Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-5900 Fax: (480) 965-1681
MEDIEVAL
& RENAISSANCE
STUDIES NEWSLETTER
Spring 2003, Vol. 9, No. 2
Distinguished Lecturer
in Renaissance Studies
The Distinguished Lecturer in Renaissance Studies for Spring 2003 is Anthony Pagden, Professor of History and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to holding a secondary position in the Department of Political Science from 1997 to 2002, Professor Pagden was the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. During this same period, he was also a Professorial Lecturer in International Relations-Global Theory and History at the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. Professor Pagden has written numerous articles and book chapters and has edited several books. He has also authored many books including Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Britain, France, and Spain, 1400-1800 (1995), European Encounters with the New World from Renaissance to Romanticism (1994), The Spanish Empire and the Political Imagination: The Spanish Empire in European and Spanish American Social and Political Theory, 1512-1830 (1990), and The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (1982), which won the Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize for 1983. Professor Pagden is a member of several editorial boards, including The Journal of European Ideas, Revista internacional de filosofia politica, and The Journal of the History of Ideas.
Professor Pagden will visit various upper
division and graduate classes and meet informally with students and faculty
while at ASU. His Distinguished Lecture entitled "Politics, Possession,
and Projection: 'Globalization' in the Renaissance" will be held on Monday,
April 14, at 7:30 p.m., on the ASU main campus (location TBD). The lecture
is open to the public and a reception will immediately follow. Please visit
the ACMRS website or contact the Center for further details.
ACMRS Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference
A reminder that the ACMRS Annual Interdisciplinary
Conference will be held February 13-15 in the Memorial Union, located at the
heart of ASU's main campus. The theme for this year's conference is "Multi-cultural
Europe and Cultural Exchange." The conference registration fee is $65
($35 for students) and includes welcoming and concluding receptions, two days
of concurrent sessions, and the keynote address. For more information, please
visit the ACMRS website or call the Center.
International
Society of
Anglo-Saxonists Conference
ACMRS will host the 2003 International
Society of Anglo Saxonists (ISAS) conference, which this year will focus on
"Conversion and Colonization." The conference dates are August 4-9,
and the location will be the Chaparral Suites Resort in Scottsdale. To learn
more about the conference, Chaparral Suites, and related events and excursions,
please visit the ACMRS website.
ACMRS Cambridge
Study Abroad Program
The ACMRS Study Abroad Program in residence
at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, is a five-week, interdisciplinary program
that offers study opportunities in the history and culture of medieval and
Renaissance Britain. This summer the following courses will be offered: "Shakespeare
in Performance," Dr. Paul Hartle (Cambridge); "Knights in Shining
Armour: Bedchambers and Battlefields," Prof. Rosalynn Voaden (ASU); "Shakespeare
and the Virgin Queen," Prof. Cora Fox (ASU); "Medicine in Medieval
England," Prof. Monica Green (ASU); and "Medieval Celts: Their Literature
and Their Culture," Prof. Martha Bayless (U. of Oregon). Course work
will be complemented by weekly excursions to cathedrals, museums, libraries,
plays, or other relevant historical and cultural sites around England. Classes
will be in session July 7 to August 7. For more details, please call the Center
or visit the ACMRS website.
Graduate Student Travel Award
ACMRS congratulates M. Bryan Curd (PhD
candidate, Art History) for receiving the ninth annual ACMRS Graduate Student
Travel Award for her paper "Constructing Family Memory: Three English
Funeral Monuments in the Early Modern Period." The award provides an
all-expenses-paid trip to the International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. At the conference Ms. Curd will present
her paper, which examines three fascinating seventeenth-century English funeral
monuments in St. Nicholas' Chapel-of-Ease, King's Lynn. Drawing on current
studies of medieval memory, Ms. Curd illustrates how these monuments, by constructing
visual patterns, construct a memory of family lineage for the immediate families,
other contemporaries, and later viewers.
The Kalamazoo conference, held annually in May, is one of the most important
international meetings of scholars engaged in the study of medieval as well
as Renaissance culture. Its program committee welcomes graduate students and
junior scholars, making this one of the best forums for those beginning their
scholarly careers.
ACMRS Book
Award for
Undergraduate Students
ACMRS announces the eighth annual Book
Award in honor of founding director Jean Brink. The award is given to the
undergraduate student who has excelled academically in the study of the Middle
Ages and/or Renaissance and who expects to continue study at the graduate
level. The winner will receive $250 for the purchase of books.
ASU, NAU, and UofA faculty from any discipline are asked to nominate in a
brief letter the undergraduate student whom they feel is deserving of the
award. The nominated student must submit to ACMRS an unofficial copy of his/her
transcript and a current mailing address. The nomination letter and supporting
documents must be submitted to Robert Bjork, Director, ACMRS, by April 11,
2003.
Three New Distribution Agreements
ACMRS has recently entered into contracts
to be the worldwide distributor for the book publications of three organizations.
The Viking Society for Northern Research, University of London, was founded
in 1892 and seeks to promote interest in the Scandinavian North, its literature
and antiquities. It publishes mainly editions and translations of Old Norse
material. The Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo in Rome was founded
in 1883 and is extensively engaged in the publication of primary texts and
documents relating to Italian medieval history. The Istituto publishes numerous
series in this field, including Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, and maintains
a public library of over 100,000 volumes dealing with Italy in the Middle
Ages. And the Roma nel Rinascimento was founded in 1984 to promote the study
and research of the culture in Rome during the Italian Renaissance (from the
beginning of the 13th century to 1527). It publishes a range of books representing
a variety of disciplines from art history and literature to paleography and
codicology.
"Work-in-Progress" Symposium
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona Medieval, Renaissance,
and Reformation Committee (UAMARRC) will hold its fifth "Work-in-Progress"
symposium at the UofA campus on Friday, 31 January, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.,
in the Conference Room of the Rare Book Collection, University Library. The
symposium, sponsored by the College of Humanities, is open to the public and
is free of charge. Outside speakers are welcome to join in the symposium.
Please contact Professor Albrecht Classen for further details (aclassen@u.arizona.edu).
"Discourse on Love, Marriage,
and Transgression in Medieval and
Early-Modern Literature"
University of Arizona
Professor Albrecht Classen is organizing,
on behalf of the University of Arizona Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation
Committee (UAMARRC), an international symposium entitled "Discourse on
Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early-Modern Literature."
This event will be a small but intensive symposium with approximately twenty-five
participants from Europe, Australia, and the US. The symposium will be held
on May 1-4 and will be accompanied by an exhibit in the Rare Book Collection
of the University Library, where the symposium will also take place. Please
contact Prof. Classen (aclassen@u.arizona.edu) for more details. The symposium
is sponsored by the VP for Research, History, Family and Consumer Studies,
most College of Humanities departments, and ACMRS.
Faculty Publications
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Robert E. Bjork, "The Portfolio for Medieval
Studies" in Vital Signs: English in Medieval Studies in Twenty-First
Century Higher Education, ed. Elaine Treharne, English Association Issues
in English (London, 2002), 29-34.
---, reprint of "Sundor æt rune: The
Voluntary Exile of the Wanderer," Neophilologus, 73 (1989), 119-29,
in Old English Literature: Critical Essays, ed. R. M. Liuzza (New Haven
and London: Yale University Press, 2002), 215-27.
Cora Fox, "Spenser's Grieving Adicia and
the Gender Politics of Renaissance Ovidianism" ELH 69.2 (2002):
385-412.
Monica H. Green, ed. and trans., The Trotula:
A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2002).
---, bibliography on "Women and Medicine," in Medieval Feminist
Forum (Fall, 2002).
---, review essay of Tractatus de conceptu; Tractatus de sterilitate muli-erum,
eds. Pedro Conde Parrado, Enrique Montero Cartelle, M.a Cruz Herrero Ingelmo,
in Speculum 77.2 (2002): 496-98.
Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, "Discussing Modern
Economic Development from the Vantage Point of Sung-era Intellectual Lineages,"
China Scholarship 10 (Beijing: Commercial Press, 2002), 167-92.
---, "Chu Hsi's Conceptions of Spirits and the Succession to the Transmission
of the Way," in Zhu Xi Studies Entering the 21st century: A Volume
of Essays Commemorating the 870th Anniversary of Zhu Xi's Birth and the 800th
Anniversary of His Death, ed. Zhu Jieren (Shanghai: Huadong shifandaxue
chu-banshe, 2001), 171-83. A revised version in traditional Chinese characters
was published in Developing Zhu Xi Studies: Research Articles, ed.
Zhong Caijun (Chung Tsai-chun) (Taipei: Center for Chinese Studies at the
National Central Library in Taiwan, 2002), 1: 247-61.
---, "Reflections on Classifying 'Confucian' Lineages: Reinventions of
Tradition in Song China," in Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present
in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, eds. Benjamin Elman, Herman Ooms,
John Duncan, and Alexander Woodside (Los Angeles: University of California,
Los Angeles, Asia Pacific Center Monograph Series in International Studies,
2002), 33-64.
---, "Praying to the Spirit of Con-fucius and Claiming the Transmission
of the Way: Linking Zhu Xi's Views on Guishen and the Daotong,"
in National History Floating Across the Sea and Opening New Venues: An
Anthology Dedicated to Professor Yü Ying-shih on His Retirement,
ed. Chou Chih-p'ing (Taipei: Lianjing Publishing Company, 2002), 159-204.
---, "Historiography and Cultural History: A Discussion from Ssu-ma Kuang's
Reconstruction of Chu-ko Liang's Story," Journal of the Institute
of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 73.1 (2002): 1-35.
Asuncion Lavrin and Rosalva Loreto, eds. Monjas
y Beatas: La escritura feme-nina en la espiritualidad barroca novo-hispana,
Siglos XVII y XVIII (Mexico: Archivo General de la Nación /Uni-versidad
de las Américas, 2002).
Leslie MacCoull, "The Coptic Verso of P.
Berl. Sarisch. 7," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
38 (2001): 39-50.
---, "Uniformis Trinitas: Once More the Theopaschite Trinitarianism of
Dioscorus of Aphrodito," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 42
(2002): 83-96.
---, review essay of Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century by
Irfan Shahid, in Catholic Historical Review 88 (2002): 424-26.
---, "More Sources for the Liber Scintillarum of Defensor of Liguage,"
Revue Benedictine 112 (2002).
---, "Nonnus (and Dioscorus) at the Feast: Late Antiquity and After,"
in Melanges Francis Vian, eds. Dominiico Accorinti and Pierre Chuvin,
Hellencia 10 (Alessandria: Edizioni Dell'Orso, 2002).
Dhira Mahoney, "Malory's Percivale: A Case
of Competing Genealogies?" in Perceval/Parzival: A Casebook, eds.
Arthur Groos and Norris J. Lacy. Arthurian Characters and Themes 6 (New York
and London: Routledge, 2002), 253-65.
Curtis Perry, "Commodity and Commonwealth
in Gammer Gurton's Needle." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
42 (2002): 217-34.
---, "'If proclamations will not serve': The Late Manuscript Poetry of
James I and the Culture of Libel." in Royal Subjects: Essays on the
Writings of James VI and I, eds. Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 2002), 205-32.
Jonathan Rose, "Doctrinal Development: Legal
History, Law, and Legal Theory" Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
22 (2002): 323-40.
---, review essay of A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations
by David Ibbetson, in Law and History Review 20 (2002): 643-45.
Corine Schleif and Volker Schier, "Das Gänsebuch: Stimmen
vom Rand und aus der Mitte," in St. Lorenz: Der hallenchor und das
Gaensebuch (Verein zur Erhalt-ung der St. Lorenzkirche in Nürnberg)
48 (2002): 64-75.
---, "Rituale in Stein: Erzählungen für eine breite und diverse
Öffent-lichkeit," ed. Frank Matthias Kammel, Adam Kraft Symposium
Volume, Germanishes Nationalmuseum Nürnberg (2002), 253-70.
---, "Wem Gehört Adam Kraft? Zum Umgang mit Kraft und Seinen Werken
in Wort und Tat," ed. Frank Matthias Kammel, Adam Kraft Symposium
Volume, Germanisches National-museum Nürnberg (2002), 31-44.
Emily Umberger, "Notions of Aztec History"
Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 42 (2002).
David Wetsel and Frédéric Canovas,
eds., Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies, vol. 1; Les femmes
au Grand Siècle/Le Baroque: musique et litérature/Musique et
liturgie, vol. 2; La Spiritualité/L'Epistolaire/Le Merveilleux
au Grand Siècle, vol. 3; Cérémonies et rituels
en France au XVIIe siècle, vol. 4; Philosophies au siècle
classique en France, vol. 5, ed. Ziad Elmarsafy, Biblio 17, Suppléments
aux Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (Gunter Narr Verlag:
Tübingen: 2002).
Diane Wolfthal, "Imaging the Self: Representations of Jewish Ritual
in the Paris Sefer Minhagim," in Imaging the Self, Imaging the Other:
Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and
Early Modern Period, ed. Eva Frojmovic (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 189-211.
---, "Ritual and Representation in a Yiddish Book of Customs," in
Raceing Art History: A Critical Anthology, ed Kymberly N. Pinder (London:
Rout-ledge, 2002), 21-36.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Albrecht Classen, "'Mein Seel fang an zu
singen'. Religiöse Frauenlieder des 15.-16. Jahrhunderts. Kritische Studien
und Textedition," Studies in Spirituality Supplements 6 (Leuven-Paris-Sterling,
VA: Peeters, 2002).
---, ed., Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages (New York and London:
Routledge, 2002).
---, Verzweiflung und Hoffnung. Die Suche nach der kommunikativen Gemein-schaft
in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, Beihefte zur Mediaevistik
1 (Frankfurt a.M.-et al.: Peter Lang, 2002).
---, "To Fear or not to Fear, that is the Question: Oswald von Wolkenstein
Facing Death and Enjoying Life. Fifteenth-Century Mentalitätsgeschichte
Reflected in Lyric Poetry," in Fear and Its Representations in
the Middle Ages and Renaissance, eds. Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, Arizona
Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 6 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002),
274-91.
---, "Women Scribes, Women Printers, Women Editors, and Women Poets,"
in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 56 (2002):
199-222.
---, "Die Mutter spricht zu ihrer Tochter. Literarsoziologische Betracht-ungen
zu einem feministischen Thema," in German Quarterly 75, 1 (2002):
71-87.
Sigmund Eisner, ed. A Variorum Edition of
The Works of Geoff-rey Chaucer, Volume VI, The Prose Treatises, Part One,
'A Treatise on the Astrolabe' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002).
Fred Kiefer, "A Dumb Show of the Senses in Timon of Athens,"
in Company of Shakespeare: Essays on English Renaissance Literature in
Honor of G. Blakemore Evans, eds. Thomas Moisan and Douglas Bruster (Madison
and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University
Presses, 2002), 139-58.
---, "Creating a Christian Revenger: The Spanish Tragedy and Its Progeny
vs. Hamlet," The Shakespeare Yearbook, 13: Shakespeare and Spain
(2002): 159-80.
Kari Boyd McBride, ed. and intro. Domestic
Arrangements in Early Modern England (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University
Press, 2002).
Naomi J. Miller, "'Hens should be served first': Prioritizing Production
in Early Modern Pamphlets and Mothers' Advice Books," in Debating
Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700, eds. Cristina Malxolmson and
Mihoko Suzuki (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
---, ed., Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults (New
York: Routledge, 2002).
Helen Nader, "Desperate Men, Questionable
Acts: The Moral Dilemma of Italian Merchants in the Spanish Slave Trade,"
Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002): 401-22.
John Ulreich, "Making the Word Flesh: Incarnation
as Accommodation," in Reassembling Truth: Twenty-first-Century Milton,
eds. Charles W. Durham and Kristin Pruitt (Selinsgrove, PA: Susque-hanna University
Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2002).
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Jim Fitzmaurice, "Fear of the Supernatural
as a 'Pleasante and Merry Humour' in Two of Newcastle's Comedies," in
Fear and its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, eds.
Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
6 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), 189-205.
Alyce A. Jordan, Visualizing Kingship in the
Windows of the Sainte-Chapelle. Publications of the International Center
of Medieval Art 5. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002).
Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott, eds., Fear and
its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Arizona Studies
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 6 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002).
Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso, eds., Fear and
its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Arizona Studies
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 6 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002).
Faculty Awards
Alyce Jordan, NAU: Visiting Fellow at the Center
for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College.
Asuncion Lavrin, ASU: Guggenheim Fellowship for
study of the "Men of God: Masculinity and Friars in Colonial Mexico."
Deborah Losse, ASU: Elected to the board of Renaissance
Society of America and of Renaissance Quarterly as disciplinary representative
in French.
Naomi Miller, UofA: National Fellowship, American
Council on Education Fellows.
Jonathan Rose, ASU: Appointed and invested as
a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar in Law.
Emily Umberger, ASU: Resident Fellowship at Dumbarton
Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Diane Wolfthal, ASU: NEH Grant for the first
comprehensive study of the images in the earliest surviving Yiddish texts.
So Long, Farewell
Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu
ACMRS says good-bye to our Research Coordinator,
Lynn Sims, who has been accepted into the ASU PhD program (Linguistics). Lynn
has a MA in medieval English literature, and as a PhD student her focus will
be on historical linguistics and English prosodic innovations of the pre-
and post-Conquest period. We are sorry to see Lynn go but wish her the best
of luck in her academic endeavors.
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