Monthly Archives: August 2013

Speculum, Volume 88

The January 2013 issue of Speculum shipped several weeks ago; please contact us at info@themedievalacademy.org if you haven’t received yours yet. Members will receive the remaining issues for this year (April, July and October) in due course.

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Call for Nominations for Fellows and Corresponding Fellows

Members are invited to submit nominations to the Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy. The 2014 election operates under new and revised by-laws and procedures. Under the established rules, the number of slots available in 2014 for new … Continue reading

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Boswell Dissertation Grant

Thanks to the generosity of our members, the $10,000 matching challenge offered by the Freeman Foundation has been successfully met, fully funding the Boswell Dissertation Fund and allowing us to award the grant annually beginning in 2014. The Boswell Dissertation … Continue reading

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Funding Opportunities for Medievalists

The Academy encourages its members to apply for grants and residential fellowships in these and other programs: The American Academy in Rome The American Philosophical Society Getty Research Fellowships Guggenheim Foundation Institute for Advanced Studies Mellon Foundation National Endowment for … Continue reading

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Awards Granted to Medievalists

Additional grants and awards for medievalists have recently been announced. These include: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships: Thomas Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “The Dominicans, Islam, and Christian Thought, 1220-1320” Adam Davis, Denison University “The Rise of the Medieval … Continue reading

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Medeival Academy Publications, Electronic and Otherwise

We have revamped our publications page to enable members and visitors to easily see which of the more than 150 books published by the Academy are available for purchase and in what format(s): – Forty volumes are available as print-on-demand … Continue reading

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Editor of Speculum

Speculum, published quarterly since 1926, was the first scholarly journal in North America devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. It remains the premier journal for all fields devoted to study of the Western Middle Ages, a period ranging from approximately … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Theories of Blood in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Culture

The Blood Conference: Theories of Blood in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Culture St Anne’s College, Oxford: 8th –10th January, 2014 Convenors: Laurie Maguire, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Eleanor Decamp Blood in the medieval and early modern periods … Continue reading

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40th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies

The 40th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies will be held October 11-12, 2013, at Saint Louis Louis University. Organized annually since 1974 by the Vatican Film Library — part of the Saint Louis University Libraries Special Collections — … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Inter-cultural Exchange in the Western Mediterranean

Inter-cultural Exchange in the Western Mediterranean 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 2014 Organizers: Sarah Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico and Travis Bruce, Wichita State University Sponsor: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of New Mexico One … Continue reading

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