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Mellon Grant to Yale Medievalists Supports Digital Manuscript Research

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently announced a grant of $650,000 to Yale University that will allow four of its medievalists and two principal investigators (four MAA members in all) to apply the newest digital technology to various aspects of … Continue reading

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John Boswell Fund Matching Grant

The Freeman Foundation and its founder Weston Milliken have generously offered a $10,000 matching grant to the MAA to enable the Academy to award the John Boswell Dissertation Grant annually. To receive these funds, the MAA will need to raise … Continue reading

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Annual Meeting Registration Is Open

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place April 4-6 in Knoxville, Tennessee and will be hosted by the University of Tennessee, the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. … Continue reading

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Speculum Goes Digital for Members

As we reported in the December News, as a new benefit to MAA members, the first 25 book reviews from Speculum volume 88.1 (January 2013), will be soon available online. The second group of reviews will be released a few … Continue reading

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Conferences – Plantations Amidst Savagery

In 1113 David youngest son of St Margaret of Scotland founded a colony from St Bernard of Abbeville’s abbey of Thiron-Gardais at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders.  This community was the first of any of the reformed Benedictine or Augustinian … Continue reading

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2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

The 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program core competition is now open. The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2014-2015 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and … Continue reading

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Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies

Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) announces the establishment of the Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies, to be awarded annually for study beginning July 1, 2013. The Fellowship was established … Continue reading

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Swenson Family Fellowships in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies for Junior Scholars

Swenson Family Fellowships in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies for Junior Scholars   The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) announces the establishment of the Swenson Family Fellowship in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies, to be awarded semi-annually for study beginning July … Continue reading

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NEH Summer Seminar

Researching Early Modern Manuscripts and Printed BooksJune 15 – July 12 Visiting speakers include Giles Mandelbrote (Lambeth Palace Library), Heather Wolfe (Folger Library), John Bidwell (Morgan Library), and Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge). Applications must be postmarked by March 4, 2013. For … Continue reading

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The James J. Paxson Memorial Travel Grant for Scholars of Limited Funds

The BABEL Working Group and postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies would like to announce the James J. Paxson Memorial Grant for Scholars of Limited Funds, available annually beginning in 2013 for presenters at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, held … Continue reading

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