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MAA News – Digital Latin Library Call for Proposals

The Medieval Academy of America is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Digital Latin Library (DLL). This partnership demonstrates the Academy’s support of DLL’s open-access publishing model – in which text, apparatus, and image are made interoperable – and is in … Continue reading

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MAA News – Good News From Our Members

Michelle Warren (Dartmouth College) has been awarded a Guggenheim Felowship as well as an ACLS Fellowship to support the completion of her book Lives of a Medieval Book in the Digital Dark Ages, which traces the history of a manuscript from … Continue reading

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MAA News – From the Executive Director: Inclusivity and Diversity Initiatives

It has been five years since I took on the role of Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America (including one year as Acting ED). In those five years, thanks to your generosity, we have increased our support of … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Midwest Medieval History Conference

October 19 & 20 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI Call for Papers Globalizing the Middle Ages Keynote speaker: Carol Symes, Ph.D. The Midwest Medieval History Conference seeks papers on all aspects of medieval history, especially those related to this year’s theme: … Continue reading

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A Letter from the Société des Bollandistes

Dear Colleague, For over four centuries the Société des Bollandistes has been at the forefront of scholarship in the vast field of Christian hagiography. Since the days of Jean Bolland and Daniel van Papenbroeck, through those of Hippolyte Delehaye, Paul … Continue reading

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Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University, 2018-2019

Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University, 2018-2019 The Medieval Colloquium of the Department of English at Harvard University invites applications for the Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellowship, a four-week residential fellowship that can be held at any time during … Continue reading

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California Rare Book School is excited to be offering Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Course

California Rare Book School is excited to be offering Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts again this year. The course will be taught by Melissa Conway and will take place from July 30 to August 3, 2018 at UCLA. Applications and further … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Yours, Mine, Ours: Multi-Use Spaces in the Middle Ages

Call for papers: “Yours, Mine, Ours: Multi-Use Spaces in the Middle Ages,” at Society of Architectural Historians 72nd Annual International Conference (deadline for abstracts June 5, 2018). Medieval buildings and spaces were not always used for a single purpose: very … Continue reading

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Digital Scriptorium News and Survey

Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts. Our website unites scattered resources from many institutions into a national digital platform for teaching and scholarly … Continue reading

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A response to: Oţa, Silviu. Review of Mária Vargha, “Hoards, Grave Goods, Jewellery: Objects in Hoards and in Burial Contexts during the Mongol Invasion of Central-Eastern Europe.”

A response to: Oţa, Silviu. Review of Mária Vargha, Hoards, Grave Goods, Jewellery: Objects in Hoards and in Burial Contexts during the Mongol Invasion of Central-Eastern Europe. Speculum 92/4 [2017]: 1263–65; doi: 10.1086/693915. Author’s Response (Mária Vargha, University of Vienna) … Continue reading

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