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13.08.2024
Book: A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus

Book: A Companion to Saxo Grammaticus. Volume Editors: Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm and Lars Boje Mortensen 2024
24.01.2024
Interfaces no. 10

The newest issue of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures is now available online. As always it is open access and can be read online or downloaded
16.01.2024
Interfaces Journal Lectures spring 2024

CML is happy to present the programme for the online Interfaces Journal Lectures in spring 2024
22.09.2023
Publication, "Romanos: Nattens Sange"

New translation in Danish by Uffe Holmsgaard Eriksen
20.09.2023
CML's Elizabeth Tyler on BBC Radio's "In Our Time"

CML's Elizabeth Tyler appeared on BBC Radio's 'In Our Time' where she talked about the Danish prince Cnut
19.04.2023
Conference on "Giorgio Valla e la sua biblioteca", co-organised by CML MSCA fellow Sandro Passavanti

The conference "Giorgio Valla e la sua biblioteca" took place at the National Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Modena 31st March and 1st of April
13.03.2023
Congratulations to Elisabetta Barili on passing her PhD viva!

CML PhD Elisabetta Barili passed her PhD viva on 21 February 2023
01.03.2023
Interfaces no. 9

The new issue of Interfaces is now available online and it is Open Access as always!
15.02.2023
From Dresden to Leipzig: on a damaged manuscript and its new “readable” life

Elisabetta Barili writes about her travels to Leipzig to examine a manuscript made readable by multispectral technology
13.02.2023
Publication, "Waiting for the End: Two Case Studies on the Relationship Between Time and Gender in Early Christianity"

New publication by Maria Dell'Isola in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
26.01.2023
CML's Elisabetta Barili Awarded the BSC Graduate Student Prize

PhD student Elisabetta Barili has been awarded the BSC graduate student prize at the Byzantine Studies Conference
24.11.2022
CFP, ‘Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages’, NetMAR International Conference

NetMAR International Conference at the University of Bamberg, 3-4 May 2023
11.10.2022
Publication, "Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries"

New publication edited by Baukje van den Berg, Divna Manolova, Przemysław Marciniak with contributions by Aglae Pizzone and Valeria Lovato
09.08.2022
CML's Aglae Pizzone receives grant for an MSCA Doctoral Network

CML senior researcher/DIAS fellow Aglae Pizzone has received a grant for the MSCA Doctoral Network "From antiquity to community: rethinking classical heritage through citizen humanities" (AntCom)
03.08.2022
Publication, "Self-Commentary as Defensive Strategy in the Works of John Tzetzes (d. 1180 CE) and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d. 1057 CE)"

New publication by Kevin Blankinship and Aglae Pizzone
06.07.2022
CML associate Lydia Zeldenrust appointed permanent position

Congratulations to CML associate member Lydia Zeldenrust on her appointment as lecturer at the University of Glasgow
15.06.2022
Publication, "Emotions through Time - From Antiquity to Byzantium"

New publication edited by Douglas Cairns, Martin Hinterberger, Aglae Pizzone, and Matteo Zaccarini, with contribution by Aglae Pizzone
13.06.2022
Call for contributions, "From John Geometres to John Tzetzes: reading the corpus Hermogenianum in the Middle Byzantine Period"

Volume edited by Aglae Pizzone and Paolo Scattolin
10.06.2022
Publication, "Byzantine and Medieval History as Represented in Hagiography"

New book edited by Anna Lampadaridi, Vincent Déroche and Christian Høgel
03.05.2022
Two new publications in the open access volume Τζετζικαὶ ἔρευναι

Aglae Pizzone and Chiara D'Agostini have published two new publications in the OA volume Τζετζικαὶ ἔρευναι edited by E.E. Prodi
25.04.2022
Aglae Pizzone awarded Gerda Henkel Stiftung Grant

CML senior researcher/DIAS fellow Aglae Pizzone has been awarded a Gerda Henkel Stiftung Grant for the project 'Necessity by design: the mathematics of rhetoric in Middle Byzantine culture'
02.02.2022
CFA, NetMAR Summer School: Teaching (in) the Middle Ages: Arts – Rituals – Education (25-31 July)

A Summer School for PhD- and MA-students organized by the Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals (NetMAR)
20.01.2022
CFP, NetMAR International Conference: The Arts and Rituals of Pilgrimage

NetMAR international conference at the University of Cyprus, 1-3 December 2022.
18.01.2022
Publication, "Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism"

Edited by George Younge (CML York), Margaret Healy-Varley (Providence College) and Giles Gasper (Durham), with contribution by George Younge.
15.01.2022
Interfaces no. 8

The new issue of Interfaces is now available to read online or download. As always, it is Open Access!
22.12.2021
Paolo Borsa interviewed as ambassador of Open Access!

Paolo Borsa is interviewed about Open Access and FOLIA, the new institutional repository of the University of Fribourg
01.11.2021
Article, "Editing Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures"

New article by Lars Boje Mortensen, Christian Høgel, Elizabeth Tyler and Paolo Borsa
25.10.2021
NetMAR at the Annual International Conference on Medievalism

NetMAR session at the 36th Annual International Conference on Medievalism: "Medievalism Today"
15.10.2021
Publication, Aglae Pizzone, «“A Hand of Ivory”: Moving Objects in Psellos’ Oration for his Daughter Styliane. A Case-Study»

New publication by CML/Danish Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor Aglae Pizzone.
11.10.2021
Publication, Aglae Pizzone, "Christmas presents for John Tzetzes: a new verse epistle from the letter collection"

New publication by CML/Danish Institute for Advanced Study Aglae Pizzone in the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift.
04.10.2021
Former CML postdoc Dale Kedwards interviewed by the New York Times

Former CML postdoc Dale Kedwards is interviewed about the Vinland map by the New York Times
10.09.2021
CML's contribution to DNRF publication "Curiosity Benefits Society"

CML substantially contributed to the new Danish National Research Foundation publication on on the usefulness of research to society.
08.09.2021
Publication, Elizabeth Tyler and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, "The language of history-writing in the ninth century: an entangled approach"

New open access publication by CML co-director Elizabeth M. Tyler (York) and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge) on history-writing in the 9th c. covering Irish, Welsh, English and Latin.
07.09.2021
NetMAR Reading Group: first session on 16th September 2021, 10:00-12.30 CET

NetMAR Reading Group is committed to fostering inclusive and exciting conversation between the three partners about the different aspects covered by NetMAR.
06.08.2021
Fribourg Colloquium 2021: "Paradigms and Perspectives of a Comparative Medieval Literature" (8-10 September, 2021)

Colloquium at the University of Fribourg on comparative approaches in medieval studies (8-10 September, 2021).
05.08.2021
CFP, NetMAR at International Congress on Medieval Studies (9-14 May 2022)

NetMAR session at the 57th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University 9-14 May 2022.
01.07.2021
NetMAR at IMC 2021 Fringe

NetMAR, of which CML is partner, at the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2021
28.06.2021
Congratulations to Chiara D'Agostini on passing her PhD viva!

CML PhD (SDU) Chiara D'Agostini passed her PhD viva last week
23.06.2021
Medieval Literature Across Languages: A Multilingual Summer School

Julian Yolles and Christian Høgel write about the Summer School which took place online in May 2021.
18.06.2021
Publication, Chiara D'Agostini and Aglae Pizzone, "Clawing Rhetoric Back: Humor and Polemic in Tzetzes’ Hexameters on the 'Historiai'"

New open access publication by CML PhD fellow Chiara D'Agostini and CML/Danish Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor Aglae Pizzone
15.06.2021
CFP, CML Conference. Scale(s) of Literary History – Europe c. 500-1500

The central aim of this conference is to explore the spatial, temporal and archival scales which structure our literary histories of the Middle Ages.
27.05.2021
Birger Munk Olsen om de romerske klassikere i middelalderen (9.-12. årh.)

Lars Boje Mortensen interviewede prof. emer. Birger Munk Olsen
27.05.2021
Birger Munk Olsen on the Roman classics in the Middle Ages (9th-12th cent.)

Lars Boje Mortensen interviewed Professor Emeritus Birger Munk Olsen
19.05.2021
Henry Bainton's book shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize!

CML researcher Henry Bainton's book "History and the Written Word" has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize
04.05.2021
From Flemish books to Scandinavian manuscript fragments

Synnøve Midtbø Myking writes about her research project on medieval fragments
29.04.2021
Constructive Absences in Medieval Literature: A Transformations & Translocations Workshop

Divna Manolova and Julian Yolles write about the Transformations & Translocations workshop which took place online on February 25-26, 2021.
28.04.2021
Congratulations to Rasmus Vangshardt on passing his PhD viva!

CML PhD (SDU) Rasmus Vangshardt passed his PhD viva last week
26.04.2021
Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos: Walking the Line in Twelfth-century Byzantium

Valeria Flavia Lovato writes about the international workshop on Isaac Komnenos Porphyrogennetos which took place in Odense on March 5-6, 2020.
07.04.2021
Publication, Aglae Pizzone, "Bureaucratic discourse, signature and authorship in John Tzetzes: a comparative perspective"

New, open access publication by CML/Danish Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor Aglae Pizzone
06.04.2021
CFP, (Un)-Equal Pairs? Comparative Literature, Time and Place From the Middle Ages to the Present Time (7 September 2021)

A doctoral school at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Organized by Profs Paolo Borsa, Elisabeth Dutton, and Ralph Müller
25.03.2021
New, Danish podcast series by Thomas Heebøll-Holm

CML associate professor has created the Danish podcast Mægtige Middelalder which is available online
11.03.2021
New Virtual Exhibition: Writing Futures

A new virtual exhibition developed by former CML postdoc Dale Kedwards in partnership with Þjóðminjasafn Íslands, Det Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg Castle, and the Vigdís Finnbógadóttir Institute
23.02.2021
NetMAR Formally Launched During a Kick-Off Meeting on 11 & 12 February

CML is one of the three partners in the new international Network for Medieval Arts & Rituals which was launched in February via an online event
04.02.2021
Three CML’ers contribute to new Danish anthology on history in the humanities

Rasmus Vangshardt, Lars Boje Mortensen and Thomas Heebøll-Holm contributed to the new, Danish anthology "The Historical Gaze"
06.01.2021
Interfaces no. 7

The new open issue of Interfaces is now available to read online or download. It is open access as always!
05.01.2021
A new international Network for Medieval arts and Rituals

CML is one of the partners in the new, international Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals (NetMAR)
17.12.2020
Congratulations to Lauren Stokeld on passing her PhD viva!

CML PhD (York) Lauren Stokeld passed her PhD viva this week
15.12.2020
Publication, Réka Forrai, "Hostili praedo ditetur lingua latina: Conceptual Narratives of Translation in the Latin Middle Ages"

New open access publication by Réka Forrai in the journal Medieval Worlds
10.12.2020
Why ancient and medieval texts are intangible cultural heritage

Lars Boje Mortensen writes about ancient and medieval texts as cultural heritage
08.12.2020
Aglae Pizzone and Christian Høgel Awarded Carlsberg Infrastucture Grant

CML co-director Christian Høgel and CML senior researcher/DIAS fellow Aglae Pizzone have been awarded a Carlsberg infrastructure grant with the project “Infrastructure for multi- and hyperspectral image acquisition”
07.12.2020
Publication, Rasmus Vangshardt, "Coherence and the Longing for Modernity in Literary Historiography, or: Why History and Historicism Are Two Things"

New publication by CML PhD fellow Rasmus Vangshardt in the open access philosophy journal Res Cogitans
01.12.2020
Publication, Aglae Pizzone, "Self-authorization and Strategies of Autography in John Tzetzes. The Logismoi Rediscovered"

New, open access publication by CML/Danish Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor Aglae Pizzone
30.11.2020
Registration now open: Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World (Dec 10-12 2020)

Interdisciplinary colloquium at the University of York (online), 10-12 December 2020
16.11.2020
New publication about the online bibliography skandinaviske-oversaettelser.net

Kristian Thomsen Purreskov has recently published an article about translations and the online bibliography skandinaviske-oversaettelser.net
13.10.2020
Publication, Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, "The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid"

New publication by visiting researcher and postdoc Robin Wahlsten Böckerman, "The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid"
06.10.2020
The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland

Dale Kedwards (former postdoc at CML and now postdoc at the University of Iceland ) writes about his new publication "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland"
05.10.2020
CFP, Absence in the Middle Ages (8-9 April, 2021)

International Postgraduate Symposium at CESCM (Université of Poitiers, France), 8-9 April 2021
30.09.2020
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Greek Summer School 2020: an exciting virtual experience

Elisabetta Barili writes about the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Greek Summer School which took place online this year
21.09.2020
Sandro Nikolaishvili on Georgian History in podcast

Sandro Nikolaishvili takes part in this BBC podcast on queen Tamar
27.08.2020
Research project: "Histories. Assessing the Role of Aesthetics in the Historical Paradigm" led by CML associate Sofie Kluge

Four year research project led by Sofie Kluge
02.07.2020
CFP, Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World (Dec 10-12, 2020)

Colloquium at the University of York (virtually), 10-12 December: Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World
29.06.2020
Publication, Divna Manolova, "Epistolography and Philosophy"

Book chapter by CML postdoc Divna Manolova in "A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography"
09.06.2020
Publication, Thomas Heebøll-Holm, "Piratical slave-raiding – the demise of a Viking practice in high medieval Denmark"

New publication by Thomas Heebøll-Holm available online in the Scandinavian Journal of History
20.05.2020
Laura Feldt and Christian Høgel Awarded Research Project 2 Grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark

CML associate member Laura Feldt (SDU) along with CML co-director Christian Høgel have been awarded a Research Project 2 grant for the project "Total Devotion: passions and plots in radical religion in the ancient world"
13.05.2020
New Publication: A Chronology of Medieval Historical Narratives

Online bibliographical tool in open access
30.04.2020
From Acre to Chantilly: Rhetoric, Crusades, and Translation

Julian Yolles writes about his travels to Musée Condé in Chantilly where he examined a manuscript with CML colleague Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto
01.04.2020
CML Annual Highlights 2019

The highlights of 2019 include our Athens symposium, two research grants, an exciting publication and a manuscript discovery
17.03.2020
Lars Boje Mortensen's Survey Paper of Medieval Literature from 2018 now available

CML's Lars Boje Mortensen's European Literature and Book History in the Middle Ages, c.600-c.1450 now available
12.03.2020
The Transformations and Translocations of Medieval Literature

George Younge writes about the CML summer conference 2019 in Athens
03.03.2020
CML's Thomas Heebøll-Holm interviewed by dr.dk

Thomas Heebøll-Holm is interviewed about Queen Margaret I of Denmark
02.03.2020
CML’s Rasmus Vangshardt Wins Ministry‘s Elite Research Travel Grant

PhD student Rasmus Vangshardt has been awarded the Danish Ministry of Higher Education’s s Elite Research Travel Grant 2020 of 200.000 DKK
19.02.2020
CML's Julian Yolles Awarded HUM SEED funding by the Humanities Council

Postdoctoral researcher at CML Julian Yolles has received funding for his project "Classical Learning in the Latin East"
12.02.2020
New MSCA Individual Fellow Sandro Passavanti to start at CML in September 2020

Sandro Passavanti will be working on a project titled “Being ‘Mad’ in Byzantium. Toward a History of Mental Disorders in Early and Middle Greek Middle Ages”
04.02.2020
John Tzetzes in the margins of the Voss. Gr. Q1: discovering autograph notes of a Byzantine scholar

Aglae Pizzone writes about an exciting new discovery in a manuscript containing text by the Byzantine scholar John Tzetzes.
29.01.2020
Publication, Divna Manolova, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, "Science Teaching and Learning Methods in Byzantium"

In the newly published "A Companion to Byzantine Science", volume 6 in Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World
21.01.2020
Publication, Lydia Zeldenrust "The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts"

Lydia Zeldenrust, "The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts"
14.01.2020
Interfaces no. 6

The new open issue of Interfaces - available to read online or download
08.01.2020
The Transformations and Translocations Strand visit Ghent for a Workshop on the Liber Floridus

Anya Burgon writes about the workshop which took place on the 24th and 25th of October 2019 in Ghent.
27.11.2019
Crisis, Gender and the Politics of Time in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

Maria Dell'Isola writes about the symposium which took place in Odense on November 5-6, 2019.
19.11.2019
Publication, "Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500-1500"

Edited by Elizabeth Tyler (CML York), Jennifer Jahner (CalTech) and Emily Steiner (Penn), with contribution by Elizabeth Tyler.
14.11.2019
CML's Aglae Pizzone Awarded Research Grant from NOS-HS

CML senior researcher Aglae Pizzone has been awarded a Network Grant from the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS)
12.11.2019
CML's Christian Høgel receives research grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Christian Høgel (CML), Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala) and Stratis Papaioannou (Rethymno, Crete) have received a research grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
25.10.2019
CML's Chiara D'Agostini Wins First Place Award for Conference Paper

PhD student Chiara D'Agostini wins the first place award of the Tousimis Prize
21.10.2019
The making of a new database of Czech medieval texts in translation

Réka Forrai reflects on a visit from Charles University. The visit took place on October 1-2 at CML in Odense.
25.09.2019
Publication, Fabio Acerbi, Divna Manolova, Inmaculada Pérez Martín

Fabio Acerbi, Divna Manolova, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, "The Source of Nicholas Rhabdas’ Letter to Khatzykes: An Anonymous Arithmetical Treatise in Vat. Barb. gr. 4" Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 68. Band/2018, 1-37
17.09.2019
Former CMLer Kristin Bourassa joins Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Kristin Bourassa takes up a new position at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
13.08.2019
Congratulations to Tom Powles on passing his PhD viva!

Tom Powles passes his PhD viva.
03.07.2019
CML Affiliate Member Lydia Zeldenrust Awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for the project "Continental Connections: European Bestselling Romances in England (c. 1400-1600)"
29.05.2019
PhD Fellowship on the Project Medieval Self-Commentaries Beyond Europe: A Transcultural Perspective (CML/SDU)

1 PhD fellowship is available at the University of Southern Denmark, starting October 1, 2019.
13.05.2019
CML's Aglae Pizzone Awarded Research Project 1 Grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark

Independent Research Fund Denmark grant for the project “Medieval Self-Commentaries Beyond Europe: A Transcultural Perspective.”
03.05.2019
Publication. Irene Salvo García

Irene Salvo García. «"E es de saber que son en este traslado todas las estorias". La traducción en el taller de la 'General estoria' de Alfonso X», Cahiers d'études hispaniques médiévales, nº 41 - 2018 (2019), Ens éditions, p. 139-154
23.04.2019
Kataskopos workshop: Anya Burgon reflects on a study day of discussion and papers in Cambridge

Our workshop on the ‘view from above’ took place on Friday 22nd March at the History of Art Department in Cambridge.
05.04.2019
New postdoctoral position for former CML PhD Christian Etheridge

Christian Etheridge takes up a postdoc at the National Museum of Denmark.
04.04.2019
CML Annual Highlights 2018

Engagement with science, establishing the team for CML2, Imperial Languages, and outreach.
04.04.2019
Publication. Kristin Bourassa, “The Memory of Philippe de Mézières in Songe du viel pelerin Manuscripts"

Bourassa, Kristin. “The Memory of Philippe de Mézières in Songe du viel pelerin Manuscripts.” French Studies, 2019.
04.04.2019
Publication. Rasmus Vangshardt, "Antonio’s Sadness in the Stoic Theatrum Mundi of the Early Modern City"

Vangshardt, Rasmus. “Antonio’s Sadness in the Stoic Theatrum Mundi of the Early Modern City.” Orbis Litterarum, 2019.
24.03.2019
Publication. Review: Discovering Intertextual Parallels in Latin and Greek with Tesserae (Julian Yolles)

Julian Yolles reviews the Tesserae Project for the Classical Studies blog.
11.03.2019
Symposium of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Southern Denmark, November 5-6, 2019.

Symposium of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Southern Denmark, November 5-6, 2019.
05.03.2019
Summer School. Las artes del libro en la Edad Media Hispana: forma, estética y función

Summer school addressed to BA and MA students of Art History and Library Science, interested in the illumination of medieval books.
28.02.2019
Congratulations to Tim Rowbotham and Anya Burgon on their PhD vivas!

Tim Rowbotham and Anya Burgon both pass their PhD vivas.
26.02.2019
Saxos Danmarkshistorie i 800 år, by Lars Boje Mortensen

Lars Boje Mortensen writes about Saxo's Gesta Danorum on danmarkshistorien.dk.
12.02.2019
New MSCA Individual Fellow Maria Dell'Isola to start at CML in September 2019

Maria Dell'Isola's project is entitled "Eschatological time as women’s time? Gendered temporality and female holiness in Early Christianity and Byzantium.”
08.02.2019
Publication. Irene Salvo García, “‘Que l’en seult balaine clamer.’ Traduction et commentaire linguistique au Moyen Âge”

Irene Salvo García, “‘Que l’en seult balaine clamer.’ Traduction et commentaire linguistique au Moyen Âge,” Revue Médiévales: Langues, Textes, Histoire 75 (2018).
30.01.2019
Interfaces no. 5. Biblical Creatures: The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in Pre-Modern Christian and Jewish Hermeneuti

Available now in open access!
21.01.2019
Interfaces no. 5

Porto, Rosa María Rodríguez. “Iberische Halbinsel.” In Geschichte der Buchkultur 5/2 : Gotik, edited by Christine Beier, 205–30. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 2018.
12.12.2018
CFP, CML Symposium. Moving Forms: The Transformations and Translocations of Medieval Literature

This symposium aims to contribute to the understanding of medieval literature through the development of methodologies which examine the intersection of social networks and communities with literary forms.
06.12.2018
Moving forms, communities, networks and constellations

Divna Manolova and Elizabeth Tyler on the Transformations and Translocations workshop launching CML's newest research strand.
03.12.2018
Former postdoc Dale Kedwards awarded HM Queen Margrethe II Distinguished Research Project

The Vikings and the Medieval Future of Space Exploration
03.12.2018
Byzantine Studies Association of North America 2018 in San Antonio, Texas

PhD student Chiara d'Agostini writes about her experience at the 2018 conference of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America.
03.12.2018
Fear and Loathing in the Earthly City. Negative Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern Period c. 1100-1700

CML associate professor Thomas Heebøll-Holm blogs about this conference (November 1-2, 2018, Copenhagen).
30.11.2018
“World Literature Is Trans-Imperial: A Medieval and a Modern Approach" (Christian Høgel)

Høgel, Christian. “World Literature Is Trans-Imperial: A Medieval and a Modern Approach.” Medieval Worlds, no. 8 (2018): 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no8_2018s3.
27.11.2018
NEW publication, Irene Salvo García

“Les Métamorphoses et l’histoire ancienne en France et en Espagne (XIIIe-XIVe s.) : l’exemple des légendes crétoises (Mét. VII-VIII)”
22.11.2018
New edited collection, "Reframing Authority: The Role of Media and Materiality"

Edited by Laura Feldt and Christian Høgel, with contributions by Laura Feldt, Christian Høgel, and Lars Boje Mortensen.
08.11.2018
Congratulations to CML's newest PhD!

Christian Etheridge successfully defends his PhD thesis on Nov 7, 2018.
05.11.2018
Call for Expressions of Interest, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship Applications (2019 deadline)

Apply for a MSCA Actions Individual Fellowship at CML SDU or York!
12.10.2018
NEW Publication: "Medieval Latin Lives of Muhammad" (trans. Julian Yolles & Jessica Weiss)

This volume brings together a highly varied and fascinating set of Latin narratives and polemics never before translated into English.
11.10.2018
NEW Publication: "Translation as Rewriting: A modern theory for a premodern practice" (Réka Forrai)

Forrai, Réka. “Translation as Rewriting: A Modern Theory for a Premodern Practice.” Renæssanceforum. Tidsskrift for Renæssanceforskning 14 (2018): 25–49.
11.10.2018
Thoughts on an interdisciplinary symposium: Interstellar Skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature through the Ages

Dale Kedwards on the interdisciplinary symposium on the lunar passage in literature through the ages, August 4-6, 2018.
08.10.2018
NEW publication: European Literature and Book History in the Middle Ages, c. 600 - c. 1450 (Lars Boje Mortensen)

Medieval European literature is both broader and deeper in its basis than what is usually offered in literary histories with their focus only on a narrow canon and on vernacular languages.
08.10.2018
Publication: Christian Høgel

Article in "Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds"
08.10.2018
NEW Publication, "Tvrpinvs Domini gratia archiepiscopvs: Notes on the Codex Calixtinus" (Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto)

This article re-examines the illustrations of the Codex Calixtinus (Santiago, ACS, CF 14), in an attempt to give account of its singularity, namely, its almost exclusive focus on the legendary expedition of Charlemagne to Spain.
14.09.2018
Continuities Between Medieval and Humanist Translation Theory and Practice

Réka Forrai writes about this conference, co-organized by the Centre for Medieval Literature in collaboration with the project Cultural Encounter as a Precondition for European Identity.
13.09.2018
Publication: "La General Estoria d'Alphonse X: Canon littéraire et changement linguistique"

Special issue of Atalaya, edited by Irene Salvo García.
03.09.2018
NEW publication: Saxo (100 danmarkshistorier) (Lars Boje Mortensen)

"Saxo," in the series 100 danmarkshistorier (Aarhus Universitetsforlag), by Lars Boje Mortensen.
25.06.2018
Four new postdocs at CML in 2018-19

CML welcomes four new postdocs during the 2018-19 academic year: Julian Yolles, Valeria Lovato, Anya Burgon, and Divna Monolova.
19.06.2018
NEW Publication: Forgotten Witnesses: The Illustrations of Ms Escorial, I.I.3 and the Dispute over the Biblias Romanceadas

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto offers a preliminary survey of the miniatures illustrating the Biblia romanceada held at the Escorial Library.
18.06.2018
Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers – and historiographical narratology

Lars Boje Mortensen explores the role of historiographical narratology in Steven Runciman's The Sicilian Vespers and in a 13th-C chronicle.
14.06.2018
Saints and their several images – a CML conference in Odense

Steffen Hope writes about a conference he recently organized in Odense.
29.05.2018
NEW Publication: "The Canons of Medieval Literature from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century"

Lars Boje Mortensen sketches some of the important turning points of the parameters of textual canonicity, in the Middle Ages themselves, as well as in the early modern and modern period.
09.04.2018
Lars Boje Mortensen on Medieval Prose (Milan)

Lars Boje Mortensen speaks on medieval prose at La prosa medievale: produzione e circolazione.
01.04.2018
York, Cambridge, crime and punishment

Blog post by CML postdoc Martin Borysek
28.03.2018
CML at Science, Imagination and Wonder: Robert Grosseteste and His Legacy

CML members Elizabeth Tyler, Dale Kedwards, and Christian Etheridge speaking at this Oxford conference.
28.03.2018
CML's Elizabeth Tyler appointed to Speculum editorial board

Elizabeth Tyler appointed to editorial board of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
19.03.2018
Liturgical Fragments at the Library of the University of Southern Denmark

Research Assistant Steffen Hope tells us about his work with the SDU library on identifying medieval manuscript fragments in the library's early modern books.
28.02.2018
Ovid as Historian

Ovid as historian in 13th- and 14th-century Europe, by Irene Salvo García (for The Values of French).
09.02.2018
Becoming Beast

Becoming beast: Marvel's new Black Panther movie has a surprising medieval connection, by Lydia Zeldenrust (for The Conversation).
08.02.2018
PhD Fellow Rasmus Vangshardt interviewed by Berlingske.dk

Rasmus is interviewed about his book on Thomas Mann.
01.02.2018
CML Enters Second Phase of Funding

New CML senior researchers and new research strands.
01.02.2018
New staff members

Chiara d'Agostini, Rasmus Vangshardt, and Thomas Heebøll-Holm join CML.
22.01.2018
Interfaces no. 4

Featuring articles by Henry Bainton, Lucie Doležalová, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Isabel Varillas Sánchez, Wim Verbaal, and Jonas Wellendorf, issue 4 is available to read online or download.
30.12.2017
New grant for Interfaces

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures receives a grant from the Nordic Board for Periodicals.
01.11.2017
CFP, Fear and Loathing in the Earthly City

CFP, Fear and Loathing in the Earthly City – Negative Emotions in the Medieval and Early Modern Period c. 1100-1700
30.09.2017
Critical Cluster in La corónica

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto and Sacramento Roselló Martínez edit a critical cluster of La corónica on Pedro I of Castile.
15.09.2017
Keynote Lecture at Ovid Across Europe conference

Irene Salvo García gives a keynote lecture at Ovid Across Europe.
15.08.2017
Summer 2017 publications

Publications by Lars Boje Mortensen, Alastair Matthews, and Dale Kedwards.
31.07.2017
Two Kalamazoo 2018 CFPs

CFPs for sessions on Boundaries of Negotiations in Later Medieval Europe and Interpreting Unfinished Later Medieval Manuscripts.
01.06.2017
Congratulations Shazia, Aglae, Rosa, and Tom!

Shazia, Aglae, and Rosa are appointed to new positions and Tom wins a prize!
01.06.2017
Interfaces no. 3 published

Interfaces no. 3, on Rediscovery and Canonization: The Roman Classics in the Middle Ages, available now.
01.05.2017
CML talks this month (May 2017)

Talks by Lars Boje Mortensen, Shazia Jagot, and Martin Borysek.
01.05.2017
Interfaces no. 2 published

Interfaces no. 2, on The Theory and Phenomenology of Love, available now!
15.04.2017
CFP, Reassessing Boundaries: Chaucer and Medieval European Literatures at NCS 2018

CFP for the New Chaucer Society meeting in Toronto, July 2018.
01.04.2017
England in Europe

Elizabeth Tyler publishes England in Europe: English Royal Women and Literary Patronage, c. 1000-1150
31.03.2017
#WhanThatAprilleDay17

CML contributes to this celebration of medieval languages.
01.03.2017
CML talks this month (March 2017)

Jeff Rider, Dale Kedwards, Kristin Bourassa, Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Steffen Hope, and Christian Etheridge speaking this month.
03.02.2017
HUM-SEED grant

Postdoc Aglae Pizzone wins HUM-SEED grant at SDU.
01.02.2017
CML talks this month (February 2017)

Talks by Elizabeth Tyler, Kristin Bourassa, and Christian Etheridge.
01.02.2017
New CML members this month

CML welcomes Irene Salvo García, Jeff Rider, and Maiken Bundgaard Hansen to SDU.
12.01.2017
CeSMA Seminar: Elizabeth Tyler

CeSMA Seminar: Elizabeth Tyler on ‘Lay Vernacular Literacy in the Court of Edward the Confessor'
10.01.2017
CML funded for another four years

The CML is pleased to announce a second funding period from the Danish National Research Foundation, bringing the total period of the Centre of Excellence to ten years (2012-2022)
03.01.2017
Conferences & activities this month (January 2017)

Conferences & activities this month (January 2017)
31.12.2016
CML on Videnskab.dk

CML members interviewed for articles on videnskab.dk
15.12.2016
Job Opening: Assistant Professor, Danish Institute for Advanced Study

Open position in medieval literature, art history, or history
01.12.2016
New Book: The Medieval German Lohengrin (Alastair Matthews)

Alastair Matthews publishes The Medieval German Lohengrin: Narrative Poetics in the Story of the Swan Knight.
01.12.2016
CML talks this month (December 2016)

CML talks this month (December 2016)
01.11.2016
CML conferences & talks this month (November 2016)

CML conferences & talks this month (November 2016)
15.10.2016
Launch, Redes Petristas Network

Redes Petristas is a transnational, interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the figure and legacy of king Pedro I of Castile (r. 1350-1369)
01.10.2016
CML conferences and talks this month (October 2016)

Presentations by Aglae Pizzone, Dale Kedwards, and Christian Etheridge
23.09.2016
Launch, Danish Institute for Advanced Study

Lars Boje Mortensen speaks at the launch of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study
15.09.2016
Some 2016 Publications

Publications by Kristin Bourassa, Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, and Thomas Heebøll-Holm
01.09.2016
CML talks this month (September 2016)

CML talks this month (September 2016)
02.07.2016
CFP, Pirate Fiction

"Pirate Fiction in the Middle Ages c. 500 - c. 1500 AD" will take place September 21-22, 2017. Paper proposals are due January 31, 2017.
01.07.2016
CFP, Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late-Medieval Political Literature (Kalamazoo 2017)

CFP, Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late-Medieval Political Literature (Kalamazoo 2017)
01.07.2016
CML Conference papers this month

CML conference presentations in July 2016
30.06.2016
Fulbright scholar visiting CML in 2017

Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University) visiting SDU as a Fulbright scholar in 2017
30.06.2016
Former postdoc appointed to permanent post

Congratulations to Venetia Bridges on her appointment as lecturer at the University of Surrey!
07.06.2016
Reading and Pleasure in Istanbul

Blog post about the May 2016 Summer School on Reading Pleasure/Pleasure Reading, Istanbul.
01.06.2016
CML talks this month (June 2016)

Talks by Alastair Matthews and Christian Etheridge, June 2016
31.05.2016
CML Postdoc Réka Forrai appointed Associate Professor at SDU

CML Postdoc Réka Forrai appointed Associate Professor at SDU
13.05.2016
Denmark and Europe: The Importance of the Long View (Alastair Matthews)

Alastair Matthews wonders if border controls are a sign that we are forgetting our cultural past.
01.05.2016
CML talks, May 2016

Talks by Shazia Jagot, Steffen Hope, Thomas Heebøll-Holm, and Christian Etheridge, May 2016
15.04.2016
Dronning Margrethes Romerske Pris

CML Centre Leader Lars Boje Mortensen awarded the Dronning Margrethes Romerske Pris.
01.04.2016
CML books reviewed in Speculum

Book reviews of two CML members' books appear in the April 2016 issue of Speculum
01.04.2016
#WhanThatAprilleDay16

CML tweets in medieval Norse, Spanish, Latin, Danish, French, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, & English for #WhanthatAprilleDay16,
27.03.2016
SDU Library Manuscripts on TV!

TV2Fyn covers the SDU library's work reading medieval manuscript fragments without damaging the books in which they are bound.
16.03.2016
Manuscript fragments at SDU

This video features Jackob Povl Holck, a research librarian at SDU who has been cataloguing the library's 40,000+ early modern books.
01.03.2016
Interfaces calls for papers

Calls for papers for two issues of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures.
01.03.2016
CML hiring a postdoc in Old Norse (deadline May 1, 2016)

CML invites applications for a position as a 2-year postdoc in medieval literature with emphasis on Old Norse
01.02.2016
Visiting Researcher, Eka Tchkoidze

This month the CML in Odense welcomes guest researcher Dr Eka Tchkoidze, Ilia State University, Georgia.
29.01.2016
CML on Twitter

CML is now on Twitter! You can follow us at @CentreMdvLit.
29.01.2016
Leverhulme-funded network

Congratulations to CML post-doc Aglae Pizzone on her involvement in a research network recently awarded funding by the Leverhulme Trust.
29.01.2016
CML's second PhD defence

Claudia Wittig defends her PhD thesis on Moral-Didactic Poetry in 12th and 13th C Germany and England.
22.01.2016
New Marie-Curie fellow at CML

Congratulations to Dr Irene Salvo Garcia, who will be joining the CML in February 2017 as a Marie-Curie funded fellow.
03.12.2015
Lars Boje Mortensen delivers 18th Annual E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture

Lars Boje Mortensen delivers 18th Annual E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture (Cambridge), on "Meritocratic Values in High Medieval Literature."
20.11.2015
PhD Student Steffen Hope at Stiklestad Public Event

On Friday 20th November 2015, CML's Steffen Hope took part in an annual public event at Stiklestad in Norway.
30.10.2015
Réka Forrai on "The Post-doc challenge"

Presentation at 2015 DNRF annual meeting by CML post-doc Réka Forrai.
30.09.2015
Journal Launch, Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures

The launch of CML’s new journal, Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, took place on September 18, 2015, at the Sforza Castle in Milan.
01.01.0001
New CML members at SDU

Dale Kedwards and Henry Bainton join CML SDU.
01.01.0001
Marie-Curie award for CML PhD

Claudia Wittig wins a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.
01.01.0001
Postdoctoral positions at CML

CML is hiring two postdoctoral fellows at York and one at SDU.

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