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.
