Spring 2014 CARA Newsletter

Medieval Academy of America Committee on Centers and Regional Associations

2014 CARA Meeting The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations took place on Sunday, 12 April, at the Palomar Hotel near UCLA. This was the first time that the CARA meeting had been held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy. Delegates from twenty CARA affiliates gathered to to discuss common problems (including budgets, programming cutbacks,2-11 curricular revolutions, and the job market), share success stories, and brainstorm ways we can support each other in our advocacy for and teaching of medieval studies. The meeting began with a roundtable presentation from ASU’s Bob Bjork, Ohio State’s Graeme Boone, and Augsburg College’s Phil Adamo, who all presented their own innovative strategies for pedagogy, outreach, and fundraising. The traditional presentations by delegates followed. Our thanks to CARA Chair James Murray for organizing and implementing the meeting.

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2015 CARA Meeting

Check out the new and improved CARA website: We invite all interested members to join us at the 2015 CARA meeting at http://www.medievalacademy.org/?page=CARA the University of Notre Dame on Sunday 15 March, when CARA will If the link to your institution is missing or out-of-date, meet after the close of the Medieval please let Lisa know Academy Annual Meeting. ([email protected]).

DELEGATES’ REPORTS

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ASMAR): 23 volumes published. ACMRS just completed a review • Late Medieval and Early Modern of its activities for 1 July 2007 to Studies (LMEMS): 17 volumes 31 December 2013 as mandated published. by the Arizona Board of Regents. • ACMRS Occasional Publications: 4 Here are some of the highlights volumes published. regarding publications and our • Bagwyn Books: 4 volumes http://www.acmrs.org annual conference, which published. reached its 20th year in 2014. • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance named "Best of 2010: These unadorned and History: 7 volumes published. Reference" by Library Journal encouraging statistics about our • Early Modern Women: An and "2011 Booklist Editors' core scholarly activities reflect Interdisciplinary Journal. 7 volumes Choice: Reference." positively on the profession at published. The Council of Editors large. of Learned Journals awarded the At the six conferences held journal the 2013 Voyager Award, during the reporting period, the Publications: which recognizes excellence in any average attendance has been • Medieval and Renaissance Texts journal covering the period 1500 to 111, representing an average of and Studies (MRTS): 156 1800. 60 universities, including volumes published, 138 • The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Cambridge, Berkeley, Harvard, submissions and 143 Ages, 4 volumes: the only Princeton, UCLA, and Yale. proposals received. humanities project referred to in • Arizona Studies in the Middle the ASU President's report on - Robert Bjork Ages and the Renaissance research at ASU for 2010 and CARMEN (Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network)

This year's CARMEN ANNUAL MEETING is approaching!

Registration is open now for our meeting in Stirling, Scotland, 12-13 September 2014.

The Centre for Environmental History and Policy at the University of Stirling has generously offered to host the Annual Meeting in 2014. CARMEN looks forward to welcoming you to the meeting which will be held in a special venue in Stirling below the castle - Forth Valley College (http://www.forthvalley.ac.uk/about/investing_in _your_future/stirling) http://www.carmen-medieval.net/ Continued on page 14

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The Midwest Medieval History Conference gave the plenary address, “Devotional Laude: Praise & On 18-19 October 2013, the Procession within the First Franciscan Communities,” which MMHC met at Augsburg included conference attendees being led in medieval song. The College on the theme next MMHC meeting will be held at Dominican University in “Masters, Means & Methods: River Forest, IL, on the outskirts of Chicago, on 17-18 October The (Liberal) Arts in the 2014. The call for papers can be found at Medieval World.” There were http://mmhc.slu.edu/2014.html 38 members in attendance, In October 2013, Augsburg with 12 papers over 4 plenary Augsburg College College was honored to host the sessions, which included “Lessons on Belief and Midwest Medieval History Conference (see above). In April, at Behavior,” “Medieval the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Pedagogy,” “The Influence of Program Director Phil Adamo participated in a roundtable Antiquity in Early and discussion on the challenges of directing medieval studies Medieval Education,” and programs at large and small institutions. Adamo was also one of “Instruction for Religious and two recipients of this year’s CARA Award for Excellence in Secular Life,” and a Teaching. - Phil Adamo roundtable discussion entitled “The Medieval World in the The Hill Museum and Modern Classroom.” Jordan Manuscript Library (HMML) Sramek, founder and artistic director of the Rose Ensemble,

The Catholic University of America Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies This year is turning out to be an exciting Submitted by Jennifer Paxton and Lilla Kopár time at the Hill Museum & Manuscript The Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies Library. We recently announced a capital at The Catholic University of America started campaign which has four main parts: 1) the academic year with a major office move, preservation of manuscripts; 2) long-term followed by the submission of an extensive digital curation/storage; 3) promoting five-year program review report in December access through grants to scholars and 2013. In terms of scholarship and teaching, supporting curatorial staff; and 4) a major MBS enjoyed a productive academic year. In renovation of our space. The last of these is addition to a regular program of public the first to become visible, as our library lectures by visiting scholars, our exchange will be partially closed for the summer of program with Ludwig-Maximilians- 2014 (mid-May to late August) while the Universität in Munich enjoyed a second renovation is underway. The microfilms successful year, following the visit in 2012-13 and digital images of manuscripts will still by Prof. Gaby Waxenberger, who gave a public be available, but the reference collection lecture and led a well-attended day-long (aside from manuscript catalogs) will be in th workshop on runes. In April 2014, Prof. storage. HMML is also approaching its 50 Continued on p. 15 Continued on p. 9

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http://ims.unm.edu/

The Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of New Mexico hosted several well-attended events during the 2013–14 school year. The Institute’s Work in Progress Seminar met on three occasions: in October, Gerald Mako, a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, spoke on “Jewish Nomads between Christianity and Islam: The Khazar Qaganate”; in December, Sarah Davis-Secord, Assistant Professor of History, discussed her current research on Muslim-Christian relations in the medieval Mediterranean with a presentation titled “Focus on the Family: Ibn Jubayr on the Conversion of Muslims in Norman Sicily”; and in March, Geoffrey Russom of Brown University, an expert on the meter of Old and Middle English poetry, addressed the topic of “Transitioning to Iambic Meter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” In mid-April, Judith Herrin, Professor Emerita of Late Antique and Byzantine History at King’s College London, delivered a public lecture on “Re-thinking Ravenna: The Ostrogothic Inheritance.”

The Institute hosted its Twenty-Ninth Spring Lecture Series, “Medieval Mystics and Masters,” April 28–May 1. The speakers included Bernard McGinn of the University of Chicago Divinity School (“Two Twelfth-Century Visionary Mystics: Hildegard of Bingen and Joachim of Fiore” and “Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing”); Lenn E. Goodman of Vanderbilt University (“Two Muslim Masters: al-Farabi and Avicenna” and “Moses Maimonides: How Does His Guide Unperplex?”); Anne C. Klein of Rice University (“Yeshe Tsogyal, the Great Bliss Queen: Meditation and Transmission in ‘Heart Essence’ Traditions of Tibet”); and Jawid Mojaddedi of Rutgers University (“Rumi and Medieval Sufism”). The program included a performance by internationally acclaimed oud player Rahim al-Haj and attracted a total attendance of around sixteen hundred.

Geoffrey Russom was the Institute’s 2014 Visiting Scholar in Medieval Scandinavian Studies, teaching the popular course “Viking Mythology”; the Visiting Scholar for 2015 will be John Lindow of the University of California, Berkeley. In June Timothy Graham will offer his four- week intensive graduate seminar, “Paleography and Codicology,” for a group of seventeen graduate students drawn from the City University of New York, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, the University of Illinois, the University of Missouri, the University of Oklahoma, Texas Technical University, Middle Tennessee State University, and the University of New Mexico. The two CARA awards covering the full cost of tuition for the course go to Elizabeth Del Curto (Classics, University of Arizona) and Margaret Gaida (History of Science, University of Oklahoma). The program for the course will include a guest presentation by John Gillis of Trinity College Dublin on the Faddan More Psalter, discovered in 2006 in an Irish peat bog.

The University of New Mexico has doubled the number of its medieval faculty over the last three years. The latest addition to the faculty is Dr. Fred Gibbs, a historian of late medieval and early modern medicine who is also an expert in digital humanities and was previously director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

- Timothy Graham

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Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

The Marco Institute (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) was honored to host the Medieval Academy of America in downtown Knoxville in April, 2013. Since that heady weekend, the Institute has resumed its regular programming, with its 10th Annual Riggsby Lecture on Medieval Mediterranean History and Culture, delivered by Catherine Brown (University of Michigan), its 9th annual Manuscript Workshop on “Textual Communities,” and its 11th Annual Symposium on “Reconceiving Premodern Spaces,” with keynote speaker Diane Favro (UCLA).

In August the Institute welcomed its third Haslam Postdoctoral Fellow, Elizabeth Swann, who received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of York. We are thrilled that she will be continuing with us for the 2014-2015 academic year, during which she will continue her research on early modern sensory history.

The Institute hosted six scholars over the spring and summer of 2013 as part of the Lindsay Young Visiting Faculty Fellows program; ten scholars are anticipated for summer 2014. They will share space with students who will be studying Latin at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels as part of the Institute’s Summer Latin Program. We continue to be able to award the Jimmy and Dee Haslam Dissertation Fellowship, worth in total about $30,000, and the Anne Marie Van Hook Memorial Summer Travel Prize, worth $5,000. 2013-2014 winners were graduate students Katie Hodges-Kluck (History, Haslam) and Scott Bevill (English, Van Hook). Incoming winners are Thomas Lecaque (History, Haslam) and Katie Hodges-Kluck (History, Van Hook).

--Heather Hirschfeld, Riggsby Director

CARA, Conference Programming Report

Report from Michael A. Ryan (Associate Professor of Ages." Professor Barbara Weissberger, emerita History, University of New Mexico), Director of professor of Spanish from the University of Conference Programming for CARA (term ends in Minnesota, Professor Annemarie Weyl Carr, 2016) emerita professor of art history from Southern Methodist University, and Professor Jessica I have finished my first year of a three-year term of Goldberg, of UCLA's History Department, shared serving as Director of Conference Programming for their research on how notions of difference were CARA. For the Medieval Academy of America's understood and negotiated in the Middle Ages. annual meeting held on the campus of UCLA, Professor Goldberg very kindly replaced the late approximately 100 people attended the Friday plenary Professor Olivia Remie Constable, who was lecture on "Encountering Difference in the Middle originally slated to present on this panel, but who

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MARS at the University of Missouri http://medren.missouri.edu/

The Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) program at the University of Missouri oversees interdisciplinary minors at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and sponsors/cosponsors several MARS events during the academic year, including lectures, abstract workshops, reading groups, and social events.

In fall 2013 we inaugurated a new series of semi-annual seminars, organized around topics that reach across our disciplinary and chronological constituencies, during which three outside scholars circulate and discuss works in progress that relate to the chosen topic. In October 2013 Ruth Evans (English; St. Louis University), Laura Gelfand (Art History; Utah State University), and Jonathan Baldo (English; University of Rochester) led our discussion on "Memory." Our September 2014 seminar will be on the topic of "Emotion" and will address works in progress by Daisy Delogu (Romance Languages and Literatures; University of Chicago), Richard Barton (History; University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and Jessica Rosenfeld (English, Washington University).

In February 2014, the University of Missouri and Columbia College joined forces to host the 38th annual meeting of the Mid-America Medieval Association, a well-attended conference on the theme of the "Global Middle Ages." In addition, our annual lecture series brought Jonathan Sawday of St. Louis University to our campus in April 2014 for a graduate workshop on early modern print resources and a lecture on "'Commit to these Waste Blanks': On Blank Space and Interpretation." Planning is under way for the spring 2015 MARS lecture by Lynn Ransom (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania).

MARS-affiliated faculty have been busy with their own work as well, organizing and chairing sessions and giving papers at disciplinary conferences as well as the major medieval meetings. We organized our first-ever session at Kalamazoo on "Rethinking 'Medieval' for the 21rst Century," with Rabia Gregory presiding. Books published this year include Between Earth and Heaven: Liminality and the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Manchester), by Johanna Kramer (English), and Exchanges in Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Literature (Toronto), by Megan Moore (Romance Languages); work by MARS-affiliated faculty also appeared in a variety of journals and edited books. MARS faculty on leave next year will include Prof. Nate Hofer (Religious Studies), who will be a Junior Research Fellow at the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Universität Bonn next spring. Eight students with MARS minors or significant medieval coursework earned degrees in Art History and Archaeology, English, and History, including Nina Verbanaz (History) who completed her dissertation on "Per dilectam conuigem et regnorum consortem:” Empresses’ Role in Building the Salian Dynasty, 1024-1125 under the direction of Lois Huneycutt.

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CMRS, St. Louis University This year the CMRS at Saint Louis Edinburgh). Program and registration University launched a major annual information can be found at conference. The First Annual http://smrs.slu.edu. Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies met June 17-19, During the 2013-2014 academic year the 2013. It included more than seventy CMRS hosted dozens of lectures, sessions in a variety of disciplines colloquia, and conferences. Guest and periods. Plenary speakers for speakers included Nicholas Standaert the 2013 Symposium were Peter (Université Catholique de Louvain), Brown (Princeton University) and Kristen Rennie (University of Andrew Pettegree (University of St. Queensland), Carole Hillenbrand Andrews). The 2014 Symposium will (University of Edinburgh), and Lester take place June 16-18 with plenary Little (Smith College). Conferences speakers John W. Baldwin (Johns included the Third International Hopkins University) and Robert Symposium on Crusade Studies, which Hillenbrand (University of featured plenary lectures by Christopher Tyerman (Oxford University) and Continued on page 13

CARA Programming, cont. Ohio Wesleyan, Professor Anniversaries" and the slated Matthew Gabriele of Virginia speakers will be Dr. Renate had to withdraw, tragically, due Tech, and Professor Laura Blumenfeld-Kosinski, professor of to illness. Professor Teofilo Saetveit Miles of Univ. i Bergen French at the Universtiy of Ruiz chaired the panel and share their own thoughts Pittsburgh; Dr. Al Andrea, offered lovely remarks about regarding their various emeritus professor of history from Remie Constable to start it off. approaches to writing the Middle the University of Vermont; and The speakers adhered to the Ages – popular, pedagogical, Dr. Thomas Izbicki, of Rutgers time parameters and the panel digital, feminist – to various University's Libraries. For the was successful. On account of audiences. The panel discussion ICMS 2015 meeting, I have other obligations, I was only went marvelously and all proposed two panels. One, on able to organize one CARA- audience members in attendance "New Developments in Medieval sponsored panel for ICMS shared their thoughts in a most Digital Humanities", includes Dr. 2014, but it, too, was a roaring constructive manner, excepting Fred Gibbs of the University of success. Entitled, "Writing the one individual. New Mexico's Department of Middle Ages for Multiple History; Dr. Guiliano di Bacco, a Audiences," approximately 85 The theme for the CARA- musicologist at Indiana people packed the room to hear sponsored lecture for the University; and Dr. Roger Professor David M. Perry of Medieval Academy of America's Martinez-Davila of the University Dominican University, 2015 annual meeting at Notre of Colorado-Colorado Spring's Professor Ellen F. Arnold of Dame will be "Medieval Department of History. Dr.

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Committee for Medieval Studies, University of British Columbia

The chair of the Committee is Chantal Phan (French, Hispanic and Italian Studies).

The 2014 Medieval Workshop, an annual meeting with one exception since 1970, will be held 7-9 November. The topic is Oecologies: Inhabiting Premodern Worlds. Papers will address the rethinking of “ecology” through the study of premodern natural history, taxonomy, hierarchy, and categorization. The meeting, like its 2013 predecessor, is sponsored jointly by Simon Fraser University. Organizers are Robert Rouse, Vin http://medieval.arts.ubc.ca/

Nardizzi and Patricia Badir (UBC) and Tiffany Werth (SFU). Expressions of interest should go to Robert Rouse ([email protected]). In 2012-2013 the organizers hosted monthly lectures about approaches to an understanding of pre-modern ecology and mounted a session at the Renaissance Society of America meeting in March.

The 2013 Workshop on exegesis was organized by Gernot Wieland and Leslie Arnovick (UBC) and David Colly (SFU). Nine of the papers from that meeting will be published shortly in a special issue of Florilegium, the official journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société canadienne des médiévistes. The 2015 Workshop will take place in October. Chantal Phan is organizing it jointly with the Gregorian Institute of Canada. The theme will be Liturgical and secular drama in the Middle Ages.

The Medieval Studies Committee has worked over the last two years on the renewal of the undergraduate curriculum. A change in the funding formula will help to put course offerings on a more stable footing. Three new core courses have been approved. Latin enrollments continue to be healthy. The Program continues to rely on the good will of departments and the declining number of medievalists in them to offer courses that make doing a Medieval Studies degree attractive and practical for students.

Centered in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, the UBC Early Romance Research Cluster offers a lecture series on medieval to early modern topics. This year the Cluster also welcomed an experimental musical performance of medieval French epic and romance by UBC students in early music and medieval French.

- Richard W. Unger

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The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

The 2013-14 academic year was full of conferences, lectures, and new endeavors, yet the minds and hearts of the Medieval Institute community at Notre Dame were most frequently filled with thoughts about Olivia Remie Constable, whose cancer diagnosis in fall semester led to her untimely death on April 16 during Holy Week. The year's joys and celebrations frequently took on a poignant note as colleagues, students, staff, and friends voiced their mutual concerns and pain http://medieval.nd.edu/ about the health crisis facing the Institute's director (2009- 14).

Maureen McCann Boulton generously stepped in as acting director in spring semester while Remie was on medical leave. John Van Engen will lead the Medieval Institute beginning in July for a two-year term as MI director.

In many ways, though, it was a year of "the arts" for the Institute. Art historians gave several lectures during the course of the year (the three Conway lectures by Anne D. Hedeman, the student invitational lecture by Larry Nees, a conference keynote address by Herb Kessler); Danielle Joyner (ND) and Aden Kummler (University of Chicago) organized a well-received Medieval Art History after the Interdisciplinary Turn conference at Notre Dame; and the MI partnered with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center to create a multimedia installation on Richard III for its performances of the Shakespeare play. Joan of Arc inspired another collaborative project Continued on p. 16

HMML (continued) anniversary—microfilming started in Austria in April 1965—and will be looking at ways to observe this milestone.

HMML also recently started work on the Timbuktu manuscripts in Mali. Working with partners from Europe, HMML has started the digital photographing of these highly important resources. HMML is in the second year of a grant from the Institute for Museum & Library Services (IMLS) to develop vHMML (“virtual HMML”), an online workspace for manuscript studies. The site is still in development, but parts of it will be shown at the ICMS in Kalamazoo in May 2014. HMML also recently hired a new curator for the Malta Study Center—Dan Gullo. Dan will start at the Library in June 2014.

Finally, on a more informal note: in researching the photos from HMML’s history, we did discover some photos of a CARA meeting that took place at Saint John’s University/HMML in 1975, about the time that our current building was under construction!

- Matthew Heintzelmann

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http://medieval.utoronto.ca/

the Old English Colloquium (on 2 May), and the annual Medieval Philosophy Colloquium (every Medieval Studies at Toronto undergraduate program at September) – plus other consists of three different entities: SMC. We’ve had tremendous individual events, are 1) the Centre for Medieval Studies success on the PIMS / CMS sponsored jointly by CMS (which provides an MA and PhD front – especially with this and PIMS. program), 2) the Pontifical year’s inauguration of new Institute of Mediaeval Studies permanent funding for the The collaboration of CMS (which supports postdoctoral Bennett Distinguished Visitor and SMC on links between fellows, in addition to its own in Medieval Studies. This graduate and undergraduate cohort of senior fellows, led by the program enables us to invite education has developed Leonard E. Boyle Professor of a senior scholar in residence more gradually, facing Manuscript Studies), and 3) the for one term, jointly funded challenges on two fronts: undergraduate program in by, and jointly serving, PIMS administrative challenges Mediaeval Studies housed at St and CMS. These two entities posed by the nature of the Michael’s College within the have a rich shared collective agreement of our University of Toronto. community, especially unionized Teaching centered on the invaluable Assistants; and curriculum- We’ve been working over the last resource of the library of the based challenges. The several years to enhance the links Pontifical Institute. Many of undergraduate program in between these units, to create CMS’s annual conferences Mediaeval Studies is housed greater synergy between the life of and workshops – including at St. Michael’s College, the PIMS and that of CMS, and the Canada Chaucer Seminar which has a strongly between those two entities and the (taking place this weekend), articulated Catholic identity; Continued on p. 11

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

On 5 October the Pontifical Institute Cambridge, who addressed Convocation; celebrated its 2013 Convocation, at which upon the Honourable Nicole C. Eaton, the Licence in Mediaeval Studies was Senator of Canada; and upon Norman conferred on 19 graduandi; the Diploma in Tanner, S.J., of the Pontifical Gregorian Manuscript Studies was also conferred for University. the first time, upon two candidates. His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, The Institute’s post-doctoral Licence Archbishop of Toronto and Chancellor of stream is a residential programme of the Institute, presided, at a ceremony held research pursued under the supervision at Saint Basil's Collegiate Church. The of one of the Fellows of the Institute, same occasion saw the Doctor of Letters in requiring the candidate’s participation in Mediaeval Studies, honoris causa, conferred a series of interdisciplinary seminars over upon Eamon Duffy, of Magdalene College, two semesters and the completion of a Continued on page 13

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U. Toronto (continued) therefore, their undergraduate program has an explicit focus on the “Christian Middle Ages,” which is quite different from the CMS mandate. In other words, we have a graduate unit that includes faculty and students working on an expansive view of the Middle Ages – including the study of Islamic and Jewish culture as well as Christian; including Mediterranean Studies in addition to a narrower focus on medieval Europe – and an undergraduate unit that is explicitly focused on the “Christian Middle Ages,” featuring courses like “Dante and the Christian Imagination” and “Christian Latin.” We’re now working together on how to construct a big enough tent to accommodate both of these visions of the Middle Ages within a revised undergraduate program.

Like other centers of medieval studies, big and small, our biggest challenges are economic: our graduates face a very tight job market, and our university administration is urging us to seek outside financial support for our endeavors. Because CMS is a graduate degree-conferring unit, like many of our peers, we’re struggling to place our students in a contracted job market where positions are too few. We are therefore working on how best to provide both 1) academic job placement support, and 2) support to help students articulate, at every stage of the process from the MA onward, the nature of the transferrable skills they are acquiring.

Our institution is directing graduate units to do all they can to support fundraising efforts, not so much to fund our programs per se but to find private donors (as well as public institutions) who can help to support our research initiatives that serve the wider medieval community – above all, the Dictionary of Old English, which is in a period of renewal and making a big push toward completing the last stages of the project. As part of that renewal, we just completed a search for the new Cameron Professor of Old English (who will also serve as Chief Editor of the DOE), with public announcement to come within the next several days. Two new drafting editors are also being hired to start in July, with another one joining them in early 2015. Those are three-year renewable assistant professor positions. We are also doing a search for another junior Old English faculty member (tenure-track assistant professor) this coming year – so the field of Old English remains strong at Toronto.

Our other major medieval research project in Digital Humanities, the Records of Early English Drama (REED), is flourishing. This project carries out early drama research (and, increasingly engages in wider community) and so along with the Poculi Ludique Societas’s (PLS) tradition of drama performance (with PLS’s 50th anniversary next year), the profile in early drama at Toronto is as vibrant as ever.

Two of our most valued professors emeriti – both of whom were both MAA fellows – passed away this past December: John Munro and Andrew Hughes (who was also past president of the MAA). Both were productive scholars and dedicated teachers until the end of their lives, and both are deeply missed. The family of John Munro has made a generous bequest to support the John Munro Doctoral Fellowship in Medieval Economic History, and CMS is currently working to circulate news of this bequest to John’s friends and colleagues in the hope of reaching a threshold that will release matching funds from the University provost. This Fellowship will ensure that John’s own field of economic history will remain strong at Toronto.

Toronto is also a stronghold of medieval publication, with CMS closely coordinating with the University of Toronto Press on its medieval publications series, some of which we support through subventions. CMS is also linked to the Journal of Medieval Latin, while Gesta is edited by U of T faculty with links at CMS and PIMS.

- Suzanne Akbari

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Medieval Studies Institute http://www.indiana.edu/~medieval/

Indiana University, Bloomington The Medieval Studies Institute at IUB continues to offer minors and area certificates for undergraduates and graduate students (see www.indiana.edu/~medieval/). Our courses are taught by faculty in over twenty departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as Jacobs School of Music and the Lilly Rare Books Library. Part of our student and community outreach this year involved a film series on different themes each semester: “Homecoming” in the fall and “Science, Magic, and Religion” in the spring, to coordinate with our annual spring symposium. This symposium, organized by our graduate students, featured two days of papers by graduate students and faculty from seven universities, as well as a performance of readings and chants in medieval languages and two concerts by members of the Early Music Institute. The keynote speaker was Bruce Holsinger, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, who spoke on "The Voices of Medieval London: History, Fiction, Historical Fiction."

Graduate students also played an important role in organizing two paper panels sponsored by MEST at the 2014 International Medieval Studies Congress. Our graduate students will also host the 2014-2015 conference of the Indiana Graduate Medieval Consortium.

The Medieval Studies Institute also sponsored another year of stimulating guest speakers, either independently or in partnership with our participating departments. Anthony Musson, Professor of Legal History, University of Exeter, presented “Seeing Justice: The Visual Culture of the Law.” Ann Marie Rasmussen, Professor of German Literature, Duke University, gave a talk entitled “Why Do Medieval Badges Matter?” Paul Strohm, Emeritus Professor of English, Columbia University, spoke about “Evidence and Pre-modern Literary Biography: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer.” Claire Sponsler, Professor of English, University of Iowa, spoke on “Reading the Beauchamp Pageant.” Jan Herlinger, Emeritus Professor of Music, Louisiana State University, gave two lectures: “Marchetto and Prosdocimo: A Musician and an Astronomer on Music in Medieval Padua” and “Marchetto of Padua: The Legacy of a Fourteenth-Century Musician and Theorist.” Anna Shields, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Maryand-Baltimore County, spoke on “The Body of the Friend: A View of Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid- Tang China.” Sebastian Günther, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen, led a workshop on “Averroes and Aquinas on Education” and presented a lecture on “The Quest for Enlightenment in Classical Islam: Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan.”

Erik Kwakkel, Professor of Paleography at Leiden University, was our guest speaker for this year’s “Mediaevalia at the Lilly” series and gave a talk entitled “Kissing the Neighbor: How Medieval Letter Forms Help to Tell Time.” In addition, Prof. Kwakkel prepared an exhibit of Lilly manuscripts related to his talk and presented a workshop in which students and faculty examined Lilly manuscripts for the temporal markers he discussed in his lecture.

The Medieval Studies Institute continues to support publication of three journals on which our faculty serve as editors: Exemplaria (Patricia Ingham, Dept. of English), The Medieval Review (Deborah Deliyannis, Dept. of History), and Textual Cultures (H. Wayne Storey, Dept. of French and Italian). - Rosemarie McGerr, Director

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SLU (continued) SLU (continued) the rich and varied resources availableDonec at Saint Adrian Boas (University of Louis University for the study ofinterdum the medieval and Haifa), the Ninth Biennial early modern periods. The Fellowships include Conference of the International reimbursement of all travel expenses, a fully Association of Robin Hood furnished two-bedroom apartment, and a stipend of Studies, and The Edict of Milan: $1750 per five weeks 1700 Years On. On February 8, Plans for next academic year include hosting the 2014 the CMRS hosted an Illinois Medieval Association Meeting and the Medieval international conference on the Association of the Midwest Meeting (on the Saint Louis discovery of the body of King Pellentesque: University Madrid Campus). The Third Annual Richard III. R3@SLU featured Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will a wide range of speakers from take place Jun 15-17, 2015 and will feature plenary the disciplines of archaeology, Continued on page 14 history, English literature, PIMS (continued) forensic pathology, and genetic paper or book chapter deemed to be publishable. Four analysis. Two of the members candidates have been accepted to the Licence programme of the team who made the annually, each receiving an award of $35,000. This past discovery, Mathew Morris year, however, fundraising for a fifth fellowship was (University of Leicester) and successfully completed and five candidates will be Turi King (University of admitted for the first time in 2015. Leicester), attended and gave lectures about their work. The Institute’s 2013-2014 Licence candidates came to the Institute from the University of Barcelona, Johns Hopkins The CMRS continues to University, the University of Freiburg, and the Centre for support the activities of the Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Our 2014- Crusades Studies Forum, the 2015 candidates will join us from Oxford University, the Byzantine Studies Forum, and University of Notre Dame, the Università degli Studi di Udine, and Harvard University. a variety of language Consectetuer: workshops. The CMRS is also The Pontifical Institute’s Diploma in Manuscript Studies is pleased to support the Annual Continued on p. 14 Lowry Daly, S.J. Lecture which takes place at the annual CARA Programming, cont. Manuscripta conference. In Monica Green, currently a member at Princeton University's Institute partnership with the for Advanced Studies has agreed to chair this panel. The second panel University of London, Royal will be on "Medievalists in the Media" and Dr. Christopher Bellitto, Holloway the CMRS sponsors historian at Kean University; Dr. Kelly DeVries of Loyola University- Maryland's History Department; and Dr. Michael Kulikowski of Penn several sessions annually at the State University's History Department will all take part and Ms. Alice International Medieval Congress Sullivan, graduate student in medieval art history at the University of in Leeds. The CMRS offers Michigan and chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Graduate NEH Research Fellowships for Student Committee, will chair the panel, as part of fostering stronger collaborations between CARA and the GSC. scholars who can make use of

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CARMEN (continued) PIMS (continued) awarded to those who have completed a To register your attendance at the meeting and for two-year cycle of courses in Rome and in information please contact Claire McIlroy Toronto, and who complete a ([email protected]) before 31 July 2014. manuscripts-related project. The Diploma programme’s core courses are Latin Please note that you are responsible for booking and paying for your own travel and accommodation in Palaeography, Diplomatics, Codicology, Stirling. To assist with the organisation of your visit to and Textual Editing, with an additional Stirling the host institution has prepared a practical variable content Special Subject course document, which includes travel information and being offered, normally, in Rome. This accommodation recommendations (see CARMEN past year 16 participants, hailing from website http://www.carmen- Argentina, Finland, Italy, Poland, medieval.net/cz/download/1404041574/, Romania, Switzerland, the U.S. and the http://www.carmen- U.K., convened in Rome, where they medieval.net/cz/download/1404041575/). This were offered Latin Palaeography, taught information will also be available through a dedicated by the Pontifical Institute’s Leonard E. University of Stirling web page Boyle Professor of Manuscript Studies, (http://www.stir.ac.uk/cehp/newsandevents/carmen -2014/) M. Michèle Mulchahey, and a Special Subject on illuminated manuscripts It is recommended that accommodation bookings offered by Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno should be made as soon as possible to ensure Francke Professor of German Art & availability. We have been warned that prices will be Culture at Harvard University. In 2014 rising because the Ryder Cup is being held in Scotland the programme heads back to Toronto, this Autumn. where the courses offered will be Codicology, taught by Prof. Mulchahey, The overall topic of this year's meeting is "Heritages". and Textual Editing, taught by Institute A draft programme for the meeting and information Librarian, Dr Greti Dinkova-Bruun. about the CARMEN Market Place will be circulated in Admission to the programme guarantees the coming weeks. funding for the participants: a generous Useful links and contacts: grant from the Andrew W. Mellon http://www.forthvalley.ac.uk/about/investing_in_yo Foundation makes it possible for the ur_future/stirling Institute to offer scholarships of up to $6,000 to each participant. http://www.stir.ac.uk/cehp/newsandevents/carmen- 2014/ This past year the Institute also welcomed as Distinguished Visiting Dr Claire McIlroy, CARMEN Conference Manager Scholars Prof. Christopher Martin of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, a http://www.carmen-medieval.net/ specialist in the history of medieval logic, SLU (continued) who joined our community in the fall semester; and Prof. Michael Ryan of lectures by Ingrid Rowland (University of University College Dublin, well-known Notre Dame) and Kenneth Pennington for his work in Celtic archaeology, who (Catholic University of America). was in Toronto for the spring semester. - Thomas Madden Continued on p. 15

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PIMS (continued) Prof. Martin was jointly sponsored by the Institute and Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies; Prof. Ryan in conjunction with the Celtic Studies Programme at the University of St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto.

The Department of Publications at the Pontifical Institute has published eight titles to date for 2013-2014, including the first title in its new series “Text, Image, Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination”. The 2013 issue of the journal Mediaeval Studies is complete, as well.

The 2013-2014 academic year also represents the second year that the Institute has hosted the editorial team of Gesta, the journal of the International Center of Medieval Art, Dr Linda Safran, who holds a position as Research Fellow at the Institute, and Dr Adam Cohen, of the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto.

And two notable honours:

Former Prases and Fellow Emeritus of the Pontifical Institute, Father James K. McConica, C.S.B., was granted the degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, by the Faculty of Theology of the University of St Michael’s College, in the University of Toronto, on 2 November 2013. Father McConica, is also President Emeritus of the University of St Michael’s College, and was appointed Officer to the Order of Canada in 2001; he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Foreign Member of the Royal Belgian Academy, and Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy.

At the annual meeting of FIDEM (the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales) held at Porto in June, Institute Librarian, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, was elected FIDEM’s vice- president. With this she continues the Institute's long association with FIDEM, which was founded in 1987 by Leonard E. Boyle, O.P., Senior Fellow of the Institute and Prefect of the Vatican Library, who was FIDEM’s president until 1999.

Respectfully submitted, M. Michèle Mulchahey Leonard E. Boyle Professor of Manuscript Studies

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CUA (continued) Martina Hartmann, the director of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, gave a public lecture on Merovingian queens and led a workshop on textual editing. As part of the exchange, the director of the Center, Dr. Lilla Kopár, visited the universities of Munich and Eichstätt in June 2013, along with one of our doctoral students, Beth Newman Ooi, who completed a one-month internship at the Academy Project ‘RuneS’. In May 2014, the Center will conduct an Archaeology Field School in conjunction with the Bamburgh Research Project in the UK. Ten graduate students will spend two weeks at Bamburgh Castle learning excavation techniques and visiting historic sites, all part of an interdisciplinary graduate course. Student programming remains vibrant at both the graduate and Continued on p. 16 15 CUA (continued) undergraduate levels. The Center organized its eighth annual graduate student conference (with medieval banquet) on Apr. 4 devoted to the theme “Medieval Objects.” The conference opened with a keynote lecture by Dr. Thomas Finan of St. Louis University on Irish archaeology, and attracted papers from students as far away as Purdue. On Apr. 6, the undergraduate-led Medieval Society staged its third annual Medieval Day, an afternoon of weapons demonstrations (including a large model of a trebuchet), medieval music, drama, and crafts, culminating in a human chess game. Medieval Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame (continued)

with music, art, and literary components. Cantor chroniclers provided focus for a colloquium at the ND London Center organized by Margot Fassler.

Visiting speakers included Margaret Mullett, Chris Baswell, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Nadja Germann, and Dan Smail, among others. Colloquia/seminars/ conferences covered a wide range of territory: geographic imagination (a student conference), imperial Byzantium and Rome (the Writing Empire series honoring Sabine MacCormack), medieval Iberia (a conference organized by Remie and her Ph.D. student Belen Vicens Saiz), and stops in the British Isles (a workshop in honor of Dolores Warwick Frese on the occasion of her retirement) and Italy (teleconferenced vertical readings of Dante's Commedia).

The Institute's energetic graduate students ran the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Working Group (http://blogs.nd.edu/medieval/) and paired faculty and student participants for lively discourse that brought together medievalists from across campus for thought-provoking papers, convivial conversation, and a shared meal. The eight-session series has been in operation for three years thanks to funding by the Mellon Foundation and the ND Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. With graduate student initiative and faculty support, informal reading groups sprang up in Latin, Byzantine Greek, and Middle High German.

The Medieval Institute began Tweeting in February as @MedievalND and has picked up over 200 followers. Enthusiastic planning for the 2015 meeting of the Medieval Academy is underway and the CFP has a June 15 deadline.

- Roberta Baranowski, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

MARS (continued) On a less formal note, Rabia Geha Gregory (Religious Studies) started the Tumblr "Academic Kindness" for notes reflecting "unsolicited kindness, unexpected goodwill, and excessive generosity in academia." Contributions are invited from the medieval community, whom we know to be unfailingly generous and very kind.

- Anne Rudloff Stanton

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