Source of Mysterious Medieval Eruption from 1258 identified as Indonesia’s Samalas volcano, part of the Rinjani Volcanic Complex on Lombok Island
Author: Medieval Histories
Antonello da Messina
The Sicilian painter, Antonello da Messina, is the subject of a major exhibition in Rovereto this autumn...
Two Mourners
Treasures of medieval statuary - two mourners of alabaster from the tomb of le Duc de Berry from the 15th century - are on sale...
Mishneh Torah
The Met together with the Museum of Israel in Jerusalem recently acquired a very rare Illuminated Manuscript...
Clothworkers’ Centre
The Textile Collection at V&A in London reopens in October at a new location and with brand-new study facilities...
Medieval Histories – New Books and Reviews september 2013
Medieval Histories – September 2013 9:2 New Books and Reviews
Presents the latest books published inside Medieval Studies as well as History and Archaeology. Some of these will also be reviewed.
The aim is to give a fresh and very up-to-date overview of what is new = what was published in the last month!
Internship – Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section – British Library
Internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section
The British Library is pleased to be able to offer an internship in the Medieval and Earlier section of the History and Classics Department for a doctoral or post-doctoral student in the History of Art or another relevant subject.
The intern will be involved in all aspects of the work of the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts section, including responding to enquiries, providing talks for students and patrons, selecting and presenting manuscripts for display in our exhibition gallery, and cataloguing, thereby gaining insight into various curatorial duties and aspects of collection care. During the internship at the Library, the intern will enjoy privileged access to printed and manuscript research material, and will work alongside specialists with wide-ranging and varied expertise.
The primary focus of the internship will be to enhance our online Digitised Manuscripts and Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts websites by creating and supplementing catalogue entries for medieval manuscripts and accompanying images, working under the supervision of the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts. The internship is designed to provide an opportunity for the student to develop research skills and expertise in medieval and Renaissance art and history, and in presenting manuscripts to a range of audiences.
Qualifications
The programme is only open to students who are engaged actively in research towards, or have recently completed a PhD in a subject area relevant to the study of pre-1600 illuminated manuscripts who have a right to work in the UK.
Terms
The term of internship is either full time for six months, or part time for twelve months. Applicants are asked to specify which term they would prefer in the application. The salary is £8.55 per hour (Full time is 36 hours per week). The internship will start in November 2013 after relevant security clearances are obtained.
How to apply
Please send an application letter detailing your area of research, the date you would like to start and whether you would like to work full or part time, a CV, and two letters of reference to Dr Kathleen Doyle, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, The British Library, by email to kathleen [dot] doyle [at] bl [dot] uk, or by post to 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, by 20 October 2013. Interviews will be held in late October, and may include questions about the date, origin, and decoration of a particular manuscript to be shown at the interview. The internship will start as soon as relevant security checks have been completed.
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Material Culture
Material Culture is about stuff from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including clothing, armor, and artwork as well as news about museum exhibits and new books. More pictures than prose, there is always new and interesting stuff to delight you. This bonanza is brought to you by Karen Larsdatter
She also provides us with a very generous link page full of photos and links to everything which is both medieval and material…
Merovingianworld
the Merovingianworld is written by James Palmer and focus on the Early Middle Ages and Other Things
“Merovingianworld is a site dedicated to the culture and politics of the Frankish kingdoms and their neighbours, from the end of the Western Roman Empire until the Carolingian coup of 750-1. It is intended primarily as a resource to aid teaching and research, with short essays, links to editions and translations of texts, images, and bibliography. Sometimes there will be news, tracking the best and worst of new publications in the field, and including reports from conferences and seminars.”
The Medieval Academy Blog
The Medieval Academy Blog tells the stories from the Medieval Academy of America and post conferences and CFP.
The History Blog
The History Blog is not always about medieval history, but it is still worth checking out. Articles are very well written and documented.
In its presentation it says:
“It’s a blog. About history. So I was sifting through reams of Google News Alerts, slightly miffed that there wasn’t some nice, handy blog that had already done all the sifting for me, when it struck me like the proverbial bolt of lightning that non-laziness is an actual option. Hell, if I’m doing it for myself, why not post the products for all my brothers and sisters in history nerddom? My interests are primarily European ancient and medieval, but I’m quite undiscriminating when it comes to history, so I’ll pretty much blather about anything that catches my eye. I also intend to make a note of all the topically relevant books I read, and a list of all the topically relevant books sitting in a pile glaring at me.My name is Livius. I shall endeavor not to suck. That is all.”
In The Middle
In The Middle is a medieval studies group blog written by Eileen Joy, Steve Mentz, Jeffrey Cohen, Mary Kate Hurley, Jonathan Hsy and Karl Steel
It lives by this observation by Deleuze and Guattari: It’s not easy to see things in the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes (– Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus)
Modern Medieval
Modern Medieval is a blog where The Middle Ages still have something to say.
This intermittent blog about the continuing relevance of the period known as the Middle Ages to the modern world and modernity’s continuing fascination with the “medieval, is written by Matthew Gabriel, Rich Godden, Larry Swain, Brandon Hawk and Jennifer Lynn Jordan
Revealing Words
Revealing Words is about Northumbria in the Tenth Century
Revealing Words follows the research trails of Karen Louise Jolly exploring the community of St. Cuthbert at Chester-le-Street, Northumbria, in the second half of the tenth century. Her starting point is the manuscript Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 and the additions made by Aldred and a group of scribes at Chester-le-Street circa 970
Karen Louise Jolly is associate professor in the department of history at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Norse and Viking Ramblings
Norse and Viking Ramblings is a gentle wander through the Viking world undertaken by Viqueen aka Judith Jesch, who is professor at in Nottingham.
During the day (and sometimes the night) she teaches and does research into Old Norse language and literature and the Viking Age. The purpose of her blog is to record experiences and observations from her encounters with Vikings in the media, in popular culture, and on her travels in the Viking world. She records these for herself. “But it might be that you, too, dear reader, are interested. If so, please feel free to comment”, she writes.
Historian on the Edge
Historian on the Edge is written by Professor Grumpy, the Historian on the Edge. He served 11 years at the University of London but now works in the north of England at Poppleton University. Sometimes he goes under the pseudonym of Guy Halsall, and teaches at the University of York. He doesn’t make much of a secret of his identity but doesn’t use it as such on his blog to reduce Google hits and because his kindly employers wouldn’t necessarily agree with everything he writes.
He is best known for writing various works about the history and archaeology of the late antique and early medieval periods in western Europe, covering such themes as barbarian migrations, death, burial, the life-cycle, gender, warfare, violence and humour. He is also well-known as a controversialist, for a somewhat (by academic standards) off-beat sense of humour. The Historian on the Edge sees himself simultaneously as the clown prince and enfant terrible of medieval history … though he admits that he is really too old to occupy either position.