To Fresh Woods and Pastures New
[Header image from a manuscript of Martin le Franc, L’Estrif de Fortune et de Vertu, French, c.1470-80. Private collection] I’m really pleased to announce that …
The Space Age and the Digital Age: Linking Museum Exhibits and the College Classroom
When I first came to the University of Iowa, the north lobby of the Main Library was a drab, dated, and draughty area that had …
Publication Roundup III
[Header image: Detail of Rogier van der Weyden’s The Magdalen Reading, bef. 1438. National Gallery, London, NG654.] “De Monasterio Desolato: Politics and Patronage in an …
Helen Maybury Roe—A Pioneering Historian of Medieval Ireland
I can claim a certain kinship with Helen Maybury Roe: not only was she a medieval historian, as I am, but she was also from …
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2016
The AHA’s annual conference was held in Atlanta this year: my first time both to attend the conference and visit the city. I’d thought that …
Haskins Conference 2015
Friday New Research Forum The first session of the Haskins is the New Research Forum, with presenters giving five-minute flash papers on research in progress …
CfP: Cistercians, Chronologies, and Communities Symposium
Cistercians, Chronologies, and Communities: The Legacies of Constance Hoffman Berman May 20-21, 2016 Students, friends and colleagues of Professor Constance H. Berman are invited to …
Re-membering the Wilton Processional: a Manuscript Lost and Found
Professor Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa) spoke to a gathering of musicologists, medievalists, and archivists at University of Iowa Special Collections on September 4. …
Sixth Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest Conference
This post was originally hosted on Storify, until that service shut down. The sixth conference of the Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest organisation …