Medieval Studies Association - MSA

01/27/2017

Hey all! Thanks to those who came out to the facsimile viewing at Strozier last week (invites sent out via email)!!! I just wanted to invite all to 2 non-MSA events hosted by Dr. Bauer in the Art History Department. The first Feb 9th in WJB G40. Dr. Glaire Anderson of UNC will be presenting her work on "Scientists as Makers." The second is Feb 7th from 3-5:30pm at WJB 2038 and Dr. Palazzo from the University of Poitiers will be presenting "Saint Dominic and the Five Senses." This second event has limited seating, and if you wish to attend, you need to contact Dr. Bauer at [email protected].
Thanks! :)

11/07/2016

Join MSA as we start a new tradition! Informal Scholarly Talks (IST) is a forum in which professors and students can discuss on-going research in more casual setting. We will be hosting the first Talk on November 16th at 5:30pm in WJB 1071. The medievalists of the Art History Department-- Dr. Lynn Jones, Dr. Doron Bauer, and Dr. Kyle Killian-- will be sharing some their current work. Please contact Emily Tuttle at [email protected] for more information.

10/27/2016

Sounds pretty great!

09/25/2016

Don't forget! Paper-Run Through this week! See info below!

Support your professors as they prepare for the 2016 Annual Byzantine Studies Conference at Cornell University. Dr. Lynn Jones, Dr. Robert Romanchuk, and Dr. Brad Hostetler will be giving a run-through of their papers on

September 26th at 6pm in the William Johnson Building (WJB), Room G40.

Papers to be presented:
Robert Romanchuk, (Modern Languages) "Digenis Akritis and Bilingual Oral Tradition in the Balkans"
Brad Hostetler, (Metropolitan Museum of Art) “Bone, Blood, Milk, and Oil: Examining the Relics of St. Panteleemon”
Lynn Jones, (Art History) “Cults? The Case of Nikephoros II Phokas”

09/20/2016

Hey all, MSA would like to encourage all FSU students to check us out on Nole Central. By joining the organization on NC, you are able to vote in our annual elections, have access to our calendar, and contact other MSA members. Check us out! :)

09/19/2016

Please join the AH Department for "What I Did Last Summer." Meet the professors who have traveled near and far for their research!

The Department of Art

09/19/2016

It's that time of year again! The FSU Art History Department invites all to attend our 34th Annual Symposium!

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09/14/2016

Don't miss this lecture from Dr. Charles E. Brewer next week!

"Tales of Two Laments"
September 22, 2016
4:00 - 5:00 pm
HMU 125

The lyric genre of planctus (lament) is found in sources from the Carolingian Renaissance to the Marienklagen of the later Middle Ages. The range of subjects is vast, from eulogies to Ottonian kings to the dramatic evocation of the emotions of biblical figures, such as King David’s lament over Saul and Jonathan and especially that of Mary at the Cross. My focus will be on two very different planctus, one written in the voice of Oedipus concerning himself and his dead sons, and the other, perhaps the most famous medieval Marian lament, the Planctus ante nescia. A deeper examination of the cultural contexts, the sources, and music can provide new answers to questions of authorship and significance for each of these songs.

09/12/2016

New class offering this spring-- Medieval London with Dr. Richard Emmerson! In this seminar, you will examine the role of greater London (including Canterbury and Saint Albans) as a
cultural center in the later Middle Ages, from the mid-13th to mid-15th century. Interdisciplinary in approach and subject matter, discussions will consider the representation and influence of London in architecture, hagiography, manuscript illumination, painting, poetry, public performance, sculpture, and stained glass. After introducing London by readings from Langland’s
Piers Plowman and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the course
will discuss civic London and royal Westminster, trilingual
London and its books, royal entries and ceremonies, Black
Death and apocalypticism, heresy and pilgrimage, and
the Peasant’s Revolt and the overthrow of Richard II. Works to be studied in detail include the architecture, sculpture, and paintings of Westminster Abbey; stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral; the Wilton Diptych; and illustrated manuscripts such as Matthew Paris’s Life of Edward the Confessor, the Lambeth Apocalypse, and Lydgate’s Troy Book and Life of Saint Edmund. Please contact MSA for more information on what will be a great interdisciplinary study! :)

08/18/2016

We're looking for papers for our upcoming panel at next year's International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI!

CFP: ICMS Kalamazoo 2017
“Authoring the Self: Autobiography and Auctoritas”
contact: Chris Jensen, [email protected]
deadline: September 16, 2016

Autobiography as a genre is anachronistic at best when talking about the literature of the Middle Ages, yet there are countless examples of authors and scribes including scenes or exempla from their own lives within their texts—dream visions, dedicatory epistles, marginalia, etc. Whether authentic or fictive (or somewhere in between), these instances of life writing bestow varying degrees of auctoritas on their respective texts, but not always for the same reason. This panel aims to examine how medieval authors from all traditions and genres textually position themselves as authors—or auctores—within their texts and for what reasons.

How does Chaucer utilize his authorial personae? Why does Christine de Pizan stake such material claim on her manuscripts? Why does Margery Kempe seem to be at odds with her scribes, struggling to maintain her place in her own narrative?

The Participant Information Form for the 52nd ICMS (May 11 – 14, 2017) can be found on the Western Michigan University website: http://www.wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions

Please submit the completed form and a one-page abstract of the proposed paper to Chris Jensen at [email protected] by Friday, September 16, 2016.

Any papers not selected for this session will be forwarded to the Congress Committee to be considered for general sessions. Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers considered for inclusion in general sessions is made by post in December.

08/10/2016

"As part of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary celebrations, we are delighted to invite applications to the James H Marrow Research Travel Fund.

The fund has been established in honour of Professor James H. Marrow, Honorary Keeper of Northern Illuminated Manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Professor Emeritus of Art History at Princeton University, to provide financial assistance for students and independent scholars who need to travel to the Fitzwilliam Museum in order to undertake short term research on its collection of illuminated manuscripts.

The deadline for applications is Friday, 30 September. For details of eligibility and an application form, please email: [email protected]."

As part of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary celebrations, we are delighted to invite applications to the James H Marrow Research Travel Fund. The fund has been established in honour of Professor James H. Marrow, Honorary Keeper of Northern Illuminated Manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum and P...

08/05/2016

Call for papers!

The Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association's annual conference for graduate students was inaugurated in the 2012-13 year. Our goal is to give junior academics an opportunity to present their papers in a collegial atmosphere, and to hear papers by respected keynote speakers.