Category Archives: Announcements

This summer Rare Book School is excited to offer four courses designed specifically to advance the research of scholars in medieval and renaissance studies. Introduction to Paleography, 800–1500 introduces students to the book-based scripts and the text typologies of the western … Continue reading →

Through the generosity of James Hankins, Professor of History at Harvard University, the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University has established a fund to support the Virginia Brown Endowed Chair in Latin Palaeography. The Chair honors … Continue reading →

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the keynote address for the 2014 Graduate Student Conference on Byzantine Studies. On February 28, 2014, at 7pm, Fr. Justin Sinaites will present “The Sinai Palimpsest Project: … Continue reading →

The Maison des Science de l’Homme Lorraine is offering 6 month post-doctoral contracts in Medieval Hebrew and Medieval Arabic Literature at €2400 per month. Deadline for Application: a June 2014 Start of Contract: 1 September 2014 All nationalities are welcome … Continue reading →

I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance is pleased to announce a call for articles that explore the presence of “Muslims and Islam in the Early Modern Italian and Mediterranean Worlds.”  Articles should address the transmission and circulation of ideas, objects, … Continue reading →

The University of Iceland is now accepting applications for Viking and Medieval Norse Studies and Medieval Icelandic Studies: (1) Medieval Icelandic Studies is a three-semester (90 ECTS) graduate program, with two semesters’ (60 ECTS) worth of course work and one semester’s worth (30 ECTS) … Continue reading →

To the Members of the Medieval Academy: The Council, on the recommendation of a search committee chaired by Richard Unger, is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Sarah Spence as the new editor of Speculum. Sarah Spence has just taken … Continue reading →

The database “Regesta Pontificum Romanorum” has been launched at the beginning of this week. In the near future there will be a regest for every papal contact prior to the year 1198. Please visit www.papsturkunden.de. As of now just 282 … Continue reading →

From Riverbed to Seashore. Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period – a Harvard University Research Seminar organized as part of the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative, led by Alina Payne, … Continue reading →

The next event in the Radcliffe Fellows speakers series will take place next Wednesday, 6 November, at 4 p.m. in the Sheerr Room of Fay House, featuring Jerold Frakes on “Cultural Revolution in Ashkenaz: The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature.” … Continue reading →