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MAA News – MAA and Leeds

If you’re going to be at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds this year, please join the Medieval Academy on Tuesday evening (7 July) at 7 PM for the MAA Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Sara Lipton (SUNY – … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA/GSC Grants Awarded

The inaugural MAA/GSC Grants in Innovation in Community Building and Professionalization have been awarded to three collaborative projects: “English Manuscript Rolls 1200-1600: A Collaborative Digitization Project” (Anya Adair, Yale University; Katherine Hindley, Yale University; Jessica Henderson, Univ. of Toronto; Micah … Continue reading

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MAA News – MAA/CARA Summer Scholarships Awarded

This is the first year that the Academy has offered support to an expanded group of summer programs, and we are pleased to announce that scholarships to support summer coursework in languages or paleography have been awarded to: Casey Ireland … Continue reading

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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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