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Rare Book School Scholarship and Fellowship applications open!

Rare Book School is now accepting applications for its 2020 scholarship and fellowship cycle.  The deadline for RBS-awarded scholarships is Sunday, 1 November 2020. Scholarship applicants will be considered for all of the RBS-awarded scholarships for which they are eligible, including the new Access … Continue reading

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Conference – Jewish Romance in the Middle Ages: Literature, Piety, and Cultural Translation

Event time: Sunday, October 25, 2020 – 11:00am to 2:00pm Admission: Free, but register in advance For registration and schedule, please visit: https://ism.yale.edu/event/conference-jewish-romance-middle-ages-literature-piety-and-cultural-translation Event description: This conference will be free and open to the public via Zoom Webinar. Registration is required. In the … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Princeton Medieval Studies Graduate Conference

Princeton Medieval Studies Graduate Conference  March 6, 2021   “Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages”  Loss can be accepted or contested. This conference will consider how perceptions of legacy and entitlement stirred ambitions to reassert lost claims … Continue reading

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Rethinking Health and Power during Times of Crisis

Oct 29, 2020 Part 2 of Virtual Panel Series Racism in History and Context | 3pm – 4:30pm ET | Panelists: Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg), Teresa Koloma Beck (Bundeswehr University Munich), Monica Muñoz Martinez (UT Austin), and Kathryn Olivarius … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Questioning the Crime of Witchcraft, Definitions, Receptions and Realities (14th-16th Centuries)

In the last decades, the multiplications of works in the field of Witchcraft Studies made it possible to profoundly renew the approaches and the study designs of the repression of witchcraft in the late Middle Ages and in the beginning … Continue reading

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Panel Discussion: Multilingualism, Translation, Directionality in Global Medieval DH

Please join the Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities and the Global Middle Ages Project on October 16 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 CDT / 12:00 – 1:30 p.m EDT  for a panel discussion about global digital projects and their … Continue reading

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Continuing Blog Post Series: Medievalists Beyond the Tenure Track

Danielle Griego received her PhD in History from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2018. She is currently an Independent Scholar, editing her manuscript and working on an essay in a forthcoming edited volume on medieval childhood. Her work focuses on … Continue reading

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Text Manuscripts at Les Enluminures: New Update

Les Enluminures is happy to announce that we just added new manuscripts to our text manuscripts site (https://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval?inventorySearch=1). Some highlights: a French translation of the Decretals of Gregory IX (TM 1097); a reportatio of the sermons of St. Bernardino of … Continue reading

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MAA and NHC Launch Online Course, “Medieval Africa and Africans”

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce the launch of “Medieval Africa and Africans,”  an online course for K-12 Educators developed in collaboration with the National Humanities Center. Given the wide popularity of Eurocentric medieval fantasies, it has … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Executive Director

Dear Colleagues, During the COVID-19 shutdown, the Medieval Academy of America staff, governance, and volunteers have been hard at work. We have kept the business of the Academy moving forward. We have supplemented our regular programming with online webinars, all … Continue reading

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