The Medieval Academy Blog

The sixth issue of “Manuscripts on My Mind” for May is now available. Some of its Calls for Papers have very close deadlines, in case readers are interested. The Vatican Film Library is also happy to announce that all sessions have been filled for this year’s Thirty-Ninth Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, October 12-13, 2012.

Note that this newsletter will soon be–and previous newsletters already are–posted in high-resolution copies on their website:

http://libraries.slu.edu/special_collections/vfl_momm

Chicago (IL), University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery, 19.V. – 10.VIII.2012 : On the edge : Medieval margins and the margins of academic life. –http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/exhibits/

Three medievalists, all prominent members of the Medieval Academy of America, were recently announced as  Guggenheim Fellowship winners.

They include Olivia Remie Constable (Notre Dame University), Margot E. Fassler (Notre Dame University), and Thomas F. Madden (St. Louis University).

They were among a diverse group of 181 scholars, artists, and scientists in the Guggenheim Foundation’s eighty-eighth annual competition for the United States and Canada.

The History of Science Society’s Nathan Reingold Prize for an original graduate student essay on the history of science and its cultural influences.

Deadline for Submission: 1 June 2012

The deadline for the History of Science Society’s 2012 Reingold Prize for an essay by a graduate student is 1 June 2012. Please share this information with the scholars and students in your department and encourage students to enter their essays. For more information on the Reingold prize, visit the HSS website at http://www.hssonline.org/about/society_reingold.html.

The ideal Reingold Prize paper should be original; historiographically sophisticated; based on primary sources, either published or archival; clearly argued; well written; and interesting. Successful papers in the past have come from parts of dissertations in progress or revised seminar papers. The prize recognizes an original and unpublished article (articles that have been accepted for publication are ineligible) on the history of science and its cultural influences written by a graduate student enrolled at any college, university, or institute of technology. Essays in the history of medicine are not eligible for the prize; however, papers dealing with the relations between medicine and the non-medical sciences are welcome. It is hoped, but not assured, that the winning article will merit publication in Isis. Essays submitted for the competition must be thoroughly documented, written in English, must not exceed 8,000 words in length (exclusive of footnotes), and should conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. We encourage electronic submissions of Word, rtf, or pdf documents (file size under 5 megabytes – pictures should be low resolution) to prizes@hssonline.org.  All information identifying the author by name or school should be removed from the document except for a coversheet that is separate from the body of the paper. If sending hard copies to the address below, send three copies of the essay with a detachable cover sheet (essays are read without knowledge of the authors’ identity).

History of Science Society

440 Geddes Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA

All essays are due at the Executive Office by 1 June 2012.  All entries must be accompanied by proof that the author was a graduate student in good standing at a school, college, or university some time during 2012.  This proof can take the form of a dated school ID, transcript, or letter of support from an advisor on school letterhead. For other suggestions for proof of eligibility, and all other questions regarding the Reingold Prize, contact the History of Science Society at prizes@hssonline.org.

London, University of London, Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, 18.V.2012 : Insular Manuscripts Master Class (M. Brown, C. Farr, M. Stansbury). –  The Institute of English Studies will be holding a one-day master class on Insular Manuscripts on behalf of the School of Advanced Study (SAS). The course will cover the origins of Insular manuscripts; the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Book of Kells and Southumbrian manuscripts. It is suitable for MA, MRes, MPhil and PhD students and is also open to professional and other participants. Places will be awarded on a first-come first-serve basis.  –http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-courses/palaeography-and-manuscript-studies-courses

Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 28.I. – 3.VI.2012 : Painted to printed : the book in transition. – http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=2&exh_id=4401

Manuscripts of Medieval France with Vernacular Texts

http://www.utm.edu/staff/bobp/vlibrary/mdmss.shtml

will now bring users to over 600 whole facsimiles of medieval manuscripts. It will be presented publicly for the first time in Chicago at the July Convention (section 258)

http://www.frenchteachers.org/convention/chicago.htm

When it is completed, it will link to between 900 and 1000 manuscript facsimiles.