Monthly Archives: March 2015

New Publisher of Speculum

On 12 March, the Council of the Medieval Academy of America approved a 5-year-contract with the University of Chicago Press to serve as publisher of Speculum from 2016 – 2020 (Volumes 91 – 95). This decision was made after much due … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – The Cleric’s Craft: Crossroads of Medieval Spanish Literature and Modern Critique

Conference Title: The Cleric’s Craft: Crossroads of Medieval Spanish Literature and Modern Critique Date: October 22-24, 2015 Location: University of Texas at El Paso Description: The term “mester de clerecía” was first articulated by Manuel Milà i Fontanals in 1865. … Continue reading

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The Allure of Collecting Arms and Armor, March 26th

Thursday, March 26, 6:00 pm Public Lecture and Reception The Allure of Collecting Arms and Armor Donald J. LaRocca, Curator, Department of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art From dynastic armories and curiosity cabinets to Gothic Revival castles, … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Emotional and Affective Narratives in pre-Modern Europe/ Late-Medieval and Renaissance France

In contemporary thought, the field of emotion studies represents a very potent framework that allows anthropologists, historians, neuroscientists and philosophers to think of the possible ways in which subjects engage with their own sensory experience and with larger practices that … Continue reading

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A Symposium at Bates College: 9-10 July 2015

https://learnedclerk.bates.edu/ The Learned Clerk Symposium brings together leading scholars in the fields of medieval literature and history, editing and manuscript studies, and digital humanities, whose research variously engages the forms and modes of late medieval textual culture.  The years just … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Representation and Reality in the Medieval Church

Representation and Reality in the Medieval Church Rowan University’s Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies Sponsored by Rowan University and the University of Kent From historical accounts to literary satire, the medieval Church has ever been a … Continue reading

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Visiting Research Fellowships-Call for applications

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce a new initiative, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to … Continue reading

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MAA’s Annual Meeting Registration

It’s the last day to register online at bit.ly/1wb8ssP for the Medieval Academy meeting at Notre Dame. Walk-ins will pay an additional $40. You can register by phone, too: 574-631-6691.

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Medieval Media Revolutions – April 18, 2015

Medieval Media Revolutions  Saturday, 18 April 2015 Center for Advanced Study * 912 W. Illinois Street * Urbana, Illinois As in the early years of the internet, the development of writing in a given culture initially tends to facilitate certain kinds … Continue reading

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Harvard Medieval Material Cultures Lecture and Workshop, March 9 and 11

Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks) will deliver the 2015 Harvard Medieval Material Cultures Lecture. Her talk, Byzantium On the Move: Mobile Empire, Traveling Textiles, will take its cue from some middle Byzantine tent poems and then address … Continue reading

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