Monthly Archives: January 2014

MAA News – 2014 Annual Meeting

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California Los Angeles is pleased to host the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, which will be held jointly with the annual meeting of the Medieval … Continue reading

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MAA News – Jacqueline Brown Retires

On behalf of the staff, members and leadership of the Medieval Academy, I want to offer my thanks to Jacqueline Brown for her thirty-three years of service to Speculum and the Academy. Since 1981, she has edited hundreds of articles … Continue reading

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MAA News – New Editor of Speculum

To the Members of the Medieval Academy: The Council, on the recommendation of a search committee chaired by Richard Unger, is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Sarah Spence as the new editor of Speculum. Sarah Spence has just taken … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Origines et mutationes circa principio Mare Balticum

Transfer of people, ideas, technologies and religion in the Baltic Sea Region between VIII-XVII centuries. We hereby have the pleasure to invite you to the international conference aimed at wide range of researchers, e.g. from Ph.D. Candidates to Professors, giving … Continue reading

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EpiDoc Workshop

EpiDoc Workshop, London, April 28-May 1, 2014 We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital editing of epigraphic and papyrological texts, to be held in the Institute of Classical Studies, London, April 28-May 1, 2014. The workshop will … Continue reading

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Rare Book School opens applications for summer 2014

Applications for Rare Book School’s summer 2014 courses are now being accepted. Please see the Application & Admissions page of the RBS website to begin the application process: http://www.rarebookschool.org/applications/. To be considered for the first round of admissions decisions, please submit … Continue reading

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Call for Articles – Muslims and Islam in the Early Modern Italian and Mediterranean Worlds

I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance is pleased to announce a call for articles that explore the presence of “Muslims and Islam in the Early Modern Italian and Mediterranean Worlds.”  Articles should address the transmission and circulation of ideas, objects, … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle-Ages

It is intended that this conference will explore the relationship between the pursuit of scientific and religious knowledge in the middle-ages, with a particular focus on the British scholar, theologian, scientist, astronomer and philosopher, Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175-1253). It will … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – The Art And Archaeology of Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus (1192-1571): Recent Research and New Discoveries

The art and archaeology of the Latin East have regularly been marginalised in broader accounts of medieval material culture, largely because they cannot fit within the restrictive parameters established for either the Byzantine East or the Latin West. Over the … Continue reading

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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies

The University of Iceland is now accepting applications for Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies: (1) Medieval Icelandic Studies is a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters’ (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester’s worth (30 ECTS) … Continue reading

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