Monthly Archives: June 2015

MAA News – Medievalists Garner Awards

Carmela Vircillo Franklin (Columbia Univ.), who will be President of the Medieval Academy in 2016-17, was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Medieval and Renaissance History to support her work on a critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis. Former Academy … Continue reading

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MAA News – Medieval Academy Books in MESA

Thirty-seven out-of-print volumes of Medieval Academy Books, digitized several years ago as part of an NEH-funded project and available as PDFs on our website, are now also retrievable by searching the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance. Among other goals, MESA “aggregates … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Beyond Exceptionalism

Beyond Exceptionalism Extended CFP – 22 June 2015 In 1973, Joann McNamara and Suzanne Fonay Wemple wrote “The Power of Women through the Family” which established the paradigm for understanding elite women’s access to power in the early medieval period, … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Haskins Society 2015 Conference

The Call for Papers for the 34th Annual Haskins Society Conference, 6-8 November 2015, held at Carleton College, is now available on the Haskins Society website at: http://www.haskinssociety.org/conference2015 with a deadline of July 17, 2015. We welcome proposals for individual … Continue reading

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Reminder – Editorial Assistant for Speculum

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT for SPECULUM QUALIFICATIONS Applicants must have strong computer and editorial skills, together with a background in any area of the humanities with a particular specialty in Medieval Studies, and must be available to start work in the fall … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The twentieth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 10–13 March 2016 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Animal Languages: Interspecies Communication in the Middle Ages

Call For Papers Animal Languages: Interspecies Communication in the Middle Ages Editor: Alison Langdon Western Kentucky University Until relatively recently, scholars have tended to focus on the symbolic valence of nonhuman animals, to read their behavior and characteristics as representative … Continue reading

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Jobs for Medievalists

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/6223Lc Title Lecturer in Medieval Literature School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area English Position Description The Department of English seeks applications for a lecturer in Medieval Literature. The appointment is expected to begin on August 1. The lecturer will … Continue reading

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Jobs for Medievalists

Cambridge University Library has just advertised three senior positions available within the Special Collections Division: Head of Rare Books (salary range £38,511-£48,743) Keeper of Manuscripts and University Archives (salary range £38,511-£48,743) Deputy Head of Rare Books (salary range £34,233-£45,954) Full particulars … Continue reading

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