The special Limina edition on “Receptions: Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Appropriations”, edited by ANZAMEMS postgraduate rep. James Smith and ANZAMEMS member Deb Seiler, is now online at: http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/volumes/special-2014.
Congratulations to all involved!
The following publication from Pickering & Chatto Publishers which may be of interest to some members.
Continuations to Sidney’s Arcadia, 1607–1867 is now available. Continuations to Sidney’s Arcadia is an all Australian-production; the general editor is Marea Mitchell (Macquarie University), and volume editors are Dianne Osland (University of Newcastle) and Ann Lange (Macquarie University).
Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia has held a significant place in literary imagination since its inception over 430 years ago. William Shakespeare and Samuel Richardson both took inspiration from it. Arcadia has a complex publishing history which has seem it extracted or rewritten many times.Sustained adaptations of the work are less common and can be limited to just six texts. Of these, only Weamys’s continuation of 1651 exists in a modern scholarly edition.
This project presents the remaining five as well as two short supplements that attempt to bridge the gap between Sidney’s original and revised versions of the work. All the texts are rare, with two versions being particularly obscure. Publication of these volumes allows for serious scholarly comparison as well as re-interpretation. An extensive general introduction analyses the history of Arcadia’s reception and the place of each version in that history. Consideration is given to authorship and editorship and how these were defined overtime. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and includes a bibliography of key material relating to the edition. It will be of interest to scholars of seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature as well as those who study print culture and the history of the book.
Pickering & Chatto have generously offered ANZAMEMS members a code which can be use to get 25% off the RRP of Continuations to Sidney’s Arcadia.
Members should contact ANZAMEMS Communications Officer, Marina Gerzic for the code.
Many thanks to Eleanor Hooker at Pickering & Chatto for organising this for ANZAMEMS.
Volume 6 (2012) of the journal Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum is now available online via open access at the website:http://www.medieval.udl.cat/en/imagotemporis.
Imago Temporis. Medium Aevum aims to contribute to renewing studies into the medieval period, with special attention to the different conceptual aspects that gave rise to the medieval civilisation, and especially to the study of the Mediterranean area.
Volumes 1-5 (from 2008 onwards) of Imago Temporis are also available to view via open access at the above website.
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies would like to announce the launch of its new website, www.ceraejournal.com.
Administered from the University of Western Australia with the generous support of faculty and staff, the journal is directed by a committee of interstate and international graduate students and early career researchers. We are united in our commitment to open-access publishing, the possibilities of the digital humanities, and to forging a strong community of medieval and early modern scholars in the region.
The word ‘ceræ’ refers to the wax tablets used throughout antiquity and the medieval period as a reusable writing surface. Like the wax tablet, online publishing is a flexible medium which can be rewritten and re-inscribed—it has a malleability that traditional print forums do not. Our sources range from tablets and scrolls to manuscript codices, printed pamphlets, archaeological finds and architectural features—and our research outputs likewise can take any form from traditional text to audio-visual recordings, images, and interactive projects in the digital humanities.
We gladly accept manuscripts from any discipline related to medieval and early modern studies (including medievalism in later culture) and will accommodate the needs of authors in including audio-visual material and unusual or innovative formatting requirements. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by qualified experts before publication.
We are supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of the Emotions, who are generously sponsoring our inaugural issue on Emotions in History. The call for papers can be found at: http://ceraejournal.com/
Dear members,
I am launching a new feature of the newsletter. As well as publishing CFP and notices of interest, starting from today I will also be publishing more news concerning the work and research of medievalists and early modernists based in Australia and New Zealand. Any news concerning recent publications and projects, forthcoming conferences and symposia, for example, are welcome.
The following comes from ANZAMEMS committee member Chris Jones, who shares the following following web-based project of interest.
With the financial assistance of a University of Canterbury Summer Scholarship, the collaboration of Canterbury’s Web Support services and the hard work of Chris’ former Honours student Maree Shirota, they have recently completed a website that offers a scrolling version of Canterbury’s fifteenth-century genealogical roll, archive quality photographs and a basic introduction to the document’s content:
www.canterbury.ac.nz/
By making this unique document available to a worldwide audience their aim is to both increase awareness of the Canterbury collection and to contribute to the wider research environment. Maree is now an MA student and working on a new edition of the roll’s text as part of her thesis.
As well as this web project, Chris is presently putting the finishing touches to collection about John of Paris. The volume will include twelve essays and a substantial introduction. Chris, along with his colleague Jennifer Clement, are also presently planning a proposal for a jointly-edited special edition of a journal that would deal with medieval and Early Modern manuscripts and books in New Zealand and Australia. Expressions of interest from collaborators will be solicited in the near future.
Readers of and contributors to Parergon may be interested to note that Elizabeth Freeman’s article “The Priory of Hampole and its Literary Culture: English Religious Women and Books in the Age of Richard Rolle”, Parergon 29 (2012), pp. 1-25 was awarded the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship’s 2013 prize for the Best Article of Feminist Scholarship on the Middle Ages.
Go to http://smfsweb.org/ to see the notice.
Many congratulations to Liz!
Proceedings of The British World Conference held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba in July 2012 are now available online.
The publication consists of 40 articles, and is a selection of those offered at the conference. Many may be of interest to members. The document is available at: http://eprints.usq.edu.au/
Volume Abstract:
This volume present papers which address various aspects of the history, literature, religion and identities of the British world, not simply in the British Isles themselves, but a wider world stretching across both hemispheres. In terms of chronology the earliest paper in this collection deals with the Anglo-Saxon Church; the latest with the impact of war trauma on British journalists in the 21st century.
The University of Auckland’s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEDEMS) is happy to announce the upcoming appearance of a special journal issue on “Understanding Emotions in the Middle Ages” in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming late 2012. The issue has been edited by Associate Professor Tracy Adams of the University of Auckland and originated in the eleventh annual MEDEMS colloquium which took place over the weekend of April 16-17, 2011. The conference attracted speakers from New Zealand, Australia, Belgium, England and the USA, who gathered in Auckland to discuss “Devotion and Emotion in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods.”
This issue is the first of what we hope to be a long series of collaborative on-line projects produced by MEDEMS. Papers from the conference have been brought together in what will be just the second issue of the new journal. Digital Philology is intended as a scholarly venue where “global and interdisciplinary perspective pushes traditional national and temporal boundaries” and which represents the “first such publication linking peer-reviewed research and scholarship with digital libraries of medieval manuscripts”. Digital Philology will be published twice a year and is intended to include “scholarly essays, manuscript studies, and reviews of relevant resources such as websites, digital projects, and books.”
The journal’s website is: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/digital_philology/
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (11 Nov-13 March) is the British Library’s first major exhibition to bring together the Library’s Royal collection, a treasure trove of illuminated manuscripts collected by the kings and queens of England between the 9th and 16th centuries. To coincide with the exhibition an app has been created by the British Library (in collaboration with Toura) for use on iPhone, Android, and iPad devices.
The Royal Manuscripts application features:
Selected manuscripts include colourful histories and genealogies, Bibles and Psalters, scientific works and accounts of coronations.
Highlights include:
Royal Manuscripts is available for download world-wide for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Costs are outlined below:
Royal Manuscripts – Standard edition
Royal Manuscripts – HD
For more information and to download the App visit the Royal Manuscripts App website: http://www.bl.uk/app/royal.html