Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Demarginalizing Medieval Africa: Images, Texts, and Identity in Early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527), University of Hamburg, Deadline: April 15th 2021

Responsibilities

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

Specific Duties

The applicant shall conduct research on the manuscript and literary culture of Ethiopia in the frame of the project “Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, and identity in early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270-1527)”. The project intends to shed new light on the art, history, and culture of the Ethiopian Empire during a period going from the rise of a new dynasty which claimed to descend from the biblical King Solomon in 1270 to its near collapse in 1527, through a series of collaborations with libraries and institutions across the world, and to set up a platform for exchange between scholars working on the history of manuscript illumination – with a particular focus on the Oriental Orthodox traditions of the Armenian, Coptic, and the Syriac worlds – and on the Christian arts of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Visit https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/ethiostudies/research/demargin.html for more details on the project.

Requirements

A university degree in a relevant field. PhD degree is an advantage; applicants close to completion of their PhD are also welcome to apply. Essentials skills are:

  • Good working knowledge of English and German
  • An excellent knowledge of Classical Ethiopic
  • Exceptional organisational skills.

Desirable skills are:

  • Knowledge of other Semitic Languages (esp. Arabic)
  • Knowledge of further European languages (Italian, French)
  • A record of, or demonstrable potential for, excellent scholarship
  • A significant grasp of the history of the manuscript culture of Ethiopia and Eritrea
  • Familiarity with TEI XML or a willingness to quickly learn the workflow to encode in XML
  • Good teamworking skills and
  • The ability to work effectively with institutions and communities

For further information, click here.

PhD Funding: MPhil or PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry and PhD Scholarships for Religious Mobilities, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Deadline: 26th April 2021

The Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Program of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU in Melbourne invites applications for six competitive PhD scholarships in connection with its new research project ‘Religious Mobilities: Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the World.’ A major new international research collaboration with partners in Leuven, London, Princeton, Stanford, and Toronto, ‘Religious Mobilities’ seeks to investigate the multiple and intersecting roles that religion has played in relation to mobility in this critical period for the formation of a globalised world. 

ACU’s MEMS program is a dynamic, supportive, internationally engaged research community based at ACU’s Melbourne Campus, with activities also on ACU’s Rome Campus. MPhil and PhD students in ACU’s MEMS program are fully immersed in the intellectual life of the program, work closely with supervisors, draw extensively on the talents of the MEMS team, participate in the program’s seminars, workshops, and special lectures, contribute to our international collaborations, and pursue research opportunities with our international partners and in relevant archives. 

Two scholarships will be offered in each of the project’s three strands:

  1. Pathways of Power focuses on organistions and structures, and on their capacity to cultivate, manage, and restrict mobility.
  2. Mobile Matter focuses on materials and objects of religion as they moved across the medieval and early modern world.
  3. Crossroads of Communication focuses on the nature of pre-modern communication in religious contexts. 

Successful applicants to these PhD scholarships will possess a prior academic record that demonstrates foundational knowledge of the sources, methods, and languages relevant to the geography and chronology of the proposed project and the aptitude to contribute to the intellectual life of our team. Applicants are asked to propose a well-defined research project that engages the theme of mobility and the links or entanglements between Europe and the wider world, within one of three project strands.

Applicants must meet the eligibility requirements of ACU’s PhD program.

For further information relating to the PhD funding on offer, please click here.

New Publication: Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory yet, too often, questions of gender are explored almost exclusively through a prism of sexuality, rather than gender identity. This volume moves beyond such limitations, foregrounding the richness of hagiography as a genre integrally resistant to limiting binaristic categories, including rigid gender binaries. The collection showcases scholarship by emerging trans and genderqueer authors, as well as the work of established researchers. Working at the vanguard of historical trans studies, these scholars demonstrate the vital and vitally political nature of their work as medievalists. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography enables the recreation of a lineage linking modern trans and genderqueer individuals to their medieval ancestors, providing models of queer identity where much scholarship has insisted there were none, and re-establishing the place of non-normative gender in history. For an overview of the collection, please see the Table of Contents below.

The volume also includes a detailed ‘Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language, and Usage Guide’, produced by trans and genderqueer medievalists and their allies, designed to assist (medievalist) scholars who are interested in incorporating trans and genderqueer readings into their own work.

The volume ‘Introduction’ and ‘Usage Guide’ are available to download for free from the https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462988248/trans-and-genderqueer-subjects-in-medieval-hagiography/

If you’d like to purchase a copy of the book, then you can get 20% off the list price till 6 June with the code ‘Pub_TGMH’. The code is valid for the hardback and eBook on the Amsterdam University Press website (customers based in UK/Europe/Rest of World) and for the hardback on the BTPS website (customers based in US/Canada). 

If you would like to review the collection, please contact Lucia Dove (l.dove@aup.nl) at the Press directly. 

Editors:

Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (UK). Her research interests include medieval hagiography, disability, gender, digital culture, and film and media studies. 

Blake Gutt is a postdoctoral scholar with the Michigan Society of Fellows (University of Michigan, USA). He specializes in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French, Occitan and Catalan literature, and modern queer and trans theory.

Contents:

‘Introduction’, Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt

Following the Traces: Reassessing the Status Quo, Reinscribing Trans and Genderqueer Realities

1. ‘Assigned Female at Death: Joseph of Schönau and the Disruption of Medieval Gender Binaries’, Martha G. Newman

2. ‘Inherited Futures and Queer Privilege: Capgrave’s Life of St Katherine’, Caitlyn McLoughlin

3. ‘Juana de la Cruz: Gender-Transcendent Prophetess’, Kevin C.A. Elphick

4. ‘Non-Standard Masculinity and Sainthood in Niketas David’s Life of Patriarch Ignatios’, Felix Szabo

Peripheral Vision(s): Objects, Images, and Identities

5. ‘Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds: A Non-Binary Interpretation of Christ’s Body in Late Medieval Imagery’, Sophie Sexon

6. ‘Illuminating Queer Gender Identity in the Manuscripts of the Vie de sainte Eufrosine’, Vanessa Wright

7. ‘The Queerly Departed: Narratives of Veneration in the Burials of Late Iron Age Scandinavia’, Lee Colwill

Genre, Gender, and Trans Textualities

8. ‘St Eufrosine‘s Invitation to Gender Transgression’, Amy V. Ogden

9. ‘Holy Queer and Holy Cure: Sanctity, Disability, and Transgender Embodiment in Tristan de Nanteuil‘, Blake Gutt

10. ‘The Authentic Lives of Transgender Saints: imago Dei and imitatio Christi in the Life of Saint Marinos the Monk’, M.W. Bychowski

Epilogue: ‘Beyond Binaries: A Reflection on The (Trans) Gender(s) of Saints’, Mathilde van Dijk

Appendix: ‘Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language, and Usage Guide’

Online Lecture Cycle: ‘Potentiale der Goldschmiedekunst’, Institute for European Art History, Heidelberg University, 22nd April-26 June 2021, 6pm (CEST)

The University of Heidelberg is holding a lecture cycle online relating to Goldsmiths from the medieval to modern worlds. Between April and May, these lectures will be held online via Zoom. Register here via the homepage of the Institute for European Art History. The cycle has been organised by Prof. Dr. Rebecca Müller, PD Dr.Tobias Frese

Details of the conference are below in German:

Die Kunst der Goldschmiede war von herausragender Bedeutung für die Stiftungspraxis und die Repräsentation weltlicher Fürsten und des hohen Klerus. In Liturgie und Reliquienverehrung dienten die Objekte mit ihrem kostbaren und potentiell semantisch aufgeladenen Material und vielschichtigen Bildprogrammen als Medien des Heils und gehörten als Kelch, Patene und Altarkreuz zu den vasa sacra; als Krone vermittelten sie ein oft sakral konnotiertes Herrschertum; am Tisch des Fürsten kommentierten sie höfische Ideale und waren Ausweis von Reichtum. Als Schatzobjekte wurden sie verschenkt, geraubt, thesauriert, umgearbeitet, verpfändet und eingeschmolzen, um Material für Neues zu liefern.
Umwertungen in der Materialhierarchie in Neuzeit und Moderne haben Edelmetalle als Material einer als autonom verstandenen Kunst abgewertet, und gerade der Gebrauch der Objekte hat im Zuge ihrer Musealisierung zu der problematischen Kategorisierung als ‚Kunstgewerbe‘, ‚decorative arts‘, ‚arts mineurs‘ etc. geführt. Entgegen dem ursprünglich hohen Stellenwert spielten sie in der kunsthistorischen Forschung eine untergeordnete Rolle, prägende Fachdiskurse kamen ohne sie aus. Seitdem das Material auch „gebrauchter“ Kunst und künstlerische Techniken große Beachtung erfahren, die Mobilität von Künstlern und Werken im Fokus stehen und Objektbiographien erforscht werden, steht auch die Untersuchung der Goldschmiedekunst unter neuen Vorzeichen.
Die Vortragsreihe stellt aktuelle Ansätze und Projekte vor, die Potentiale der Goldschmiedekunst in unterschiedlichen kulturellen Kontexten bis in die Frühe Neuzeit hinein neu ausloten: Als häufig transkulturelle und vielfach veränderte Objekte, als Komposita aus Materialien, deren naturwissenschaftliche Analyse ebenso zum Verständnis beitragen kann wie ein materialikonologischer Ansatz, als wirkmächtige Dinge mit spezifischen Programmen, Inschriften, Materialien, Formen.

22.04.2021      
Franz Kirchweger und Martina Griesser, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien 
“dy guldene Krone mit gulden Cruce”. Aktuelle Forschungen zur Wiener Reichskrone

06.05.2021
Heike Schlie, Universität Salzburg
Technikikonologie und die heilsgeschichtliche Typologie der Artefakte: Zum Klosterneuburger Goldschmiedewerk des Nikolaus von Verdun

20.05.2021       
Beate Fricke, Universität Bern
Craft as Flotsam – Objekte aus Niello und Texte über Niello erzählen verschiedene Geschichten

27.05.2021   
Philippe Cordez, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris
Musik und Jugend im Königreich Frankreich. Der satirische Roman de Fauvel und der vergoldete Brunnen in Cleveland (Paris, um 1320)

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)

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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.