Author Archives: Chris

Call for Papers: Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2012 The 21st Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 30 August-2 September 2012. The theme of the conference is ‘Mortality … Continue reading

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Translation Opportunity

Translators sought to contribute to a parallel Latin-English edition of Alexander of Hales’ Gloss on Lombard’s Sentences. The four-volume Gloss will be published in eight volumes of the Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations series (Peeters). Potential collaborators are invited to … Continue reading

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2012 Annual Meeting, Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO), 22-24 March

The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held on March 22-24 on the campus of Saint Louis University, nestled in the heart of midtown Saint Louis, Missouri. This year’s meeting will feature nearly fifty sessions … Continue reading

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Ana Maria Aldama Roy II International Prize for a Doctoral Thesis 2011

The Ana Maria Aldama Roy Foundation, which has the principal aim of promoting Latin Studies, invites applications for its Second International Prize for Doctoral Theses.  This is open to doctoral theses on Christian, Medieval or Renaissance Latin, which have been … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Audience in the Middle Ages, Yale University

Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 29th annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, to be held at Yale University on Saturday, March 31st, 2012. The theme will be “Audience in the Middle Ages.” … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium

5-7 July 2012, University of Oxford Call for Papers The Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (OCICS) is a biennial conference devoted to the interdisciplinary study of historical and related texts in the medieval and Early Modern periods. The theme for the … Continue reading

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Fellowships and Openings

1. 10 Postdoc fellowships “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe”, application deadline 10 Jan. 2012: http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/chancen/id=6587&type=stipendien The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of art history, history, literature, museology, philology, political philosophy, political science, religion and sociology who want to carry out … Continue reading

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Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography

Lincoln College Summer School of Greek Palaeography 13-18 August 2012 Purpose: The school is intended for students of Classical, Biblical, Patristic and medieval Greek literature, for historians of Byzantine art and culture, and for custodians of manuscripts and rare books. … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) Binghamton University Call for Papers April 26-7, 2013 Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) stands on the threshold between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a time of rapid transition in the political, economic, artistic, and literary … Continue reading

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MAA Candidates for 2012

Dear MAA Member, We are pleased to announce the names of the MAA members who have generously agreed to stand for election to office in 2012, as reported by the Nominating Committee. The list of candidates with their photos and … Continue reading

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