Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Category: Medieval

  • Atlantic Mediaeval Association 2014 meeting

    The 7th annual meeting of AMA (the Atlantic Mediaeval Association) will take place at the University of Prince Edward Island on Saturday, October 4th. The program follows; all sessions are in the Main building, Room 213. 8:45-10:00: Plenary lecture Judith E. Dietz, “The History and Significance of the Salzinnes Antiphonal” 10:15-12:15: Session I: Shifting Place…

  • Tolkien and medievalism sessions, K’zoo 2015

    The International Congress on Medieval Studies has released a preview of the sessions that have been approved for the 2015 conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan. You can find the full information for each call for papers on the Congress sessions page. While there are hundreds of sessions on medieval topics, I have listed the ones that…

  • Borders without boundaries: a weekend with the Canadian Society of Medievalists

    Originally posted on beoshewulf: Last month I attended the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, held this year at Brock University in St Catherines, Ontario. I’ve been to the International Medieval Congress in Leeds a number of years now, and I’ve followed the proceedings of the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo…

  • Canadian Society of Medievalists / la Société canadienne des médiévistes 2014

    On Saturday May 24, the annual conference of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / la Société canadienne des médiévistes begins at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario (in the Niagara region) and runs to Monday, May 26. This is a multidisciplinary conference with participants this year coming from across Canada as well as from the…

  • Kalamazoo blogs and videos

    If you regret not being able to go to the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (or you just didn’t get to all the sessions you wanted, or you want to review the ones that you did attend), I’ve collected some blog posts and videos that might give you a taste of…

  • Tolkien’s Guinever

    In my previously posted thoughts on Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur, I predicted that the character of Guinever would give rise to a lot more discussion, and we are seeing that debate occurring already on several sites.  Troels Forchhammer, who has listed a thorough collection of reviews on his blog Parma-kenta, has added his own…

  • Fall of Arthur – more reviews

    I posted a list of reviews of Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur back in June, but I now have a few more to add.  Most recently, Kathy Cawsey has published “The Lord of the Round Table” in Open Letters Monthly. Below is my collated list of selected reviews in online publications and in a few blogs (including…

  • Atlantic Mediaeval Association CFP

    Call for Papers:   Sixth Annual Conference of the Atlantic Mediaeval Association 27-28 September 2013 Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada Plenary Paper by Fiona Tolhurst on Female Spirituality in the Late Middle Ages 16:00 Friday 27 Sept (Room TBA) The society and its conference are multi-disciplinary and we accordingly welcome proposals on all aspects of…

  • CFP: Medieval Translation: Theory and Practice

    Florilegium is the international journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists /  Société canadienne des médiévistes and accepts papers in English or French. The recent call for papers is for a special issue on medieval translation. CfP Florilegium – Translation issue [pdf]

  • “Wild blow the winds of war”: Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur

    [Can there be spoilers in an Arthurian tale? I don’t know if my review would count as a spoiler, but if you’re worried about such things, you might want to proceed with caution.] In a darkening world, tides are flowing fast and winds sweeping into the west while ghostly apparitions ride through the skies. Tolkien’s…