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Transatlantic Cooperation in Research (TransCoop): Funding for Collaborative Research for Scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, and Law

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports transatlantic research cooperation between German, American and/or Canadian scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and law. Joint research initiatives can receive up to 55,000 EUR over a three-year period.

Funding Information:

Funds can be used:

-to finance short-term research visits lasting up to three months.

-to organize conferences and workshops.

-for material, equipment and printing costs.

-for a limited amount of research assistance.

Up to fifteen percent of the TransCoop funds granted can be earmarked for the German partner institution and used as an administrative lump-sum. U.S. or Canadian sources must match funds from the TransCoop Program.

Application Information: Applications should be submitted jointly by at least one German and one U.S. and/or Canadian scholar. A Ph.D. is required of both applicants. Applications are accepted biannually, with deadlines of 30 April and 31 October. Applications and detailed information can be found on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation webpage (http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/8175.html).

Call for proposals

Rebecca Flynn and Salvatore Musumeci are seeking proposals for a new collection of essays entitled Spaces of Consumption and Disposable Culture: A Material Dialogue in Medieval Europe (c.1100–1500). This volume will explore the ways in which private or public acts of consumption during the medieval period define relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit. Proposals concerning the use/consumption of material goods (culture) and how such consumptions relate to gender and power will be of particular interest. We would like the essays in this volume to cover but not necessarily be limited to the following:

---the body: speech; body language (facial expressions, gesticulations, postures, mannerisms, etiquette); fashion/costume (religious habits, uniforms, jewelry, ornament, cosmetics, sumptuary laws, fabric)

---space: personal (private); public; sacred/profane; domestic dwellings; furnishings/implements; architectural structures (interior/exterior); landscapes

---gender/sexuality: expressions/visual signs of masculinity and femininity; cultural assumptions about gender; attitudes toward sexual practices and preferences

---human activities: “work” of medieval people; making of material culture (and for what purpose); prayer; pastimes/leisure, games, reading, writing; travel, pilgrimage; taverns/inns (drunkenness), feasts/fasting; consumption patterns (traditions/rituals)

We invite submissions from various disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and comparative perspectives, focusing on individuals, single sects, or groups. If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please send your cv and a 250–500 word abstract of your proposed essay including your theoretical framework and your primary sources to Rebecca.Flynn@usiouxfalls.edu and Salvatore.Musumeci@usiouxfalls.edu by 1 June 2009.

Reframing Medieval Art, by Madeline Caviness

Reframing Medieval Art: Difference, Margins, Boundaries, by Madeline Caviness, a companion volume to her Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy Philadelphia: (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), is available online, but unfortunately itsURL has recently been changed. It may now be accessed at http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/Caviness/

Reading Dante's Paradiso with Robert Hollander

Presupposing an acquaintance with Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, this course examines key texts in the third cantica of the Divine Comedy, which presents the final voyage (through the heavens) and the final vision (of God) in this extraordinary poem. Despite the theological interests in the poem itself, our approach concerns art rather than theology, and our attention is almost always centered on particular passages. The Princeton Dante Project is a resource.

Robert Hollander, a professor emeritus in European literature at Princeton University, has written many books and articles about Dante. He directs both the Dartmouth University and Princeton Dante Projects.

First Session: Sunday, 29 Mar 2009, 2:00–5:00 pm

Sessions: 6

Price: $400.00 To register, call 212-415-5500, stop by the Y Box Office, or visit: http://www.92y.org/shop/class_detail.asp?category=Tisch+Center+for+the+Arts888Unterberg+Poetry+Center888UPC+Writing+Program888Literary+Seminars888&productid=TP3LS13

Contact: Ricardo Maldonado, Asst. to the Director, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10128

8–11 October 2009. The sixth Medieval History Seminar, sponsored by German Historical Institute, to be held in London. The seminar is designed to bring together American, British and German Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2007–2008) in medieval history (broadly defined) for a weekend of scholarly discussion and collaboration.

Having been a part of this seminar since its inception, I can testify to how useful the experience has been for both the Anglophone and Germanophone students who have participated through the years. Students need not be working on "German history," and their German need not be perfect. However the seminar provides a unique opportunity for students to encounter the rising generation of young medievalists in Germany. This year we have received some excellent applications, but we are frankly disappointed with the number. Therefore the GHI has decided to extend the deadline for applications to 15 February 2009. If you have any advanced graduate students or recent PhDs who would like to receive positive feedback on their work from their German contemporaries, as well as from Michael Borgolte (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Frank Rexroth (Universität Göttingen), Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University Chicago), Dame Janet L. Nelson (King's College London), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London), and myself, please encourage them to apply. Full information on the program can be found on the GHI website (http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=528&Itemid=260). Write or e-mail for more information: Prof. Patrick Geary at the Collegium Budapest, Szentháromság utca 2., H-1014 Budapest, Hungary, February through March (geary@ucla.edu).

Towards a French History of Universal Values: Charity, Human Rights and Humanitarianism

The editors of French Historical Studies seek articles for a special issue on French genealogies of universal values and universalist politics such as charity, human rights and humanitarian aid. The focus can either be on the development of ideas and concepts or on the practical developments arising from practices of relief work. Articles on research topics covering all chronological periods are welcome. Among other possibilities, we invite articles treating the following topics:

- Reflection on a theology of compassion and the relationship between theological doctrine and social practice.

- The impact of space and distance (social, geographical, colonial/post-colonial) on ideas and practices.

- The cultural impact of narratives of relief work on French society, politics and religion

- The genealogy of the development of French notions of universalist politics. " The tension between rights based and charity based understandings of the social.

- The role and relations between state and non-state agents (or religious versus secular) in the development of charitable and humanitarian work.

- The role and nature of formal, institutional charity versus informal, familial or neighborly charity.

- The gender and racial dimensions of relief work.

- The relationship between cultural experience (i.e. reading) and social/political concepts like human rights.

Queries regarding submissions and all other matters should be addressed to the guest editors, Bertrand Taithe (bertrand.taithe@manchester.ac.uk) and Adam Davis (davisaj@denison.edu). Articles may be either in English or in French but must conform to French Historical Studies style (see http://fhs.umn.edu/ for details) and must be accompanied by 150 word abstracts in both languages. Papers should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words (up to but not longer than 14,000 words including notes). For the inclusion of illustrations written permission must be obtained from the relevant persons or institutions for print and on-line publication.

Manuscripts can be sent by post or electronically to Marina Calas, Managing Assistant, French Historical Studies, Dept. of History, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 614 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 (frhistst@umn.edu) We encourage, but do not require, electronic submission of manuscripts. Manuscripts submitted electronically should be sent in MS Word or Rich Text Format (RTF). The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2009.

McGill University Post-Doc

The research group "Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Textual Cultures" (TTT), Faculty of Arts, McGill University, seeks applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, starting 1 August 2009. We are a six-member interdisciplinary research team supported by the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), and consisting in Professors Robert Wisnovsky (Islamic Studies-Principal Investigator), Jamie Fumo (English), Carlos Fraenkel (Jewish Studies/Philosophy), F. Jamil Ragep (Islamic Studies), Sebastian Sobecki (English) and Faith Wallis (History).

We are looking for a scholar who has completed a doctorate in a humanistic discipline on a topic related to the processes by which the textual cultures of medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam re-shaped the legacies of Greco-Roman antiquity and the ancient Near East. We are particularly interested in scholars who study how cultural forms were transmitted from Antiquity to the Middle Ages or between medieval cultures, translated (literally and metaphorically) into the learned idiom of the recipient culture, and transformed into new cultural productions.

The responsibilities of the postdoctoral fellow will include conducting research in his/her field of specialization, and co-teaching a graduate research seminar on Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Textual Cultures, with substantial participation from each of the current members of the group and colleagues from McGill and other Montreal universities. The postdoctoral fellow will be given a stipend of $38,000 p.a., and provided with the use of a shared office and a research/travel fund of $2,000 p.a.

Please send a CV, a letter detailing your doctoral work and future research plans, a sample chapter from your dissertation, and two letters of reference (one of which must be from your doctoral supervisor), to Prof. R. Wisnovsky, Principal Investigator, TTT Research Group, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, 3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1Y1, Canada. The general requirements for postdoctoral status at McGill are outlined on the McGill website (http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdoc/genguide/). Informal inquiries may be directed to Prof. Wisnovsky (robert.wisnovsky@mcgill.ca). Application deadline: 12 December 2008.

The Medieval Institute offers a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for a junior scholar in Medieval Studies, made possible through the generous response of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to a challenge grant awarded to Notre Dame by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The fellowship will permit an outstanding young scholar in any field of medieval studies to continue his or her research while in residence at Notre Dame's Medieval Institute during the academic year 2009-2010.

The Mellon Fellow's principal obligation will be to pursue his or her research. Though the Fellowship carries no teaching responsibilities, it is expected that the Fellow will take advantage of the opportunity to participate in the intellectual life of the Institute and the multidisciplinary activities that it sponsors for the medievalist community at Notre Dame. The Fellow will be provided with an office in the Medieval Institute, full library and computer privileges, and access to the Institute's research tools. The Fellow will be expected to reside in South Bend.

Eligibility: Mellon scholars must hold a regular appointment at a U.S. institution and plan to return to their institution following their fellowship year. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand as of the application date and must not be more than five years beyond the Ph.D.

Stipend: $40,000

Application deadline: January 15, 2009

Application procedure: There is no special application form. Rather, applicants should submit a narrative of no more than five pages describing their proposed research, indicating how it builds on existing scholarship, and suggesting how it will benefit from broader interdisciplinary studies. Applicants should also submit a current curriculum vitae and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to the Medieval Institute by the January 15 deadline. Announcement of the selection will be made approximately in mid-February. Please send applications to the address below:

Mellon Fellowship Coordinator, Medieval Institute, 715 Hesburgh Library, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556. For further information, contact Roberta Baranowski, (574-631-8304; fax 574-631-8644; Roberta.Baranowski.7@nd.edu).

Cal Tech Post-Doc

Two-Year Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor Appointment in medieval history, with a particular interest in the social and political history, broadly construed, of Europe between ca. 500 and ca. 1100. The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Caltech invites applications for this appointment, which will begin in the Fall of 2009. The position is contingent upon completion of Ph.D. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct his or her own research, to participate regularly in the intellectual life of the Division, and to take part in the quarterly California Medieval History Seminar at the Huntington Library. The teaching load is two undergraduate courses at Caltech per year. Please apply electronically at http://jobs.hss.caltech.edu/ or send letter of application, vita, dossier with at least three letters of recommendation, and thesis abstract to: Search Chair, Caltech- Huntington Postdoctoral Instructorship, Caltech 101-40, Pasadena, CA 91125. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Caltech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women, minor ities, veterans, and disabled persons are encouraged to apply.

NEH Summer Seminar

Monica Green (Arizona State University) and Walton O. Schalick, III (University of Wisconsin) have received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to run a Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers in London next summer, July 5 - August 8, 2009. Based at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London, and the Wellcome Library, the seminar, Disease in the Middle Ages, will gather scholars from across the disciplines interested in questions of health, disease and disability in medieval Europe. A primary goal will be to explore how the new scientific technologies of identifying pathogens (particularly leprosy and plague) can inform traditional, humanistic methods (historical, literary, art historical, and linguistic) of understanding cultural responses to disease and disability. A stipend of $3800 is provided to all participants. Deadline for applications is March 2, 2009. For further information, contact the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), 4th Floor, Lattie F. Coor Hall, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402, Phone: (480) 965-4661, Fax: (480) 965-1681, MedievalSeminar2009@asu.edu, http://medievalseminar2009.asu.edu

Invitation to collaborate

Ann Buckley is seeking collaboration with colleagues working on saints' cults as expressions of regional identity, and in long-term historical perspective, under the following headings:

a) repertory: uses of liturgical texts and music, and how these may have varied or changed over time and space;

b) social-political contexts: the history of individual cults: how they arose, were transmitted, altered, or discontinued; questions might include issues of identity, spiritual devotion, local politics, economics. She would welcome ideas from other colleagues, and especially those who might be interested in developing a collaborative, interdisciplinary project, possibly to include the establishment of an online database / discussion group.

Depending on the response, she would be willing to convene a sub-group for this project at the CARMEN meeting in Poitiers in September. Send replies to: Ann Buckley, Dept. of Music, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland (Ann.Buckley@nuim.ie).

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships designed to provide financial and intellectual support for outstanding scholars at the beginning of their professional careers. Up to three Fellows in the Humanities* will be selected each year for a two-year fellowship in the new JHI. Fellows will be selected on the basis of accomplishment appropriate to their stage in their career, the promise of excellence and the relevance of their research to the annual theme.

*The JHI interprets "Humanities" as a broad category including political theory, interpretative social science, music and the arts.

The theme for 2009-10 is: Pressures on the Human

Today humanists must contend with a fundamental question: Is the object of our scholarship - Humanity - still a valid category? This question arises from pressures that challenge the distinctions that make us human beings. Some of these pressures arise from science, medicine, and technology: how are we to understand the distinction of being human when our physical activities can be recognized as part of animal biology, when our physical make-up is governed by the biochemistry of DNA, when our mental capacities are interwoven with those of computers and artificial intelligence? Can progress in medicine and technology replace the various functions that have historically and theoretically made the human distinct? Using various approaches to study the artistic and scholarly records of the past and present, humanities scholars explore these pressures.

The Fellows will pursue their individual research in the context of the JHI. They will have offices at the JHI and will participate in weekly seminars and other activities in the circle of fellows. In addition, each Fellow will be affiliated with a Department and will teach one course each term of their two-year fellowship. We are especially interested in candidates who have an interest in and capacity for interdisciplinary work of a high quality The Fellowship provides an annual $50,000 (Canadian) stipend.

We invite applications from qualified candidates for fellowships to begin 1 July 2009. Applicants and referees are to send these application materials electronically to: humanities@chass.utoronto.ca by Monday, December 1, 2008. For submission guidelines, please visit http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/proposals.html. Awards will be announced in March 2009.

Eligibility: Eligible applicants must have successfully defended their PhD after July 2006 and prior to May 1, 2009. Applicants who will successfully defend their Ph.D. degree by May 1, 2009 are eligible and any award will be conditional on a successful defense. Such applicants must also include a letter of confirmation from their supervisor and the Chair of their Department. Degree candidates and recipients of the Ph.D. from The University of Toronto are ineligible. Fellowships are open to citizens of Canada, the United States, and other nations. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Application Procedure: Please submit the following materials electronically by December 1, 2008.

1. A two- to four-page letter of application, including a statement of current research interests related to the theme, Pressures on the Human, (outlining the research to be undertaken during the term of fellowship).

2. A full curriculum vita.

3. Three letters of recommendation are to be submitted directly by your referees (candidates should arrange to have the three letters of reference sent electronically by the deadline).

4. Copies of published work, extracts from dissertation, or drafts of work in progress (not to exceed 25-30 pages).

5. A two-to four-page statement of teaching interests (including course proposals).

For any questions or further information, please contact Robert Gibbs, Director of the JHI, by e-mail at humanities@chass.utoronto.ca or see the website: www.humanities.utoronto.ca

Medieval Technology and American History

Below is a link to a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded website, "Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History," which is part of the NEH "We the People Project" in American history. This website was developed by the Center for Medieval Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, in collaboration with the colleges of Liberal Arts, Agriculture, Engineering and Education at Penn State. It is an interdisciplinary website dealing with the technologies of milling and iron making as the colonists adapted medieval technology to conditions in the new world. Edsitement has recently selected the website as one of the best on-line resources for education in the humanities after meeting the criteria for intellectual quality, content, design, and classroom impact.

The site contains materials primarily appropriate for grades 6–12 with a strong emphasis on social studies, as well as science, literature, the arts and mathematics. The site also features a wealth of textual and visual materials, including a film on a Viking Age iron smelt, projects such as building a functioning clay bread oven in two sizes and a wealth of pictures from English and Colonial American Historical sites, as well as original documents. Textual materials include short essays called "one minutes essays" and in-depth articles to give the teacher more background. All material is marked with icons indicating subject matter, as well as presence of original documents and lesson plans.

http://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/

Questions may be directed to Vickie Ziegler, Dir., Center for Medieval Studies, Pennsylvania State University (vlz1@psu.edu).

Call for Essays

Reel Worlds of Beowulf: Representations of Beowulfiana on Electronic Multimedia, organized by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages.

The Beowulf story has a long (though neglected) history on film and televsion, beginning with a broadcast in the 1960s on the BBC's Jackanory. For this collection, we are interested in expanding knowledge about these filmic retellings and adaptations of Beowulf. We would be especially delighted to consider discussions of material in video and computer games and of productions created outside North America. Submit proposals by 1 September 2008. completed papers will be due by 1 May 2009.

Please submit full contact information, titles, c.v., and abstracts of 300–500 words to the organizers. Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture, 34 2nd St., Smithfield, RI 02917-3627 (popular.culture.and.the. middle.ages@gmail.com; http://PopularCultureandtheMiddleAges.org).

Call for Essays

Getting Medieval on Television: Televisual Representations of Medieval Themes from Roar to the Tudors, organized by the Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages.

Television, like feature films, as a long history of representing medieval themes, yet, unlike film, these televisual medievalisms remain largely unexplored by medievalists. The intent of this collection is to expand knowledge of these ephemeral examples of the medieval, and we invite proposals that explore the corpus from the late antiquity of FOX-TV's Roar to the late Middle Ages of Showcase's The Tudors. We are especially interested in discussions of productions created outside North America.

Please submit proposals by 1 September 2008; Completed papers will be due by 1 May 2009. Please submit full contact information, titles, c.v., and abstracts of 300–500 words to the organizers. Michael A. Torregrossa, Study of Popular Culture, 34 2nd St., Smithfield, RI 02917-3627 (Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com; http://PopularCultureand the MiddleAges.org).

Call for contributions

Formulas in Medieval English Language, Literature and Civilisation GRENDEL (IDEA) Research Group, Nancy-University, France. The aim of this call is to expand and enhance an essay collection based on the conference Formulas in Medieval English Language, Literature and Civilisation, which took place in Nancy (France) on 13–14 June 2008.

Formulaic writings or stories rely on the expected return of easily recognizable stylistic and/or generic devices. They imply repetition and variation, and thus raise the issue of individual expression in its relation to collective means and norms. The collection of essays compiled by the GRENDEL Research Group at Nancy-University will consider the formula in all its aspects. Possible topics include:

- linguistic/semantic studies

- literary use of formulas (e.g., oral-formulaic theory, literary genres)

- cultural/historical (e.g., legal formulas, magic formulas, rituals)

- diachronic/synchronic perspectives

- etc.

Formulas are present everywhere in medieval England, in literature of course, but also in language and culture, implying the notion of cliché, and more generally the relation between change and continuity, ritual and innovation, society and the individual. The essay collection will allow us to reflect on a mode of communication whose influence can be traced in most aspects of medieval language, literature and culture. This will provide an opportunity to analyse medieval modes of expression and assess their effects on contemporary thought and philosophy.

Proposals (title and an abstract of about 300 words) should be sent by e-mail to Colette Stevanovitch (Colette.Stevanovitch_at_univ-nancy2.fr) by 15 September 2008. Completed papers (about 4,000 words) are expected by 15 November 2008.

New Journal

The Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies is a new interdisciplinary journal for innovative scholarship on the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures of the Iberian Peninsula from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. JMIS encompasses archaeology, art and architecture, music, philosophy and religious studies, as well as history, codicology, manuscript studies, and the multiple Arabic, Latin, Romance, and Hebrew linguistic and literary traditions of Iberia.

Essays that engage with multiple disciplinary perspectives, non-traditional submissions (including multimedia and theoretically attuned work), and comparative articles addressing the significance for medieval Iberian studies of broader developments in medieval European, colonial Latin American, Peninsular, or North African studies—and vice-versa—are strongly encouraged.

JMIS, which is supported in part by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University and by Hofstra University, will be published twice a year, with occasional thematic clusters.

Submissions for consideration must be prepared in Chicago "humanities" style and should not exceed 7,000 words. Shorter pieces and non-traditional submissions are welcomed.Send an original and three copies to JMIS, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432; an electronic file should be submitted simultaneously to simon.doubleday@hofstra.edu and to pablo.pastrana@wmich.edu. Submissions in English are preferred; submissions in other languages may be accepted at the discretion of the editors. For further information or to receive a free sample copy, please contact Charlotte Mora, Senior Marketing Executive, Routledge (Charlotte.Mora@tandf.co.uk).

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory.

Glossator is an peer-reviewed open-access journal, sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY. It is available online (http://glossator.org).

Editors: Nicola Masciandaro (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Karl Steel (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Ryan Dobran (Brooklyn College, CUNY). Section Editors: Erik Butler (Emory University), Mary Ann Caws (Graduate Center, CUNY), Alan Clinton (Georgia Institute of Technology), David Greetham (Graduate Center, CUNY), Bruno Gullí (Long Island University), Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University), Jason Houston (University of Oklahoma), Eileen A. Joy (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville), Sean McCarthy (Lehman College, CUNY), Sherry Roush (Penn State University), Michael Sargent (Graduate Center, CUNY), Michael Stone-Richards (College for Creative Studies), Frans van Liere (Calvin College), Jesús R. Velasco (UC Berkeley), Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Chiba University).

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Editors invite submissions for the first volume of Glossator, to be published in 2009. Glossator welcomes work from all disciplines, but especially from fields with strong affiliations with the commentary genre: philosophy, literary theory and criticism, textual and manuscript studies, hermeneutics, exegesis, et al. What is commentary? While the distinction between commentary and other forms of writing is not an absolute one, the following may serve as guidelines for distinguishing between what is and is not a commentary:

1. A commentary focuses on a single object (text, image, event, etc.) or portion thereof.

2. A commentary does not displace but rather shapes itself to and preserves the integrity, structure, and presence of its object.

3. The relationship of a commentary to its object may be described as both parallel and perpendicular. Commentary is parallel to its object in that it moves with or runs alongside it, following the flow of reading it. Commentary is perpendicular to its object in that it pauses or breaks from reading it in order to comment on it. The combination of these dimensions gives commentary a structure of continuing discontinuity, which allows it to be consulted or read intermittently rather than start to finish.

4. Commentary tends to maintain a certain quantitative proportion of itself vis-à-vis its object. This tendency corresponds to the practice of "filling up the margins" of a text.

5. Commentary, as a form of discourse, tends to favor and allow for the multiplication of meanings, ideas, and references.

Commentary need not, and generally does not, have an explicit thesis or argument. This tendency gives commentary a ludic or auto-teleological potential. Possible submissions include: critical, philological, and/or bibliographic commentaries on texts, art, music, events, and other kinds of objects. Editions and translations of commentaries, glosses, annotation, and marginalia. Historical, theoretical, and/or critical articles and essays on commentary and commentary traditions. Experimental and/or fictional commentaries and self-commentaries. Submission Deadline: 31 October 2008 Queries may be directed to Nicola Masciandaro (nicolam@brooklyn.cuny.edu)

Nous ne faisons que nous entregloser -Montaigne

Postdoctoral Fellowships 2009–2010

Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of post-doctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2009–2010. We invite applications from qualified candidates who have received the Ph.D. between 1 January 2005 and 1 July 2009. Fellows are appointed as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University and as postdoctoral research fellows. The fellowship is renewable for a second and third year. In the first year, Fellows teach one course per semester: at least one of these courses will be in the undergraduate general education program of the University. In years two and three, Fellows teach one course per year. In addition to teaching and research, the duties of Fellows include attendance at the Society's lectures and events as well as active participation in the intellectual life of the Society and of the department with which the Fellow is affiliated.

The annual stipend will be $55,000. Each Fellow will also receive a research allowance of $4,000 per annum. Our online application form can be accessed at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows. The deadline for receipt of completed applications is 6 October 2008.

New M.A.: Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures

Announcing the launch of a new M.A. at the University of East Anglia (U.K.) in Medieval and Early Modern Textual Cultures, 1381–1688. This MA offers the opportunity to study Medieval and Early Modern literature in its wider critical and cultural contexts and to develop an awareness of methodologies that scholars use to access this material. The course consists of specialist Medieval and Early Modern options, extended examination of continuities and change in form and genre across the period, and elective interdisciplinary modules.

The city of Norwich provides a magnificent living history resource for studying the material culture and political, religious and social history of the period and is the perfect base for using archival resources at the Cathedral Library and Norfolk and Suffolk Record offices. The course takes one year of full-time or two years of part-time study.

For international students UEA provides an International Scholarship Fund. UEA has a prominent international reputation for research and teaching and has consistently been in the UK top five for student satisfaction. For further details about the course, contact Dr Matthew Woodcock, School of Literature and Creative Writing, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. (matthew.woodcock@uea.ac.uk).

Scriptorium: Medieval & Early Modern Manuscripts Online

Phase 1 of Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online,
an AHRC-funded project based at the Faculty of English, Cambridge University, has now been launched.

http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk

Scriptorium will comprise full digital facsimiles of at least twenty late
medieval and early modern manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books,
along with descriptions, transcriptions, and bibliographical information; a
set of research and teaching resources for students and scholars working on
manuscript studies; and an enhanced version of "English Handwriting: An
Online Course," our interactive palaeography tool:

http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/

All parts of the site will remain freely and publicly available.

Currently, the resource includes images of St Johns College, Cambridge, MS
S.23, an early seventeenth-century poetic miscellany. More images and
information will be added progressively in the coming weeks and months, as
the site is enhanced, expanded, and developed.

New Internet Resource from Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies

The Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University is pleased to announce the launch of a new website for students, teachers, scholars, and enthusiasts of the Middle Ages.

The Online Medieval Sources Bibliography (OMSB), found at http://medievalsourcesbibliography.org, is a searchable database of texts that were written in the Middle Ages and are now available in modern editions and translations, printed or online.

We seek to include a wide array of sources: literary works, devotional treatises, philosophical writings, private letters, wills, household accounts, chronicles, court proceedings, church records, and a host of other documents. The bibliography provides fully annotated entries that include information on the genre, subject keywords, authors, manuscript sources, and contents of the original text, as well as a description of the introduction, appendices, editorial conventions, and scholarly apparatus of the modern edition, so that users from all backgrounds can evaluate the suitability of the modern edition to their needs.

Begun in the Summer of 2003, the OMSB now contains about 2,500 items, nearly 1,000 of which are on-line texts. The bibliography will continue to grow in scale and scope, and we welcome your suggestions for sources to include and your feedback as it expands.

New Electronic Journal: Different Visions

Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art (http:// www.differentvisions.org), an open source, peer-reviewed journal, is currently soliciting submissions for the second issue, to be published in 2008. The journal's focus is medieval visual culture, approached through diverse contemporary theoretical frameworks. It was be published on at least an annual basis (or more frequently, depending on the number of submissions. The first issue, which will be published by the fall of 2007, will feature some of the papers delivered in the ICMA-sponsored sessions at the Medieval Congress held at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2006 on "Madeline Caviness's 'Triangulatory' Approach to Medieval Art." The guest editor for this issue is Corine Schleif. For more information, contact Rachel Dressler, ed., Art Dept., FA 214, Univ. of Albany, Albany, NY 12222 (dressler@albany.edu).

ACLS Humanities
E-Book

The American Council of Learned Societies announces that ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) will soon be hosting an electronic version of the complete Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, edited by Paul Oskar Kristeller, F. Edward Cranz, and Virginia Brown and published by the Catholic University of America Press. Volumes will be full text and reproduced exactly as published. Vols. 1- 6 will be available some time in the spring or summer of 2008. Vols. 7 and 8 will be issued in electronic form thereafter. The entire collection will be cross-searchable and accessed either through general searches of HEB or as a discrete series. This will allow scholars to use the CTC either as a tool in itself or within the context of broader searches of HEB's collection. The electronic edition will also afford the scholarly community the ongoing opportunity to suggest corrigenda and addenda. The CTC will be included at no extra charge to faculty, students or library patrons of HEB subscribing institutions and to individuals who have purchased access to the entire HEB collection for the regular $35 annual fee through the scholarly societies that offer this as an additional benefit of membership. These currently include the American Historical Association, the Middle East Studies Association, and the Renaissance Society of America. HEB also includes nearly 500 titles in ancient, medieval and Renaissance, and early modern studies.

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Certificate

A new Medieval and Renaissance Studies Certificate as been initiated at Wichita State University to begin in the Fall of 2006. This certificate will allow students to explore the diversity of European culture and receive credit for doing so. This undergraduate program coordinates the literary, artistic, and historical study of a major formative period in world history. Interdisciplinary in nature, the program draws from WSU's course offerings in Art History, Literature, Music, Languages, Political Science, and History, promoting a broad-based understanding of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

English Heritage Historical Review Launched

English Heritage Historical Review will publish the results of research funded by English Heritage, most of which concerns the 420 or so properties owned or managed by English Heritage. The first issue contains 10 papers, including a paper on the dating of the saxon door that now serves the vestibule of the 1250 Chapter House at Westminster Abbey, but which probably came from Edward the Confessor's original abbey. Subscriptions are £20 (ehsales@gillards.com).

New International Centre for the Study of Wood-Carving

Announcement of the official opening of CISSAL, Centro Internazionale di Studi sulla Scultura e l'Arredo in Legno (The International Centre for the Study of Wood-Carving) of the Institute of Art History and Aesthetics at the University of Urbino. The Centre promotes research on wood-carving from the Medieval to the Contemporary period. CISSAL's mission is to support work in the disciplines of art history, wood-carving techniques, conservation, restoration, archives and documentation at the regional, national and international levels through meetings, seminars, publications, exhibitions. Among the Centre's specific objectives are to create a specialized library and to acquire monographs and literature on wood-carving, to make photostatic reproductions of articles and out-of-print books, to collect and catalogue materials using up-to-date methods of information technology in order to complement existing card catalogues, to create an electronic database identifying relevant local records and photographs, and to publish and diffuse the results of studies in our publication "Lignum" and/or the publication of meeting notes and/or exhibition catalogues as well as through our website (currently under construction), to support studies and research on subjects pertinent to our mission including research and teaching as regards faculty, course study in the context of degree programs, institutes and departments of the University of Urbino as well as other universities and Italian and foreign institutions, local, regional and provincial government agencies with regard to wood-carving. Anyone interested in these areas of study who would like to work with us at the Centre as partner or sponsor, or simply express an opinion on this initiative, should contact Maria Fachechi (fachechi@uniurb.it or fachechi@yahoo.com). Maria Fachechi, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte e di Estetica, Università degli Studi di Urbino, Via Bramante 17, 61029 Urbino (PU), Italy.

Special Issue on Erasmus of Rotterdam

The forthcoming number of the journal Ars et humanitas will be dedicated to Erasmus of Rotterdam, and articles (up to c. 16 pages) are welcomed until 15 September 2007. Issues in 2008 and later will be dedicated to Platina, the Birth of Europe, Satira (each number has one leading theme with c. 10 articles). Contributions in English, German, French and Italian are accepted. Contact: Natasa Golob (natasa.golob@ff.uni-lj.si).

New series: Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica Sloveniae

In autumn 2007 the first two volumes of a new series of Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica Sloveniae will be published. This collection of studies will discuss manuscripts and printed books to 1800 and will remain open to various disciplines. Volumes will concentrate on (a) specific studies, (b) catalogues of ecclesiastical collections, and (c) catalogues of different types of data. All volumes will be published in two languages (Slovenian and one major European language). The two volumes are in preparation are Luka Vidmar, Books on Roman antiquity from the private libraries of members of the Accademia Operosorum (c. 1700), and Felicijan Pevec, Ines Jerele, and Natasa Golob, Medieval manuscripts, fragments and early prints (up to 1600) from the Franciscan monastery Novo Mesto.

For 2008 two further volumes are planned: Sonja Svoljiak, The Library of Franciscan guardian Sigismund Skerpin (1750-1790), and Uria Ponikvar and Natasa Golob, Decorative bindings from the Cistercian monastery Stièna (Sitticium) up to 1550.

The catalogue Mittelalterliche Handschriften aus Kartause Seitz 1160–1560 is now available [in German], through Narodna galerija Ljubljana (info@ng-slo.si; http://www.ng-slo.si); c. 33 Euros, 146 pages, and c. 100 illustrations.

Cursor Mundi: Viator Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern World

Conceived as a companion to the journal Viator, Cursor Mundi is a new series of book-length studies of the medieval and early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like Viator, Cursor Mundi will bring together outstanding work by medieval and early modern scholars from a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing studies which focus on processes such as cultural exchange or the course of an idea through the centuries, and including investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of Europe and the Mediterranean. Cursor Mundi will be published by Brepols Publishers under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

The general editor is Christopher Baswell. Direct inquiries and manuscript proposals to Cursor Mundi executive editor, Blair Sullivan (310-825-1537; fax 310-825-0655; sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu).

New Journal: Fons luminis

Fons luminis is a new peer-reviewed journal of Medieval Studies, published semi-annually in coordination with the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. The editors are seeking submissions of articles from all areas, especially those with an interdisciplinary emphasis. Junior faculty and graduate students are particularly encouraged to submit. The deadline for submissions for the Spring issue is 1 January; the deadline for the Autumn issue is 1 June. Articles should be around 8,000 words, and should follow the Speculum stylesheet. Electronic submissions are preferred.

Submissions and subscription enquiries should be sent to Victoria Goddard and Andrew Reeves, Editors in Chief, Fons Luminis, Centre for Medieval Studies, 39 Queen's Park Cresc. E., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3, Canada (edsfl@chass.utoronto.ca; http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/fonsluminis).

New German Association for Transcultural Studies in Pre-modern History

In the current German academic system historians working in fields outside the "established" limits of European history often find themselves put into the corner of "exotic" outsiders, which is even true for people working in the very few institutes of eastern European or world history. The old "western" model is still very strong; however, at present some change seems to be under way, marked by increasing interest in transcultural and transnational as well as global history. These innovative approaches though mostly confined to historians working on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have resulted in intense discussions on the potentials of comparative analysis for historical scholarship.

In order to meet these challenges, some younger German historians have recently founded a network aiming at providing a forum for those working on transcultural topics in pre-modern history. We would especially welcome participants who feel at home with the methodological standards of historical studies, combining their historical profession with an interest in regions, religions and peoples who are not regularly included in the established agenda of German historical academics: historians working with Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Byzantine, Jewish, Indian, or other sources. Our objective is to create a forum for scholars whose contributions meet with a certain amount of scepticism with regard to their academic prospects within "general" historical studies. We turn especially to those working with primary sources (not only) written in languages outside the traditional canon of historical studies, focussed on central and western Europe.

The founding members (Dorothea Weltecke, Göttingen; Almut Höfert, Basel; Jenny Rahel Oesterle, Münster; Wolfram Drews, Bonn) would welcome participants and contributors at their next meeting scheduled to take place next spring in Göttingen. We will have one or two scholarly papers and a detailed discussion on projects and future plans. Enquiries will be answered by Dr. Wolfram Drews, Universität Bonn (wdrews@uni-bonn.de).

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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History

Beginning with volume 4, 3rd series (2006), the editors of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History will be Roger Dahood and Peter E. Medine. The journal is published annually by AMS Press (New York) under the auspices of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). We review submissions year round. Because our aim is to publish shortly before the ACMRS conference in February of each year, the deadline for acceptances in the following year's volume is 1 June. We seek typescripts from c. 20 to c. 90 double-spaced pages in length on all aspects of medieval and early modern history: historiographical essays, translations, commentaries on texts, research notes, and manuscript, codicological, and bibliographical studies. From language and literature scholars we invite, in addition to the above, interpretive essays rooted in historical investigation.

Submissions should follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2003) but omit names of book publishers from citations. Pictures accompanying submissions should be clear photocopies. When an article is accepted, authors will be expected to provide 5 x 7 or 8.5 x 11 black-and-white glossy photographs and all necessary permissions. Digital images (in .tif or .eps format) are acceptable in place of glossy photographs. Essays should be submitted in one digital and two printed copies. The digital copy should be sent as an attachment in rich text format (.rtf) to rdahood@u.arizona.edu (medieval) or medine@u.arizona.edu (Renaissance/early modern). Send printed copies to the appropriate editor at the Dept. of English, Modern Languages Bldg. #67, P.O. Box 210067, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

The City and Urban Life

Contributors are invited to provide either the "Chronological Overviews" or the "City Descriptions" (or both) described below. They will be knowledgeable about urban life, with demonstrated expertise in such areas as history, geography, sociology, economic history, or archaeology; an academic affiliation is not required.

The target audience is high school and college students. The City will trace the development of urban places from the first cities to the present day. Every significant urban place will be included, both recent foundations and the ruined cities of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. The data will be presented in approximately two dozen separate sections, each devoted to one geographical region. For each of these sections, The City will provide two types of information: a chronological overview and brief descriptions of individual cities in that region. Each geographical section will begin with an essay (7,000 to 28,000 words), describing institutions and historical developments shared by all cities in that region. Each section will continue with brief descriptions (150 to 800 words, arranged alphabetically) of significant cities, whether still existing or extinct. It is intended that the two sections work together synergistically. Each contributor will receive full authorial credit, a modest monetary payment, and/or a complete set copy of The City.

A complete list of all the geographical sections into which The City is divided is available on request, as is also information describing the scope of the introductory essay(s), listing the names of all cities that will be the subject of individual descriptive entries, and the "Guidelines for Contributors."

Contact: Jan Rogozinski (jan814@bellsouth.net), attaching an up-to-date resume and writing samples and indicating which geographical regions (or countries) and which eras you are interested in writing about. Preferred formats for messages are WordPerfect, Word, and Rich Text Format. Please put your name and address inside all e-mail messages, and please put your name in the subject line of your e-mails. Please label attachments to e-mail messages, giving your name and a description of the contents.

The Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium

Core Faculty Committee: Patricia Dailey, Columbia University, Kathleen Davis, Princeton University, Stacy Klein, Rutgers University, Haruko Momma, New York UniversitySponsored by: The Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; The Dean of the Humanities, New York University; The Department of English, Princeton University; The Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University; The Department of English, Rutgers University.

Contact: David F. Johnson, Executive Director, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Director, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities, 205 Dodd Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 (850-644-0314; fax: 850-644-1139).

Pegasus Press

The goal of the press has been to publish quality paperbacks in all areas of Medieval and Renaissance studies at modest cost, and the editor is always open to proposals for texts and supplementary works suitable for undergraduate and graduate studies. The list includes three series: Early European Drama in Translation, the Pegasus Shakespeare Bibliographies, and Spanish Classical Texts (texts such as Samuel Daniel's poetry and Defense of Rhyme, The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler, a verse translation of Petrarch's Canzoniere, and the A-text of Piers Plowman; as well as anthologies such as Medieval Welsh Poems and Fabliaux, Fair and Foul, both in verse translation). Pegasus also publishes substantial collections of essays and has also published the first low-cost paleographical handbook, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual.

Pegasus continues to seek proposals for books such as those described above, but, thanks to substantial developments in very-small-run printing. the press now also wants proposals for the kinds of books that it might not have been able to consider in the past. How about that minor poet you've always wanted to include on your syllabus but had to send your students to the library to read? Or that important fifteenth-century book that's never had a modern edition or translation? Or that guide you've done up for your own students and which ought to have wider circulation? Send proposals to Mario A. Di Cesare 101 Booter Road, Fairview, NC 28730 (dicesare1@ mindspring.com).

Archive Division of the University of Montreal

The Archive Division of the University of Montreal owns personal papers of late professor Hugues Shooner concerning his lifetime project, the description of all the medieval manuscripts of Thomas Aquinas. It also holds the microfilm of Jean Destrez's notes concerning all the medieval manuscripts that he had examined for his famous research on the pecia. This material remains at the disposal of specialists. Contact: Univ. de Montréal, Division des Archives, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal H3C 3J7, Canada (archives@archiv.umontreal.ca).

Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA), which will be a resource of first resort on the general model of The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed., 1996) for all key aspects of European history, society, religion, and culture, c. 500 to c. 1500, is currently being compiled. The ODMA will consist of 1,300,000 words in four volumes with approximately 7,000 entries, 60 maps, and 550 illustrations. It has an international advisory board of five, an editorial board of twenty-six, and projected contributors of nearly 800. The complete, edited text is due to be delivered to the press in late 2006 with publication in 2007.

If you would like to write entries for any of the headwords (http://asu.edu/clas/acmrs/publications.html#ODMA) send an updated c.v. and a list of the entries of interest as an e-mail attachment c/o Robert E. Bjork, General Editor, to jennifer.michaud@asu.edu with 'ODMA' in the subject line. The press prefers that contributors write a minimum of 500 words, and all entries should be written in English. Only scholars already holding the doctorate or equivalent will generally be invited to contribute, but graduate students with a particularly strong expertise in an area in which the editors need help should ask their advisers to send a separate e-mail note indicating their willingness to oversee the work on the project. Contributors writing 4,000 words or 25 entries or more will receive a free copy of the ODMA.

Literary London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London

Literary London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London is the first and only refereed academic journal to provide a common forum for scholars and students engaged specifically in the study of London and literature. It is dedicated to fostering an intellectual community that will facilitate interdisciplinary exchange. While the editorial focus of the journal is on representations of London in literature, articles in cognate disciplines that will contribute to readings of London are very much encouraged. These subject areas might include readings of London in history, drama, film, geography, art history, architecture, urban sociology, painting and engraving, etc. The journal is mutually supportive of the annual conference of the same name with which is shares a common web address (http://www.literarylondon.org).

Literary London the journal is published twice a year in March and September. Volume 3 (2), which can be accessed on our Website (http:// www.literarylondon.org), is a special issue devoted to the work of important London writer Iain Sinclair guest edited by Dr Jenny Bavidge and Dr Robert Bond. Contact: Lawrence Phillips, Editor, Literary London Journal, Dept. of English, Liverpool Hope Univ., Hope Park, Liverpool L16 9JD, U.K. (+0151 2913560).

Scarecrow Press

The historical dictionary is roughly a one-volume encyclopedia consisting of a dictionary section with entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, battles and economic, social or cultural aspects as well as a chronology, introduction and bibliography. The total size could be some 250–300 printed pages for the War volume and 300–350 pages or even more for the Historical Eras volume.

Please note that the press is seeking authors and not editors or contributors; coauthorship would be possible. For further information on Scarecrow Press and its various series of historical dictionaries consult our website: http://www.scarecrowpress.com Prospective authors should write to the series editor and include a brief cv: Jon Woronoff, Scarecrow Press, 413 route de Vesegnin, 01280 Prevessin, France (jon.woronoff@tiscali.fr).

Women's Arts News

Ohio State University Press

Medieval Forum

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching

To ensure interdisciplinary consistency for SMART, contributors should format manuscripts according to the most recent edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Papers vary greatly in length but typically are at least seven double-spaced pages. Discursive notes should be held to a minimum to facilitate an easily readable text. The concept of intellectual rigor requires that information of the type often relegated to notes be integrated with the main discussion, while the practical needs of teachers require that information about texts and sources appropriate to students at all levels be included in the text or works cited. In balancing the need for documentation with that for practicality, we urge your cooperation.

Essays submitted for publication should be sent double-spaced in triplicate, along with an IBM-compatible file on disk to Kristie Bixby, General Editor, SMART, Academic Affairs and Research, Wichita State Univ. 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0013, (316-978-3735; fax 316-978-3739; kristie.bixby@wichita.edu).

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Medieval Northwestern Europe

Art de l’enluminure

Routledge Medieval Authors

Medica: The Society for the Study of Health and Healing in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Periods

New Perspectives on the Hundred Years War

The Árni Magnússon Institute and the Sigurður Nordal Institute

The Árni Magnússon Institute and the Sigurður Nordal Institute each have one apartment at their disposal, which they lease to scholars from abroad who are staying in Iceland for research purposes. For further information on the apartment offered by the Árni Magnússon Institute, contact them at Árnagarður Suðurgötu, 101 Reyjkavik, Iceland (011-354-525-4010; fax 011-354-525-4035; rosat@hi.is).

The Sigurður Nordal Institute has information about an apartment that is being leased by Snorrastofa (The Snorri Sturluson Research Centre). Scholars studying the works of Snorri Sturluson, medieval Iceland, or the history and culture of Borgarfjörður will be given priority. For further information about the Sigurður Nordal Institute apartment, contact Snorrastofa at 320 Reykholt, Iceland (011-354-435-1491; fax 354-435-1492; bergur@snorrastofa.is).