CFP: Domestic Devotions in Medieval Europe

Call for Contributors

 

Contributions are invited for a Special Issue of the journal Religion on the theme of ‘Domestic Devotions in Medieval Europe: Encountering the Sacred in the Everyday’

Guest Editor : Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Pontifical University, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth.

JOB: Merton College, Oxford

FITZJAMES RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

Merton College, Oxford

Salary £30,326 p.a., plus a housing allowance of £10,000 p.a. or free accommodation

Merton College proposes to elect a Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature for 3.75 years commencing on 1 January 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a prestigious career development post which will provide a promising academic with opportunities to develop as researcher and university teacher. The main duties of the post will be: to undertake innovative research in the broad areas of Old or Middle English; to contribute to the wider academic research projects in the University in Medieval English, including establishing productive research collaborations with other academics in Oxford or elsewhere; and to teach undergraduates reading English for an average of six weighted hours per week in full term. The postholder will be eligible for election as a Fellow of the College.

The successful applicant will hold, or be close to completing, a doctorate in a relevant subject area and demonstrate achievement (commensurate with the candidate’s career) in research in Old or Middle English at a standard which will contribute to and enhance the national and international profile of English at Oxford. The ability to provide effective tutorial teaching to high-achieving undergraduates is essential. The postholder will also need to demonstrate aptitude for a full range of college academic duties; the willingness to contribute to Merton as a member of its Governing Body; and commitment to a personal career development plan.

In addition to salary, the Fellow will be entitled to free meals, medical insurance, research expenses and other benefits.

The duties and skills required are described in more detail in the further particulars on the Merton College website http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/jobs

FRF Med English 2018 advert Merton College

Event: ‘On the Ten-Stringed Psaltery’: Musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages, NUIG, 24 May

 

CONFERENCE

‘ON THE TEN-STRINGED PSALTERY’

Musical instruments as symbols in the Middle Ages

Thursday 24 May, 10am–4pm

The Bridge, Hardiman Research Building (NUI, Galway)

 

Musical instruments abound in medieval iconography and literature, so much so that modern craftsmen were able to build replicas of medieval instruments working from images and texts. But did medieval artists and writers always intend to depict or describe real instruments?  In this colloquium, five speakers will explore a number of medieval iconographic and textual case-studies where musical instruments are not treated at all, or not only, as real objects, but rather as symbols and allegories referring to poetic, scholarly or religious notions…

Speakers:  Jacopo Bisagni (NUI, Galway); Ann Buckley (Trinity College, Dublin); Isabelle Marchesin (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris); Michael Shields (NUI, Galway); Olivier Szerwiniack (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens).

Further information: jacopo.bisagni@nuigalway.ie 

Poster

Programme

CFP: Conflicting Chronologies in the Pre-modern World, UCD, 4-6 Oct 201

Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2018

Conflicting Chronologies in the Pre-modern World: Measuring Time from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, 4-6 October 2018

https://sites.google.com/view/conflictingchronologies

A One-Day Conference: Trouvères Transposed. Sounding Conversations Between Chansons and Their Relatives

A one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held at King’s College, Cambridge, on 5 May 2018 will explore the circulation of lyrical and musical material as a species of intertextual reference, rivalry, and engagement.  Quotation, both musical and textual, brings the chanson into dialogue with other genres, other languages, and other literary and musical spaces. The diversity of quotational practice and the variously opposing and cooperating forces of music and text are the theme of the event.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers from the fields of literature and musicology with a focus on troubadour song, trouvère song, or quotations of either repertory within other types of contemporaneous works.

Themes and topics might include:

• Lyrics in narrative: the function of lyric in narrative forms and the refashioning of song in a non-lyric context.
• Citation as performance practice: how far might performers go in evoking a different piece, style, or genre? Might some quotations be eliptical in manuscript, yet function as a performance direction?
• Dialogue as dramatic narrative: what is the boundary between indirect and direct speech in lyric forms? How does quotation contribute to the dramatic sense of conquest, competition, or play?
• Generative quotation: songs built around quotations and according to models. How do contrafaction, multi-author genres, and refrain quotation interact with the problem of origins? When can we talk of improvisation to an existing model, when of adopting tropes and formulae?
• Citation and compilation: how does the scribal craft struggle with or build off of the re-use of material? Can we argue that links of this kind were as accessible to readers as they were to listeners?

Proposals of 200 to 300 words should be sent as an email attachment (in pdf or doc format) to the conference organisers at cambridgeborrowedsong@gmail.com

They should include:

title

author’s name(s)

affiliation (where applicable)

author’s email address

The deadline for proposals is 22 February, 2018. Decisions will be communicated by early March.

Conference Committee:

Sam Barrett

Bill Burgwinkle

Nicholas Bleisch

Trouvères Transposed – Call for Papers

 

Vacancy: Project Assistant DMLCS

Applications are invited for the position of Project Assistant for the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS). Fixed Term Contract – 1 Year initially. Part time basis 0.8 FTE.

https://www.ria.ie/news/vacancies/vacancy-project-assistant-dmlcs

Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature

Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature

Merton College, Oxford

Salary £29,819 p.a., plus a housing allowance of £10,000 p.a. or free accommodation

Merton College proposes to elect a Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature for four years commencing on 1 October 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a prestigious career development post which will provide a promising academic with opportunities to develop as researcher and university teacher.

The main duties of the post will be: to undertake innovative research in the broad areas of Old or Middle English; to contribute to the wider academic research projects in the University in Medieval English, including establishing productive research collaborations with other academics in Oxford or elsewhere; and to teach undergraduates reading English for an average of six weighted hours per week in full term. The postholder will be eligible for election as a Fellow of the College.

The successful applicant will hold, or be close to completing, a doctorate in a relevant subject area and demonstrate achievement (commensurate with the candidate’s career) in research in Old or Middle English at a standard which will contribute to and enhance the national and international profile of English at Oxford. The ability to provide effective tutorial teaching to high-achieving undergraduates is essential. The postholder will also need to demonstrate aptitude for a full range of college academic duties; the willingness to contribute to Merton as a member of its Governing Body; and commitment to a personal career development plan.

The duties and skills required are described in more detail in the further particulars which also contain details on eligibility criteria and how to apply. These are available at https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/about-merton/vacancies or from the Sub-Warden’s Secretary, Merton College, Oxford, OX1 4JD (e-mail: lesley.walsh@merton.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is 8 June 2017. Interviews will be held in College on 20 June 2017. The Fellow will be entitled to free meals, medical insurance, research expenses and other benefits.

Merton College is an equal opportunities employer.

Historical Approaches to Music: a One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at Trinity College, Oxford

Date of conference: 24th March 2017

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 13th January 2017

Scholars of both music and history have long accepted that each of their fields of study has much to offer the other. Musicologists regularly address the historical context of their subject matter, whilst historians increasingly seek to employ music in understanding cultural and political developments. The best of these works employ a critical, nuanced approach, examining a range of musical genres and modes of musical production with historical rigour. However, methodological interaction between the two fields is still limited, and often subject to lip service alone. Seen by many as a specialist topic, demanding a slightly inaccessible methodological approach, music is too frequently the lesser sibling of supposedly more accessible forms of culture, notably literature.

In order to discuss these issues, this one-day conference seeks to draw together historians and music scholars who are engaging in interdisciplinary research into history and music. In particular, it aims to encourage those taking a historical approach to the subject of music, and to test underlying assumptions in the historiographies of musical cultures. We invite proposals for individual 20 minute papers, lecture recitals, or longer group presentations (preference will be given to those with an interdisciplinary makeup). Additionally, we welcome suggestions for topics suitable for panel discussion.

Proposals may consider any aspect of music history, including but not limited to the following topics:

*Methods, Sources and Historiography*

• How might historical methodologies enhance our understanding of musical cultures?
• What can a wider range of primary source material tell us about the music history of a particular time and place?
• How effectively and convincingly has music been employed as a historical source
• How can musicologists present their work in a way that ensures it will be accessible and of interest to the wider historiographical discourse?

 

*Case Studies*

• In what ways has music impacted upon historical figures and events?
• How has historical context affected the nature of particular compositions and cultures?
• What role does music play in the construction of historical narratives?
• How might extramusical lines of inquiry shed new light on widely accepted views of events in music history?

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to hatmusic2017@gmail.com by 13th January 2017.

*Travel Bursaries*

We are hoping to make a limited number of travel bursaries available to postgraduate students and Early Career Researchers. Priority will be given to those presenting papers and those without institutional travel support.

If you would like to be considered for financial support, please submit a statement of no more than 200 words with your abstract. In your statement, please explain how the travel bursary would be used, including the following information:

• What funding, if any, do you expect to receive from your university/institution?
• Estimate the travel costs you expect to incur in attending the conference.

 

Kind Regards,

Richard Parfitt

Maura Valenti

Frances K. Watson

(Conveners)

2016 UCD/Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures

The UCD/Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures aims to sustain an ongoing conversation about Shakespeare in Ireland – in performance, in books, in history.

Remembering and forgetting Shakespeare in 1916.

This talk addresses what it means to remember Shakespeare in 2016, and reflects on the forgetting that is also required: forgetting not only aspects of Shakespeare’s life, work and legacy, but also that of certain of his contemporaries, notably those who died in the same year (Cervantes, Beaumont) or whose significant publication (the Jonson folio) has been overshadowed in subsequent centuries by Shakespeare’s cultural dominance.

With Prof. Gordon McMullan (King’s College, London)

For further details please see the following link:
http://centenaries.ucd.ie/?post_type=events&p=2198

 

CFP: Monastic Journeys from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Vienna, November 17–19, 2016

The conference on “Monastic Journeys from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Religious Aspirations, Political Goals and Economic Concerns” welcomes contributions on Eastern and Western monasticisms. It will focus on monks travelling over long distances, despite the monastic rule of stabilitas loci.

Monastic journeys reveal the broad social functions of the monks in late antique and medieval societies. They show in what ways monasticism was regularly used to meet political needs. One may also consider the sacred geography and the holy places of power linked by those movements. Practical issues such as logistics, financing and distant accommodation may be addressed, as well as the role of monks in interreligious dialogue. The geographic frame is the wider Mediterranean and continental Europe. The period under consideration extends from the 4th to the 15th century.

Communications are expected to last 20 minutes. They will be presented preferably in English, but German and French are also accepted. 

Please send your title and a brief summary by 30 April 2016 to the following address: programme-moines@ifao.egnet.net

Celebrating the Saints: A Focus on Martyrologies and Calendars

Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute
October 28-9, 2016

The Department of Irish and Celtic Languages and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute are pleased to announce that they are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium entitled ‘Celebrating the Saints: A Focus on Martyrologies and Calendars’. This symposium calls attention to martyrologies and saints’ calendars from the early medieval to early modern period in both Latin and the vernacular, and brings together scholars from diverse fields of expertise. Over the space of two days, the symposium will feature contributions from historians, Celticists, Latinists, Anglo-Saxonists and theologians, as well as a round table discussion with a view to exploring new comparative approaches and avenues for future research. The keynote lecture will be given by Prof. Pádraig Ó Riain.

This event will be hosted in the Neill Theatre in the Long Room Hub, on October 28-9, 2016. More information will be posted in due course at https://celebratingthesaints2016.wordpress.com

Event: The Wandering Word: the travels of insular manuscripts, May 2016

Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute

Trinity College Dublin, 5-7 May 2016

Visit the Wandering Word Conference site – click HERE

Read the Program – click HERE

Booking is essential – Register now HERE

CFP: Parler, crier, chanter: la voix à l’époque romane

26e Colloque international d’art roman
Issoire (Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme) Halle aux grains
21, 22, 23 octobre 2016

 

Click here for full announcement

Contact: David Morel : davbmorel@gmail.com, Nathalie Monio : nathalie.monio@orange.fr

Illuminating the Medieval Psalter Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin

A public lecture by Laura Cleaver

Wednesday, 17th February 2016 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.

There will be a Q&A session immediately following the lecture, followed by the launch of

Latin Psalter manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library
by Laura Cleaver & Helen Conrad O’Briain
Copies of the book will be available on the day at a reduced price.

The book of Psalms was at the core of devotional practice in western Christianity throughout the Middle Ages. The study of medieval Latin Psalters provides evidence for the owners, users and makers of each of these unique books. This volume examines Psalter manuscripts as objects, exploring how they were designed and the changes that have been made to them over time. The choices made about text, decoration, size and layout in these manuscripts reveal a diverse range of engagements with the Psalms, as they were sung, read and scrutinized. The book thus sheds new light on some of the treasures of Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library.

Laura Cleaver is the Ussher lecturer in medieval art, Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on art produced in England and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Helen Conrad O’Briain is based in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. She specializes in early Insular Latin, Old English and Old Norse.

For additional details on this book and to see more fabulous images from this book, please visit:

http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2015/latin-psalter-manuscripts/

Launch of Peritia 26

The editors of Peritia, in conjunction with the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and Brepols, are launching volume 26 of the journal. To  mark the occasion, a limited number of copies will be on sale at a special launch discount. More details about Peritia can be found at http://peritia.ie

Click here to download invitation.

Irish Conference of Medievalists: Registration and Draft List of Speakers

Online registration is now available for the 29th ICM. A special discount of over 20% is being offered on the registration fee for delegates who sign up by June 1st. The fee will be €40, with a student/pensioner/unwaged rate of €20. The registration fee will cover refreshments as well as the ICM receptions. Booking can also be made for the conference dinner. This year it will be held on July 2ndin The Vintage Kitchen, which is located in the heart of the city centre, on Poolbeg Street, near Trinity College. It is easily accessible from UCD via public transport. Booking is recommended as places are limited and will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. The €45 fee covers a three course dinner as well as a generous wine allocation. We have reserved rooms for delegates who wish to use UCD Campus Accommodation. This is located only a few minutes from the ICM venue. However, the number of reserved rooms is limited so we would advise delegates to book early. Rooms are all wifi-enabled and en suite. They cost €59 per night.

Please click here and follow instructions for online booking options.

and here for the draft list of speakers and list of abstracts.

Monastic Europe: Landscape and Settlement

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

MONASTIC EUROPE: LANDSCAPE AND SETTLEMENT

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

https://monasticeurope.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/registration/

Click below to download poster:

Monastic Europe Landscape & Settlement Conference

‘Begging, Writing and Thinking’

MÍCHEÁL Ó CLÉIRIGH INSTITUTE  8TH DONATUS MOONEY SEMINAR: ‘BEGGING, WRITING AND THINKING’

22 May, 12.15 – 17.00, Room K114, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xls69t33j8abfk4/DMooney2015poster.pdf?dl=0

ICM 2015

The FMRSI will again sponsor a session at the annual meeting of the Irish Conference of Medievalists, scheduled for 1-3 July 2015. We held a very successful session last year, our first foray at the ICM, and were so delighted that one of the papers at our session, by Emma Anderson (Glasgow/Edinburgh)​, won the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh prize for the best postgraduate presentation.

​The prize is on offer​ again this year, with the continued support of the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute. The award, worth €100, will be announced at the end of the conference. In addition, ​the ICM has​ teamed up with Peritia, the journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland, and the winning paper will be offered the chance of publication in the journal.

Relaunch of Peritia and Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Volumes 26 and 27

Peritia, Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland, has recently been relaunched, with a new website: http://peritia.ie

The editors, Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (NUIG) and Dr Elva Johnston (UCD), are currently in the process of completing volume 26 (2015). Authors interested in appearing in this volume are encouraged to submit articles and reviews via e-mail to editors@peritia.ie before the end of June 2015. Submissions after this date will be considered for volume 27 (2016). Before submitting, authors should familiarise themselves with our peer-review policies and style sheet.