Links

• The Courtauld Institute has recently added 150 new objects to their online Gothic Ivories website www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk.  There are now 900 objects online, illustrated by more than 2500 images.

• The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (formerly Mystics Quarterly) invites submissions of articles on any aspect of religious traditions in medieval Europe, broadly conceived, as well as their relations to cultures outside Europe.

  JMRC is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published twice a year by Penn State Press. Submissions can be uploaded to www.editorialmanager.com/jmrc .

  All submissions must conform to Chicago style; double-space endnotes (please, no footnotes). Because reviewers will receive PDFs of the files, do not include your name in the file name.

  Questions? Please contact co-editors Christine Cooper-Rompato (christine.rompato(at)usu.edu) and Bob Hasenfratz (robert.hasenfratz(at)uconn.edu).

• QMed is a new site aiming to provide for medievalists a central place for the dissemination of information about lectures, conferences and other events in London and beyond. Visit QMed at http://qmed.history.qmul.ac.uk/index.html.

• Westfield Medieval Studies: Westfield Medieval Studies is a newly reconstituted series, formerly produced in-house, which has in the past published monographs, editions and collective volumes on literary and historical subjects relating to western Europe from Italy to Iceland. The aim of this inter-disciplinary series is to produce books for a scholarly readership with a marked emphasis on historical contexts. Books are accepted by the Editorial Board of Westfield Medieval Studies if they break new ground and meet our criteria for the series: cutting-edge research, with a strongly interdisciplinary element which would attract a readership of specialists in literature, language, history, history of art and other cultural studies.

  Recent publication:

  John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation and Power ed. by Elizabeth Dutton, John Hines and R.F. Yeager (Cambridge: DS Brewer, 2010)

Groups of interest to medievalists in London

• LOMERS (The London Old and Middle English Research Seminar) organises four seminars over the autumn and spring terms and a conference in the summer. Recent speakers at LOMERS include Derek Pearsall, Amanda Holton, and Richard Marsden.  For more details about LOMERS see: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_areas.php?page=ies_series.
• Medieval Manuscripts Seminar has been running for several years at the Institute of English Studies.  For details see: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_areas.php?page=ies_series.
• London Society for Medieval Studies at the IHR runs a seminar every fortnight during the autumn and spring terms. For a list of their upcoming seminars see: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/index.php.
• Late Medieval Seminar runs weekly in the autumn and spring terms at the IHR. For a list of upcoming seminars see: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/seminar.php?series=127.
• European history 1150-1550 runs fortnightly seminars at the IHR during the autumn and spring terms. For details see: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihrseminars/index.php.
• TOEBI(Teacher's of Old English in Britain and Ireland) aims to promote and support the teaching of Old English in British and Irish Universities, and to raise the profile OE language literature and Anglo Saxon England in the public eye.  The organisation produces a twice yearly newsletter hosts an annual meeting and an AGM.  For details please visit www.toebi.org.uk.

Upcoming conferences in the UK

• Me Fieri Fecit: The representation of owners, donors and patrons in medieval art. This conference will take place on Friday 11th May 2012 at the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent.  The keynote speaker will be Dr Julian Luxford of the University of St. Andrews.  For information plkease contact Jayne Wackett (jaw62(at)kent.ac.uk).

• International Congress of Middle Ages for Predoctoral Researchers. Will take place at the University of Almeria from 18th - 22nd June 2012 under the aegis of the IEECS research group and the University of Almeria Medieval History and art History departments.  Papers are invited from doctoral researchers in History, Art History or Medieval Archaeology.  Proposals are to reach the organising committee (I.CIIP.EM@hotmail.com) by November 11th 2011.
   

  For more information, please go to http://i-ciip-em.blogspot.com/Call for Papers . 

• Professor Ardis Butterfield's 2010 Inaugural Lecture, "The Origins of English Song", is now on UCL iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/institution/ucl-londons-global-university/id3904.

Websites detailing the work of previous speakers to the LMS

• Aleks Plukowski, Omnis Mundi Creatura, http://www.beasts-in-the-woods.org/graphics.html
  The website of Aleks Plukowski, who spoke at the LMS’s 2005 conference ‘Animals and Birds: Natural and Supernatural’. The site details Plukowski’s own research into how people in Medieval Europe responded to animals and their environment.
• An Electronic Edition of Partonopeus de Blois, http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/
  An electronic edition of the 12^th-century French romance, prepared by Penny Eley, Penny Simons, Mario Longtin, Catherine Hanley, and Philip Shaw. Both Penny Eley and Penny Simons delivered papers at the LMS’s ‘Courts and Courtliness’ colloquium in February 2006. Philip Shaw also spoke at the LMS’s colloquium on ‘Love’ in February 2004.