MAA Book Subvention Program

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Chris

The Medieval Academy Book Subvention Program provides subventions of up to $2,500 to university or other non-profit scholarly presses to support the publication of first books by Medieval Academy members.

Applications for subventions will be accepted only from the publisher and only for books that have already been approved for publication. Eligible Academy members who wish to have their books considered for a subvention should ask their publishers to apply directly to the Academy, following the guidelines outlined at http://www.medievalacademy.org/books/book_book_subvention.htm.

The deadline for applications is 1 May 2012.

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British Library Acquires the St Cuthbert Gospel

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Chris

From Medieval and Early Manuscripts Blog:

The British Library has acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel after the most successful fundraising campaign in the Library’s history. Following a detailed conservation assessment, the manuscript has recently been fully digitised and you can now see it here on our Digitised Manuscripts site. The manuscript has been added to the Library’s collections as Additional MS 89000.

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Writing Europe Open Registration

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Chris

Click here for open registration for ‘Writing Europe before 1450: A Colloquium’, University of Bergen, 3rd-5th June 2012. Programme and registration details are now available on the conference website <http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/conferences/writing-europe>, please use the side bar for navigation. Registration will close of 15 May.

Plenary speakers:  William Johnson (Duke University); Kathryn A. Lowe (University of Glasgow); Marilena Maniaci (Universita` di Cassino); David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)

Writing Europe before 1450 is a collaboration between the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen and the School of English at the University of Leicester, and is generously subsidised by the Centre for Medieval Studies and by the School of English.

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Vatican and Oxford University Share Ancient Texts Online

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Chris

From The Guardian:

Vatican and Oxford University share ancient texts online

Digitised collections of Greek and Hebrew manuscripts and early
printed books to be made available free online

The Oxford University and Vatican libraries are to jointly digitise
1.5m pages of ancient texts and make them available free online.

The libraries said the digitised collections will centre on three
subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books and
Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books.

The areas have been chosen for the strength of the collections in both
libraries and their importance for scholarship in their respective
fields.

With approximately two-thirds of the material coming from the Vatican
and the remainder from Oxford University’s Bodleian libraries, the
digitisation effort will also benefit scholars by uniting materials
that have been dispersed between the collections for centuries.

“Transforming these ancient texts and images into digital form helps
transcend the limitations of time and space which have in the past
restricted access to knowledge,” Sarah Thomas, director of the
Bodleian Libraries, said on Thursday.

“Scholars will be able to interrogate these documents in fresh
approaches as a result of their online availability.”

The initiative has been made possible by a £2m award from the Polonsky
Foundation.

“The service to humanity which the Vatican library has accomplished
over almost six centuries, by preserving its cultural treasures and
making them available to readers, finds here a new avenue which
confirms and amplifies its universal vocation through the use of new
tools, thanks to the generosity of the Polonsky Foundation and to the
sharing of expertise with the Bodleian libraries,” Holy See librarian
Cardinal Raffaele Farina said.

 

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El autor y su manuscrito en la Península Ibérica en la Edad Media

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Chris

El autor y su manuscrito en la Península Ibérica en la Edad Media (Madrid, Casa de Velázquez). – http://www.casadevelazquez.org/es/investigacion/calendario-de-actividades/novedad/el-autor-y-su-manuscrito-1/

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XVIIIe Colloque du CIPL

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Chris

Please remember that proposals for papers in the eighteenth international conference of the CIPL (St. Gall, September 2013) are expected by 31 May.
The call for papers on “The Scriptorium” can be downloaded from our website (http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/stGall/).

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Disiecta membra. Frammenti di manoscritti perduti negli archivi e nelle biblioteche tra Modena e Bologna

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Chris

Archivio di Stato di Bologna, Archivio di Stato di Modena, Archivio storico del Comune di Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Comune di Nonantola, Musei del Duomo, Museo benedettino e diocesano di arte sacra di Nonantola, Partecipanza agraria di Sant’Agata Bolognese, 14.-22.IV.2012 : Disiecta membra. Frammenti di manoscritti perduti negli archivi e nelle biblioteche tra Modena e Bologna. XIV Settimana della Cultura. – http://www.asmo.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/219/archivio-eventi/57/xiv-settimana-della-cultura-disiecta-membra-frammenti-di-manoscritti-perduti-negli-archivi-e-nelle-biblioteche-tra-modena-e-bologna

 

 

Archivio di Stato di Bologna, Archivio di Stato di Modena, Archivio storico del Comune di Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Comune di Nonantola, Musei del Duomo, Museo benedettino e diocesano di arte sacra di Nonantola, Partecipanza agraria di Sant’Agata Bolognese, 14.-22.IV.2012 : Disiecta membra. Frammenti di manoscritti perduti negli archivi e nelle biblioteche tra Modena e Bologna. XIV Settimana della Cultura. – http://www.asmo.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/219/archivio-eventi/57/xiv-settimana-della-cultura-disiecta-membra-frammenti-di-manoscritti-perduti-negli-archivi-e-nelle-biblioteche-tra-modena-e-bologna

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Jobs for Medievalists: Medieval English at King’s College

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Chris

For information about the new position in Medieval English at King’s (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer), please see the following details.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=11496

Summary:

The Department of English seeks an outstanding lecturer or senior lecturer in medieval English literature and language to join Professor Clare Lees and Drs Robert Mills and Sarah Salih in developing and extending our research and teaching profile in medieval literary studies. The team also includes Dr Juliana Dresvina, British Academy postdoctoral fellow in later medieval literature, and a flourishing group of doctoral candidates whose interests include Old and Middle English as well as interdisciplinary projects (co-supervised with medievalists in the School of Arts and Humanities). The department offers an MA in Medieval English: Sex, Gender and Culture and contributes to the interdisciplinary MA in Medieval Studies. Medieval English literature at King’s is characterised by its commitment to theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary research, and features research interests in religious literary culture, verbal and visual culture, gender and sexuality studies, and queer studies. Two medievalists in the department currently direct two interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Research Centres– the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (CLAMS, directed by Lees) and Queer@King’s (directed by Mills).

For informal enquiries, contact Professor Josephine McDonagh, Head of the Department of English, josephine.mcdonagh@kcl.ac.uk; or Professor Clare Lees, Clare.Lees@kcl.ac.uk.

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University of Kent: 50th Anniversary Studentship for a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Chris

Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent: Doctoral Studentship

The University of Kent’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies is pleased to announce that, under the University of Kent’s 50th Anniversary Scholarship Scheme, it has a new PhD scholarship to offer. Full details of the scholarship (equal in value to research council awards) is available at here.

To be eligible for the scholarship candidates must make their application by the deadline of 19th April, 2012. Applicants who meet this deadline, and who are offered a place by MEMS, will automatically be entered into the 50th Anniversary Scholarship competition.

NB. Candidates who applied for funding through the History or English Scholarships will also be considered for this new round of scholarships. It is not necessary for such candidates to re-apply.

For more information about the studentship and the Centre, visit http://www.kent.ac.uk/mems/

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International Colloquium. Le scribe d’archives dans l’Occident médiéval.

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Chris

2-4 mai 2012. Namur (Belgium). Colloque international.

Le scribe d’archives dans l’Occident médiéval. Formations, carrières, réseaux / Archival Scribes in the Medieval West: Training, Careers, Connections.

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