Entries Tagged as ‘DISCUSSIONS: THE VILLAGE GREEN’
8 May, 2009
Query re. Rob Poulton, “Saxon and Medieval Staines and its hinterland”
Your assistance would be appreciated with the following question; should you be able to answer it, please add a comment below, or contact David Essex directly, or correspond c/o the Forum and we’ll pass your message along to him. Merci d’avance!
21 April, 2009
It Never Rains But It Pours: Peter Brown
More Princeton Medievalist news, I’m afraid:
26 February, 2009
News/comment: Wales offers £25k to attract PhDs
The University of Wales is offering what it says is one of the world’s highest paying PhD schemes to encourage fresh thinking in Welsh companies.
Students on the Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarships programme will receive an annual stipend of £20,000 and a research grant of £5,000.
All their tuition fees will also be paid. The aim [...]
17 January, 2009
New publication: history of the Uí Bairrche of Leinster
(2nd – 12th c.) From “Origins, history and genealogy of the Tracey/Tracy/Treacy/Treacey family name in Ireland”
26 November, 2008
Of possible interest to Irish academics in recession-ridden times
UPDATED 27 NOVEMBER 2008…
24 November, 2008
Dr Carrie Griffin in the news…
Our very own co-ordinatrix Dr Griffin spoke recently at NUI Maynooth’s Medieval and Renaissance Forum, in association with National Science Week. I’ve just discovered that the event has been reported rather more widely afield:
The blog and news-collector News for Medievalists is circulating Plagues, Barbers and Humours: A look at Medicine in the High Middle Ages [...]
25 October, 2008
Exhibition: “Renaissance Faces”; National Gallery, London; 15 October 2008 – 18 January 2009
Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian
15 October 2008 – 18 January 2009
This landmark exhibition explores the dramatic rise of portraiture in the Renaissance. It features works by the great masters of Northern and Southern Europe, including Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Van Eyck, Holbein, Dürer, Lotto, Pontormo and Bellini.
25 October, 2008
Exhibition: “Byzantium 330-1453″; Royal Academy of Arts, London; 25 October 2008 – 22 March 2009
Byzantium 330-1453
Royal Academy of Arts, London; in the Main Galleries
Until 22 March 2009
Supported by The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
This ground-breaking exhibition, a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Arts and the Benaki Museum in Athens, provides a grand-scale survey of 1,000 years of history. Highlighting [...]
4 October, 2008
FMRSI Resources: The Next Steps
The Administratrix is currently planning what to do with the RESOURCES page/section next. Herewith follows the current state of the thinking taxonomical at present. The basic categorization settled on: ARTES LIBERALES – ARTES MECHANICAE – RERUM ANTIQUARUM – MODERNITAS.
25 September, 2008
Dr Swift’s favourite seanfhocal …
[ ... kindly provided to warm us up, gear us up, and generally get us in the mood for the only Old Norse language course currently available in Ireland, hosted by Mary Immaculate College, Limerick ... I now hand over to the good Dr Swift ... ]
In the meantime, you might enjoy some of the [...]
16 September, 2008
NEWS: Irish Web Awards (11 October 2008)
Moviestar.ie Irish Web Awards
11 October 2008
The Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Dublin
We’re in the category of Most Beautiful Website in Ireland … and the competition is very stiff. The page of nominees is well worth looking at out of interest; I for one have been picking up new good design tips. I have no idea how [...]
23 August, 2008
POST-GRADUATES: Message from the GSC of the MAA
[Message from the Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America: includes welcoming non-American-based post-graduate students. In case you might not have yet met them, the MAA is old, venerable, the largest Medieval Studies organization in the world, and above all excellent.]
21 August, 2008
CALL FOR WISDOM: Monastic Gardens
QUESTION: MONASTIC GARDENS
Originally posted on the Village Green (16 August, 2008) by Carrie Griffin, on behalf of Lorraine Foley: can anyone help?
“I am a student of horticulture and researching for my final year thesis on monastic gardens in Ireland. I live near Trim, Co. Meath and so my attention is on Newtown abbey there. I [...]
19 August, 2008
“Why do we sing?” programme on BBC Radio 4
(accessible from 19 to 25 August 2008)
Listen to the audio clip – Go to the website
16 August, 2008
Dr Juliet O’ Brien on Newstalk 106
Tune in to listen to our own Juliet O’ Brien, who will be one of the panelists on Newstalk 106’s Talking History at 19.00 on Sunday 24th August! The topic will be Joan of Arc.
Make us proud, Juliet!! (And don’t forget to mention FMRSI!)
19 July, 2008
“Oenach” – the FMRSI’s Journal title
In philologically proper manner, here is the entry for OENACH from, appropriately, the Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL):
27 May, 2008
Medieval musical comedy (of sorts)
For anyone interested both in comedy and medieval musical theory, check out this lovely Youtube clip (in French with English sub-titles), which really amused the Forum Directors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhHAojVyeG0
