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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear medieval-religion colleagues,
I don’t normally post messages to the list for other people, unless
they have written me about a technical problem and require my
assistance. I’m making an exception this time, and sending along a
collage of news concerning seminars, conferences, degree programmes,
lectures, etc.
PLEASE, if you have any similar information, it would be best in
future if you posted this material directly to the list.
Don’t write to me or to the list if you have any queries about
information contained below; please see if there is contact
information about the event that interests you, and use that for your
correspondence.
Best wishes, George Ferzoco
P.S.: I apologize for the length of this message!
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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL MUSIC RESEARCH SEMINARS AUTUMN TERM 2007
9 Oct Kenneth Mobbs: 'The Mobbs Keyboard Collection I:
its formation and research potential'
16 Oct Nigel Simeone (University of Sheffield). 'West Side
Story at 50'
23 Oct Lee Marshall (University of Bristol). 'Stardom voice
and song meaning: a study of Bob Dylan'
30 Oct John Irving (University of Bristol): 'The Mobbs
Keyboard Collection II: playing the Viennese classics'
6 Nov Paul Rodmell (University of Birmingham): '"Damned
ugly me bhoy"--Sir Charles Stanford and modernism'
13 Nov David Fallows (University of Manchester). 'Josquin,
Lucrezia Borgia, Pietro Bembo and an anonymous portrait of a musician'
20 Nov Ian Biddle (Newcastle University): 'The nostalgia
effect: musicologies of loss and decline in late imperial Europe'
27 Nov [2.00 pm] Colston Lecture Margaret Bent, FBA
(All Souls' College, Oxford): 'Medieval music as archaeology:
dismembered manuscripts tell their stories'
4 Dec Liz Garnett (UCE Birmingham Conservatoire):
'Choral conducting and the construction of meaning'
11 Dec Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway): 'Beethoven
IX and a Middle East war: the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, 2006'
Further information: contact Stephen Banfield
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Institute for Historical Research
Medieval European History 1150-1550
Convenors: Dr Joe Canning (Emeritus Bangor), Professor David
Carpenter (KCL), Professor David d'Avray (UCL), Dr Serena Ferente
(KCL), Dr Sophie Page (UCL), Professor Miri Rubin (QM), Professor
Nigel Saul (RHUL)
18 October
Ms Barbara Gaspar (UCL)
The Politics of Marian Devotion in Late Medieval Europe and Beyond
Please note: this session takes place in room NG16 North Block
1 November
Moritz Isenmann (European University Institute, Florence)
Accountability of Public Officials and Statecraft in Late Medieval
Italy and Spain
Please note: this session takes place in the Warburg institute, ask
for the European History seminar at 17:30 and sign in at their
reception and they will direct you to the room.
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, WC1H OAB
15 November
Dr Guy Geltner (Oxford University)
Prisons and Prison Life in the MA
Please note: this session takes place in the England Room
29 November
Dr David Stone (Dulwich College)
Cultivating Mentalities: New Approaches to Manorial Account Rolls
Please note: this session takes place in the England Room
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University of Nottingham
Institute for Medieval Research
EVENTS PROGRAMME 2007-8
‘Chasing Robin Hood’, Professor Tony Pollard, University of Teesside
Special Lecture to mark 50 years of the journal Nottingham Medieval
Studies
Thurs 15 Nov, 5.30pm, Arts Centre Lecture Theatre, University Park,
followed by drinks reception and buffet
Semester 1 Seminars on the theme of ‘belief’
Dr Scott Ashley, University of Newcastle, ‘Before the Persecuting
Society: Classification and Exclusion in the Carolingian World’
Thurs 29 Nov, 6.15pm, A18, School of History, Lenton Grove,
University Park
Dr Ian Johnson, University of St Andrews, ‘Translating Belief and
Believable Translation: the Middle English Life of Christ’
Thurs 13 Dec, A18, 6.15pm, School of History, Lenton Grove,
University Park
Panel discussion on theme of ‘belief’
Thurs 7 Feb, 6.15pm, B13, School of History, Lenton Grove, University
Park
‘Printing the Middle Ages: the post-medieval life of medieval
texts’, Professor Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
IMR Annual Lecture, 2007/8
Thurs 21 Feb, 6pm, Arts Centre Lecture Theatre, University Park,
folllowed by drinks reception and buffet
Semester 2 Seminar on the theme of ‘time’
Dr James Palmer, University of St Andrews, title tbc
Thurs 6/13 March, 6.15pm, School of History, Lenton Grove, University
Park
Professor Richard Coates, University of West of England, title tbc
Thurs 17 April, 6.15pm A18, School of History, Lenton Grove,
University Park
Panel discussion on theme of ‘time’
Thurs 8 May, 6.15pm, A18, School of History, Lenton Grove, University
Park
For further information go to: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medieval/
index.php
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Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
(Registered Charity No. 1077455)
(in collaboration with the English Place-Name Society and the
Society for
Landscape Studies)
NAMES AND PLACES IN THE NORTH-WEST
SATURDAY 3rd NOVEMBER 2007
C2/C15, Renold Building, Sackville Street, University of Manchester
9.45 am Registration and Coffee
10.15 am Welcome and Introduction:
Dr Alex Rumble (University of Manchester) and
Dr Oliver Padel (President of EPNS and SNSBI)
Chair: Prof Diana Whaley (University of Newcastle)
10.30 - 11.10 am
Dr Carole Hough (University of Glasgow):
"Women in the landscape: place-name evidence for women in north-west
England"
11.15 - 11.55 am
Dr Simon Taylor (University of Glasgow):
"Where wind and water sheareth: following a boundary in medieval Fife"
LUNCH in the Barnes Wallis Restaurant
12.30 - 1.30pm
Chair: Dr Alex Rumble, University of Manchester
1.45 - 2.25 pm
Dr Margaret Gelling, MBE, FBA (University of Birmingham):
"Landscapes and place-names in the north-west"
2.30 - 3.00 pm
Mr Brian Rich (Univerity Keele):
"The Staffordshire Moorlands"
3.05 - 3.45 pm
Dr Paul Cavill (University of Nottingham):
"Topography and the Battle of Brunanburh"
CLOSE and TEA 3.45 - 4.15pm
Further details: contact Jennifer Scherr
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University of Glasgow
Tuesday 16 October 2007
READING PRACTICES: A SYMPOSIUM
This interdisciplinary symposium, organised by the Faculty of Arts in
collaboration with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, will
inaugurate a series of collaborative ventures, bringing together
scholars,
not merely from different disciplines across the Faculty of Arts, but
also
from other UK and international institutions (as part of the AHRC-funded
Modern Languages Training Network). This session will bring together a
group of internationally noted scholars from France and the US,
examining
reading practices in a number of historical, cultural and discursive
contexts from an interdisciplinary perspective. Key themes will
include the
following:
Reading practices in cultural and production contexts
Print culture
Practices of reading: theology, hermeneutics
Reading practices and the non-literary text
TIME: 3.00-7.00pm
VENUE: Modern Languages Building, 16 University Gardens, Glasgow
SCHEDULE
3.00pm Room 5, MLB
Professor Milad Doueihi (University of Glasgow)
‘Religion as Re-Reading: Augustine’
4.00pm Room 5, MLB
Professor Wilda Anderson (Johns Hopkins)
‘Reading as Scientific Action: Newton’
5.00pm Room 5, MLB
Tea / Coffee
5.30pm Lecture Theatre, MLB
Professor Roger Chartier (Collège de France)
‘Binding, Common-Placing and Reading Shakespeare (1593-1623)’
7.00pm Room 5, MLB
Reception
Contact: [log in to unmask]
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UCL medieval interdisciplinary seminar
Meetings take place on Mondays at 6:15
22 October 2007
The Disperata: the poetic voice of despair in Petrarch's Italy
Mr Alexander Murray (University College, Oxford)
19 November 2007
Paynim: Medieval and Renaissance Orientalism
Dr Robert Irwin (The TLS)
11 February 2008
Writing Histories, Writing Biographies, Medieval and Modern
Professors Dame Jinty Nelson (KCL) and Catherine Hall (UCL)
10 March 2008
Migration and the first Millennium
Professor Peter Heather (KCL)
28 April 2008
Individuals and Civitas in Medieval and Early Modern Aristotelianism
Dr Annabel Brett (Gonville & Caius, Cambridge)
19 May 2008
How to Hear Confessions: the advice of two Thirteenth-Century
priests' manuals
Dr Catherine Rider (Exeter)
Venue:
Room G09, UCL History Department, 24-5 Gordon Square, London WC1E
Email:
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"Religions of the Book: Manuscript Traditions in Judaism,
Christianity and
Islam, 1000-1500"
Second Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 21-22, 2008
University of South Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, FL
Keynote Speaker: Thomas E. Burman, Lindsay Young Associate Professor
Department of History, University of Tennessee,
author of *Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560*
Keynote Address: Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Traditions Hall
The Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of
South Florida seeks papers from graduate students and recent
M.A. or
Ph.D. recipients for its Second Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate
Symposium. This year's theme is "Religions of the Book:
Manuscript
Traditions in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, 1000-1500."
We encourage interdisciplinary topics with comparative emphases on
monotheistic religions in the medieval world.
Subjects for proposals may include, but are not limited to:
* sacred myth and narrative
* interreligious dialogue
* scriptural exegesis
* modes of representation
* traditions of illumination
* methods of manuscript production
Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr. Jane Marie
Pinzino,
Symposium Coordinator at [log in to unmask] Notification
of acceptances will be emailed by January 4, 2008. Please include
the title of your paper, name, affiliation and email address.
Each
paper selected will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation.
The Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Student Symposium is organized by the
Special Collections Department and the Humanities Institute,
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Jane Marie Pinzino, Ph.D.
Special Collections Department
University of South Florida, Tampa Library
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa, FL 33620-5400
813.974-2731 voice
813.396-9006 fax
<http://www.lib.usf.edu>
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New Master's Degree at Oxford in Medieval Studies
This nine-month interdisciplinary taught course (October to June) can
be taken either as a free-standing degree or as the first step
towards one of the research degrees of M.Litt. or D.Phil. ; students
can choose during the year in which direction they wish to proceed.
The degree balances taught courses and independent research. It is
aimed explicitly at students who wish to follow courses in more than
one discipline in medieval studies, and who are keen to extend the
range of their skills. The degree values language training and will
ask all students to study a medieval language they have not already
studied. Students will also take a palaeography course. In their
first two terms students will choose optional subjects, from topics
offered by the participating departments. (These include the
Faculties of English, History, History of Art, Modern Languages,
Byzantine Studies, Oriental Studies. Options are likely to be
available also in Music, Theology and Philosophy.) In addition, in
their second term students will attend an interdisciplinary seminar;
every dissertation (written in the third term) will have two
supervisors from different Faculties. In most cases there will be no
formal examinations and the degree will be assessed as follows: 20%
for an essay in each optional subject ; 20% for an essay or
transcription in paleography; 40% for the dissertation (up to 12,000
words.) Language skills will normally be assessed by a class test but
depending on the language it might sometimes be possible to
substitute the learning of a language (such as Arabic or Old Irish)
for one of the optional subjects and this language might then be
examined.
Further Information from [log in to unmask]
www.medieval.ox.ac.uk
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Representations of Masculinity
Saturday 17 November 2007
The Lock-Keeper’s Cottage,
Queen Mary - University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
10.00 – 10. 30 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
10.30 – 11.15
Robert Mills (Dept. of English, King’s College London)
The Medieval ‘FTM’ Narrative: Female Masculinity in the Middle Ages
11.15 – 12.00
Katherine J. Lewis (Dept. of History, University of Huddersfield)
Religious and Devotional Masculinity in Late Medieval England
12.00 – 12.45
Natasha Romanova (Dept. of European Languages, University of
Aberystwyth)
Idyllic Masculinity in French Romance
12.45- 1.45 LUNCH
(Please bring your own packed lunch. Beverages will be available)
1.45- 2.30
Ross Balzaretti (School of History, University of Nottingham)
Fatherhood in Late Lombard Italy
2.30 – 3.15
Clare Lees (Dept. of English, King’s College London)
Judith’s Masculinity
3.15 – 4.15 Discussion
4.15 – 4.45 Tea and Close
The colloquium is free to members of the London Medieval Society (new
members are always welcome). Membership is annual £20 (£10
concessions).
The cost for non-members is £10 (£5 concessions).
NO BOOKING NECESSARY. Registration will take place on the day.
Details: Gopa Roy (Colloquium Secretary) [log in to unmask]
Membership inquiries: Christopher Lay (co-secretary) [log in to unmask]
School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile
End Road, LONDON, E1 4NS
www.the-lms.org
President: Professor Miri Rubin
Patron: Professor Michael Clanchy
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Thirty-third Byzantine Studies Conference, which will be held in
Toronto from October 11 to 14, 2007
Details: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/medieval/BSC/
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Integration and Disintegration of Civilizations in Medieval Europe.
International Spring School 2008 (Schwerte, Germany)
See the website: http://www.spp1173.uni-hd.de for more details
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Institute for Historical Research
Late Medieval Seminar
Convenors: Clive Burgess (Royal Holloway, University of London),
Linda Clark (History of Parliament Trust), Sean Cunningham (National
Archives), Hannes Kleineke (History of Parliament Trust), Stephen
O'Connor (National Archives)
Venue: Ecclesiastical History Room, IHR
Time: Friday, 5.30pm
Autumn Term 2007 12 October Dr. Helen Carrel (Cambridge)
A medievalist's response to Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the
fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Perspective
19 October Dr. John Tillotson (ANU, Canberra)
Therefore, whoever is wise, let him dispose of his goods while he is
alive
(Fasciculus Morum): Early Tudor Executors and their work, with
particular reference to the will of Sir John Rudstone (d. 1531),
mayor of London
26 October Rebecca Oakes (Winchester)
Mortality among the young in fifteenth century England: new evidence
from Winchester College and New College, Oxford
2 November Nicholas Kingwell (Southampton)
Sir Thomas Arundell of Lanherne (d. 1485) and the Cost of Civil War
9 November Dr. Dominic Summers (UEA)
Grand Community Projects: Norfolk Church Towers of the Later Middle Ages
16 November Dr. Christopher Wright (RHBNC)
Beyond formal control: the Gattilusio lordships in the Genoese network
23 November Dr. Adrian Jobson (PRO)
Steadfast loyalty? Richard of Cornwall and the baronial opposition in
1263
30 November Jessica Lutkin (RHBNC)
All the King's bling... Edward III's purchases of goldsmiths work,
1360-1377
7 December Dr. Peter Fleming (UWE)
The Coventry Annals, the Wars of the Roses and Fifteenth-century
Urban History writing
14 December Dr. Paul Brand (Oxford)
Edward I and Justice
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London Society for Medieval Studies
Joint Chairs: Stephen Baxter and John Gillingham
Director: Alice Rio
Secretary: Ann Robbins (King's)
Treasurer: Catherine Rider (Exeter)
Committee: Marie-Pierre Gelin, Kathryn Gerry, Caroline Goodson, Sarah
Halton and Vanessa King
Venue: Wolfson Room, IHR
Time: Tuesday, 7.00pm
Note: a small charge may be payable at these seminars.
Autumn Term 2007
30 October David d'Avray (UCL)
Royal 'divorces' and papal dispensations
13 November Caterina Bruschi (Birmingham)
Portraits of inquisitors between literature and judicial texts, 13th
- 14th centuries
27 November Paula Higgins (Nottingham)
Josquin and the dormouse: discourses of aesthetic excess, masculinity
and homoeroticism in the reception of Planxit autem David
(Please note: This will be preceeded by our AGM at 6:45pm)
11 December George Ferzoco (Bristol)
The Massa Marittima mural: the context of penis trees and medieval
images of genitalia
— Please note: This will be preceeded by our Christmas party from
6:30pm (Wolfson Room) - all welcome
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Courtauld Institute
Communication & exchange in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages
2 February 2008
This is the 13th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium. The
annual colloquium is organised by students at the Courtauld Institute
of Art to enable postgraduate students from various universities to
present their work in progress. The conference welcomes those who are
giving a paper for the first time as well as more experienced
speakers, and provides a friendly and constructive environment for
feedback and discussion. Speakers from outside the UK are welcome.
Papers are invited on all aspects of the communications and exchanges
that shaped the production of art and architecture in the Middle Ages.
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset
House, Strand, London WC2
Contact:
Laura Cleaver [log in to unmask]
The deadline for abstracts is 16 November 2007
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Canterbury
Cathedrals, communities and conflict, 1000-1350
7 - 9 December 2007
In collaboration with the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical
Studies, Canterbury, and Canterbury Cathedral Archives, the Faculty
of Arts and Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church University is
hosting a conference on 'Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict,
1000-1350'. This conference aims to consider cathedrals as
embodiments of community and conflict within the British Isles and
Normandy during the high Middle Ages. Papers will encourage debate
about the composition and corporate identities of cathedral
communities, rivalries within and between cathedral communities,
their relationship with wider communities (e.g. local aristocracies,
the Welsh princes and the English crown), and cathedrals as foci for
wider community identities (e.g. patronage and cult of saints).
Speakers include: William Aird, Richard Allen, Julia Barrow, Paul
Dalton, John R. Davies, Marie-Pierre Gelin, Cecil Humphery-Smith,
Kathryn Hurlock, Charles Insley, Chris Lewis, Stephen Marritt, Thomas
Roche, Catherine Schulze, Stuart Sharp, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Sarah
Thomas, Nicholas Vincent, Paul Webster and Ann Williams.
Conference organisers:
Dr Paul Dalton, Dr Charles Insley and Dr Louise Wilkinson
Venue:
Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Campus,
Canterbury, CT1 1QU
Contact:
Charles Insley and Louise Wilkinson
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Tel:
+44 (0)1227 454700
Address:
Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ
Church University, North Holmes Campus, Canterbury (UK) CT1 1QU
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We are very pleased to notify you that all
22 years of our journal Oral Tradition are now
available online and free of charge at
http://journal.oraltradition.org
This site now contains nearly 500 articles
and 10,000 pages, with all of the contents downloadable
as pdf files that you can read online or print out as
you wish. The entire electronic archive of Oral
Tradition is also searchable by keyword or author name,
with phrase-based and Boolean searches possible as
well.
In return, may we ask you to forward this
e-mail announcement to at least five colleagues in your
field? It would be especially helpful if you selected
colleagues whom you feel might not be aware of Oral
Tradition's migration to an internet-based, open-access
format, or who might not already know that the entire
run of the journal is now available gratis.
There are also several other ways to assist
us with the process of notifying colleagues, and we
would greatly appreciate your assistance: electronic
links to the site in (1) personal blogs and (2)
professional websites, as well as (3) announcements in
journals and newsletters in your field. Any or all of
these strategies would certainly help to get the news
to colleagues on a broad scale.
Thank you for whatever you can do to help inform our
community and share a resource that was created for the
common good.
The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at
the University of Missouri (http://oraltradition.org )
is gratified to be able to offer Oral Tradition to
anyone worldwide with an internet connection and a
browser. We hope that the online, open-access format
will enlarge and diversify the journal's readership,
and particularly that it will offer everyone interested
in the world's oral traditions - regardless of their
location and academic context - an equal opportunity to
contribute actively to the discussion. Our shared field
will prosper most readily if it operates as an academic
democracy without financial or distributional barriers.
As for future contents, the next issue of
Oral Tradition (volume 22, number 2) will be a special
collection devoted to Basque traditions, and will
include descriptive and analytical articles, interviews
with oral poets, and an eCompanion with photographic,
audio, and video support. Beyond that issue we will be
publishing articles on Albanian oral law, Native
American storytelling, modern Greek oral poetry, Welsh
saints' lives, modern Balinese epic, and many other
topics across the international spectrum.
We welcome your comments and especially
your submissions for publication.
John Foley
Editor, Oral Tradition
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Institute of Historical Research
European History 1500-1800
Roger Mettam, Philip Broadhead, John Henderson, Julian Swann, Peter
Campbell, Filippo de Vivo
Mondays at 17.00 in the Low Countries Room of the Institute of
Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet
Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU
AUTUMN TERM 2007
This year there is going to be a special emphasis on comparison
every other session in order to encourage greater discussion from a
wider audience.
8 October Professor I.A.A. Thompson (Keele) 'Rebranding the
Nation, Santiago or
Santa Teresa? Changing patron saints in seventeenth-century Spain'
22 October Professor Peter Burke (Cambridge), 'Uses and Abuses of
comparative
history' (comparative)
5 November Alan Ross (Oxford) 'A teacher and his pupils in
Zwickau-Saxony. A case
study in the social and intellectual history of 17th c. education.'
19 November Professor Brian Pullan (Manchester), 'The War on
Begging in Early
Modern Italy' (comparative)
3 December Dr Frank Tallett (Reading) 'The priest as Shylock; the
clergy and credit in
old regime France'
contact: Filippo de Vivo - [log in to unmask]
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The 25th Brixworth Lecture will be held on Saturday 27th October 2007,
at 5pm in All Saints' Church, Brixworth (tea from 4pm)
Speaker: Prof. Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
Title: The Priest, the Temple and the Moon in the Eighth Century
(a comparison between Mayan and Anglo-Saxon astronomical expertise is
promised ...)
Full details (and a poster) are here:
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/news/documents/Brix2007poster.pdf
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Corpus Christi College (Cambridge), the Stanford University
Libraries, and the University of Cambridge are pleased to announce
the release of a beta version of their Parker on the Web service in
early October, 2007.
Parker on the Web is an interactive, web-based workspace designed to
support research and teaching with the manuscripts of the Parker
Library at Corpus.
The completed project will include
high-resolution images of the Library’s 538 manuscripts spanning the
6th to the 16th centuries; a fully-tagged version of M. R. James’
descriptive catalog, updated and expanded; plus digitized editions,
translations and secondary scholarship.
The project is supported by
the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
The beta site will be freely accessible at least through 2008 at
http://parkerweb.stanford.edu . The beta version replaces the
prototype made available in 2004, and offers a revamped user
interface, enhanced searching and manuscript-viewing capabilities,
and expanded metadata, bibliography, and page images for at least
fifty manuscripts.
The beta version will replace the prototype at the same web address:
http://parkerweb.stanford.edu
To obtain full access, users will need to register and accept an
agreement covering permitted uses. The
site’s development and content are expected to be complete in late
2009, at which time full access will be available through
institutional subscriptions only.
We encourage scholars and students in all relevant disciplines to
visit the site, use it freely and frequently, and provide
feedback. Instructors or institutions who wish to use the site for
teaching or research are especially encouraged to contact the project
team.
Those seeking additional information, or wishing to communicate about
the project are invited to send e-mail to [log in to unmask]
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The tenth C. A. Mayer Memorial Lecture will be given by Catherine
Reuben, Honorary Research Fellow, Kingston University, on the topic
Translating the Psalms in sixteenth-century Europe
Time: Friday, 9 November 2007 at 4 p.m.
Venue: British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Admission is free, but the British Library would like a list of those
attending. RSVP to [log in to unmask]
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16–18 April 2009.
"After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England," an
international conference organized by the Faculty of English,
University of Oxford, in association with the Bodleian Library,
marking the 600th anniversary of the publication of Arundel's
Constitutions, in Oxford.
* Mapping Chronologies (chaired by James Simpson)
* The Dynamics of Orthodox Reform
* Humanism and Intellectual History
* Literary Self-Consciousness and Literary History
* Discerning the Discourse: Language and Spirituality
* Heresy and its Textual Afterlife
Plenary speakers to include: Jeremy Catto, Anne Hudson, David Lawton,
Miri Rubin and Sarah Beckwith; conference respondent: Nicholas
Watson. Conference committee: Vincent Gillespie, Helen Barr, Santha
Bhattacharji, Mishtooni Bose, Kantik Ghosh, Annie Sutherland, John
Watts.
Further information and Call for papers:
please send 500-word abstracts by 1 May 2008 to Vincent Gillespie,
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford OX2 6QA, U.K.
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14 December–17 December 2007.
"England and the Continent in the Tenth Century," an International
Conference in memory of Professor Dr Wilhelm Levison (Died 1947)
In the spring of 1943, in the later stages of the Second World War,
Prof. Dr Wilhelm Levison, then an honorary fellow of Durham
University, delivered the Ford Lectures in Oxford under the title,
England and the Continent in the Eighth Century. His principal
subject was the conversion to Christianity twelve hundred years ago
of the Frisians and the Saxons at the hands of English churchmen. The
published version of those lectures has had an abiding influence on
the development of early medieval historical research, not least the
appendices with their great technical command of source criticism.
This conference is dedicated to the memory of Wilhelm Levison sixty
years after his death in 1947. Rather than crossing the eighth-
century landscape which he made his own, it pursues the spirit of his
work on "England and the Continent" in the context of the tenth century.
Bringing together an impressive array of internationally
distinguished scholars and also younger scholars of great promise, it
focuses on:
-England and the Continent
-The Vision of the Past
-Revolution in Church Organisation
-Kingship and Ritual
-Law and Power
-Manuscripts and Culture
The conference has been planned as a coherent, multi-authored
exploration of these themes, and it has been designed to encourage
vigorous discussion amongst all those attending.
Anyone interested is warmly welcome to attend. If you have academic
questions about the conference, please contact the convenor: Prof.
David Rollason ([log in to unmask]; http://www.dur.ac.uk/
conference.booking/details/?id=38).
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15 March 2008. "Religious Conformity and Non-Conformity in England,
c. 1380–1600," a one-day conference held in honour of Dr. Margaret
Aston at University College, London. Contact: Maureen Jurkowski
([log in to unmask]).
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26 April 2008.
"Bone Dreams: Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination," a
conference sponsored by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
Not all modern writers have agreed with Kingsley Amis that Beowulf is
an "anonymous, crass, purblind, infantile, featureless heap of
gangrened elephant's sputum."
This one-day conference will focus on the productive interplay of
early medieval and modern culture, and in particular the ways in
which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received,
confronted and re-envisioned in the modern imagination.
Call for papers: our emphasis will be on Old English writing and its
relations with literature since 1900, but we shall also consider
proposals that address topics and media beyond those parameters. We
welcome proposals (300 words) for papers of up to 20 minutes in
length. Deadline for proposals is 31 October 2007.
Confirmed speakers include Chris Jones (University of St Andrews),
author of Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-
Century Poetry (Oxford, 2006). Please send proposals, and direct any
enquiries, to the organizers: David Clark, Univ. of Leicester
([log in to unmask]), or Nicholas Perkins, St Hugh's College, Univ. of
Oxford ([log in to unmask]).
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14–17 May 2008.
"Italy and the Middle Ages," the 8th Annual Teaching Medieval
Literature Conference, in Vogogna, Italy (1 hour north of Milan).
Call for papers: proposals requested on teaching any aspect of
medieval Italy for college classes, ranging from freshmen to graduate.
Proposals due to Barbara Stevenson ([log in to unmask]) by 1
November 2007. For more information, follow the link for the Teaching
Medieval Literature Conference at http://www.kennesaw.edu/english/
Conferences/index.htm.
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11–13 July 2008.
"Multilingualism in Medieval Britain, 1100–1400," a conference at
Bristol University, England.
This conference is devoted to the study of the linguistic and
sociolinguistic situation in medieval Britain. Speakers include:
Caroline Barron, Keith Busby, Alan Fletcher, Tony Hunt, Tim Machan,
Anthony Musson, Thea Summerfield, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, and Laura
Wright.
Call for papers: Areas of interest include the purposes and effects
of "code switching"; the functional and territorial distribution
between Latin and vernacular languages; encounters between speakers
of different languages in reality and literature; similarities and
dissimilarities between medieval and modern modalities of
multilingualism. The organizers particularly invite papers that
explore these issues through a close analysis of one or two specific
types of source material.
The deadline for abstracts: 31 January, 2008. A volume of selected
proceedings is anticipated.
Contact: Ad Putter ([log in to unmask]) or Dr. Judith Jefferson
([log in to unmask]).
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EX MEDINCK': Medieval Manuscripts from Medingen convent (12-13
October 2007) <http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/blog/?p=676>
Friday, 12 October 2007 CONFERENCE (Conference Room II of the State-
und University Library Hamburg)
from 9am Registration
9.30 Gabriele BEGER: Introducation
10.00 Wolfgang BRANDIS: Medingen in the context of the convents on
the Lüneburg Heath. A historical introduction
11.00 Hans-Walter STORK: Retro-Paleography? Writing in the Medingen Mss.
12.00 Henrike LÄHNEMANN: Maccaronic text and bilingualism. The Latin-
Low German Text Production of the Medingen prayer-books
Lunch
15.00 Christine PUTZO / Katharina GEORGI: Manuscript-Workshop: The
Hamburg prayer-books as a mss-ensemble
17.00 Beate BRAUN-NIEHR: SBPK Berlin Ms. theol. lat. oct. 189 – A
Psalter for Medingen
18.00 Andres LAUBINGER: A database for the Medingen manuscripts –
Perspectives
19.00 Final Discussion
Saturday, 13. Oktober 2007 EXKURSION to the Protestant Convent of
Medingen
(train from Hamburg-Dammtor 9.48, arrival Bad Bevensen 10.45)
11.00 Abbess Monika VON KLEIST: A guided tour through the buildings
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Music from the Medingen Manuscripts in the Church
(Train from Bad Bevensen 17.09, arrival Hamburg Hauptbahnhof 18.01)
Conference Fee: (to be payed on the day): 30 Euro (incl. coffee,
lunch, handouts, trip to Medingen) / 20 Euro (for Friday)
On both days, there is the opportunity to view the exhibition (open
9am to 9pm); at 9am there will be a short tour by Hans-Walter Stork
and Henrike Lähnemann.
Please register with Hans-Walter Stork, Staats-und
Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, Von-Melle-Park 3,
20146 Hamburg, Tel.: 0049-40-42838-3371, Mail: [log in to unmask]
The full programme can be downloaded under http://www.sub.uni-
hamburg.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/medingen.pdf
Further information on the exhibition: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/
blog/?p=672
How to get there: Metrobus 4 or 5 to "Staatsbibliothek" resp. S11,
S21, S31 and train to "Dammtor"
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