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Proposals for papers are being accept for the first international conference on “A New Research Agenda for Mediterranean Studies” with the theme, “Geopolitical transition in the Mediterranean: a challenge for Mediterranean Studies” hosted by the Centre de la Méditerranée moderne … Continue reading →

Labexmed: Laboratory of excellence: Les sciences humaines et sociales au cœur de l’interdisciplinarité pour la Méditerranée, based at the Université d’Aix-Marseille is participating in the Fernand Braudel-IFER Incoming Fellowship Programme for non-French researchers interested in spending nine months working France. … Continue reading →

The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Paleographical Tools) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within … Continue reading →

Lire le Roman de la Rose aujourd’hui. Journée d’étude (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterand). – http://www.bnf.fr/documents/cp_roman_rose_aujourd_hui.pdf

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship announces the 2012 competition for the best graduate article on feminist scholarship on the Middle Ages. The SMFS Awards Committee solicits nominations for Best Graduate Article in any area of medieval studies.  Nominated articles … Continue reading →

5.-7.VII.2012 : Bonds, links, and ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles (Oxford, University of Oxford). – http://www.ocics.co.uk/

Paleografia greca oggi (Padova, Università degli studi di Padova, Dipartimento dei beni culturali).  – http://www.beniculturali.unipd.it/cms/?p=1213

In the context of the ongoing cataloguing project of the BSB’s Greek manuscripts from the collection previously owned by Johann Jakob Fugger, a spectacular discovery has been made. While cataloguing a twelfth-century manuscript, philologist Marina Molin Pradel was able to … Continue reading →

An Article by Caroline Bynum in Harvard Magazine: Saint Gertrude of helfta, known as “The Great,” was given to the German convent of Helfta as a child of five to be reared as a nun, received her first vision of … Continue reading →

From Medieval and Early Manuscripts Blog: The British Library has acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel after the most successful fundraising campaign in the Library’s history. Following a detailed conservation assessment, the manuscript has recently been fully digitised and you can now … Continue reading →