;
b)
social-political contexts: the history of individual cults:
how they arose, were transmitted, altered, or discontinued;
questions might include issues of identity, spiritual devotion,
local politics, economics. She would welcome ideas from
other colleagues, and especially those who might be interested
in developing a collaborative, interdisciplinary project,
possibly to include the establishment of an online database
/ discussion group.
Depending
on the response, she would be willing to convene a sub-group
for this project at the CARMEN meeting in Poitiers in September.
Send replies to: Ann Buckley, Dept. of Music, NUI Maynooth,
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland (Ann.Buckley@nuim.ie).
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Medieval
Technology and American History
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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
612 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).
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New
Journal
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The
Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies is
a new interdisciplinary journal for innovative scholarship
on the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures of the Iberian
Peninsula from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. JMIS
encompasses archaeology, art and architecture, music, philosophy
and religious studies, as well as history, codicology, manuscript
studies, and the multiple Arabic, Latin, Romance, and Hebrew
linguistic and literary traditions of Iberia.
Essays
that engage with multiple disciplinary perspectives, non-traditional
submissions (including multimedia and theoretically attuned
work), and comparative articles addressing the significance
for medieval Iberian studies of broader developments in
medieval European, colonial Latin American, Peninsular,
or North African studiesand vice-versaare strongly
encouraged.
JMIS,
which is supported in part by the Medieval Institute at
Western Michigan University and by Hofstra University, will
be published twice a year, with occasional thematic clusters.
Submissions
for consideration must be prepared in Chicago "humanities"
style and should not exceed 7,000 words. Shorter pieces
and non-traditional submissions are welcomed.Send an original
and three copies to JMIS, The Medieval Institute, Western
Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432; an electronic
file should be submitted simultaneously to simon.doubleday@hofstra.edu
and to pablo.pastrana@wmich.edu. Submissions in English
are preferred; submissions in other languages may be accepted
at the discretion of the editors. For
further information or to receive a free sample copy, please
contact Charlotte Mora, Senior Marketing Executive, Routledge
(Charlotte.Mora@tandf.co.uk).
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New
M.A.: Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures
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Announcing
the launch of a new M.A. at the University of East Anglia
(U.K.) in Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures, 13811688.
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).
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Scriptorium:
Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts Online
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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.
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New
Electronic Journal: Different Visions
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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).
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ACLS
Humanities
E-Book
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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. 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.
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Medieval
and Renaissance Studies Certificate
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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.
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English
Heritage Historical Review Launched
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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).
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New
International Centre for the Study of Wood-Carving
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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.
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Cursor Mundi:
Viator Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern World
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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).
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Archive
Division of the University of Montreal
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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).
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Literary
London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of
London
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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).
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in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching |
The
editors of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching
(SMART) invite submissions to this journal of essays
reflecting changes in the kinds of assistance teachers need
to enhance understanding of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Since we believe that excellent research and inspired teaching
must be twin aspects of a revived Medieval/Renaissance curriculum,
SMART essays are both scholarly and pedagogical, informative
and practical.
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).
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Medieval Authors |
The general
editors of the Routledge Medieval Authors series, Barton Palmer
and Teresa A. Kennedy, are soliciting proposals for facing-page
translations of important medieval texts. Original texts from
Latin, Italian, French, Middle High German, Anglo-Saxon, Provencal,
Spanish, and any other appropriate vernacular. Contact Teresa
A. Kennedy, Simpson Program in Medieval Studies, Mary Washington
College, 1301 College Ave., Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5358 (540-654-1531;
fax 540-654-1569; tkennedy@mwc.edu).
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| Medica:
The Society for the Study of Health and Healing in the Middle
Ages and Early Modern Periods |
Medica:
The Society for the Study of Health and Healing in the Middle
Ages and Early Modern Periods
is publishing a new e-journal that has both a pre-prints sections,
like some journals in the sciences, and a peer-reviewed section.
Submissions may be on any subject matter of medieval medicine,
health, or healing as well as the interrelationships between
disciplines, such as medieval medicine and literature, law,
politics, or religion. Guidelines and other information are
available at http://faculty.centenarycollege.edu/medica/ Contact:
Bryon Grigsby (bryon.grigsby@verizon.net). |
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