Category Archives: Announcements

As we reported in the December 2012 and January 2013 MAA News, MAA members now receive online access to Speculum as a new benefit of membership. The first 25 book reviews from Speculum volume 88.1 (January 2013) are now available online. The … Continue reading →

The Rare Book School provides five-day, intensive courses for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of manuscript, printed, and born-digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the field. The 2013 online application is now available … Continue reading →

The Play of Daniel January 18, 19 and 20, 2013 The Fuentiduena Chapel at The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park Metropolitan Museum of Art Drew Minter, Stage Director Mary Anne Ballard, Music Director Heralding in its seventy-fifth anniversary year, The Cloisters … Continue reading →

The publication  Medievalia 15 (2012),  is on-line now: http://revistes.uab.cat/medievalia/issue/current Medievalia is the journal published by the Institute of Medieval Studies(IEM)  of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Founded in 1980, its main purpose is to become a means of spreading research … Continue reading →

The MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides the opportunity to undertake graduate level work in any relevant field of interest. The program is appropriate for students who will go on to apply to PhD programs as well as for … Continue reading →

Yale awarded $650,000 Mellon Foundation grant to apply new digital tools to medieval manuscript research. http://news.yale.edu/2012/12/10/mellon-grant-yale-helps-scholars-create-new-digital-tools-study-medieval-manuscripts#.UMZgArtuzGg.email.

27th International Congress of Papyrology (Warsaw, University of Warsaw). – Call for papers (until 28.II.2013). – http://papyrocongress2013.wpia.uw.edu.pl/index.htm

11.I.2013: Manuscripts Online 1000 to 1500: Exploring Early Written Culture in the Digital Age (Leicester, University of Leicester). – http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/manuscriptsonline

The Bonnie Wheeler 2013 Summer Research Fellowship is open to women medievalists below the rank of full professor, and for 2013 offers up to $10,000 in financial support. Candidates from previous years are welcome and encouraged to reapply. In the … Continue reading →

Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, seeks 3,000-word essays discussing ethics in medievalism.  What role do ethics play in post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages?   In interpretations of those responses?  How is moral behavior portrayed (or not)?  … Continue reading →