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UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Renaissance UCLA Center for Medieval 951485 Box CA 90095-1485 Los Angeles, 2008 – 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Message from the Director, August 2008...... 2

Going Global, Getting Medieval...... 3

Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar: “Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600”...... 4

Lectures, Conferences, and other Events, 2008 – 2009...... 5 – 9

Visiting Faculty and Scholars...... 10 – 11 Distinguished Visiting Scholars, 2008–09 Summer Fellows UCLA Visiting Scholars affiliated with CMRS

Publications...... 12 – 15 Viator Cursor Mundi Repertorium Columbianum Comitatus International Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages–Online Other Recent Publications

A Checklist of CMRS Events, 2008 – 2009...... 16 – 17

Student Support and Programs...... 18 – 19 Lynn and Maude White Fellowship Fredi Chiappelli Travel Fellowships CMRS Research Assistantships CMRS Seminar Interdisciplinary Research Grants Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Website

Research Projects and Grants...... 20 – 21 St. Gall Monastery Plan Virtual Reality (VR) Project Project to Digitally Recreate Medieval Monastic Libraries Medieval Canon Law Digitizing Project CMRS Sawyer Seminar on Disputation Mosfell Icelandic Archaeological Project

Donors and other Support...... 22

The Year in Review, 2007– 2008...... 23 – 27

Faculty, Associates, and Affiliates...... 28 – 32

CMRS Staff, 2008 – 2009...... 33 A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR AUGUST 2008

Dear Friends:

As I write this letter, a presidential race rushes by, but who knows where? The world’s financial markets need defibrillation, but who has the equipment? And UCLA’s budget plummets in one of its periodic dives, but where’s the bottom?

Answering such weighty questions requires what our ancestors called prudentia, in both senses of the word: not just the expertise that sometimes can be had quickly, but also the practical wisdom that takes a long time to acquire. As students, faculty and friends of our Center, you are wise in both ways, of course, but it’s our Center’s mission to help you become even wiser. That’s a big job, so let me explain how we’ll try to do it in the coming year, with a few words about the past.

Since research is at the core of CMRS, let’s start there. I’m delighted to report that last year’s Sawyer Seminar on Disputation, funded by the Mellon Foundation, was a smashing success: I say this confidently because, after the last session of the Seminar, our own Brett Landenberger put together an online survey, addressed to the scores of people who had attended throughout the year, and their applause was loud. During the same period, we were also delighted to learn that the Mellon Foundation will support a second phase of Pat Geary’s highly innovative St. Gall Project. (Huzzahs to Patrick, now President of the Medieval Academy!) Meanwhile, Jesse Byock is still digging away (literally) in Iceland: his Mosfell Project is funded by Arcadia and the Alcoa Foundation.

A new publication series, Cursor Mundi, is growing fast under the expert guidance of Blair Sullivan, who helps Andy Kelly keep Viator thriving as well. CMRS has also launched two other publication projects. The ‘CMRS Bruno’ will produce English translations, with facing-page Italian texts, of Giordano Bruno’s six Italian dialogues: David Marsh is the General Editor, and the first two volumes by Ingrid Rowland (Eroici furori) and Hilary Gatti (La Cena) will appear in 2009. CMRS has already joined Harvard’s I Tatti Renaissance Library project (ITRL): the purpose of our partnership with ITRL is to provide expert and timely editing for this crucial enterprise (see Tony Grafton’s review, New York Review of Books, October, 2006). For the ITRL/CMRS connection, the key UCLA person is Shane Butler from Classics, and for the ‘CMRS Bruno’ Massimo Ciavolella’s connection with the Cassamarca Foundation has been indispensable.

Almost all these projects, new and old, as well as many of the events mentioned below and described in detail inside, rely not only on our core support from UCLA but also on the generosity of individuals and organizations. For decades now, individual donors have also supported CMRS: our distinguished History of the Book Lecture series, for example, has a large following of supporters inspired by the learning and character of Richard and Mary Rouse. Last year, another extraordinarily generous individual gave our Center $400,000, which we will be using in the future to support graduate students. Our gratitude for this gift, and for all the others that came before it and will come after it, is enormous.

What impresses donors most about CMRS is the energy and talent of its people – students, faculty and staff – but this is a resource that always needs to be renewed. Last year, for example, Kendra Willson, an Icelandic specialist, joined the CMRS faculty. We also added three new Associates, Stephen Jaeger from the University of Illinois, Patrick Hunt from Stanford, and José R. Cartagena-Calderón from Pomona. And even though our beloved Associate Director, Chris Baswell, has abandoned us for chilly eastern climes, we have found a superb replacement in Zrinka Stahuljak (see page 3), a medievalist from French and Francophone Studies, who has now joined Massimo Ciavolella in this key role. Keeping all this straight, and keeping me honest, is our brilliant Karen Burgess.

Bringing new people – both students and faculty – into the life of our Center is a key purpose of our new CMRS Ahmanson Conferences, now in their second season. During the next year, three Ahmanson Conferences will focus on mythology, sexuality and geography – all three in their medieval phases. For our Hammer Lecture in winter quarter, we’ll move to the Renaissance, with Timothy Verdon, a distinguished art historian from Florence and Stanford. Then in spring quarter, for the Pepys Lecture, it’s back to the Middle Ages, and Peter King, an eminent philosopher and medievalist from Toronto. In fall quarter, a History of the Book Lecture (the eighteenth!) will feature Will Noel from the Walters Art Gallery, who has a fascinating story to tell about the Archimedes Codex. Throughout the year, other major conferences will study not just the odd couple of invective and conviviality (mainly Latin, Italian, and Romance) but also historical consciousness (Russian). An extended series, “Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center, 1050-1600,” funded by the Mellon Foundation as part of its “Transforming the Humanities” initiative, will meet during the winter term. Finally, in March of 2009, the Renaissance Society of America will hold its annual international meeting in Los Angeles; CMRS and the Getty will be hosting a number of events in conjunction with the meeting.

As you can see, it’s going to be another busy year for CMRS, and I hope that you’ll be prudent enough to be part of the fun!

Salve,

Brian P. Copenhaver Udvar-Hazy Professor of Philosophy and History 2 GOING GLOBAL, GETTING MEDIEVAL

Going Global, Getting Medieval

It seems that medieval French studies are in vigorous intellectual shape, with work of great rigor and vibrancy being produced. Perhaps it all started in the mid-1980s and early 1990s with the pitched battles around new philology and renewed interest in methodologies of manuscript edition. Then, thanks to the history of sexuality and queer theory, and postcolonial theory, we witnessed an interdisciplinary opening of the French Middle Ages. This in turn opened up communication between medievalists, normally relegated to exile in the pre-modern, and their colleagues in other, modern, centuries of French literature and history. Transformative work on French medieval manuscripts was done, such as the vast collaborative project on The Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes, that looked at codices and the manuscript tradition in a more global way, thereby making crucial socio-cultural information available for a better overall understanding of the circulation of languages, cultures, and artifacts across medieval Europe, and beyond, in territories yet to be defined in national(ist) terms. In fact, global may be the word to retain here, whether philologically or theoretically. Associate Professor Zrinka Stahuljak joined the faculty of UCLA’s Depart- ment of French and Francophone Studies in 2005. Since arriving at UCLA, she has been actively involved in the Center and its programs. In July 2008, she For “What is the state of medieval French studies?” does not was appointed CMRS Associate Director for Medieval Studies. She received her strike me as the main question to ask of the French discipline PhD from Emory University in 2000. Her research interests include medieval today. Rather, it seems that medieval French studies are romance, historiography, medievalism, medieval sexualities, poetry, and transla- participating in a major shift toward, simply, medieval studies. tion theory. This year, in addition to organizing the Mediterranean Studies seminar (see page 4), Professor Stahuljak is also co-organizer of a CMRS First, boundaries between disciplines previously defined as Ahmanson Conference, “Medieval Sexuality: 2009” (see page 7). national are falling by the wayside, as medievalists, particularly in literary studies and history, initiate and participate in Research Group “The Emergence of ‘the West’: Shifting projects conceived in global terms. French medievalists are Hegemonies in the Medieval Mediterranean,” or seminar actively participating in the definition of Mediterranean grants provided by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, including the seminar series “Mediterranean Studies: Study, although Radcliffe is more open to larger numbers of East and West at the Center, 1050-1600,” to be hosted by the scholars from outside the home institution. CMRS in Winter 2009 and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for “Transforming the Humanities at UCLA” Finally, a global and transnational approach may allow us to (see page 4). resolve the brewing dispute over the location of study of Anglo-Norman texts. This important component of the Old- Another example of transnational interdisciplinary research French heritage does not have to belong to a department of in collaborative humanities is an effort spearheaded by the English or of French, but is a part of Francophone literature, Centers for Medieval Studies at the University of Texas- conceived indeed beyond the nineteenth-century boundaries Austin and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, erected and reified by nationalism and colonialism. Thus, “Scholarly Community for the Globalization of the ‘Middle medieval French studies are becoming a part of the global Ages’” (SCGMA). Even projects confined to France have picture that reflects more accurately the circulation of ideas, become increasingly transversal and collaborative, such as people, and objects in the Middle Ages, even as globalization “Poetic Knowledge in Late Medieval France” or the digital and fragmentation of nation-states today suggest an library of “The Romance of the Rose Project.” As a result, emergence of neo-medieval models: by going global, we are the American academy will perhaps follow the British getting medieval, again. example of funding more collaborative projects, as does the University of California Humanities Research Institute Zrinka Stahuljak (UCHRI), most recently in Fall 2007 with the Residential French and Francophone Studies, UCLA

3 MELLON INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR

Mediterranean Studies: Seminar sessions will be three hours and will have a workshop East and West at the Center, 1050-1600 format. During the first hour, the guest speaker will present a lecture on a topic which will be discussed (after a short break) by Since Greco-Roman times, the Mediterranean has been con- seminar participants during the remaining two hours. Readings sidered the cradle of “Western” civilization and also the site pertinent to the topic, selected by the guest speakers, will be of an original fault line between a homogenous “West” and posted on the seminar’s website before each session. an exotic, undervalued “East”—an “other” against which to defend and define the West. This dichotomy seems to be due CMRS will administer and provide logistical support for the not only to the emergence and the definition of the West, but seminar. CMRS Webmaster Brett Landenberger has created also in large part is the product of nationalized, nineteenth- a website for the seminar, and will be updating and revising century disciplinarity. it on a regular basis with materials provided by the Seminar’s organizers, guest speakers, and session leaders. The website The field of Mediterranean Studies seeks to undo at once the can be found at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/mediterranean.html. long-held ideas of the “homogeneity of the West” and the “exoticism of the East.” The Mediterranean Sea does not keep At the time this booklet goes to press, the schedule is: different continental landmasses apart, rather, it is a body of water that allows for fluidity and openness, connecting Monday, January 12, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306: Professor Leyla Rouhi (Spanish, Williams College) different worlds in a network that has shaped local social, “Towards a re-definition of ‘co-existence’ in Early Modern Spanish Literature” commercial, political, and cultural developments. Whether these encounters and contacts happened in the mode of Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306: confrontation (military and/or confessional) or exchange Professor Karla Mallette (Italian, Miami University) “Lingua franca in the Mediterranean” (commercial, artistic, or scientific), it is doubtless that they helped diffuse and transmit ideas, commodities, technologies, and even Monday, January 26, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306: systems of thought (cultural, religious, artistic, scientific). The Professor Valerie Ramseyer (History; Director, Medieval-Renaissance Studies, cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, and cross-confessional exchange Wellesley College) Topic: Kingdom of Sicily (Lombards, Greeks, Arabs, and Normans) that has occurred over an extremely long period of time makes the Mediterranean a region of global importance. Monday, February 2, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306: Professor E. Natalie Rothman (History/Anthropology, University of Toronto) “Mediterranean Studies: East and West at the Center, 1050- “Trans-imperial Subjects, Mediation, and Articulation in the Early Modern Mediterranean” 1600,” a series of seminars organized by Professor Zrinka Stahuljak (French and Francophone Studies, UCLA, and Monday, February 9, 2009, 4-7 pm, Humanties Building 193 CMRS Associate Director for Medieval Studies) and funded by a Professor Zdenka Janekovic Roemer (Institute for Historical Studies [Dubrovnik], grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be presented Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Topic: Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the Eastern Mediterranen during the Winter Quarter 2009. An interdepartmental group of UCLA faculty members will serve as session leaders. Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306 Professor Geraldine Heng (English and Comparative Literature, and The seminar will consider the Mediterranean as a geographic, Director, Medieval Studies, University of Texas-Austin) Topic: Race in the Middle Ages; methodologies for collaborative humanities environmental entity, the center for both East and West, and the site of a world system rather than a line of separation Monday, February 23, 2009, 4-7 pm, Humanities Building 193 between the emerging “West” and an exotic “East.” Accordingly, Professor David Wrisley (Civilization Program, American University of Beirut) the series will bring to UCLA not only scholars with expertise Topic: Lusignan expeditions as seen from Cyprus and Egypt in the western Mediterranean region, but more importantly, Monday, March 2, 2009, 3:30-6:30 pm, Royce 306 those studying the eastern Mediterranean. The Iberian Peninsula, Speaker and topic to be announced. al-Andalus in particular, has been pivotal in defining the field of Mediterranean Studies, because of its position as a multi- Watch the CMRS website for more information about the cultural and multi-confessional society in which Christians, Jews, Mediterranean Studies Seminar as it develops! and Muslims shared the same geographical space and were engaged in multifaceted social relations until the end of the fifteenth century. This productive and complex encounter extends beyond European soil to the Near East and Northern Africa. So too, the seminar will extend its explorations into the eastern Mediterranean, including such lesser-known, but nonetheless important areas as the Maghreb, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, the Adriatic, Byzantium, Cyprus, Mamluk Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire. 4 LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS 2008 – 2009

Each year, the Center sponsors and cosponsors a variety of lectures, seminars, colloquia, conferences, and other scholarly programs. The following events are currently planned for the 2008–09 academic year:

CMRS Open House • Wednesday, October 15, 2008 The Center invites faculty and students with an interest in Medieval and Renaissance Studies to attend an open house marking the beginning of the new academic year. Meet the Center’s staff and learn about CMRS programs, awards, and fellowships. Royce 306, 4:30 pm to 6 pm. Drop by and see us!

The 18th History of the Book Lecture, “Archimedes in The Church of Saint George of the Greeks, Famagusta, Cyprus. (Photo by Bits: The Digital Presentation of a Write-Off ” Allan Langdale.) • Friday, October 17, 2008 After ten years of conservation, imaging, and research, the “Managing Emotion in the Byzantine Twelfth Century: project to retrieve erased texts from a thirteenth-century The Consolations of Rhetoric” Byzantine palimpsest—the unique source for three treatises • Wednesday, November 12, 2008 by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes—is nearing In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Margaret completion. The results have been extraordinary, changing Mullett (Queen’s University, Belfast) demonstrates that Byzantine scholarly perception of Archimedes’s contribution to the consolationes in prose and verse—speeches, poems and western tradition of mathematical thought, and revealing letters—are anything but literary exercises; rather, they use the entirely new texts from the ancient world. In this lecture, Dr. power of rhetoric to serve the bereaved. Professor Mullett will William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at consider reactions to death in Byzantium, the representation The Walters Art Museum, and Director of the Archimedes and conception of emotion, portraiture (of deceased and palimpsest project, will discuss the project and present the bereaved), and the potential of different literary (and visual) results. Advance registration requested. Royce 314, 3 pm. Note time! forms. Royce 306, 4 pm. “Jews, Masons, and Cabalists: The Renaissance as “In a Contested Realm: The Historical Architecture of Ideology and the Italian Risorgimento” Northern Cyprus” • Monday, October 27, 2008 • Thursday, November 13, 2008 A talk by Professor Brian P. Copenhaver (Philosophy, and The story of the historical architecture of a divided Cyprus is History, UCLA, and CMRS Director) for the UCLA Center a tragic one. In this lecture, art historian Dr. Allan Langdale for Jewish Studies (CJS) Faculty/Student Seminar Series. (UC Santa Cruz) conveys the unparalleled richness of the his- Advance registration required. To register, email cjsrsvp@humnet. torical architecture of northern Cyprus with dramatic images ucla.edu. Royce 306, 12 noon. and discusses the political complications of the region in regard to the preservation of cultural heritage. Royce 314, 1:30 pm. “Thinking in Lines: Representing Genealogy in the High and Late Middle Ages” Film Screening — “The Stones of Famagusta: The Story • Thursday, November 6, 2008 of a Forgotten City” Historian Bill Kent has noted “the tendency, ubiquitous in me- • Thursday, November 13, 2008 dieval society, to see areas of feeling and experience through Art historian and filmmaker Dr. Allan Langdale takes you on kinship colored glasses,” but art historians have hardly noted a bicycle tour of the once famous medieval city of Fama- that imagery with genealogical content was everywhere in the gusta, Cyprus. Once considered the world’s richest city, Middle Ages: on walls and in books, sculpted and painted. In Famagusta is now largely forgotten by the West. Explore the this lecture, this year’s Art History Distinguished Lecturer wonders of the gothic churches and monasteries, the ruins Joan A. Holladay (Professor of Art and Art History, Universi- of Venetian palaces, the fabulous two-mile long city walls and ty of Texas, Austin) will examine this phenomenon, consider- moat, Byzantine churches and Ottoman baths, and some of ing some examples, their audiences, functions, and social or Famagusta’s unique and mysterious underground churches. political contexts. Cosponsored by the Department of Art Royce 314, 3 pm. History, the Arts Council, and CMRS. Royce 314, 4 pm.

5 LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS 2008 – 2009

“The Significance of the Baltic Languages for the “Art and Politics at the Habsburg Imperial Court c. 1550” Reconstruction of Indo-European” • Tuesday, February 3, 2009 • Tuesday, November 18, 2008 From the mid-1540’s onward, Charles V and his entourage, The generally archaic state of the Baltic languages went largely and especially his sister Mary of Hungary, paid increasing unnoticed until the beginning of the nineteenth century, attention to the visual arts as a means of interpreting recent when scholars such as Rask recognized that Baltic was not events and conveying their idea of Empire. The works then just a mixture of other branches of the Indo-European produced by artists such as Titian, Leone Leoni or Vermeyen language family. It was not until the latter half of the century, were directed at the court audience itself, deeply divided over however, that the scholarly community became aware of the imperial succession between the supporters of Charles’s the existence of tonal contrasts, which could subsequently son, the future Philip II, and those of his brother Ferdinand. be linked to similar phenomena in Slavic and appeared to In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar have an Indo-European background. In the course of the Professor Miguel Falomir (Curator of Renaissance Paintings, twentieth century, increasing knowledge of the prosodic Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid) will discuss the visual systems (stress patterns and tonal contrasts) of the Baltic strategies developed by artists and patrons in order to achieve languages gave rise to new theories about the origin of these their goals and the ways these works echoed different systems, some of which have far-reaching implications sensibilities at the imperial court. Royce 314, 4 pm. for the evaluation of Baltic evidence in the context of comparative Indo-European linguistics. In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Rick H. Derksen (Leiden “Savage Words: Invective as a Literary Genre” University Centre for Linguistics) explores these phenomena • Thursday, February 5 – Saturday, February 7, 2009 and their implications. Humanities Building, Room 193, 4 pm. Together with the insult and the verbal attack, invective inhabits the most antisocial sphere of language, a sphere one might expect to be ungoverned by any rules or conven- “Imagination or Reality? Fantastical Beasts in Medieval tions of genre, where scathing ridicule is unleashed with the Art and Thought” same heated anarchy that animates its devoted practitioners. • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 And yet, upon closer examination, invective reveals itself to In medieval manuscripts, familiar creatures like hedgehogs be one of the most tightly regulated of the literary genres, and weasels appear next to equally lively depictions of in which genealogies and norms have been strictly codified unicorns and dragons. For medieval readers, were these since the time of Cicero and Sallust. In fact, manuals of creatures actual inhabitants of the earth or symbols of the rhetoric, meant for students at all levels, formalize its every frightening possibilities beyond the known world? In this aspect—even determining, with clinical precision, the kind of illustrated talk for the CMRS Faculty Roundtable series, Dr. shortcomings to be excoriated in one’s colleagues. Notwith- Elizabeth Morrison (Curator, Department of Manuscripts standing the ironclad regulations to which it is subjected, or at the J. Paul Getty Museum) explores the role of fantastic possibly because of them, invective has enjoyed continuing animals in the Middle Ages. Royce 306, 12 noon. favor throughout European circles, being always rediscovered, revisited, and rekindled.

“Queer Shakes” This conference will bring together an international array of • Thursday, December 4, 2008 scholars to delineate the rules of the invective genre, show- Even though Shakespeare has often been queered, queer ing its evolution and expressive ductility, analyzing that vast theory has rarely been Shaken. Can Shakespeare queer theory corps of texts, which, over the centuries, individuals of every as much as theory has queered Shakespeare? In this talk, provenance (civil or ecclesiastic) have discharged in an effort Professor Madhavi Menon (Department of Literature, to vilify either the ideas or the character of their colleagues, American University) will think through the implications to demonstrate their superiority in the art of rhetoric, or, of what it means to have a two-way conversation between perhaps simply to vent their genuine loathing for those same Shakespeare and queer theory such that the one is not simply colleagues. Support for this conference is provided by The at the receiving end of the other. Cosponsored by the UCLA Ahmanson Foundation; cosponsored by CMRS and the Department of English and CMRS. Royce 314, 4 pm. UCLA Departments of French & Francophone Studies and Italian. See the CMRS website for the complete program.

6 LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS 2008 – 2009

Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture A CMRS Ahmanson Conference “Pagans for Christ: Catholic Historiography in “Medieval Sexuality: 2009” Raphael’s Frescoes in the Vatican” • Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7, 2009 • Thursday, February 19, 2009 Considering that the history of sexuality as a more or less Among practically “emblematic” works of Western art is coherent intellectual project is only a few decades old, what we Raphael Sanzio’s School of Athens, painted for Pope Julius have learned about medieval sexuality so far is remarkable. II’s private library in the Vatican Palace ca. 1510-12. This Precisely because the investigations have only just begun, ideal vision of ancient pagan thinkers was painted, however, however, whole areas have yet to be explored. To further this directly across from a similar view of Christian theologians, exploration, this conference will bring together scholars from the so-called Disputation on the Sacrament, executed immediately various disciplines and nationalities to take stock of what is before the School of Athens. In this talk, Timothy C. Verdon being done now and to investigate new areas in the history of (Art Historian, Florence, Italy) suggests the historiographic medieval sexuality. Attention will be focused on two primary and ecclesiological coefficients of what is thus an apparently issues: First—What is this thing we call “medieval sexuality”? calculated juxtaposition, situating the early-modern conceptu- Does it have any medieval coherence, or, despite what al program of the frescoes in the context of fourteenth- and scholars claim to have learned from Foucault, is it just modern fifteenth-century humanist reflection on the dialogic relation sexuality in medieval drag? Second—What can be learned by between past and present in the Church. Advance registration studying points of exchange, the movement of sexual knowl- required. Royce 314, 5 pm. edges or representations across various boundaries? How does sexuality figure in the relationship of medieval text and image? What are the tensions and exchanges between sacred and secular “The Book of Royal Degrees and Russian Historical sexualities? And how has the 19th-century science of sexual- Consciousness” ity defined our ways of understanding medieval sexuality? • Thursday, February 26 – Saturday, February 28, 2009 This international conference, organized by Professor Gail This conference, organized by Professors Zrinka Stahuljak Lenhoff (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA), marks (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA) and James Schultz the publication of a critical edition of Russia’s first narrative (Germanic Languages, UCLA) is supported by a grant from history, The Book of Royal Degrees, produced in the Moscow the Ahmanson Foundation, with additional funding from CMRS, metropolitan’s scriptorium between 1555-64, during the reign the UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research, the Humanities of Ivan IV “the Terrible.” The edition was made possible by Division of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, the grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities Center for the Study of Women, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual (NEH) and the National Council for Eurasian and East & Transgender Studies Program, and the Departments of European Research (NCEEER), with additional support Comparative Literature, English, French & Francophone Studies, provided by CMRS and the UCLA Department of Slavic Germanic Languages, and History. Languages and Literatures. “Transforming the Medieval into the Modern: Irish The conference will include presentations by twenty-five Literature in Spanish Flanders” distinguished scholars who will discuss The Book of Royal • Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Degrees’s treatment of Muscovite history, politics, theology, Art and its patronage in late medieval Ireland was in many literary production, artistic subtexts and reception. Other respects different from contemporary systems of patronage topics to be considered include religion and governance; found in Continental Europe. Where their continental preconditions for a “culture of history;” ways in which pre- counterparts commissioned works of visual art, the Irish modern writers of history seek to understand, legitimize and aristocracy valued the verbal, and professional poets and influence the present; the ways in which historical narratives scholars sought to provide the verbal galleries their patrons such as The Book of Royal Degrees contribute to the rise of craved and purchased. Defeat at the hands of the English nationalism and the survival of absolute monarchies; and, the in the Battle of Kinsale (1601) brought many such aristocrats uses of historical narratives in the building of a civil, and their men of art to an exile in Spanish Flanders or democratic society. A published volume of selected papers further afield. As a result, a large body of literature has from the conference is planned, as is a website with confer- been transmitted to us that was composed or compiled or ence materials. The conference is cosponsored by CMRS, the conceived of in Flanders, or was brought there from Ireland. UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, and the In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Ruairí UCLA Departments of Slavic Languages & Literatures and Ó hUiginn (Professor of Irish, National University of Ireland, History. For the complete program, visit the CMRS website. Maynooth) will examine some of these works and assess them in their new continental context. Royce 314, 4 pm.

7 LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS 2008 – 2009

Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America A CMRS Ahmanson Conference • Thursday, March 19 – Saturday, March 21, 2009 “Writing Down the Myths: The Construction of CMRS hosts the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society Mythology in Classical and Medieval Traditions” of America (RSA) in Los Angeles. Paper sessions will take • Thursday, April 16 – Sunday, April 19, 2009 place at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. The annual Bennett Contemporary approaches to myth, though influenced by Lecture will be presented by David Freedberg (Pierre Matisse the fieldwork and findings of anthropologists and folklorists Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University) at the working with living oral traditions over the last hundred years, Getty Villa on Friday evening; on Saturday, historical demo- are still grounded in venerable literary classics that purport to grapher Professor Noble David Cook (Florida International sum up ancient traditional stories about gods and goddesses, University) and writer/editor Kathleen A. Lynch (Carnegie heroes and heroines, primal events, and the beginnings of the Mellon) will present the Trends Panel on Demographics at world. Such texts, which assemble related narratives into UCLA. Advance registration and fee required. To register, or for “mythologies,” become canonical formulations that can more information, including the complete program, see RSA’s function as sources, templates, and inspirations for other website at www.rsa.org. literary and scholarly works, both within their own literary- historical contexts and beyond them. There are cases, however, where these codified mythologies serve as epitaphs, “Courtly Conviviality and Gastronomy in Early Modern seemingly marking the end of particular (oral) traditions France and Italy: Society, Politics, and Aesthetics” instead of their (literary) revival. • Thursday, April 2 – Saturday, April 4, 2009 This conference will analyze the development of gastronomy This conference will examine the various factors (literary, and conviviality in Italy and France and the regions in between cultural, political) that led to the production of mythological and/or bordering (Savoy, Grisons, Ticino, Belgium) from compendia in the Classical and Late-Antique world, and the the times of Taillevent (Guillaume Tirel, 1310-95) to the extent to which the agenda that produced parallel works in certain publication of the Cuisinier Français of François-Pierre de la medieval cultures of northwest Europe (Ireland, Wales, Iceland) Varenne (1651). The center of this scenario is occupied by operated along similar or even historically related lines. Papers extremely significant historical events such as the Council will focus on the cultural and literary contexts behind the of Constanz (1417) and the composition of the schism, “mythographic urge” in Classical Greek and Latin literature, the rebirth of Rome as capital of the Catholic world, and as well as in Western European traditions of the Middle Ages the sack of Rome in 1527. The central figures are Francis (particularly Celtic and Norse), and on the possible historical I, Catherine De Medici, her son Henri III, Marie de Medici links and typological parallels among works such as Apollodorus’s and her husband Henry IV. The crucial shift from Stoicism Library, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, the to Epicureanism as it emerges from writings of Lorenzo Irish Battle of Mag Tuired, and the Welsh Four Branches of the Valla, Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi), and other humanists, as Mabinogi. Some of the questions to be considered are: What well as from the actual cookbooks (Maestro Martino’s Libro was the transmission history of pre-medieval mythographic de arte coquinaria; Bartolomeo Scappi’s Opera; Cristoforo di works in the Middle Ages, and to what extent and to whom Messisbugo’s Banchetti e composizione di vivande, culminating in were they available as models to the post-Classical world? How La Varenne’s Cuisinier français) will be discussed. The gastro- “authentic” are ancient and medieval mythographies, and how nomical and convivial scene will be studied as the locus where do we determine that authenticity? To what uses were they Theater and Music (and Architecture) receive a vital impulse put? And what are the differences in function, approach, and toward the creation of a multimedia event avant-la-lettre. subtext between these pre-modern “write-ups” of myth and modern learned and popular handbooks of mythology? Conference participants include Professors Luigi Ballerini (Italian, UCLA), Jean-Claude Carron (French and The conference is organized by Professors Joseph Nagy Francophone Studies, UCLA), Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, (English) and Kendra Willson (Scandinavian), and graduate UCLA), Cynthia Skenazi (French, UC Santa Barbara), and students Malcolm Harris (English), Eric Kristensson PhD candidate Gianluca Rizzo (Italian, UCLA). Support for (Germanic Languages), Katherine McLoone (Comparative this conference is provided by The Ahmanson Foundation, Literature), and Anna Pagé (Indo-European Studies). It is the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, and the funded by a grant from The Ahmanson Foundation, with UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature, French & additional support provided by CMRS, the UCLA Vice Francophone Studies, and Italian. Watch the CMRS website Chancellor for Research, and the Humanities Division of the for the complete program. UCLA College of Letters and Science. For the complete program, see the CMRS website.

8 LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS 2008 – 2009

A CMRS Ahmanson Conference, “Mapping Medieval Geographies: Cartography and Geographical Thought in the Latin West & Beyond, 300-1600” • Thursday, May 28 – Saturday, May 30, 2009 Geography as it was understood and practiced in the Middle Ages, within both eastern and western traditions, and as represented both graphically and textually, is a subject of renewed interest and importance among historians, philologists, and geographers. This conference aims to promote an exchange between those of different disciplines working on geographical ideas and thinking from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance on two themes: “Translation, transmission, transculturation” will focus on the continuities in geographical knowledge from Antiquity through the Middle Ages; the complex transculturation of formal geographical and cartographic knowledge between Latin, Byzantine, and Islamic scholars and travelers; and the copying and transmission of key geographical texts and sources, and their selection and adaptation. “Mapping, imagining, placing” will consider questions of scale, place, and the geographical imagination looking at the changing character and uses of “geography” in medieval thought; the intertextual nature of “medieval geography” between visual (cartographic) and As part of the UCLA Sounds Early Music series, the noted Los Angeles textual descriptions, and connections between “thinking ensemble Vox Profundis presented a program on March 18, 2008, which geographically” (i.e., spatial sensibility) and “geographical examined the roots of the Lenten Tenebrae service and the ways in which ancient thinking” (i.e., writing and visualizing “geography”). ritual was reinvented and reinterpreted in music of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and beyond. The group took advantage of the superb acoustics of The conference was organized by Dr. Keith D. Lilley (School a Royce Hall stairwell to perform the final piece on the program. of Geography, Queen’s University, Belfast) and the late Professor Denis Cosgrove (Geography, UCLA). Support has Quarterly Events been provided by a grant from The Ahmanson Foundation, with additional funding from CMRS, the UCLA Vice The California Medieval History Seminar fosters intellectual Chancellor for Research, and the Humanities Division of exchange and acquaints its participants with medieval historical the UCLA College of Letters and Science. For the complete research currently underway in the state. Three times a year, program, see the CMRS website. the seminar gathers at the Huntington Library to discuss four research papers (two by faculty members, two by graduate students or recent PhD recipients). Support for the Other CMRS Programs and Events 2007–08 seminar series was provided by CMRS, Caltech, the Huntington Library, UC Berkeley, and the UCLA Dean of As an active sponsor of lectures, conferences, and other Social Sciences. The next seminar meetings are scheduled for programs, CMRS is constantly planning new events. Still in November 22, 2008, February 14, 2009, and May 16, 2009. the works at the time this booklet goes to press are the Speakers and paper topics are announced by e-mail. Advance Annual Samuel Pepys Lecture, the annual E. A. Moody registration is required. To be added to the announcement list, Workshop, and lectures by CMRS Distinguished Visiting contact [email protected]. Scholars Gísli Sigurðsson (Research Professor and Head of the Department of Folkloristics, Árni Magnússon Institute The UCLA Sounds Early Music Series presents concerts for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland) and Jesús D. that showcase small instrumental and vocal works seldom Rodriguez-Velasco (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at heard in live performance. Programs focus on little-known Columbia University and at UC Berkeley). music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and include lively commentary by musicologists and musicians. Concert themes are selected to provide a musical dimension to CMRS events. At the time this brochure goes to press, several UCLA Sounds concerts are in the works for the coming year.

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Distinguished Visiting Scholars 2008 – 2009

Each year, CMRS sponsors Distinguished Visiting Scholars whose knowledge enriches the academic life of UCLA’s students and faculty, and promotes scholarship in the larger community. They present classes and seminars, participate in conferences and symposia, and deliver public lectures. During the 2008–09 academic year, the Center will bring the following Distinguished Visiting Scholars to UCLA:

Rick H. Derksen, a leading authority on historical Slavic and Baltic linguistics, is on the faculty of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, and has taught in the Departments of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and Slavic Studies at Leiden University. Dr. Derksen has recently published the monumental Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) and is a collaborator on the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project at Leiden University. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Indo-European Studies Program, November 2008. Public Lecture: “The Significance of the Baltic Languages in the Reconstruction of Indo- CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Patricia Crone (Mellon Professor of European,” November 18, 2008, Humanities Building, Room Islamic History, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) presented the lecture 193, 4 pm. “Freedom of Religion in Islam,” which examined the Quranic declaration “There is no compulsion in religion,” in the Morris Humanities Seminar Room Miguel Falomir is Curator of Renaissance Paintings at the (Royce 306), on February 29, 2008. Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain, home to many Renaissance masterpieces. He is the author of Tintoretto Ruairí Ó hUiginn is Professor of Irish at the National (London: 2007), which accompanied the first modern University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is an expert of both exhibition of the Renaissance painter Jacopo Tintoretto’s medieval and modern Irish language, and has published works since 1937, and co-author of the forthcoming extensively on medieval Irish literature. CMRS Distinguished Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian (National Gallery Visiting Scholar in Celtic Studies, March 2009. Public Lecture: London: 2008). CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the “Transforming the Medieval into the Modern: Irish Literature Department of Art History, February 2009. Public Lecture: in Spanish Flanders,” March 11, 2009, Royce 314, 4 pm. “Art and Politics at the Habsburg Imperial Court c. 1550,” February 3, 2009, Royce 314, 4 pm. Jesús D. Rodriguez-Velasco, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Columbia University, and at UC Berkeley, is an authority on medieval and early modern history, law, Margaret Mullett is currently Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast. In fall 2009, political theory, and literature. His most recent projects she will become Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton concern chivalric institutions of the fourteenth century, Oaks. Professor Mullett, an expert on all aspects of Byzantine glossed manuscripts produced for private libraries during the cultural history, has written on literacy, patronage, letter- fifteenth century, and the political theories common to the writing, genre, gender, and friendship in Byzantine society. Italian cities, Burgundy, and Castile. CMRS Distinguished CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Visiting Scholar in the departments of History and Spanish & Art History, November 2008. Public Lecture: “Managing Portuguese, May 2009. Public Lecture: May 20, 2009, Royce Emotion in the Byzantine Twelfth Century: The Consolations 314, 4 pm. Topic to be announced. of Rhetoric,” November 12, 2008, Royce 306, 4 pm. Gísli Sigurðsson is Research Professor and Head of the Department of Folkloristics at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies on the campus of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Scandinavian Section, Spring 2009. Public Lecture: May 19, 2009, Royce 314, 4 pm. Topic to be announced.

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UCLA Visiting Scholars affiliated with CMRS Scholars holding a PhD or the foreign equivalent, and working in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, may apply for a UCLA Visiting Scholar affiliation with the Center while engaged in independent research at UCLA. Appointments are honorary and for a limited period of time, normally not exceeding one year. Visiting Scholars receive UCLA Library privileges and are invited to all CMRS events.

During academic year 2007-08, three scholars came to UCLA as Visiting Scholars affiliated with the Center.

Byung-Yong Kim (Associate Professor of Medieval History College of the Humanities, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea), arrived in January and will continue his research at UCLA through December 2008. He is studying memorial donation in the Salian dynasty in the eleventh century.

Erika Rummel (Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto) visited UCLA during the Winter Quarter 2008 to continue her work on an edition and translation of the letters of CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Paul Freeman (Chester D. Tripp Wolfgang Capito (1478-1541), a humanist (and protégé of Professor of History, Yale University) discussed “Spices and the Medieval Idea Desiderius Erasmus) turned Protestant reformer. She is now of the Exotic,” to an large and attentive audience on October 17, 2007. working on volume three, covering the years 1532-41. In addition to transcribing the manuscripts, she is providing Summer Fellows historical annotations and identifying classical, patristic, and biblical references in Capito’s correspondence. The Center offers a summer fellowship to scholars holding a PhD or the foreign equivalent to pursue research at UCLA During the summer of 2008, John M. McManamon in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The fellowship includes (Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago) visited $500 (as travel reimbursement or stipend) and temporary UCLA to utilize the university’s research library holdings membership in the Center with its attendant privileges. in Renaissance history and maritime archaeology. He is writing a study of three Renaissance shipwrecks recently Lisa Pon, Assistant Professor of Art History at Southern discovered off the coast of Turkey and their significance for Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts, visited the maritime history of the Mediterranean world in the late UCLA in 2008 as a CMRS Summer Fellow. She utilized Renaissance. UCLA’s library for research related to her study of the Madonna of the Fire, a medieval woodcut image that survived Applications for UCLA Visiting Scholar affiliations with a fifteenth-century fire and became a local icon for the CMRS are accepted at any time. For more information, see townspeople of Forlì, Italy. the Center’s website. Scholars interested in applying for a 2009 Summer Fellowship should contact the Center for more information or see the CMRS website. The application deadline is February 15, 2009.

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VIATOR Viator 39, no. 1 (Spring 2008) MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES “A Convert of 1096: Guillaume, Monk of Flaix, Converted from the Viator, the Center’s scholarly journal, now in its thirty-ninth Jew,” Je ssi e Sh e r w oo d year, publishes articles of distinction in any field of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, viewed broadly as the period between “No Peace for the Wicked: Conflicting Visions of Peacemaking in late antiquity and the mid-seventeenth century. In keeping an Eleventh-Century Monastic Narrative,” Je h an g i r Y. Mal e g am with its title, the journal gives special consideration to articles that cross frontiers: articles that focus on meetings between “Judeo-Greek Legacy in Medieval Rus’,” Al e x an d e r Kulik cultures, that pursue an idea through the centuries, that employ “Theory and Practice in the Anglo-Saxon Leechbooks: The Case of the methods of different disciplines simultaneously. Viator’s Paralysis,” Jam e s T. McIl w ain editorial board, a representative group of the Center’s faculty, has managed through the years to insist that articles attain “‘Oh! What Treasure Is In This Book?’ Writing, Reading, and technical excellence while remaining accessible to the interested Community at the Monastery of Helfta,” Anna Ha r r ison non-specialist reader. “Competing Spectacles in the Venetian Feste delle Marie,” Th omas Viator appears twice annually. Volume 39 No. 1 (Spring 2008) De v an e y and volume 39 No. 2 (Autumn 2008) can be ordered from “Langland’s Rats Revisited: Conservatism, Commune, and Political Brepols Publishers in Belgium: [email protected]. Unanimity,” Nicol e Lassa h n

Editor: Henry Ansgar Kelly (English, UCLA) “Local Elites and Royal Power in Late Medieval Castile: The Example of the Marquesado de Villena,” Jo r g e Or tu ñ o Molina Associate Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA) “Prudence, Mother of Virtues: The Chapelet des vertus and Christine Editorial Board: Courtney M. Booker (University of British de Pizan,” Ma r y A. Rous e an d Ric h a r d H. Rous e Columbia), Jean-Claude Carron (UCLA), Matthew Fisher (UCLA), Patrick J. Geary (UCLA), Sharon Gerstel (UCLA), “Christine de Pizan against the Theologians: The Virtue of Lies in The Book of the Three Virtues,” Dallas G. De n e r y II Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, Christchurch), Constant Mews (Monash University), Cary J. Nederman (Texas A&M “Childhood and Gender in Later Medieval England,” P. J. P. University), Richard H. Rouse (UCLA) Gol d b e r g

Editorial Consultants: Peter D. Diehl (Western Washington “Rewriting Scripture: Latin Biblical Versification in the Later Middle University), Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Occidental College), Ages,” Gr e ti Dinko v a -Br uin Kristen Lee Over (Northeastern Illinois University) “Perspicere Deum: Nicholas of Cusa and European Art of the Manuscripts should be sent as e-mail attachments to sullivan@ Fifteenth Century,” Ce sa r e Cat à humnet.ucla.edu. For further information, contact Blair “John Gunthorpe: Keeper of Richard III’s Privy Seal, Dean of Wells Sullivan at 310.825.1537, or [email protected]. Cathedral,” A. Compton Re e v e s

Visit the Viator website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/ “Hegel’s Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages,” viator.html. Constantin Fasolt

Volume 39 No. 2 (Autumn 2008)

“The Public Penance of Louis the Pious: A New Edition of the Episcoporum de poenitentia, quam Hludowicus imperator professus est, relatio Compendiensis (833),” Cou r tn e y M. Book e r

“Between the Menorot: New Light on a Fourth-Century Jewish Representative Composition,” Galit No g a -Banai

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“‘Utilius est veritatem proferre.’ A Difficult Memory to Manage: Cu r so r Mun d i : Narrating the Relationships between Bishops and Dukes in Early Vi a t o r Stu d i e s of t h e Me d i e v al & Ea r ly Mo d e r n Wo r l d Medieval Naples,” Lui g i An d r e a Be r to Conceived as a companion to the journal Viator: Medieval “A Saint as a Mediator between a Bishop and His Flock: The Cult and Renaissance Studies, Cursor Mundi is a publication series of Saint Bononius in the Diocese of Vercelli under Bishop Arderic of inter- and multi-disciplinary studies of the medieval and (1026/7–1044),” Te e mu Immon e n early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like Viator, Cursor “The Provenance of the Descriptio qualiter Karolus Magnus: Remembering the Carolingians in the Entourage of King Philip I (1060–1108) Mundi brings together outstanding work by medieval and before the First Crusade,” Matt h e w Gab r i e l e early modern scholars from a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing studies which focus on processes such as cultural “The Fate of Place in the Twelfth Century: Creation, Restoration, exchange or the course of an idea through the centuries, and and Body in the Writing of Bernard of Clairvaux,” Je nnif e r A. including investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of Ha r r is Europe and the Mediterranean. Individual entries are generally single-authored books of at least 90,000 words in length, or “Foundation Legends in the Illuminated Missal of Saint-Denis: multi-authored collections such as Festschriften or articles on Interplay of Liturgy, Hagiography, and Chronicle,” Kyun g h e e Pyun a common subject. The series also includes shorter studies, ca. 40,000 words in length, by distinguished scholars on topics “Carnival of Law: Bartolomeo Scala’s Dialogue De legibus et iudiciis,” Rob e r t Fr e d ona of broad interest. Cursor Mundi is published by Brepols Publishers under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and “Self and Other: Gonneville’s Encounters in Terra Australis and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Brazil,” William Je nnin g s General Editor: Christopher Baswell (English, Columbia “Facilis descensus Averno: Retracing Aeneas’s Steps in Du Bellay’s Regrets,” University and Barnard College) Er ic M. Mac Ph ail Executive Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA) “Medical Bodies, Mystical Bodies: Medieval Physiological Theory in the Recollection Mysticism of Bernardino de Laredo,” Je ssica A. Boon Editorial Board: Michael D. Bailey (History, Iowa State Univ.), István Bejczy (History, Nijmegen), William Bodiford “The Economy of Justice: Privileges, Litigation, and the Distribution (Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA), Peter Cowe (Near of Land in Sixteenth-Century Castile,” Clau d ia Min e o Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA), Florin Curta (History, Univ. of Florida), Elizabeth Freeman (History and Classics, Univ. of Tasmania), Yitzhak Hen (General History, Ben- The Orsini: A Family of Roman Baroni in Context Gurion Univ. of the Negev), Geraldine Heng (English, Univ. of Texas at Austin), Lauren Kassell (History and Philosophy “The Orsini Papers at the University of California, Los Angeles: Property Administration, Political Strategy, and Architectural Legacy,” of Science, Pembroke College, Cambridge), David Lines Gu e n d alina Aj e llo Ma h l e r (Italian, Univ. of Warwick), Cary Nederman (Political Science, Texas A&M), Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA), Zrinka Stahuljak “Fideicommissum and Family: The Orsini di Bracciano,” Th omas Ku e h n (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA)

“The Exemplary Career of a Rogue Elephant: Napoleone Orsini, Published volumes: Abate di Farfa,” Ch r istin e Sh a w CM1 Chris Jones, Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and Its Rulers in Late Medieval France. October 2007. “When a Woman ‘Takes’ Charge: Marie-Anne de la Trémoille and the End of the Patrimony of the Dukes of Bracciano,” Ca r olin e CM2 Simha Goldin, The Ways of Jewish Martyrdom. January 2008. Casti g lion e

“The Orsini and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life,” Re nata Ag o CM 5 Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe, ed. Ildar H. Garipzanov, Patrick J. Geary, and Przemyslaw Urbańczyk. May 2008.

Please direct inquiries to Blair Sullivan, [email protected].

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REPERTORIUM COLUMBIANUM Vol. 1: We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of The Repertorium Columbianum is a collection of contemporary Mexico, James Lockhart (University of California Press 1993; sources relating to Columbus’s four voyages and the inter- reprinted by Wipf and Stock Publishers 2004) penetration of the hitherto separate worlds that resulted from them. The series, which is published by Brepols of Belgium, Vol. 2: The Book of Privileges Issued to Christopher Columbus by provides in accessible form the basic documents that are the King Fernando and Queen Isabel, Luciano Formisano and Helen starting point for research into this pivotal moment in world Nader (University of California Press 1996; reprinted by history. It provides accurate editions of the essential texts Wipf and Stock Publishers 2004) in their original languages for the use of specialists, while at the same time making them available to students and scholars Vol. 3: “The Book of Prophecies” Edited by Christopher Columbus, in related fields through parallel English translations. The Roberto Rusconi and Blair Sullivan (University of California administrative and editorial work for the series was performed Press 1997; reprinted by Wipf and Stock Publishers 2004) by CMRS, under whose auspices the volumes were produced. Funding for the project was provided by the Ahmanson Vol. 4: Christopher Columbus and His Family: The Genoese and Foundation, Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del Ligurian Documents, John Dotson and Aldo Agosto (Brepols V Centenario della Scoperta dell’America, the National 1998) Endowment for the Humanities, and Sociedad Estatal para la Ejecución de Programas del Quinto Centenario. Vol. 5: Selections from Peter Martyr on Columbus, Geoffrey Eatough (Brepols 1998) Volumes 1 through 3 are now available in paperback, and can be ordered from Wipf and Stock Publishers at www. Vol. 6: A Synoptic Edition of the Log of Columbus’s First Voyage, wipfandstock.com. Volumes 4 through 13 can be ordered Francesca Lardicci, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Blair Sullivan from Brepols Publishers at [email protected]. (Brepols 1999)

General Editor: Vol. 7: Las Casas on Columbus: Background and the Second and Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA) Fourth Voyages, Nigel Griffin and Anthony Pagden (Brepols 1999) Associate General Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA) Vol. 8: Testimonies from the Columbian Lawsuits, William D. Phillip, Jr., Anne-Marie Wolf, and Mark D. Johnston (Brepols Philological Editor: 2000) Luciano Formisano (University of Bologna) Vol. 9: Oviedo on Columbus, Jesús Carrillo, Diane de Avalle- Editorial Board: Arce, and Anthony Pagden (Brepols 2000) Michael J. B. Allen (English, and Italian, UCLA) Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA) Vol. 10: Italian Reports on America 1493–1522: Letters, Dispatches, Norman J. W. Thrower (Geography, UCLA) and Papal Bulls, Geoffrey Symcox, Giovanna Rabitti, and Peter Edward Tuttle (Italian, UCLA) D. Diehl (Brepols 2001) Vol. 11: Las Casas on Columbus: The Third Voyage, Geoffrey Find out more about the Repertorium Columbianum online at Symcox, Jesús Carrillo, Mike Hammer, and Blair Sullivan www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/rc.html . (Brepols 2001)

Vol. 12: Italian Reports on America 1493–1522: Accounts by Contemporary Observers, Geoffrey Symcox, Luciano Formisano, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., and John McLucas (Brepols 2002)

Vol. 13: The History of the Life and Deeds of the Admiral Christopher Columbus Attributed to His Son Fernando Colón, Ilaria Caraci Luzzana, Geoffrey Symcox, and Blair Sullivan (Brepols 2004)

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Comitatus A Jo u r n a l o f Me d i e v a l a n d Re n a i s s a n c e St u d i e s

Comitatus, the CMRS-sponsored journal for graduate students and recent PhDs, is now in its thirty-ninth year of publishing articles in any field of the Middle Ages or Renaissance. The annual journal is distributed internationally to libraries and individuals; volume 39 (2008) has just appeared. Please address questions about submissions and subscriptions to Blair Sullivan, 310.825.1537, [email protected], or visit our website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/comitatus.html.

Editor (vol. 39): Erica L. Westhoff (Italian, UCLA) Dr. Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand), Editorial Board (vol. 39): Lisa Boutin (Art History), Leanne author of the first volume in the Center’s newCursor Mundi series, Good (History), Mac Harris (English), Jennifer Ng (History), presented a talk for the CMRS Faculty Roundtable on April 9, 2008. Jennifer A. T. Smith (English), Mina Soroosh (French & Francophone Studies), Sarah Whitten (History) International Encyclopaedia for Managing Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA) the Middle Ages–Online Comitatus 39 (2008) The International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages–Online (IEMA) Articles is an entirely new English-language supplement to and update “The Making of Men, not Masters: Right Order and Lay of the Lexikon des Mittelalters–Online produced under the joint Masculinity according to Dhuoda and Nithard,” Me g Le ja auspices of CMRS and Brepols publishers. It is available by subscription at Brepolis (www.brepolis.net), the Brepols site “Romantic Love as Natural Right in Béroul’s Romance of for online medieval encyclopaedias and bibliographies. Tristan,” J. M. An d e r son IEMA’s chronological range is 300–1500 CE and it covers all “Wounds of Love: Dantean Pazïenza and the Poetics of of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, in addition to Mourning Dido,” Ke r r i A. Bo w e n aspects of other cultures known to the people of these areas. Academic oversight is coordinated by General Editor Patrick “The Remedies of Hippocrates or Divine Counsel? Jean J. Geary (UCLA) and editorial board members Michael J. B. Gerson and Religious Visionaries during the Great Western Allen (UCLA), János Bak (Central European University), Schism,” An d r e w Fo g l e man Paul Freedman (Yale), Hans-Werner Goetz (Hamburg), Alan V. Murray (Leeds), Eric Palazzo (Poitiers), Claudia Rapp “‘The Werste Lay That Euer Harper Sange with Harp’: The (UCLA), Chase Robinson (Oxford), and Ian Wood (Leeds). Forms of Early Middle English Satire,” Be n Pa r sons Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA) serves as Executive Editor. “Renaissance Flesh and Woman’s Devotion: Titian’s Penitent Magdalen,” He at h e r Se x ton Gr a h am OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS “Silver and Gold” A Case Study of Material Culture in Renaissance Mantua,” Val e r i e Taylo r The Mexican Treasury: Writings by Dr. Francisco Hernández, edited by Simon Varey, and translated by Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. “Orthodox Puritans and Dissenting Bishops: The Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford University Press, 2000). Reformation of the English Episcopate, ca. 1580–1610,” Ma r cus Ha r m e s Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández, edited by Simon Varey, Rafael Chabrán, Review Article and Dora B. Weiner (Stanford University Press, 2000). “Rule and Resistance: Theorizing the Female Sovereign in Sixteenth-Century Europe,” Me g an Galla g h e r The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner, edited by Blair Sullivan (Harmonie Park Press, 2004). Reviews 15 ucla center for medieval & renaissance studies

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“Ballads and Broadsides” CMRS Faculty Roundtable • Tuesday, October 14, 2008 • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 A lecture by Professor Thomas Pettitt (University of Southern Denmark), Dr. Elizabeth Morrison (Curator, Department of Manuscripts, The J. Paul cosponsored by CMRS and the English Department. Humanities 250, 4 pm. Getty Museum), “Imagination or Reality? Fantastical Beasts in Medieval Art and Thought.” Royce 306, 12 pm. CMRS Open House • Wednesday, October 15, 2008 “Queer Shakes” Stop by and meet us! Royce 306, 4:30 to 6 pm. • Thursday December 4, 2008 A lecture by Professor Madhavi Menon (American University), cosponsored Eighteenth History of the Book Lecture by English and CMRS. Royce 306, 4 pm. • Friday, October 17, 2008 Dr. Will Noel (Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, The Walters Art Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar Museum) “Archimedes in Bits: The Presentation of a Write-off.” Advance • Monday, January 12, 2009 registration reguired. Royce 314, 3 pm. Note time! Professor Leyla Rouhi (Williams College), “Towards a Re-Definition of ‘Co- Existence’ in Early Modern Spanish Literature.” Royce 306, 3:30 pm. Center for Jewish Studies Faculty/Student Seminar • Monday, October 27, 2008 CMRS Faculty Roundtable Professor Brian P. Copenhaver (Philosophy, History, UCLA), “Jews, Masons, • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 and Cabalaists: The Renaissance as Ideology and the Italian Risorgimento.” A talk by Professor Shane Butler (Classics, UCLA). Royce 306, 12 pm. Registration required! To register, email [email protected]. Royce 306, 12 pm. Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar • Tuesday, January 20, 2009 CMRS Faculty Roundtable Professor Karla Mallette (Miami University), “Lingua franca in the • Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Mediterranean.” Royce 306, 3:30 pm. Professor Emma Lewis Thomas (World Arts and Cultures, UCLA) discusses fifteenth- and sixteenth-century dance. Royce 306, 12 pm. Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar • Monday, January 26, 2009 “Thinking in Lines: Representing Genealogy in the High and Late Professor Valerie Ramseyer (Wellesley College) discusses the Kingdom of Sicily. Middle Ages” Royce 306, 3:30 pm. • Thursday, November 6, 2008 A lecture by Art History Distinguished Lecturer Joan A. Holladay (Professor CMRS Faculty Roundtable of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin), cosponsored by Art • Tuesday, January 27, 2009 History, the Arts Council, and CMRS. Royce 314, 4 pm. Professor Kendra Willson (Scandinavian Section, UCLA), “Shades of Parody in Icelandic Sagas.” Royce 306, 12 pm. CMRS Faculty Roundtable • Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar Dr. Leena Löfstedt (University of Helsinki), “The Old French Translation of • Monday, February 2, 2009 Gratian’s Decretum: A New Proof of the Translator’s Identity.” Royce 306, 12 pm. Professor E. Natalie Rothman (University of Toronto), “Trans-imperial Subjects, Mediation, and Articulation in the Early Modern Mediterranean.” “Managing Emotion in the Byzantine Twelfth Century: Royce 306, 3:30 pm. The Consolations of Rhetoric” • Wednesday, November 12, 2008 “Art and Politics at the Habsburg Imperial Court c. 1550” A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Margaret Mullett • Tuesday, February 3, 2009 (Queen’s University, Belfast), Royce 306, 4 pm. A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Miguel Falomir (Curator of Renaissance Paintings, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid), Royce 314, 4 pm “In a Contested Realm: The Historical Architecture of Northern Cyprus” • Thursday, November 13, 2008 “Savage Words: Invective as a Literary Genre” A lecture by art historian Dr. Allan Langdale (UC Santa Cruz). Cosponsored • Thursday, February 5 – Saturday, February 7, 2009 by CMRS and the Art History Department. Royce 314, 1:30 pm. An international conference organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA) and PhD candidate Gianluca Rizzo (Italian, UCLA). Film Screening, “The Stones of Famagusta: The Story of a Forgotten City” • Thursday, November 13, 2008 Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar Art historian and filmmaker Dr. Allan Langdale takes you on a tour of the • Monday, February 9, 2009 once famous medieval city of Famagusta, Cyprus. Royce 314, 3 pm. Professor Zdenka Janekovic Roemer (Institute for Historical Studies, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences) discusses Dubrovnik (Ragusa) in the Eastern “The Significance of the Baltic Languages for the Reconstruction of Mediterranean. Humanities Building, Room 193, 4 pm. Indo-European” • Thursday, November 18, 2008 CMRS Faculty Roundtable A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Rick H. Derksen • Wednesday, February 11, 2009 (Leiden University). Humanities Building, Room 193, 4 pm. Professor Marianna Birnbaum (Gemanic Languages, UCLA), “Jews in the Foliage.” Royce 306, 12 pm. California Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2008 • Saturday, November 22, 2008 California Medieval History Seminar, Winter 2009 Quarterly meeting, Huntington Library. Advance registration required. • Saturday, February 14, 2009 Quarterly meeting, Huntington Library. Advance registration required.

For more information about cmrs programs & events > > > A CHECKLIST of events 2008 – 2009

WINTER - SPRING 2009 SPRING 2009

Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar A CMRS Ahmanson Conference • Tuesday, February 17, 2009 “Writing Down the Myths: The Construction of Mythology in Professor Geraldine Heng (University of Texas-Austin) discusses race in the Classical and Medieval Traditions” Middle Ages. Royce 306, 3:30 pm. • Thursday, April 16 – Sunday, April 19, 2009 An international conference organized by UCLA Professors Joseph Nagy Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture (English) and Kendra Willson (Scandinavian), with graduate students • Thursday, February 19, 2009 Mac Harris (English), Eric Kristensson (Germanic Languages), Katherine Timothy C. Verdon (Art Historian, Florence, Italy), “Pagans for Christ: McLoone (Comparative Literature), and Anna Pagé (Indo-European Studies). Catholic Historiography in Raphael’s Frescoes in the Vatican.” Royce 314, 5 pm. Advance registration required. CMRS Faculty Roundtable • Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar Topic and speaker to be announced. Royce 306, 12 pm. • Monday, February 23, 2009 Professor David Wrisley (American University of Beirut) discusses Lusignan Annual Shakespeare Symposium expeditions as seen from Cyprus and Egypt. Humanities Building 193, 4 pm. • Saturday, May 2, 2009 Topic and organizer to be announced. Royce 314. “The Book of Royal Degreesand Russian Historical Consciousness” • Thursday, February 26 – Saturday, February 28, 2009 CMRS Faculty Roundtable An international conference organized by Professor Gail Lenhoff (Slavic • Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Languages and Literatures, UCLA). A talk by Professor Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA) Royce 306, 12 noon.

Mediterranean Studies Mellon Seminar California Medieval History Seminar, Spring 2009 • Monday, March 2, 2009 • Saturday, May 16, 2009 Speaker and topic to be announced. Royce 306, 3:30 pm. Quarterly meeting, Huntington Library. Advance registration required.

A CMRS Ahmanson Conference A lecture by Gísli Sigurðsson (title to be announced) “Medieval Sexuality: 2009” • Tuesday, May 19, 2009 • Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7, 2009 A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Gísli Sigurðsson An international conference organized by Professors James Schultz (Germanic (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland), Languages, UCLA) and Zrinka Stahuljak (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA). Royce 314, 4 pm.

CMRS Faculty Roundtable A lecture by Jesús Rodriguez-Velasco (title to be announced) • Wednesday, March 11, 2009 • Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Professor Hilary Gatti (Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza”), “Giordano A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Jesús Rodriguez Bruno in England: A Reassessment.” Royce 306, 12 noon. Velasco (Columbia University), Royce 314, 4 pm

“Transforming the Medieval into the Modern: Irish Literature in A CMRS Ahmanson Conference Spanish Flanders” “Mapping Medieval Geographies: Cartography and Geographical • Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Thought in the Latin West and Beyond, 300-1600” A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Ruairí Ó hUiginn • Thursday, May 28 – Saturday, May 30, 2009 (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). Royce 314, 4 pm An international conference organized by Dr. Keith D. Lilly (Queen’s University, Belfast) and †Professor Denis Cosgrove (Geography, UCLA). Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) • Thursday, March 19 – Saturday, March 21, 2009 CMRS hosts the annual conference of the RSA, the largest professional For further details about these events, see pages 4 – 9. organization of Renaissance scholars in the world. Advance registration required. To register, go to www.rsa.org The Center is continuously scheduling new programs. “Courtly Conviviality and Gastronomy in Early Modern France and Watch the calendar on the CMRS website Italy: Society, Politics, and Aesthetics” for the latest information. • Thursday, April 2 – Saturday, April 4, 2009 An interdisciplinary conference co-organized by UCLA Professors Luigi Ballerini (Italian), Jean-Claude Carron (French & Francophone Studies), Massimo Ciavolella (Italian), and Professor Cynthia Skenazi (French, UCSB). More Dates to Remember! March 6-7, 2009: Annual meeting, Medieval Association of the Pacific, CMRS Faculty Roundtable in Albuquerque, New Mexico, www.cmrs.ucla.edu/map/conferences.html • Wednesday, April 15, 2009 A talk by Sylvia Huot (Professor of Medieval French Literature and Fellow March 26-28, 2009: Annual meeting, Medieval Academy of America, of Pembroke College, Cambridge University). Royce 306, 12 noon. in Chicago, Illinois, www.MedievalAcademy.org

May 7-9, 2009: The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress

July 13-16, 2009: International Medieval Congress 2009, in Leeds, England, www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc

> Visit www.cmrs.ucla.edu, e-mail [email protected], or phone 310.825.1880 STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES

Lynn and Maude White Fellowship The Lynn and Maude White Fellowship is awarded every other year to an outstanding UCLA graduate student in Medieval and Renaissance Studies who has advanced to PhD candidacy. Established in 1988 and named for its donors, the Center’s founding director Professor Lynn White and his wife Maude, the fellowship provides a $15,000 stipend to support dissertation research.

The Center’s 2008–09 Lynn and Maude White Fellow is Leanne Good, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. Her dissertation will examine the transformation of the political, social, cultural, and physical landscape of eighth-century Bavaria as the region was absorbed into the Leanne Good, recipient of the Center’s Lynn & Maude White Fellowship for expanding Frankish kingdom following the deposition of 2008-09, was one of the graduate student organizers of the CMRS Ahmanson its quasi-regal duke in 788. Through her research, which Conference “The Foundations of Medieval Monasticism,” in January 2008. will focus in particular on the roles of land use and the representation of environmental space, Ms. Good hopes to , a graduate student in the Department of elucidate the wider process by which the Carolingian dynasty Erica Westhoff Italian, is studying the plays of sixteenth-century Italian united most of Western Europe under its control in the playwright Francesco Mercati, and Florentine politics and course of a few decades. culture. Her dissertation will focus on how Cosimo de’ Medici’s push for the consolidation of political power The next Lynn and Maude White Fellowship will be offered in Florence during the sixteenth-century shaped literary for the 2010–11 academic year. Students interested in production, particularly in respect to comic theater. As part applying should contact the Center for more information. of her project, she will be producing annotated editions and The application deadline will be announced. translations of Mercati’s two known plays, Il Sensale (1561) amnd Il Lanzi (1566). She travelled to Italy to complete archival research for the project. Fredi Chiappelli Travel Fellowships Established in honor of former CMRS director Fredi Students interested in applying for a 2009 Chiappelli Travel Chiappelli, this award provides a $2,000 travel grant to assist Fellowship should contact the Center. The application with research in any area of Medieval and Renaissance Italian deadline is February 15, 2009. Studies. It is open to UCLA graduate students, and travel is not restricted to Italy. CMRS Research Assistantships Two students were awarded Chiappelli Travel Fellowships Each year, the Center awards Research Assistantships on for the summer of 2008. Sarah Whitten, a graduate student in the History Department, is studying the judicial courts a competitive basis to UCLA graduate students working in southern Italy from the late eighth to the early eleventh in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. During century. Her dissertation will focus in particular on courts in the academic year, recipients work with a variety of faculty the Duchy of Benevento, a region south of Rome, unique for members on research and publication projects. its diversity and the richness of its documentation. Benevento remained outside of Carolingian and Byzantine hands from For the 2008–09 academic year, Valerie Cullen (English), the eighth century until early in the eleventh century, but Elizabeth Stevens (Italian), and Tamar Boyadjian its population included both Greek and Latin speakers and (Comparative Literature) have been awarded CMRS Research there was a strong Carolingian presence in the form of large Assistantships. imperial monasteries. The regional courts produced many documents which survive, but remain largely unpublished. Students wishing to be considered for 2009–10 CMRS Ms. Whitten travelled to Italy for research in the monastic Research Assistantships should contact the Center for more libraries of Monte Cassino and Abbey of the Holy Trinity information. The application deadline is April 15, 2009. of Cava, as well as the government archives in Capua and Benevento.

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CMRS Seminar

The CMRS Seminar gives UCLA students a chance to meet and interact with prominent authorities in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Each year, the Center selects a course from proposals submitted by faculty members to be designated as the CMRS Seminar. These classes receive special funding from the Center making it possible for distinguished scholars to be brought to UCLA to participate in seminars and symposia, to present lectures, and to have informal discussions with students and faculty.

In Spring 2009, Professor Kendra Willson (Scandinavian Section) will offer a CMRS Seminar on Eddic poetry (Old Norse C135/235, Readings in Old Norse-Icelandic Verse). The Eddic poems, preserved in a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript, are a central source for the reconstruction of Germanic mythology, as well as an important document for reconstructing the linguistic history of North Germanic; the later reception of these texts has also played a fundamental role in shaping literary and cultural history in the Nordic Graduate student Sarah Ostendorf (English, UCLA) chaired a session of CMRS’s annual Shakespeare Symposium on May 17, 2008. countries and beyond. The seminar will combine translation sessions, where students will work to understand Eddic poems at a basic level, with lectures presented by a series UCLA Medieval and Renaissance Studies Graduate of inivited speakers who will provide exposure to different Student Website approaches to Eddic poetry and present opportunities to discuss the texts from different perspectives (literary, During 2007-08, with the support of a CMRS Interdisciplinary linguistic, philological and mythological) and in a variety of Research Grant, graduate students Jennifer Smith (English) comparative contexts. The course coincides with the CMRS and Katherine McLoone (Comparative Literature) laid the Ahmanson Conference on mythology (see page 8), co- foundation for a website which will provide resources for organized by Professor Willson and Professor Joseph Nagy and promote networking between UCLA graduate students (English), which will include the contributions by Old Norse specializing in any aspect of Medieval or Renaissance Studies. scholars such as Professor Margaret Clunies Ross (Director, Because UCLA does not have a Medieval and Renaissance Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney). Thus, Studies academic program or department, students are the spring of 2009 promises to be a very stimulating time scattered in different departments across the campus. The for Eddic studies at UCLA. Students can enroll in the class website will include teaching/learning resources and tips for using URSA in the usual fashion. The course presumes a graduate students, a list of UCLA dissertations on medieval knowledge of Old Norse; prerequisite Old Nore 152 or and Renaissance topics, and job placement statistics for past permission of the instructor. For more information, contact Medieval and Renaissance Studies graduate students. CMRS Professor Willson at [email protected]. webmaster Brett Landenberger is assisting with the design of the site, which will be launched this fall. You’ll find it at www. cmrs.ucla.edu/people/gradstudents.html. Take a look! CMRS Interdisciplinary Research Grants For 2008-09, Ms. McLoone will continue to work on the The Center offers small grants to interdisciplinary teams website project and will be joined by graduate student of two or more UCLA faculty members and/or graduate Karina (Germanic Languages). You can reach Katherine students for research in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Marie Ash or Karina by email at [email protected]. If you These grants can be used for research-related needs (travel, are a graduate student at UCLA with an interest in Medieval microfilm, equipment, books) or to bring scholars to UCLA and Renaissance Studies, please contact them and ask to be to participate in conferences or to collaborate on research added to the MedRen graduate student database. projects. Applicant teams must represent more than one academic department and projects must be interdisciplinary in conceptualization. Applications are accepted at any time. Contact the Center, for more information.

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The St. Gall Monastic Plan Website, including high resolution images of the St. Gall Plan itself and a variety of searchable databases on medieval monastic culture, are all now available—free of charge. There is no fee or subscription required to use the site. Check it out at www.stgallplan.org.

Project to Digitally Recreate Medieval Monastic Libraries funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant to Professor Patrick Geary (History, UCLA) to examine the feasibility of creating a digital library encompassing all of the ninth-century library holdings of the monastery that produced the St. Gall Monastery Plan (Reichenau) and of the Graduate students Sarah Whitten and Edward Schoolman (both History, monastery for which the Plan was created (St. Gall). This UCLA) attended the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, July builds on the virtual reality model of the St. Gall Plan and 7-10, 2008, to publicize the St. Gall Monastery Plan project and website. the extensive database for the study of the material culture St. Gall Monastery Plan Virtual Reality (VR) Project of Carolingian monasticism that was created in Phase One of the St. Gall Project (see accompanying article on this page). The initial phase of the project to produce a digital model of the “Plan of St. Gall” (a ninth-century two-dimensional plan The Phase 2 project would concentrate on the intellectual for a monastic complex) and an extensive online database and textual aspects of the Plan and of monasticism, primarily on early medieval monastic culture has been completed. The by identifying and providing access to specific manuscripts project, under the direction of Professors Patrick Geary containing the texts that informed the world of those who (History, UCLA) and Bernard Frischer (Director, Institute produced and appreciated the Plan in the ninth century. In for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of addition, a virtual research and publication space would Virginia), is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon be developed on the Internet where scholars and teachers Foundation. CMRS is the project’s administrative home. could publish electronically occasional papers related to Carolingian monasticism and the St. Gall Plan, post lesson During the past year, work focused on completing and plans and other teaching aids, and participate in discussions, operationalizing the databases and detailed VR model blogs, and chat rooms to pursue related issues. The grant of how the plan came into existence. Dr. Barbara Schedl funds the development of a prototype of this ambitious (University of Vienna, and UCLA) worked closely with project in order to examine in detail the technical, scholarly, project participants at UCLA, the University of Virginia, the and financial issues of completing and sustaining this University of Vienna, and the Library of St. Gallen to finish comprehensive database and interactive space. these tasks. It is anticipated, that the databases will continue to grow as more information is added overtime. Medieval Canon Law Digitizing Project

Efforts are now underway to publicize the St. Gall Monastery Under the guidance of Professor Henry Ansgar Kelly (English, Plan Website, its searchable databases, and its potential as UCLA), the project to digitize and to make accessible online, a research tool. The completed project and website were at no cost, all three volumes of the 1582 Corpus Juris Canonici, rolled out at conferences in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on the “Body of Canon Law” is nearing completion. These December 9-10, 2007, and at UCLA, on January 18-19, 2008. volumes contain not only medieval law collections, but also (For more on the UCLA conference, “The Foundations the elaborate Ordinary Glosses and commentaries on the of Medieval Monasticism,” organized by UCLA graduate laws, which have not been reprinted since the seventeenth students involved in the project, see page 23.) In May 2008, century. Stephen Davison, Head of the UCLA Digital Library graduate student Leanne Good (History, UCLA) attended Program, and Lisa McAulay, Digital Collections Development the 43rd International Congress of Medieval Studies in Librarian, have provided technological assistance, and a number Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in July, graduate students Sarah of UCLA graduate students have worked on the project. Whitten and Edward Schoolman (both History, UCLA), and Funding is provided by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Karen Burgess (CMRS) attended the International Medieval Delmas Foundation, with additional support from CMRS. Congress in Leeds, England, to demonstrate the website. You’ll find theCorpus Juris Canonici online at http://digidev. library.ucla.edu/canonlaw.

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CMRS Sawyer Seminar for 2007-08, “Disputation”

With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CMRS presented a John E. Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Ways of Arguing in and out of the University,” over the course of the 2007-08 academic year. The Seminar, consisting of a series of nineteen sessions, explored the topic of disputation from antiquity to the present day, from literary, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. A core team of UCLA faculty—Professors Brian Copenhaver (Philosophy, and History), Calvin Normore (Philosophy) and Christopher Baswell (English)—planned the Seminar sessions and were in attendance throughout, assisted by Postdoctoral Fellows Ahmed Alwishah (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) and Brian Ogren (Department of Jewish Thought, The opening session of the CMRS Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Ways of University of Jerusalem), and UCLA Graduate Student Fellows Arguing in and out of the University,” was held in the Humanities Seminar Alison Walker (English) and James Flora (Sociology). Guest Room (Royce 306) on October 18, 2007. speakers included distinguished faculty from the US and abroad. CMRS staff provided administrative and digital technological into the house cavity after it was abandoned that domestic support. A complete list of session topics, readings, and occupation continued in the vicinity. speakers can be found on the Seminar’s website at www.cmrs. ucla.edu/sawyerseminar.html. All sessions were videotaped With the help of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and may be viewed on the website. and computing specialists from UCLA’s Experiential Technology Center, work was continued on the creation of a fully functional and integrated GIS model of the Mosfell Valley. The model incorporates all MAP excavation Mosfell Icelandic Archaeological Project data, maps, and surveys, government survey material from Mosfellsbær, data from the National Museum of Iceland, as Professor Jesse Byock (Scandinavian Section, and the Cotsen well as both modern and historic aerial photographic views Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) has been awarded a grant, of the valley. When completed this GIS model will provide a administered by CMRS, from Arcadia to complete and detailed view of the geography of the region with a focus on document the research of the first eleven years of the relationships between the archaeological sites. It will serve as Mosfell Archaeological Project (MAP), an interdisciplinary a powerful tool for future analyses to better understand the research project employing the tools of archaeology, history, history of the valley and the dynamic ecological and social anthropology, forensics, environmental sciences, and saga systems it contained. studies. MAP is constructing a picture of human habitation and environmental change in the Mosfell region of western Professor Byock’s long-time partners on the project are Iceland. Professors Philip Walker (UC Santa Barbara), Jon Erlandson (University of Oregon), Per Holck (University of Oslo), Helgi During the summer of 2007, MAPs international team Þorláksson (University of Iceland), David Scott (UCLA), Richard continued the work of unearthing a very large and uniquely Gatti (UCLA), and Magnús Guðmundsson (University of well-preserved tenth-century Viking Age hall at Hrísbrú, which Iceland). Since 2006, Davide Zori (UCLA) has served as was the home of the Mosfell chieftains. The excavation the project’s field director. A number of graduate students provided important new information about the occupation of participated in the 2007 summer excavations in Iceland, including Hrísbrú during the Viking Age. Excavation of the longhouse Jennifer Dillon (UC Santa Barbara), Sabrina Scholts (UC or hall revealed an extremely large structure measuring Santa Barbara), and Rebecca Richman (UC Santa Barbara). approximately 28 by 10 meters. Bow sided walls, entrances, Graduate student Stanislav Parfenov (UCLA) worked on GIS benches, thick floor deposits, empty post holes, barrel pits, and digital aspects of the project at UCLA. and a large central hearth were all identified. The structure was first built between AD 870 and 930, and then partially MAP works in full collaboration with the National Museum rebuilt sometime after AD 930. The longhouse seems to have of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafn Íslands), the town of Mosfellsbær, retained much the same form throughout its occupation. and under the supervision of the state Archaeological After the abandonment of the house, no subsequent structures Heritage Agency of Iceland (Fornleifavernd ríkisins). were built directly on the site, but it is clear from refuse dumped

21 DONORS AND OTHER SUPPORT

The Center depends on endowments and monetary gifts History of the Book Lecture Fund to continue its activities. We are grateful to all those who The History of the Book Lecture series, established in 1993 provide support for our programs and research projects. through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse, provides a In particular, we wish to thank the members of the CMRS venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval Council, and the following donors, contributors, and co- and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. sponsors for their support during the 2007–08 academic year. The lecture’s focus alternates between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. Among the topics explored in past CMRS Council lectures are manuscript illumination, early book sellers, and medieval and Renaissance book collections. Recent The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies speakers have been Professor James Carley (York University, (CMRS) Council was established in 1998 as a benefactors’s Toronto), Mary Rouse (CMRS, UCLA), and Father Justin (St. group to promote and sustain the Center and its activities. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai). The next lecture in the For information about becoming a member, contact CMRS. series will be presented on October 17, 2008, by Dr. William 2007–08 Council members were: Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters Michael and Elena Allen Andy and Marea Kelly Art Museum in Baltimore. Kenneth and Patricia Armstrong Frank A. Lutz Matthew Brosamer & Bianca Ryan Richard and Mary Rouse The History of the Book Lecture is funded through the Brian and Kathleen Copenhaver Betty and Sanford Sigoloff generosity of donors. Contributions are welcomed at any Dr. Boris Catz Blair Sullivan time. During 2007–08, contributors included: Betty and Marvin Hoffenberg Emma Lewis Thomas Michael & Elena Allen Frederick & Patricia Kuri Other Donors and Contributors Susan M. Allen Hendrina Lisiewicz A. S. Thomas Memorial Fund, Inc. Gisèle Beugelmans Susan McClary Christopher Baswell A. R. Braunmuller Ruth Mellinkoff James Marrow Barbara L. Braunstein Paul Petzi Betty and Sanford Sigoloff, Endowment for the Center for Linda Brownrigg Claudia Rapp Medieval and Renaissance Studies Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Richard Dolen Gerald Rosenberg And anonymous contributors Sattareh Farmaian Mary & Richard Rouse R. A. Foakes Thomas Rouse Institutional Contributors and Support Marie Louise Göllner Blair Sullivan Maryanne Horowitz Elizabeth C. Teviotdale The Ahmanson Foundation The Alcoa Foundation Letha Joan Kemper Lester M. Tint The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation V. A. Kolve Patricia Armstrong Warren & Arcadia Bariša & Ruzica Krekic Kenneth Armstrong California Institute of Technology The Cassamarca Foundation And anonymous donors The J. Paul Getty Museum The Hammer Foundation Disclosures to Prospective Donors The Huntington Library Pr i v acy Notic e : The 1977 California Information Practices Act requires UCLA to inform individuals asked The William H. Hannon Foundation to supply information about themselves of the following: UCLA is requesting this information to update the general resource files of its External Affairs Department. Furnishing the information is strictly voluntary and will be maintained confidentially. The information may be used by other University departments in the regular Additional support for CMRS programs was provided by course of business but will not be disseminated to others except if required by law. You have the right to review your own data file. Inquiries should be forwarded to Assistant Vice Chancellor - Finance and Information the following UCLA groups: Management, External Affairs, 10920 Wilshire Blvd. 9th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024-6511. Dono r ’s Cons e nt to Us e Pe r sonal Info r mation : The University is grateful for the support it receives from alumni, parents, and friends. One of the ways we express our thanks is by listing the names of donors in web- The Humanities Division of the College of Letters and Science; based and/or print publications. Should you wish that your name not appear as a donor, please notify us if you the Social Sciences Division of the College of Letters and Science; have not already done so. 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For purposes of partially defraying the costs of the University’s operation, a one-time fee based on a percentage of all gifts received is retained by UCLA. The fee Section; and the Departments of Art History, English, Geography, is currently 5%. Germanic Languages, History, Italian, Near Eastern Languages & Th e Fun d r aisin g Pe r mit : “In compliance with the Charitable Solicitation Ordinance in the City of Los Angeles (L.A. Municipal Code Article 4, Section 44), The UCLA Foundation’s permit is on file with the City of Los Cultures, Philosophy, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Spanish & Angeles.” Portuguese. En d o w e d Fun d s : The Chancellor may, from time to time, authorize The UCLA Foundation to return all or a portion of the fund’s spendable income to fund principal in order to protect the real value of fund principal, or if spendable income substantially exceeds real current need, or if other compelling circumstances warrant the addition of spendable income to fund principal. In the event the fund does not reach the endowment minimum; or the program ceases to exist at UCLA, the campus school or department will utilize the proceeds from the fund in an area and manner as closely related as possible to the original intent and purposes for which the fund was established. 22 THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2007 – 2008

On October 6, 2007, as part of the conference “Medieval Manuscripts: Their Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt (Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études Makers and Users,” Mary and Richard Rouse were honored at a reception en Sciences Sociales) presented the Center’s Annual Hammer Foundation Lec- hosted by the Department of Special Collections at UCLA’s Charles E. Young ture on February 7, 2008. In his talk, illustrated with images from manuscripts Research Library. and architecture, he explored “Images and Rhythms in the Middle Ages.

CMRS Programs and Events 2007-08 The first CMRS Ahmanson Foundation Conference,“The Foundations of Medieval Monasticism” on January 18- The CMRS website features an archive of past events, 19, 2008, brought together an international array of scholars including photographs, conference programs, and other to examine the role of monasticism in the Middle Ages, information. For a complete description of the Center’s focussing in particular on the roots of medieval culture found 2007–08 programs and events, visit www.cmrs.ucla.edu/ in Carolingian monasticism. The conference coincided with archive/archive.html. The following summarizes just a the completion of a three-year project, funded by the Andrew few of the many programs that the Center sponsored or W. Mellon Foundation, to create a digital database of the cosponsored during the past year: ninth-century “Plan of St. Gall” (see page 20). The program was organized by UCLA History graduate students Leanne Six major conferences were convened during the 2007–08 Good, Edward Schoolman, and Sarah Whitten, with the academic year. On October 5-7, 2007, “Medieval assistance of Dr. Barbara Schedl (UCLA and the University Manuscripts: Their Makers and Users” honored the of Vienna) and Professor Patrick Geary (History, UCLA). scholarship and careers of Richard and Mary Rouse. The conference was jointly hosted and funded by CMRS, the The 30th Annual University of California Celtic Studies J. Paul Getty Museum, the Huntington Library, and the Conference took place on March 6-9, 2008. The program, Department of Special Collections of the UCLA Charles organized by the UCLA Celtic Colloquium and Professor E. Young Research Library (YRL). Papers were presented Joseph Nagy (English, UCLA), included 28 presentations on by sixteen internationally-known authorities, and reflected all aspects of Celtic culture–language, literature, history, art, the remarkable range and impact of the Rouses’s work and archaeology. A field trip to the Huntington Library gave in palaeography, codicology, manuscript production, the participants a peek behind the scenes and an introduction to transmission of classical tradition, the formation of libraries, the library’s holdings, presented by Mary Robertson, Chief and the early book trade. The program also celebrated the Curator of Manuscripts. Rouses’s gift of their own manuscript collection to the Department of Special Collections at UCLA. A conference devoted to an exploration of “Lovesickness, Melancholy, and Nostalgia,” organized by Professor On November 2-3, 2007, the conference “Thrice-Born Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA) and PhD candidate Latinity,” celebrated the work of Professors Virginia Brown Gianluca Rizzo (Italian, UCLA), was held on March 14- of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, 15, 2008. Papers examined these often overlapping and and James Hankins of Harvard University. Papers explored ambiguous ideas through history and the role that literature the implications for humanist scholarship of the Catalogus has played in the process of distortion and reassignment of Translationum et Commentariorum and the I Tatti Renaissance meaning. The program was sponsored by The Ahmanson Library, and the texts and authors illuminated by them. The Foundation, CMRS, and the UCLA Department of Italian. program was made possible by support from the Cassamarca Foundation, and presented by CMRS and the UCLA Department of Italian. 23 THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2007 – 2008

PhD candidate Gianluca Rizzo (Italian, UCLA) discussed Albrecht Actors Geoff Elliott (left) and Freddy Douglas (right) performed a Dürer’s Melancolia II for the conference “Lovesickness, Melancholy, scene from A Noise Within’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, and Nostalgia,” at UCLA, March 14-15, 2008. Part I, for the annual Shakespeare Symposium on May 17, 2008.

On May 2-3, 2008, “Processing Gender in Law and Other The Center’s Annual Shakespeare Symposium was held Literatures,” organized by Professors Lowell Gallagher on May 17, 2008. “Shakespeare’s Characters,” was organized and Karen Cunningham (both of the English Department, by Professor Bruce Smith (USC). Papers were presented by UCLA), explored the ways in which the question of gender Professors Emily Hodgson Anderson (USC), Rebecca Lemon shapes and has been shaped by traversals of the shifting (USC), and Robert Watson (UCLA). In the afternoon, actors boundaries between the legal, the poetic or fictive, and Geoff Elliot and Freddy Douglas performed scenes from the real in early modern cultures. The conference was A Noise Within’s (ANW) production of Henry IV, Part One, cosponsored by CMRS, the UCLA Center for the Study of after which Julia Rodriguez Elliott, Co-Director (with Geoff) Women, and the UCLA Department of English. of ANW, joined them to discuss some of the considerations of staging and performing Shakespeare’s plays. The day In addition to these conferences, a second CMRS Ahmanson concluded with a panel discussion in which all symposium program, “Reading Chrétien de Troyes: New Perspectives,” speakers participated. took place on January 24-25, 2008. During the two-day seminar, Professors Virginie Greene (Harvard), Sarah Kay Over the course of the 2007-08 academic year, CMRS (Princeton), Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz), Peggy presented a John E. Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Ways McCracken (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), and Zrinka of Arguing in and out of the University,” funded by the Stahuljak (UCLA) worked on a book they are collaboratively Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from preparing about Chrétien de Troyes, the foremost author of the CMRS and the Departments of Philosophy and English. The French Middle Ages. On January 25th, they presented a public Seminar, which consisted of nineteen three-hour sessions, roundtable during which they discussed the project. began on October 18, 2007, and concluded on May 15, 2008. For more about the Seminar, see page 21, or visit the Two History of the Book Lectures were presented during the Seminar’s website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/sawyerseminar.html. 2007-08 academic year. On November 29, 2007, the 16th History of the Book Lecture was presented by Mary Rouse The Annual Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys (CMRS Associate, UCLA), who discussed “Christine de Lecture was presented by Anthony Grafton (Henry Putnam Pizan and the Chapelet des Vertus.” And on May 13, 2008, the University Professor of History, Princeton University) on 17th History of the Book Lecture was presented by James March 20, 2008. His talk, “The Rise and Fall of an Early Carley (Professor of English, York University, Toronto), Modern Discipline: Biblical Chronology from Kepler to who discussed “John Whitgift, Richard Bancroft, and the Ussher,” drew a large audience. A dinner for CMRS faculty, Foundation of Lambeth Palace Library.” associates, and council members followed.

On April 25, 2008, Professor Francis Dutra (History, UC The Caifornia Medieval History Seminar met at the Santa Barbara) presented the Fifth Rebecca D. Catz Huntington Library on November 10, 2007, March 1, Memorial Lecture. He discussed “Portuguese Seafarers and 2008, and May 31, 2008. Professor Sam Cohn (University the Quest for Rewards and Social Status, 1640-1777.” of Glasgow), this year’s guest speaker, discussed the “Epidemiology of the Black Death and Successive Waves of Plague,” at the March meeting. 24 THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2007 – 2008

Other programs sponsored or cosponsored by the Center during the 2007–08 academic year included:

“The Saga of Egil, Viking Skald and Psychopath: Tradition and Text,” Professor Michael Chesnutt (The Arnamagnaean Institute, University of Copenhagen), October 3, 2007.

“Chaucer and Numerical Design: A Case of Increasing Commitment,” a CMRS Roundtable talk by Professor Edward Condren (English, UCLA), October 10, 2007.

“Spices and the Medieval Idea of the Exotic,” a lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Paul Freedman (Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University), October 17, 2007.

“Lorenzo Valla’s Translation of Thucydides,” a CMRS Roundtable talk by Professor Mortimer Chambers (History, UCLA), October 23, 2007. CMRS Associate C. Stephen Jaeger (Professor Emeritus, Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) discussed Bernard of Clairvaux at a session of the CMRS Faculty Roundtable on February 27, 2008. The 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, “Violence, Disaster, and the Crisis of Representation,” October 25-26, “The Devil’s Interval,” a CMRS Roundtable talk by Professor 2007. Jacques Lezra (Spanish and Comparative Literature, New York University), January 30, 2008. “Interrogating an Erotic Picture: Beneath the Surface of the Concert Champêtre,” a lecture by CMRS Distinguished “Feasting with the Gods: Ovid, Bellini, Shakespeare” a lecture Visiting Scholar Jaynie Anderson (Herald Chair of Fine Arts, by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Susanne Wofford University of Melboune), October 29, 2007. (Dean, The Gallatin School, and Professor of English, New York University), January 30, 2008. “The Sea of Stories: Framed Narratives and Medieval Mediterranean Poetics,” a CMRS Roundtable talk by “Feasting with Strangers: Foreign Emotions in Shakespeare’s Professor Karla Mallette (UC Humanities Research Institute, Twelfth Night,” a lecture by Susanne Wofford (Dean, The University of California, Irvine), November 14, 2007. Gallatin School, and Professor of English, New York University), January 31, 2008. “Archipelagic Macbeth,” a lecture by Professor John Kerrigan (University of Cambridge), November 28, 2007. The 11th Annual E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop, “Arguments, Disputations, and Obligationes: Medieval “The Song of Roland and the Leges Barbarorum,” a CMRS Theories,” coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore Roundtable talk by Dr. Leena Löfstedt (CMRS Associate), (Philosophy, UCLA), February 1-3, 2008. November 28, 2007. The Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC), “From Dualisms to Convergences,” a CMRS Roundtable annual conference at the Huntington Library, February 2, talk by Professor Emeritus Ricardo Quinones (Comparative 2008. Literature, Claremont McKenna College), January 16, 2008. “Word Boundaries and How to Edit Irish Texts,” a lecture by “The War between Eldad the Danite and Prester John Professor Emeritus Anders Ahlqvist (National University of through Time and Space,” a lecture by Micha Perry (Center Ireland, Galway), February 12, 2008. for Jewish Studies, UCLA), January 24, 2008. “Breaking Expectations: Some Idiosyncratic Donor “Translated Turks on the Early Modern Stage,” a lecture Compositions in Byzantine Art,” a lecture by CMRS by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Jacques Lezra Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Nancy Sevcenko, February (Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, New York 14, 2008. University), January 28, 2008.

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“Vikings: Raiders or Traders?,” a lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Helgi Thorlaksson (Professor of Medieval Icelandic History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Iceland), February 20, 2008.

“The Shakespeare Moot Court,” a lecture by Paul Yachnin (Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Department of English, McGill University) and Professor Desmond Manderson (School of Law, McGill University), February 21, 2008.

“Bernard of Clairvaux and the Problem of Postmortem Charisma,” a CMRS Roundtable talk by Professor Emeritus C. Stephen Jaeger (Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, On April 16, 2008, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Keith Lilley Urbana-Champaign), February 27, 2008. (School of Geography, Queen’s University, Belfast) presented a lecture, “Map- ping the Realm: Cartographic Imaginaries and Spatial Technologies.” He Twelfth Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early described the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology for mapping and analyzing medieval urban landscapes. Dr. Lilley is co-organizer Modern Slavic Studies, coordinated by Professor Gail of the CMRS Ahmanson Conference “Mapping Medieval Geographies,” to be Lenhoff (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA), February presented at UCLA May 28-30, 2009. 29, 2008. The 31st Annual Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, “Renaissance Culture and its Global Ambitions,” a lecture by coordinated by Professor Claude L. Hulet (Spanish and Professor George Huppert (History, University of Illinois at Portuguese, UCLA), April 19-20, 2008. Chicago), March 4, 2008. “Reason of State Symposium,” presented by the UCLA “Translating the Past: Laurent de Premierfait and the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and Visualization of Antiquity,” a CMRS Roundtable talk by organized by Professor Kirstie McClure (Political Science, Professor Anne D. Hedeman (Art History and Medieval UCLA), April 25, 2008. Studies, University of Illinois), March 12, 2008. “Digital Graphics for Presentations: Using Photoshop and “What does the Battle of Hastings have to do with PowerPoint,” a CMRS Roundtable talk by Brett Landenberger Pornography? Borders of the Bayeux Tapestry and (CMRS Webmaster and Project Assistant), April 30, 2008. the Meaning of Marginal Images,” a lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Peter Klein (Art “Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence,” a History, University of Tübingen), April 2, 2008. lecture by Professor Dale V. Kent (History, UC Riverside), May 5, 2008. “Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and Its Rulers in Late-Medieval France,” a CMRS Roundtable talk “Female Holiness in Coptic Eygpt,” a lecture by CMRS by Dr. Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, Christchurch), Distinguished Visiting Scholar Heike Behlmer (Senior Lecturer in April 9, 2008. Coptic Studies, Mcquarie University, Sydney), May 14, 2008.

“Byzantine Icons under Attack: How Religious Images “The Son of God in Jewish Mysticism,” a UCLA Center Survived Iconoclasm,” a lecture by Judith Herrin (Professor for Jewish Studies lecture by Professor Moshe Idel (Hebrew of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, King’s College, University), May 21, 2008. London), April 10, 2008. “Death by Effigy: The Power of Images and the Mexican “The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth- Inquisition in the Sixteenth Century,” a lecture by Professor Century Shropshire,” a lecture by CMRS Distinguished Luis Corteguera (University of Kansas), May 21, 2008. Visiting Scholar Ralph Hanna (Fellow of Keble College, and Professor of Palaeography, University of Oxford), April 10, Musicology Graduate Student Colloquium: “Dido’s Lament 2008. and Cipriano de Rore’s Late Style,” a lecture by Professor Jessie Ann Owens (Professor of Music and Dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, UC Davis), May 27, 2008.

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Award and Fellowship Recipients 2007–08

Fredi Chiappelli Travel Fellowship Rita Emmanouilidou (Comparative Literature) Edward Schoolmam (History)

Lynn and Maude White Fellowship Not offered for 2007-08

Research Assistants Ruthemma Ellison (French and Francophone Studies) Rita Emmanouilidou (Comparative Literature) Melissa Vineyard (English)

Summer Fellowship 2007 Courtney Booker (Assistant Professor of History, On May 13, 2008, Professor James Carley (York University) presented the Seventeenth History of the Book Lecture in the Humanities Conference Room University of British Columbia) (Royce 314), the venue for many CMRS events. John M. McManamon (Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago) CMRS Visiting Scholars 2007–08

Byung-Yong Kim (Associate Professor of Medieval History, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholars 2007–08 Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea) Erika Rummel (Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto) Fall Quarter 2007 Faculty Advisory Committee 2007–08 Jaynie Anderson (Herald Chair of Fine Arts, University of Melboune) Christopher Baswell (English), Chair Paul Freedman (Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale William Bodiford (Asian Languages and Cultures) University) Jean-Claude Carron (French and Francophone Studies) Massimo Ciavolella (Italian) Winter Quarter 2008 Brian P. Copenhaver (Philosophy, History), CMRS Director Kirstie McClure (Political Science, English) Patricia Crone (Mellon Professor of Islamic History, Claudia Parodi (Spanish and Portuguese) Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) Claudia Rapp (History) Jacques Lezra (Professor of Spanish and Comparative Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science) Literature, New York University) Kevin Terraciano (History) Dr. Nancy Sevcenko (PhD Columbia University) Susanne Wofford (Dean, Gallatin School, and Professor of English, New York University) Helgi Thorlaksson (Professor of Medieval Icelandic History, In Memoriam Dept. of History & Archaeology, University of Iceland) With regret the Center notes the passing of

Spring Quarter 2008 Richard Helgerson (English and Comparative Literature, UC Santa Barbara) Heike Behlmer (Senior Lecturer in Coptic Studies, Mcquarie University, Sydney) Carol Dana Lanham Ralph Hanna (Fellow of Keble College, and Professor of (CMRS Associate, and former CMRS Editor) Palaeography, University of Oxford) Peter Klein (Professor of Art History, University of Tübingen) Denis Cosgrove Dr. Keith Lilley (School of Geography, Queen’s University, (Geography, UCLA) Belfast) Carmela Speroni (CMRS Council Member)

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UCLA faculty who are members of CMRS are listed below by department with a summary of their academic interests and specialties. Faculty belonging to interdepartmental programs are cross-listed. An asterisk (*) indicates emeritus status.

Architecture and Urban Design Diane Favro: Architecture and topography of early medieval Rome; Italian urbanism; virtual reality modeling projects

Art History Irene A. Bierman: Islamic architecture and art Charlene Villaseñor Black: Spanish and Mexican visual cultures, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries Sharon E. J. Gerstel: Byzantine art and archaeology; late medieval peasantry; art and archaeology of the Crusades; ethnography Professor Sharon Gerstel, Art History, UCLA (second from left) and CMRS of the Early Modern Balkans Associate Dr. Ruth Mellinkoff (third from left) at the CMRS Open House on October 15, 2007. Cecelia Klein: Aztec art before, during, and after the Spanish Conquest of 1521 David Kunzle: sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art in the Kathryn A. Morgan: Greek intellectual history and philosophy and Netherlands, England, and Germany; art and Reformation its reception in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Donald McCallum: Medieval Japanese art *Jaan Puhvel: Comparative philology; comparative mythology *Carlo Pedretti: Leonardo da Vinci and his context Brent Vine: Classical and Indo-European linguistics; Vulgar Latin; Joanna Woods-Marsden: Portraiture in Renaissance Italy; gender history of English studies; Titian; Renaissance courts See also Giulia Sissa, Political Science

Asian Languages and Cultures Comparative Literature William M. Bodiford: Japanese religious life and culture; East Asian A. R. Braunmuller: see English Buddhism Massimo Ciavolella: see Italian Robert E. Buswell: Buddhism in medieval East Asia; Buddhist Katherine C. King: Epic; tragedy; the Classical tradition; women’s mysticism; monastic culture studies John B. Duncan: Medieval Korean institutional and intellectual Efraín Kristal: see Spanish and Portuguese history through the eighteenth century Stephanie W. Jamison: Vedic Sanskrit; Indo-European linguistics *Peter H. Lee: Classical and medieval Korean literature; Design comparative East Asian literature *Lionel March: Euclidean geometry; Nicomachean arithmetic; Michael F. Marra: Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics architectonics of humanism *Herbert Plutschow: Classical Japanese literature and culture Gregory Schopen: Buddhist studies and Indology; social and English religious history of south Asia Michael J. B. Allen: Renaissance Platonism; Shakespeare; Spenser; Jonathan Silk: Indian Buddhism and its transmission to Central see also Italian, and Philosphy and East Asia (Tibet and China), fifth century BCE to tenth A. R. Braunmuller: Tudor and Stuart English drama; European century CE; scriptural literatures of early and Mahayana drama and art; history of the book Buddhism, and the textual traditions of these literatures; King-Kok Cheung: Milton; Shakespeare; Marlowe Chinese reception of Buddhism Edward I. Condren: Old and Middle English poetry; Chaucer; The Richard E. Strassberg: Classical Chinese literature and culture Pearl poet; numerical design in medieval literature; intellectual property Classics Matthew Fisher: Historiography, hagiography, paleography, codi- David Blank: Ancient philosophy; ancient medicine and rhetoric; cology; Old and Middle English; Anglo-Norman literature transmission of classical texts *R. A. Foakes: Shakespeare and Renaissance drama Shane Butler: Latin literature (ancient to Renaissance); the Lowell Gallagher: Early modern cultural studies of England and Classical tradition; intellectual history; poetics France; Semiotics; Narratology; Spenser Sander M. Goldberg: Drama, rhetoric, and oratory Eric Jager: Old English, Middle English, Latin, French, Italian; Michael W. Haslam: History of Greek texts Augustine and patristics; history of the book; law and ritual; *Philip Levine: Palaeography; late Latin literature literary theory

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French and Francophone Studies Jean-Claude Carron: Humanism; French Renaissance, poetry, literature, and philosophy; history of food Zrinka Stahuljak (Associate CMRS Director, Medieval Studies): Medieval romance, historiography, and poetry; history of sexuality; medievalism; Middle Ages and the nineteenth century; medieval translation theory; translation studies

Geography *Norman J. W. Thrower: Geographical discovery and exploration; history of cartography

Germanic Languages *Franz Bäuml: Medieval literacy; oral tradition Professor Bruce Smith, English,USC (left) and Professor A. R. Braunmuller, *Marianna D. Birnbaum: Hungarian literature; Renaissance culture English, UCLA (right) participate in the panel discussion that concluded the of Central Europe; Jews in Renaissance Europe Center’s annual Shakespeare Symposium on May 17, 2008. James A. Schultz: Middle High German literature; history of *Henry Ansgar Kelly: England, Italy, France, Spain: literature, sexuality; history of childhood; gender canon law, common law, liturgy, theology, history of ideas Christopher M. Stevens: Germanic linguistics and philology; (biblical, classical, medieval, early modern) historical linguistics; dialectology Gordon Kipling: Medieval and Tudor drama; theatrical spectacle; Shakespeare; Chaucer; Netherlandic-British cultural relations History *V. A. Kolve: Medieval drama; Chaucer; literature and visual arts; *Kees W. Bolle: Myth; mysticism; methods in the history of medieval anti-Semitism religions; Hinduism; religion and politics *Richard A. Lanham: Medieval, Renaissance, and modern digital *Robert I. Burns, S. J.: Western Mediterranean; medieval Spain and rhetoric southern France, especially Catalan lands; Muslim-Christian- Arthur Little: Nationalism and imperialism in early modern Jewish relations English culture; Shakespeare; race, gender, and sexuality in Brian P. Copenhaver (Director, CMRS): History of philosophy; early modern culture history of science; late medieval and early modern Europe Claire McEachern: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Patrick J. Geary: Early medieval social and cultural history; literature; historiography; national identity; history of gender; barbarian societies; history of memory; history of ethnicity political theory; religion; editing of Shakespeare *Carlo Ginzburg: Popular culture; intellectual history; iconography Donka Minkova: History of English; English historical *Richard Hovannisian: History of Armenia and Caucasus phonology; metrics; syntax *Bariša Krekic : Medieval southeastern Europe; Medieval Russia; Joseph Falaky Nagy: Medieval Celtic literatures; Celtic folklore; Byzantium; Dalmatian and Italian urban history in the Middle comparative folklore and mythology Ages and the Renaissance Jonathan F. S. Post: Seventeenth-century poetry; Milton; *James Lockhart: History of Spanish America, 1492-1800; social Shakespeare history; ethnohistory and Indian language studies *Florence H. Ridley: Chaucer; fourteenth-century English poetry; *Lauro Martines: History and literature of Renaissance Italy and Middle English dialects; medieval Scots poetry sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England *David S. Rodes (Director Emeritus, UCLA Grunwald Center for Muriel C. McClendon: Tudor and Stuart England; the Reformation; the Graphic Arts): Renaissance and Restoration theater and religion and society in early modern Europe graphic arts; Shakespeare; Dryden; Wycherly; Molière Ronald Mellor: Roman history; religion and law Karen E. Rowe: Colonial American literature to 1800; Renaissance Michael G. Morony: Early Islamic history and seventeenth-century literature; women’s literature Gabriel Piterberg: Ottoman history; historiography and historical *Paul R. Sellin: Neo-Latin criticism (especially Heinsius, Vossius, consciousness; Orientalism and nationalism Scaliger); English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth Claudia Rapp: Late Antiquity; Byzantine studies; hagiography centuries; Anglo-Dutch relations; Renaissance and Golden-Age *Richard H. Rouse: History of texts and libraries; manuscript Dutch literature, history, and art; Donne; Milton; seventeenth- production; paleography century poetry; Raleigh and the Orinoco Teofilo F. Ruiz (Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese): Late Debora Shuger: Neo-Latin; Renaissance Bible; intellectual history medieval social and cultural history; the kingdom of Castile; and political thought through the seventeenth century; Iberian peninsula, late medieval and early modern European cultural studies Robert N. Watson: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; ecocriticism; Metaphysical poetry

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*Geoffrey Symcox: Urban history, architecture, and planning Medical History / Neurobiology (Renaissance and Baroque); states and institutions in the Robert G. Frank, Jr.: History of medicine and disease in England sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, France and Italy; *Ynez Violé O’Neill: History of medicine, especially anatomy, Columbus and the Columbian voyages surgery, and neurology; medical images Kevin Terraciano: History of Spanish America, 1492-1800; social history; ethnohistory Musicology Scott L. Waugh (Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost): Social and *Murray C. Bradshaw: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music political history of medieval England and music theory, especially the falsobordone, the toccata, early Dora B. Weiner: Social history of the health sciences, particularly sacred monody, and embellishment in France; medical humanities; history of the hospital and of *Frank A. D’Accone: Italian music of the fourteenth through psychiatry seventeenth centuries See also Ynez Violé O’Neill, Neurobiology; Anthony Pagden, *Marie Louise Göllner: Music of the twelfth through fourteenth Political Science centuries and the late Renaissance; late medieval music theory; paleography and manuscript studies Indo-European Studies Program *Richard A. Hudson: Renaissance instrumental music, especially Listed under Asian Languages and Literatures: Stephanie W. dance-related forms; tempo rubato; falling-third cadences Jamison; under Classics: Brent Vine; under English: Joseph Falaky Susan McClary: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music; Nagy; under Germanic Languages: Christopher Stevens; under cultural theory Slavic Languages and Literatures: Vyacheslav Ivanov Mitchell Morris: Fourteenth- to sixteenth-century music; relationship between music and liturgical development in the late medieval mass Italian *Robert Stevenson: Medieval and sixteenth-century Spain, Portugal, Michael J. B. Allen: Ficino, Pico, and the Quattrocento; and Latin America Renaissance philosophy, especially Neo-Platonism; see also Elizabeth Upton: Twelfth- through sixteenth-century music, English, and Philosophy especially the courtly chansons of the fourteenth and fifteenth Luigi Ballerini: Medieval Italian poetry; Renaissance gastronomy centuries; musical paleography and manuscript source studies; Massimo Ciavolella (Associate CMRS Director, Renaissance Studies): medievalism and music Boccaccio; Renaissance literature; Renaissance theories of love *Marga Cottino-Jones: Medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth- Near Eastern Languages and Cultures century literature; Boccaccio Carol Bakhos: Ancient and medieval rabbinic texts; comparative Edward F. Tuttle: Italian philology; comparative Romance scriptural interpretation historical linguistics; socio-pragmatic and structural motives of *Amin Banani: Cultural history, literature of Persia in the Islamic language change; medieval Italian literature era András J. E. Bodrogligeti: Central Asian Turkic languages and literatures Law Michael Cooperson: Classical Arabic literature, especially biography; Khaled Abou El Fadl: Medieval Muslim law the cultural history of Abbasid Baghdad *William M. McGovern: English legal history S. Peter Cowe: Medieval East Christian theology and spirituality; Stephen C. Yeazell: Medieval and Early Modern adjudicative Armenian language and literature procedure in Britain *Herbert A. Davidson: Medieval Hebrew literature; Rabbinic literature; medieval Jewish and Arabic philosophy Linguistics Ismail K. Poonawala: Early intellectual and cultural history *Robert P. Stockwell: Old English; Middle English; history of of Islam; Shi’ism, Isma’ilis/Fatimids; classical Arabic literature; English language; historical linguistics contemporary Islamic thought Yona Sabar: Hebrew and Aramaic; Syriac; Jewish languages; folk and religious literature of Kurdistani Jews Medicine Hossein Ziai: Medieval Islamic philosophy; Persian classical David Hayes-Bautista (General Internal Medicine): Pre-Columbian literature; post-Avicennan logic and epistemology; impact of health and medicine; colonial medical practice; culture and systematic philosophy on Persian poetic traditions

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Philosophy Spanish and Portuguese Michael J. B. Allen: Renaissance philosophy, especially Neo- *Shirley Arora: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chronicles, Platonism; see also English, and Italian travel literature, folklore John Carriero: Medieval Aristotelian philosophy; seventeenth- Verónica Cortínez: Colonial and contemporary Latin-American century philosophy literature; literary theory; Chilean film Brian Copenhaver: Renaissance philosophy; see also History John Dagenais: Medieval Castilian and Catalan literature; Hispano- Calvin Normore: Medieval philosophy Latin; manuscript culture Terrance Parsons: Philosophy of language; metaphysics; history of *Claude L. Hulet: Brazilian literature; Portuguese maritime logic discoveries in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries See also Hossein Ziai, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Efraín Kristal: Spanish-American colonial literature; the Spanish historical epic; see also Comparative Literature Political Science Anna More: New World Spain; colonial baroque culture Kirstie McClure: History and historiography of political thought; *C. Brian Morris: Golden-Age Spanish poetry; the Picaresque novel politics and literature; feminist theory Claudia Parodi: History of Spanish language (sixteenth and Anthony Pagden: The history of political and social theory with seventeenth centuries); Spanish dialectology; historiography of special reference to European overseas expansion and its linguistics aftermath; see also History *Enrique Rodríguez-Cepeda: Cervantes/Spanish Golden Age; Giulia Sissa: Culture and thought in ancient societies; the classical sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater; popular culture and tradition in medieval and Renaissance political theory; see also Spanish ballads Classics Theater Psychiatry *Henry Goodman: Renaissance and Baroque theater; Shakespeare Dora B. Weiner: See History Michael Hackett: Early Baroque theater; Shakespeare; the English masque *Carl R. Mueller: Medieval and Renaissance theater; Shakespeare Scandinavian Section Jesse L. Byock: Viking archaeology; Old Icelandic and Old Norse history, society, and sagas; feud and violence in the Viking World Arts and Cultures world *Emma Lewis Thomas: Renaissance and Baroque dance history; *James R. Massengale: Scandinavian medieval ballads; translation of Italian, French, German, English texts and Scandinavian folk tales notation Timothy Tangherlini: Folklore, oral traditions, ritual; Old Norse Kendra Willson: Old Norse language and literature

Slavic Languages and Literatures *Henning Andersen: Cultural contacts in the Baltic and Slavic lands; historical linguistics Vyacheslav V. Ivanov: Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian; Old Russian literature; Old Lithuanian literature; Linguistic and cultural situation in the Great Duchy of Lithuania (fourteenth to seventeenth century AD); Baltic and Slavonic folklore and mythology; Tocharian medieval texts; Sogdian and Khotanese Sana medieval texts Emily Klenin: Slavic linguistics, languages, and literature Gail Lenhoff: Comparative hagiography and historiography of medieval Russia; Orthodox liturgics; Byzantine heritage versus regional literary traditions; theological legitimization of the tsars; textual transmission and redaction *Dean S. Worth: Russian language history; medieval Russian philology In May 2008, Professor Kirstie McClure (Political Science) participated in the Sociology conference “Processing Gender in Law and Other Literatures,” presented by Rebecca Emigh: Fifteenth-century Tuscan agriculture; historical CMRS, and cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and demography; sociological theory the Department of English.

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CMRS Associates

Sara M. Adler (Italian, Scripps College): Vittoria Colonna; women poets of the Scott Kleinman (English, California State University, Northridge): Medieval English Italian Renaissance historiography and regional culture, medieval English romance; Old Susana Hernández Araico (English and Foreign Languages, California State Polytechnic English and Middle English philology University, Pomona): Spanish literature of the Golden Age; Cervantes; Aaron J Kleist (English, Biola University): Old English and Anglo-Latin literature; Renaissance and Baroque commercial, street, and court theater; Lope Aelfric; Anglo-Saxon homiletics; Anglo-Saxon and Patristic theology; de Vega; Calderón’s mythological plays, chivalry masques, and allegorical digital manuscript editing Autos; Sor Juana’s theater in Baroque Mexico Leonard Michael Koff: Use of the Bible in literature; medieval literature; Susannah F. Baxendale: Social and political history in Renaissance Italy; family literature of medieval and Renaissance courts; Chaucer; Gower; Ricardian and women’s issues; early business history literary associations; Trecento literary connections; postmodern theory and Lisa M. Bitel (History, USC): Early medieval culture and society; Ireland; the pre-modern text women and gender Thomas Kren (Senior Curator of Manuscripts, Getty Museum): Medieval and Matthew Brosamer (English, Mount St. Mary’s College): Chaucer, Old English Renaissance manuscript illumination; Late Medieval Netherlandish painting literature, church history, monastic theology, the seven deadly sins John S. Langdon (Emeritus Head, History and Social Sciences, The Marlborough Cynthia Brown (French, UC Santa Barbara): Late Medieval and early Renaissance School, Los Angeles): The Basileia of John III Ducas Vatatzes; Late Roman French literature and culture and Byzantine emperors as warriors; Byzantine Imperial consorts and Warren C. Brown (History, California Institute of Technology): Early and Central princesses of the Anatolian Exile Middle Ages; conflict resolution; history of power; history of writing Moshe Lazar (Comparative Literature, USC): Romance philology; Provençal Gayle K. Brunelle (History, California State University, Fullerton): Early modern literature; medieval drama; Judeo-Romance languages; Sephardic culture; commerce, merchants, women and wealth, and the Atlantic world verbal and visual anti-Jewish imagery; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) literature Silvia Orvietani Busch (Senior Manager, UCLA College Alumni Relations): Medieval Leena Löfstedt (University of Helsinki): Old French and Middle French philology Mediterranean history, archaeology, ports; Mediterranean navigation; Joyce Pellerano Ludmer (Bibliographer and Senior Collections Curator, Getty Research maritime history Institute): Critical art history and secondary sources; small presses and artists’ Michael Calabrese (English, California State University, Los Angeles): Medieval books; Leonardo da Vinci; Renaissance and Baroque art history English literature (Chaucer, Langland); medieval amatory tradition (Ovid, Peter C. Mancall (History, University of Southern California): Early modern Boccaccio); medieval masculinity Atlantic world; early America; native America José R. Cartagena-Calderón (Romance Languages and Literatures, Pomona College): Ruth Mellinkoff: Medieval and Renaissance iconography Medieval and early modern Spanish literature Elizabeth Morrison (Curator, Department of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum): Rafael Chabrán (Modern Languages, Whittier College): Life and works of Francisco Medieval French secular manuscript illumination; Flemish Renaissance Hernández; Cervantes and medicine; history of science and medicine in manuscripts; social and historical context of manuscripts sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Mexico Michael O’Connell (English, UC Santa Barbara): Renaissance literature; medieval Paul E. Chevedden (History, Santa Monica College): Medieval Mediterranean and Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Spenser; Milton history; Crusades; medieval artillery; early photography on the Middle East Aino Paasonen (Antioch University, Los Angeles): Dante; surveys of world Stanley Chodorow (History, UC San Diego): Legal history; canon law; church and literature: Antiquity to modern; urban poetry of place state Roberta Panzanelli (Getty Research Institute): Medieval and Renaissance art Luisa Del Giudice: Italian folk, regional, and immigrant cultures (song, belief, history; northern Italian art; religious art celebration, food, dance) Mary Elizabeth Perry (Emerita, History, Occidental College): History of marginal Andrew Fleck (English, San Jose State University): The Dutch in English national people and minorities, deviance, and disorder in early modern Spain; women’s identity history John Geerken (History, Scripps College): Italian Renaissance; Machiavelli; Ricardo Quinones (Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, Claremont McKenna European intellectual history; history of legal thought College): Renaissance comparative literature; modernism; Dante; James Given (History, UC Irvine): Medieval social and political history and Shakespeare; history of ideas (Time); thematics (Cain and Abel); literary conflict; heresy and inquisition in Languedoc dualism; www.ricardoquinones.com Piotr S. Górecki (History, UC Riverside): Early and central Middle Ages; Poland Mary L. Robertson (Chief Curator of Manuscripts, The Huntington Library): Early and east-central Europe; legal history in a social context; relationship Modern English politics and government; English archives between communities and judicial institutions Mary Rouse (Retired, former Viator editor, CMRS, UCLA): Medieval George L. Gorse (Art History, Pomona College): Art history of the Middle Ages manuscripts; history of medieval Paris and Renaissance; urban space and artistic patronage in Renaissance Italy Marilyn Schmitt: Medieval art, Romanesque sculpture Lawrence D. Green (English, University of Southern California): the Renaissance; Stephen H. A. Shepherd (English, Loyola Marymount University): Middle English rhetoric; linguistics romance; Malory; Langlund; textual criticism; late medieval manuscripts Maryanne Cline Horowitz (History, Occidental College): Renaissance Italian and and their material and social contexts French cultures; visual cues to collections; Stoicism, Skepticism, and Steve Sohmer (Fleming Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford): Renaissance calendars toleration; cultural history of ideas and Tudor liturgies as they relate to the texts of Shakespeare’s plays Patrick Hunt (Archaeology, Stanford University): Late antiquity through Stanley Stewart (English, UC Riverside): Renaissance English literature; Renaissance Shakespeare; literature and philosophy C. Stephen Jaeger (Emeritus, German, Comparative Literature, and Program in Elizabeth C. Teviotdale (Assistant Director, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): German and University): Medieval liturgical manuscripts Latin literature of the Middle Ages Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University): Musicology Leslie Ellen Jones: Medieval Welsh literature and history; British and Celtic Loren J. Weber: Medieval historiography; courtly culture and literature; textual folklore and mythology; Arthuriana; film and folklore transmission Constance Jordan (English, Claremont Graduate University): Comparative literature; Robert S. Westman (History and Science Studies, UC San Diego): Early modern Shakespeare; history of political thought science; Copernican studies; astrological culture Sharon King: Medieval and Renaissance drama; early cookbooks; women’s studies; French wars of religion; military strategy; proto-science fiction; CMRS Affiliates techniques of medieval and modern comedy; early modern Protestant Heather Larson (CMRS Affiliate 2007-09): medieval Celtic poetry; orality and mysticism performance in medieval literature; the harp and harper in Celtic traditions

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The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) was established during academic year Director 1962-63 through the inspiration of the distinguished historian Lynn White, who served as its first director. Brian P. Copenhaver The Center’s goal is to promote interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from late antiquity 310.825.1880 to the mid-seventeenth century in order to better understand cultural, social, religious, and political issues [email protected] that are rooted in the deep past yet continue to resonate in our contemporary world. Associate Director, Medieval Studies Associate Director, Renaissance Studies As an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, CMRS supports the research activities of Zrinka Stahuljak Massimo Ciavolella some 140 faculty members in twenty-eight different academic disciplines and programs. The Center offers 310.825.1880 310.825.5943 fellowships and support for both graduate and undergraduate education; it sponsors lectures, seminars, and [email protected] [email protected] conferences; and it hosts visiting scholars and other researchers. Its publications include Viator, internationally recognized as one of the best scholarly journals in the field, Comitatus, one of the oldest graduate student Assistant to the Director & Program Coordinator Publications Director journals, and Cursor Mundi, a series of single-authored books and multi-authored collections conceived as a Karen E. Burgess Blair Sullivan companion to Viator. A variety of books and monographs have also been published under the Center’s aegis. 310.825.2043 310.825.1537 [email protected] [email protected] While CMRS does not award academic degrees, it provides information and educational opportunities to students, and consults with academic departments in the development of relevant classes. A description of Administrative Analyst Webmaster & Project Assistant the Center’s activities, programs, fellowships, and upcoming events can be found on the CMRS website. Benay Furtivo Brett Landenberger 310.825.8192 310.825.1880 [email protected] [email protected] UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 302 Royce Hall Box 951485 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

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CMRS Internet Website http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu

Photo/Digital Image Credits: page 2, Kathleen Copenhaver; page 5, Allan Langdale; pages 20 and 33, Karen E. Burgess; pages 9, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 31, Brett Landenberger.

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is located on the third floor of the East Tower (right) of UCLA’s Royce Hall. This brochure was designed and edited by Karen E. Burgess.

Former CMRS Directors

Cover: A page from Rouse MS 72 (formerly 106), a portion of a Book of Hours written in Paris, or perhaps Rouen in the second quarter Fredi Chiappelli, 1972–88 Patrick J. Geary, 1993–98 of the fifteenth century. Digital image courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. Lynn White, Jr., 1963–70 William Matthews, 1970–72 Michael J. B. Allen, 1988–93, 2003–04 Henry Ansgar Kelly, 1998–2003