Monthly Archives: May 2012

Manuscript identities and the transmission of texts in the English Renaissance

25.-26.V.2012 : Manuscript identities and the transmission of texts in the English Renaissance (Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics). – http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/school/1.71958

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Exposition “Benedikt und die Welt der frühen Klöster”

Mannheim, Museum Bassermannhaus, 13.V.2012 – 13.I.2013 : Benedikt und die Welt der frühen Klöster. – http://www.benedikt2012.de/ausstellung.html  

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MAA News – Haskins Medal Winners at Carol Woods

The campus of Carol Woods is located in the northern part of Chapel Hill, NC, amidst rolling hills with forests of pine trees, oaks, and dogwoods. On a 120-acre site, formerly part of the Weaver Dairy Farm, Carol Woods is … Continue reading

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MAA News – Medieval Academy Books Online

At the end of 2011 the Medieval Academy officially completed the terms of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and published online thirty-eight electronic versions of previously published Medieval Academy books. These works are available as searchable … Continue reading

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MAA News – 87th Annual Meeting 2012

Under warm and sunny skies the Medieval Academy met for its 87th Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri from 22-24 March 2012. The meeting was a busy and energetic gathering and offered fifty sessions, approximately 380 registered attendants, three plenary … Continue reading

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MAA News – Award Winners 2012

The 2012 Haskins Medal was presented to Richard William Pfaff for his magnum opus, The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). The committee wrote that this work “represents the sum of a life’s work dedicated … Continue reading

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MAA News – Medieval Digital Innovators

Two medievalists are among the nine recipients of the ACLS 2012 Digital Innovation Fellowships. Margot Fassler (Professor, Theology and Music, University of Notre Dame) will create a digitized, sounding model of Hildegard of Bingen’s conception of the cosmos, employing the … Continue reading

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MAA News – Grad Students

Sign up for the Chronicle of Higher Education Newsletter for Grad Students with news and advice on surviving graduate school — from planning your dissertation to navigating the job market. (http://chronicle.com/section/Newsletters/85).

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Manuscripts On My Mind: News from the Vatican Film Library

The sixth issue of “Manuscripts on My Mind” for May is now available. Some of its Calls for Papers have very close deadlines, in case readers are interested. The Vatican Film Library is also happy to announce that all sessions … Continue reading

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Exposition: “On the Edge : Medieval margins and the margins of academic life”

Chicago (IL), University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery, 19.V. – 10.VIII.2012 : On the edge : Medieval margins and the margins of academic life. –http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/exhibits/

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