The Medieval Academy Blog

Tripoli, Bohemond VI or VII, gold bezant, 1251-87. Courtesy of Princeton University Numismatic Collection.

The Medieval Academy is delighted to announce the five recipients of the

2014 Schallek Awards, presented by the Medieval Academy of America and the Richard III Society, American Branch.

Amy Eberlin (Univ. of St. Andrews), “Trade and Diplomacy between Scotland and Flanders, 1320-1513”

Rebecca Favorito (The Ohio State Univ.), “The Role of Ritual in Creating Political Culture: The Coronation and the Body Politic in Lancastrian England”

Joanna MacGugan (Univ. of Connecticut), “Competing Authorities and Contested Spaces: Dying in Dublin in the Reign of Edward I”

Michelle Seiler (Univ. of Iowa), “The Formation of Legal Identities: Townspeople and the Law in Three Eastern English Royal Buroughs, 1341-ca. 1450”

Carla Maria Thomas (New York Univ.), “The Landscapes of Control in Early Medieval English Literature”

The Schallek awards, made possible by a generous gift to the Richard III Society from William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek, support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). The $2,000 awards help defray research expenses such as the cost of travel to research collections and the cost of photographs, photocopies, microfilms, and other research materials.

The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be hosted by the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame and will take place on 12-14 March in Notre Dame, Indiana. The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, excepting those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2013 or 2014; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Special consideration can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.

The complete Call for Papers with additional information, submission procedures, selections guidelines, and organizers is available here.

Please contact the Program Committee at MAA15@nd.edu if you have any questions.

In 2014, as always, the Medieval Academy will have a strong presence at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo (May 8-11):

Susan L. Einbinder (University of Connecticut) will deliver the Medieval Academy Plenary Lecture on Friday, May 9 at 8:30 AM in the East Ballroom of the Bernhard Center. Her topic will be “The Libel of the Lamb: Violence and Medieval Metaphor.”

The Medieval Academy will also sponsor two related sessions:

Friday, 1:30 PM (Session 243): “Violence and Vulnerability I: Slow and Systemic.” Organizer: Diane J. Reilly, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington; Presider: Ruth Mazo Karras, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities; “Violence to the Dead: Negative Translation and Damnatio Memoriae” (Dyan Elliott, Northwestern Univ.); “Ceremonies of Peasant Violence and Seigneurial Violence” (Paul Freedman, Yale Univ.); “Adam and Eve and the Animals” (Peggy McCracken, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

Friday, 3:30 PM (Session 296): “Violence and Vulnerability II: Sacred and Spectacular.” Organizer: Diane J. Reilly, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington; Presider: William Chester Jordan, Princeton Univ.; “Sacrilege at Cambron: Anti-Jewish Narrative, Judicial Combat, and the Cult of the Virgin Mary in Hainaut, 1326” (Walter Simons, Dartmouth College); “Preaching the Vulnerable Christ” (Sara Lipton, Stony Brook Univ.); “Utrum ludei deberent occidi a fidelibus: Violence against Jews from School to Street” (Deanna Klepper, Boston Univ.)

On Friday at 3:30 PM, the Committee on Area and Regional Associations (CARA) will sponsor a panel titled “Writing the Middle Ages for Multiple Audiences” (Session 287). Organizer: Michael A. Ryan, Univ. of New Mexico; Presider: James M. Murray, Western Michigan Univ.; Panelists: David M. Perry (Dominican Univ.), Ellen F. Arnold (Ohio Wesleyan Univ.), Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech.) and Laura Saetveit Miles (Univ. i Bergen).

On Sunday at 8:30 AM, the MAA Graduate Student Committee (GSC) will sponsor a discussion on “Open Access and Graduate Student Dissertations: A Roundtable on the Changing North American Publishing Industry and What Grads Need to Know.” (Session 505). Organizer: Christopher Riedel, Boston College; Presider: Christopher Riedel; Panelists: Seth Denbo (American Historical Association), Caroline Palmer (Boydell & Brewer), Dorothy Carr Porter (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania), Suzanne Rancourt (Univ. of Toronto Press) and Melissa Levine (Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

The GSC will also sponsor a reception with a cash bar (Fetzer 1045) on Thursday evening at 5:30.

Lisa Fagin Davis (Acting Executive Director) and Sarah Spence (Editor of Speculum) will be staffing a Medieval Academy table in the Exhibit Hall during conference hours. We hope you’ll stop by to meet us and let us answer all your Medieval-Academy-related questions.

More information about the IMC is available here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

“Dante and Virgil in Conversation,” from Oxford: Bodleian Library, MS. Holkham Misc. 48, p. 67. © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

The Fellows of the Medieval Academy have elected four Fellows and one Corresponding Fellow for induction in 2014. We offer our congratulations to these scholars, who have made notable contributions to Medieval Studies in North America and worldwide:

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (French Language and Literature, Univ. of Pittsburgh); Antonette di Paolo Healey (Old English, Univ. of Toronto); Lawrence Nees (History of Art, Univ. of Delaware); David Wallace (Literature, Univ. of Pennsylvania).

The new Corresponding Fellow is Charles S. F. Burnett (History of Science, Warburg Institute).

Complete lists of current and past Fellows and Corresponding Fellows can be found on the Medieval Academy website:

http://www.medievalacademy.org/default.asp?page=Fellows

This election brings the number of Fellows to 119 (of a possible 125) and the number of Corresponding Fellows to 65.

We hope you will join us for the formal induction of the new Fellows at the Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on Saturday, 12 April at 4:00 PM in the Grand Horizon Room, Covel Commons.