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The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) was established during academic year 1962-63 through the inspiration of the distinguished historian Lynn White, who served as its first director. Its goal is to promote interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from late antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century in order to better understand cultural, social, religious, and political issues that are rooted in the deep past yet continue to resonate in our contemporary world.

As an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, CMRS supports the research activities of some 140 faculty members in twenty-eight different academic disciplines and programs. The Center offers fellowships and support for both graduate and undergraduate education; it sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences; and it hosts visiting scholars and other researchers. Its annual publications are Viator, internationally recognized as one of the best scholarly journals in the field, and Comitatus, one of the oldest graduate student journals. A variety of books and monographs have also been published under the Center’s aegis.

While CMRS does not award academic degrees, it provides information and educational opportunities to students, and consults with academic departments in the development of relevant classes. A description of the Center’s activities, programs, fellowships, and upcoming events can be found on the CMRS website.

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies302 Royce Hall

Box 951485Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

Telephone310.825.1880

FAX310.825.0655

E-mailcmrs@humnet.ucla.edu

CMRS Internet Home Pagehttp://www.cmrs.ucla.edu

Photo/Digital Image Credits: page 2, Kathleen Copenhaver; pages 3, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, Brett Landenberger; pages 3, 5, front and back covers, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA; page 29, Karen E. Burgess.

Cover: A page from the Arabic manuscript Kitāb al-īmān wa al-kufr min al-kitāb al-kāfī / Kitāb al-du’ā ‘The book of belief and unbelief from the book [called] al-kāfī / Prayer book’ (1654, Box 1, Ms. 2) in the Near Eastern manuscript collection of the Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. Digital image courtesy of Special Collections.

Back cover: Image of a young scholar from the cover of the Kanz al-lughāt ‘Treasure of Words’ (1656, Box 1, Ms. 1), also in the holdings of the Department of Special Collections. The manuscript is a Persian dictionary of Koranic Arabic and Hadith terms. Digital image courtesy of Special Collections.

For more about the Near Eastern manuscript collection at UCLA, see page 3.

CMRS STAFF 2006 - 2007

This brochure was designed and edited by Karen E. Burgess.

DirectorBrian P. Copenhaver

310.825.1880brianc@college.ucla.edu

Associate Director, Medieval StudiesChristopher Baswell

310.825.1079baswell@humnet.ucla.edu

Program Coordinator & Assistant to the DirectorKaren E. Burgess

310.825.2043kburgess@ucla.edu

Administrative AnalystBenay Furtivo310.825.8192

furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu

Associate Director, Renaissance StudiesMassimo Ciavolella

310.825.5943ciavolel@humnet.ucla.edu

Publications DirectorBlair Sullivan310.825.1537

sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu

Webmaster & Project AssistantBrett Landenberger

310.825.1880brett@humnet.ucla.edu

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is located in the East Tower (right) of UCLA’s historic Royce Hall.

CMRS VR Project Coordinator Barbara Schedl 310.825.1970 barbara.schedl@univie.ac.at

A Message from the Director, August 2006............................................................................................................2

Near Eastern Manuscripts at UCLA........................................................................................................................3

Lectures, Conferences, and other Events, 2006 – 2007..................................................................................4 – 7

Publications.........................................................................................................................................................8 – 11

ViatorCursor MundiEncyclopaedia of the Middle Ages–OnlineRepertorium ColumbianumComitatus Other Recent Publications

Visiting Faculty and Scholars..........................................................................................................................12 – 13

Distinguished Visiting Scholars, 2006–07UCLA Visiting Scholars affiliated with CMRSNew! Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2007–08Summer Fellows

Calendar of CMRS Events, 2006 – 2007 ....................................................................................................14 – 15

Research Projects and Grants.........................................................................................................................16 – 17 St. Gall Monastery Plan Virtual Reality (VR) Project John E. Sawyer Seminar for 2007–08 Medieval Canon Law Digitizing Project Web-based Morphological Analyzer for the Study of Old Icelandic Language and Texts

Student Support and Programs ....................................................................................................................18 – 19

Lynn and Maude White FellowshipCMRS Research Assistantships

Interdisciplinary Research Grants Fredi Chiappelli Travel FellowshipsPaleography Seminar, Spring 2007CMRS Seminar for 2006–07New! Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellowships for 2007–08Medieval and Renaissance Classes at UCLA

Donors and other Support .....................................................................................................................................20

The Year in Review, 2005 – 2006 .................................................................................................................21 – 23

Faculty, Associates, and Affiliates .................................................................................................................24 – 28

CMRS Staff, 2006 – 2007 .......................................................................................................................................29

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTORAUGUST 2006

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Lynn White, Jr., 1963–70William Matthews, 1970–72Fredi Chiappelli, 1972–88

Michael J. B. Allen, 1988–93, 2003–04Patrick J. Geary, 1993–98

Henry Ansgar Kelly, 1998–2003

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Because CMRS is a large and lively organization, we have lots to communicate – dozens of events and many projects designed and delivered not only by faculty and students at UCLA but also by our colleagues in the region and around the world. The purpose of this annual publication is to let you know about what we’re doing. But this year, by the time you read the annual brochure, CMRS will have taken a big step to help us stay in touch with the global audience that includes you! You can see what we’ve done at www.cmrs.ucla.edu.

CMRS has maintained a website for some years now, but we hope you’ll agree that the new version is a big improvement – both visually and functionally. First of all, since we operate the website locally, it changes every day to keep track of the many CMRS people and programs. From the section of the website called “Projects,” you can learn why Jesse Byock is digging in Iceland, why Gwen Ajello is studying the Orsini papers, and why Pat Geary is mapping a medieval monastery. If you look at “Publications,” you’ll find Cursor Mundi, a new monograph

series launched by Chris Baswell and Blair Sullivan in the spirit of Viator. If you go to “Awards and Fellowships,” you can see how CMRS might be able to help you or your students with research support. And at the bottom of the homepage you’ll find an email link (cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu) because we’d like to hear from you about how to make things better – whether it’s the new website or something else that might improve CMRS.

With guidance from Chris Baswell and an expert committee, Brett Landenberger designed and operates the new site. By now, I hope that you’ve met Brett, as well as Benay Furtivo, the splendid new people who joined CMRS earlier this year. Benay counts our money, keeps our books, and helps us raise more money. Both Brett and Benay also help Karen Burgess with the extensive programming that you see described here and on our new website. Massimo Ciavolella and Chris Baswell are indispensable to me as Associate Directors.

Rebuilding staff, re-organizing and other administrative tasks took a great deal of our time last year, but 2006–07 will see lots of academic activity. A joint conference with the Getty (one of many to come, we hope) will focus on icons from Mt. Sinai. A conference on the Orsini papers will introduce this enormous manuscript collection to the world of learning. And another gathering will investigate that famous family of warriors, the Malatesti. In March, CMRS will host the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific.

Naturally, we’re already planning for 2007–08. A large grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support a John E. Sawyer Seminar in that year on “Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University.” Involving faculty and their graduate and post-doctoral students from several UCLA Departments, and assisted by visiting scholars from around the world, this year-long series will invite the public to join us in exploring the origins of a contemporary crisis: the failure of civil discourse in the public square. Being who we are, we’ll obviously be thinking about disputation in the medieval university – among many other things.

Please join us at CMRS, and help us dispute about how we can help you in the future!

Salve,

Brian P. Copenhaver Udvar-Hazy Professor of Philosophy and History

Former CMRS Directors

Near Eastern Manuscripts at UCLA

Near Eastern manuscripts in the Department of Special Collections at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) total nearly ten thousand and range in date from the late fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. The majority of these texts are in Arabic, Persian, or Turkish, but there are some in Armenian and Syriac as well. They cover a broad range of genres and subject matters, including history, poetry, theology, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy. The sheer size of this collection places UCLA with Princeton University at the very top of a small group of institutions in North America with extensive Near Eastern manuscript holdings.

Most of the manuscripts in the Near Eastern collection came to UCLA during the 1960s, when Gustav Von Grunebaum was the Director of the UCLA Center for Islamic Studies. Professor Von Grunebaum was not alone in this effort. Professors Amin Banani, Andreas Tietze, and Rudolph Gelpke supervised, purchased, or mediated acquisitions from various collectors and book-dealers in the Middle East, such as the Ayntabi family, who were booksellers in Syria, and Caro Minassian, a physician and antiquarian living in Isfahan, Iran. The collection continues to grow today, thanks to the gifts of Los Angeles residents.

In addition to providing primary source texts for the production of critical editions, the Near Eastern manuscript collection at UCLA has the potential to stimulate and support a broad range of scholarly research. The presence of so many manuscripts in one place makes UCLA an ideal setting for paleographic training. Students can familiarize themselves with the process of deciphering handwritten texts before venturing out to do their own research in the

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archives and libraries of Istanbul, Cairo, Damascus, or Tashkent. Scholars interested in the history of the book can trace the patterns of bookbinding, manufacturing and importation of paper, function of marginalia, or patterns of book collecting in the Middle East. Several thousand volumes from the Shiite academic institutions of Safavid Isfahan document not only the development and changes in curricula, but also social history. Many of these manuscripts, for example, are full of graffiti such as grocery lists and the birthdates of newborn infants. In the absence of archival records from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these seemingly minor inventories provide vital information to historians for recon-structing certain aspects of everyday life during the period.

Also among the holdings are a group of manuscripts in Turkish (over 3,000 volumes) and Arabic from the Ottoman Empire. Classic works of Persian and Arabic literature translated into Ottoman Turkish are well represented in this collection, with some specimens dating back to the early fifteenth century. Included are numerous titles in Turkish that escaped the notice of the famous seventeenth-century Ottoman bibliographer Haji Khalifa (Kâtip Çelebi, d. 1657). This finding sheds light on a tier of readers in the Ottoman Empire, apparently less sophisticated than scholars and bibliographers. These individuals were producing, translating, and reading books outside the scope of their intellectual betters, in part because the latter would presumably have had access to the Persian or Arabic originals.

The Department of Special Collections at YRL is currently cataloguing and partially digitizing the Near Eastern manuscript collection. During the past year, Dr. Ali Anooshahr (PhD, UCLA 2005), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for 2005–06, has been researching and documenting the collection. Thanks to his efforts considerable progress on the project has already been made. Dr. Ali Anooshahr discussed the UCLA’s Near Eastern manuscript collection

at a meeting of the CMRS Faculty Roundtable in April 2006.

A page from Ms. 1656\10, Box 2, a fragment of the Koran, is among the Near Eastern manuscripts in the collection at UCLA.

This conference will explore the maze of contradictory opinions concerning the Malatesti family through the centuries by examining all aspects of their history: the military and political skills that allowed an unknown family from the town of Verucchio to become the masters of many cities in Romagna and the March of Ancona; their relation-ship with the papacy, which culminated in Pope Pius II’s excommunication of Sigismondo Malatesti; and their patronage of the arts, especially on the part of Sigismondo in Rimini and Novello Malatesti in Cesena. The complete program will be posted on the CMRS website.

Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture:“Giordano Bruno’s Heroic Madness”• Thursday, December 7, 2006Poet-philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was burned at the stake for heresy in Rome in 1600. His dialogue De Gli Heroici Furori, written at the end of a stay in Elizabethan England, offers a summary of his life and thought. With more than seventy poems, it poses special difficulties for a translator. In this year’s CMRS Hammer Foundation Lecture, Professor Ingrid Rowland (School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame) will discuss those difficulties, the dialogue, and its author. Advance registration required. Royce 314, 5 pm.

Annual E. A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop• Friday–Sunday, January 19–21, 2007A workshop coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA). The complete schedule will be posted on the CMRS website. Royce 306.

“Image and Exposition: Iconography and Doctrine in Medieval East Asian Buddhism”• Monday, January 22, 2007 This lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Robert M. Gimello (Visiting Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, and Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies, University of Arizona) will focus on the eso-teric tradtions of medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, in which images most clearly vie with doctrinal formulations for the attention of both the believer and the scholar. He will explore—against the background of modern theory, and from a somewhat comparative perspective—Buddhist thought and practice in a period when questions about the relationship between word and image seemed, in one way or another, especially urgent. Royce 314, 4 pm.

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Each year, the Center sponsors and co-sponsors a variety of lectures, seminars, colloquia, conferences, and other scholarly programs. The following events are currently planned for the 2006–07 academic year:

CMRS Open House • Tuesday, October 10, 2006 The Center invites faculty and students with an interest inMedieval and Renaissance Studies to attend an open housemarking the beginning of the new academic year. Meet theCenter’s staff and learn about CMRS programs, awards, andfellowships. Royce 306, 4:30 pm to 6 pm. Drop by and see us!

“Sound Government and (Shakespeare’s) Sound Jests”•Wednesday, November 8, 2006 A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Patricia Parker, Margery Bailey Professor in English and Dramatic Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University. Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Savonarola: God and Politics in Renaissance Italy”• Wednesday, November 29, 2006A lecture by Lauro Martines, Professor Emeritus, History, UCLA. Royce 306, 4 pm.

“ ‘The filigree hiding the gothic’: The Malatesti—The Books, the Sword, the Women, and their Popes”• Thursday , Nov. 30–Saturday, December 2, 2006Although not as well-known as families such as the Medici, the Este, or Gonzaga, the Malatesti occupy a central position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. In Inferno V, Dante recounts the tragic story of Paolo Malatesti and Francesca da Polenta, one of the most famous episodes of the Divine Comedy. Pope Pius II, in his Commentaries, devotes a long section to the “unspeakable crimes” of Sigismondo Malatesti, lord of Rimini, a man gifted with eloquence and great military skill, who “surpassed every barbarian in cruelty . . . the worst of all men who have lived or ever will live, the shame of Italy, the disgrace of our age.” Four hundred years later, historian Jakob Burckhardt considered the same Sigismondo the crowning figure among “the furtherers of humanism,” equally capable in war and art, unscrupulous, cruel, and yet refined, in other words, the epitome of the new man capable of changing the course of civilization, and of ushering in the age of modernity. Ezra Pound’s description of Sigismondo in his Malatesta Cantos as the “filigree that hides the gothic” takes us back to Burck-hardt’s definition of the Italian Renaissance as a time of physical violence and artistic delicacy, and of Sigismondo Malatesti as the source of one of the highest cultural achievements of the West.

“A Postmodern View of Byzantine Art”• Thursday, January 25, 2007 The discovery of Byzantine art in the first quarter of the 20th century had a profound impact on Modernist artists. In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Anthony Cutler (Evan Pugh Professor of Art History, Pennsylvania State University) considers and contrasts their uses of Byzantium with an approach, rarely taken even today, shaped by attitudes that can be described as Postmodernist. While these attitudes themselves are no “history,” they still have much to offer to our understanding of Byzantium. Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai—A Symposium” • Friday–Saturday, January 26–27, 2007CMRS and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Department of Manuscripts, co-host a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition “Holy Images, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai” on view at the Getty Museum from November 14, 2006 to March 4, 2007. The exhibition presents objects from the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt, the oldest continuously operating Christian monastery in existence and home to some of the world’s finest collections of Byzantine icons and manuscripts. On Friday, January 26, the symposium convenes at the J. Paul Getty Museum for “Performative Icons: Holy Image and Sacred Space at Mount Sinai,” which will examine objects and themes associated with the exhibition. On Saturday, January 27, the program moves to the Fowler Museum at UCLA for “Sinai in Context,” a consideration of the icons in their broader historical and cultural milieu, organized by Professor Sharon Gerstel (Art History, UCLA). The complete program can be found on the CMRS website. Advance registration (by January 2, 2007) and fee required. To register, contact Michelle Keller at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Manuscripts Department, 310.440.7034 or mkeller@getty.edu.

“Boats and Beachcombing: Poets and Power in Early Medieval Ireland—Stories from Cormac’s Glossary”• Monday, January 29, 2007In this lecture, Dr. Paul Russell (Lecturer, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Pembroke College, Cambridge) considers a series of stories preserved in the encyclopedic Glossary attributed to the late nineth-century king and bishop of Cashel, Cormac mac Cuilennáin. He argues that, because of the particular distribution of these stories through the Glossary, they may have been absorbed into it at the same time. Consequently, it is worth exploring the thematic links between them. There are several interrelated themes of which (unsurprisingly for material collected in a glossary) the power of language is the most dominant. Royce 314, 4 pm.

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“The Orsini: A Family of Roman Baroni in Context—Politics, Society, and Art”• Thursday– Saturday, February 1– 3, 2007CMRS is one of the co-sponsors of this international conference that coincides with the completion of a two-year project to create a digital catalogue for Orsini family papers in the Department of Special Collections of UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL). The Orsini are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Italian history. The collection in YRL constitutes a significant portion of the family’s private archive, with documents dating from circa 1300 to 1950. The conference will offer an opportunity for scholars to share current scholarship on the family and its milieu, as well as to become familiar with this rich, but long under-utilized collection. The program’s focus will be on the early modern period, and topics will range from the research potential of baronial archives to the family’s political strategies, and from social questions such as the position of Orsini women to artistic patronage. This constellation of perspectives will yield a portrait of the family, in context, as a formidable political, economic and social entity, and also as a human one. The conference was organized by Guendalina Ajello (Orsini Archivist, Special Collections, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library) who is directing the project to facilitate access to and use of the Orsini documents at UCLA. Professor Carlo Ginzburg (History, UCLA) will present the keynote lecture. Advance registration not required. For complete program, see the CMRS website.

For more information about the Orsini project at UCLA, see the article on page 3 of CMRS’s 2005–06 programs and events booklet, available on the Center’s website, under “Archive.”

Detail from a page in the 1353 register of properties in Abruzzo, Italy, owned by Napoleone Orsini and his wife. From the Orsini family papers in the Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, at UCLA.

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Renaissance Conference of Southern California• Saturday, March 3, 2007 CMRS is one of the co-sponsors of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California’s annual interdisciplinary conference at the Huntington Library. This year’s keynote speaker, Professor Paula Findlen (History, Stanford University), will present “The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Renaissance Italy.” Advance registration and fee required. For more information, or to register, see RCSC’s website at www.rcsca.org.

Fourth Rebecca D. Catz Memorial Lecture:“Presumable West African Routes Created by the Portuguese Explorers” • Tuesday, March 6, 2007Claude L. Hulet (Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA) will present the fourth lecture in this series established in memory of Dr. Rebecca Catz, a long-time CMRS Associate and scholar of sixteenth-century Portuguese history and literature. The series is made possible through the generosity of Dr. Boris Catz, Rebecca’s husband. Professor Hulet will discuss presumable West African routes created by the Portuguese explorers, including Vasco da Gama’s historic conquest of the South Atlantic in 1497–99, and his establishment of the classic maritime route bringing Europe and Asia together by sea. Advance registration required. UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room, 6 pm.

“El Greco’s Neoplatonism and the Eyes of Reason”• Thursday, March 8, 2007A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Cyprus, and Professor Emeritus in Art History, University of Crete. Royce 314, 4 pm.

“The Viking-Age Towns of Scandinavia”• Tuesday, March 13, 2007The Viking Age (c. 800–1050) was not only a time of plunder and conquest, but also of rapid economic and political development in the Viking homelands. Many markets and a few towns were established all over southern and central Scandinavia. In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Dagfinn Skre (Institute of Archaeologyand Art Conservation, University of Oslo) will discuss how these places were adapted into the traditional society and the role they played in the emergence of the three Scandinavian kingdoms, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Liturgical Performance in the Early Middle Ages”• Tuesday, February 13, 2007 A lecture by Dr. Eric Palazzo, Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Medieval Civilization, University of Poitiers. Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Believing the Impossible: Aethiopika and Critical Romance”• Wednesday, February 21, 2007 In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Jonathan Crewe (Professor of English, Dartmouth University) argues that one important feature of critical romance, at least since the Aethiopika, is its tendency to empower belief and limit skepticism. Despite or because of the ironic hyper-skepticism of sophisticated authors regarding the tropes, conventions, and wish-fulfilling imperatives of the genre, skepticism becomes an object as well as the medium of critical interrogation. Royce 306, 4 pm.

Fourteenth History of the Book Lecture:“The Library at St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mt. Sinai” •Friday, February 23, 2007The History of the Book Lecture series brings eminent scholars to UCLA to share their expertise about medieval and Renaissance books. Father Justin of St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Egypt, presents the fourteenth lecture in the series. He will discuss the history of the monastery’s library, which holds one of the world’s greatest collections of Byzantine manuscripts, and the current projects underway to preserve its precious volumes, while at the same time making them more accessible to scholars. Advance registration requested. Royce 314, 3 pm.

The History of the Book Lecture series is supported entirely by the generosity of donors. For more information, see page 20.

Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP)•Friday–Saturday, March 2–3, 2007CMRS hosts the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP) at UCLA. A call for papers will be issued to MAP members in Fall 2006. The complete program will be posted on the CMRS website in January 2007. Keynote speakers will be Professors Caroline Bynum (Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) and Paul E. Dutton (Simon Fraser University). Local arrangements are being coordinated by Dr. Blair Sullivan (CMRS) and Professor Scott Kleinman (Cal State University, Northridge). Advance registration required. Fee may apply. For more information, or to register, see MAP’s website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/map.

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Fifteenth History of the Book Lecture

• Wednesday, April 4, 2007This lecture, by Professor William H. Sherman (Universityof York), points the way toward a much needed history of the pointing hand symbol used in the margins of many medieval and Renaissance books. Perhaps the mostpervdasive symbol in the history of texts, it does not have a name. It reminds us of the crucial relationship between books and hands during the 13th to 17th centuries, and offers new perspective on the digital age. Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Rituals of Departure for Crusade”• Wednesday, April 18, 2007In this lecture, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar William Jordan (Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University) draws upon his earlier work, recent research, and the exciting contributions of upcoming scholars, to address the ceremonies through which medieval crusaders prepared themselves to leave their homes and families for wars in the Near East. These ceremonies hint at the range of tensions, as well as the hopes and fears, that the decision to go on crusade generated. Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Middle Ages in Renaissance Garb”• Tuesday, April 24, 2007 A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Fernando Cervantes, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol. Royce 314, 4 pm.

Annual Shakespeare Symposium• Saturday, May 5, 2007Complete program to be announced. Watch the CMRS website for further details.

Annual Will & Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture• Monday, May 14, 2007 This year’s guest speaker, Caroline Barron (Professional Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London), will discuss social and political life in later medieval London. The lecture begins at 6 pm in the California Room, UCLA Faculty Center. Advance registration required. A dinner (by letter of invitation only) for CMRS faculty and friends follows.

Latinitas Reborn: The Latin Language and Rebirth at three Moments in Europe’s Past—800, 1200, and 1500”• Friday–Saturday, May 18–19, 2007The first of a series of conferences focusing on Latin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Watch the CMRS website for further details.

Quarterly Programs

UCLA Sounds, 2006–07

The UCLA Sounds Early Music series presents concerts that showcase small instrumental and vocal works seldom heard in live performance. Programs focus in particular on little-known music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and include lively commentary by musicologists and musicians. Concert themes are selected to provide a musical dimension to conferences and symposia sponsored by CMRS. At the time this brochure goes to press, three UCLA Sounds programs are in the works for the coming year, including one in conjunction with the conference on the Malatesti family in November (see page 4) and another, during the Winter Quarter, focusing on Byzantium, a theme addressed in several other winter CMRS events (see pages 5 and 6).

California Medieval History Seminar, 2006–07

The California Medieval History Seminar fosters intellectual exchange and acquaints its participants with medieval historical research currently underway in the state. Three times a year, the seminar gathers at the Huntington Library to discuss four research papers (two by faculty members, two by graduate students or recent PhD recipients). The program is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This funding has made it possible to bring a noted medieval historian each year to participate in one of the sessions: Professor Emeritus Robert Ian Moore (Oxford University) in 2004, Professor Chris Wickham (University of Birmingham) in 2005, and in 2006, Professor Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv University). Additional support for the 2006–07 seminar series has been provided by Caltech, UC Berkeley, the UCLA Dean of Social Sciences, and CMRS.

The next seminar meetings are scheduled for November 11, 2006, February 17, 2007, and May 12, 2007. Papers are sent to registrants before the meeting. Participants read the papers in advance, and discuss them at the seminar. Speakers and paper topics are announced by e-mail. Advance registration is required. To be added to the announcement list, contact cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu.

Other CMRS Programs and Events

As an active sponsor of lectures, conferences, and other programs, the Center is constantly planning new events. Watch the Event Calendar on the CMRS website for the latest information!

PUBLICATIONS

VIATORMEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Viator, the Center’s scholarly journal, now in its thirty-seventh year, publishes articles of distinction in any field of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the mid-seventeenth century. In keeping with its title, the journal gives special consideration to articles that cross frontiers: articles that focus on meetings between cultures, that pursue an idea through the centuries, that employ the methods of different disciplines simultaneously. Viator’s editorial board, a representative group of the Center’s faculty, has managed through the years to insist that articles attain technical excellence while remaining accessible to the interested non-specialist reader.

Volume 37 (2006) has just appeared and can be ordered from Brepols Publishers in Belgium: publishers@brepols.com.

Editor: Henry Ansgar Kelly (English, UCLA)

Associate Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA)

Editorial Board: Christopher Baswell (English, UCLA) Jean-Claude Carron (French & Francophone Studies, UCLA) Sharon Gerstel (Art History, UCLA)Susan McClary (Musicology, UCLA)Richard H. Rouse (History, UCLA)Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA)

Editorial Consultants: Courtney M. Booker (University of British Columbia) Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Occidental College)Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, Christchurch)Cary J. Nederman (Texas A & M University)Kristen Lee Over (Northeastern Illinois University) Gabrielle M. Spiegel (Johns Hopkins University)

Manuscripts should be sent as e-mail attachments to sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu, or addressed to Blair Sullivan, Viator, UCLA CMRS, Box 951485, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485.

For further information, contact Blair Sullivan at 310.825.1537, or sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.

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Viator 37 (2006)

Qagan, Khan, or King? Power in Early Medieval Bulgaria (Seventh to Ninth Century), Florin Curta

Charlemagne’s Jihad, Yitzhak hen

Letaldus of Micy, Germigny-des-Prés, and Aachen: Histories, Contexts, and the Problem of Likeness in Medieval Architecture, JennY h. ShaFFer

Pitying the Desolation of Such a Place: Rebuilding Religious Houses and Constructing Memory in Aquitaine in the Wake of the Viking Incursions, anna trumbore JoneS

Brain and Mind in Anglo-Saxon Medicine, JameS t. mCilwain

Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender in Religious Life: Robert of Arbrissel and Hersende, Abelard and Heloise, ConStant J. mewS

The Priest in the House of Conscience: Sins of Thought and the Twelfth-Century Schoolmen, SuSan r. kramer

Bodies of Unsurpassed Beauty: “Living” Images of the Virgin in the High Middle Ages, katherine allen Smith

The Painted Chamber at Westminster, Edward I, and the Crusade, matthew m. reeve

A Philosophical History: Unity and Diversity in Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s Historia de rebus Hispanie, Xenia bonCh-brueviCh

Philip the Chancellor and the Heresy Inquisition in Northern France, 1235–1236, DaviD a. traill

Discovering a Military Order of the Crusades: The Hospital of St. Sampson of Constantinople, DionYSioS StathakopouloS

Knighting, Homage, and the Meaning of Ritual: The Kings of England and Their Neighbors in the Thirteenth Century, bJörn weiler

Christian and Jewish Lenders: Religious Identity and the Extension of Credit, GreGorY b. milton

Satan’s Body: Religion and Gender Parody in Late Medieval Italy, JeFFreY ruDa

Law and the Maiden: Inquisitio, Fama, and the Testimony of Children in Medieval Catalonia, marie a. kelleher

“For a prayer in that place would be most welcome”: Jews, Holy Shrines, and Miracles—A New Approach, ephraim Shoham-Steiner

PUBLICATIONS

Langland and the Problem of William of Palerne, lawrenCe warner

Family, Inheritance, and Illegitimacy: A Case from Early Quattrocento Florence, thomaS kuehn

Literacy without Letters: Pilgrim Badges and Late Medieval Literate Ideology, thomaS a. breDehoFt

Books of the Duchess: Eleanor Cobham, Henryson’s Cresseid, and the Politics of Complaint, Jamie C. Fumo

Michelangelo’s Drawings for Apostle Statues for the Cathedral of Florence, miChaël J. amY

The Missionary and the Moorslayer: James the Apostle in Spanish Historiography from Isidore of Seville to Ambrosio de Morales, katherine elliott van liere

Demosthenes in the Renaissance: A Case Study on the Origins and Development, of Scholarship on Athenian Oratory, Daniel tanGri

Visit the Viator website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/viator.html.

Abstracts of articles from Viator 37 (2006) are availableonline.

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International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages–OnlineThe International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages–Online (IEMA), an entirely new English-language supplement to and updating of the Lexikon des Mittelalters–Online, is being produced under the joint auspices of CMRS and Brepols publishers. It is available by subscription at Brepolis (www.brepolis.net), the Brepols site for online medieval encyclopedias, bibliographies, and databases. The chronological range of IEMA is 300–1500 CE, and it covers all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, in addition to aspects of other cultures known to the people of these areas. Academic oversight is coordinated by General Editor Patrick J. Geary (UCLA) and editorial board members Michael J. B. Allen (UCLA), János Bak (Central European University), Paul Freedman (Yale), Hans-Werner Goetz (Hamburg), Alan V. Murray (Leeds), Eric Palazzo (Poitiers), Claudia Rapp (UCLA), Chase Robinson (Oxford), and Ian Wood (Leeds). Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA) serves as Executive Editor.

Cursor Mundi: Viator Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern World

Conceived as a companion to the journal Viator, Cursor Mundi is a series of book-length studies of the medieval and early modern world, viewed broadly as the period between late antiquity and the Enlightenment. Like Viator, Cursor Mundi will bring together outstanding work by medieval and early modern scholars from a wide range of disciplines, emphasizing studies which focus on processes such as cultural exchange or the course of an idea through the centuries, and including investigations beyond the traditional boundaries of Europe and the Mediterranean. Cursor Mundi will be published by Brepols Publishers under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

General Editor: Chris Baswell (English, UCLA)

Executive Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA)

Editorial Board: William Bodiford (Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)Peter Cowe (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA)Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA)Giulia Sissa (Classics and Political Science, UCLA) Zrinka Stahuljak (French and Francophone Studies, UCLA)

Advisory Board: Michael D. Bailey (History, Iowa State University)István Bejczy (History, Radboud University, Nijmegen)Florin Curta (History, University of Florida)Elizabeth Freeman (History, Classics, University of Tasmania)Yitzhak Hen (General History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Geraldine Heng (English, University of Texas at Austin)Lauren Kassell (History and Philosophy of Science,

Pembroke College, Cambridge)David Lines (History, University of Miami) Cary Nederman (Political Science, Texas A&M)

Please direct inquiries to Blair Sullivan,sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu.

publiCationS

Vol. 1: We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, James Lockhart (University of California Press 1993; reprinted by Wipf and Stock Publishers 2004)

Vol. 2: The Book of Privileges Issued to Christopher Columbus by King Fernando and Queen Isabel, Luciano Formisano and Helen Nader (University of California Press 1996; reprinted by Wipf and Stock Publishers 2004)

Vol. 3: “The Book of Prophecies” Edited by Christopher Columbus, Roberto Rusconi and Blair Sullivan (University of California Press 1997; reprinted by Wipf and Stock Publishers 2004)

Vol. 4: Christopher Columbus and His Family: The Genoese and Ligurian Documents, John Dotson and Aldo Agosto (Brepols 1998)

Vol. 5: Selections from Peter Martyr on Columbus, Geoffrey Eatough (Brepols 1998)

Vol. 6: A Synoptic Edition of the Log of Columbus’s First Voyage, Francesca Lardicci, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Blair Sullivan (Brepols 1999)

Vol. 7: Las Casas on Columbus: Background and the Second and Fourth Voyages, Nigel Griffin and Anthony Pagden (Brepols 1999)

Vol. 8: Testimonies from the Columbian Lawsuits, William D. Phillip, Jr., Anne-Marie Wolf, and Mark D. Johnston (Brepols 2000)

Vol. 9: Oviedo on Columbus, Jesús Carrillo, Diane de Avalle-Arce, and Anthony Pagden (Brepols 2000)

Vol. 10: Italian Reports on America 1493–1522: Letters, Dispatches, and Papal Bulls, Geoffrey Symcox, Giovanna Rabitti, and Peter D. Diehl (Brepols 2001)

Vol. 11: Las Casas on Columbus: The Third Voyage, Geoffrey Symcox, Jesús Carrillo, Mike Hammer, and Blair Sullivan (Brepols 2001)

Vol. 12: Italian Reports on America 1493–1522: Accounts by Contemporary Observers, Geoffrey Symcox, Luciano Formisano, Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., and John McLucas (Brepols 2002)

Vol. 13: The History of the Life and Deeds of the Admiral Christopher Columbus Attributed to His Son Fernando Colón, Ilaria Caraci Luzzana, Geoffrey Symcox, and Blair Sullivan (Brepols 2004).

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REPERTORIUM COLUMBIANUM

The Repertorium Columbianum is a collection of contemporary sources relating to Columbus’s four voyages and the inter-penetration of the hitherto separate worlds that resulted from them. The series, which is published by Brepols of Belgium, provides in accessible form the basic documents that are the starting point for research into this pivotal moment in world history. It provides accurate editions of the essential texts in their original languages for the use of specialists, while at the same time making them available to students and scholars in related fields through parallel English translations. The administrative and editorial work for the series was performed by CMRS, under whose auspices the volumes were produced. Funding for the project was provided by the Ahmanson Foundation, Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del V Centenario della Scoperta dell’America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Sociedad Estatal para la Ejecución de Programas del Quinto Centenario.

Volumes 1 through 3 are now available in paperback, and can be ordered from Wipf and Stock Publishers at www.wipfandstock.com. Volumes 4 through 13 can be ordered from Brepols Publishers at publishers@brepols.com.

General Editor: Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA)

Associate General Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS, UCLA)

Philological Editor: Luciano Formisano (University of Bologna)

Editorial Board: Michael J. B. Allen (English, and Italian, UCLA)Teofilo Ruiz (History, UCLA)Norman J. W. Thrower (Geography, UCLA)Edward Tuttle (Italian, UCLA)

Find out more about the Repertorium Columbianum online at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/rc.html

ComitatusA JournAl of MedievAl And renAissAnce studies

Comitatus, the CMRS-sponsored journal for graduate students and recent PhDs, is in its thirty-seventh year of publishing articles in any field of the Middle Ages or Renaissance. The annual journal is distributed internationally to libraries and individuals; volume 37 (2006) has just appeared. Please address questions about submissions and subscriptions to Blair Sullivan, 310.825.1537 or sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu, or visit our website.

Editor (vol. 37): Thomas O’Donnell (English)

Editorial Board (vol. 37): David Bennett (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Loren Blinde (English), Lisa Boutin (Art History), Val Cullen (English), Francesca Marx (English), Aaron Moreno (History), Dana Polanichka (History), Ned Schoolman (History), Alison Walker (English) Managing Editor: Blair Sullivan (CMRS)

Comitatus 37 (2006)ArticlesThe Use and Impact of the English Levied Soldiers in Anglo-Norman England, CraiG nakaShian

Seeking Truth and Bearing Witness: The Noli Me Tangere and Incredulity of Thomas on Tino di Camaino’s Petroni Tomb (1313–1317), liSa m. raFanelli

The Sultaness, Donegild, and Fourteenth-Century Female Merchants: Intersecting Discourses of Gender, Economy, and Orientalism in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale, marJorie elizabeth wooD

A Tale of Two Codices: The Medieval Registers of the Order of the Garter, t. tolGa GumuS

Fools and Saints: Derision and Regenerative Laughter and the Late Medieval and Early Modern Hagiographic Imagination, thomaS leDerer

Elizabeth Russell’s Textual Performances of Self, JeSSiCa l. malaY

Theatrical and National Spaces in Cymbeline, Gavin paul

Review ArticleHellenism, Cultural Assimilation, and Resistance in the Roman Near East, walter warD

Reviews Abstracts of articles in Comitatus 37 (2006) are available online at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/publications/comitatus.html.

PUBLICATIONS

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OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The Mexican Treasury: Writings by Dr. Francisco Hernández, edited by Simon Varey, and translated by Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford University Press, 2000).

Searching for the Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández, edited by Simon Varey, Rafael Chabrán, and Dora B. Weiner (Stanford University Press, 2000).

Dr. Francisco Hernández spent much of the 1570s researching the traditional medicine of Mexico under the orders of the king of Spain. The extraordinary fruits of his labors are examined and contextualized in these two volumes, the culmination of a ten-year research project, sponsored by CMRS and supported by grants from the NEH, the Ahmanson Foundation, Hoechst Marion Roussel, and private donors. For more information or to order copies, see the Stanford University Press website, www.sup.org.

The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner, edited by Blair Sullivan (Harmonie Park Press, 2004).

This collection originated from a CMRS-sponsored conference to honor Professor Marie Louise Göllner upon her retirement after thirty years as a member of UCLA’s Department of Musicology. It includes essays by Larry Ayres (UCSB), Nicole Baker (CSU Fullerton), Murray Bradshaw (UCLA), Edward Condren (UCLA), Theodor Göllner (Bavarian Academy of Sciences), Richard Hudson (UCLA), Henry Ansgar Kelly (UCLA), Heike Lammers, William Mahrt (Stanford), Alejandro Planchart (UCSB), Blair Sullivan (UCLA), and Nancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University). For more information, see the Harmonie Park Press website at www.harmonieparkpress.com.

Comitatus editorial board members, all graduate students at UCLA, meet in April 2006 to work on Volume 37.

VISITING FACULTY AND SCHOLARS

Distinguished Visiting Scholars 2006–07

Each year, CMRS sponsors Distinguished Visiting Scholars whose knowledge enriches the academic life of UCLA’s students and faculty, and promotes scholarship in the larger community. They present classes and seminars, participate in conferences and symposia, and deliver public lectures. During the 2006–07 academic year, the Center will bring the following Distinguished Visiting Scholars to UCLA:

Fernando Cervantes (Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol), who specializes in the history of ideas in the Hispanic world. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science, April 2007. Public Lecture: “Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Middle Ages in Renaissance Garb,” Tuesday, April 24, 2007, Royce 314, 4 pm.

Jonathan Crewe (Professor of English at Dartmouth University; Director, Leslie Center for Humanities, Dartmouth), who is an authority on Renaissance English prose, poetry, and drama, particularly Shakespeare. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of English, February 2007. Public Lecture: “Believing the Impossible: Aethiopika and Critical Romance,” Wednesday, February 21, 2007, Royce 306, 4 pm.

Anthony Cutler (Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Pennsylvania State University), who specializes in eastern medieval art, and is currently studying gift exchange between Byzantium and the Islamic world. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art History, January 2007. Public Lecture: “A Postmodern View of Byzantine Art,” Thursday, January 25, 2007, Royce 314, 4 pm.

Robert M. Gimello (Visiting Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard, and Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona), who studies the intersections between Chinese Buddhism and medieval/Renaissance European religious culture. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, January 2007. Public Lecture: “Image and Exposition: Iconography and Doctrine in Medieval East Asian Buddhism,” Monday, January 22, 2007, Royce 314, 4 pm. Nicos Hadjinicolaou (Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Cyprus, and Professor Emeritus in Art History, University of Crete), who is an authority on Renaissance art, particularly El Greco and his works. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art History, March 2007. Public Lecture: “El Greco’s Neoplatonism and the Eyes of Reason,” Thursday, March 8, 2007, Royce 314, 4 pm.

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Professor Diane Favro (Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA), Professor Maureen Miller (History, UC Berkeley), and CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri (University of Urbino), following Professor Falconieri’s lecture in May 2006.

William Jordan (Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University), who specializes in late medieval European history. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of History, April 2007. Public Lecture: “Rituals of Departure for Crusade,” Wednesday, April 18, 2007, Royce 314, 4 pm.

Patricia Parker (Margery Bailey Professor in English and Dramatic Literature, Stanford University), who is an authority on early modern English literature and Shakespeare. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of English, November 2006. Public Lecture: “Sound Government and (Shakespeare’s) Sound Jests,” Wednesday, November 8, 2006, Royce 314, 4 pm.

Paul Russell (Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Pembroke College, Cambridge), who is an expert in medieval Welsh language, literature, and history. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of English, January 2007. Public Lecture: “Boats and Beach-combing: Poets and Power in Early Medieval Ireland—Stories from Cormac’s Glossary,” Monday, January 29, 2007, Royce 314, 4 pm.

Dagfinn Skre (Institute of Archaeology and Art Conservation, University of Oslo), who is an authority on Viking archaeology. CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Germanic Languages, March 2007. Public Lecture: “The Viking Age Towns of Scandinavia,” Tuesday, March 13, 2007, Royce 314, 4 pm.

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VISITING FACULTY AND SCHOLARS

Summer Fellows

The Center offers a summer fellowship to scholars holding a PhD or the foreign equivalent to pursue research at UCLA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The fellowship includes $500 (as travel reimbursement or stipend) and temporary membership in the Center with its attendant privileges.

CMRS Summer Fellows for 2006 are Horacio Chiong Rivero (Assistant Professor of Spanish at Swarthmore College), who is completing a book, The Wor(l)d of Paradoxical Folly in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Daniel Stein Kokin (PhD in History, Harvard University), who is revising his doctoral thesis, “The Hebrew Question in the Italian Renaissance: Linguistic, Cultural, and Mystical Perspectives” for publication; and Emily Smith (PhD in English, Emory University), who is studying early modern women’s use of arithmetical tropes in manuscript and print.

Scholars interested in applying for a 2007 Summer Fellowship should contact the Center for more information or see the CMRS website. The application deadline is February 15, 2007.

In February 2006, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Marilyn Heldman (University of Missouri, St. Louis) presented an illustrated lecture,“Art of the Ethiopian Church: the Formation of an African Artistic Tradition,” in the Humanities Conference Room.

UCLA Visiting Scholars affiliated with CMRS

Scholars holding a PhD or the foreign equivalent, and working in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, may apply for a UCLA Visiting Scholar affiliation with the Center while engaged in independent research at UCLA. Appointments are honorary and for a limited period of time, normally not exceeding one year. Visiting Scholars receive UCLA Library privileges and are invited to all CMRS events.

Erika Rummel (Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto) visited UCLA during the Winter Quarter 2006 to work on an edition and translation of the correspondence of Wolfgang Capito (1478–1541), a humanist (a protege of Desiderius Erasmus) turned protestant reformer. And from January to June 2006, Vincent M. Novak (Dean of the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University) returned to UCLA to complete work begun last year for a study of the Jesuit contributions to politics, science, education, and the arts in early modern Europe. Applications for UCLA Visiting Scholar affiliations with CMRS are accepted at any time. For more information, see the Center’s website.

Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2007–08

In conjunction with the Center’s John E. Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Ways of Arguing in and out of the University,” funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CMRS will be awarding a Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2007–08 academic year. An announcement about the application procedure will be posted on the Center’s website. For more information about the Sawyer Seminar, see page 16.

Professor Derek Pearsall (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, and Harvard University) came to UCLA as CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of English, in February 2006.

ucla center for medieval & renaissance studies

FALL 2006

CMRS Open House• Tuesday, October 10, 2006Faculty and students interested in Medieval and Renaissance Studies are invited to stop by! Royce 306, 4:30 to 6 pm.

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, October 18, 2006Professor Paul Chevedden (Santa Monica College), “The Islamic Interpretation of the Crusade: A New (Old) Paradigm for Understanding the Crusades.” Royce 306, 12 noon.

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, November 1, 2006Dr. Leena Löfstedt (CMRS Associate), “An Oblique Look at a Medieval Translator’s Work.” Royce 306, 12 noon.

“Sound Government and (Shakespeare’s) Sound Jests”• Wednesday, November 8, 2006A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Patricia Parker (Stanford University). Royce 314, 4 pm.

California Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2006• Saturday, November 11, 2006Quarterly meeting at the Huntington Library. Advance registration required. Fee may apply.

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, November 15, 2006Professor Emeritus H. A. Kelly (English, UCLA), “Satan, Hell, and Limbo: Late Developments.” Royce 306, 12 noon.

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, November 29, 2006Professor Eric Palazzo (University of Poitiers), “Ritual Images in Medieval Liturgical Manuscripts.” Royce 306, 12 noon.

“Savonarola: God and Politics in Renaissance Italy”• Wednesday, November 29, 2006A lecture by Professor Emeritus Lauro Martines (History, UCLA). Royce 306, 4 pm.

“ ‘The filigree hiding the gothic’ : The Malatesti–The Books, the Sword, the Women, and their Popes”•Thursday, Nov. 30–Saturday, December 2, 2006 A conference exploring contradictory opinions about Italy’s Malatesti family through the ages. See website for details.

Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture• Thursday, December 7, 2006Dr. Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame), “Giordano Bruno’s Heroic Madness.” Advance registration required. Royce 314, 5 pm.

WINTER 2007

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, January 17, 2007Professor Christopher Baswell (English, UCLA), “Disability in the Middle Ages.” Royce 306, 12 noon.

Annual E.A. Moody Medieval Philosophy Workshop• Friday–Sunday, January 19–21, 2007Coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA). Schedule will be posted on the CMRS website. Royce 306.

“Image and Exposition: Iconography and Doctrine in Medieval East Asian Buddhism”• Monday, January 22, 2007A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Robert M. Gimello (Harvard, and University of Arizona). Royce 314, 4 pm.

“A Postmodern View of Byzantine Art”• Thursday, January 25, 2007A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Anthony Cutler (Pennsylvania State University). Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai”•Friday–Saturday, January 26–27, 2007 A symposium presemted by the J. Paul Getty Museum and CMRS. Advance registration and fee required. To register, contact Michelle Keller at the Getty, 310.440.7034 or mkeller@getty.edu.

“Boats and Beach-combing: Poets and Power in Early Medieval Ireland–Stories from Cormac’s Glossary”• Monday, January 29, 2007A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Paul Russell (Pembroke College, Cambridge). Royce 314, 4 pm. CMRS Faculty Roundtable • Wednesday, January 31, 2007Dr. Leonard Koff (CMRS Associate), “Conversion and the Self.” Royce 306, 12 noon.

“The Orsini: A Family of Roman Baroni in Context–Politics, Society and Art”•Thursday–Saturday, February 1–3, 2007 A conference focusing on Italy’s Orsini family and the family documents in YRL’s Special Collections. See website for details.

“Liturgical Performance in the Early Middle Ages”• Tuesday, February 13, 2007 A lecture by Prof. Eric Palazzo (Director, Center for Advanced Study of Medieval Civilization, Univ. of Poitiers). Royce 314, 4 pm.

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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calendar of events 2006 – 2007

WINTER – SPRING 2007

California Medieval History Seminar, Winter 2007• Saturday, February 17, 2007Quarterly meeting at the Huntington Library. Advance registration required. Fee may apply.

“Believing the Impossible: Aethiopika & Critical Romance”• Wednesday, February 21, 2007 A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Jonathan Crewe (Dartmouth University). Royce 306, 4 pm.

14th History of the Book Lecture:“The Library at St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mt. Sinai” • Friday, February 23, 2007Presented by Father Justin, St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Eygpt. Advance registration required. Royce 314, 3 pm. Note time!

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, February 28, 2007Speaker and topic to be announced. Royce 306, 12 noon.

Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP)• Friday–Saturday, March 2–3, 2007CMRS hosts the 2007 MAP meeting. Keynote speakers are Professors Caroline Bynum (Princeton Institute) and Paul Dutton(Simon Fraser University). Advance registration and fee required. To register, see MAP’s website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/map.

Renaissance Conference of Southern California• Saturday, March 3, 2007CMRS co-sponsors the 2007 meeting. Advance registration and fee required. See RCSC’s website, www.rcsca.org.

Fourth Rebecca D. Catz Memorial Lecture • Tuesday, March 6, 2007Prof. Emeritus Claude L. Hulet (Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA), “Presumable West African Routes Created by Portuguese Explorers.” Advance registration required. Faculty Center, 6 pm.

“El Greco’s Neoplatonism and the Eyes of Reason”• Thursday, March 8, 2007A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prof. Nicos Hadjinicolaou (Univ. of Cyprus, Univ. of Crete). Royce 314, 4 pm.

“The Viking-Age Towns of Scandinavia”• Tuesday, March 13, 2007A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Dagfinn Skre (University of Oslo). Royce 314, 4 pm.

15th History of the Book Lecture • Wednesday, April 4, 2007Professor William H. Sherman (Univ. of York) discusses the his- tory of the manicule, the pointing hand symbol. Royce 314, 4 pm.

SPRING 2007

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, April 11, 2007Speaker and topic to be announced. Royce 306, 12 noon.

“Rituals of Departure for Crusade”• Wednesday, April 18, 2007A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor William Jordan (Princeton University). Royce 314, 4 pm.

“Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Middle Ages in Renaissance Garb”• Tuesday, April 24, 2007 A lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Fernando Cervantes (University of Bristol). Royce 314, 4 pm.

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, April 25, 2007Professor Shane Butler (Classics, UCLA) discusses his work. Royce 306, 12 noon.

Annual Shakespeare Symposium• Saturday, May 5, 2007Complete program to be announced. Watch the CMRS website!

CMRS Faculty Roundtable• Wednesday, May 9, 2007Professor Rebecca Emigh (Sociology, UCLA) discusses economic and social evolution in 15th-century Tuscany. Royce 306, 12 noon.

California Medieval History Seminar, Spring 2007• Saturday, May 12, 2007Quarterly meeting at the Huntington Library. Advance registration required. Fee may apply.

Annual Will & Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture• Monday, May 14, 2007 Presented by Professor Caroline Barron (University of London). Advance registration required. Faculty Center, 6 pm.

“Latinitas Reborn: The Latin Language and Rebirth at Three Moments in Europe’s Past–800, 1200, and 1500”• Friday–Saturday, May 18–19, 2007The first of a series of conferences focusing on Latin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Royce 314.

More Dates to Remember!March 22–24, 2007: Annual meeting, Renaissance Society of America, in Miami, Florida, www.rsa.org

April 12–14, 2007: Annual meeting, Medieval Academy of America, in Toronto, www.MedievalAcademy.org

May 10–13, 2007: The 42st International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress

>> > > Visit www.cmrs.ucla.edu, e-mail cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu, or phone

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS

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The St. Gall VR Project team at CMRS (Left to right): Dr. Barbara Schedl, and graduate students Jennifer Ng, Greg Huber, Ned Schoolman, Melissa Cocks, Leanne

Good, and Sarah Whitten.

St. Gall Monastery Plan Virtual Reality (VR) Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Professor Patrick Geary (History, UCLA, and former CMRS Director), and Professor Bernard Frischer (formerly UCLA, and currently Director of the University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities), are continuing their work on a project that will produce a digital model of the “Plan of St. Gall,” an elaborate two-dimensional plan for a monastic complex completed sometime in the first quarter of the ninth century, as well as an extensive database on all aspects of early medieval monastic culture. CMRS is the administrative home of the project, which was awarded a generous grant of 1.1 million dollars from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Dr. Barbara Schedl (CMRS VR Project Coordinator, UCLA) is directing the work of a team of graduate students at UCLA who are compiling an elaborate Latin, German, and English database of texts, objects, and images covering every aspect of monastic culture, society, and economics in the ninth century. During the 2005–06 academic year, Leanne Good, Gregory Huber, Ned Schoolman, and Sarah Whitten ( graduate students in History) worked on the project. In 2006–07, they will continue their work, and be joined by graduate students Melissa Cocks (History), Jennifer Ng (History), and Erica Westhoff (Italian). By June 2007, the initial phase of work on the data- base should be complete. Utilizing the information in this database, a team of computer scientists at University of Virginia are producing a detailed virtual reality (VR) model of how the plan came into existence. Ultimately, the VR model and database together will provide students and scholars with a unique tool to investigate medieval architecture and culture.

More information about the project, as well as a link to the high resolution digital image of the St Gall Plan, can be found at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/projects/st_gall.html.

John E. Sawyer Seminar for 2007–08 funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

CMRS has been awarded a $120,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a year-long John E. Sawyer Seminar to study disputation in a historical, comparative and interdisciplinary framework. Disputation is formalized argument. In the Western tradition, the process of formalizing argument among educated people, having begun with rhetoric and philosophy in antiquity, culminated in the disputations of the medieval university, where disputation was the governing practice of teaching and learning. From their first year on, students were required to dispute weekly, and the masters of every faculty–arts, law, medicine and theology–were also expected to dispute regularly. What professors do now by testing students and publishing books and articles, their medieval ancestors did with disputations.

So effective and enduring were these practices that disputation not only ruled the faculties of the medieval university but also shaped countless conversations and textual forms after that period and outside the university in art, science, medicine, literature, law, politics and other cultural domains. The imprint of disputation on Western culture is still evident even now in the highly formalized debates between candidates, regulated by third parties, that affect such momentous decisions as presidential elections. By better understanding how and why our ancestors disputed, we might learn to use this powerful tool of human culture more wisely in contemporary affairs.

The John E. Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Ways of Arguing in and out of the University,” will be presented by CMRS at UCLA during academic year 2007–08. It will consist of a series of day-long sessions (approximately two per month) which will examine the topic of disputation from philosophical, literary, and social perspectives. Presentations will be made and discussions will be led by faculty from UCLA and other universities. Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA) will be responsible for the philosophical continuity of the Seminar, Professor Christopher Baswell (English, UCLA) for literary continuity, and Professor John Heritage (Sociology, UCLA) for sociological continuity. CMRS Director Brian Copenhaver (Philosophy, and History, UCLA) will oversee the general direction of the Seminar. CMRS will organize and administer the Seminar, as well as direct the work of graduate and post-doctoral students to prepare summary materials, bibliographies and web resources before and after each session. CMRS staff will also be creating a supporting website for the Seminar.

More information about the Seminar, including topics to be addressed and speakers will be posted on the CMRS website.

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND GRANTS

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A Web-based Morphological Analyzer for the Study of Old Icelandic Language and Texts Professor Timothy Tangherlini (Scandinavian, UCLA), with the assistance of Aurelijus Vijunas (PhD, UCLA) and Kryztof Urban (PhD, UCLA), is developing an automated, web-based Old Icelandic morphological (“word form”) analyzer and English language search tool that will attach to Old Icelandic/Old Norse texts, both in diplomatic transcription (that is, texts transcribed exactly as they appear in the manuscript) and in normalized form (the text converted into standard spelling). Currently using the Fornaldar sögur (“Legendary Sagas”) as the test text platform, the project will eventually include the majority of Old Icelandic prose texts. The project’s goal is to develop automated disambiguation routines (processes that will allow a medieval text to be digitally scanned and interpreted), and then apply these routines to standard edition (normalized) texts, and to automatically marked-up diplomatic editions of manuscript variants of Fornaldar sögur. The project is also developing orthographic normalization routines (processes that digitally recognize words with non-standard spellings) that will greatly expand the reach of the morphological analyzer to all texts written in Old Icelandic. In the coming two years, the project will increase the size of the lexical database by incorporating headwords and definitions from the standard English language dictionary of Old Icelandic (Cleasby-Vigfusson), as well as the headwords from the Old Icelandic dictionary, Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog (ONP). The disambiguation routines, orthographic normalization routines, and increased size of the word database will allow for more precise and meaningful searches of an increasing body of digitized Old Icelandic texts. Ultimately, users will be able to study medieval Icelandic texts in a rich, meaningful way, all online. CMRS and the UCLA Vice Chancellor of Research have provided funding to support the participation of Dr. Vijunasand Dr. Urban in the project. More information about the project, and a link to the “Old Norse Morphological Analyzer,” can be found through the CMRS website at www.cmrs.ucla.edu/projects/old_norse.html.

Medieval Canon Law Digitizing Project

UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library is fortunate to have a complete set of the 1582 Corpus Juris Canonici, the “Body of Canon Law.” These three volumes contain not only the medieval collections of laws—notably, Gratian’s Decretum, Gregory IX’s Liber Extra, and Boniface VIII’s Liber Sextus—but also the elaborate Ordinary Glosses and further commentaries on the laws that take up the vast inner margins, with further annota-tions on outer margins. These glosses, which are absolutely essential to historians of law, have not been reprinted since the seventeenth century, and copies are scarce. The Library, with the support of CMRS, has undertaken to digitize the entire set and make it available online.

The project began under the direction of Howard Batchelor, former UCLA Digital Library Coordinator, with the guidance of UCLA’s resident canonist, Professor Henry Ansgar Kelly (English), former CMRS Director and current Editor of CMRS’s journal, Viator. Work is being carried on this year by Professor Kelly and Stephen Davison, Head of the UCLA Digital Library Program. Graduate students working on the project during 2005–06 were Thomas O’Donnell, Jennifer Tran, and Alison Walker (all of the English Department), and CMRS Research Assistant Maria Kritikou (Indo-European Studies). Alison and Jennifer will continue to work on the project in 2006–07, as will CMRS Research Assistant Sherrylyn Branchaw (Indo-European Studies). The project should be completed within the next four years. A generous grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation helps support the project, and CMRS has provided additional funding.

The complete text of all three volumes of the Corpus Juris Canonici is online at the UCLA Library Digital Collections site at http://digidev.library.ucla.edu/canonlaw.

Complex annotation and commentary is evident in this detail from a page in the Corpus canonicum glossatum in UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library. (Image courtesy of the UCLA Digital Library.)

STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES

Lynn and Maude White Fellowship The Lynn and Maude White Fellowship is awarded every other year to an outstanding UCLA graduate student in Medieval and Renaissance Studies who has advanced to PhD candidacy. Established in 1988 and named for its donors, the Center’s founding director Professor Lynn White and his wife Maude, the fellowship provides a $15,000 stipend to support dissertation research.

The Center’s 2006–07 Lynn and Maude White Fellow is Joshua Blander, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy. His dissertation concerns “Scotus’s Formal Distinction, the Trinity, and the Problem of Material Constitution.”

The next Lynn and Maude White Fellowship will be offered for the 2008-09 academic year. Students interested in applying should contact the Center for more information. The application deadline will be announced.

CMRS Research Assistantships

Each year, the Center awards Research Assistantships on a competitive basis to UCLA graduate students working in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. During the academic year, recipients work with a variety of faculty members on research and publication projects. For 2006–07, Sherrylyn Branchaw (Indo-European Studies), Catharine McGraw (Comparative Literature), and Alison Walker (English) have been awarded CMRS Research Assistantships.

Students wishing to be considered for 2007–08 CMRS Research Assistantships should contact the Center for more information. The application deadline is April 15, 2007.

Interdisciplinary Research Grants

The Center offers small grants (normally not more than $2,000) to interdisciplinary teams of two or more UCLA faculty members and/or graduate students for research in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. These grants can be used for research-related needs (travel, microfilm, equipment, books, etc.), and to bring scholars to UCLA to participate in formal or informal programs, or to collaborate on research projects. Applicant teams must represent more than one academic department and projects must be interdisciplinary in focus and conceptualization. Interdisciplinary Research Grants can be used in conjunction with funding from other sources. Applications are accepted at any time. Contact the Center, or visit the CMRS website, for more information.

Fredi Chiappelli Travel Fellowships

Established in honor of former CMRS director Fredi Chiappelli, this award provides a $1,500 travel grant to assist with research in any area of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Studies. It is open to UCLA graduate students, and travel is not restricted to Italy. In 2006, three students were awarded Chiappelli Travel Fellowships.

Francesca Kemitch, a graduate student in the Italian Department, is studying the influence of Italian comic theater on the work of the sixteenth-century French playwright Pierre de Larivey. She will travel to Paris for research in the Bibliothèque nationale. Dana Polanichka, a graduate student in the Department of History, is traveling to Italy to examine the religious architecture of San Clemente, San Lorenzo, and the Sancta Sanctorum in Rome for her dissertation “Sacred Space in Carolingian Europe, 750–950 CE.” And Emily Spratt, a graduate student in the Department of Art History, will travel to the island of Crete to study icons painted by local artists between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. She is exploring the ways that religious images can be invested with political meaning.

Students interested in applying for a 2007 Chiappelli Travel Fellowship should contact the Center. The application deadline is February 15, 2007.

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Students examine manuscripts in the paleography seminar, sponsored by CMRS and taught by Professors Richard Rouse and Christopher Baswell.

STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES

Paleography Seminar, Spring 2007

Under the sponsorship of CMRS, “The Paleography of Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts: 800–1500” will again be offered at UCLA during the Spring Quarter 2007. The graduate seminar is team-taught by internationally famed paleographer and manuscript scholar Professor Emeritus Richard Rouse (History, UCLA) and Professor Christopher Baswell (English, UCLA), well known for his research on English vernacular literature and classical Latin literature in medieval manuscripts.

Designed to meet the needs of graduate students in a variety of academic disciplines, the paleography seminar was first offered in Spring 2006. That class drew UCLA students from the Departments of English, History, and Germanic Languages, as well as two doctoral students who commuted to class each week form other UC campuses (Irvine and Riverside). Each week, the entire class met to study basic developments in handwriting and manuscript format over the centuries. For a second weekly meeting, the class divided into two sections, each a practicum in reading, dating, and transcribing early manuscripts. Professor Rouse’s section focused on Latin hands and historical research in charters and documents; Professor Baswell’s group concentrated on literary manuscripts in vernacular languages.

The course will be cross-listed under History, English, Classics, and French. Students can enroll in the class using URSA in the usual fashion. For more information, contact Professor Baswell at baswell@humnet.ucla.edu.

CMRS Seminar for 2006–07

The CMRS Seminar gives UCLA students a chance to meet and interact with prominent authorities in the field of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Each year, the Center selects one or more courses from proposals submitted by faculty members to be designated as CMRS Seminars. These classes receive special funding from the Center making it possible for distinguished scholars to be brought to UCLA to participate in seminars and symposia, to present lectures, and to have informal discussions with students and faculty. The next CMRS Seminar, “Arcadian Imaginaries” (English 246), coordinated by Professor Lowell Gallagher, will be offered during the Winter Quarter 2007. The course will introduce students to a representative sample of early modern prose romances: the 1593 composite version of Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Mary Wroth’s Urania (1621), and John Barclay’s enormously popular (but today little-known)

Recent CMRS Seminars have included a two-part class series, consisting of “The Forms of Power: Political Thought from Antiquity through the Middle Ages” (English 246) taught in fall 2005 by Professor Debora Shuger, and “The Invention of the Legal Self in Renaissance England” (English 246) presented during winter 2006 by Professor Claire McEachern. And “El Greco: Master of Hybridity” (Art History 225/230/240), team-taught by Professors Charlene Villaseñor Black, Sharon Gerstel, and Joanna Woods-Marsden, which included talks by noted El Greco scholars Fernando Marías (Complutense University, Madrid), Robin Cormack (Courtauld Institute, London), and Nikos Hadjinikolaou (Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymnon).

Professor Richard Rouse (History) instructs graduate student Leona Fisher (UC Riverside) during a session of the CMRS-sponsored paleography seminar at UCLA, Spring Quarter 2006.

Argenis (1622). The seminar’s aim will be to apprehend the aesthetic imagination, hermeneutic principles, and literary models informing these Elizabethan and Jacobean texts; to understand their placement in specific social, political, and religious networks; and to assess their ideological significance. Anticipated guest speakers include Professor Jonathan Crewe (Dartmouth University), who will be at UCLA for a week as one of CMRS’s Distinguished Visiting Scholars.

Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellowships for 2007–08

In conjunction with the Center’s John E. Sawyer Seminar, “Disputation: Ways of Arguing in and out of the University,” funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CMRS will be awarding two graduate fellowships for the 2007–08 academic year. An announcement about the application procedure will be posted on the Center’s website. For more information about the Sawyer Seminar, see page 16.

Medieval and Renaissance Classes at UCLA

Many courses with topics relevant to Medieval and Renaissance Studies are offered at UCLA each year. To assist students identify them, CMRS posts a list on its website (select “Academics” on the homepage). Course offerings are subject to change at any time, and students should consult UCLA’s online class schedule for the current listing. For information about a specific class, contact the instructor or department.

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DONORS AND OTHER SUPPORT

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History of the Book Lecture Fund The History of the Book Lecture series, established in 1993 through the efforts of Richard and Mary Rouse, provides a venue for internationally recognized authorities on medieval and Renaissance books to present their expertise at UCLA. The lecture’s focus alternates each year between medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books. Among the topics explored in past lectures were: book and manuscript illustra-tion, the development of printing, early book printers and sellers, and medieval and Renaissance book collections. Recent speakers have been Dr. Christopher Page (Faculty of English, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge), Dr. Christopher de Hamel (Donnelley Fellow Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), and Dr. Roger S. Wieck (Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Pierpont Morgan Library). The next lectures in the series will be presented by Father Justin (St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt), on February 23, 2007, and Professor William H. Sherman (University of York) on April 4, 2007 (see pages 6 and 7).

The History of the Book Lecture is funded entirely through the generosity of donors. Contributions are welcomed at any time. During 2005–06, contributors included:

Sara M. Adler Philip Levine Michael and Elena Allen Roz Livingston Christopher Baswell Frank LutzA. R. Braunmuller Aino PaasonenVern L. Bullough John PettitEdward I. Condren Paul PetziRaymond J. Cormier Claudia RappLuisa Del Giudice Gerald and Irene RosenbergRichard Dolan Mary and Richard RouseSattateh Farmaian Blair SullivanJohn H. Geerken Elizabeth C. TeviotdaleMarie Louise Göllner Patricia Armstrong WarrenV. A. Kolve And anonymous donorsThomas Kren

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RECOVERY OF COSTS FROM PRIVATE GIFTSThe Foundation’s policy is to invest on a short-term basis all gifts until five percent of the principal is earned for the support of UCLA development and related programs, unless gift instructions or appropriate campus administrators elect to provide this amount immediately. With the exception of gifts for endowments, additional investment income will also support these activities.

The Center depends on endowments and monetary gifts to continue its activities. We are grateful to all those who provide support for our programs and research projects. In particular, we wish to thank the members of the CMRS Council, and the following donors, contributors, and co-sponsors for their support during the 2005–06 academic year.

CMRS Council

The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) Council was established in 1998 as a benefactors’s group to promote and sustain the Center and its activities. For information about becoming a member, contact CMRS. 2005–06 Council members were:

Michael and Elena Allen Mrs. Harry LenartKenneth and Patricia Armstrong Mrs. Monte E. LivingstonMatthew Brosamer & Bianca Ryan Frank A. LutzBrian and Kathleen Copenhaver Richard and Mary RouseDr. Boris Catz Betty and Sanford SigoloffBetty and Marvin Hoffenberg Steve SohmerClaude and Maria-José Hulet Blair SullivanAndy and Marea Kelly Emma Lewis Thomas Other Donors and ContributorsA. S. Thomas Memorial Fund, Inc.Marlene and Stuart MalkinBetty and Sanford Sigoloff, Endowment for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesSidney Stern Memorial Trust Norman ThrowerAnd anonymous contributors

Institutional ContributorsThe Ahmanson FoundationThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationCalifornia State University, Bakersfield-Antelope ValleyThe Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationThe Hammer FoundationThe Hellenic University ClubThe Huntington LibraryItalian Cultural Institute of Los AngelesNational Endowment for the HumanitiesThe USC College of Letters, Arts, and SciencesThe USC Institute of British and Irish StudiesThe William H. Hannon Foundation

Additional support for CMRS programs was provided by the following UCLA groups:

The Humanities Division of the College of Letters and ScienceThe Social Sciences Division of the College of Letters and Science The Center for European and Eurasian StudiesThe Center for 17th- & 18th-Century StudiesThe Friends of EnglishThe Departments of Art History, Classics, English, French & Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, History, Italian, Philosophy, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Spanish & Portuguese.The Indo-European Studies Program

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2005 – 2006

On April 8, 2006, the Xth UCLA Byzantinists’ Colloquium was convened at UCLA. The program, “Byzantium on the West Coast,” was coordinated by Professors Sharon Gerstel (Art History, UCLA) and Claudia Rapp (History, UCLA), and featured distinguished guest speakers from throughout the western United States.

The Center’s Annual Shakespeare Symposium was held on May 13, 2006. “Shakespeare Interrupted: Revisiting Some ‘Problem’ Scenes in the Canon” was organized by Professor Lowell Gallagher (English, UCLA). Speakers included UCLA English Professors Karen Cunningham and Arthur Little, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Harry Berger, Jr. (UC Santa Cruz), Professor David Goldstein (University of Tulsa) and Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton (UC Irvine).

The Annual Will and Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture was presented by Jill Kraye (Librarian and Professor of Renaissance Philosophy at the Warburg Institute) on May 17, 2006. Her talk was titled “From Petrarch to Rubens: The Cultural History of Stoicism in the Early Modern Era.” A dinner followed for CMRS faculty, associates, and friends.

A conference exploring the influence of Dante on modern literature, drama, and film–“Dante’s New Life in 20th-Century Literature: Modern Intertextual Appropriation of Dante”–organized by Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA) and Amilcare Iannucci (University of Toronto) was held on May 25–27, 2006. The program, which featured an inter-national panel of speakers, was sponsored by the Ahmanson Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Department of Italian, CMRS, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.

The California Medieval History Seminar met at the Huntington Library on November 5, 2005, February 25, 2006, and May 20, 2006. Four papers were discussed at each session, two by faculty, and two by graduate students or recent doctoral degree recipients. Professor Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv University) was the invited speaker for 2005–06. The series was supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The UCLA Sounds Early Music Series presented two programs during the 2005–06 academic year: “A Yearning for Eternity: The Cycle of Life in Medieval Song,” performed by the vocal group Voxfire, on November 1, 2005; and “Old Spain and new Spain: Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590-1664) and Cathedral Music of 17th-Century Mexico,” on February 28, 2006, performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Singers’ Cappella, under the direction of Peter Rutenberg.

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CMRS Programs & Events Online Archive!

The CMRS website now features an archive of past events–including photographs, conference programs, lecture abstracts, and other information. For a complete description of the Center’s 2005–06 programs and events, visit www.cmrs.ucla.edu/archive/archive.html. The following summarizes just a few of the many programs that the Center sponsored or co-sponsored during the past year:

The year began with an open house on October 11, 2005, designed to familiarize students and faculty with the Center’s programs, awards, and fellowships. CMRS faculty members, students, and staff attended in large number. As in the past, the event included a used book sale, featuring items of interest to scholars of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

CMRS Director Brian P. Copenhaver (Philosophy, UCLA) presented the Center’s Annual Hammer Foundation Lecture on December 2, 2005. His talk, “From Magic to Science: Picturing a Way Out,” considered the question of why magic, which was high on the cultural agenda for educated Europeans in 1499 when Ficino died, fell into disrepute by the time Newton died in 1727. A dinner for CMRS faculty, associates, and friends followed the lecture.

The 13th Annual History of the Book Lecture took place on February 10, 2006. Dr. Christopher Page (Faculty of English, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge), who is both an authority on medieval English literature and a specialist in medieval music, presented “Copying Books in a Gradual Fashion 1025–1125: The Wanderings of Two Monks and the Making of Western Musical Tradition.” His talk concerned the development of musical notation, in particular, the musical staff.

The Third Rebecca D. Catz Memorial Lecture was presented on March 9, 2006, by Helder Macedo (Camoens Professor Emeritus of Portuguese, King’s College, London). He discussed the sixteenth-century Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes and his work. A reception for the speaker and attendees followed.

The Center hosted a joint meeting of the 28th Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference and the annual meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of America (CSANA), on March 16–18, 2006, at UCLA. The program was coordinated by Professor Joseph F. Nagy (English, UCLA) and the UCLA Celtic Colloquium. Forty papers were presented over the course of the conference representing all aspects of Celtic culture, from late antiquity to the present. The annual CSANA seminar focussed on the teaching of Celtic languages and literature in high school and the university.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2005 – 2006

Other programs sponsored or co-sponsored by the Center during the 2005–06 academic year included:

A Concert of Music to Accompany the Poetry of Ausias March (fifteenth-century Valencian poet), presented by Josep Meseguer and Nuria Pradas, October 27, 2005.

Annual Meeting of the American Italian Historical Association in Los Angeles, “Speaking Memory: Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italians in America,” conference chair Dr. Luisa Del Giudice (CMRS Associate, UCLA), conference co-chair, Professor Teresa Fiore, (Cal State University, Long Beach), November 3-6, 2005.

“Charisma and Aura: A Medievalist Raid on Some Post-Medieval Categories,” a lecture by Professor C. Stephen Jaeger (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), November 10, 2005.

“Christian Life in the Pharaonic City of the Dead: Western Thebes in the 6th-8th Centuries,” a lecture by Dr. Heike Behlmer (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), December 5, 2005.

“Exploiting a Bad King: Saul in Early Modern England,” a lecture by Professor Anne Lake Prescott (Helen Goodhart Atschul Professor of English, Barnard College, and Columbia University), January 12, 2006.

“The Poetics of Friendship in Homer and Dante,” a lecture by Professor Franco Masciandaro (University of Connecticut), February 1, 2006.

“Rethinking the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico: The Visual Texts of a Medieval Renaissance,” a lecture by Professor Jaime Lara (Yale University), February 9, 2006.

“Piers Plowman and his After-Life,” a lecture by Professor Derek Pearsall (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, and Harvard University), February 14, 2006.

“Art of the Ethiopian Church: the Formation of an African Artistic Tradition,” a lecture by Professor Marilyn Heldman (University of Missouri, St. Louis), February 16, 2006. “Mainland European Specialty Publishing,” a lecture by Dr. Simon Forde (Brepols Publishers, Belgium), February 22, 2006.

“Tropics of Glory: Doxology and Invention in Premodern England,” a lecture by Professor Bruce Holsinger (English and Music, University of Virginia), February 23, 2006.

Tenth Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies, coordinated by Professor Gail Lenhoff (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA), February 24, 2006.

Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies, organized by the UCLA Armenian Graduate Students Association, March 3, 2006.

The Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC), annual conference at the Huntington Library, March 11, 2006.

“The Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 15th Century,” Professor David Abulafia (Cambridge University), March 16, 2006.

“Lorenzo Valla and the Rise of Humanist Dialectic,” a lecture by Professor Lodi Nauta (Philosophy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands), March 21, 2006.

“The Saint and the Hagiographer in Search of Each Other: The Holy Fool as Cultural Symbol, Literary Character, and Human Being,” a lecture by Prof. Sergey Ivanov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, and Dumbarton Oaks), April 7, 2006.

“The Hereford Map and the ‘not so very good’ Laity,” a lecture by Professor Valerie Flint (G. F. Grant Professor Emerita, History, University of Hull), April 11, 2006.

“Past Magics: A Conversation between Valerie Flint (University of Hull) and Brian Copenhaver (UCLA) on Studying Magic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” April 12, 2006.

“On Studying the Spanish and Portuguese Empires Together,” a lecture by Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History, UCLA; Director, UCLA Center for Indian and South Asian Studies), April 13, 2006.

The 9th Annual Moody Workshop in Medieval Philosophy, “Avicenna: Arabus et Latinus,” coordinated by Professor Calvin Normore (Philosophy, UCLA), April 15, 2006.

The 29th Annual Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, coordinated by Professor Claude L. Hulet (Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA), April 22-23, 2006.

“The Man who would be King of France: On a Medieval Tale and Life,” a lecture by Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (University of Urbino), May 2, 2006.

“Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo,” a lecture by Professor Harry Berger, Jr. (Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History, UC Santa Cruz), May 10, 2006.

“A Little Touch of Harry: The Perverse Henrification of George Bush,” a lecture by Harry Berger, Jr. (Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History, UC Santa Cruz), May 11, 2006.

“Churches and their Patrons in Romanesque Ireland,” a lecture by Dr. Tomás Ó Carragáin (University College Cork), May 19, 2006.

“Politics, Patronage, and Workshop: Analyzing Romanesque Clonmacnoise,” Dr. Jennifer Ní Ghrádaigh (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), May 19, 2006.

“Tales, Poems, and Bawdy Songs: Folkloric Imagination in the North,” a conference in honor of Professor James Massengale on the occasion of his retirement, coordinated by Professor Tim Tangherlini, May 20, 2006.

“The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin,” a conference at the Clark Library, organized by Professors Jeremy Popkin (University of Kentucky) and Peter H. Reill (UCLA), June 11-12, 2006.

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Award and Fellowship Recipients 2005–06

Fredi Chiappelli Travel Fellowship Christine Toma (Art History)

Lynn and Maude White Fellowship Not offered for 2005-06

Research Assistants Yasmine Beale-Rosano-Rivaya (Spanish & Portuguese) Randall Gordon (Indo-European Studies) Maria Kritikou (Indo-European Studies) Summer 2006 Fellowship Daniel Stein Kokin (PhD History, Harvard University) Horacio Chiong Rivera (Assistant Professor of Spanish, Swarthmore College) Emily Smith (PhD English, Emory University)

CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholars 2005–06 Winter Quarter 2006

Marilyn Heldman (Adjunct Professor of Art History, University of Missouri, St. Louis)

Jaime Lara (Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, and Chair, Program in Religion and the Arts, Yale University)

Franco Masciandaro (Professor of Italian, University of Connecticut)

Derek Pearsall (Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, and Harvard University)

Anne Lake Prescott (Professor of English, Barnard College)

Spring Quarter 2006

Valerie Flint (G. F. Grant Professor Emerita in the Department of History, University of Hull)

Harry Berger, Jr. (Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History, UC Santa Cruz)

Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri (Assistant Professor of Medieval History, University of Urbino)

CMRS Visiting Scholars 2005–06

Anne Larson (Professor of French, Hope College, Holland, Michigan)Vincent Novak (Dean, Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, Fordham University)

Faculty Committees 2005–06

Faculty Advisory Committee

Christopher Baswell (English), ChairWilliam Bodiford (Asian Languages and Cultures)Jean-Claude Carron (French and Francophone Studies)Brian P. Copenhaver (Philosophy, History), CMRS DirectorGordon Kipling (English)Kirstie McClure (Political Science, English)Ronald Mellor (History)Claudia Parodi (Spanish and Portuguese)Claudia Rapp (History)Giulia Sissa (Classics, Political Science)Jonathan Post (Interim Dean of Humanities)Kevin Terraciano (History)

Research Assistant Selection Committee

Michael J. B. Allen (English)Christopher M. Stevens (Germanic Languages)Dora B. Weiner (History)

In MemoriamWith regret the Center notes the passing of

Vern L. Bullough(Distinguished Professor Emeritus, SUNY,

and CMRS Associate)

Robert Dent(Professor Emeritus, English, UCLA)

Guillermo E. Hernández(Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA)

Robert S. Kinsman(Professor Emeritus, English, UCLA)

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FACULTY

UCLA faculty who are members of CMRS are listed below by department with a summary of their academic interests and specialties. Faculty belonging to interdepartmental programs are cross-listed. An asterisk (*) indicates emeritus status.

Architecture and Urban DesignDiane Favro: Architecture and topography of early medieval

Rome; Italian urbanism; virtual reality modeling projects

Art HistoryIrene A. Bierman: Islamic architecture and artCharlene Villaseñor Black: Spanish and Mexican visual

cultures, sixteenth to eighteenth centuriesSharon E. J. Gerstel: Byzantine art and archaeology; late

medieval peasantry; art and archaeology of the Crusades; ethnography of the Early Modern Balkans

Cecelia Klein: Aztec art before, during, and after the Spanish Conquest of 1521

David Kunzle: sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art in the Netherlands, England, and Germany; art and Reformation

Donald McCallum: Medieval Japanese art*Carlo Pedretti: Leonardo da Vinci and his contextJoanna Woods-Marsden: Portraiture in Renaissance Italy;

gender studies; Titian; Renaissance courts

Asian Languages and CulturesWilliam M. Bodiford: Japanese religious life and culture; East

Asian BuddhismRobert E. Buswell: Buddhism in medieval East Asia; Buddhist

mysticism; monastic cultureJohn B. Duncan: Medieval Korean institutional and intellectual

history through the eighteenth centuryPeter H. Lee: Classical and medieval Korean literature;

comparative East Asian literatureMichael F. Marra: Japanese literature and hermeneutics*Herbert Plutschow: Classical Japanese literature and cultureGregory Schopen: Buddhist studies and Indology; social and

religious history of south Asia Jonathan Silk: Indian Buddhism and its transmission to

Central and East Asia (Tibet and China), 5th century BCE to 10th century CE; scriptural literatures of early and Mahayana Buddhism, and the textual traditions of these literatures; Chinese reception of Buddhism

Richard E. Strassberg: Classical Chinese literature and culture

ClassicsDavid Blank: Ancient philosophy; ancient medicine and

rhetoric; transmission of classical textsShane Butler: Latin literature (ancient to Renaissance); the

Classical tradition; intellectual history; poeticsSander M. Goldberg: Drama, rhetoric, and oratory

Michael W. Haslam: History of Greek textsStephanie W. Jamison: Vedic Sanskrit; Indo-European linguistics*Philip Levine: Paleography; late Latin literatureKathryn A. Morgan: Greek intellectual history and philosophy

and its reception in the Middle Ages and Renaissance*Jaan Puhvel: Comparative philology; comparative mythologyBrent Vine: Classical and Indo-European linguistics; Vulgar

Latin; history of EnglishSee also Giulia Sissa, Political Science

Comparative LiteratureA. R. Braunmuller: see EnglishMassimo Ciavolella: see ItalianKatherine C. King: Epic; tragedy; the Classical tradition;

women’s studiesEfraín Kristal: see Spanish and Portuguese

Design*Lionel March: Euclidean geometry; Nicomachean arithmetic;

architectonics of humanism EnglishMichael J. B. Allen: Renaissance Platonism; Shakespeare;

Spenser; see also Italian, and PhilosphyChristopher Baswell: Chaucer; Classical tradition; codicology;

high and late medieval cultureA. R. Braunmuller: Tudor and Stuart English drama; European

drama and art; history of the bookKing-Kok Cheung: Milton; Shakespeare; MarloweEdward I. Condren: Old and Middle English poetry; Chaucer;

numerical design in medieval literatureMatthew Fisher: Medieval English literature; history writing in England, 1280-1350*R. A. Foakes: Shakespeare and Renaissance dramaLowell Gallagher: Early modern cultural studies of England

and France; Semiotics; Narratology; Spenser*Christopher Grose: Milton; seventeenth-century literatureEric Jager: Old English, Middle English, Latin, French, Italian; Augustine and patristics; history of the book; law and ritual; literary theory*Henry Ansgar Kelly: England, Italy, France, Spain: literature,

canon law, common law, liturgy, theology, history of ideas (biblical, classical, medieval, early modern)

Gordon Kipling: Medieval and Tudor drama; theatrical spectacle; Shakespeare; Chaucer; Netherlandic-British cultural relations

*V. A. Kolve: Medieval drama; Chaucer; literature and visual arts; medieval anti-Semitism

*Richard A. Lanham: Medieval, Renaissance, and modern digital rhetoric

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Professor Christopher Baswell (English) with graduate students Mac Harris and Francesca Marx in the CMRS-sponsored paleography seminar, Spring Quarter 2006. The course will be offered again in Spring 2007.

Jayne Lewis: Tudor and Stuart England; Mary Queen of Scots; Early Modern English fable tradition; theories of war

Arthur Little: Nationalism and imperialism in early modern English culture; Shakespeare; race, gender, and sexuality in early modern culture

Claire McEachern: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature; historiography; national identity; history of gender; political theory; religion; editing of Shakespeare

Donka Minkova: History of English; English historical phonology; metrics; syntax

Joseph Falaky Nagy: Medieval Celtic literatures; Celtic folklore; comparative folklore and mythology

Jonathan F. S. Post: Seventeenth-century poetry; Milton; Shakespeare

*Florence H. Ridley: Chaucer; fourteenth-century English poetry; Middle English dialects; medieval Scots poetry

*David S. Rodes (Director Emeritus, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts): Renaissance and Restoration theater and graphic arts; Shakespeare; Dryden; Wycherly; Molière

Karen E. Rowe: Colonial American literature to 1800; Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature; women’s literature

*Paul R. Sellin: Neo-Latin criticism (especially Heinsius, Vossius, Scaliger); English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Anglo-Dutch relations; Renaissance and Golden-Age Dutch literature, history, and art; Donne; Milton; seventeenth-century poetry; Raleigh and the Orinoco

Debora Shuger: Neo-Latin; Renaissance Bible; intellectual history and political thought through the seventeenth century; European cultural studies

Robert N. Watson: Shakespeare; Renaissance drama; metaphysical poetry; ecocriticism dramaMetaphysicalpoetrypoetry

French and Franchophone Studies Jean-Claude Carron: Humanism; French Renaissance; poetic

imitation; philosophical dialogue; history of foodZrinka Stahuljak: Medieval romance, historiography, and

poetry; affect in the Middle Ages; medieval sexualities; Middles Ages and the Nineteenth Century; contemporary and medieval translation theory

GeographyDenis Cosgrove: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century geography

and cosmography; Venetian landscape and culture*Norman Thrower: Geographical discovery and exploration;

history of cartography

Germanic Languages*Franz Bäuml: Medieval literacy; oral tradition*Marianna D. Birnbaum: Hungarian literature; Renaissance

culture of Central Europe; Jews in Renaissance EuropeJesse L. Byock: Old Norse/Icelandic sagas and history;

medieval Scandinavian archaeology and societyJames A. Schultz: Middle High German literature; history of

sexuality; history of childhood; gender Christopher M. Stevens: Germanic linguistics and philology;

historical linguistics; dialectology

History*Kees W. Bolle: Myth; mysticism; methods in the history of

religions; Hinduism; religion and politics*Robert I. Burns, S. J.: Western Mediterranean; medieval

Spain and southern France, especially Catalan lands; Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations

Brian P. Copenhaver (Director, CMRS): History of philosophy; history of science; late medieval and early modern Europe

Patrick J. Geary: Early medieval social and cultural history; barbarian societies; history of memory; history of ethnicity

Carlo Ginzburg: Popular culture; intellectual history; iconography

*Richard Hovannisian: History of Armenia and Caucasus*Bariša Krekic : Medieval southeastern Europe; Medieval

Russia; Byzantium; Dalmatian and Italian urban history in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

*James Lockhart: History of Spanish America, 1492-1800; social history; ethnohistory and Indian language studies

*Lauro Martines: History and literature of Renaissance Italy and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England

Muriel C. McClendon: Tudor and Stuart England; the Reformation; religion and society in early modern Europe

Ronald Mellor: Roman history; religion and lawMichael G. Morony: Early Islamic historyGabriel Piterberg: Ottoman history; historiography and

historical consciousness; Orientalism and nationalismClaudia Rapp: Late Antiquity; Byzantine studies; hagiography

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FACULTY

*Richard H. Rouse: History of texts and libraries; manuscript production; paleographyTeofilo F. Ruiz: Late medieval social and cultural history; the kingdom of Castile; Iberian peninsula, late medieval and early modernGeoffrey Symcox: Urban history, architecture, and planning

(Renaissance and Baroque); states and institutions in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, France and Italy; Columbus and the Columbian voyages

Kevin Terraciano: History of Spanish America, 1492-1800; social history; ethnohistory

Scott L. Waugh: Social and political history of medieval England

Dora B. Weiner: Social history of the health sciences, particularly in France; medical humanities; history of the hospital and of psychiatry

See also Ynez Violé O’Neill, Neurobiology; Anthony Pagden, Political Science

Indo-European Studies Program Listed under Classics: Stephanie W. Jamison, Brent Vine;

under English: Joseph Falaky Nagy ; under Germanic Languages: Christopher Stevens ; under Slavic Languages and Literatures: Vyacheslav Ivanov

ItalianMichael J. B. Allen: Ficino, Pico, and the Quattrocento;

Renaissance philosophy, especially Neo-Platonism; see also English, and Philosophy

Luigi Ballerini: Medieval Italian poetry; Renaissance gastronomy

Massimo Ciavolella: Boccaccio; Renaissance literature; Renaissance theories of love

*Marga Cottino-Jones: Medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century literature; Boccaccio

Edward F. Tuttle: Italian philology; comparative Romance historical linguistics; socio-pragmatic and structural motives of language change; medieval Italian literature

LawKhaled Abou El Fadl: Medieval Muslim law*William M. McGovern: English legal historyStephen C. Yeazell: Medieval and Early Modern adjudicative

procedure in Britain

Linguistics*Robert P. Stockwell: Old English; Middle English; history of

English language; historical linguistics

Medicine David Hayes-Bautista (General Internal Medicine): Pre-

Columbian health and medicine; colonial medical practice; culture and health

Medical History / NeurobiologyRobert G. Frank, Jr.: History of medicine and disease in

England*Ynez Violé O’Neill: History of medicine, especially anatomy,

surgery, and neurology; medical images

Musicology*Murray C. Bradshaw: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century

music and music theory, especially the falsobordone, the toccata, early sacred monody, and embellishment

*Frank A. D’Accone: Italian music of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries

*Marie Louise Göllner: Music of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries and the late Renaissance; late medieval music theory; paleography and manuscript studies

*Richard A. Hudson: Renaissance instrumental music, especially dance-related forms; tempo rubato; falling-third cadences

Susan McClary: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century music; cultural theory

Mitchell Morris: Fourteenth- to sixteenth-century music; relationship between music and liturgical development in the late medieval mass

*Robert Stevenson: Medieval and sixteenth-century Spain, Portugal, and Latin America

Elizabeth Upton: Twelfth- through sixteenth-century music, especially the courtly chansons of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; musical paleography and manuscript source studies; medievalism and music

Near Eastern Languages and CulturesCarol Bakhos: Ancient and medieval rabbinic texts; comparative

scriptural interpretation*Amin Banani: Cultural history, literature of Persia in the

Islamic eraAndrás J. E. Bodrogligeti: Central Asian Turkic languages and

literaturesMichael Cooperson: Classical Arabic literature, especially

biography; the cultural history of Abbasid BaghdadS. Peter Cowe: Medieval East Christian theology and spirituality;

Armenian language and literature*Herbert A. Davidson: Medieval Hebrew literature; Rabbinic

literature; medieval Jewish and Arabic philosophy*Wolf Leslau: Ethiopic languages and cultureIsmail K. Poonawala: Early intellectual and cultural history

of Islam; Shi’ism, Isma’ilis/Fatimids; classical Arabic literature; contemporary Islamic thought

Yona Sabar: Hebrew and Aramaic; Syriac; Jewish languages; folk and religious literature of Kurdistani Jews

Hossein Ziai: Medieval Islamic philosophy; Persian classical literature; post-Avicennan logic and epistemology; impact of systematic philosophy on Persian poetic traditions

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PhilosophyMichael J. B. Allen: Renaissance philosophy, especially Neo-

Platonism; see also English, and ItalianJohn Carriero: Medieval Aristotelian philosophy; seventeenth-

century philosophyBrian Copenhaver: Renaissance philosophy; see also HistoryCalvin Normore: Medieval philosophyTerrance Parsons: Philosophy of language; metaphysics;

history of logicSee also Hossein Ziai, Near Eastern Political ScienceKirstie McClure: History and historiography of political

thought; politics and literature; feminist theoryAnthony Pagden: The history of political and social theory

with special reference to European overseas expansion and its aftermath; see also History

Giulia Sissa: Culture and thought in ancient societies; the classical tradition in medieval and Renaissance political theory; see also Classics

PsychiatryDora B. Weiner: See History

Scandinavian Section*James R. Massengale: Scandinavian medieval ballads; Scandinavian folk talesTimothy Tangherlini: Folklore, oral traditions, ritual; Old Norse

Slavic Languages and Literatures*Henning Andersen: Cultural contacts in the Baltic and Slavic

lands; historical linguisticsVyacheslav V. Ivanov: Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian;

Old Russian literature; Old Lithuanian literature; Linguistic and cultural situation in the Great Duchy of Lithuania (14th - 17th century A.D.); Baltic and Slavonic folklore and mythology; Tocharian medieval texts; Sogdian and Khotanese Sana medieval texts

Emily Klenin: Slavic linguistics, languages, and literatureGail Lenhoff: Comparative hagiography and historiography of

medieval Russia; Orthodox liturgics; Byzantine heritage versus regional literary traditions; theological legitimization of the tsars; textual transmission and redaction

*Dean S. Worth: Russian language history; medieval Russian philology

SociologyRebecca Jean Emigh: Fifteenth-century Tuscan agriculture;

historical demography; sociological theory

FACULTY

Spanish and Portuguese*Shirley Arora: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chronicles,

travel literature, folkloreVerónica Cortínez: Colonial and contemporary Latin-American

literature; literary theory; Chilean filmJohn Dagenais: Medieval Castilian and Catalan literature;

Hispano-Latin; manuscript culture*Claude L. Hulet: History and literature of Renaissance

Portugal and Brazil, especially Portuguese maritime discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Brazilian literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Carroll B. Johnson: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature, especially narrative; Cervantes

Efraín Kristal: Spanish-American colonial literature; the Spanish historical epicAnna More: New World Spain; colonial baroque cultureC. Brian Morris: Golden-Age Spanish poetry; the Picaresque

novelClaudia Parodi: History of Spanish language (sixteenth and

seventeenth centuries); Spanish dialectology; historiography of linguistics

Enrique Rodríguez-Cepeda: Cervantes/Spanish Golden Age; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theater; popular culture and Spanish ballads

Theater*Henry Goodman: Renaissance and Baroque theater;

ShakespeareMichael Hackett: Early Baroque theater; Shakespeare; the

English masque*Carl R. Mueller: Medieval and Renaissance theater;

Shakespeare

World Arts and Cultures

Professor Scott Kleinman (English, California State University, Northridge, and CMRS Associate) and Professor Donka Minkova (English, UCLA) listen to a lecture by CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Derek Pearsall (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, and Harvard University) in February 2006.

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CMRS Associates

Sara M. Adler (Italian, Scripps College): Vittoria Colonna; women poets of the Italian Renaissance

Susana Hernández Araico (English and Foreign Languages, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona): Spanish literature of the Golden Age; Renaissance and Baroque commercial and court theater; Lope de Vega; Calderón’s mythological plays and allegorical Autos; Sor Juana’s theater in Baroque Mexico

Susannah F. Baxendale: Social and political history in Renaissance Italy; family and women’s issues; early business history

Lisa M. Bitel (History, USC): Early medieval culture and society; Ireland; women and gender

Matthew Brosamer (English, Mount Saint Mary’s College): Chaucer, Old English literature, church history, monastic theology, the seven deadly sins

Cynthia Brown (French, UC Santa Barbara): Late Medieval and early Renaissance French literature and culture

Warren C. Brown (History, California Institute of Technology): Early and Central Middle Ages; conflict resolution; history of power; history of writing

Gayle K. Brunelle (History, California State University, Fullerton):Early modern commerce, merchants, women and wealth, and theAtlantic world

Silvia Orvietani Busch (Research Programs Associate, Strategic Research Initiatives-North Campus, UCLA): Medieval Mediterranean history, archaeology, ports; Mediterranean navigation; maritime history

Michael Calabrese (English, California State University, Los Angeles): Medieval English literature (Chaucer, Langland); medieval amatory tradition (Ovid, Boccaccio); medieval masculinity

Rafael Chabrán (Modern Languages, Whittier College): Life and works of Francisco Hernández; Cervantes and medicine; history of science and medicine in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Mexico

Paul E. Chevedden (History, Santa Monica College): Medieval Mediterranean history; Crusades; medieval artillery; early photography on the Middle East

Stanley Chodorow (History, UC San Diego): Legal history; canon law; church and state

Luisa Del Giudice (Director, Italian Oral History Institute): Italian folk, regional, and immigrant cultures (song, belief, celebration, food, dance)

Dennis Dutschke (French and Italian, UC Davis): Medieval Italian literature; Petrarch

Andrew Fleck (English, San Jose State University): The Dutch in/and English national identity

John Geerken (History, Scripps College): Italian Renaissance; Machiavelli; European intellectual history; history of legal thought

James Given (History, UC Irvine): Medieval social and political history and conflict; heresy and inquisition in Languedoc

Piotr S. Górecki (History, UC Riverside): Early and central Middle Ages; Poland and east-central Europe; legal history in a social context; relationship between communities and judicial institutions

George L. Gorse (Art History, Pomona College): Art history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; urban space and artistic patronage in Renaissance Italy

Lawrence D. Green (English, University of Southern California): the Renaissance; rhetoric; linguistics

Tobias Gregory (Literature, Claremont McKenna College): Renaissance epic poetry

Richard Helgerson (English and Comparative Literature, UC Santa Barbara): English Renaissance literature and culture

Maryanne Cline Horowitz (History, Occidental College): Renaissance Italian and French cultures; visual cues to collections; Stoicism,

Skepticism, and toleration; history of ideasLeslie Ellen Jones: Medieval Welsh literature and history; British and Celtic

folklore and mythology; Arthuriana; film and folkloreConstance Jordan (English, Claremont Graduate University): Comparative

literature; Shakespeare; history of political thoughtSharon King: Medieval and Renaissance drama; early cookbooks; women’s

studies; French wars of religion; military strategy; proto-science fiction; techniques of medieval and modern comedy; early modern Protestant mysticism

Scott Kleinman (English, California State University, Northridge): Medieval English historiography and regional culture, medieval English

romance; Old English and Middle English philology

Aaron J Kleist (English, Biola University): Old English and Anglo-Latin literature; Aelfric; Anglo-Saxon homiletics; Anglo-Saxon and Patristic theology; digital manuscript editing

Leonard Michael Koff: Use of the Bible in literature; medieval literature; literature of medieval and Renaissance courts; Chaucer; Trecento literary connections; postmodern theory and the pre-modern text

Thomas Kren (Curator of Manuscripts, Getty Museum): Medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination; Late Medieval Netherlandish painting

John S. Langdon (Emeritus Head, History and Social Sciences, The Marlborough School, Los Angeles): The Basileia of John III Ducas Vatatzes;

Late Roman and Byzantine emperors as warriors; Byzantine Imperial consorts and princesses of the Anatolian Exile

Carol Dana Lanham: (Retired, former principal editor,CMRS, UCLA):: Medieval Latin; Latin epistolography; Early medieval education in Latin grammar and rhetoric

Moshe Lazar (Comparative Literature, USC): Romance philology; Provençal literature; medieval drama; Judeo-Romance languages; Sephardic culture; verbal and visual anti-Jewish imagery; Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) literature

Leena Löfstedt (University of Helsinki): Old French and Middle French philology

Joyce Pellerano Ludmer (Bibliographer and Senior Collections Curator, Getty Research Institute): Critical art history and secondary sources; small presses and artists’ books; Leonardo da Vinci; Renaissance and Baroque art history

Peter C. Mancall (History, University of Southern California): Early modern Atlantic world; early America; native America

Ruth Mellinkoff: Medieval and Renaissance iconographyLouis A. Montrose (Literature, UC San Diego): Elizabethan and early modern

studies; cultural history and theoryElizabeth Morrison (Associate Curator, Department of Manuscripts, J. Paul

Getty Museum): Medieval French secular manuscript illumination; Flemish Renaissance manuscripts; social and historical context of manuscripts

Michael O’Connell (English, UC Santa Barbara): Renaissance literature; medieval and Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Spenser; Milton

Aino Paasonen (Antioch University, Los Angeles): Dante; surveys of world literature: Antiquity to modern; urban poetry of place

Roberta Panzanelli (Getty Research Institute): Medieval and Renaissance art history; northern Italian art; religious art

Mary Elizabeth Perry (History, Occidental College): History of marginal people and minorities, deviance, and disorder in early modern Spain; women’s history

Ricardo Quinones (Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, Claremont McKenna College): Renaissance comparative literature; modernism; Dante; Shakespeare; history of ideas (Time); thematics (Cain and Abel); literary dualism

Mary L. Robertson (Chief Curator of Manuscripts, The Huntington Library): Early Modern English politics and government; English archives

Mary Rouse (Retired, former Viator editor, CMRS, UCLA): Medieval manuscripts; history of medieval Paris

Marilyn Schmitt: Medieval art, Romanesque sculptureSteve Sohmer (Fleming Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford): Renaissance

calendars and Tudor liturgies as they relate to the texts of Shakespeare’s playsStanley Stewart (English, UC Riverside): Renaissance English literature;

Shakespeare; literature and philosophyElizabeth C. Teviotdale (Assistant Director, Medieval Institute, Western

Michigan University): Medieval liturgical manuscriptsNancy van Deusen (Claremont Graduate University): MusicologyLoren J. Weber : Medieval historiography; courtly culture and literature; textual

transmissionRobert S. Westman (History and Science Studies, UC San Diego): Early

modern science; Copernican studies; astrological culture

CMRS Affiliates

Claire Banchich (CMRS Affiliate 2004-06): Medieval English literatureHeather Larson (CMRS Affiliate 2006-08): medieval Celtic poetry; orality and

performance in medieval literature; the harp and harper in Celtic traditionsPeter Moore (CMRS Affiliate 2003-06): Medieval English literatureKristen Lee Over (English, Northeastern Illinois University; CMRS Affiliate

2004-07): Medieval British literature and culture; medieval French literature; romance; epic; political theories of power and nation

ASSOCIATES AND AFFILIATES

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The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) was established during academic year 1962-63 through the inspiration of the distinguished historian Lynn White, who served as its first director. Its goal is to promote interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from late antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century in order to better understand cultural, social, religious, and political issues that are rooted in the deep past yet continue to resonate in our contemporary world.

As an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, CMRS supports the research activities of some 140 faculty members in twenty-eight different academic disciplines and programs. The Center offers fellowships and support for both graduate and undergraduate education; it sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences; and it hosts visiting scholars and other researchers. Its annual publications are Viator, internationally recognized as one of the best scholarly journals in the field, and Comitatus, one of the oldest graduate student journals. A variety of books and monographs have also been published under the Center’s aegis.

While CMRS does not award academic degrees, it provides information and educational opportunities to students, and consults with academic departments in the development of relevant classes. A description of the Center’s activities, programs, fellowships, and upcoming events can be found on the CMRS website.

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies302 Royce Hall

Box 951485Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

Telephone310.825.1880

FAX310.825.0655

E-mailcmrs@humnet.ucla.edu

CMRS Internet Home Pagehttp://www.cmrs.ucla.edu

Photo/Digital Image Credits: page 2, Kathleen Copenhaver; pages 3, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, Brett Landenberger; pages 3, 5, front and back covers, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA; page 29, Karen E. Burgess.

Cover: A page from the Arabic manuscript Kitāb al-īmān wa al-kufr min al-kitāb al-kāfī / Kitāb al-du’ā ‘The book of belief and unbelief from the book [called] al-kāfī / Prayer book’ (1654, Box 1, Ms. 2) in the Near Eastern manuscript collection of the Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. Digital image courtesy of Special Collections.

Back cover: Image of a young scholar from the cover of the Kanz al-lughāt ‘Treasure of Words’ (1656, Box 1, Ms. 1), also in the holdings of the Department of Special Collections. The manuscript is a Persian dictionary of Koranic Arabic and Hadith terms. Digital image courtesy of Special Collections.

For more about the Near Eastern manuscript collection at UCLA, see page 3.

CMRS STAFF 2006 - 2007

This brochure was designed and edited by Karen E. Burgess.

DirectorBrian P. Copenhaver

310.825.1880brianc@college.ucla.edu

Associate Director, Medieval StudiesChristopher Baswell

310.825.1079baswell@humnet.ucla.edu

Program Coordinator & Assistant to the DirectorKaren E. Burgess

310.825.2043kburgess@ucla.edu

Administrative AnalystBenay Furtivo310.825.8192

furtivo@humnet.ucla.edu

Associate Director, Renaissance StudiesMassimo Ciavolella

310.825.5943ciavolel@humnet.ucla.edu

Publications DirectorBlair Sullivan310.825.1537

sullivan@humnet.ucla.edu

Webmaster & Project AssistantBrett Landenberger

310.825.1880brett@humnet.ucla.edu

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is located in the East Tower (right) of UCLA’s historic Royce Hall.

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