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We are pleased to announce the names of the MAA members who have generously agreed to stand for election to office in 2014, as reported by the Nominating Committee. The list of candidates with their photos and brief biographies appears … Continue reading →

This year’s theme for the International Medieval Congress, “Empire,” provides an apt opportunity to explore the ways in which the networks of the Western Mediterranean reflected, furthered, eluded or connected the many powers in the region: the Angevin, German and … Continue reading →

Proposals for papers are being accept for the first international conference on “A New Research Agenda for Mediterranean Studies” with the theme, “Geopolitical transition in the Mediterranean: a challenge for Mediterranean Studies” hosted by the Centre de la Méditerranée moderne … Continue reading →

Labexmed: Laboratory of excellence: Les sciences humaines et sociales au cœur de l’interdisciplinarité pour la Méditerranée, based at the Université d’Aix-Marseille is participating in the Fernand Braudel-IFER Incoming Fellowship Programme for non-French researchers interested in spending nine months working France. … Continue reading →

The SCRIPTO programme (Scholarly Codicological Research, Information & Paleographical Tools) at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg aims to provide a systematic, research-oriented introduction to the study of medieval and early modern books and their interpretation. It combines research and instruction within … Continue reading →

Lire le Roman de la Rose aujourd’hui. Journée d’étude (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterand). – http://www.bnf.fr/documents/cp_roman_rose_aujourd_hui.pdf

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship announces the 2012 competition for the best graduate article on feminist scholarship on the Middle Ages. The SMFS Awards Committee solicits nominations for Best Graduate Article in any area of medieval studies.  Nominated articles … Continue reading →

5.-7.VII.2012 : Bonds, links, and ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles (Oxford, University of Oxford). – http://www.ocics.co.uk/

Paleografia greca oggi (Padova, Università degli studi di Padova, Dipartimento dei beni culturali).  – http://www.beniculturali.unipd.it/cms/?p=1213

In the context of the ongoing cataloguing project of the BSB’s Greek manuscripts from the collection previously owned by Johann Jakob Fugger, a spectacular discovery has been made. While cataloguing a twelfth-century manuscript, philologist Marina Molin Pradel was able to … Continue reading →