About the Book
I especially welcome the fact that this prose translation is aimed at understanding the text, rather than preserving a certain style. This is a most valuable contribution to the field and of great value to both students and scholars.
Henrik Williams
Professor of Runology, formerly of Scandinavian Languages, at Uppsala University
This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda.
Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda. The poems cover diverse subjects, including the creation, destruction and rebirth of the world, the dealings of gods such as Óðinn, Þórr and Loki with giants and each other, and the more intimate, personal tragedies of the hero Sigurðr, his wife Guðrún and the valkyrie Brynhildr.
Each poem is provided with an introduction, synopsis and suggestions for further reading. The Old Norse texts are furnished with a textual apparatus recording the manuscript readings behind this edition’s emendations, as well as select variant readings. The accompanying translations, informed by the latest scholarship, are concisely annotated to make them as accessible as possible.
As the first open-access, single-volume parallel Old Norse edition and English translation of the Poetic Edda, this book will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Old Norse literature. It will also interest those researching other fields of medieval literature (especially Old English and Middle High German), and appeal to a wider general audience drawn to the myths and legends of the Viking Age and subsequent centuries.
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Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Gender & History: Gendered Segregation and Gendering Segregation
Gender & History is an international journal for research and writing on the history of gender and gender relations, including (but not limited to) masculinity and femininity.
This Special Issue will examine segregation, broadly understood, exploring how segregation has reflected and constructed gender across time and space. This Special Issue welcomes submissions from scholars studying any country or region, and any historical period, including the classical, medieval, early modern, and the modern.
Segregation is the physical, cultural, or legal separation of groups on the basis of self- or external demarcations of difference and can be observed in many different, but by no means all, human societies of the past. Gendering segregation is a fruitful lens to interrogate relations of power and to do so in spatial settings such as homes, communes, schools, religious institutions, workhouses, prisons, leisure facilities, or others. Additionally, analysing the gendering of segregation—within premodern and modern societies and throughout the world—opens routes towards more capacious understandings of important themes of inquiry such as histories of sexuality, labour, science and technology, politics, feminism, and social identities.
This issue examines how and why segregation has been used as a tool for constructing and policing gender boundaries, at the intersection with race, age, status, class, functionality, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, nationality or other historical ideas of human identity and categorization. We particularly welcome studies on transgender and/or non-binary aspects of the presence – or absence – of segregation in past societies. This issue understands segregation as both a framework of control through imposing binarity and as an individual strategy. We also welcome investigations of how and why gender segregation has been used as a coping mechanism and a strategy of subversion. We also seek to critically engage with scholarly narratives such as the ‘separate spheres’ paradigm.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Segregation through and of labour
• Segregation and race
• Scientific and legal logics of segregation
• Segregation in the home
• Segregation in education
• Segregation in sports
• Segregation over the life course
• Segregation as a political strategy
• Self-imposed segregation
• Segregation as a religious practice
• Segregation and urbanism
• Segregation and colonialism
Interested colleagues are asked to submit a 500-word abstract and a brief biography (250 words) by email no later than 31 May 2023 for consideration. Please submit materials to genderandhistory@sheffield.ac.uk.
Abstracts will be reviewed by the Special Issue editors and successful authors will submit full drafts (6,000- 8,000 words) ahead of participation in a hybrid colloquium, which will be held in Bonn, Germany, in partnership with Research Area E (Gender and Intersectionality) of the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies. We hope to be able to fund travel and accommodation for all participants. After the colloquium, the editors will select contributions to proceed through the journal’s peer review system. As with any submission, there is no guarantee of publication.
The Special Issue will be edited by Drs. Daniel Grey, Lisa Hellman, Julia Hillner, and Rachel Jean-Baptiste.
Special Issue Timeline
Abstract Proposals to SI editors: 31 May 2023.
Decisions communicated: 1 July 2023.
Draft papers submitted for circulation: 15 March 2024.
Colloquium: 25-27 April 2024.
Full submissions submitted for peer review: 1 September 2024.
Contributions in progress to G&H Editors: 1 March 2025.
Edited MS, illustrations and permissions: 31 May 2025.
Publication: October 2025.
Further information on Gender & History can be found here.
Call for Proposals for a future themed issue of Parergon
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THEMED ISSUE
Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.)
www.parergon.org
The journal Parergon, in print since 1971, regularly produces one open issue and one themed issue annually.
Recent and forthcoming themed issues include:
• 2018, 35.2 Translating Medieval Cultures Across Time and Place: A Global Perspective, guest-edited by Saher Amer, Esther S. Klein, and Hélène Sirantoine
• 2019, 36.2 Practice, Performance, and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Heritage, guest-edited by Jane-Heloise Nancarrow and Alicia Marchant
• 2020, 37.2 Representing Queens, guest-edited by Stephanie Russo
• 2021, 38.2 Children and War, guest-edited by Katie Barclay, Dianne Hall and Dolly Mackinnon
• 2022, 39.2 Cultures of Compassion in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Music, guest-edited by Diana Barnes
We now call for proposals for a future themed issue, specifically for 2025 (42.2)
Parergon publishes articles on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies, from early medieval through to the eighteenth century, and including the reception and influence of medieval and early modern culture in the modern world. We are particularly interested in research which takes new approaches and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Parergon asks its authors to achieve international standards of excellence. Essays should be substantially original, advance research in the field, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to the critical debate.
Parergon is available in electronic form as part of Project Muse (from 1983), Australian
Public Affairs – Full Text (from 1994), Wilson’s Humanities Full Text (from 2008), and Gale
Academic One File (from 2008); it is included in the Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus.
Themed issues contain up to ten essays, plus the usual reviews section. The guest editor is responsible for setting the theme and drawing up the criteria for the essays.
Timeline
Proposals for the 2025 issue (42.2) should be submitted to the Editors by Tuesday 28 February 2023.
Proposers are advised to review the full submission guidelines for essays at:
https://parergon.org/submissions.html
Proposals should contain the following:
1. A draft title for the issue.
2. A statement outlining the rationale for the issue.
3. Titles and abstracts of all the essays.
4. A short biographical paragraph for the guest editor(s) and for each contributor.
Proposals will be considered by a selection panel drawn from the Parergon International
Editorial Board who will be asked to assess and rank the proposals according to the following criteria:
• Suitability for the journal
• Originality of contribution to the chosen field
• Significance/importance of the proposed theme
• Potential for advancing scholarship in a new and exciting way
• Range and quality of authors
Guest editors will be notified of the result of their application by the beginning of April 2023.
The Editorial Process
Once a proposal has been accepted:
The guest editor(s) will commission and pre-select the essays before submitting them to the Parergon Editors by an agreed date.
The guest editor(s), in consultation with the Parergon editors, will arrange for independent and anonymous peer-review in accordance with the journal’s established criteria.
Occasionally a commissioned essay will be judged not suitable for publication in Parergon. This decision will be taken by the Parergon Editor, based on the anonymous expert reviews. Essays that have already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible for inclusion in the journal.
Parergon’s Accessibility
Parergon is available in electronic form as part of Project MUSE (From Volume 1 (1983)),
Australian Public Affairs – Full Text (from 1994), and Humanities Full Text (from 2008)
Parergon is included in the Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus.
Parergon has an Open Access policy. Authors retain their own copyright, rather than
transferring it to Parergon/ANZAMEMS; and can make the “accepted version” of their article freely available on the Web.
Please send enquiries and proposals to the Editors, Prof Rosalind Smith and Prof Sarah
Ross at editor@parergon.org.
Call for Proposals for a future themed issue of Parergon, specifically for 2025 (42.2) – proposals due TUESDAY 28 FEBRURAY 2023
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THEMED ISSUE
Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.)
The journal Parergon, in print since 1971, regularly produces one open issue and one themed issue annually.
Recent and forthcoming themed issues include:
- 2018, 35.2 Translating Medieval Cultures Across Time and Place: A Global Perspective, guest-edited by Saher Amer, Esther S. Klein, and Hélène Sirantoine
- 2019, 36.2 Practice, Performance, and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Heritage, guest-edited by Jane-Heloise Nancarrow and Alicia Marchant
- 2020, 37.2 Representing Queens, guest-edited by Stephanie Russo
- 2021, 38.2 Children and War, guest-edited by Katie Barclay, Dianne Hall and Dolly Mackinnon
- 2022, 39.2 Cultures of Compassion in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Music, guest-edited by Diana Barnes
We now call for proposals for a future themed issue, specifically for 2025 (42.2)
Parergon publishes articles on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies, from early medieval through to the eighteenth century, and including the reception and influence of medieval and early modern culture in the modern world. We are particularly interested in research which takes new approaches and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Parergon asks its authors to achieve international standards of excellence. Essays should be substantially original, advance research in the field, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to the critical debate.
Parergon is available in electronic form as part of Project Muse (from 1983), Australian Public Affairs – Full Text (from 1994), Wilson’s Humanities Full Text (from 2008), and Gale Academic One File (from 2008); it is included in the Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus.
Themed issues contain up to ten essays, plus the usual reviews section. The guest editor is responsible for setting the theme and drawing up the criteria for the essays.
Timeline
Proposals for the 2025 issue (42.2) should be submitted to the Editors by Tuesday 28 February 2023.
Proposers are advised to review the full submission guidelines for essays at: https://parergon.org/submissions.html
Proposals should contain the following:
- A draft title for the issue.
- A statement outlining the rationale for the issue.
- Titles and abstracts of all the essays.
- A short biographical paragraph for the guest editor(s) and for each contributor.
Proposals will be considered by a selection panel drawn from the Parergon International Editorial Board who will be asked to assess and rank the proposals according to the following criteria:
- Suitability for the journal
- Originality of contribution to the chosen field
- Significance/importance of the proposed theme
- Potential for advancing scholarship in a new and exciting way
- Range and quality of authors
Guest editors will be notified of the result of their application by the beginning of April 2023.
The Editorial Process
Once a proposal has been accepted:
The guest editor(s) will commission and pre-select the essays before submitting them to the
Parergon Editors by an agreed date.
The guest editor(s), in consultation with the Parergon editors, will arrange for independent and anonymous peer-review in accordance with the journal’s established criteria.
Occasionally a commissioned essay will be judged not suitable for publication in Parergon. This decision will be taken by the Parergon Editor, based on the anonymous expert reviews.
Essays that have already been published or accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible for inclusion in the journal.
Parergon’s Accessibility
Parergon is available in electronic form as part of Project MUSE (From Volume 1 (1983)), Australian Public Affairs – Full Text (from 1994), and Humanities Full Text (from 2008)
Parergon is included in the Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List of refereed journals and in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), and is indexed for nine major database services, including ABELL, IMB and Scopus.
Parergon has an Open Access policy. Authors retain their own copyright, rather than transferring it to Parergon/ANZAMEMS; and can make the “accepted version” of their article freely available on the Web.
Please send enquiries and proposals to the Editors, Prof Rosalind Smith and Prof Sarah Ross at editor@parergon.org.
2023 Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition
Applications for the 2023 Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition are now open, and we especially encourage scholars from the global south to apply. You may access the full application details here.
The Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition aims to support early career scholars in global history at a pivotal moment in their scholarly trajectory. The Toynbee Prize Foundation (TPF) will fund an annual first book manuscript/work in progress workshop with scholars specifically chosen to comment on the selected Toynbee Early Career Scholar’s project. Commenters will include esteemed global historians and scholars with broad methodological affinity, rather than simply topic experts of the sort who are customarily part of the standard peer review process at an academic press. In this way, we hope to help develop the impact and relevance of early career scholars’ projects through diverse, global perspectives. The workshop will take place online, and parts of it will be available to a wider public through the TPF website. We especially encourage academics from the Global South to apply.
Eligibility: Early career scholars with substantially complete first book manuscripts (at least 50% of the planned book) available in English on global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history are eligible to apply.
Application process: Please email a two-page book proposal, CV, and one chapter of the manuscript to toynbeefoundation@gmail.com by October 22, 2022.
Genders and Sexualities in History series seeking proposals
The Palgrave series Genders and Sexualities in History (edited by Joanna Bourke, Sean Brady and Matthew Champion) is seeking proposals for monographs, edited collections and collections of source material relating to the history of premodern genders and sexualities. Previous titles in the series include Cordelia Beattie and Kirsten A. Fenon’s edited collection Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages, Yuki Terazawa’s Knowledge, Power, and Women’s Reproductive Health in Japan, 1690–1945, and Nancy McLoughlin’s Jean Gerson and Gender: Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century France. Interested contributors or editors are invited to contact Matthew Champion (mscha@unimelb.edu.au) to discuss projects and the process for making a proposal. For further information see: https://link.springer.com/series/15000
Constant Mews Prize article “The Tree of Life in Medieval Iconography” open access!
Pippa Salonius’s excellent article, “The Tree of Life in Medieval Iconography” in The Tree of Life, ed. Douglas Estes, Themes in Biblical Narrative, 27 (Brill 2020) was awarded the Constant Mews Prize by ANZAMEMS in 2022.
This article has been made open access for a limited time and is free to download until the end of July!
To view and download the article (free until the end of July!) please visit https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004423756/BP000013.xml
Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal
Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal
The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.
The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship, whereas research notes are often smaller in scope, focusing on a specific aspect of new research or presenting a significant finding from technical analysis. The maximum length for articles is 8,000 words (including endnotes) and 10–12 images, and for research notes 4,000 words with 4–6 images.
The process of peer review is double-anonymous. Manuscripts are reviewed by the Journal Editorial Board, composed of members of the curatorial, conservation, and scientific departments, as well as external scholars.
Articles and Research Notes in the Journal appear both in print and online, and are accessible via MetPublications and the Journal’s home page on the University of Chicago Press site.
The deadline for submissions for Volume 58 (2023) is September 15, 2022.
Submission guidelines: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/met/instruct
Please send materials to: journalsubmissions@metmuseum.org
Inspiration from the Collection: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection
View the Journal: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/met
Book Launch – The Legacy of Gildas: Constructions of Authority in the Early Medieval West
Join us for the launch of Dr Stephen Joyce’s monograph The Legacy of Gildas: Constructions of Authority in the Early Medieval West!
About this event
The Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies is pleased to be hosting the launch of Dr Stephen Joyce’s monograph The Legacy of Gildas: Constructions of Authority in the Early Medieval West (Boydell, 2022), a ‘provocative new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation’.
The launch will feature comments from Emeritus Prof. Constant Mews (Monash) and Dr Darius Von Güttner Sporzynski (University of Melbourne).
The book is available for purchase from the publisher here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276721/the-legacy-of-gildas/
The event is free and can be registered for here
One month left to submit to Maddern, Crawford, and Parergon Publication Prizes!
Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize
Philippa Maddern (1952–2014) was Professor of History at The University of Western Australia, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, an ANZAMEMS stalwart, and an active member of the Association from its inception. Philippa contributed enormously to the development of medieval and early modern studies, both in Australia and globally. She gave great service as an office bearer of ANZAMEMS, serving in a range of capacities on the committee including many years as its Treasurer. Philippa was a great champion of researchers embarking on academic careers and ANZAMEMS is proud to establish a Publication Prize for Early Career Researchers in her honour.
The Philippa Maddern Publication Prize will be offered biennially, with the submission and adjudication process timed so that the announcement of the winner can be made at an ANZAMEMS Biennial International Conference. The Prize will be offered in 2021, with the winner announced at the ANZAMEMS conference to be held in Perth, Australia, in mid-2022 (date TBC).
In 2021 the Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize will be awarded to an Early Career Researcher (ECR) for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published within the below date range.
Articles published between 1 January 2018 to 30 November 2021 are eligible. Early online publication of articles will also be considered. The article must have been published online before the above cut-off date.
Entry for the 2021 Prize opened on 1 June 2021 and closes on 30 November 2021.
More details and full eligibility requirements are available here.
To apply for the Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize, please fill out the application form, which can be downloaded here.
Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize
Patricia Crawford (1941–2009) was Professor Emerita of History at The University of Western Australia. A pioneering feminist historian, she is remembered as a leading scholar of early modern England whose work brought new depth to the study of women’s lives and thereby transformed understanding of the period. Trish was internationally recognised and served The University of Western Australia, her discipline, and ANZAMEMS with distinction. An active member of ANZAMEMS and the Parergon Editorial Committee, Trish was a scholar passionate about collaboration, and a mentor of extraordinary generosity, and ANZAMEMS is delighted to establish a Publication Prize for postgraduate students in her honour.
The Prize will be offered biennially, with the submission and adjudication process timed so that the announcement of the winner can be made at an ANZAMEMS Biennial International Conference. The Prize will be offered in 2021, with the winner announced at the ANZAMEMS conference to be held in Perth, Australia, in mid-2022 (date TBC).
The Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize is awarded to a postgraduate student for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published within the within the below date range.
Articles published between 1 January 2018 to 30 November 2021 are eligible. Early online publication of articles will also be considered. The article must have been published online before the above cut-off date.
Entry for the 2021 Prize opened on 1 June 2021 and closes on 30 November 2021.
More details and full eligibility requirements are available here.
To apply for the Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize, please fill out the application form, which can be downloaded here.
Parergon Prize
The Prize will be offered biennially, with the submission and adjudication process timed so that the announcement of the winner can be made at an ANZAMEMS Biennial International Conference.
The Prize will be offered in 2021, with the winner announced at the ANZAMEMS conference to be held in Perth, Australia, in mid-2022 (date TBC).
In 2021 the Parergon Prize will be awarded to an emerging scholar for the best article-length scholarly work accepted to be published in Parergon during the three calendar years previous to the year in which the prize is offered. Eligible articles should have been accepted to be published in the period 2018–2020.
Entry for the 2021 Prize will open on 1 June 2021 and close on 30 November 2021.
More details and full eligibility requirements are available here.
To apply for the Parergon Prize, please fill out the application form, which can be downloaded here.