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
ACMRS On-line Resources:
Iter | CARA | Beowulf Bibliography | Geese Book | Lopez Collection | Newport Tower | MEDFEM-L | Margery Kempe
A gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance that includes a massive, retrospective, on-line medieval and Renaissance bibliography covering all languages and disciplines (partnered with the Renaissance Society of America, the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, and the University of Toronto) More information is available on the Iter website.
ACMRS hosts the official site of the Medieval Academy of America's online directory covering all aspects of all medieval centers, programs, committees, and regional associations in North America. Also included are links to International Centers which focus on medieval and/or Renaissance studies.
Annotated list of translations of Beowulf by Marijane Osborn
ACMRS is pleased to participate in a major project to make a sixteenth-century manuscript available to the public. The Geese Book is a large, lavishly illuminated, two-volume gradual made for the church of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg between 1504 and 1510.
The
Personal Library of Robert S. Lopez
Robert S. Lopez was the Sterling Professor of History and founder of the Medieval Studies Program at Yale University. During his more than 40-year career in Renaissance studies he established a global reputation as one of the foremost leaders in the field. He was best known for his ground-breaking economic interpretation of the Renaissance
Following his death in 1986, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies was able to purchase Prof. Lopez's private collection of books and papers to use as the foundation of their research collection. The Lopez Collection preserves those books, individual articles, and basic sources that were considered by Lopez and his colleagues to be the best representation of work in the field during the period of his primary activity from roughly 1930 to 1980.
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ACMRS Adjunct Scholar
Receives Permission to Research Who Built the Newport Tower |
Jan Barstad, President of the Chronognostic Research Foundation (www.chronognostic.org) and ACMRS Adjunct Scholar, has obtained permission from the City of Newport, Rhode Island, to do an archaeological dig at the Newport Tower. The dig, to take place between October 15 and November 15, 2006, will possibly shed light on origins of the Tower, which stands near the west end of Touro Park in Newport.
A 1949 archaeological dig William S. Godfrey,
Jr. did not uncover much evidence to explain why the tower was built. Although
the Newport Historical Society is 99.9 percent sure it was built as a windmill
by Governor Benedict Arnold in the 17th century, there are other theories
about the tower's origins. It could be 12-century Norse, 14th-century Scottish,
15th-century Chinese, or 16th-century Basque. Click
here for a complete description of the project.
MEDFEM-L is an unmoderated forum for discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies. Established in the mid-1990s by volunteers interested in connecting people who shared interests in medieval feminist studies, the Advisory Board of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) “adopted” medfem-l. Jen Gonyer-Donohue of the University of Washington, has been “foster mother” to the listserv for the last year, and she has done exemplary service in this regard. The unmoderated forum for the discussion of feminist approaches to medieval studies has a new home at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The new address for medfem-l is MEDFEM-L@asu.edu. In keeping with the spirit of its founders,
MEDFEM-L@asu.edu will remain open-access. All submissions erroneously sent to the old address
will receive a message directing the sender to resubmit to the new listserv address. Subscribers need not be members of SMFS.
(Though they happily accept new memberships. Visit the Society’s website at
www.minotstateu.edu/mff/join.shtml).
Questions about authority, authorship, and scribal practice have surrounded the Book of Margery Kempe since the discovery of its manuscript. Although many scholars have posited various identities for Margery’s scribe, his identity remains unknown. The goal of this website is to help provide an answer to this question. Although it may never be proven, this project was designed to give readers a better picture of the identity and person that Margery’s second scribe must have been.
Margery Kempe: In Search of the Scribe is the culminating project of a graduate seminar facilitated by Professor Rosalynn Voaden at Arizona State University in the Fall of 2006. The students also presented their results at the 13th Annual ACMRS Conference, held February 15 to 17 2007 in Tempe, Arizona.
