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The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has introduced an online database for its medieval and early modern manuscripts collection. The database includes more than 7,000 digital images and can be accessed at http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/pubmnem/

The medieval and early modern manuscripts collection contains 215 items dating from the 11th to the 17th centuries. It comprises items from various collections, including those of George Atherton Aitken, W. H. Crain, Carlton Lake, Edward A. Parsons, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Walter Emile Van Wijk, Evelyn Waugh, John Henry Wrenn and others.

The Ransom Center is digitizing all of the collection items, which will be added to the database as they are completed. At present, digital images are available for 27 of the items for a total of 7,288 pages.

The database contains item-level descriptions for all 215 items, and the collection is searchable by keyword and any combination of the following categories: name, country of origin, century, language, format (such as charters or diaries), subject and physical features (such as musical notation or wax seals).

The medieval and early modern manuscripts collection is a rich resource for many areas of research. Scholars may use the collection to trace typographical developments in printing, compare different versions of the same text or examine a manuscript's composition, decoration and binding to study the history of the book. The collection may also be valuable for those studying the history of liturgy and music.

The collection is particularly strong in humanistic manuscripts, vernacular literature and religious documents. Other represented subjects include alchemy, architecture, astronomy, botany, cartography, classical literature, diplomacy, drama, genealogy, government, heraldry, history, kings and rulers, law, mathematics, medicine, monasticism and religious orders, music, philosophy, poetry, science and war.

The earliest item in the collection is the Tegernsee Miscellany manuscript, an 11th-century Austrian codex of various texts compiled by Abbot Ellinger of Tegernsee. Other highlights include 11 Books of Hours, most notably the "Belleville Hours," and a 15th-century German ferial psalter and hymnal, significant because of its possible stylistic relationship to the Gutenberg Bible and early printed psalters. The collection contains classical texts, including copies of works by Cicero, Horace, Ovid and Plato, and medieval literary works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Dante and Petrarch.

The manuscripts represent numerous countries and historical regions, including Austria, Bohemia, Bolivia, Byzantium, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain and the United States. The represented languages include Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Middle English, Old English and Spanish.

The image inventory of the European royal and imperial documents before 1200 compiled by Irmgard Fees and Peter Worm has been updated and relaunched. You can find the new website at http://www.hgw-online.net/abbildungsverzeichnis/

In addition to the bibliographic reference of approximately 5.000 documents, the inventory links to online reproductions of books and particularly of the Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden at Marburg University. You can export the entries in an XML format according to the standard of the Charters Encoding Initiative (http://www.cei.lmu.de).

The Journal of Cyprus Studies will start a new period with the twin editors Netice Yildiz and Luca Zavagno with December 2010 issue. The Journal welcomes papers, book reviews or news and reports related to Cyprus topics for the forthcoming issues to be published in 2010.

The Journal of Cyprus Studies is a publication of EMU-CCS (Centre for Cyprus Studies). It is published biannually and is a multi-disciplinary, refereed and bilingual journal (both in English and Turkish) dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of Cyprus issues at global level. Papers submitted for consideration must focus on subject matter specific to the island of Cyprus and may include (but are not restricted to) the following areas of interest: archaeology, anthropology, architecture, history, art, history of art, linguistics, literature, music, law, economics, sociology., folklore, gender studies, philology, psychology, political science, international relations, environmental issues, as well as reviews on recent publications, movies and historical sources, abstracts of recent theses on Cyprus and news and reports on important scientific events. Because of its peculiar interdisciplinary aspects JCS does not accept technical or highly specialized engineering material.

The Journal of Cyprus Studies is indexed in CSA Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, ASSIA, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, InfoTrac Custom, InfoTrac One File, Expanded Academic Index, History RC: Modern World, International Political Science Abstracts, ABC-Clio Historical Abstracts. The Journal of Cyprus Studies is also an online journal that can be viewed through libraries that have memberships to General Academic ASAP International and electronic index and databases.

Readership: Historians, literary and critics, art historians, archaeologist, anthropologist, linguists, sociologists, psychologists, economist and political scientists, media and communication specialists.

Manuscripts may be submitted as e-mail attachments (in Word) to either of the editors. Your submission should include full mailing address, an e-mail address (if available), and daytime telephone and fax numbers (if available). For detailed submission guidelines, see our website (http://jcs.emu.edu.tr/)or write to netice.yildiz@emu.edu.tr or luca.zavagno@emu.edu.tr

Editorial Office:

The Journal of Cyprus Studies (http://jcs.emu.edu.tr)
Eastern Mediterranean University
Centre for Cyprus Studies
Gazimagusa via Mersin 10
Turkey

Theorizing the Law of God and the Law of Man in Late Medieval Literature

We are inviting interdisciplinary contributions on law and literature for a collection of essays that theorize the law of God and the law of man in late medieval literature (English and continental). We hope to receive submissions that explore various aspects of law: common, canon, civil, or customary law. We welcome theoretical angles that are in themselves interdisciplinary, such as cultural anthropology, social/cultural history, or critical theory. We see this volume as a contribution to what Anthony Musson calls “the new legal history”—an exciting emerging field that values the intersection of law, literary texts, and culture. Interested contributors might consider the following topics, though these are guidelines and in no way limitations:

Questions of Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity

Construction of the Self (legal, social, philosophical, anthropological)

Legal Spaces (geographical, urban, liminal)

Legal Performances and Legal Language

Discourses of Truth and "Truthiness"

Crimes as Sins and Sins as Crimes

Limits of the Law (precedents, conflicts of jurisdiction)

Brill has agreed to consider publishing the volume, and the paperwork will be finalized once abstracts have been selected. The deadline for 150–200 word essay abstracts is September 15, 2010. Initial publication decision will be made based on the abstracts and contributors will be notified by November 15; however final selections will be made following receipt of complete essays. Final submissions of complete essays will be due March 1, 2011, should follow The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition), and should be about 9,000 words. Please e-mail abstracts to Andreea Boboc (aboboc@pacific.edu) and Kathleen E. Kennedy (kek16@psu.edu).

The Digital Scriptorium, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University announce the return of the Digital Scriptorium to its original home at Berkeley.

The Digital Scriptorium is an image and cataloguing database that unites the medieval and Renaissance manuscript holdings of a growing number of American libraries. It began in 1997 with the combined resources of Berkeley and Columbia; present membership includes thirty institutions with over 5000 manuscripts and 27,000 images, all freely available on the web. Member institutions include the Huntington Library, New York Public Library, the Houghton Library at Harvard, and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

"We look forward to expanding the membership of the Digital Scriptorium and to developing its Web 2.0 capabilities," says Thomas C. Leonard, University Librarian at Berkeley. "Since the base technology for the project originated on this campus, we are confident that the expertise of our staff will re-integrate the program smoothly into our present system, and that we will make the Digital Scriptorium even more useful to medievalists."

During its six-year tenure as host to the Digital Scriptorium, Columbia also contributed to the database's increasing strength. James G. Neal, Columbia's University Librarian, adds that "extensive work was carried out by our Libraries Digital Program Division to build a highly specific scholarly search engine, and the coverage of the database was significantly expanded." Columbia's Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Consuelo Dutschke, was re-elected in the annual Digital Scriptorium members' meeting to a second term as Executive Director; she will retain that post until September 2012.

The new URL for Digital Scriptorium (http://www.digital-scriptorium.org) currently directs users to the Columbia site; when the transfer to Berkeley is completed in January of 2011, it will point seamlessly to Berkeley servers.

L'École des chartes a créé sur son site un espace réservé à l'histoire du livre (http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/histoiredulivre/). Il se compose de cinq rubriques:

* histoire de la chaire d'histoire du livre

* activités de recherche propres à l'École dans ce domaine

* instruments de travail élaborés par l'École

* ressources en histoire du livre mises à la disposition des chercheurs

* agenda des manifestations en histoire du livre.

Ces rubriques sont régulièrement enrichies.

L'agenda (http://www.enc.sorbonne.fr/agenda-d-histoire-du-livre.html) rassemble colloques et journées d'étude, séminaires et conférences et appels à communication intéressant l'histoire du livre, toutes périodes confondues.

Le premier but de cet agenda est d'offrir un panorama facilement consultable de la recherche française en histoire du livre. Pour cela, l'affichage n'est pas limité à l'actualité des événements ; ils apparaissent dès leur annonce et restent affichés plusieurs années.

Le second est de renforcer les liens entre les historiens du livre et les chercheurs des autres disciplines. L'agenda prend donc en compte les colloques d'autres disciplines, comme l'histoire littéraire, l'histoire de l'art ou l'histoire des sciences, quand ils font appel, même très partiellement, à l'histoire du livre. Vous pouvez être régulièrement informés des dernières mises à jour de l'agenda grâce au fil RSS.

Si vous souhaitez signaler colloques, journées d'étude, séminaires, conférences ou soutenances de thèse, faites parvenir l'annonce à l'adresse suivante: (secretariat.bibliotheque@enc.sorbonne.fr).

Reti Medievali

Reti Medievali was established in 1998 by a group of scholars of the Universities of Florence, Naples, Palermo, Venice and Verona, and started on line in May 2000. In 2001 more scholars from other Italian universities have joined the Editorial Board. Since 2004 a net of italian and foreign Corresponding Editors contribute to extend the thematic and geographic range of our initiative.

Reti Medievali aims at establishing itself as an on-line community of medievalists, beyond specialistic fields, and aims at encouraging institutions and individual scholars in experimenting and exploring, through a common action, the potential of new communication technologies.

Reti Medievali proposes itself as a high-level scientific and informative web site and aims at offering texts, working tools and reflections on historiography in accordance with the present trends in Italian research and teaching practice.

Texts and materials published by RM are peer-reviewed by the Editorial Board.

Reti Medievali has been published since 2002 by Firenze University Press and deposited in digital form at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence.

(http://www.retimedievali.it/)

Support of Reti by APICES and the Gazette:

APICES and the Gazette du livre medieval have responded with a joint contribution of 500 euros to the call for assistance which the editors of the internet portal “Reti Medievali” have directed to their readers; its activities are jeopardized because of a drastic diminution in the funding of fundamental research, especially in the field of humanities.

The support of APICES and the “Gazette” expresses above all our acknowledgment of the important part which “Reti Medievali” plays since ten years in the diffusion of scientific culture and information regarding all things medieval, and moreover in giving a precious contribution to the updating of the “chronicle”-part of the “Glm” and to the circulation of news of palaeographical and codicological interest.

Our contribution also aims at giving some strength and visibility to a spirit of international solidarity which is indispensable, in order to confront the current difficulties and contribute to the future of medieval studies.

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Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Opportunities for Scholars 2011–2012.

The Institute is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Scholars from around the world come to the Institute to pursue their own research. Candidates of any nationality may apply for a single term or a full academic year. Scholars may apply for a stipend, but those with sabbatical funding, other grants, retirement funding or other means are also invited to apply for a non-stipendiary membership. Some short-term visitorships (for less than a full term, and without stipend) are also available on an ad-hoc basis. Open to all fields of historical research, the School of Historical Studies= principal interests are the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, the history of art, the history of science, philosophy, modern international relations, and music studies. Residence in Princeton during term time is required. The only other obligation of Members is to pursue their own research. The Ph.D. (or equivalent) and substantial publications are required. Information and application forms may be found on the School's web site (http://www.hs.ias.edu), or contact the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Dr., Princeton, N.J. 08540 (mzelazny@ias.edu). Deadline: November 1 2010.

A University Teaching Scholarship is available for a PhD student in the field of Medieval Literature and Languages. The Scholarship will include a tuition fee waver (at home/EU rate, though overseas students are welcome to apply) and a stipend of £5,000 per year for up to 3.5 years. The Scholarship will have a teaching workload of approximately 50 hours per year (including training, preparation, and marking time).

The teaching undertaken will depend on the holder's area of expertise: at undergraduate level it may include literature modules on High Medieval or Late Medieval Literature, or language and literature modules on Latin, Old English, or Old Norse, and at MA level language and skills modules on Latin, Old English, Old Norse, Anglo- Norman, or Palaeography. Applications are welcomed from students with expertise in any of these areas.

For details on how to apply see: http://www.york.ac.uk/graduatestudy/finance/pg_teaching.htm For further information, contact Dr Matthew Townend (mot1@york.ac.uk).

Withdrawal of support for BHA

The Getty Foundation has recently announced (30 April 2009) that it is withdrawing its support of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), which will be forced to terminate its production at the end of the current year unless an alternative sponsor is found. The BHA is a critical resource for scholars, graduate students and undergraduates providing on-line access to international art historical bibliography far beyond that available in other databases. For medievalists who work mostly on European monuments, having access to up-to-date international bibliography is particularly vital for us and for our students. The BHA is lauded by librarians as well as scholars. The American art librarian, Barbara Q. Prior, recently wrote, "BHA is a cornerstone of art research. The staff at BHA makes significant intellectual contributions to the field by applying their sophisticated knowledge of art theories and practices. No other database—including JSTOR—approaches BHA's breadth and depth." In addition the BHA, by furthering art historical research seems particularly aligned with the central values of the Getty Foundation.

Faculty and students who have used the BHA in the past, and/or would like to use it in the future, can e-mail a brief message to Thomas W. Gaehtgens, the Director of the Getty Research Institute (tgaehtgens@getty.edu), expressing their deep concern at recent developments.

Humbolt collaborative research grants

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).

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 its URL has recently been changed. It may now be accessed at http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/Caviness/

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).

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).

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).

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 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. 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.

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).

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).

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).

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).

Routledge Medieval Authors

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