Medieval devotional objects are on exhibit at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario. Read about in this recent article:

https://www.catholicregister.org/features/arts/item/33385-medieval-prayer-comes-alive-at-ago-exhibit

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Feedback from CSM members at Medieval Mondays this year indicated that members appreciated the opportunity to attend, and participate in, roundtables devoted to shared professional challenges that cross our various disciplines. Accordingly, the Executive Committee has decided to arrange more such presentations in online formats and to record these to host on a separate web page within the members only section of our website (https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/).

For a first effort, President Marc Cels, asked if we might record the Roundtable “Knowledge Mobilization? Medieval Studies Research, Outreach, and Teaching in Multicultural Canada” from this year’s Medieval Mondays. The various members involved have all agreed to re-create that roundtable live on a recorded Zoom meeting and also to invite anyone interested to attend and participate in the discussion, as at Medieval Mondays.

This reprise recording will take place Weds Aug. 25 at  3:30pm (EDT), 5pm (NFLD time) and 1: 30pm (MDT). If you are interested in attending, please contact Siobhain Bly Calkin at siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca for the Zoom coordinates by 5pm TUES. AUG. 24. The list of topics and speakers is below. The presentations run about 45-50 minutes in total and 30-40 minutes of time has been added on to that to allow for discussion with the audience.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for the topics of future roundtables, please e-mail them to Marc (marcc@athabascau.ca) or Siobhain (siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca).

Program:

Aug. 25 (3:30pm EDT)

Knowledge Mobilization? Medieval Studies Research, Outreach, and Teaching in Multicultural Canada

(e-mail siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca for Zoom invitation)

1. “Mobilizing ‘Knowledge Mobilization’: Research, Outreach, and Graduate Student Training”  Siobhain Bly Calkin

2. “Beyond the Classroom: Bringing a Medieval Scriptorium to Life at Medieval Fairs in Canada”  Danielle Taylor

3. “Writing-Quests: Using Medieval Quest-best Learning in Introductory Writing Courses”  Kathryn Walton

4. "Bringing the Middle Ages Out West: Knowledge Mobilization and Medieval Studies."  Brandon Alakas

5. “Gothic Architecture: Engaging the Public via Formal Tours of a ‘Medieval-like’ Anglican Cathedral (late 19th c.) in St. John’s, Newfoundland/Labrador”  Kevin McAleese

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Chers/chères membres de la SCM,

Les commentaires des membres de la SCM qui ont participé aux Lundis Médiévaux ce juin ont indiqué que les membres ont apprécié l’opportunité d’assister et de participer à  des tables rondes consacrées aux défis professionnels communs qui traversent nos différentes disciplines. Donc, le comité exécutif a décidé d’organiser quelques présentations de ce type en ligne et de les enregistrer pour les héberger sur une page web dans la section reservée aux membres de notre site web  (https://www.canadianmedievalists.org/).

Pour un premier effort, notre président Marc Cels a demandé si nous pouvions enregistrer la table ronde du 14 juin 2021,“Knowledge Mobilization? Medieval Studies Research, Outreach, and Teaching in Multicultural Canada.” Les différent.e.s membres impliqué.e.s ont tous accepté de recréer cette table ronde en direct sur une réunion Zoom enregistrée et aussi d’inviter toute personne intéressée à assister et participer à la discussion qui suivra.

Cette reprise d’enregistrement aura lieu le mercredi 25 août à 15h30h (EDT) / 17h (heure TN) / 13h30 (MDT). Si vous souhaitez y assister, veuillez envoyer un courriel à  Siobhain Bly Calkin (siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca) pour obtenir les coordonnées Zoom avant 17h00 le mardi 24 août. La liste des présentations se trouve ci-dessous. Les présentations durent environ 45-50 minutes, et il y aura 30-40 minutes pour permettre une discussion après les présentations.

Si vous avez des idées ou des suggestions pour les sujets des autres tables rondes sur les questions professionnelles, s’il vous plait envoyez-les par courriel à Marc (marcc@athabascau.ca) ou Siobhain (siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca).

Merci beaucoup!

Siobhain (Vice-Présidente, CSM /SCM)

Programme:

25 août (15:30h EDT)

Knowledge Mobilization? Medieval Studies Research, Outreach, and Teaching in Multicultural Canada

(envoyez un courriel à siobhain.calkin@carleton.ca pour obtenir les coordonnées Zoom)

1. “Mobilizing ‘Knowledge Mobilization’: Research, Outreach, and Graduate Student Training”  Siobhain Bly Calkin

2. “Beyond the Classroom: Bringing a Medieval Scriptorium to Life at Medieval Fairs in Canada”  Danielle Taylor

3. “Writing-Quests: Using Medieval Quest-best Learning in Introductory Writing Courses”  Kathryn Walton

4. "Bringing the Middle Ages Out West: Knowledge Mobilization and Medieval Studies."  Brandon Alakas

5. “Gothic Architecture: Engaging the Public via Formal Tours of a ‘Medieval-like’ Anglican Cathedral (late 19th c.) in St. John’s, Newfoundland/Labrador”  Kevin McAleese

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Congratulations to Dr. Amélie Marineau-Pelletier, who has won the 2021 Leonard Boyle Prize for her Dissertation Écrire, traduire et conserver les lettres missives à Metz: enjeux documentaires et domination sociale des paraiges (XIVe-XVIe siècles), co-supervised by Dr. Kouky Fianu (Université d’Ottawa) and Dr. Pierre Monet (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris).

Citation: Amélie Marineau-Pelletier’s substantial dissertation proposes an in-depth study of an underutilized body of letters from the medieval archives of Metz. With the deft use of database, analytical and mapping software, Marineau-Pelletier approaches her sources from the perspectives of anthropology and sociology to investigate the production of social space and power through the act of writing. Her careful analysis of the primary material benefits from a solid theoretical framework. The ease with which Marineau-Pelletier moves from one discourse to another is exceptional and bears witness to her maturity as a solid researcher, as does her use of secondary sources in multiple languages. Without any doubt, the overall quality of the dissertation makes it an important contribution to the history of pragmatic literacy and should readily be published.

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Félicitations à Amélie Marineau-Pelletier, qui a remporté le prix Leonard Boyle 2021 pour sa thèse de doctorat,  Écrire, traduire et conserver les lettres missives à Metz: enjeux documentaires et domination sociale des paraiges (XIVe-XVIe siècles), dirigée par les professeurs Kouky Fianu (Université d’Ottawa) et Pierre Monet (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris). 

Éloge: L’impressionnante thèse d’Amélie Marineau-Pelletier présente l’étude approfondie d’une collection de lettres médiévales inédites conservées aux archives municipales de Metz et jusqu’ici négligées par les historien.ne.s. Dans une perspective anthropologique et sociologique, Mme Marineau-Pelletier utilise adroitement les outils numériques (base de données, SIG et textométrie) pour étudier la manière dont l’acte d’écrire permettait la création d’un espace social et de pouvoir. L’analyse soignée de la documentation alimente un solide cadre théorique. La facilité avec laquelle Mme Marineau-Pelletier passe d’un discours à un autre est remarquable et témoigne d’une assurance que l’on voit d’habitude dans les travaux de médiévistes beaucoup plus expérimentés. Sa maîtrise d’une bibliographie écrite en plusieurs langues est également impressionnante. Il ne fait pas de doute que la haute qualité de cette thèse fait d’elle une contribution importante à l’histoire de l’écrit pragmatique et mérite une publication rapide.

Please see the link to this job posting: https://www.universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?job_id=53967

On 6 July 2021, The Aga Khan Museum of Toronto announced the appointment of Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis to the position of Director and Chief Executive Officer. Read more at the museum's website.

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Congratulations to Dr. John Osborne, Professor Emeritus at Carleton University who was awarded the 2021 Labarge Prize for his monograph, Rome in the Eighth Century: A History in Art (Cambridge University Press, 2020)!

Citation: In an incisive and synthetic study, John Osborne invites readers to reconsider the history of Rome in the eighth century, arguing that what has long been considered a fallow period was in fact a dynamic, vibrant one, and arguably one of the most consequential in all of Roman history.  To do so, he has developed an innovative, interdisciplinary methodology that, inter alia, confirms further the autonomy of material culture as historical evidence.  Using art, artifact, and archaeology as historical documents, Osborne constructs a portrait of a city that was in the process of renegotiating its identity in a cultural borderland between the Greek East and the Latin West, a city becoming “Roman” again, but a different kind of “Roman” than before.  For example, Osborne offers a particularly insightful assessment of the ruling elite, characterizing them not as a Greek elite replaced by Romans, but as the existing elite reinventing themselves as distinctly Roman.  He also uses art and architecture to chronicle the process of Rome becoming a “city of the Church,” situated consciously as the centre of Christendom.  Like the tesserae of the mosaics he describes, Osborne’s individual analyses are beautiful on their own, but taken together, they offer a broad and nuanced view of Rome and its place in the global medieval worldview.  Throughout, this study also encourages readers to ask broad, complex questions about what “Rome” and “Roman” really meant in the Middle Ages.  Finally, we would like to recognize that this book, in its conception and execution, reflects the interdisciplinary ethos that has come to define Canadian medieval studies.

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Félicitations à Dr John Osborne, Professeur émérite de l’université Carleton qui a remporté le prix Margaret Wade Labarge 2021 pour son livre Rome in the Eighth Century: A History in Art (Cambridge University Press, 2020)!

L’éloge du comité du prix: Avec son étude approfondie et sagace, John Osborne invite ses lecteurs à reconsidérer l’histoire de Rome au huitième siècle. Il affirme que ce siècle n’était pas une période en jachère, mais plutôt une période dynamique, vivace, et primordiale dans l’histoire de la cité. Afin d’appuyer cette nouvelle interprétation du huitième siècle, il développe une méthodologie innovante et interdisciplinaire qui, de plus, souligne l’autonomie de la culture matérielle comme preuve historique. Osborne tient compte de l’art, les artéfacts, et l’archéologie comme les documents historiques, et dresse ainsi un tableau d’une ville en train de renégocier son identité à la frontière entre l’Est grec et l’Ouest latin, une ville en train de redevenir « romain », mais « romain » d’une autre manière qu’auparavant. Par exemple, Osborne nous présente une interprétation innovatrice de l’élite dirigeante. Ce groupe, il dit, n’était pas une élite grecque remplacée par une élite romaine, mais plutôt une élite qui se caractérise nouvellement et nettement comme romain à cette époque. À travers l’art et l’architecture de Rome, Osborne explique aussi comment Rome est devenu une « ville de l’Église » qui se situe sciemment comme le centre de la chrétienté. Comme les tesserae des mosaïques qu’il décrit, les analyses présentées par Osborne sont individuellement belles, mais ensemble elles offrent une vision large et complexe de Rome et de sa place dans le monde médiéval. Rome in the Eighth Century invite aux lecteurs de réfléchir sur les significations compliquées de « Rome » et « Romain » qui circulaient durant le Moyen Âge. Finalement, la conception et la réalisation de ce livre reflètent la philosophie interdisciplinaire qui marque les études médiévales au Canada.

Arthurian Literature is pleased to announce an early career essay prize: the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, offered in memory of the distinguished medievalist and founder of the D.S. Brewer publishing imprint, part of Boydell and Brewer Ltd.  Candidates for the Prize are normally expected to be either doctoral students in a recognised institution of Higher Learning, or within two years of having completed a doctorate (from the date the degree was awarded).  The Prize will be awarded annually for an as-yet unpublished scholarly paper based upon original research on an Arthurian topic within the broad remit of Arthurian Literature. Details are available here: https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/boydell-and-brewer-wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/22082135/Derek-Brewer-Prize.pdf

Princeton Theological Seminary invites applications for a tenure-track position in the History of Medieval Christianity. The research and publication specialization is open. We invite applications from scholars who work on medieval Christianity’s theological, cultural, and social aspects. Candidates must be prepared to teach an introductory survey course on early and medieval church history. Ability and/or experience in teaching courses on the varieties of medieval Christianity beyond Europe, and on the interactions among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the middle ages is desirable.

The successful candidate will teach in all of the Seminary’s degree programs (M.Div., M.A.C.E.F., M.A.T.S., Th.M., and Ph.D.), pursue an active scholarly research agenda, and participate in the life of the Seminary. As Princeton Theological Seminary is related to the Presbyterian Church (USA), faculty members are expected to work constructively within an ecumenical ethos informed by the Reformed Tradition. Women and candidates from underrepresented communities are especially encouraged to apply.

A letter of interest and curriculum vitae (including bibliography) should be uploaded to the online application site at: https://tns-apps.ptsem.edu/FacultyApplicationMedieval/. The appointment is expected to commence July 1, 2022. Review of applications will begin September 15, 2021.

Those wishing to nominate others for this position are invited to contact Jacqueline Lapsley, Dean of Academic Affairs, at academic.dean@ptsem.edu.

 

Princeton Theological Seminary is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

The Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN VI), with the theme ‘Roads less travelled’, will take place from 21st to 24th September 2022 and will be hosted in hybrid form, both in Ghent (Belgium) and online.

Proposals are hereby invited for papers and panels. The conference is open to all areas of study related to the ancient novel.

If you wish to present a paper or panel at ICAN VI, you are requested to submit an anonymized abstract with a maximum of 400 words. The deadline for abstract submission is 30^th November 2021.

Further information and submission guidelines can be found at https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/call-papers-ican-vi.

Greetings from Newcastle in  England! 

I am forwarding this to you in case your members are interested. Dr Giles Gasper studied medieval theology at the Pontifical  Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto in 2013. He is a post doctoral fellow in theology and organises these medieval courses with us at Blackfriars restaurant. This is our 4^th course now. 

Medieval cookery course is fit for a king using original recipes held at Durham University

An interactive five-day online medieval cookery course with recipes from the Forme of Cury, the most famous English cookbook of the Middle Ages, is being hosted by Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle in collaboration with Durham University's Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies (IMEMS).

Eat Medieval: Fit for a King will take place from 28 June to 2 July and the recipes in the book are associated with the court of King Richard II, and one 15th century copy still survives here in the North East in Durham University library. The chefs at Blackfriars will delve deep into this fascinating collection of recipes on meat, fish and game as well as vegetables, pottage, and sweet dishes and breathe new life into them.

 Participants will be shown how to cook medieval pancakes, Egarduce (sweet and sour fish), Flaumpeyns (a wonderful variant on Pork Pie) and Comadore (apple turnover) as well as recipes from the Catalan Sent Sovi collection, from the same period, with Stuffed Octopus and a medieval form of Creme Catalan.

They will be able to take the original recipes and present them with the help of Blackfriars chefs for the modern palate and will be introduced to the historical period as well through films, podcasts explaining the period, the history, and how medieval people lived. They can also take part in live Q&A sessions and a lively Facebook group to show-off your own creations.

Steeped in history and working with the best of modern cuisine, Blackfriars Restaurant is located in a 13^th-century former Dominican friary and is believed to be the oldest purpose-built restaurant in the UK, making it a fitting venue for the course.

Andy Hook, owner of Blackfriars said: “The Forme of Cury really is the original cookbook, it’s the earliest English collection of recipes we know so we’re are beyond delighted to present these on what we hope will be our biggest and best Eat Medieval course so far."

Dr Giles Gasper, professor of Medieval History at Durham said: "This is a wonderful opportunity to explore medieval food and culture and really brings together all of the team - history, music, literature and of course cooking - all in accessible and welcoming formats. I love working with the participants and look forward very much to this course! And we also have a 15th century copy of Forme of Cury at Durham - so this will be from the original". 

This is the fourth course held between Blackfriars and Durham University’s IMEMS.

Once participants have bought a ticket they will be emailed a code to unlock their shopping list, the recipes, pre-recorded films from chefs and scholars, as well as suggested reading and other online resources which will be available throughout. 

The 5-day course costs £125 and is available to purchase here https://bit.ly/3w0uqWl

More information can also be seen at www.eatmedieval.com 

Sam Hook

Marketing Director | Hooked on Group