RESEARCH
Ancient,
Medieval and Early Modern Studies - The University of Melbourne
Centre
for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia) - Australian
National University
Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies - University of Western Australia
Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory
http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/
The Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory project provides the first long-range analysis of Australian cultural responses to the medieval period and the first comparative study of Australia's relationship with international medievalism. It examines how Australians have used references to the medieval past, both favourable and hostile, to articulate our complex relations to European tradition and our aspirations to a distinctive national culture.
The database aims to facilitate research by providing access to an abundance of digital resources in a user-friendly environment. The materials on the database have been organised into four major categories which cover a variety of original approaches to medievalism's impact on the development of Australian cultural identity. In particular, the digital repository aims to enhance public understandings of our British and European heritage in the context of contemporary debates about republicanism, the monarchy and ethnic and cultural diversity.
Monash University Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology
Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
http://www.ocbr.ox.ac.uk/
The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research was established in the summer of 2010 to present and promote research activity by senior scholars working in Byzantine Studies and related fields.
The Centre hosts and helps fund conferences, colloquia and special lectures, and also commissions and supports research projects by researchers working in Oxford and with close links with the University.
Oxford has long been one of the world's leading centres for Byzantine Studies, where many scholars of the highest calibre have made their careers, including Dimitri Obolensky, Cyril Mango, Elizabeth Jeffreys, James Howard-Johnston, Sebastian Brock, Nigel Wilson, Robert Thomson, Kallistos Ware and Averil Cameron.
On the Centre's website, you can find information about Lectures and Events in Oxford, current research projects, awards and grants, podcasts of recent lectures and latest news.
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ONLINE
RESOURCES
Abbey
Library of St. Gall, Switzerland
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch
Free
access to high resolution digital images and over 57,500 facsimile pages,
144 complete manuscripts (including 14 new musical manuscripts), manuscript
descriptions and many search options; accessible in German, French, English
and Italian.
Aphrodisias
in Late Antiquity Online
The
publication is announced of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, revised
second edition: http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004
Details of how to cite the material will be found on the home page.
There is also a very full Help page, if you have problems - for example,
with the Greek. The site is free and stable; it has been given an
ISBN, so please encourage your library to catalogue it.
ArchiveGrid
http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp
ArchiveGrid
enables searches through historical documents, personal papers and family
histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums,
and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions
to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many
items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit
to examine materials and order copies.
Australian
Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)
http://www.acrsn.org
One
of the most exciting new areas of research in Classics is the field of
Reception Studies - the study of the impact that the classical world has
made on subsequent cultures and the history of ideas. The area is a diverse
one involving scholars whose work is centred in such fields as art history,
neo-Latin literature, film and media studies, theatre history, and the
history of science and medicine. To help facilitate the work of Australian
scholars in this area, an Australian Classical Reception Studies Network
(ACRSN) has been established. The network is based on the model of the
UK's CRSN and will provide a forum for discussion and point of reference
for scholars working in the field.
The
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Documents
in law, history and diplomacy.
British
History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British
History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed
primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the
British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and
the History of Parliament Trust, it aims to support academic and personal
users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.
The
Byzantine Churches of Istanbul
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/Byzantine/
Codex Sinaiticus
http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en
The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, conservators and curators, the Project gives everyone the opportunity to connect directly with this famous manuscript.
Early
Church Fathers
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/churchfathers.html
Early Modern Disaster
http://earlymoderndisaster.wordpress.com/
The site features information about the ARC Discovery Grant held by Charles Zika, Susan Broomhall and Jenny Spinks.
English Medieval Legal Documents AD 600-1535: A Compilation of Published Sources
http://emld.usc.edu/tiki-index.php
The goal of this project is to create a collaborative database on the published sources of English medieval legal documents and to provide links to the growing number of online sources currently being developed. The guide has been created for the use of scholars and students of English medieval law and it is expected that it will continue to grow and take off in new directions, based on the contributions of legal scholars, librarians and information specialists throughout the world. For further information, e-mail Hazel D. Lord, Senior Law Librarian at the Asa V. Call Law Library of the University of Southern California School of Law: hlord@law.usc.edu.
Euro Languages Net
Euro Languages Net is a Socrates/Lingua 1 program, launched in 2001 and financed by the European Commission. Euro Languages Net is designed to create an Internet resource of 23 less-widely used European languages for the general public (http://www.euro-languages.net). The site provides information about the languages and the countries in which they are spoken; it also contains information about language learning and teaching resources, as well as new language learning possibilities and language providers. Readers are also invited to participate in an online Lingua forum to discuss best practices and experiences in teaching/learning European languages. The project's main objective is to raise awareness of the advantages of learning European languages in terms of social interaction and multicultural education. A similar range of online language tools can be found at the European Commission's Multiculturalism Site (http://ec.europa.eu/education/languages/eu-programmes/doc197_en.htm).
Fourth-Century Christianity
http://www.fourthcentury.com/
Fourth-Century Christianity is a site promoting and storing research tools and texts for the study of the Church and its environment in the Fourth Century. The site is sponsored by the History Department of Wisconsin Lutheran College.
Icelandic Online
Icelandic Online, a self-instruction online course in Icelandic as a foreign language, is primarily intended for university students and others with an interest in Icelandic language and culture, in Iceland and abroad. Icelandic Online I and Icelandic Online II are continuous courses, based on visual interactive material (http://www.icelandic.hi.is). The courses include a grammar and vocabulary database, adapted to the study material and the students' needs. The beginners' course Icelandic Online I and the advanced course Icelandic Online II are open to all, free of charge. The University of Iceland's Language Centre offered for the first time in autumn 2006 distance learning using Icelandic Online as the basis of the course. Information on registration and fees for the Icelandic Online Plus courses in the autumn term 2009 will be available from the Language Centre's web site: http://www.hi.is/page/tungumalamidstod.
Labyrinth
Resources for Medieval Studies - US university site
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Late Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions
http://handley-inscriptions.webs.com
The site is devoted to Late Antique and Early Medieval inscriptions in the West (roughly A.D. 300-900) - ranging from Ireland to North Africa, to the Balkans, and all regions in between.
The web site has two main functions:
1. Regionally-specific pages of links to articles, books, PhDs, web sites and databases on late antique and early medieval inscriptions covering:
This is limited to what is freely available on-line, but currently there are over 470 live links to scholarly and reference material; and
2. A New Publications page, devoted to trying to list all new publications in the area. So far this covers the years 2008-2010 and has about 100 publications.
Medieval
Manuscripts in Dutch Collections on the Web
All
medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands are available on the web site Medieval
Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (MMDC), http://www.mmdc.nl.
The web site provides a portal to a database with short, uniform descriptions
and photographs of all medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands, about 6,000
items in all.
Medieval
Snapshot
Medieval
manuscripts provide a fascinating snapshot of the cultural and intellectual
life of this period. Until now, information about these manuscripts
and the related knowledge and expertise was dispersed, but MMDC brings
all of this material together. MMDC has been set up by the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek, the university libraries of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and
Groningen and the Atheneumbibliotheek Deventer and it is partly financed
by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
One
Web Site for all Manuscripts
MMDC
is focussed on creating possibilities for progressive research based on
medieval manuscripts, by building a database with uniform descriptions,
digital images and links to facsimile editions and subject-specific web
sites. This way, all the disseminated information about medieval
manuscripts in the Netherlands has been brought together and made available
through one database. To benefit international use, all information
is published in English.
Virtual
Platform
The
web site also contains more information on medieval books in the Netherlands.
This web site will function as a virtual platform for researchers and students
in palaeography, art history, philology and other fields. Visitors
will find an overview of all Dutch institutions with medieval books, along
with information on the history of the collections, contact information
and procedures of requesting manuscripts. The web site also contains
digital versions of several key out-of-print books about medieval manuscripts
and an illustrated overview of medieval script.
For
questions contact Saskia van Bergen, project coordinator Parchment to Portal,
tel.: 070-3140430, e-mail: saskia.vanbergen@kb.nl.
Medieval
Manuscript Facsimiles
http://dydo.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/index.php?view=html;docid=1836
A
list of some 250 facsimiles of medieval manuscripts held in Special Collections
and Rare Books in the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne.
Medieval
Sourcebook - translations
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
The
Melbourne Manuscript Resource Unit
http://academiccentre.stmarys.newman.unimelb.edu.au/manuscriptstudies/
The
Melbourne Manuscript Resource Unit is located at the Academic Centre, St
Mary's and Newman Colleges, The University of Melbourne. Its objective
is to support teaching and research in Medieval and Renaissance (Early
Modern) Manuscript Studies.
The
associated NEER
Research Cluster for Manuscript Studies consists of senior scholars, middle
and early career researchers and postgraduate students with related interests
in the field of Manuscript Studies. It is interdisciplinary in scope, with
an emphasis on the following areas: the relationship of text, decoration
and illustration in the hand-made book; the function of particular manuscript
genres; and the interaction between social and patronal contexts and manuscript
production.
The
Cluster is committed to the fostering of research in Manuscript Studies
in Australia and New Zealand and to the strengthening of international
links in this field, especially with respect to research on Australasian
manuscript collections and the provision of collaborative research opportunities
for scholars and curators based in Australia and New Zealand.
Melbourne Prints
http://melbourneprints.wordpress.com/
This site is being used to showcase a range of rare early modern books and prints held in the Baillieu Library at the University of melbourne and – as a work in progress – will also feature work by students enrolled in several subjects in the School of Historical Studies, including the Honours and Masters by Coursework subject 'Medieval Manuscripts and Early Print'.
Middle English Compendium
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mec/
The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.
Monasticon Hibernicum Project
http://monasticon.celt.dias.ie/
Containing a searchable database of over 5,500 early Christian
ecclesiastical settlements in Ireland from the 5th to 12th centuries
this is a joint project with the National University of Ireland,
Maynooth and is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities
and Social Sciences.
The
Orb: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net/
Oxford
Centre for Late Antiquity
http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk
There
is a new centre in Oxford for Late Antique studies. It is the aptly
named 'Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity' (OCLA). It now has a web
site which lists Oxford faculty, graduate students, research projects,
seminars, courses, and individual lectures. The centre organizes
together the work of some 67 faculty members attached to Oxford.
The Centre is formally under the History faculty but its membership represent
eight academic faculties at Oxford supporting the study of this period.
OCLA is run by an interdisciplinary committee chaired by Bryan Ward-Perkins
and currently consisting of Mark Edwards, Martin Goodman, Helena Hamerow,
Neil McLynn and Chase Robinson.
The
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/sdm/index.cfm#
The
Database is an online reference tool linking users to over 75,000 searchable
entries of manuscripts written before 1600 and consisting of five or more
leaves.
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SOCIETIES
AND ASSOCIATIONS
Australasian
Society for Classical Studies
http://www.ascs.org.au/
The
Australasian Society for Classical Studies aims at the advancement of the
study of ancient Greece and Rome and related fields, and membership is
open to all present and past members of university staffs who are or have
been engaged in teaching or research in the languages, literature, history,
thought and archaeology of the ancient world, and to other interested persons.
Australian
Association for Byzantine Studies
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~byzaus/
Australian
and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies - ANZAMEMS
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/ANZAMEMS/
AVISTA
http://www.avista.org/
AVISTA,
Association
Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology,
Science and Art, was founded in 1985 with the encouragement of Jean
Gimpel and Lynn White Jr. Its members come from many different countries
and fields, but all share a belief in the importance of reaching across
boundaries to understand the material and intellectual past. Interdisciplinary
studies are central to AVISTA's purpose. AVISTA organizes sessions
at conferences such as those at Leeds and Kalamazoo and publishes the semi-annual
AVISTA
Forum Journal, as well as an annual series published by Ashgate.
Byzantine Studies Association of North America
http://www.bsana.net
Classical
Association of Victoria
http://classics-archaeology.unimelb.edu.au/CAV/
Founded
in 1912, the Classical Association operates for the propagation and well-being
of Classics in the state of Victoria. Its activities include a rich
program of lectures given by distinguished academics from Australia and
overseas. The Classical Association also organizes an annual conference
for secondary school teachers, usually at the start of March.
International Association of Byzantine Studies
http://www.aiebnet.gr/
International Federation of Institutes for Medieval Studies (FIDEM)
http://web.letras.up.pt/fidem/
International
Medieval Society, Paris
http://www.ims-paris.org
The
IMS Paris is a non-profit association that aims to optimize the academic
research experience by providing information and assisting with access
to the wide range of opportunities offered to medievalists in Paris and
in France. By facilitating communications among independent researchers
and the different French institutions or academics through meetings, presentations,
and visits, the IMS Paris aims to improve academic exchange and promote
interdisciplinary and international scholarship. The Society is a
cooperative association that relies on the participation of its members
to realize its goals.
International
Society of Anglo-Saxonists
http://www.isas.us/
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
http://www.minotstateu.edu/mff/
Minot State University is the institutional home of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) and its journal, Medieval Feminist Forum (MFF).
SMFS promotes the study of the Patristic Age, the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women’s studies and feminist studies. It actively promotes and supports interdisciplinary exchanges at all levels of higher education across the world. Members represent every continent and every academic discipline within the arts & humanities.
MFF is published twice yearly (Winter & Summer issues). Its contents include articles from any of the Humanities disciplines, roundtables about the state of gender & feminist scholarship, book reviews and specialized bibliographies. Begun in 1986 as Medieval Feminist Newsletter (MFN), in 1999, the journal was renamed Medieval Feminist Forum in order to better reflect the scholarly character of its articles and reviews. The Subsidia series, which consists of occasional special topics volumes, was also launched in 1999.
Society
for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
http://freespace.virgin.net/nigel.nicholson/SSCLE/SSCLEhome.html
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MAILING
LISTS ETC.
Byzans-L
Listserv
The
intended focus of BYZANS-L is the history and culture of Byzantium
and neighbouring regions between the 4th and 15th centuries. Within
these parameters the list provides a public forum to discuss topics of
general interest. BYZANS-L is intended primarily to facilitate
the exchange of scholarly information within the international academic
community, but it also welcomes the participation of the wider interested
public. Brief notices of related presentations, conferences,
calls for papers and other professional opportunities are also appropriate.
The appearance of new publications or internet resources may well be of
interest to list members, but promotional announcements of a primarily
commercial nature are not appropriate.
To
subscribe, go to
https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BYZANS-L&A=1.
Early
Medieval Forum - US university site
http://www.tcnj.edu/~chazelle/emf.html
Late
Antique Listserv
http://listserv.sc.edu/archives/lt-antiq.html
LT-ANTIQ
is an unmoderated list that provides a discussion forum for topics relating
to Late Antiquity (c. AD 260-640). For the purposes of this discussion
list, "Late Antiquity" will cover the Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Early
Medieval and Early Islamic periods. Geographical coverage will
range from western Europe to the Middle East and from the Sahara to
Russia. Cross disciplinary interaction is particularly encouraged.
Along with the usual scholarly interchange, users also are invited to post
notices relating to upcoming conferences and other activities, and to job
openings.
To
subscribe, send an email message to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SC.EDU
with
the subject field blank and the message
SUBSCRIBE
LT-ANTIQ Your Name
The
Medieval Review and Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The Medieval Review (TMR) and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) are online free subscription journals covering reviews of new publications. They can be subscribed to separately, or jointly as the Bryn Mawr Review. Details are at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/ for the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3631 for The Medieval Review. The subscription form at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/ also provides an option for subscribing to both journals in a single consolidated subscription known as the Bryn Mawr Review (BMR). Reviews are archived and are searchable online.
Medieval
Discussion Groups
http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/acalists.html
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JOURNALS
antiTHESIS
Forum
antiTHESIS
Forum is the online edition of the postgraduate journal of the Department
of English of the University of Melbourne. Issue #3, Once and Future
Medievalism, features selected papers from last year's Once and Future
Medievalism conference, with an afterword by John Ganim.
British
Archaeology
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba
The
journal includes many artucles on the early medieval period. All
articles are available online at the website after the subsequent issue
is published.
Journal
of British Studies
The
Journal
of British Studies is actively seeking articles on medieval history.
The editor is particularly interested in articles on medieval social history,
or which explore relations between religion and society. Articles
that consider Britain rather than exclusively England are encouraged, and
articles are welcomed that, though firmly rooted in the history of Britain,
are of a comparative nature.
The
is the premier journal devoted to the study of British history and culture.
Beginning with the January 2005 issue (44:1) the Journal of British
Studies expanded as it merged with the NACBS's member publication,
Albion.
The Journal focuses on history and cultural history but draws upon
all disciplines. The Journal employs a blind reviewing process:
all obvious references by which the referees could identify the author
must be removed by the author prior to submission.
Manuscripts
should be submitted to the editor, Anna Clark. Send submissions either
as an electronic file (by e-mail) or as two legible copies and a diskette
or CD (by mail). Electronic files should be sent to journal.british.studies@umn.edu;
files should be IBM compatible (either Microsoft Word for Windows or WordPerfect
6.0 or higher files). Mail should be directed to Anna Clark, Editor,
JBS, 614 Social Sciences Bldg., Dept. of History, University of Minnesota,
267 19th Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0406.
All
manuscripts should be prepared according to the Chicago Manual of Style,
15th edition. Further guidelines for submissions may be obtained
on request from the assistant editor at journal.british.studies@umn.edu
or online at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JBS/instruct.html.
Ruth
Mazo Karras
Associate
Editor
Journal
of British Studies
rmk@umn.edu
Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies
Department
of History
University
of Minnesota
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval Studies
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval Studies, published annually under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, invites the submission of articles by graduate students and recent PhDs in any field of medieval and renaissance studies. Double-spaced manuscripts should not exceed forty pages in length and all references should be in footnotes. We prefer submissions in the form of e-mail attachments in Windows format; paper submissions are also accepted. Please send submissions to sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu, or to Dr. Blair Sullivan, Publications Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
302 Royce Hall, Box 951485, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485.
Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art
http://www.differentvisions.org/
A peer-reviewed, on-line, open-access
journal designed to showcase progressive scholarship on
medieval visual culture.
Digital
Medievalist
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm
Digital
Medievalist is an on-line, open access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to
the use of digital tools and media in the study of medieval culture.
Its inaugural issue was published in April, 2005. DM publishes work
of original research and scholarship, theoretical articles on digital topics,
notes on technological topics (markup and stylesheets, tools and software,
etc.), commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic
and review articles, tutorials, and project reports. The journal
also commissions reviews of books and major electronic sites and projects.
All contributions are reviewed before publication by authorities in humanities
computing.
Early
Medieval Europe - Call for Papers
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/emed
Early
Medieval Europe, edited by Catherine Cubitt, Julia Crick, Paul Fouracre,
Helena Hamerow, Sarah Hamilton, Matthew Innes and Danuta Shanzer, is an
indispensable source of information and debate on the history of Europe
from the later Roman Empire to the eleventh century. The journal
is a thoroughly interdisciplinary forum, encouraging the discussion of
archaeology, numismatics, palaeography, diplomacy, literature, art history,
linguistics and epigraphy, along with more traditional historical approaches.
It covers Europe in its entirety, including material on Iceland, Scandinavia
and Continental Europe.
The
editors of Early Medieval Europe would like to invite you to submit
your papers to:
Co-ordinating
Editor, Professor Paul Fouracre
Early
Medieval Europe
Department
of History
University
of Manchester
Oxford
Road
Manchester
M13
9PL
UK
For
submission guidelines see http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0963-9462
Visit
Early
Medieval Europe online: Early Medieval Europe is available through
Blackwell-Synergy.
Visit
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/toc/emed
to:
-
Browse
abstracts
-
Search
across the full text of articles
-
Sign
up for table of contents alerts
All
of the above are FREE services - no subscription required.
Early
Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar
http://eserver.org/emc/
Publisher:
Early Modern Culture
Early
Modern Culture attempts to create an on-line space for something like
the active and on-going inquiry of a good seminar. Hence, what you will
find at this site are four works-in-progress by major scholars in early
modern studies, along with a set of responses from readers - some junior,
some senior - working on similar topics.
With
this format, the desire is to open a conversation and make explicit how
much all work depends upon such opportunities for careful reading, as well
as critical (in the best sense of that word) exchange. It is hoped you
will find all of this work fresh and stimulating; certainly, the editors
are delighted with the labour and generosity of the contributors.
Editors:
Crystal
Bartolovich
Department
of English
Syracuse
University
Syracuse,
NY 13244-1170
Email:
clbartol@syr.edu
David
Siar
Department
of English and Foreign Languages
Winston-Salem
State University
Winston-Salem,
NC 27110
Email:
siard@wssu.edu
Content
freely accessible online.
Early
Modern Literary Studies Prize
In
association with the peer-reviewed e-journal Early Modern Literary Studies
(EMLS), a new annual prize to the value of £150 is announced.
The prize will be awarded annually for the best article published in EMLS
in the preceding twelve months, in the judgement of a committee appointed
by the Editor and including a representative from Literature Online.
The first winner of the prize, for an article published in Volume 10 of
EMLS, will be announced in EMLS 11.1 (May, 2005). EMLS is published in
electronic form only, and can be read free of charge at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html
The
Heroic Age
http://www.heroicage.org
A
free online journal of early medieval northwestern Europe.
Journal
of the Holy Roman Empire
http://www.jhre.org/jhre.html
Publisher:
Society for the Study of the Holy Roman Empire
The
Journal
of the Holy Roman Empire is a peer-reviewed e-journal that offers original
research on the history and culture of the Empire. We welcome contributions
from all avenues of historical inquiry, including but certainly not limited
to political, religious, gender, social, economic, and military history.
The
goal of JHRE is to foster scholarship on historical issues that
cross the boundaries of the modern nation-state and of historiographical
periodization. We encourage submissions with either a local or Empire-wide
focus, but we especially hope to provide a forum for research that concerns
more than one modern state or that considers Empire-wide institutions,
culture, or history.
The
Journal
of the Holy Roman Empire is a biannual publication, issued under the
auspices of the Society for the Study of the Holy Roman Empire.
Articles
should be written in English. In the future we may consider a limited
number of articles in French or German.
Tryntje
Helfferich
Editor,
JHRE
University
of California, Santa Barbara
Santa
Barbara CA 93106
Email:
jhreditors@gmail.com
Journal
of the Holy Roman Empire is available free of charge as an Open Access
journal on the Internet.
Hortulus:
The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
http://www.hortulus.net/
Publisher:
Hortulus
Hortulus
is a refereed journal devoted to the literatures and cultures of the medieval
world. Electronically published once a year, its mission is to present
a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their
ideas.
Although
Hortulus
follows convention in defining the European Middle Ages as taking place
roughly between 400-1500, relevant submissions outside traditional geographical
and temporal boundaries are welcome. Hortulus is an English-language
journal and only accepts submissions in English.
Articles
should address the current theme listed on the Call for Papers page.
The
journal also incorporates lighter fare such as interviews, opinion pieces,
reviews and essays on diverse aspects of medievalia under the aegis of
a section entitled Hortus Amoenus. We are particularly interested in reviews
of historical novels and medieval-themed films, as well as reports on archaeological
digs and museum exhibitions, but we are happy to receive any and all contributions
relevant to medieval studies.
Potential
Hortus Amoenus authors should contact hortusamoenus@hortulus.net
with a 250-word summary of their contribution before submitting a complete
article.
Email:
publicrelations2@hortulus.net
Content
freely available online.
Journal
for Late Antique Religion and Culture
http://www.cf.ac.uk/clarc/jlarc/jlarc-home.html
Cardiff
University's Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture (CLARC) is launching
a new journal for inter-disciplinary research into the post-classical and
late antique period.
The
Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture (JLARC) is a full text, open
access online Journal edited by members and associates of CLARC and published
by Cardiff University.
Contributions
are welcome for a wide range of topics in the research area as defined
on the homepage of the centre.
ISSN:
1754-517X
Further
information, including details of the editorial board, may be found at
http://www.cf.ac.uk/clarc/jlarc/jlarc-home.html.
The
launch of the journal is planned for the end of November 2007.
Journal
of Late Antiquity
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_late_antiquity/
The
website for the Journal of Late Antiquity at the Johns Hopkins University
Press now is ready to be accessed, with such things as subscription forms
and library recommendation forms.
The
journal provides a venue for multi-disciplinary coverage of all the methodological,
geographical and chronological facets of Late Antiquity, going from AD
250
to 750, ranging from Arabia to the British Isles and running the gamut
from literary and historical studies to the study of material culture.
One of the primary goals of the journal is to highlight the status of Late
Antiquity as a discrete historical period in its own right.
New,
previously unpublished scholarship is solicited for the journal.
Submissions may be up to 8,000 words in length, but much briefer notes
will also be considered.
For
further information, consult Ralph Mathisen at ralphwm@uiuc.edu.
Ralph
W. Mathisen, Managing Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity
Professor
of History, Classics, and Medieval Studies
Dept.
of History, MC-466
309
Gregory Hall, University of Illinois
Urbana,
IL 61801 USA
217-244-5247,
FAX: 217-333-2297
Marginalia
http://www.marginalia.co.uk/journal/
Marginalia,
the Journal of the Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge.
Publisher:
Medieval Reading Group at the University of Cambridge
Unless
the Marginalia call for submissions stipulates a particular theme
for the forthcoming volume, we will be happy to consider articles on any
aspect of the Middle Ages in England. For the purposes of clarification,
we consider the Middle Ages to encompass the years between 500 and 1500
AD, but will consider material that falls slightly outside these parameters
if we feel it is particularly relevant to the study of medieval England.
We
will not consider editions or translations of text unless they are submitted
as part of the relevant material for an article, nor will we publish any
material that has been published previously (although we are happy to consider
articles that have been presented as papers in conferences or seminars).
Email:
submissions@marginalia.co.uk
Marginalia
is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.
Content
available online.
Medieval Feminist Forum
The backfile of Medieval Feminist Forum, nos. 1-43.2 (1986-2007) is accessible online at no charge at http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/. The MFF archive is hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries and was constructed by staff in the UI Libraries Digital Library Services unit using The Berkeley Electronic Press’s Digital Commons platform.
The Mediæval Journal
http://www.brepols.net
Edited by Margaret Connolly, Ian Johnson, James Palmer
The Mediaeval Journal will be the first European-based cross-disciplinary and multinational journal of Medieval Studies to be published in the lingua franca of English. It will also be the first journal to address the two most exciting and productive trends in current Mediaeval Studies: the turn towards multinational work and towards cross-disciplinarity. In an increasingly multinational academic world of collaboration and intellectual exchange, scholars all over Europe and beyond are ever more frequently realizing that important research is emerging from outside their national academies. The Mediaeval Journal recognizes the rich opportunities that this movement represents. Moreover, in fulfilling its cross-disciplinary remit, The Mediaeval Journal will publish articles mixing approaches from traditional subjects with areas and perspectives which are currently under-explored. Aiming to offer wide disciplinary coverage in each issue, it welcomes submissions from specialists in all areas of Mediaeval Studies, whether they come from traditional disciplines like Art History, History, Archaeology, Theology, Languages/Literatures, and English, or from less-exposed fields such as Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies, Manuscript Studies, Mediaevalism, Material Culture, History of Medicine and Science, History of Ideas, Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Musicology, and others.
As a first port of call for interdisciplinary essays The Mediaeval Journal aims to establish itself as a first-rate and high-profile international journal with a unique identity, versatility of appeal and unquestionably excellent and up-to-date quality of academic content. Its editorial team is confident that The Mediaeval Journal will quickly become a distinctive force across Mediaeval Studies. The Mediaeval Journal is published by Brepols
and will initially consist of two issues per year (appearing in May and December). Volume 1 of The Mediaeval Journal will be published in 2011.
Articles should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length, inclusive of notes and bibliography and should be submitted in MS Word format. Our house style is, straightforwardly enough, that of the MHRA which may be accessed at http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml.
Please also consult the brief style summary produced by Brepols.
Potential contributors should follow the Submission Guidelines for The Mediaeval Journal. Any editorial queries should be addressed to the general editors, Dr Margaret Connolly and Dr Ian Johnson at tmj@st-andrews.ac.uk.
For information about reviews please contact Dr James Palmer at tmjrev@st-andrews.ac.uk.
Oral Tradition
http://journal.oraltradition.org/
Oral Tradition was founded in 1986 to serve as an international and interdisciplinary forum for discussion of worldwide oral traditions and related forms. All back issues from volume one, number one (1986) to the present are available online, open-access, free of charge. The entire archive of Oral Tradition can be searched by keyword and by author.
Peregrinations
http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu
is a new open access refereed online journal. The following information
is provided by the editors:
Publisher:
International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
Peregrinations
is an Open Access journal published on the Internet. This issue is
the beginning of Peregrinations' broader focus on all of medieval
art and architecture, not just that created to enhance pilgrimage.
Peregrinations now joins the ranks of other juried journals in our wish
to promote the best scholarship, with all scholarly articles subject to
a double-blind refereeing process.
One
particular feature which we wish to draw your attention to is the photo
articles and the photo bank. Here we hope to provide excellent-quality
images that can be downloaded and used by art historians in the classroom
and in their research.
For
future issues we are actively seeking articles on any aspect of medieval
art and architecture, including: long and short scholarly articles, scholarly
book reviews, review articles on issues facing the field of medieval art
history, interesting notes and announcements, useful website recommendations,
new archaeological discoveries and recent museum acquisitions as well as
calls for papers and conference listings. One particular feature
which we wish to draw your attention to is the photo articles and the photo
bank. Here we hope to provide excellent-quality images that can be
down-loaded and used by art historians in the classroom and in their research.
To
round out the scholarly portion of the journal, we are also seeking short,
amusing excerpts from medieval sources, poorly-worded student papers, comments
on the Middle Ages in movies, etc.
Editor-in
Chief:
Sarah
Blick
Peregrinations
Art
History
Kenyon
College
Gambier,
OH 43022 USA
Email:
blicks@kenyon.edu
Fax:
(740) 427-5673
Tel:
(740) 427-5347
Executive
Editor:
Rita
Tekippe
Peregrinations
Art
History/Department of Art
324
Humanities, Univ. of West Georgia
Carrollton,
GA 30118 USA
Email:
rtekippe@westga.edu
Tel:
(678) 839-4953
Peregrinations is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.
Content
available in PDF format.
Scholia
http://www.otago.ac.nz/classics/scholia
Studies in Classical Antiquity ISSN 1018-9017
After a period of three years of not accepting articles in order to clear a large backlog, SCHOLIA is accepting articles for SCHOLIA 19 (2010) and 20 (2011). Potential contributors should read the 'Notes for Contributors' located at the SCHOLIA web site and at the back of the journal and follow the suggested guidelines for the submission of manuscripts.
SCHOLIA features critical and pedagogical articles on a diverse range of subjects dealing with classical antiquity including late antique, medieval, Renaissance and early modern studies related to the classical tradition. It also includes review articles, reviews and other sections dealing with classics.
SCHOLIA and SCHOLIA REVIEWS (volumes 1–15) have published 670 contributions by 296 scholars and academics at 149 universities and institutions in 30 countries. SCHOLIA has been distributed to institutions and scholars in 43 countries.
SCHOLIA is archived in ProQuest and Informit, indexed and abstracted in L'Année Philologique, indexed in Gnomon and TOCS-IN, and listed in Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory. SCHOLIA REVIEWS, an electronic journal that features the pre-publication versions of reviews that appear in SCHOLIA, is available at http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews.
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PORTALS
AND SITES OF LINKS
British
Academy portal site with links to web sources
http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/bysection.asp?section=H8
BUBL
Information Service
http://bubl.ac.uk/
Selected
Internet resources covering all academic subject areas.
Early
Medieval Links
http://members.aol.com/michellezi/links.html
Extensive
link site to various Early Medieval sites.
EuroDocs:
Online Sources for European History
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/
Selected
transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
European History Primary Sources
http://primary-sources.eui.eu/
The Department of History and Civilization and the Library of the European University Institute, Florence, provide this index of scholarly web sites that offer on-line access to primary sources on the history of Europe from Medieval and Early Modern History up to the most recent history of the European integration process. The purpose of European History Primary Sources is to provide historians with an easily searchable index of web sites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe. As the number of digital archives and collections on the internet continues to grow, maintaining an overview becomes increasingly difficult. EHPS strives to fill that gap by selecting the most important collections of digital primary sources for the history of Europe, either as a whole or for individual countries. EHPS is updated continuously and several collaborative features are introduced in the portal. It is very easy to stay updated on new entries and registered users can bookmark entries, leave comments to add their experiences to the descriptions on EHPS listed web sites, complete EHPS abstracts with their own individual experiences and suggest new web sites to be included.
Intute:
Arts and Humanities
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
Artifact
and Humbul, two of the hubs of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), have
been integrated to create Intute: Arts and Humanities, a subject group
of Intute. In combining the resources and services of these hubs, the Arts
and Humanities service of Intute offers an easy-to-use and powerful tool
for discovering the best Internet resources for education and research
in Creative Arts and Humanities.
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MULTIMEDIA
Byzantium
1200 Project and Museum
http://www.byzantium1200.com/
There
is a new museum in Istanbul based on the 'Byzantium 1200' project, which
aims to recreate the city of Constantinople as it was in the year 1204.
Many buildings and monuments are shown in reconstruction on the web site.
The
associated new museum in Istanbul, which opened in November of last year,
is located at the Philoxenos (Binbirdirek) Cistern. There are many models
and pictures of what Constantinople would have looked like in 1204.
Chartres:
Cathedral of Notre-Dame
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index
The
Cathedral of Chartres, located some fifty miles outside Paris, is considered
one of the most important cultural landmarks in France - and even Europe.
In 2004, Professor Alison Stones of the University of Pittsburgh began
to create an online collection of visual materials documenting this imposing
structure. Working with some of her students and colleagues, this
project was supported by the University's Digital Research Library and
is now available to the web-browsing public. The breadth and depth
of the collection's 3100 items is impressive, as it includes everything
from seventeenth-century vistas of the city of Chartres to architectural
drawings of interior features of the cathedral, such as the nave.
A search engine provided on the site allows visitors to search for items
by name, description, type of material or photographer.
Digital Scriptorium
http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/
The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing.
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
http://www.e-codices.ch
A project of the Medieval Institute of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. A follow-up project of CESG - Codices electronici Sangallenses.
-
High resolution digital images: over 125,000 facsimile pages
-
Regularly updated: now 333 complete manuscripts from 16 Swiss manuscript collections
-
New web application
-
Manuscript descriptions, browse and search functions
-
Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and E-lib (Digital Library of Switzerland)
Elsewhereonline
http://www.elsewhereonline.com.au/
Elsewhereonline
explores world culture through travel experience, creativity and scholarly
analysis. It is a multi-media resource, forum, review and image bank.
It describes projects and lists awards and events. Elsewhereonline
is for writers, artists, photographers, film-makers, architects, musicians,
sound samplers, scholars and travellers who want to learn more about the
world. It is many things: a reservoir of information, an exhibition
space and sound archive, a forum for critical and scholarly discussion,
a cultural review and showcase for special projects and events. It
attempts to represent and explore the great diversity of world culture.
Medieval French Manuscripts to go Digital in Virtual Collection
http://www.jhu.edu/news/home08/feb08/rose.html
Grants of $779,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow The Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to provide scholars with virtual access to more than half the known versions of Le Roman de la Rose, a medieval poem on the art of love that was the most-read work of French literature for hundreds of years.
Monastic Matrix
http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/
A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communitiesfrom 400 to 1600 CE.
Latin
Online
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/
The
UK National Archives (including the PRO) has an online beginners Latin
module which uses medieval and early modern mss from their collections.
It comprises 12 tutorials with helpful supplementary information and could
be useful to those who are considering delving into all this for the first
time, to those who might be going to the PRO to read the mss and to those
who are interested in looking at a simple online format for elementary
language teaching.
Medieval
Multimedia
http://www.evellum.com/
Performing
Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase
http://euterpe.bobst.nyu.edu/mednar/
This
website, produced through the Studio for Digital Projects and Research
at New York University, offers resources for scholars, teachers, students,
and performers to explore the performance of medieval narrative.
The
purpose is to see how medieval stories can be brought to life in performance
for modern audiences and how performance can be used to teach medieval
literature in the classroom. It is hoped as well to promote a better
understanding of ways in which medieval narratives may have been performed
for their original audiences.
Video
clips constitute the primary resource on the website. The clips feature
a variety of actors, storytellers, singers, musicians, mimes, puppeteers
and dancers, among them professionals, teachers and students. They
perform scenes drawn from a range of medieval narrative genres, including
epics, romances, lais, tales, fabliaux and others. Some performances
of narratives from analogous traditions (such as the Egyptian Hilali epic)
are also represented.
In
the future, it is planned to expand the site's holdings and add other resources
to the site, including further information bearing on pedagogical uses
of performance and videoed interviews with performers and with faculty
and students who work with performance.
Feedback
is welcomed and may be sent to perf-med-narr@forums.nyu.edu.
Proxima
Veritati
http://www.proxima-veritati.auckland.ac.nz/PV/
Immersive,
interactive, 360-degree high-resolution panoramas of ancient sites, mainly
in the Greek and Roman Mediterranean world. Using Apple Computer's
QuickTime VR technology, the viewer is able to 'look around' as if they
were within a given space. Many of the panoramas are linked so that
the viewer may move within the site, experiencing a 'virtual tour' and
included are maps, plans, labels and node-markers to clearly mark the viewer's
location. These multimedia CD/DVD-ROMs (for Mac OS or Windows) are
intended as a specialist teaching and research tool for professionals in
the areas of Classical Studies and Ancient History.
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EXCAVATIONS
Excavations
at Tarbat, Moray and Firthlands, Northeast Scotland
The
University of York have been excavating this site since 1995. After
the discovery of fragments of Pictish Christian carved stone from the area
surrounding St Colman's Church, in the eighteenth century, The Tarbat Historic
Trust and the University of York began a program of excavation which is
still continuing. The finds have been very exciting. While
it was always presumed that Scotland would yield an early Christian site
of similar scope to those found in Ireland, Tarbat has at last proven these
presumptions correct. From a late sixth-century foundation corresponding
to St Columba's era the church appears to have been rebuilt in stone by
the eighth century. This may correspond with Ceolfrid's letter to
the Pictish King Nechton in which he promises masons to build a stone church
in the 'Roman' manner. The site has also revealed signs of industry
with areas of precious metal and ferrous metalworking, leather working
and other crafts. The University of York has extensive field notes
on its website at
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/staff/sites/tarbat
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