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7–11 June 2010. The Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, offers an intensive 1-week course (6 hours daily), taught by Consuelo Dutschke; it is an introduction to the book-based scripts and the text typologies of western Europe from 800 to 1500, from Caroline minuscule through early print. The goal is to learn to read the texts, including recognition of the main types of script by attention to letter forms, abbreviations, and decorative hierarchies; students will begin to assess issues to localize and date the manuscripts. (http://www.rarebookschool.org/courses/manuscripts/m10/)

NEH Institute in Barcelona

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.

Summer Course in Budapest

"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: 21–27 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

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).

Withdrawal of support for BHA

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 database—including JSTOR—approaches 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.

Humbolt collaborative research grants

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).

Reframing Medieval Art, by Madeline Caviness

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/

Invitation to collaborate

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).

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).

New Journal

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 studies—and vice-versa—are 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).

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 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. 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.

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).

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).

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).

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).

Routledge Medieval Authors

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