Dear Colleagues:
Michael I. Allen would like to draw your attention to Martin Hellmann’s outstanding web-based resource for the verification and deciphering of Early Medieval Shorthand, a.k.a. Tironian Notes. His “supertextus notarum tironianarum” is a magnificent achievement, and one constantly being enriched to our enormous benefit. Please find it, as below, via: http://www.martinellus.de
Valencia, Universitat de València, serie de conferencias Europeana Regia : Bibliotecas para Europa. – 2.V.2012 : S. Zamponi, Los manuscritos humanísticos : exquisita materialidad ; 28.V.2012 : M.-L. López-Vidriero Abelló, Las bibliotecas humanísticas : bibliófilos y lectores. – http://www.europeanaregia.eu/en/news/2012/03/series-lectures-europeana-regia-bibliotecas-europa-organized-universitat-valencia
During the XVIIIth Congress of the CIPL (11-14 September 2013, St-Gallen), Apices will host a special session as well as a poster session, both under the title of “Recent Directions and Results in Palaographical and Codicological Research”. The deadline for proposals is set on the 31 October 2012. The call for papers, complete with all necessary details, is to be found at : http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/stGall/specialsessions.htm.
New York, Rubin Museum of Art, 6.IV. – 3.IX.2012 : Illuminated. The art of sacred books. – http://www.rmanyc.org/illuminated
We call the attention of medievalists and of all interested scholars to the following online posts concerning the Central Library Plan for New York Public Library.
http://www.thenation.com/article/167454/battle-over-new-york-public-library-continued
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/03/28/column-new-york-public-library-research-collection
L’Aquila, Archivio di Stato, 17.IV. – 11.V.2012 : I colori del tempo. L’arte della miniatura nel quattrocento aquilano. – http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_1737281185.html
The deadline for the Call for Papers for the 2013 Medieval Academy Annual Meeting (Knoxville, TN, 4-6 April), has been extended to 1 June 2012. Please click here for the complete CPF.
Il 28 aprile 2012, presso il Salone del Palazzo Arcivescovile di Lucca, alle ore 17.30 si terrà la cerimonia celebrativa per l’iscrizione dei documenti altomedievali dell’Archivio Arcivescovile nel Registro ‘Memoria del Mondo’ dell’UNESCO.
Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond
An interdisciplinary conference to be held at Boston University (USA)
February 28-March 2, 2013
Contributions from prospective participants are invited for an interdisciplinary conference examining the practices and values attached to the human voice in medieval cultures. An edited volume is planned.
The question of “voice and voicelessness” engages with several important trends in medieval studies today, including issues of law and representation; theology and embodiment; historicist models of subjectivity; the poetics and esthetics of marginality; and the linguistic dynamics of intercultural encounter. The first goal of the project is to examine the axis proposed by the conference title as approached by scholars working on medieval literatures, theology, law, art history, history, philosophy, and musicology. The project’s second, methodological goal is to seek a common ground of interdisciplinary engagement by examining how distinct areas of scholarly endeavor approach a problem of universal resonance but elusive definition. This pursuit will be further enriched by the conference’s international composition, so that disciplinary, methodological, and national habits of thought and argument will be brought into dialogue. The topic of voice and voicelessness engages with questions related to the expression of self and respect for an other, and so lends itself particularly well to this multi-level encounter. Contributions that are transnational or transdisciplinary in nature, or which interrogate the relations between contemporary and medieval thought will be especially appreciated.
Prospective contributors are invited to send 500-word abstracts to kleiman@bu.edu no later July 15, 2012, using the keyword “Voice” in the message title. Please include a recent CV with your submission. Papers as delivered should be 30 minutes in length. The language of the conference and publication is English. Selected participants will be notified no later than July 30, 2012.
Cari amici e colleghi,
il CRELEB (Centro di Ricerca Europeo Libro Editoria Biblioteca) dell’Università Cattolica è lieto di presentarvi la prima edizione della Summer school internazionale in studi sul libro antico che si terrà a Venezia, presso la Fondazione Giorgio Cini, dal 5 al 14 giugno prossimi. Maggiori informazioni e il programma definitivo sono disponibili alla pagina web: http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/creleb_2010.html
Si tratta di un’iniziativa di grande respiro internazionale che può vantare, oltre a una location prestigiosa, anche un importante gruppo di relatori. Il corso, che si rivolge a studenti, laureati, dottorandi di ricerca, studiosi, bibliotecari, collezionisti e a tutti coloro che, a vario titolo, si occupano di libri antichi, è organizzato in collaborazione con la Fondazione Cini di Venezia. Partner ufficiali dell’iniziativa sono la rivista “La Bibliofilia” e la Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, l’AIB, sezione Veneto, l’Associazione Librai Antiquari Italiani e la Società Bibliografica Toscana.
