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Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop (22 May)
Cambridge University Library (Milstein Seminar Room), 2-4pm
‘The problem of dating manuscript witnesses for editors of texts and those studying the history of textual dissemination and reception’
Professor Jill Mann will use her current research (editing the Speculum stultorum of Nigel of Longchamps), to raise questions about dating manuscript witnesses to texts, especially where the manuscripts in question have not yet received close attention from palaeographers. This workshop will focus upon specific examples from Professor Mann’s own research as well as upon the methodological issues involved (whatever the text and dates of the surviving manuscripts) and what available published material might be of assistance.
The Cambridge Medieval Palaeography Workshop is a forum for informal discussion on medieval script and scribal practices, and on the presentation, circulation and reception of texts in their manuscript contexts. Each workshop focuses upon a particular issue, usually explored through one or more informal presentations and general discussion. All are welcome.
Convenors: Teresa Webber, Orietta Da Rold, Suzanne Paul and David Ganz
For further details, email mtjw2@cam.ac.uk
CFP (29 May): International Medieval Society Workshop
The last of the three workshops organised by the International Medieval Society, in partnership with several universities and learned societies, and focusing on Image, will take place in Paris on Friday 29 May 2015.
The workshops aim at developing academic exchange, promoting the crossing of disciplinary boundaries within Medieval Studies and building on past and current works to elaborate new practical and theoretical tools for research, through the contribution and collaboration of French and international academics.
Thanks to the support of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature-Medium Aevum, we are able to help with the funding of the travel expenses for UK postgraduate students (up to £200). If you would like to apply, please email the organiser with a CV including the name of two referees and a short justification for support.
L’Image, le vendredi 29 mai 2015, 16h30-18h30
Intervenants : P. Boucheron (Université Paris I), H. Maguire (John Hopkins University), J. Wirth (Université de Genève)
Lieu : Salle de conférence extérieure de la maison de la recherche, Université Paris 3, 4 rue des Irlandais, Paris 5e
Métro : Cardinal Lemoine (10), Place Monge (7), Odéon (4), Saint-Michel-ND (4, RER C), Luxembourg (RER B)
Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles. Inscription : i.fabry-tehranchi[at]reading.ac.uk
Middle English Reading Group (20 May)
The next medieval reading group meeting will take place this Wednesday, 20th May, at 5.15pm.
Venue: GR05, Faculty of English building
Bernardo S. Hinojosa and Anna DeWolf (both MPhil candidates, Faculty of English) will read papers on, respectively, ‘The Speculum Christiani and Fourteenth-Century Versified Theology’ and ‘Yseut’s Hair Shirt: Misdirected Penance in Thomas’s Tristan’.
As ever, all are very welcome to attend. Discussion will be followed by drinks and biscuits.
End of year post-seminar drinks
In the splendid tradition that Helen Cooper started, it was great to celebrate the nearing end of the academic year yesterday with so many of Cambridge’s medievalists! Glasses of fizz and Norfolk St Bakery’s excellent custard pies rounded off a year of thought-provoking seminars.
CFP (31 May): International Arthurian Society, British Branch
The Annual Conference of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society will be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, King’s Manor, University of York Monday 7 September – Wednesday 9 September 2015.
If you would like to present a 20-minute paper on any topic related to Arthurian studies, please send a title and abstract (maximum 200 words) to the organiser by the deadline of 31 May 2015. Speakers must be members of the Society at the time of the conference. We also welcome proposals from membersfor round tables and themed sessions in which at least one participant is a current member of the Society.
Proposals and enquiries should be sent to the organiser: Professor Helen Fulton, University of Bristol: helen.fulton@bristol.ac.uk
Magdalene Medievalists’ Society Colloquium (6 June)
On Tuesday 2nd June at 6 pm at the Parlour, First Court, Magdalene College, Dr Megan Leitch (Cardiff University) will speak on ‘Chaucer, Hypertextuality, and the Memory of Middle English Popular Romance.
Dr Megan Leitch is Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012. She is the author of Romancing Treason: The Literature of the Wars of the Roses (Oxford University Press, 2015), and has published essays in journals including Medium Aevum, The Chaucer Review, and Arthurian Literature. Her research interests include romance, Arthurian Literature, Chaucer, and the fifteenth century; she is currently working on a monograph on Sleep and its Spaces in the Pre-modern Imagination.
As usual, we will be having dinner with the speaker at a local restaurant after the talk. Please let us know if you would like to join via email to mms@magd.cam.ac.uk.
CRASSH (19th May): Roundtable: Linguistic Trajectories of Ancient and Medieval Byzantium
On 19th May 2015 at 17.00-19.00 (Room SG2, Alison Richard Building), a Roundtable on the topic of ‘Linguistic Trajectories of Ancient and Medieval Byzantium’ will be held as the last event of the CRASSH Multilingualism and Exchange series of this term. Speakers include Alexandra Vukovich, Sam Ottewill-Soulsby, and Daniel Neary.
We look forward to seeing you there, Pippa Steele – Sara Harris – Tekla Bude
Medieval French Seminar (14 May): Courts, troubadours and lawyers
The next Cambridge medieval French seminar will take place on Thursday, 14 May. Prof Ruth Harvey (Royal Holloway, University of London) will be speaking on ‘Courts, troubadours and lawyers’. The seminar will start at 5pm (for 5.15) in the Ramsden Room in St Catharine’s. Wine, water and apple juice will be served.
As usual, we’ll be taking our speaker to dinner afterwards. Anyone attending the seminar will be most welcome to accompany us.
Editing and Interpretation: Literatures of Medieval England (8-10 Sep)
Derwent Building, The University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX
This three-day conference, held under the auspices of the Andrew Marvell Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, will focus on three overlapping areas central to all text-based work on medieval literatures: the identification, editing, and interpretation of texts. Major attention will be given to Medieval English, especially Middle English prose, but Anglo-Norman and Latin materials will also be discussed, as will verse texts and book illustration.
Speakers include: Julia Boffey (Queen Mary, University of London); A. S. G. Edwards (University of Kent); Martha Driver (Pace University, New York); Erik Kooper (Universiteit Utrecht); William Marx (University of Wales; Trinity St David, Lampeter); Kari Anne Rand (Universitetet i Oslo); John Thompson (Queen’s University, Belfast); and Ronald Waldron (Emeritus, King’s College London).
Registration (including meals): £60 full fee; £40 for postgraduates
Booking: Please send the booking form (available at http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/english/news-and -events.aspx), with a cheque for the relevant amount made payable to ‘The University of Hull’, to Veronica O’Mara, Department of English, The University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX
Registration Deadline — with conference-arranged accommodation: 30 April 2015; without conference-arranged accommodation: 30 July 2015