Books Have Their Histories: Medieval Chronicles and Their Scribes, Manuscripts,

and Early Editions – In Memory of Lister M. Matheson

International Medieval Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan: May 9-12, 2013

Deadline: September 15, 2012

For information, contact dominique.hoche@westliberty.edu or dominique.hoche@gmail.com

Lister Matheson (1948-2012; Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Michigan State University) was a major scholar in many fields, but two of his most important scholarly legacies lie in the arenas of medieval chronicle studies (including the Middle English Prose Brut and the relation of chronicles to medieval literary traditions) and early book and manuscript studies (in a wide variety of content areas, from historical writing and popular legends to scientific texts and ownership/biographical  studies).  He was a frequent and fondly-remembered participant in many Medieval Congresses over the years, both as a speaker and as an organizer and chair of sessions. 

Papers for these memorial sessions should  be united by the broad theme of the medieval presentation of history and the codicological settings through which that history was transmitted.  Papers may focus on various aspects of later medieval chronicles; manuscripts and printed texts linked to medieval historical writings; the scribes, printers, owners, or commissioners of such texts; and similar topics. As Professor Matheson’s own work has shown, a full understanding of medieval historical texts demands attention to both the content of the works in question — which could vary quite significantly depending on the needs or interests of the users of those texts — and the material circumstances of producing those works.  Papers illuminating these connections should be of interest to historians, literary specialists, and/or early book scholars, inter alia.

Proposals should be no longer than 400 words and must clearly indicate the significance, line of argument, principal texts and relation to existing scholarship (if possible). Email the proposal in the body of the message, a 50-word bio note, and a completed Participant Information form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to Dominique Hoche at dominique.hoche@westliberty.edu or dominique.hoche@gmail.com . Due September 15, 2012.

For general information about the 2013 Medieval Congress, visit: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html.

cfp categories: 

bibliography and history of the book

cultural studies and historical approaches

interdisciplinary

international conferences

journals and collections of essays

medieval

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 For members of the Medieval Chronicle Society who can’t make an international trip to Kalamazoo next year, a similar session or sessions are envisioned for the 2013 Leeds International Medieval Congress, and the CFP for that/those session(s) will also be announced on the MCS website and/or the next Newsletter.

The Medieval Chronicle 6th International Congress, Pécs, 25 – 30 July, 2011

The 6th conference of the Medieval Chronicle Society, last July in Pécs, was a great success. The papers were of the usual high quality, the city offered multifarious possibilities for meals and cultural diversion, and the excursion to the nearby wine district was enjoyed by all, in spite of a horrendous thunderstorm that struck the group with torrential rains on their way out from a medieval castle.

After their safe return home Graeme Dunphy, the President of the MCS, and the undersigned sent a congratulatory letter to the organisers, Márta Font and Dániel Bagi, from which a passage is quoted below:

We were delighted when you first offered to host the 2011 conference, and your enthusiasm and commitment throughout the planning phases were exemplary. The success of the conference was thanks in large part to the time and energy which you personally invested throughout this process.

The conference itself ran very smoothly, generated a high level of scholarly exchange, and took place in a pleasant atmosphere conducive to the furthering of strong international academic collegiality. The organizing committee and indeed all the Pécs colleagues went out of their way to provide a warm welcome, and the young people who formed your support team were helpful and friendly. The backdrop of the historic city of Pécs was particularly appropriate to the medieval focus of our work. For all these reasons and more, many conference participants commented to us positively on their experiences. For all this you are to be congratulated.

The Medieval Chronicle  Planned 7th International Conference, Liverpool July 2014

At the General Meeting on the last day of the conference in Pécs it was decided to accept the offer of the University of Liverpool to host the 7th International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle in July 2014. The organsiers are well known to regular congress participants, and our webmasters as well: Godfried Croenen and Sarah Peverley. For more information, see the end of this Newsletter.

MCS Twitter Account

The Medieval Chronicle Society now has a Twitter account to accompany its website. The account is being run by Dr Sarah Peverley (University of Liverpool) and will be used to provide short updates about the 2014 Medieval Chronicle conference, other chronicle conferences and symposia (which have reached the ‘call for papers’ stage), large funded research projects involving medieval chronicles, and newly published editions and/or monographs on chronicles. If members would like Dr Peverley to ‘tweet’ about any of the above on their behalf please contact her at S.Peverley@liv.ac.uk. Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters and to avoid being overwhelmed with requests Dr Peverley will only ‘tweet’ about publications and events that are chronicle related. The Twitter account is
@medievalchron so please follow us and spread the word.

Conference Announcements

7th International Layamon Conference –  21-23 June 2012

Université Paris-Sorbonne – « Centre d’Etudes Médiévales Anglaises » (CEMA, EA 2557. Direction : Prof. Leo carruthers)

The conference will be dedicated to Layamon’s Brut as well as to the various Brut chronicles, from the earliest and founding texts (Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace) to versions written after Layamon’s time (Anglo-Norman and Middle-English Brut chronicles, continental versions in the vernacular).

Papers on the broader topic of national histories of medieval Europe are welcome. They should address questions related to:

– Myths of origins, civilizing heroes, time and space.

– Identity and national feeling, collective memory, connections with the past and present.

– Relationship between reality and fiction, History and facts / romance and imagination.

– Propaganda and ideology, glorifying ancestors and a royal lineage.

– Genre & hybridity, literary conventions or originality.

– Audience reception: medieval and current readers.

Please send abstracts of 200-300 words by 15 September 2011 to: Prof. Marie-Françoise alamichel:  marie-francoise.alamichel@univ-mlv.fr (CEMA, EA 2557 & IMAGER, EA 3958)

7^e  colloque international consacré à Layamon –  21-23 juin 2012

Université Paris-Sorbonne – « Centre d’Etudes Médiévales Anglaises »  (CEMA, EA 2557. Direction : Prof. Leo carruthers)

Le colloque sera tout d’abord consacré à la tradition des Brut ou chroniques d’Angleterre. Le Brut de Layamon sera privilégié mais on pourra y ajouter les textes antérieurs, à l’origine de la tradition (Nennius, Geoffroy de Monmouth, Wace) tout comme les Brut postérieurs à celui de Layamon (Brut anglo-normands, moyen-anglais, autres versions en langues vernaculaires européennes).

Le colloque sera ensuite élargi à toute chronique nationale du Moyen Âge européen et aux questions de :

– Mythes fondateurs, héros civilisateurs, temps et espace.

– Identité et sentiment national, mémoire collective, rapports au passé, à l’actualité.

– Liens entre réalité et fiction, Histoire et vérité ou fables et mensonges.

– Propagande, reconstructions idéologiques, glorification des dynasties.

– Genre, hybridité des chroniques, conventions et originalité littéraires.

– Réception des chroniques : lectorat médiéval et contemporain.

Les propositions de communication doivent être adressées accompagnées d’un résumé de 200 à 300 mots avant le 15 septembre 2011 à: Prof. Marie-Françoise alamichel :  marie-francoise.alamichel@univ-mlv.fr (CEMA, EA 2557 & IMAGER, EA 3958)

Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium, 5-7 July 2012, University of Oxford

About OCICS

The Oxford/Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (OCICS) is a biennial conference devoted to the interdisciplinary study of chronicles in the medieval and Early Modern periods. It provides a forum for discussions of historical and related texts written across a range of languages, periods, and places. It seeks to strengthen the network of chronicle studies worldwide, and aims to encourage collaboration between researchers working in a variety of disciplines from around the globe.

2012 marks the first year that OCICS will take place at the University of Oxford. It follows two highly successful conferences hosted at the University of Cambridge, first in 2008 and then in 2010.

The theme for the 2012 conference is ‘Bonds, Links, and Ties in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles’. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof Pauline Stafford (Liverpool), Prof Elizabeth van Houts (Cambridge), and Dr James Howard-Johnston (Oxford). The conference will take place at The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies.

For further information, see the website: http://www.ocics.co.uk/

The Medieval Chronicle Series

The Medieval Chronicle VIII and IX – Call for contributions

At this moment it is clear that most of the space of vol. VIII will go to papers read at the conference in Pécs in 2011.

But members are reminded that we are also looking ahead to vol. IX, for which they can already submit papers.

Research Stipends

Notre Dame’s programs for visiting medievalists (from Julia Marvin)

The Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame has several year-long and short-term programs for visiting scholars, including an A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Studies (for faculty at US institutions), Stipends for Short-term Postdoctoral Research, Stipends for Ambrosiana Microfilms Collection Research,  and the SIEPM Fellowship in Medieval Philosophy. For more information, see

http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/funding/funding.html

Notre Dame has substantial collections of microfilms and facsimiles, which may be searched here:

http://medieval.library.nd.edu/mss_microfilms/
http://medieval.library.nd.edu/mss_facs/

http://homepages-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~dug22463/FAZ_22May2011_p60-63.PDF

New Publications

[Prussia] Fischer, Mary, trans. The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicholaus of Jeroschin. A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190-1331. Crusade Texts in Translation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing  Company, 2010.  Pp.viii, 299.  $114.95.  ISBN: 978-0-7546-5309-7

[Reviewed for TMR by John Eldevik – Hamilton College – jeldevik@hamilton.edu]

[Holland] Levelt, Sjoerd, Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland. Continuity and Transformation in the Historical Tradition of Holland during the Early Sixteenth Century. Hilversum: Verloren, 2011. ISBN: 9789087042219. € 35. 280 pages.

http://www.verloren.nl/boeken/2086/259/2752/historiografie/jan-van-naaldwijkas-chronicles-of-holland

[Baltic] Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier: A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia. Ed. Marek Tamm, Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen. Farnham, Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. xxviii, 484. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6627-1. £75.00

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, written in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia in around 1186–1227, offers a vivid example of the crusade ideology in practice. The chronicle provides many opportunities to test and broaden the new approaches brought along by recent developments in medieval studies, including the pluralist definition of crusading and the relationship between the peripheries and core areas of Europe. While the recent years have produced a significant amount of new research into Henry of Livonia, much of it has been limited to particular historical traditions and languages. One of the purposes of this book, therefore, is to synthesise the current state of research. The volume is designed to provide a multi-disciplinary companion to the chronicle, and is divided into three parts. The first part of the volume, ‘Representations,’ brings into focus the imaginary sphere of the chronicle, brought into existence by the amalgamation of crusading and missionary ideology and the frontier experience. This is followed by studies into the ‘Practices,’ which examines the diplomatic, religious, and military practices of the Christianisation and colonisation of Livonia. The volume concludes with a section on the ‘Appropriations,’ which maps the dynamics of the medieval, early modern and modern national uses of the text.

For more information, see http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754666271.

[Northeastern Europe] Ildar H. Garipzanov (ed.), Historical Narratives and Christian Identity on a European Periphery. Early History Writing in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe (c.1070–1200). Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe  •  TCNE 26, xiii + 292 p., 156 x 234 mm, 2011, HB, ISBN 978-2-503-53367-4, € 90. Available – Part of Brepols Miscellanea Online: Essays in Medieval Studies

The first comprehensive overview of the main early historical narratives created on Europe’s northeastern periphery between c. 1070 and c. 1200. It focuses on their role in constructing Christian identity in the first centuries after conversion.

For more information, see Brepols’ online catalogue.

Planned 7th International Conference, The Medieval Chronicle, Liverpool July 2014

The University of Liverpool will host the Seventh International Conference the Medieval Chronicle in July 2014 on behalf of The Medieval Chronicle society.

The University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool was founded in 1881 and was granted its Royal Charter in 1903, confirming its degree‐conferring powers. The University of Liverpool has an impressive history of pioneering education and research, with a particular emphasis on ‘education for the professions’ and applied sciences. The University currently has 27,000 students pursuing 400 programmes in 54 subject areas. Although the sciences are one of the University’s research strengths (it counts 9 Nobel laureates amongst its current and former staff) the University is also strong on Humanities research. Its Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences covers most humanities disciplines.

Medieval Studies at Liverpool

The University has been the home to several famous medievalists in the past, and medieval studies is still a thriving subject at Liverpool. Apart from the Chair of Medieval History based in the School of History, different departments include medievalists amongst their academic staff. The Liverpool medievalists are all members of the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (LCMRS), a hub for interdisciplinary study and research of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe, the Near East and Africa from c.300 to c.1700. The Centre involves scholars from several disciplines (Archaeology, Classics, English Language and Literature, French Language and Literature, Hispanic Studies, History) and academic institutions and heritage organisations across the North West of England. The Centre regularly organises conferences, workshops, seminars and lectures. It also runs a successful MA in Medieval and Renaissance studies.

The organisers

The Seventh Medieval Chronicle conference conference would be sponsored by the LCMRS (with its director Dr Harald Braun). The local organising committee is comprised of Dr Godfried Croenen (French), Dr Damien Kempf (History) and Dr Sarah Peverley (English).

Date

The final date will be decide after consultation with the Society’s officers and will avoid other major medievalists conference. If possible we will try to choose a date which would enable delegates to attend other conferences in the region (in particular IMC Leeds). Whereas previous conferences in the cycle sometimes stretched over five days, the local organisers propose to cut this back to three days so as to keep the cost reasonable for conference delegates.

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
Graeme Dunphy, gen. ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2010. ISBN 978-90-04-18464-0 / 978 90 04 18464 0. 1832 pp. € 399; $ 555.

The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle is now in print. This new reference work on chronicles was conceived at the 2002 Utrecht conference of the Chronicle Society, and throughout the years we were working on it, the members of the Society have provided a constant source of encouragement and expertise. Our 450-strong army of authors have been magnificent team to work with, and we can be very pleased indeed with what we have produced.

The EMC is a two-volume encyclopedia covering some 2500 chronicles written from 300 to 1500. In keeping with the tradition of the Chronicle Society, we took a very broad understanding of the chronicle as a genre, assuming that annals are chronicles and that hybrid works with chronicle-like elements belong to our field of study. Given the western orientation of much work in chronicle studies, it was important also to include East-Slavic, Byzantine, Syriac, Jewish and Islamic works. One thing I am particularly pleased with is our coverage of manuscript traditions, and the manuscript index references over 7000 codices. We were also keen to note questions of lay-out and illustration, as some 60 full-page reproductions attest. But for most users, the important thing will be the fact that it is now possible to look up a chronicle in a reference work which is not written in Latin and get the basic data on it quickly.

The publishers are now working on an electronic version, which might appear next year. This will allow us to correct any errors and will also make it possible to add regular batches of new articles. I hope that eventually all those little sets of Latin annals which we had to omit can be covered, and the biblio¬graphies expanded. The publishers have also hinted that when the electronic edition has evolved significantly beyond the paper version, a second printed edition may be viable. This, then, is an on-going project, and I very much hope that the members of the Chronicle Society will continue to feel involved in it. Graeme Dunphy

The Medieval Chronicle Series
The Medieval Chronicle VII – forthcoming

Papers from the first Cambridge International Chronicle Symposium (CICS) form the core of vol. VII, which in its entirety is dedicated to chronicles written in Britain, and includes papers on texts in Latin, French/Anglo-Norman, English and the Celtic languages. Guest editors of the volume are Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks, the CICS organizers. The possibility of a thematic volume offered itself unexpectedly, but was welcomed by the editorial board. Members are invited to submit proposals for similar thematic volumes.

The Medieval Chronicle VIII – Call for contributions
Although much of the space of vol. VIII will undoubtedly go to papers read at the conference in Pécs in 2011, members are reminded that they can always submit papers independent of conference activities.

Discount for The Medieval Chronicle VII
As soon as the new volume is out, a special folder will be sent to the members, including information on the usual discount for the new and previous issues.

New Publications

Art, Music, History
Representing History 900-1300. Art, Music, History. Ed. Robert A. Maxwell. Collected Paper Series
sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University. Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-271-03636-6. $ 79.95.

Modern scholarship, particularly historical studies, has long acknowledged the importance of the past to medieval conceptions of the present. This volume brings art history and music into dialogue with historical studies. The essays draw out the strategies shared by these fields in the realm of historical representation. How was the creative representation of past practices in illuminated manuscripts, monumental sculpture, and architecture, as well as in musical notation, motet composition, and performance understood as both a historical and historicizing act? What kinds of relationships did composers, patrons, chroniclers, and musicians entertain with their predecessors? Historical studies have shown how chroniclers and annalists rewrote tradition while self-consciously writing themselves into it; the essays in this volume explore such strategies in art and music.

History in Manuscript Painting
Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500. Ed. Anne D. Hedeman and Elizabeth Morrison. Los Angeles: Getty Museum Publications, 2010. It is a publication put together on the occasion of an exhibition; see http://shop.getty.edu/product708.html.

Illuminated Chronicles
The book of the Illuminated Chronicle. Ed. László-Wehli Veszprémy and József Tünde-Hapák. Budapest: Kossuth, 2009.

The Latin Chronicle Tradition
Richard Burgess and Michael Kulikowski, eds. A History of the Chronicle from the Ancient Near East to the European Middle Ages. Mosaics of Time. The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the Late Republic to the Early Middle Ages.1 (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 33). Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

This multi-volume work will provide a comprehensive history of the chronicle and related genres in Latin, setting them in their wider Mediterranean context. After the first, historical volume further volumes will include texts, translations and extensive commentary on that tradition. In cases where an adequate textus receptus exists, we will print that, but in most instances we are producing new editions.

In Preparation
Richard Gurgess and Michael Kulikowski, eds. Mosaics of Time. The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the Late Republic to the Early Middle Ages: 2, 3, 4. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 34-36). Brepols.
For more information contact the editors, Richard Burgess or Michael Kulikowski: rburgess@uottawa.ca – mkulikow@utk.edu.

Time-reckoning, calendars etc.
Immo Warntjes and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, ed. Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14-16 July, 2006. Studia Traditionis Theologiae 5 (Gen ed. Thomas O’Loughlin). Turnhout: Turnhout, 2010. ISBN : 978-2-503-53317-9. € 65.

The scientific knowledge that Irish, English, and continental European scholars nurtured and developed during the years c. AD 500 to c. AD 1200 was assimilated, in the first place, from the wider Roman world of Late Antiquity. Time-reckoning, calendars, and the minute reckonings required to compute the date of Easter, all involved the minutiae of mathematics (incl. the original concept of ‘digital calculation’) and astronomical observation in a truly scientific fashion. In fact, the ‘Dark Ages’ were anything but dark in the fields of mathematics and astronomy.

The first Science of Computus conference in Galway in 2006 highlighted the transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Ireland & Europe, the development of astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe and the role of the Irish in the development of computistical mathematics.

The Early Middle Ages
Verbist, Peter. Duelling with the past: medieval authors and the problem of the Christian Era, c. 990 – 1135. Studies in the Early Middle Ages, v. 21. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010. Pp. x, 366. $102.00. ISBN 2-503-52073-5.

Richard Corradini, Matthew Gillis, Rosamond McKitterick and Irene van Renswoude, eds. Ego-Trouble. Authors and Their Identities in the Early Middle Ages. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Phil.-hist. Klasse. Denkschriften 185 = Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 15. Wien, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7001-6872-0. 322 pp. € 54.

Although not altogether clear from the title, the focus in this volume is on early medieval historiography. Identity can be seen as a complex interface between the individual and society, whereby in each period of history the scope of individual identification has been dealt with in different ways and defined by different parameters. Conflicts and disruptions, failure and longing for change are unavoidable elements of this process. This volume deals with a number of authors of the Middle Ages, writing between the 5th and the 11th centuries, whose works contain elements relating to identity and differentiation. These elements, if seen within their social, ethnic, political or religious context, can be shown to be textual strategies. The articles collected in this volume demonstrate, on one hand, that the awareness of the self as an individual in conflict with social identities was by no means so alien or little thought about as is often believed; on the other hand, they also show that during these seven centuries no single, continuous and dogmatic body of knowledge about the individual was established, believed or followed.

Peterborough Chronicle
The Peterborough Chronicle (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 636). Ed. Bernard J Muir. Bodleian Digital Series 4. Evellum Digital Publishing (forthcoming).

Evellum Digital Publishing (http://www.evellum.com/) and The Bodleian Library are pleased to announce a new digital facsimile edition of The Peterborough Chronicle (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 636) by Professor Bernard J Muir. It will appear in 2012 as Volume 4 in the Bodleian Digital Series. The edition includes a new translation and an analysis of the rhetorical strategies of the chroniclers, as well as a comprehensive analysis of scribal practices, a bibliography, and a complete set of high resolution images. Any enquiries should be directed to Bernard Muir at: evellum@live.com.

Medieval Irish Chronicles
Nicholas Evans, The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles. Studies in Celtic History series. The Boydell Press: Cambridge, 2010. ISBN 978 1 84383 549 3.

Ireland has the most substantial corpus of annalistic chronicles for the early period in western Europe. They are crucial sources for understanding the Gaelic world of Ireland and Scotland, and offer insights into contacts with the wider Christian world. This new study dispels longstanding uncertainty over their development, production, and location prior to 1100. It analyses the principal Irish chronicles and argues that the chroniclers were in contact with each other and that their texts reflect the social connections of the Irish elites, and that sections describing the early Christian period were altered by subsequent chroniclers. The author also reconstructs the chronicles’ contents and chronology at different times and shows how the accounts were altered to reflect and promote certain views of history.

Twelfth-Century Chronicles: Hugo von Fleury, Ordericus Vitalis and Otto von Freising
Elisabeth Mégier, Christliche Weltgeschichte im 12. Jahrhundert: Themen, Variationen und Kontraste. Untersuchungen zu Hugo von Fleury, Ordericus Vitalis und Otto von Freising. Beihefte zur Mediaevistik, Vol.13. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010. 437 S. ISBN 978-3-631-60072-6. € 69.80.

Die in diesem Buch zusammengefassten Untersuchungen vereint eine Grundfrage, nämlich die nach der christlichen Geschichtssicht des lateinischen Mittelalters. Gesucht wurde aber, statt nach einem paradigmatischen Grundmodell, nach den spezifischen Annäherungsweisen einzelner Autoren: statt nach feststehenden Gemeinsamkeiten, nach Unterschieden, Spannungen und Veränderungen. Die drei betrachteten Autoren zeigen ihre Eigenheit nicht nur in der Behandlung einzelner Themen (wie: das Fegefeuer, das Individuum, die Fortuna, die Zisterzienser, die antike Mythologie, Karl der Große, die nachbiblischen Juden), sondern auch und vor allem in der Darstellung und Wertung der damaligen historiographischen Zentralgegenstände, der biblischen und der römischen Geschichte, und in ihrer sinnhaften Verbindung mit der Gegenwart.

Hugo von Flavigny
Mathias Lawo, Studien zu Hugo von Flavigny. MGH Schriften 61. München, 2010. xx + 436 S. 10 Abb. ISBN 978-3-7752-5761-9. EUR 60.

Die Werke Hugos von Flavigny, wie dieser lotharingische Autor der späteren Salierzeit nach der höchsten von ihm nachweislich bekleideten Würde gemeinhin bezeichnet wird, sind im Wesentlichen in den erst im 18. Jahrhundert geteilten Handschriften Phillipps 1870 und 1814 der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz zu Berlin auf uns gekommen. Ediert davon ist einzig eine von Christi Geburt bis zum Jahre 1102 reichende Chronik (MGH SS 8 S. 288–502). Diese Ausgabe wurde jedoch schon im 19. Jahrhundert als unbefriedigend erachtet, weil sie – unter offensichtlichem Zeitdruck entstanden – fehlerhaft ist und zeitbedingt der wissenschaftlichen wie technischen Grundlagen zu einer angemessenen Darstellung der Arbeitsweise des Chronisten entbehrt. Als Vorstufe einer zeitgemäßen kritischen Edition klärt die nun vorliegende Studie neben der Biographie des Autors vor allem die Entstehungsgeschichte des gesamten Werkkomplexes. Dabei wird der Nachweis zu führen versucht, dass die Codices Hugos autographes Arbeitsexemplar waren. Zudem wird die in der Hauptsache um 1845 geleistete, vornehmlich auf Chroniken fokussierte Quellenanalyse mit vereinzelten jüngeren Funden und eigenen Beobachtungen verbunden und mit den neuerdings zu Gebote stehenden elektronischen Hilfsmitteln verfeinert. Aufgrund der in den Anhängen gebotenen Berichtigungen zur Pertz’schen Edition kann der Text der Chronik nun korrekt zitiert werden, ohne gleich auf die Handschriften zurückgreifen zu müssen.

The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles
Hayward, Paul, ed. and trans. The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester. 2 vols. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 373. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010. ISBN: 978–0–86698–421–8. xli + 750 pages along with 6 full colour plates. US$ 140 / £ 106.

The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles are the foremost examples of ‘the breviate world chronicle in annalistic format’ to survive for twelfth-century England. Their importance lies not only in what they have to say about the histories of houses and regions in which they were produced, but also in their close connection with the Chronica chronicarum of John of Worcester. This two-volume set edits and translates both texts in full for the first time. It includes comprehensive source-critical and historical commentaries, and an extensive introduction explaining their genesis, their textual affinities, and their purpose.

Benedictine Historiography
Pieter-Jan de Grieck, De benedictijnse geschiedschrijving in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (ca. 1150-1550): historisch bewustzijn en monastieke identiteit. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. xii + 640 p. ISBN: 978-2-503-54031-3. € 65.

This book examines the historiography written by benedictine monks in the Southern Netherlands (present-day Belgium and the North of France) from the mid-twelfth up to the mid-sixteenth centuries. This period is often considered as a time of crisis and even decadence in the history of Benedictine monasticism. One of the questions addressed by this book is whether the Benedictines themselves perceived their increasing involvement in the world as problematic. A study of their historical writings shows how they positioned themselves in late medieval society. Special attention goes to the influence of crises and of reform movements like Cluny, St. Jacques (Liège), and Bursfeld. The second part of the book offers a detailed in-depth analysis of the historiographical production from the abbey of St Martin’s in Tournai, throwing a fresh light on the experience of monastic identity in an urban context.

Chronicles in Late Medieval Iberia
Aengus Ward, History and Chronicles in Late Medieval Iberia. Representations of Wamba in Late Medieval Narrative Histories. Later Medieval Europe 7. Leiden: Brill, 2011. ISBN 978 90 04 20272 6. € 99 / US$ 135.

A Chronicle of the Count of Benthem
Friedel Helga Roolfs, Heike Bierschwale, Volker Honemann (eds.), Een cronike van den greven van Benthem. Edition und Übersetzung einer spätmitelalterlichen Chronik der Grafen von Bentheim. Westfälische Beiträge zur niederdeutschen Philologie, 12. Bielefeld, 2010. 96 pp. ISBN: 978-3-89534-872-3. € 14.

Die Berliner Handschrift Mgq 812 überliefert eine lange übersehene Chronik der Grafen von Bentheim von den Anfängen bis 1485 (sie schließt mit einer Notiz zum 12. Juni 1485), die hier in solider Edition vorgelegt wird. Der Text folgt seiner Hauptquelle, der lateinischen Utrechter Chronik von Jan Beke, so eng, dass man teilweise von einer Übersetzung sprechen kann. Ausführlich wird, entsprechend dem Charakter der Reihe, die Sprache des Textes gewürdigt, die unter niederländischem Einfluss steht. Die beigegebene Übersetzung ermöglicht auch oberdeutschen Lesern die bequeme Lektüre. Der Sach-kommentar erscheint gelungen. Leider vermisst man eine Abbildung aus der Handschrift. In reality, this is in many ways a chronicle of the bishops of Utrecht, dealing extensively with the battle of Ane 1225.

Jan van Naaldwijk: Chronicles of Holland
Sjoerd Levelt, Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland: Continuity and Transformation in the Historical Tradition of Holland in the Early Sixteenth Century. Hilversum: Verloren, 2011. € 39. ISBN: 9789087042219 – Languages: English, Middle Dutch. Additional: cd-rom.

The little-known author Jan van Naaldwijk, whose two early sixteenth-century Dutch chronicles of Holland are preserved in autograph manuscripts in the British Library, wrote at a moment reputed to be the turning point between medieval and Renaissance modes of historical writing. While he primarily relied on the medieval historical tradition of Holland, he expanded it in ways that allow us to appreciate the broader impact of innovations occurring at the same time in more ‘professional’ scholarly circles. This is the first in-depth study of these chronicles and their relation to their sources, placed in the wider context of history writing running from the mid-fourteenth century into the eighteenth, providing new insights into the continuities and transitions that characterized the historical tradition of Holland from the late middle ages well into the early modern period. An accompanying cd-rom contains transcriptions of both Jan’s chronicles.

Hungarian-Polish Chronicle
Homza, Martin, (ed. and comment), and Balegová, Jana (trans.). Uhorsko-poľská kronika [Hungarian-Polish Chronicle]. Libri historiae Slovaciae, seria Fontes Bratislava, vol. 1. Post scriptum, 2009. 223 pp. (contains the Latin text, the Slovak translation, the commentaries, the title paper and facsimile)

Central European Medieval Texts
Bak, János M., Martyn Rady, László Veszprémy (eds.). Anonymous, Notary of King Béla, The Deeds of the Hungarians, Master Roger’s Epistle to the Sorrowful Lament about the Destruction of Hungary by the Tartars. Central Europeran Medieval Texts, Vol. 5. Budapest-New York, 2010.

The fifth volume of the CEMT – always containing the Latin original and an annotated English translation of narrative – has been published last summer and will be available at a conference discount during the Pécs conference, together with the previous volumes. Those include the Gesta Hungarum of Simon of Kéza (ca. 1285), the Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV and his Life of St Wenceslas, the Gesta principum Polonorum [‘Gallus Anonymus’] (ca. 1118), and the Historia Salonitanorum atque Spalatinorum pontificum by Thomas of Split/Spalato (ca. 1266). The most recent volume contains the first surviving narrative of Hungarian history, the Gesta Hungarorum of the anonymus notary [‘Anonymus’] of King Béla (III), written around 1200-1210, and the Epistola in miserabile Carmen about the Mongol invasion of 1241 by the eye-witness Master Roger.
Discount at Pécs for Central European Medieval Texts

In memoriam prof. Liudmila Boeva
Реката на времето. Сб. статии в памет на проф. Людмила Боева. Съставители А. Вачева и И. Чекова. Сoфиа, 2007. (Der Fluss der Zeit. Ein Sammelband, gewidmet Prof. Liudmila Boeva. Herausg. A. Vacheva und I. Chekova. Sofia, 2007.)
Im Sammelband sind 2-3 Artikel auf Russisch über die altrussische Nestorchronik.

The Codice Morosini
Il Codice Morosini. Il mondo visto da Venezia (1094-1433). Edizione critica, introduzione, indice e altri apparati di Andrea Nanetti. 4 tomi, in custodia, con fac-simile della carta nautica di Francesco de Cesanis datata 1421. Fondazione CISAM. Spoleto 2010. ISBN 978-88-7988-194-4. Pp. i-lxi + 1-2.274.

This is a complete critical edition of all the 560 manuscript carte of the Vienna Codex, including marginal notes by other hands (120 pp. of Introduction + 1720 pp. of text + 440 pp. of Index).

A web based encyclopedic index of the Morosini Code (1400-1433) – the first Venetian Diario (diary), and of the Diarii of his continuator G. Dolfin (1433/4-1457) – is an excellent start to build a multi-dimensional data network for Systems History. The Morosini Code is the first successful example of Venetian historical diary. Until 1400 ca. (1/8 of the text) it is a testimony of the final evidence of fourteenth-century historiography. For what comes afterwards, when the chronicle little by little becomes a diary, it represents the model for the following Venetian vernacular historiography which will lead to Priuli, Michiel and to the most famous 58 volumes of the Sanudo’s Diari. For more information: e-mail: nanetti.andrea@gmail.com or http://www.andreananetti.com.

New Projects
Chronicle of ‘Amadi’
Dr Nicholas Coureas of the Cyprus research Centre and Prof. Peter Edbury of the University of Cardiff are preparing a translation from Italian into English of the chronicle of ‘Amadi’. This anonymous Cypriot chronicle named after its last owner was written in final form in the mid-fifteenth century and essentally covers the history of Lusignan Cyprus down to the reign of King John II. It includes in Italian translation an otherwise lost version of the chronicle of Philip of Novara, written in French, on the wars of the German Emperor Frederick II against the Ibelins in Latin Syria and Cyprus that took place between 1228-1233.

Conferences – 2011

The Dartmouth Brut Manuscript ––– 20-21 May 2011
“Situating the Dartmouth Brut Manuscript,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
In 2006, Rauner Special Collections Library of Dartmouth College purchased a fifteenth-century manuscript of the English Brut chronicle. Previously in private hands and not included in previous studies of the Brut tradition, the manuscript contains a unique version of British history, from Trojan settlement to King Arthur to Henry V. This conference aims to bring the Dartmouth Brut into current scholarly discussions of late medieval English culture, scribal practices, and reading publics. Speakers: Elizabeth Bryan (Brown University), Edward Donald Kennedy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Meg Lamont (North Carolina State University), Julia Marvin (University of Notre Dame), Lister Matheson (Michigan State University), Ryan Perry (Queen’s University, Belfast).

The conference is free and open to all. Information and RSVP: Michelle R. Warren, Professor of Comparative Literature (Michelle.R.Warren@Dartmouth.edu).

International Medieval Society-Paris ––– 30 June – 2 July 2011
8th Annual Symposium on the theme of ‘Ordo’

Proposals from chronicle specialists working on France or French-related topics are welcome. The languages of the symposium are French and English. The symposium is open to doctoral students as well. This year the IMS-Paris for the first time is pleased to offer a graduate student prize, details of which are at the end of the call for papers.

The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English) organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see our website: http://www.ims-paris.org. For more information: Raeleen Chai-Elsholz (contact@ims-paris.org)

Historiography and Antiquarianism ––– 12 – 14 August 2011
University of Sydney: ‘Historiography and Antiquarianism’.
The Conference has a webpage and useful information about the conference will be placed there:
classics.org.au/haconference/

Conferences – 2012

7th International Layamon Conference – 21-23 June 2012
Université Paris-Sorbonne – « Centre d’Etudes Médiévales Anglaises »
(CEMA, EA 2557. Direction : Prof. Leo CARRUTHERS)

The conference will be dedicated to Layamon’s Brut as well as to the various Brut chronicles, from the earliest and founding texts (Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace) to versions written after Layamon’s time (Anglo-Norman and Middle-English Brut chronicles, continental versions in the vernacular).
Papers on the broader topic of national histories of medieval Europe are welcome. They should address questions related to:
– Myths of origins, civilizing heroes, time and space.
– Identity and national feeling, collective memory, connections with the past and present.
– Relationship between reality and fiction, History and facts / romance and imagination.
– Propaganda and ideology, glorifying ancestors and a royal lineage.
– Genre & hybridity, literary conventions or originality.
– Audience reception: medieval and current readers.
Please send abstracts of 200-300 words by 15 September 2011 to:
Prof. Marie-Françoise ALAMICHEL: marie-francoise.alamichel@univ-mlv.fr
(CEMA, EA 2557 & IMAGER, EA 3958)

7e colloque international consacré à Layamon – 21-23 juin 2012
Université Paris-Sorbonne – « Centre d’Etudes Médiévales Anglaises » (CEMA, EA 2557. Direction : Prof. Leo CARRUTHERS)

Le colloque sera tout d’abord consacré à la tradition des Brut ou chroniques d’Angleterre. Le Brut de Layamon sera privilégié mais on pourra y ajouter les textes antérieurs, à l’origine de la tradition (Nennius, Geoffroy de Monmouth, Wace) tout comme les Brut postérieurs à celui de Layamon (Brut anglo-normands, moyen-anglais, autres versions en langues vernaculaires européennes).
Le colloque sera ensuite élargi à toute chronique nationale du Moyen Âge européen et aux questions de :
– Mythes fondateurs, héros civilisateurs, temps et espace.
– Identité et sentiment national, mémoire collective, rapports au passé, à l’actualité.
– Liens entre réalité et fiction, Histoire et vérité ou fables et mensonges.
– Propagande, reconstructions idéologiques, glorification des dynasties.
– Genre, hybridité des chroniques, conventions et originalité littéraires.
– Réception des chroniques : lectorat médiéval et contemporain.
Les propositions de communication doivent être adressées accompagnées d’un résumé de 200 à 300 mots avant le 15 septembre 2011 à : Prof. Marie-Françoise ALAMICHEL : marie-francoise.alamichel@univ-mlv.fr (CEMA, EA 2557 & IMAGER, EA 3958)

The Medieval Chronicle Society

Website launched

Over the summer Sarah Peverley and Godfried Croenen, with the support of the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and School of English, have set up a website for the Society. The website was designed by Deborah Swain.

The Society has its own domain name: http://www.medievalchronicle.org/ or http://medievalchronicle.org/.

The aim of the site is to provide information about all the society’s activities (conferences, yearbooks and newsletters) and to act as a point of contact for people wanting to join. For the coming years Sarah and Godfried will be maintaining the website.

The site contains a small and selective links section, which will be reviewed from time to time. Suggestions for links are welcome, but there is no guarantee that suggestions will be included. Amongst others, we will not include in this section sites that do not contain clear statements about authorship and ownership, link sites, sites that are not devoted primarily to medieval chronicles, and sites that are not academic.

The Medieval Chronicle

The Medieval Chronicle VI

In September The Medieval Chronicle VI appeared. It contains keynote lectures of the 5th Chronicle Conference (Belfast 2008) and of the first Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS: Cambridge 2008), and 11 more papers. Members of the MCS, i.e. all those who receive this Newsletter, may order a copy directly from the publisher at a discount (see below).

Sad news

I am sorry having to inform you that Alan Deyermond, keynote speaker at the CICS in 2008 and one of the contributors to The Medieval Chronicle VI, passed away last September, only a week after the volume’s publication. Although I was aware that his health was not very good, the news came as a complete and shocking surprise. Earlier this year I had been in frequent contact with him about his contribution to this volume. In his comment he showed himself as precise as always, down to the place of commas and the use of italics. He was a most amiable man, a generous scholar and a great colleague.

The Medieval Chronicle VII

Papers from the first CICS will form the core of vol. VII, which will in its entirety be dedicated to chronicles written in Britain, and include papers on texts in Latin, French/Anglo-Norman, English and the Celtic languages. There is still space for one or two contributions, especially on chronicles from the Celtic areas. Guest editors of the volume will be Dr Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks, the organizers.

The possibility of a thematic volume offered itself unexpectedly, but was welcomed by the editorial board. Members are invited to submit proposals for similar thematic volumes.

The Medieval Chronicle VIII – Call for contributions

Although much of the space of vol. VIII will undoubtedly go to papers read at the conference in Pécs in 2011, members are reminded that they can always submit papers independent of conference activities.

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle

The EMC is making steady progress. The majority of articles have now been written and the whole work should be completely edited by late summer 2010. However, we are still looking for colleagues to write leftover short articles particularly on Italy, Byzantium and the Islamic world. Anyone interested is invited to contact Graeme Dunphy on g{at}dunphy.de.

Announcements

Conferences – 2010

Medieval Chronicle Society at Leeds – July 2010

The Medieval Chronicle Society is sponsoring two sessions at the 17th International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 12-15 July 2010:

Session one: Travel and Exploration in Medieval Chronicles
Abstracts are invited for papers dealing with descriptions of travel, exploration, migration and/or conquest in medieval chronicles, and with relations between chronicles and travel accounts in other texts. We particularly welcome papers with either interdisciplinary or cross-cultural approaches, and papers that reach beyond the conventional chronological and geographical borders of the European Middle Ages.

Session two: The Medieval Chronicle
Abstracts are invited for papers dealing with any aspect of medieval chronicles. We particularly welcome papers addressing one or more of the themes of the Medieval Chronicle Society. We particularly, but by no means exclusively, welcome papers with interdisciplinary and/or diachronic approaches, and papers relating to chronicles from regions other than Western Europe.

Please send proposals for twenty-minute papers in English, French or German (title and an abstract of about 250-300 words, with a short bibliography) by e-mail to Sjoerd Levelt (s.levelt{at}seh.oxon.org). Inquiries are welcome.

2nd Biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS) – 17-19 July 2010

The theme for CICS 2010 is Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, which will be debated over the three days during open sessions of three twenty-five minute papers, alternating with longer keynote addresses. Selected papers will be published in a volume bearing the same title within two years of the conference. The 2008 inaugural proceedings appeared in The Medieval Chronicle, vols VI (2009) and VII (2010, forthcoming).

The new symposium will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions, a tour of Cambridge College Libraries, formal conference dinner, publications fair and wine reception. Refreshments and lunches are provided for conference guests and college accommodation is available. As on the previous occasion, a limited number of small bursaries will be awarded.

We invite proposals from scholars in the disciplines including but not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.
For further information, see: http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html

New Publications

The chronicles of Fernão Lopes

An English translation of the three chronicles of Fernão Lopes (first half of the 15th century) is being prepared by a team of British and American translators. The 4 volumes will be published by Boydell & Brewer, hopefully by the end of 2014. The project is coordinated by Teresa Amado (Lisbon, Portugal) and Amélia Hutchinson (Georgia, USA). Although it was not really inspired by the Medieval Chronicle Society, for they had started to discuss preliminary strategies before 2005, it is fair to say that the Reading conference (the first one that T. Amado attended) gave it a great incentive, namely through Chris Given-Wilson’s encouraging reaction to the idea and his suggestion of a translator. In fact, he is now a member of the Advisory Board of this work.
With the agreement of all the people involved in it, the English edition of these chronicles will be dedicated to Alan Deyermond, not only in recognition for his outstanding career as a medievalist, but also for the support and advice he gave to the project right from the beginning

Carthusians

Martin Homza, Veronika Kucharská, Stanislava Kuzmová and Nad’a Rácová (eds.), Central European Charterhouses in the family of the Carthusian order. Analecta Cartusiana, 254. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Universität Salzburg: 2008, 276 p. ISBN: 978-80-968948-1-9.
For more information, see the website http://analectacartusiana.blogspot.com/.

Mosaics of Time: The Latin Chronicle Tradition from its Beginnings to the Sixth Century

This multi-volume work will provide a comprehensive history of the chronicle and related genres in Latin, setting them in their wider Mediterranean context. After the first, historical volume – to appear within the year – further volumes will include texts, translations and extensive commentary on that tradition. In cases where an adequate textus receptus exists, we will print that, but in most instances we are producing new editions. For more information contact the editors, Richard Burgess or Michael Kulikowski: rburgess{at}uottawa.ca – mkulikow{at}utk.edu.

Manuscript Exhibition – 2011

Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500 (Nov. 16, 2010 – Feb. 6, 2011)
J. Paul Getty Museum – Los Angeles, CA – USA – http://www.getty.edu/
‘Imagining the Past in France’ will celebrate historical imagery produced in France between about 1250 and 1500, bringing together a number of the finest masterpieces produced in the Middle Ages. The exhibition will explore the role of illumination in vernacular manuscripts as a way of formulating and disseminating a medieval idea of history, to help an entire nation understand the present and plan for the future by looking to the past. Approximately 60 manuscripts will be supplemented by a small selection of medieval objects such as tapestries and ivory boxes.
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Elizabeth Morrison, Curator, Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, working in conjunction with Professor Anne D. Hedeman, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Discount for The Medieval Chronicle, vols III – VI

Members of the MCS, i.e. those who receive this Newsletter, may order volumes III – VI at a discount of 30 per cent directly from the publishers, Rodopi, Amsterdam. Send a letter, fax or e-mail within a month (i.e., before 15 December) to our contact person, mentioning “MCS Newsletter”:

Esther Roth
Rodopi – Tijnmuiden 7 – 1046 AK Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Tel. ++ 31 (0)20 611 48 21 – Fax. ++ 31 (0)20 447 29 79
E-mail e.roth{at}rodopi.nl;
Electronic newsletter and online titles: http://www.rodopi.nl/

Volumes
6. The Medieval Chronicle VI, Kooper, Erik (Ed.) NEW
5. The Medieval Chronicle V, KOOPER, Erik (Ed.)
4. The Medieval Chronicle IV, KOOPER, Erik (Ed.)
3. The Medieval Chronicle III, KOOPER, Erik (Ed.)

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The Medieval Chronicle Society

For information contact:
Dr Erik Kooper
Dept of English
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands
E-mail: e.s.kooper@uu.nl

The Medieval Chronicle Society

The MCS was founded at the 2nd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle, held in Driebergen, the Netherlands. It is an international and interdisciplinary organisation founded to facilitate the work of scholars interested in medieval chronicles, or more generally medieval historiography.

The history of the society began with a series of triennial conferences initially in Utrecht, but later moving from place to place. These early conferences were hosted by Erik Kooper (English Department, Utrecht). It was at the second of these conferences, in 1999, that the society was formally founded.

Conferences so far:

1996 Utrecht (Driebergen) – 1999 Utrecht (Driebergen) – 2002 Utrecht (Doorn) – 2005 Reading – 2008 Belfast

Membership

The MCS is a virtual society in the sense that it has no formal organisation. Anyone interested in the study of medieval chronicles is eligible to membership. As soon as one’s name has been included in the MCS mailinglist, one is a member. There are no dues.

At the end of every triennial conference a General Meeting is held, and since all conference participants are on the MCS mailinglist they also have the right to take part in the discussions and decision making.

General Meeting – Belfast 2008

As usual a General Meeting concluded the 5th International Conference in Belfast, July 2008, organized by Dion Smythe.

Election new officers

The most important point on the agenda (apart from the venue of the next conference) was the election of two members to succeed Erik Kooper in two of his functions.

In the first place Graeme Dunphy (Regensburg, Germany) was elected as the new President of the MCS as per immediate (g{at}dunphy.de).

After that Sjoerd Levelt (Warburg Institute, London) was elected to act as assistant-editor of The Medieval Chronicle volumes, for vol. VIII, and to become chief editor with vol. IX.

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