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NOUVELLES THE O HIO S TATE U NIVERSITY MAY 2012 NOUVELLES CENTER FOR M EDIEVAL & R ENAISSANCE S TUDIES CALENDAR SPRING 2012 6 April 2012 CMRS Lecture Series, Annual Public Lecture: Toby Lester, Independent Scholar World Upon Worlds: The Waldseemüller Map of 1507 4:00 PM, Ohio Union, Cartoon Room 1 11 April 2012 CMRS Film Series: Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) Directed by Sam Wanamaker, with Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour and Taryn Power 7:30 PM, 056 University Hall 25 April 2012 CMRS Film Series: Arabian Nights (1974), Part I Directed by Pier Paulo Pasiolini, with Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti and Franco Merli 7:30 PM, 056 University Hall 27 April 2012 CMRS Lecture Series: Robert Hanning, Columbia University Holy Sepulcher, Lunar Lost–and–Found: Mapping the Real, the Imagined, & the Desired in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso 2:30 PM, 090 Science and Engineering Library 4 May 2012 CMRS Faculty Colloquium: Steven Bowman, Judaic Studies Department, University of Cincinnati Sepher Yosippon, an orphaned history up for adoption 2:30 PM, 0220 Schoenbaum Hall 9 May 2012 CMRS Film Series: Arabian Nights (1974), Part II Directed by Pier Paulo Pasiolini, with Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti and Franco Merli 7:30 PM, 056 University Hall 18 May 2012 CMRS Lecture Series: Jorge Flores, European University Institute, Florence Cartography, Iconography, and Ethnography in Early Modern Portuguese Asia 2:30 PM, 090 Science and Engineering Library 23 May 2012 CMRS Spring Party 4–6 PM, The Humanities Institute (104 E 15th Ave) 23 May 2012 CMRS Film Series: The 13th Warrior (1999) Directed by John McTiernan, with Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora and Vladimir Kulich 7:30 PM, 056 University Hall CONTENTS NOUVELLES NOUVELLES MAY 2012 CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND R ENAISSANCE S TUDIES DIRECTOR Richard Firth Green ASSOCIATE D IRECTOR Sarah-Grace Heller ADMINISTRATIVE C OORDINATOR Nicholas Spitulski GRADUATE A SSOCIATES Michele Fuchs Sarah Kernan Robey Patrick Nouvelles Nouvelles is published twice quarterly by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. This publication is available in a .pdf format at http://cmrs.osu.edu/nn. Please contact [email protected] for more infor- mation. The Ohio State University Eric Johnson, Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, contributes a sum- 308 Dulles Hall mary of acquisitions to OSU’s collection in the 2011–2012 year. 230 W. 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1361 Tel: 614-292-7495 Fax: 614-292-1599 E-mail: [email protected] 4 8 World Wide Web Greetings Libraries http://cmrs.osu.edu A welcome message from the Director 2011–2012 Acquisitions The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is an interdisciplinary unit in the OSU College of Arts and Sciences dedicated 5 11 to the study of Europe from the end of the Alumni Students Roman Empire through the seventeenth Recognizing CMRS Alumni 2012 CMRS Graduates century, as well as comparable cultural developments in non-western countries. CMRS activities promote teaching and research in all aspects of medieval and 6 12 renaissance culture, including art, music, Among Us Courses literature, religion, history, philosophy, and Celebrating CMRS Affi liates Fall 2012 Courses government. The activities of the Center include offer- ing courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, administering an under- Also in this issue graduate major and minor, sponsoring a 15 Nicholas G. Howe Memorial Fund graduate certifi cate program and Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization, organizing a series of lectures and colloquia, provid- ing graduate administrative and teaching associateships, and publishing a newsletter, Nouvelles Nouvelles . It also aspires to serve as The cover image is a sixteenth-century etching entitled “Les Tempêtes et a resource for medievalists and Renaissance les Frimats disparoissant à l’approche du Printemps” by Ludovico Ciam- scholars at other institutions throughout the state. The Center has acted as the headquar- berlano. The back cover image is from a sixteenth-century Book of Hours ters for the New Chaucer Society and the at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, MS Douce 135, 4r. The operational home for university-wide plan- image depicts Gemini, a man and woman on a white horse, and lovers ning to commemorate the quincentenary beside a wood. of Columbus’ fi rst voyage. We also have a series of occasional publications. May 2012 Nouvelles Nouvelles 3 GREETINGS A most enjoyable visit last week with Lisa Carter, As- sociate Director for Special Collections in the library, reminded me of how important the library has been to CMRS (and, I hope, CMRS to the library). Since the arrival of Eric Johnson in the Rare Book room (and on the advisory committee of CMRS), there has been a veritable renaissance in the collecting and study of manuscripts and early printed books at OSU, and readers of these pages will have been fascinated by the stream of new acquisitions he has regularly reported on. I must confess that until I saw Eric at work I had no idea that the inevitably modest budget of a state school like ours could be put to such remarkably good use; if we continue at this rate we will soon have one of the more important collections of early books and manuscripts in the Midwest, although (supporters of the Scarlet and Grey will be chagrined to learn) we started a long way behind the University of Michigan. It is not only among the book-sellers and auctioneers that Eric has made a splash, however; he has co-taught both our Manuscripts Studies and our History of the Book courses and helped turn them into two of our most important and popular offerings, and the cornerstone of our new Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization. In another corner of the library a long-time supporter of CMRS, Predrag Matejic, has built up a collection of medieval Slavic manuscripts and microfi lms that is unequalled anywhere in North America. The Hilandar Library draws a stream of researchers and graduate students to OSU and brings incalculable benefi ts to us all. CMRS’s association with the Hilandar goes back well before my time and long may it continue into the future! The enormously successful Stand up for Shakespeare Program, a collaboration between OSU and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), coordinated by the Theater Department, is more recent, but I’m delighted to announce that through the library’s good offi ces CMRS has recently been drawn into an association with it. At the reception to launch the Year of Shakespeare Exhibition in the library, we were asked if we might contribute to an event publicizing its display of theater memorabilia; on Tuesday April 24th (the day after Shakespeare’s birthday) we will collaborate with the English Department and the library’s Read Aloud program in a presentation based on descriptions of earlier productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth . Since CMRS coordinates OSU’s Affi liation with the Folger, the great Shakespeare Library in Washington, I hope there that may be many further opportunities for us to contribute to the OSU/RSC partnership in the future. Moving away from my library theme, I was delighted to learn that Bill Quinn is to be featured in the current issue of Nouvelles Nouvelles . Bill is an old friend of mine and a faithful supporter of CMRS so I’m particularly pleased to see us giving proper recognition to his career and his scholarship. Finally, with the last issue of Nouvelles Nouvelles, it is time once again to say farewell to faithful servants: to Sarah-Grace Heller, whose performance as Associate Director (and Acting Director last year when I was away) has been exemplary, and to our editor, Sarah Kernan, who, I hope you agree has taken Nouvelles Nouvelles to new heights. My most sincere thanks to both of them. Best wishes, Richard Firth Green Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies May 2012 Nouvelles Nouvelles 4 ALUMNI CMRS A LUMNI Many students have benefi tted from CMRS programs, courses, and activities. We hope you enjoy reading about the professional accomplishments of the following alumna. William Quinn completed a PhD in English in 1979 under the supervision of Chris Zacher. Quinn was a Presidential Fellow at OSU. Quinn joined the faculty at the University of Arkansas in 1979 and has remained there throughout his career. He is now Professor and Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies. In 2006-2007, Quinn was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College at Cambridge University. He has participated in multiple NEH Summer Institutes for University Instructors, including “The Jew as Other in The Middle Ages” at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern Eng- land” at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Quinn’s teaching has been applauded by his institution; his most recent teaching awards include an Outstanding Mentor Award from the Offi ce of Nationally Competitive Awards and a University of Arkansas Honors College Faculty Gold Medal, both awarded in 2011. In addition to a rigorous teaching schedule, Quinn has maintained a consistent record of research and publication. He has published not only a lengthy list of essays and articles, but also several edited and single-authored books, including Jongleur: A Modi- fi ed Theory of Oral Improvisation and its Effects on the Performance and Transmission of Middle English Romances with Audley Hall (1982), Chaucer’s Rehersynges: The Performability of the Legend of Good Women (1994), and Chaucer’s Dream Visions and Short Poems: Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Times (2000). Quinn also has a forthcoming book with Catholic University of America Press, Olde Clerkis Speche: Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Implications of Authorial Recital .

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