Medieval Art Research

Online Conference: L’Auteur dans ses livres : autorité et matérialité dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge (XIIIe–XVe siècles), Zoom, 14th to 16th April 2021

A conference is being held via Zoom organised by the Universités de Genève et de Fribourg relating to authority and materiality in literature of the Middle Ages.

For more information, please contact : Universités de Genève et de Fribourg, Prof. Marion Uhlig (marion.uhlig@unifr.ch)

Conference Organisers: Luca Barbieri, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Roberto Leporatti, Caterina Menichetti, Marion Uhlig

Contact Information: Luca.Granato@unige.ch Pauline.Quarroz@unifr.ch

Zoom Details: https://unige.zoom.us/j/95170476431 – 951 7047 6431

Details of the conference are below, in French.

Du 14 au 16 avril 2021 aura lieu, à Genève, le colloque international « L’auteur dans ses livres : autorité et matérialité dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge (XIIIe–XVe siècles) » organisé par les Universités de Genève et de Fribourg (par Luca Barbieri, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Roberto Leporatti, Caterina Menichetti et Marion Uhlig) se propose d’aborder la ‹ question de l’auteur › dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge en relation avec la matérialité des recueils manuscrits. Les approches critiques et méthodologiques au sein des études relatives à chacune de ces littératures ont, elles aussi, été multiples.

Programme:

Mercredi 14 avril

Session 1 : Ouverture générale et théorique
Prés. Carlos Alvar (Université de Genève)

14h30 Allocution de bienvenue

Conférences inaugurales

14h45 Maria Luisa Meneghetti (Università degli Studi di Milano) — Autorialità nel Medioevo tra aggregazione e disgregazione
16h00 Jean-Claude Mühlethaler (Université de Lausanne) — L’auteur en ses réseaux : du recueil manuscrit à l’anthologie imprimée

Présentation des Projets FNS

17h00 Thibaut Radomme – David Moos (Université de Fribourg) — Jeux de lettres et d’esprit dans la poésie manuscrite en français (XIIe–XVIe siècles)
17h15 Dario Pecoraro (Université de Genève) — Le Rime disperse di Petrarca : l’altra faccia del Canzoniere

Jeudi 15 avril

Session 2 : Littérature occitane
Prés. Maria Luisa Meneghetti (Università degli Studi di Milano)

9h30 Caterina Menichetti (Université de Genève – Université de Lausanne) — Transmission manuscrite et cycles poétiques : réflexions autour de la lyrique des troubadours
10h30 Luca Barbieri (Université de Fribourg – CNR – Opera del Vocabolario Italiano) — L’auteur dans les manuscrits : le cas d’Arnaut de Maruelh
11h30 Anna Alberni (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats – Universitat de Barcelona) — Les troubadours du chansonnier Vega-Aguiló : anthologie ou vestiges d’une tradition révolue ?

Session 3 : Littérature française
Prés. Yan Greub (ATILF)

14h30 Thibaut Radomme – David Moos (Université de Fribourg) — Variations sur la Prière Théophile : circulation autonome des textes et fictionnalisation de la figure de l’auteur (Henri de Valenciennes, Gautier de Coinci, Rutebeuf)
15h30 Sylvie Lefèvre (Université Paris-Sorbonne) — L’auteur Charles d’Orléans dans les éditions manuscrites et imprimées
16h30 Yasmina Foehr-Janssens (Université de Genève) – Marion Uhlig (Université de Fribourg) — Faire l’auteur : jeux de lettres et jeux de mots à la cour (Flandre, Picardie, Hainaut, 1250-1300)

Session 4 : Littérature italienne (première partie)
Prés. Yan Greub (ATILF)

17h45 Albert Russell Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley) — Il lettore di Dante

Vendredi 16 avril

Session 4 : Littérature italienne (seconde partie)
Prés. Paolo Borsa (Université de Fribourg)

9h00 Lino Leonardi (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) — L’autore, l’opera, il libro : il caso di Guittone d’Arezzo
10h00 Roberto Leporatti (Université de Genève) — Stratégies auctoriales dans la lyrique de Dante et Pétrarque
11h00 Tommaso Salvatore (Université de Genève) — Forme di ricezione dell’autorialità nella tradizione apografa delle rime di Petrarca

Session 5 : Littératures ibériques
Prés. Constance Carta (Université de Genève)

14h00 Simone Marcenaro (Università degli Studi del Molise) — Raccolte autoriali nella poesia galego-portoghese: questioni di tradizione manoscritta
15h00 Miriam Cabré – Sadurní Martí (Institut de Llengua i Cultura Catalanes, Universitat de Girona) — Autorité et matérialité dans les recueils poétiques catalans des XIIIe-XVe siècles
16h00 Carlos Alvar – Sarah Finci (Université de Genève) — Le XVe siècle en Espagne: du Marquis de Santillane à Juan del Encina

Conclusions : 16h45 Jean-Yves Tilliette (Université de Genève)

Grants and Awards: Study of Portable Antiquities Scheme finds from Cheshire, Deadline: 30th June 2021

Chester Archaeological Society wishes to encourage the study and publication of objects (or groups/ types of object) reported to the Portable Antiquities (PAS) scheme from Cheshire and adjoining areas, to ensure that their potential contribution to the understanding of the archaeology and history of the county is realised.

The Society is therefore offering a grant of up to £700 every two years to help suitable persons to undertake such research. In particular it is hoped that the grant will be attractive to new researchers. Applicants need not be members of the Society.

Conditions

The grant is intended to cover out-of-pocket expenses such as travel and lodging, access to information, specialist reports, scientific analysis, small items of equipment and consumables, all of which should be procured economically. This list is not exclusive. Academic fees, subsistence and personal expenses that would be incurred by the researcher if they were not engaged on the project will not be reimbursed.

It is a condition of the grant that the results of the research shall be offered for first publication as an article in the Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, with acceptance of its copyright conditions and editorial procedures and in conformity with its house style; they may also be used in promotional material by the Society. The assistance provided by the Society’s grant shall be acknowledged in the first publication and in any subsequent republication and promotional material by the researcher.

Additional grants for the same project may be obtained from other sources, provided that the funding body (-ies) agree(s) to the conditions in paragraph 2.2 above. However, the grant may not be used to pay for core elements of funded research programmes for which the costs should have been foreseen from the outset. Nevertheless, the grant may be used to fund additional projects arising from such programmes.

Applicants should secure all necessary permissions in writing before seeking a grant.

Projects should be completed within two years, except in the rare case of an extension being granted. Should the project not be completed on time, or the reporting requirements not be complied with, the grant will be forfeited and no further applications from the same individual will be considered.

Application procedure and reporting requirements

Applications should be submitted to the Society’s Secretary by 30 June on the application form below. Itemised estimates of costs must be included. The award of a grant will be notified by 31 July. Grants will be payable in two equal instalments, at the beginning and end of the project, with the first instalment being paid on 1 October or thereabouts. Expenses already incurred before the award was made will not be reimbursed. Any variation from the proposed pattern of expenditure involving a sum of £100 or more should be agreed in advance with the Secretary. A brief progress report, together with an interim statement of expenses, should be submitted on the first anniversary of the award. The completed article should be submitted by the second anniversary of the award, together with a final statement of expenses. Receipts should be provided for all expenses claimed. The second instalment of the grant will be paid on acceptance in principle of the article by the Editor. The article will be published in the Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society the following year.

Assessment of applications

In choosing a subject for research, applicants should liaise closely with the PAS Finds Liaison Officer for Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Applications will be assessed by a subcommittee of the Council of the Chester Archaeological Society, and the Finds Liaison Officer. Applicants should have a demonstrable record of carrying out soundly based research on a related subject to a timetable. They must be able to show an ability for clear and coherent argument and be able to write with near-perfect spelling, grammar and syntax for people who are not familiar with the topic or period of history. All applications must be supported by two references, submitted to the Society’s Secretary by 30 June. Early career researchers may wish to retain a referee as a mentor for the duration of the project.

Contact details

Secretary, Chester Archaeological Society (for submission of applications) Dr Joanne Kirton
Email secretary@chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk

Finds Liaison Officer, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside (for advice on choosing subject)
Heather Beeton
Museum of Liverpool

Department of Archaeology,
Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool L3 1DG
Tel 0151 4784259
Email Heather.Beeton@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Click here for further information.

Online Lecture: BALH Digital Skills Workshop – Uncovering your Medieval Local History, Saturday 10th April 2021 10:00am (BST)

One of a series of digital skills workshops and webinars hosted by BALH in 2021.

Click here to book your tickets.

Participants will be provided with an overview of the structures and institutions which produced records in the medieval period and where these records can be found today. Throughout the workshop case studies will be used from across the UK and there will be plenty of opportunities for questions and a chance to try your hand at some medieval local history research!

No prior knowledge of the medieval period is required for this workshop, if you have any questions please get in touch with Claire directly at digital@balh.org.uk

Practical guidance will be offered and there will be plenty of time for Q+A.

Ticket price: £8.00 (BALH Members £5.00)

Special offer: Is your local history society a BALH member? Enter your society’s discount code for the reduced rate of £6.00.

Venue/Online Details:

A webinar hosted via Zoom – you will be emailed details prior to the event.

Fellowship: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Society of Renaissance Studies, Deadline: 30th April 2021

The Society for Renaissance Studies invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, which support research in all aspects of Renaissance studies. There will be two Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded in the academic year 2021-22, each worth £15,000.

Our understanding of ‘Renaissance’ is broad: we welcome applications from all disciplinary backgrounds, and across a wide chronological and geographical spectrum; we also prize innovative approaches to undertaking research. SRS supports the principle that academia cannot reach its full potential unless it can benefit from the talents of all, and so is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Eligibility:

Applicants must be graduates of British or Irish universities, and currently engaged in full-time research, part-time teaching or independent scholarship.
Applicants must either already have been awarded their PhD (from a British or Irish university) no more than five years before 1 October 2021, or have been provisionally awarded their PhD by 31 May 2021, subject to no more than minor corrections. These corrections must be due to be completed and accepted by the awarding university no later than 1 October 2021. It is expected that the applicant’s referees will be able to confirm the status of the PhD.
The SRS Fellowships are not to be held alongside other postdoctoral awards or fellowships or jobs that constitute more than 0.5 of a full-time post.

Conditions:

The period of tenure is twelve months from 1 October 2021.
Fellows are required to become members of the SRS and will be invited to attend meetings of the Society’s Council.
Fellows will be asked to present their findings at the end of the period of award, and to submit a written report for publication in the Society’s Bulletin
Fellows must name the Society for Renaissance Studies in their affiliation in any publications and conference papers presenting the research.
There are no specific residence requirements for successful applicants taking up a Fellowship.

Applicants should complete the online application form below by 30 April 2021.

Experiences of, and advice on, applying for an SRS Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Queries should be addressed to the SRS Fellowships Officer:

Dr David Rundle – e-mail: d.g.rundle@kent.ac.uk

Click here for more information from the Society for Renaissance Studies website.

New Journal Issue: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, Volume 96 Number 2, April 2021

Find the new issue of Speculum here!

EDITOR Katherine L. Jansen

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Taylor McCall

ASSISTANT EDITOR Carol Anderson

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Austin Powell

COPYEDITOR Anne Cherry

PROOFREADER Aaron Gies

EDITORIAL INTERNS Maia Driggers Paul Smith

ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR Christopher Cole

Articles

287 Magical Charaktêres in the Carolingian World: A Ninth-Century Charm in MS Vat. lat. 5359 and Its Broader Cultural Context ▪ Ildar Garipzanov

309 Inventing Apostolic Impression Relics in Medieval Rome ▪ Erik Inglis

367 Tales of the Living Dead: Dealing with Doubt in Medieval English Law ▪ Elizabeth Papp Kamali

418 Eve, Mary, and Martha: Paintings for the Humiliati Nuns at Viboldone ▪ Julia I. Miller

Reviews

466 Abram, Christopher, Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and Literature (Michael Bintley)

467 ‘Alı ̄ al-Tanu ̄khı ̄, Al-Muhassin ibn, Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows .Adversity, ed. and trans. Julia Bray (Nuha Alshaar)

469 Antonsson, Haki, Damnation and Salvation in Old Norse Literature (SvanhildurÓskarsdóttir)

470 Ashdowne, Richard and Carolinne White, eds., Latin in Medieval Britain (PádraicMoran)

472 Bailey, Matthew and Ryan D. Giles, eds., Charlemagne and his Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography (Francisco Bautista)

474 Barr, Jessica, Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visionsand Vitae (Barbara Newman)

475 Bayless, Martha, ed., Fifteen Medieval Latin Parodies (Katell Lavéant)

477 Blackmore, Lyn, Ian Blair, Sue Hirst, and Christopher Scull, The Prittlewell PrincelyBurial: Excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2003 (Janet Kay)

478 Boulton, Maureen B. M., ed., Literary Echoes of the Fourth Lateran Council inEngland and France, 1215–1405 (Charles F. Briggs)

480 Bowersock, G. W., The Crucible of Islam (Suleyman Dost)

482 Butterfield, Ardis, Henry Hope, and Pauline Souleau, eds., Performing Medieval Texts (Anne Stone)

484 Chrissis, Nikolaos, Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki, and Angeliki Papageorgiou, eds.,Byzantium and the West: Perception and Reality (11th–15th c.) (Jonathan Harris)

485 Collins, David J., ed., The Sacred and the Sinister: Studies in Medieval Religion andMagic (Tabitha Stanmore)

487 DeGregorio, Scott and Rosalind Love, trans., Bede: On First Samuel (James T. Palmer)

488 Denissen, Diana, Middle English Devotional Compilations: Composing Imaginative Variations in Late Medieval England; Marleen, Cré, Diana Denissen, and Denis Renevey, eds., Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England (Alastair Minnis)

491 Edgington, Susan B., Baldwin I of Jerusalem, 1100–1118 (Jay Rubenstein)

492 Emmerson, Richard K., Apocalypse Illuminated: The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts (Jacqueline E. Jung)

494 Fear, Andrew and Jamie Wood, eds., A Companion to Isidore of Seville (Molly Lester)

496 Feller, Laurent and Ana Rodríguez, eds., Expertise et valeur des choses au Moyen Âge (Marta Madero)

498 Font, Márta and Gábor Barabás, Coloman, King of Galicia and Duke of Slavonia(1208–1241): Medieval Central Europe and Hungarian Power (Cameron Sutt)

499 Forrest, Ian, Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith Made the Medieval Church(Fiona Somerset)

501 Fraenkel, Avraham and Abraham Gross, eds., Hebräische liturgische Poesien zu denJuderverfolgungen während des Ersten Kreuzzugs, with Peter Sh. Lehnardt (RainerJosef Barzen)

502 Franses, Rico, Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: The Vicissitudes of Contact betweenHuman and Divine (Rossitza Schroeder)

504 Geisthardt, Constanze, Monster als Medien literarischer Selbstreflexion: Untersuchungenzu Hartmanns von Aue “Iwein,” Heinrichs von dem Türlin “Crône” und Johannsvon Würzburg “Wilhelm von Österreich” (Ruth Seifert)

505 Griffiths, Fiona and Kathryn Starkey, eds., Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experiencein Medieval Artifacts (Margaret Graves)

507 Hahn, Cynthia, Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society (Anne E. Lester)

509 Hartley, Julia Caterina, Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy (Ilaria Serra)

510 Hill, Derek, Inquisition in the Fourteenth Century: The Manuals of Bernard Gui andNicholas Eymerich (Justine Trombley)

511 Hodapp, William F., The Figure of Minerva in Medieval Literature (Theresa Tinkle)

513 Hurlock, Kathryn, Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c. 1100–1500 (Jane Cartwright) 515 Jager, Katharine, ed., Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages: Politics, Performativity, and Reception from Literature to Music (Taylor Cowdery)

517 Jaynes, Jeffrey, Christianity beyond Christendom: The Global Christian Experienceon Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps (Alfred Hiatt)

518 Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius, trans. Winthrop Wetherbee (Greti Dinkova-Bruun)

519 Johnson, Tom, Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England (Paul Brand)

521 Kesling, Emily, Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture (Richard Scott Nokes)

522 Kuuliala, Jenni, and Jussi Rantala, eds., Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interactionfrom Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Richard J. A. Talbert)

524 Leader, Anne, ed., Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and RenaissanceEurope (Eleanor Hubbard)

525 Leidholm, Nathan, Elite Byzantine Kinship, ca. 950–1204: Blood, Reputation, andthe Genos (Shaun Tougher)

527 Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen, and Erich Poppe, eds., Arthur in the Celtic Languages: The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions (Daniel Helbert)

529 Maimonides, Moses, “On the Regimen of Health”: A New Parallel Arabic-English Translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos, with critical editions of medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos and Latin translations by Michael R. McVaugh; Maimonides, Moses, “On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them” (Formerly Known as “On the Causes of Symptoms”): A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos (Maud Kozodoy)

531 Makowski, Elizabeth, Apostate Nuns in the Later Middle Ages ( Tanya Stabler Miller)

533 Mancia, Lauren, Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (John Van Engen)

535 McGrady, Deborah, The Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure?: The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France (Sarah Wilma Watson)

536 Meyer-Lee, Robert J., Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales (Roger A. Ladd)

538 Mulligan, Amy C., A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 700–1250 (Aisling Byrne)

539 Niles, John D., God’s Exiles and English Verse: On the Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry (Patrick W. Conner)

541 Odorico da Pordenone, Relatio de mirabilibus orientalium Tatarorum, ed. Annalia Marchisio (Peter Jackson)

543 Oftestad, Eivor Andersen, The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant: Housing the Holy Relics of Jerusalem; with an Edition and Translation of the “Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesiae” (BAV Reg. Lat. 712) (Lezlie Knox)

544 Palmer, James A., The Virtues of Economy: Governance, Power, and Piety in Late Medieval Rome (Steven A. Epstein)

545 Pettit, Edward, The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in “Beowulf” (Craig R. Davis)

547 Pluskowski, Aleksander, ed., Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic: Terra Sacra II (Alan V. Murray)

548 Porck, Thijs, Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History (Alice Jorgensen)

550 Raffensperger, Christian, Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe; Raffensperger, Christian, Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus’ (Aleksandr Musin)

553 Rigby, Stephen H., ed., Historians on John Gower, with Siân Echard (Brian Gastle)

555 Russakoff, Anna, Imagining the Miraculous: Miraculous Images of the Virgin Maryin French Illuminated Manuscripts, ca. 1250–ca. 1450 (Tracy Chapman Hamilton)

556 Sabaté, Flocel, The Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia: Evidence and Significations(Adam J. Kosto)

558 Sadler, Donna L., Touching the Passion—Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces throughthe Eyes of Faith (Gregory C. Bryda)

559 Schlotheuber, Eva and Anne Liewert, eds., Musik aus Paradiese: Die mittelalterlichenHandschriften der Dominikanerinnen aus Paradiese bei Soest (Cynthia J. Cyrus)

561 Schmidt, Ondrˇej, John of Moravia between the Czech Lands and the Patriarchate ofAquileia (ca. 1345–1394), trans. Graeme and Suzanne Dibble (Tomáš Velicˇka)

562 Staunton, Michael, ed., Herbert of Bosham: A Medieval Polymath ( Julian Haseldine)

564 Stern, David, Jewish Literary Cultures. Vol. 2, The Medieval and Early ModernPeriods (Katrin Kogman-Appel)

565 Stern, Sacha, The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE, with the collaborationof Marina Rustow, Nadia Vidro, and Ronny Vollandt (Elisheva Carlebach)

567 Thomson, R. M., The Fox and the Bees: The Early Library of Corpus ChristiCollege, Oxford. The Lowe Lectures 2017 (Micha Lazarus)

568 Timbert, Arnaud, ed., Qu’est-ce que l’architecture gothique?: Essais (Michael T. Davis)

570 Tolan, John V., Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today (Nabil Matar)

572 Toner, Gregory and Xiwu Han, Language and Chronology: Text Dating by MachineLearning (Mike Kestemont)

573 Velasco, Jesús R., Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian MiddleAges (Teofilo F. Ruiz)

575 Vettori, Alessandro, Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage: Typologies of Prayer in the “Comedy”(George Corbett)

576 Wallenwein, Kirsten, Corpus subscriptionum: Verzeichnis der Beglaubigungen vonspätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Textabschriften (saec. IV–VIII) (Markus Schiegg)

578 Wirth, Jean, La sculpture de la Cathédrale de Reims et sa place dans l’art du XIIIe siècle (Christoph Brachmann)

580 Wüsthof, Lucas, Schwabenspiegel und Augsburger Stadtrecht (Stephan Dusil)

581 Zeldenrust, Lydia, The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation,and Material Contexts (S. C. Kaplan)

582 Zingesser, Eliza, Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French (Wendy Pfeffer)

New Publication: Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy by James Morton

This new work from Oxford University Press is the first ever historical study of manuscripts of Byzantine religious law from medieval Italy. It offers a legal and institutional framework for reassessing relations between medieval Greek and Latin Christians. It includes identifications and descriptions of Italo-Greek canon law manuscripts, which will serve as the basis for future research.

Description:

Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region’s Greek Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual and legal jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic popes. Nonetheless, they continued to follow the religious laws of the Byzantine church; out of thirty-six surviving manuscripts of Byzantine canon law produced between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, the majority date to the centuries after the Norman conquest.

Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy is a historical study of these manuscripts, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of medieval southern Italy persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule. The first part of the book provides an overview of the source material and the history of Italo-Greek Christianity. The second part examines the development of Italo-Greek canon law manuscripts from the last century of Byzantine rule to the late twelfth century, arguing that the Normans’ opposition to papal authority created a laissez faire atmosphere in which Greek Christians could continue to follow Byzantine religious law unchallenged. Finally, the third part analyses the papacy’s successful efforts to assert its jurisdiction over southern Italy in the later Middle Ages. While this brought about the end of Byzantine canon law as an effective legal system in the region, the Italo-Greeks still drew on their legal heritage to explain and justify their distinctive religious rites to their Latin neighbours.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Chronology
Maps
Introduction
Part I. Sources and Context
1:Introducing the Byzantine Nomocanon
2:Greek Christianity in Medieval Italy
3:Patterns of Source Survival
Part II. Byzantine Canon Law in the Norman Kingdom
4:The Byzantine Background
5:Monastic Nomocanons I: The Monastic Archipelago
6:Monastic Nomocanons II: Style, Content, and Influences
7:The Secular Church and the Laity
Part III. From Legal to Cultural Authority
8:The Papacy Takes Charge
9:The Salentine Group
10: They Do It Like This in Romania
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Manuscript Descriptions
Appendix 2. Statistical Overview
Appendix 3. Uncertain and Disputed Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts Cited
General Index

James Morton, Assistant Professor, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

James Morton is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on ancient and medieval Europe. He studied Classics at St John’s College, Oxford, before obtaining an MA in Byzantine History at Queen’s University in Canada in 2011, and a PhD in Byzantine and Medieval History at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018. His research focuses on the relationship between law, religion, and cultural identity in the pre-modern Mediterranean world.

Online Lecture: 2021 Anselm Lecture – Practices of Writing in England, 1050–1250, Professor Elaine Treharne, Thursday 8th April, 6pm (BST)

This talk will follow one line of research attempting to date a bilingual manuscript from the second half of the twelfth century. From exploring the aspect, duct, and shapes of individual letters, the study moves outward to consider the grade and formality of later twelfth and earlier thirteenth-century manuscripts and charters, before focusing on twelfth-century commentary hands. As the thread of research unravels, the issues of scribal training and professional writing become significant, involving discussion of Leofric of Exeter, Saints Anselm, Thomas Becket and Hugh of Lincoln, the Tremulous Hand of Worcester, and a host of other writers and scholars both past and present. In the final analysis, she asks: what uses does palaeography serve? What do we really know about writing practices in England in the central Middle Ages? And while access to digitised handwritten materials is a boon, what else can digital tools and methods now do to advance scholarship in medieval manuscript studies?

To join the seminar, please DM @MEMS_UKC on Twitter for the Zoom link and password. Please email E.Guerry@Kent.ac.uk with any further questions.

Job: Junior Professor ‘Economic History of the Middle Ages’, University of Mannheim – Deadline: 30th April 2021

The School of Humanities at the University of Mannheim offers a position as Junior Professor (W1) “Economic History of the Middle Ages”

The future holder of the position is expected to cover Economic History of the Pre-Modern Period at the University of Mannheim in both research and teaching.

The duties of the professorship will include:

* conducting courses (4 / 6 teaching hours (LVS); as German and English are both languages of instruction, proficiency in both languages is required) and examinations and supervising bachelor’s and master’s theses as well as doctoral dissertations.

* raising funds for and managing a research and/or collaborative project in Economic History of the Middle Ages.

The School of Humanities offers:

*international cooperation opportunities in the context of existing networks, a working group on Economic History of the Pre-Modern Period, interdisciplinary university-wide co- operation in research and teaching as well as collaboration with regional and international archives. The currently running DFG project “Microfinance and market participation” is to be continued in the next phase with a focus on historical sustainability research (in social, eco- logical, and economic terms).

*a well-functioning team, digital infrastructures for economic and social data, support from the research department as well as assistance in the promotion of early-stage researchers at the University of Mannheim.We are looking for a dynamic personality exhibiting the qualifications and potential for a research-oriented career in academia. A qualified doctoral dissertation in the field of medie- val history or economic history is required. Experience in teaching and/or raising third-party funds (collaboration in relevant research projects or proposal writing) and/or in the organi- zation of conferences, workshops, summer schools etc. is highly desired.

The eligibility criteria are stipulated in section 51 (2) and (3) of the act on the higher educa- tion institutions in the Land of Baden-Württemberg (Landeshochschulgesetz, LHG). In addi- tion to a completed higher education degree and proof of an outstanding doctorate, peda- gogical aptitude as well as the qualification for assuming the position of junior professor, which is to be proven by additional scientific achievements, are expected. Provided that the general professional requirements are met, the successful applicant will be appointed as junior professor with civil servant status for a fixed term of three years. Following a positive interim evaluation in accordance with the statutory provisions (see section 51 (7) and (8) LHG), the appointment can be extended to a total of six years.

The University of Mannheim places great importance on comprehensive guidance of its stu- dents and therefore expects professors to be present at the university for their students. Moreover, the University of Mannheim expects the successful applicant to relocate to Mannheim or the greater area in order to become an active member of the university com- munity. The University of Mannheim is committed to increasing the quota of women in re- search and teaching and thus encourages women with adequate qualifications to apply. Ap- plications of disabled applicants are given preferential consideration in the event of equal qualification.

Please submit your application online at sekretariat@phil.uni-mannheim.de (reference “Bewerbung W1-Wirtschaftsgeschichte Mittelalter”) as one pdf file (file size: max. 2 MB). Your application should include the following documents: cover letter, CV, list of publica- tions, certificates and records, teaching evaluation, brief description of your future research project.

If you cannot submit your application online, please send the above-mentioned documents to:

University of Mannheim
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Conference: London Medieval Society – Medieval Life Cycles, Zoom, Saturday 22nd May 2021, 10:20-14:30 BST

A belated celebration of the London Medieval Society at 75 years, LMS is proud to announce their third online colloquium, where they will be discussing the human life cycle from embryo to the grave, and beyond.

The programme of the day is as follows:

10.20 Welcome and Introduction

10.30 Isabel Davis (Birkbeck, University of London) – Like a Hare in its Form: Embryology in Medieval Saints’ Lives

11.00 Ben Parsons (University of Leicester) – All Boys Once: Medieval Londoners at School in William Fitzstephen’s ‘Descriptio Nobilissimi Civitatis Londoniae’ (c. 1174)

11.30 Break

11.45 Jeremy Goldberg (University of York) – The Time of their Lives? Adolescence to Adulthood in Late Medieval England

12.15 Lunch

1.00 Jo Edge (University of Manchester) – Walking the Tightrope: Learned Physicians and the Prediction of Death in the Later Middle Ages

1.30 Marianne Wilson (University of York) – Peacock Feathers and Pater Nosters: The Post-Mortem Commemorative Identity of Sir Thomas Burgh (c. 1430–1496)

2.00 Round Table (all speakers)

2.30 End of Event

Tickets are free of charge. A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent via email.

Online Lecture: ‘Hybrid’, ‘transcultural’, ‘eclectic’? Some thoughts on conceptualising the art of the Latin East, Dr Michalis Olympios, April 5th 2021,19:30 (EET)

55^th Public Lecture Series | Spring Semester 2021 | ARU 1991-2021: Celebrating 30 Years of Archaeological Research

The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus invites you to an online ZOOM public lecture on Monday, April 5^th 2021, at 19:30 (EET) by Dr Michalis Olympios Associate Professor, History of Western Art

Summary:

Modern historiography on the art of the late medieval and early modern Eastern Mediterranean has repeatedly bemoaned the nationalist and colonialist bias with which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century scholarship approached the visual culture of the multicultural and multiconfessional societies of the Levantine Crusader states, Lusignan and Venetian Cyprus, Frankish Greece, Venetian Crete and other polities of the Latin East. Beginning in the latter half of the previous century, critical theorists and social scientists have provided art historians with a series of novel conceptual models, which have allowed the field to move beyond its erstwhile preoccupation with ‘purity’ of style and form – and, by extension, of race and ethnicity – towards a more fragmented, pluralistic and comprehensive view of artistic production in this culturally diverse region. Though the dust has far from settled on these developments, the present talk will attempt to take stock of recent advances and offer some thoughts on the ongoing quest to develop an apposite analytical framework for the study of the art of the Latin East.

All Monday lectures are free and open to the public, but registration is required for access to the Zoom lecture.

For registration, please, click here: https://ucy.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvd-GopjoiHtG0fdJHxFc18F5hm_-CXcf8