Volume XIVI.1 Renaissance News and Notes Winter/Spring 2003

Nota bene: Renaissance Quarterly Current Reviews Toronto 2003 Go Online in January 2003 Opening Night Festivities by Sheila J. Rabin, Books Review Editor and William Bowen, Chair of Electronic Media by William Bowen, Chair of Readers of Renaissance Quarterly will not have to wait until spring to start reading current reviews. Electronic Media This January preprints of reviews for the entire first issue of volume 56 (2003) will be available The Centre for Reformation and Renais- online. Readers will be able to browse the reviews on the web through their Iter subscription. These sance Studies (CRRS) in Toronto is first few sets of reviews will be listed alphabetically by author of the volume reviewed. planning a special evening for you at the In the future reviews will go online as soon as the office receives the corrected copy of the review from RSA’s forthcoming annual conference. the reviewer and it has been formatted. Up to now it could take more than six months from the time On Thursday, 27 March, the festivities a reviewer sent in the manuscript of the review before it appeared in RQ. Now readers will have access will begin with Christiane Klapisch- to the review in six weeks or less. Members who can’t imagine navigating subways without reading Zuber, one of the leading social historians Renaissance Quarterly book reviews need not be alarmed, however. The reviews will continue to be of Renaissance Italy, receiving the Paul printed in RQ four times a year. Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the RSA’s President, Ronald For the authors, their books will now be reviewed more quickly than ever, certainly a boon. For our G. Witt. Professor Klapisch-Zuber will reviewers their publication will be out sooner. But they should not take this to mean that they will then speak on “Non-Material Transferal have an extra four months to write their review. This system will only work well if our reviewers in the Renaissance: Talents, Names, and cooperate and send in their reviews on time. All should remember that if it were their book, they Kinship.” Her lecture will be followed by would want it reviewed as soon as possible. We hope the fact that the reviews will appear so much an opening night reception, all hosted sooner will encourage our reviewers to get their reviews in even faster. It would further facilitate the by the CRRS and its friends. Details of process if reviewers would send their reviews in electronically rather than by snail mail. times and venues will be announced One of the features of the new online system will be searching for current reviews by subject. The soon, but in the meantime, mark this in subjects will be broad and, for the most part, will reflect the RSA discipline categories: Art History, your calendar! › Bibliography, Church History, Classical Scholarship, Comparative Literature, Emblems, Hebraica, History, Literature, Political Thought, History of Science, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM BOOK WILL BE DISTRIBUTED AT THE CONFERENCE TO Rhetoric, and Women’s Studies. The reviews will be further subdivided into geographic locations — REGISTRANT S AND NO T MAILED. ADDI- e.g., German art, French history, Italian literature. And we will add humanism as a category. Books TIONAL COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR $25. will also be cross-listed when they would interest readers in more than one category. Readers will thus be able to focus on whatever categories they wish. › Toronto 2003 information, pages 6-7.

In this issue . . . New York 2004 ...... 2 RSA Annual Meeting: Plenaries, Talks, and Special Events ...... 6 !!!! AUCTION !!!! ...... 2 RSA Annual Meeting: Preliminary Program ...... 6 Multiple Year Membership ...... 2 RSA Annual Meeting Registration Form ...... 7 Future Conferences ...... 2 2003 Membership Form ...... 8 New Growth at Iter ...... 3 The New RSA Discipline Representatives ...... 9 The RSA Online: What and When ...... 3 Conferences and Events ...... 9-11 RSA Affiliates and their Representatives ...... 4 Fellowships and Grants ...... 11 Obituary: Nicolai Rubinstein (1911–2002) ...... 5 Prizes ...... 11 RSA Annual Meeting: Hotel Reservations ...... 6 Call for Papers: New York City 2004 ...... 12 NEW YORK 2004 !!!! AUCTION !!!! by John Monfasani, Executive Director

Fiftieth Anniversary of the RSA An RSA member has given to the RSA a full•run of Renaissance News, Renaissance Quarterly, and by Martin Elsky, Conference Co-Chair Studies in the Renaissance, 242 volumes in all (221 of RW and RQ, 1954•2002, and 21 of I am pleased to update members about the multidisciplinary study. Eugene Rice, a SR, 1954•74) plus a fascicle containing the RSA Conference of 2004, which will be held distinguished former president of the RSA, directory of the founding members of the RSA in New York from Thursday, 25 March, to will treat us to a fifty-year history of the in 1954. The set would be an extraordinary Saturday, 27 March, at the Grand Hyatt organization. gift or a very nice addition to one’s own library Hotel. Benjamin Ravid, the Bennett Lecturer, will speak on “Hebraica, Judaica, and the As the host institution of the RSA, The if one is a young scholar. An auction may Renaissance.” The conference coincides with Graduate School and University Center of prove a fun way of filling the RSA’s coffers. a particularly joyous occasion, the fiftieth The City University of New York is planning Since we’re not set up to compete with eBay and anniversary of the RSA’s founding. We’ll a gallery exhibit and related sessions, as well since I am not quite ready to ask the Executive be celebrating the event in the Trends Panel, as an opening night reception. Board to pay for the programming needed to run what may prove to be a onetime online “Changing Models of Renaissance Scholar- We urge you to start thinking about auctioning event (we’ll see how this auction ship: A Fifty Year Retrospective.” In “Spain, organizing panels, which should be submit- goes), we’ll run the auction through email. If Spanish America, and the Renaissance: ted on the RSA website, www.rsa.org. We Problems and Prospects,” Richard Kagan will also of course welcome individual papers. As you wish to bid, please email your bid to Laura Schwartz at [email protected]. She’ll put your email discuss how North American scholars of the always we will need members to volunteer address on Renaissance in Spain and its American to chairs sessions. Let the RSA office know colonies have changed the traditional view your institutional position and your range a distribution list, and every time a new higher that Spain, having turned its back on most of interests, and we will do our best to match bid comes in, she’ll email you the amount of European intellectual developments, had no chair and panel. the new bid. I just checked Adebooks.com. Renaissance. In “Seeing Things,” Rona $250 plus shipping would seem a fair floor price Goffen will describe how Italian art history, We hope this will help members obtain for the set, especially since all the money will go traditionally central to Renaissance studies, funding to attend the conference. We look to support a nonprofit learned society. We’ll but also one of the more conservative forward to wide participation for an exciting close the auction on Thursday, 27 February, at 5 disciplines, has developed a new paradigm of conference in the city that never sleeps. › PM. Let the bidding begin! ›

Renaissance News and Notes Multiple Year Membership PUBLISHED BY: by John Monfasani, Executive Director Renaissance Society of America This is just a reminder that the RSA has inaugurated a multiple year membership The Graduate School and option. The option is meant to be mutually beneficial. The RSA receives membership University Center dues several years in advance and the member receives a discount for the out years The City University of New York as well as locking in for the out years this year’s membership rate. Moreover, both 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5400 the Society and the member are spared the bother of annual payment. › New York, NY 10016-4309 Information available on page 8 below. phone: 212-817-2130 fax: 212-817-1544 email: [email protected] website: www.rsa.org FUTURE CONFERENCES: EDITOR: Tonya Knudsen NEW YORK, 25–27 MARCH 2004, GRAND HYATT HOTEL RNN is published twice yearly CAMBRIDGE, UK, 7–9 APRIL 2005, QUEENS’ COLLEGE, (Winter/Spring and Fall). The subscription price is included in CLARE COLLEGE, AND FITZWILLIAMS COLLEGE annual membership dues. News items, SAN FRANCISCO, 23–25 MARCH, 2006, PARC V announcements, and listings may be RENAISSANCE HOTEL sent to the RSA for inclusion. Deadline: 30 June 2003 MIAMI, FLORIDA, MARCH 2007

Renaissance News and Notes 2 Volume XIVI.1 Fall 2002 š News from Cyberspace: The RSA on the Web ›

check the record for Italian Humanism and New Growth at Iter Medieval Rhetoric by Ronald G. Witt and by William Bowen, Chair of Electronic Media you will get a sample of things to come. Our new growth does not end with the With more than 60,000 new records We have made other significant changes bibliography. To such resources as the added each year, Iter’s bibliography in the past few months. Perhaps the most online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller’s Iter will soon surpass the 500,000 mark. But striking is the integration of the bibliogra- Italicum and Iter’s International Directory of what may be more exciting to phies for journals and books into one Scholars, we are now adding our first full-text, many scholars is that Iter is now indexing large database. This was accomplished online journal. Starting in late January, you essays in conference proceedings and other with the introduction of a new, very will be able to read and search the current collections, in addition to its ongoing powerful search interface which includes issues of Renaissance Quarterly. In the ensuing work on articles, books, and reviews. Boolean, positional, and relational opera- months we will enable individual access to the If that piques your interest, perhaps you tors, and which allows you to limit by full-text books distributed by the History would like to help us by checking our web language (twenty-two thus far), publica- E•Book project, and we will publish John site at www.IterGateway.org for the tion type, and publication year. In addi- Shawcross’ extensive Milton bibliography in tion, you may sort results lists by author, titles of the collections indexed thus cooperation with Medieval and Renaissance subject, title, relevance, or publication far and then sending us your recom- Texts and Studies. There is a great deal more year, and you can mark and conveniently mendations for what we should work in the works, but for that I suggest you visit email or download your search results. on next: Write to Marian Cosic at our site regularly or contact me directly at [email protected]. There are some surprising new features: [email protected]. ›

THE RSA ONLINE: WHAT AND WHEN by William Bowen, Chair of Electronic Media

In recent issues of RNN, I have mentioned a variety of changes to the RSA’s web site. Here is a list of things you should be able to do in the near future.

BY 15 JANUARY, 2003: a) Register with secure online payment for the forthcoming annual conference in Toronto. b) Sign up for membership or membership renewal with secure online payment.

BY 27 JANUARY, 2003: a) Read full text preprints of book reviews destined for publication in Renaissance Quarterly. The initial interface will be a simple listing of the book reviews. You will need Acrobat Reader to see these files. b) Read the full text for current issues of Renaissance Quarterly, eventually going back to volume 53 (2000). The initial interface will be based on the table of contents in each issue. You will need Acrobat Reader to see these files. Since all of the above fall within the security system managed by Iter, you will have to identify yourself with your Iter name and password. If you need help, please contact Marian Cosic at [email protected].

BY JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003: We will release the new website as soon as possible and certainly before the conference in Toronto. The new site features a brand new design with much improved navigation from one area to another. ›

Renaissance News and Notes 3 Volume XIVI.1 Winter/Spring 2003 š RSA Affiliates and their Representatives ›

The Medici Archive Project, Ed Goldberg, via Scialoia Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Please direct corrections to 18, Florence 50136, Italy + [email protected] Charles Smith, Professor Emeritus of History at Colorado the RSA office via email: [email protected] State University, President, College of Liberal Arts and Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, University of Sciences, Office of the Dean, ASU Main, Tempe, [email protected] Michigan has been renamed: Program in Medieval and AZ 85287-1701 ( 480-965-3391 7 480-965-1093 Early Modern Studies + [email protected] www.uni.edu/~swan/ rmmra/rocky.htm Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance, Medieval and Renaissance Program, Thomas Turley, Studies (ACMRS), Robert Bjork, Director, Arizona Director, Santa Clara University, History Department, Roma nel Rinascimento, Massimo Miglio, Director, Santa Clara, CA 95053 ( 408-554-4438 7 408-554- Piazza dell’Orologio, 4, 00186, Rome, Italy State University, PO Box 872301, Tempe, AZ ( 7 + 85287-2301( 480-965-5900 7 480-965-1681 2181 + [email protected] 06/683-2038 06/683-2038 [email protected] + [email protected] www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Renate Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Konrad Eisenbichler, Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Director, Daniel Russell, Director, President, Ronald H. Fritze, Secretary (contact person), Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History, Department of French and Italian, 1328 C. L., Department of History, University of Central Arkansas, Liana De Girolami Cheney, President, Department of University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ( 412-624- PO Box 4935, 201 Donaghey Avenue, Conway, Art History, 1 University Avenue, University of 7 + ( 7 Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02114 ( 617-367-1679 5220 412-624-6263 [email protected] AR 72035-5000 501-450-5616 501-450-5657 www.pitt.edu/~medren + 7 617-557-2962 + [email protected] fritzerh @mail.uca.edu www.sixteenthcentury.org Medieval and Renaissance Studies Society of Israel, Society for Confraternity Studies, c/o Nicholas Terpstra, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Henry Ilana Zinguer, President, Department of French, Haifa Department of History, 100 St. George Street, University Ansgar Kelly, Director, English Department, 212 Royce University, 31905, Haifa, Israel ( 972-4-8249-655 of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada ( 416- Hall, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530 7 972-4-824-97-33 + [email protected] 978-8484 7 416-978-4810 + [email protected] New England Renaissance Conference, Kenneth Gouwens, + [email protected] Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, David Director, Department of History, U•103, University of Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies, Michelle M. Murphy, Director, St. Louis University, 221 North Grand Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2103 ( 860-486-3750 Fontaine, Executive Secretary, 726 West Main Street, No. ( Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103-2097 314-977-7180 7 860-423-0713 + [email protected] 205, Madison, WI 53715 ( 608-294-7886 7 314-977-3704 + [email protected] New York University Seminar on the Renaissance, + [email protected] Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Lloyd Ernest Gilman, Director, English Department, New York University, 19 University Place, New Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Kermode and Martine Van Elk, Directors, California Margaret P. Hannay, President, Department of English, State University, Long Beach, c/o English Department, York, NY 10003 ( 212-998-8852 7 212-995-4019 ( + [email protected] Siena College Loudonville, NY 12211 518-783-4282 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840- 7 518-797-3259 + [email protected] www.ssemw.org 2403 ( 562-985-4221 ( 562-985-4222 7 562-985- North Central Conference, RSA (now defunct), 2369 + [email protected] www.csulb.edu/centers/ former President, Barbara Carman, English Department, Society for Reformation Research, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, med-ren/index.html Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada President, Department of History, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 ( 414-229- Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, Adele Northern California Renaissance Conference, Winfried 4529 7 414-229-6827 + [email protected] Seeff, Director, 1120 Francis Scott Key Hall, University Schleiner, President, Department of English, 0259 www.theaha.org/affiliates/soc_reformation_research.htm of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Voorhies Hall, University of California, Davis, CA + [email protected] 95616. ( 530-752-5575 + [email protected] South African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Professor Victor Houliston, Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Pacific Northwest Conference, Florence Sandler, + [email protected] Library, Carla Zecher, Director, 60 West Walton President, University of Puget Sound, 1500 Street, Chicago, IL 60610-7324 ( 312-255-3514 North Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416 ( 253-756-3431 South Central Renaissance Conference, Liana Cheney, 7 312-255-3513 + [email protected] + [email protected] Representative, Department of Cultural Studies, One www.newberry.org/nl/renaissance/L3rrenaissance.html Princeton University Renaissance Studies, Francois University Avenue, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854 ( 617-367-1679 7 617-557-2962 Central Renaissance Conference, Burton L. Dundar, Rigolot, President, 313A East Pyne, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-5264 ( 609-258-4959 + [email protected] www.stedwards.edu/hum/ Executive Secretary, Office of Academic Affairs, University klawitter/scrc/scrc.html of Missouri, Kansas City, MO 64111 + [email protected] Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Southeastern Renaissance Conference, Gerald H. Centre d’Etudes de la Renaissance (now defunct), Mike Schoenfeldt, Director, 1029 Tisch Hall, Snare, Secretary/Treasurer, Southeastern Renaissance former Director, J. M. de Bujanda, University of 435 South State Street, University of Michigan, Conference, Department of English, Tulane University, Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 ( 734-763-2066 New Orleans, LA 70118 ( 504-862-8178 (office) Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, William 7 734-647-4881 + [email protected] ( 504-862-8958 (Department) + [email protected] R. Bowen, Director, Kim Yates, Assistant to Director, Victoria www.lsa.umich.edu/mems www.tulane.edu/~toheff University, University of Toronto, E.J. Pratt Purdue University Renaissance Seminar, Jon S. Lawry, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, Library, Room 301, 71 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto, Director, 8 Sassafras Road, Palmyra, VA 22963 Jane Couchman, Chair, French, Glendon College, York ON, M5S 1K7, Canada. ( 416-585-4484 7 416-585- University, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M6, Canada 4430 + [email protected] www.crrs.ca Renaissance Center for Medieval and Renaissance ( 416-736-2100 x88222 7 416-440-9570 + couchman Studies, Nicholas Howe, Director, 256 Cunz Hall, Ohio Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance, State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1311 @yorku.ca Richard Harrier, Director, 35 West Ninth Street, Renaissance Conference of Southern California, c/o UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New York, NY 10011. ( 212-598-3315 Professor Erika Olbricht, President, Humanities Division, 302 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 90263-4225 ( 310- CA 90095-1485 ( 310-825-1880 7 310-825-0655 Duke University Center for Medieval and Renaissance + Studies, David Aers, Director, Michael Cornett, 506-4342 (office) ( 310-880-9050 (home) 7 310-880- [email protected] www.humnet.ucla.edu/cmrs Program Coordinator (contact person), 08D West 9050 + [email protected] www.rcsca.org University of Chicago Renaissance Seminar, Richard Duke Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 Renaissance English Text Society, Arthur F. Kinney, Strier, Director, Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University, ( 919-681-8883 7 919-681-9298 President, 25 Hunter Hill, Amherst, MA 01003 Co-Director English Department, University of + [email protected] www.duke.edu/~jmems/cmrs ( 413-256-8648 7 413-577-3665 + afkinney Chicago, Chicago IL 60637. ( 773-702-8536 7 + Erasmus of Rotterdam Society, Jane E. 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Renaissance News and Notes 4 Volume XIVI.1 Winter/Spring 2003 Nicolai Rubinstein (1911–2002) (B. BERLIN 13 JULY – D. LONDON 19 AUGUST) by Robert Black, University of Leeds Italian Renaissance scholarship reaped enor- history, which he believed Davidsohn had mis- to the period of Medici ascendancy in the fif- mous benefit from emigrants fleeing Germany understood, and it was from Ottokar that Ru- teenth century. The culmination of these efforts in the 1930s. It is hard to know if Nicolai binstein gained his interest in the study of was his book, The Government of Florence under the Rubinstein would have pursued the history of electoral and other constitutional practices, Medici (1434-94), published in 1966. Here he Florence if he had not been forced to complete which would become the principal focus of his articulated what would be the leitmotif of his his doctorate there after 1933. Together with mature scholarship. Rubinstein, however, also scholarship: the vigorous survival of republican his lifelong friends and fellow expatriate Ger- came into personal contact with the patrician institutions and ideals in medieval and Renais- mans, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and Felix Gilbert figure of Davidsohn, whose hospitality he en- sance Italy. Rubinstein’s contribution was mo- (with whom he established a close bond in joyed in Florence. It was from Davidsohn that mentous: following the legacy of Burckhardt, Florence during the 1930s), he formed a trium- Rubinstein acquired his passion for archival previous study had emphasized the despotic virate which revolutionized Italian Renaissance research and particularly for the Florentine character of Italian Renaissance states. Rubin- studies in the twentieth century. Rubinstein’s Archivio di Stato, a resource used only margin- stein shifted the focus to republicanism, not distinctive achievement lay in the political and ally by Ottokar, who concentrated on analyzing just in the thirteenth- and fourteenth-centuries constitutional history of medieval and Renais- published sources. Davidsohn’s private wealth with seminal articles on Marsilius of Padua and sance Florence, as well as in the history of allowed him to devote his life to archival re- the frescoes in the Sienese Palazzo Pubblico, political thought. search — an advantage that Rubinstein never but in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-centuries as enjoyed but always envied. Ottokar appointed well, especially in his work emphasizing the Rubinstein was born into a cosmopolitan Jew- him his assistant at the University of Florence, limits of Medicean authority in Florence and in ish family (his father was Latvian and his moth- but Rubinstein’s time there was cut short by the studies on the political language, thought, and er, Hungarian). The French culture that he Fascist persecution of Jews in Italy. He himself world of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. acquired at school in Switzerland remained related that friends pushed him onto the last The focus of Rubinstein’s interests in the last thirty with him throughout life, and he often found train out of Florence for England in 1939. diversion in an author such as Proust (from years of his life was Lorenzo the Magnificent and whom, appropriately, readings were taken at his First settling in Oxford, Rubinstein was helped the project to publish a collaborative, fully com- funeral). Returning to Berlin for university, he by the Regius Professor of Modern History, Sir mented edition of his letters, which he himself joined the seminar of the eminent Prussian Maurice Powicke, who secured a temporary directed as general editor. The ambitious scope of medievalist Erich Caspar, a renowned papal teaching post for him at Hartley University this undertaking was inspired by the edition of historian, but even in his youth he showed an College Southampton (now the University of Salutati’s letters made by another of Rubinstein’s inclination for Renaissance studies, and his Southampton) in 1942. In 1945 he applied for scholarly heroes, Francesco Novati. Rubinstein’s dissertation supervisor was meant to be no less a a permanent lectureship at Westfield College, personal identification with Lorenzo was so pow- figure than Hans Baron, then a Privat-Dozent University of London. He felt he had little erful as to occasion rumors that he had asked for in Berlin. However, the rise of the Nazis forced chance of success at what was then a women’s the door of his room at the Warburg to bear the Rubinstein to finish his doctorate in Florence. college; indeed, he left immediately after the sole designation “Lorenzo de’ Medici.” Always a The notorious review of Baron’s work by Lud- interview and had to be pursued down the road scholar of catholic interests, he moved latterly into wig Bertalot had been published only shortly by the college principal, who offered him the the field of architectural history, publishing an before Rubinstein’s arrival in Italy, and job on the spot. Rubinstein’s entire teaching archival-based history of Florence’s Palazzo Vec- he now quickly distanced himself from Baron, career was spent at Westfield, being promoted chio in 1995. of whose work he became highly critical; in- to a readership in 1962 and gaining a personal Rubinstein was a towering figure as a teacher deed, the two men hardly acknowledged each chair in 1965. After retiring in 1978, he became too. He was particularly proud of his research other when, towards the end of Baron’s life, a fellow of the Warburg Institute, where he seminar, convened by him for forty years at the they were brought together at Harvard. As a retained a room until his death. His association Institute of Historical Research in London, new supervisor in Florence he now turned to with the Warburg was particularly felicitous: it and of the many now prominent Renaissance the Professor of Medieval History there, Nicola was there that he met the young American art historians whose doctorates he supervised. Ru- Ottokar, himself an aristocratic émigré from historian, Ruth Kidder Olitsky, then writing a binstein’s students were expected to base their revolutionary Russia. Ottokar made a great thesis on Pius II’s patronage of art under the theses on unpublished manuscript and archival impression on Rubinstein, who abandoned the supervision of Rudolf Wittkower; they were sources: although he himself made subtle use topic in fifteenth-century Milanese humanism married in 1954. Ruth Rubinstein worked for of published material particularly in his work assigned to him by Baron and instead followed many years in the photographic collection of on political thought and historiography, he had Ottokar’s thirteenth-century research interests the Warburg, and, together with the late Phyllis little time for student dissertations based primarily by writing a thesis on the Florentine magnates. Pray Bober, she compiled the important refer- on widely disseminated printed sources and texts. Ottokar’s most famous achievement had been ence work, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculp- For Rubinstein, archives represented the hub of to refute Salvemini’s class-based interpretation ture: a handbook of sources, published in 1986, a research in Italian history: he himself sedulously of Florence’s late-medieval constitutional histo- guide to ancient sculptural monuments known to frequented the Archivio di Stato di Firenze until ry; Ottokar’s antipathy to Marxism and his Renaissance artists and antiquarians. The Rubin- his death. Indeed, he was instrumental in trans- prosopographical methods bore fruit in Rubin- steins were a devoted couple; Ruth Rubinstein forming Italian Renaissance history from what stein’s lifeline reluctance to approach political died on 29 August, only ten days after her had tended to be either amateurish dilettantism or and constitutional history in terms of abstract husband. Teutonic mega-history into an archive- and docu- social or economic categories, as well as in his From the 1940s, Nicolai Rubinstein’s scholarly ment-based professional scholarly discipline. Nev- propensity to focus on elites as the key agents of interests began to revert to the post-medieval ertheless, Rubinstein remained above all a true change in Florentine history. Ottokar was also period. He was particularly drawn to the consti- historian: to students and colleagues he powerful- highly critical of Robert Davidsohn’s multi- tutional workings of the Italian Renaissance ly emphasized the importance of historical volume Geschichte von Florenz: Ottokar’s forte city-states, starting work first on the Savonaro- questions and context; archival research, for Ru- was Florence’s constitutional and institutional lan interval in Florence and then moving back binstein, never became antiquarianism. ›

Renaissance News and Notes 5 Volume XIVI.1 Winter/Spring 2003 š RSA Annual Meeting › Toronto, March 27-29, 2003

Hotel Reservations Plenaries, Talks, and Special Events We advise participants to make reserva- tions as early as possible. We leave it to the Thursday, 27 March, 5:30-6:30 PM – A Special of research from basic bibliographical and archival individual participant to make his or her Lecture, sponsored by the Centre for Reformation and research, transcription and editing of texts and own travel arrangements. Renaissance Studies Victoria University, University of documents, analysis of social and spiritual func- Toronto. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Centre de Recherches tion, exploration of cross-media influences, and However, if you need any assistance, Historiques, recipient of the 2003 Paul Oskar Kristeller experimentation with performance practice. Bar- contact RSA travel agent Stella Mortman Lifetime Achievement Award, “Non-Material Transferal bara Wisch, State University of New York, Cortland,” at Austin Travel: toll free ( 1-800-783- in the Renaissance: Talents, Names, and Kinship.” “Re-viewing the Image of Confraternities in Re- 3718 ( 516-474-7099 + stella.mortman Introduction by William R. Bowen, University of Toronto. naissance Visual Culture.” This paper surveys the @austintravel.com state of confraternity studies in the visual arts. Friday, 28 March, 5:30-6:30 PM – Josephine Waters Although historians of confraternities have investi- The meeting will take place at the Colony Bennett Lecture sponsored by the Renaissance Society gated a wide range of social and religious issues and Hotel Toronto: 89 Chestnut Street, Toronto, of America. Paul F. Grendler, Professor created new paradigms of research, art historians, ( ON, Canada M5G 1R1: toll free 1-800- Emeritus, University of Toronto, “The Universities of the by contrast, are only beginning to consider the 387-8687 ( 416-977-0707 7 416-585- Renaissance and Reformation.” significance of confraternities as lay corporate pa- 3157 www.colonyhoteltoronto.com trons within the religious, civic, and cultural matrix Single/Double Occupancy: Saturday, 29 March, 3:30-5:00 PM – Book Presentation of urban centers. First, this paper reviews the role of $169 Canadian / $106.96 American sponsored by Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali di Ferrara, confraternities as custodians and commissioners of Triple Occupancy Georgetown University, Villa Le Balze and Syracuse University, art and architecture, from miraculous images and $184 Canadian / $116.45 American Florence. Organizer and Respondent: Sara F. Matthews- altarpieces to major churches and charitable insti- Quad Occupancy Grieco, Syracuse University, Florence.Chair: Gianni Venturi, tutions. It then identifies recent studies that have $199 Canadian / $125.94 American Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali di Ferrara. Respondents: examined confraternal strategies of representation. Marcello Fantoni, Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze It further highlights scholarship that has analyzed Tax Rebates: Guest room rates are subject to and Louisa C. Matthew, UnionCollege. how ritual and charitable imperatives influenced 5% Provincial Sales Tax and 7% Goods and imagery, architectural production, and sacred to- Services Tax. The 7% Goods and Services Dennis Romano, Syracuse University. “Presentation pographies. The paper concludes by proposing Tax is reimbursed to non-Canadians through of an interdisciplinary volume: The Art Market in new tasks for us as scholars and teachers. the following procedure. Obtain a GST Italy (15th-17th centuries) / Il mercato dell’arte in exempt form from the Tour Desk in the Italia (secc. XV-XVII).” This volume, which Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto, “De-Insti- lobby of the hotel. Complete the GST form represents the re-elaboration of material presented tutionalizing Confraternity Studies.” Historical and submit it at the airport, at the Eaton at a conference held in Florence (19-21 June 2000), studies of confraternities have expanded rapidly in Shopping Center, or via mail (address on contains thirty-two essays by historians, art the past two decades. Yet the groups are still often form) to receive your reimbursement. › historians, and economic historians on the approached simply as particular institutions in production, marketing, and consumption of art of Catholic societies, defined by their statutes, ma- all kinds: high and low, commissioned works and triculation lists, and social and religious roles. This Preliminary Program serial production, imported goods, and secondhand functionalist institutional approach tends to dis- Preliminary Program for Toronto 2003 Online: objects. Scholars from the United States, Canada, connect confraternities from the lives of their mem- The preliminary program for Toronto 2003 is Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Australia bers and makes them more fixed and less fluid than available at the RSA website (www.rsa.org). contributed to the volume. they actually were. Is it possible to reposition the Participants should consult the preliminary analysis and to start from the point of view of program to confirm the information that it Saturday, 29 March, 5:15-6:45 PM – Plenary Session: members? Many used fraternity as a metaphor to contains. If there is anything you wish Confraternities sponsored by the Renaissance Society organize their social, religious, and political lives. changed, please email the office at of America. Chair and Introduction: Konrad In the religious upheavals of the sixteenth century, Eisenbichler, University of Toronto. [email protected]. this metaphor galvanized lay believers and religious Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney.” Playing a reformers of all stripes, and confraternities as groups We shall not be mailing the final printed Role: Confraternal Drama Studies in the reflected, modeled, and advanced the drive to real- program to registrants, but rather distribut- Academy.” As the study of late medieval theatre ize fraternity. Yet by century’s end, confraternities ing it to the registrants at the registration has changed from being the domain of the philolo- were gone from most of Protestant Europe, and desk in Toronto. Consequently, the pre- were undergoing significant changes in Catholic liminary program will stay up on the website gist and the literary historian to being everybody’s Europe. How can we best understand the paradox into February. Up to then we shall be business, confraternal drama struggles to find its that these changes represent, and how can this in updating the preliminary program from place in the curriculum of humanities faculties. time to time. Participants are expected to pay This paper will review the richness of interdiscipli- turn enlarge our understanding of early modern the registration fee and the 2003 membership nary explorations of the theatre and drama in lay social relations? dues. Failure to do so will result in having one’s confraterni ties, rhetoricians’ academies, and guilds paper removed from the preliminary pro- across Eastern and Western Europe. While English Saturday, 29 March, 7:00-9:00 PM – Closing gram. › drama has been the subject of exhaustive study, Reception sponsored by the Renaissance Society of continental drama is still wide open to every kind America. ›

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Renaissance News and Notes 8 Volume XIVI.1 Winter/Spring 2003 The New RSA Discipline CONFERENCES AND EVENTS Representatives 31 January 2003. Symposium, sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foun- dation at Taylor Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY to celebrate the March-2003–March 2006 conservation of Vassar’s nineteenth-century plaster cast of Lorenzo by John Monfasani, Executive Director Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise doors of the Baptistry of Florence, Italy. The theme is to examine recent scholarship on both Florentine Renaissance The following members are the newly elected disciple art and Vassar’s doors, the history and legacy of Ghiberti’s project among representatives. Their term officially begins with the painters and sculptors in the Renaissance, and recent conservation of the Florentine doors. Contact J.M. Musacchio: ( 845-437-5223 meeting of the Council at the RSA Toronto conference in March. If you are interested in delivering a paper in 13-15 February 2003. ACMRS (The Arizona Center for Medieval and New York in 2004, you may want to contact the Renaissance Studies) Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Arizona State University: “Multi Cultural Europe and Cultural Exchange”; discipline representative in your field to express your and “The Medieval Book: A Workshop in Codicological Practice.” Con- interest since one of the prerogative of being disciple tact Robert E. Bjork: Director, ACMRS, Arizona State representatives is to organize panels for RSA confer- University, Box 872301, Tempe, AZ 85287-2301 ( 480-965-5900 ences. You will find email addresses of discipline www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs representatives in the Directory of Scholars on the RSA Spring 2003. The Folger Institute, seminars: “The Early Modern Book website (www.rsa.org). › in a Digital Age”; “1603: Kingship Renewed”; “Mutualities and Obliga- Art History- Bette Talvacchia tions: Social Relationships in Early Modern England”; “Artifice and Au- Joanna Woods-Marsden thenticity: The Ambiguities of Early Modern Venice”; “The Enlighten- Bibliography, Paleography, ment and its Others: Irish, British, and American Visions”; “Women on and Printing - Anthony Francis D’Elia the Verge of Science: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.” Contact: The Folger Institute, The Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Church History - John J. Martin Capitol Street, SE, Washington, D.C. 20003 www.folger.edu Comparative Literature - Eileen E. Reeves 4 March 2003. Columbia University Faculty House, seminar: Creighton English Literature - Mary Thomas Crane Gilbert, Yale University, “The Last Statues That Michelangelo Finished.” Hannibal Hamlin Contact Richard Harrier: ( 212-854-2389 Lorna Hutson Emblems - Liana De Girolami Cheney 6-8 March 2003. Conference sponsored by The South Central Renaissance Conference, The Queen Elizabeth I Society, and The An- French Literature - Deborah Losse drew Marvell Society with support from The University of New Orleans Germanic Literature - Thomas DeCosta Kaufmann and Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana: “Exploring the Re- Hebraica - Marian Bodian naissance 2003: An International Conference.” Contact Raymond Frontain: Department of English, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Classical Tradition - Christopher S. Celenza AR 72035, ( 501-450-5122 7 501-450-5102 History - William J. Connell, + [email protected] www.stedwards.edu/hum/klawitter/scrc/scrc Katherine J. Gill, Nicholas Terpstra 25 March 2003. Columbia University Faculty House, seminar: Allan History of Law Tulchin, New York City: “The Reformation in Nimes.” Contact Richard Harrier: ( 212-854-2389 and Political Thought - Thomas M. Izbicki 27-29 March 2003. RSA Annual Meeting, Toronto. Contact RSA of- History of Medicine - Ann G. Carmichael fice: ( 212-817-2130 + [email protected] www.rsa.org History of Science - Paula Findlen 27-29 March 2003. International Conference, Draft Program, Centre Italian Literature - Angelo Mazzocco for Late Medieval and Renaissance English Studies (CERRA) and spon- Music - Patrick Macey sored by The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Performing Arts (CNRS), University of Montpellier, France + Jean-Christophe and Theatre - Eugene J. Johnson [email protected] Philosophy - Helen S. Lang 4-5 April 2003. Eleventh Annual Northern Plains Conference on Early Rhetoric - Marjorie Curry Woods British Literature, Minot State University, Minot, ND. Call for papers Hispanic Literature - Alison P. Weber on topics concerning pre-1750 British literature, comparative literature, and Colonial literature as tied to Britain. Deadline: March 14, 2003. Women Contact Michelle M. Sauer: NPC Host, Department of English, Minot and Gender Studies - Mary Lamb State University, 500 University Avenue West, Minot, ND 58707

Renaissance News and Notes 9 Volume XIVI.1 Winter/Spring 2003 4-5 April 2003. AMIAS Biennial Steinberg: Department of English, State Uni- 21-27 July 2003. The International Confer- Conference, The Association of Members of versity of New York, Fredonia, NY 14063 ence on Thinking XI, Arizona State University the Institute for Advanced Study, Dr. + [email protected] and Ottawa University, in Phoenix, Griffiths’ final report as he steps down as 16-17 May 2003. The Renaissance Conference Arizona: “Creating the Future: Paradigm Shifts Director of AMIAS, lectures and talks. of Southern California, Renaissance Society of in all Disciplines.” Conference headquarters www.admin.ias.edu/amias/amias Southern California, The Huntington Library, San hotel is the Hyatt Regency, Phoenix. Several 4-6 April 2003. The Rocky Mountain Marino, CA. Abstracts due by 1 February 2003 conference symposiums, and speakers on many Medieval and Renaissance Association to Erika Olbricht, Pepperdine University, Humani- disciplines, as well as The Phoenix Symphony, Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference, Colorado ties Division, Malibu, CA 90263-4225 + The Phoenix Boys Choir, The University of College, Colorado Springs, CO, “Represen- [email protected] the South Pacific Chorus, and The National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Contact Dr. tations and Realities of Medieval and 30 May–1 June 2003. International Confer- Renaissance Experience.” Call for papers: William Maxwell, + [email protected] ence, AHRB Centre for the Study of Renais- www.conferenceonthinking.org 15 January 2003. Contact Carol Neel: Depart- sance Elites and Court Cultures, Arden House ment of History, Colorado College, 14 East Cache Conference Centre, University of Warwick, 23 June 23–1 August 1, 2003. NEH Summer La Pondre, Colorado Springs CO 80903 Coventry, United Kingdom CV4 7AL, Seminar for College and University Teachers, + [email protected] “Italy and The European Powers: The Impact Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, “The 26 April 2003. The Northern California Re- of War, 1503-30.” 7 02476-523-006 English Reformation: Literature, History, and naissance Conference, San Jose State Univer- + [email protected] Art.” This program considers phases that con- sity, San Jose, CA, an interdisciplinary confer- tributed to the transformation of the literary 4 June–23 July 2003. The American Academy ence of Renaissance culture on literature, phi- and artistic production of early modern En- in Rome is pleased to host a seven-week pro- losophy, art, history, etc. Special invitation to gland between the time of Tyndale’s Bible trans- gram in Applied Paleography. The program papers that explore Renaissance “play” — the offers an intensive introduction to Latin lations and publication of Milton’s biblical ep- games, sports, diversions, and leisurely enter- ics. Texts under consideration will include se- paleography, deadline 1 February 2003. Contact tainments of court and country. Contact Cindy lections from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Spenser’s Christopher Celenza: + [email protected] or Baer: Department of English and Ingrid Rowland: + [email protected] The Faerie Queene, and Milton’s Comparative Literature, San Jose State Univer- www.aarome.org/summer/spap/ Paradise Lost. The deadline for application is sity, One Washington Square, San 1 March 2003. Participants will receive a sti- Jose, CA 95192-0090 ( 408-924-4451 17 June–7 September 7 2003. J. Paul Getty pend of $3,700. Contact Justin Pepperney: + [email protected] Museum announces the exhibition, “Illumi- Department of English, The Ohio State nating the Renaissance: The Triumph of May 2003. Conference by the Department of University, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe.” the History of Art, King’s College, University OH 43210-1370 ( 614-294-3846 This is cosponsored with The British Library of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom: “Pic- + [email protected] and The Royal Academy and will continue at turing Poverty: Imagery of the Outcast The Royal Academy in London, England, 27-29 June 2003. The Annual Sixteenth-Cen- and Marginal in Early Modern Europe” 25 November 2003–22 February 2004. tury Studies Conference, Pacific Northwest Re- for 1300-1700. Contact: Dr. Tom Nichols, De- J. Paul Getty Museum announces a sympo- naissance Society, hosted by The Centre for partment of the History of Art, Powis Gate, sium 5-6 September 2003 when The Depart- Early Modern Studies in conjunction with the King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, ment of Manuscripts will accompany this ex- School of English, University of Aberdeen to United Kingdom, AB24 3UG( +44-01224- hibition for assessment of Flemish manuscript consider the moment transition in the dynam- 273783 + [email protected] illumination of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen- ics of ritual and memory. Call for abstracts of 1-3 May 2003. Pacific Northwest Renais- tury. Registration is required. Contact Rita Keane: not more than 250 words by sance Society Conference, Malaspina Uni- ( 310-440-7031 + [email protected] 15 January 2003. Contact: Andrew Gordon + versity College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada: 19-24 June 2003. NWSA (National Women’s [email protected] or Tom Rist “Renaissance Communities.” The Society in- + [email protected]; Studies Association) Twenty-Fourth Annual vites proposals for papers, member-organized Conference, sponsored by the Medieval and 11-16 September 2003. European Science panels, and seminar workshops on early mod- Early Modern Women Interest Group, New ern communities of many types and the Foundation. “Philological Disciplines and Orleans, LA: “Medieval and Early Modern Digital Technology Computational Philol- interpretive communities today that study them Periods.” Contact: Alice Sowaal, Department and their output by 31 January 2003. ogy: Tradition versus Innovation,” deadline of Philosophy, Program in Women’s Studies, + www.sfu.ca/english/pnrs.htm 5 May 2003. Contact: [email protected] Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409- www.esf.org/euresco.org 8-11 May 2003. The Thirty-Eighth Interna- 3092 + [email protected] ( 806-742- tional Congress on Medieval Studies at 3275 7 806-742-0730 or Jennifer Palmer, De- 12-14, September 2003. The First National Kalamazoo. The Sidney Society will sponsor partment of History and Women’s Studies Pro- Conference, sponsored by The Society for two open sessions on Philip Sidney and his gram, University of Michigan, Ann Renaissance Studies, University of Bristol, Circle, and the Jan Van Dorsten Lecture by Arbor, MI 48104 + [email protected] United Kingdom, is a forum for all inter- Professor H.R. Woudhuysen. Contact Ted ( 734-994-3629 www.nwsa.or g ested in Renaissance studies in Britain and

Renaissance News and Notes 10 Volume XIVI.1 Winter/Spring 2003 further afield. Contact Professor Judith The Medici Archive Project Fellowship pleted at least one year of graduate work. Bryce: ( +44-0117-9288610 7 +44-0117- Program, Florence, Italy, supported by the Stipend: $8,840 plus room, board and fees. 9288143 + [email protected] National Endowment for the Humanities, of- Application deadline: 15 January 2003. Stu- fers to scholars who are United States citizens or dent Associate Membership for six “Advanced 20-25 September 2003. “Court Festivals have been residents of the United States for Fellowships” awarded to Ph.D. candidates of the European Renaissance and After three years at the time of application. The project who have already spent at least one year at Performance and Permanence,” deadline offers a three-year fellowship (15 September the school. Same deadline. Fulbright Fellow- 19 May 2003. Contact: + [email protected] 2003–15 July 15 2006) with twenty months of ships for either Regular Member or Student www.esf.org/euresco.org full-time document assessment and description Associate Member status. Apply for a 25-27 March 2004. An Interdisciplinary for the Documentary Sources database in col- Fulbright Fellowship and also a separate ap- laboration with the project’s research team in the plication to ASCSA. Senior Associate Mem- Conference, Bard Graduate Center, 18 West Archivio di Stato di Firenze and ten months of bership is open to postdoctoral scholars with 86th Street, New York, NY 10019. “Anti- independent research on a topic related to the research projects with NO deadline. NEH quarianism and the Early Modern Age: Perspec- Medici Granducal Archive. Qualifications: com- Fellowships for postdoctoral scholars and pro- tives on Europe and China,” on antiquarianism, pleted Ph.D. or equivalent in a humanities field fessionals who are United States citizens or the study of the past, the study of nature, and the relevant to sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Eu- foreign nationals and United States residents study of peoples. Presentations will likely ropean history and culture; fluency in English for three years immediately preceding appli- alternate between case studies, analyzing the prac- and Italian; substantial research experience cation deadline of 15 November 2003, and tices of individuals or groups of scholars in their with original documentary material; master completed their professional training. Maxi- broader historical context, and synthetic overviews. database programs; and personal commitment mum stipend of $35,000. The M. Alison Contact Peter N. Miller: ( 212-501-3044 to a scholarly career involving archival research. Frantz Fellowship is open to Ph.D. candidates + miller@bgc. bard.edu or Francois Louis ( 212- Contact: Edward Goldberg, Project Director, via and recent Ph.D.’s to work in the Gennadius 501-3088 + [email protected] Scialoia 18, 50136 Firenze, Italy Library for fields of study in late antique, + 25-27 March 2004. RSA Annual Meeting: [email protected] or Malcolm Byzantine, or modern Greek studies. Dead- New York City. Contact RSA office: ( 212-817- Campbell, Committee for Scholarship, 140 West line: 15 January 2003. Contact: The Ameri- End Avenue, Haddonfield, NJ can School of Classical 2130 + [email protected] www.rsa.org 08033 + [email protected] Studies at Athens, 6-8 Charlton Street, 7-9 April 2005. RSA Annual Meeting: Contact Humanities Research Group, University of Princeton, NJ 08540-5232 ( 609-683- RSA office: ( 212-817-2130 + [email protected] Windsor. Applications are invited for the 0800 7 609-924-0578 + [email protected] www.rsa.org 2003•04 academic year. Scholars with research projects in traditional humanities disciplines or in theoretical, historical or philosophical PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS aspects of the sciences, social sciences, arts and AND GRANTS professional studies are invited to apply. The fellowship is tenable at the University for The Leopold Schepp Foundation gives awards four months to one year. Contact Dr. Lorenzo on the undergraduate and graduate levels of The Center for Advanced Study in the Buj: University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, individuals in colleges and universities as well as ( Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art awards ap- N9B 3P4 Canada 519-253-3000 x3508 for research and post doctoral work. Contact: 7 + proximately six Senior Fellowships and 519-971-3620 [email protected] Leopold Schepp Foundation, 551 Fifth twelve Visiting Senior Fellowships for study of his- www.uwindsor.ca/hrg Avenue, Suite 3000, New York, NY 10176- tory, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, The Institute For Advanced Study is an inde- 2597 ( 212-692-0191 and urbanism. Applicants should have held the pendent institution to support advanced schol- The University of Louisville College of Ph.D. for five years ears or more, arship and fundamental research in the School Education and Human Development announces or possess a record of professional accomplish- of Historical Studies, School of Mathematics, the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in ment and are expected to reside in Washington, School of Natural Sciences, and School of Social Education through the philanthropy of the late D.C. Grants are based on individual need. The Science. Resources come from endowment in- Mr. H. Charles Grawemeyer. The award is center considers appointment of associates who come, grants from private foundations and gov- accompanied by a cash prize of $200,000 paid in obtained awards for full-time research ernment agencies, and gifts from corporations five annual installments of $40,000. The purpose from other granting institutions and would and individuals. Contact: The Institute For Ad- is to stimulate the dissemination, public scrutiny, like to be affiliated with the center. Qualifica- vanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New and implementation of ideas that have potential tions are the same as for Senior Fellows. The Jersey 08540 ( 609-734-8000 www.ias.edu to bring about significant improvement in application deadline is 21 March 2003 for award The American School of Classical Studies educational practice and advances in educational period of 1 September 2003–28 February, 2004. at Athens offers fellowships in Greece. attainment. Contact Stephanie Hilpp: Dean’s Contact: The Center for ASCSA Regular Memberships are open to Office, College of Education and Human Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National graduate students in classical studies and Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, Gallery of Art, Sixth Street and Constitution ancient Mediterranean studies and related KY 40208 ( 502-852-6471 7 502-852-1466 Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20565-0002 fields (e.g., history of art, studies in post- + [email protected] www.louisville.edu/ur/ ( 202-842-6482 7 202-789-3026 classical Greece), who, preferably, have com- onpi/grawemeyer/graweduc.html

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The Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America

March 25 through March 27, 2004

Josephine Waters Bennett Lecturer: Benjamin C.I. Ravid, Brandeis University

The program committee invites abstracts for individual papers as well as proposals for panels. The chair of a panel cannot be a presenter in that panel. Submit individual papers and panels via the website: www.rsa.org Deadline for Submissions: 15 May 2003

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