Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Newsletter

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Newsletter
Spring 2011, Vol. XVII, No. I
Tidings and Proclamations
ACMRS Celebrates Thirty Years
appy 2011! Although the New Year’s celebrations are over, there are still reasons for revelry. The year 2011
marks two very important anniversaries. The first is the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King
James Bible in 1611, possibly the most influential English language book in history. The second is the
30th anniversary of the founding of ACMRS! This year marks three decades of scholarly research and academic
outreach in the community. ACMRS was established in 1981 by the Arizona Board of Regents as a
state-wide research unit. Located centrally on the campus of Arizona State University, ACMRS is charged
with coordinating and stimulating the interdisciplinary exploration of Medieval and Renaissance culture.
In honor of this momentous occasion a donation of $30 would be fitting and appreciated! 30 years is quite an accomplishment,
and with your help, we can work toward 30 more! In the midst of fiscal hardships and budgetary restrictions,
ACMRS endeavors to maintain our programs and would welcome support in any amount from our Friends and Affiliates.
Thank you all for your generous support in the past, and please join us for our 30th-anniversary festivities planned for later
this year! For more information on giving to ACMRS, please visit our website at: acmrs.org/Friends_of_ACMRS.html.
ACMRS: New Home to Saint John’s Bible
This past October ACMRS unveiled the Heritage Edition of the St. John’s Bible
at its annual Distinguished Lecture in Medieval Studies. Dr. Rodney M. Thomson,
Honorary Research Fellow at the School of History and Classics of the University
of Tasmania, presented a
lecture on “The Great Illuminated
Bibles of 12th-Century England:
A Study in Splendor” following
the dedication of the
specially-printed facsimile Bible.
The seven-volume Heritage
Edition was donated by Phoenix
resident George Berkner, a 1956 Saint John’s University graduate. It
will be preserved and made accessible for class lectures or scholarly research
at the Universities’ Special Collections in Hayden Library and in
the offices of ACMRS. See www.saintjohnsbible.org for more information
about this stunning 21st-century manuscript Bible and work of art.
Robert Spindler (ASU Libraries), George Berkner (St. John’s Bible
Donor), Sherrie Schmidt (ASU Libraries), Robert Bjork (ACMRS
Director) and Rodney Thomson (ACMRS Distinguished Lecturer)

ACMRS Sponsors Interdisciplinary Journal:
Early Modern Women
The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University
of Maryland, original publishers of Early Modern
Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, officially closed July
23, 2010 due to budget cuts. ACMRS will take over the
publication of the journal and its entire management, including
the Managing Editor position, which ACMRS Assistant
Director William F. Gentrup will assume. It will
also continue to produce, design, and distribute the journal
which it has done
since 2007. The
founding editors
Jane Donawerth
and Adele Seeff of
the University of
Maryland and Diane
Wolfthal of Rice University,
will continue
with the journal
during a transition
period from January
until June 30, 2011,
when Professors
Anne Cruz, Mary
Lindemann, and Mihoko Suzuki of the University of Miami
will formally assume the editorship. Several Arizona
faculty have also agreed to serve on the Editorial Board:
Mary Bjork (ASU West), Albrecht Classen (UA), Stephanie
Fink DeBacker (ASU West), Monica Green (ASU
Tempe), Cynthia Kosso (NAU), Ian Moulton (ASU
Polytechnic), Patricia Turning (ASU Tempe), Juliann Vitullo
(ASU Tempe), and Retha Warnicke (ASU Tempe).
Shakespeare’s Birthday Bash
For the last several years the ASU English Department
has held a “Birthday Bash” for
the Bard, William Shakespeare.
This celebration commemorates
his life and works with entertaining
and interesting events each
April. At past events, attendees
read sonnets, performed monologues,
and competed with Chaucerians
in quiz-style challenges.
This year’s bash will take place on
Friday, 22 April, location: TBD.
This event is free and open to
the public. For more information
contact: Kristen.LaRue@asu.edu or visit the English Department’s
website: http://english.clas.asu.edu/shakespeare.
2011 ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference
Co-Sponsored by the Faculty of Religious Studies in the
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious
Studies, ASU University College, ASU Jewish Studies, and
the School of Human Evolution and Social Change
The 17th annual ACMRS conference, Performance and
Theatricality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, will be
held February 10-12, 2011, at Sheraton Phoenix Airport
Hotel in Tempe. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Pamela
Sheingorn, who specializes in visual, cultural, and women’s
history of the Middle Ages, particularly hagiography and
drama. Her work focused on representations of the late
medieval family, medieval masculinities, and illuminations
in medieval drama manuscripts. Her keynote address is entitled,
“Narration and Theatricality: Experiencing Joseph
in a 15th-Century German Manuscript.” A pre-conference
workshop on Manuscript Studies, led by Professor Timothy
Graham, Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies
at the University of New Mexico, will also be offered. The
conference includes welcoming and farewell receptions, two
days of concurrent sessions (Friday and Saturday), and a
plenary lecture. The opening reception will be held Thursday
evening. For complete registration information, please
see the website: www.acmrs.org/conferences.html.
2011 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of
America and the Medieval Association of the Pacific
Co-Sponsored by the Faculty of Religious Studies in the
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious
Studies, ASU University College, ASU Jewish Studies, and the
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
ACMRS is honored to host the 86th annual
meeting of the Medieval Academy
of America jointly with the 32nd annual
meeting of the Medieval Association of
the Pacific on April 12-14. Due to the
passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, the
leadership of the Medieval Academy considered
changing the location of the meeting but, following
a poll of its membership, voted to keep it in Arizona.
The program committee, led by ACMRS Director Robert
Bjork, has worked to ensure that this year’s conference
reflects certain contemporary issues from a medieval perspective:
from race, ethnicity, and immigration to historical
protests against governmental policies judged unjust to
standards of judicial and legislative morality. On Thursday,
from 4:00-5:30 p.m., a panel discussion called “Immigration:
Then and Now” will feature the participation of
the Episcopal Bishop of Arizona, Right Reverend Kirk S.
Smith, who has been deeply involved in the state’s immigration
legislation debate. Altogether, the conference includes
forty-seven breakout sessions and six plenary talks on varied
and fascinating subjects. The event will be held at the Chaparral
Suites Hotel (5001 N. Scottsdale Rd.) in Scottsdale,
Arizona. For details see: www.acmrs.org/conference.html.
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Accolades and Awards
Robert Bjork Receives University Honor for ODMA
Foundation Professor Robert Bjork was honored this year by ASU president, Michael
Crow in his list of 2010 ASU accomplishments. In a compendium of
university-wide academic achievements President Crow recognized the publication
of the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, acknowledging that the
“[T]wo-thousand page reference resource for all key aspects of European history, society,
religion, and culture from circa 500 CE to circa 1500 CE was published by Oxford University
Press. Robert E. Bjork, Foundation Professor of English and Director of the Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) at ASU, edited the fourvolume
set. More than eight-hundred scholars, guided by a five-member international
advisory board and an international editorial board of 26, wrote more than 5,000 entries.”
Notably, the ODMA stood out as the only humanities-related item on the president’s
list of accomplishments. The four-volume work was published in June 2010,
and is now available at ASU’s Hayden Library and Ross-Blakley Law Library.
ODMA will be available online to institutions as part of the Oxford
University Press Digital Reference Shelf Collection. Congratulations
to Dr. Bjork and the many others who worked to make
this possible! For more information on the ODMA, visit our website at: acmrs.org/publications/ODMA.html and
to see the president’s list of accomplishments from 2003-present, visit his website at: president.asu.edu/node/737.
The
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Undergraduate Book Award
Every year ACMRS offers its annual Undergraduate
Student Book Award in honor of the founding director,
Jean R. Brink. This award is given to an undergraduate
student who has excelled academically in medieval
and/or Renaissance studies and who intends
to continue study in one of these areas at the
graduate level. The recipient of this award will
receive $250 for the purchase of books. The
award is open to all undergraduate students at
ASU, NAU, and UA. Faculty from any discipline
are welcome to nominate, with a brief letter,
any undergraduate student whom they feel
is deserving of the award. Additionally, recommended
students should submit to ACMRS
their current, local mailing address, social security
number (for check-issuing purposes),
and an unofficial transcript. The faculty member’s
letter and supporting documentation should be
submitted to Dr. Robert E. Bjork, Director, by Friday,
March 11, 2011 (robert.bjork@asu.edu). For further information
about nominating a student for this award,
contact Kendra TerBeek at kendra.terbeek@asu.edu.
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
ACMRS is pleased to announce Bryan VanGinhoven as
the recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Graduate Student
Paper Award for his paper “The Pilgrim, the Beggar, and
the Virgin: Recognizing the Sacred in Twelfth-Century St
Albans Abbey.” Mr. VanGinhoven is a Ph.D. student
in English medieval literature at ASU. His
research has led him to investigate the literature
of northeast England in the 15th century and medieval
Latin commentaries on classical and lateantique
Latin writings. Mr. VanGinhoven will
present his winning paper at the annual medieval
conference held at Western Michigan University
in May 2011. In addition, he will give a preconference
presentation of his paper Spring 2011
on the ASU Tempe Campus, Lattie F. Coor Hall.
This award provides an all-expenses-paid trip to
the International Congress on Medieval Studies
at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, which
is one of the most prestigious conferences in medieval
studies in the world. We are currently accepting submissions
for the 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper
Award. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2011.
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Faculty Publications 2010
Alan Bernstein. Entries on: Damnation, Death, Eternity, Hell, Judgment, and Purgatory. Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity,
ed. Daniel Patte, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
—. “The Ghostly Troop and the Battle cver Death: William of Auvergne. Connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish Views,”
in Mu-chou Poo, ed. Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions, Numen Book Series 123 (Boston: Brill, 2009), 115-162.
—. “Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: 1100-1500.” In The Cambridge History of Christianity. Volume IV: Christianity in Western
Europe, c.1100-c.1500, ed. Miri Rubin and Walter Simons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 200-216.
—. “Named Others and Named Places: Stigmatization in the Early Medieval Afterlife” in Isabel Moreira and Margaret
Toscano, eds., Hell and its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010), 53-71.
—. “The Rise of Postmortem Retribution in China and the West” (with Paul Katz, Academia Sinica, Taipei) Medieval History
Journal (New Delhi), 13, 2 (October 2010), 199-257.
Robert E. Bjork. General Editor. Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 4 volumes.
Jean Brink. “Munster Land Disputes: Spenser and Lord Roche,” Panel: Reassessing Spenser’s Munster: Kingdom or Colony.
Elizabeth I and Ireland, University of Connecticut, 2010.
—. “Revising Edmund Spenser’s Birth Date to 1554,” Notes and Queries, 254, NS 56 (2009), 523-27.
—. “Topicality in Spenser,” International Association of Professors of English at the University of Malta, July 2010.
Albrecht Classen. “Der Gürtel als Objekt und Symbol in der Literatur des Mittelalters. Marie de France, Nibelungenlied,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight und Dietrich von der Glezze,” Mediaevistik 21 (2008, appeared 2010): 11-37.
—. Lied und Liederbuch in der Frühen Neuzeit. Volksliedstudien 10 (Münster, New York, et al.: Waxmann, 2010), 330.
—. Paracelsus im Kontext der Wissenschaften seiner Zeit: Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichtliche Annäherungen, ed. Albrecht
Classen. Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien 2 (Berlin and New York: Walther de Gruyter, 2010), VI, 247.
—. Tiere als Freunde im Mittelalter: Eine Anthologie. Eingeleitet, ausgewählt, übersetzt und kommentiert (Badenweiler: Wissenschaftlicher
Verlag, 2010), 299.
—. “Women Win the Day: The Female Heroine in Late-Medieval German Maeren,” Femininities and Masculinities, ed. Fred
Kiefer. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 23 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, 2009), 45-69.
William Gentrup. “Henry Vaughan,” The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, 2 vols., ed. George Thomas Kurian and James
D. Smith, III (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press [member of the Rowan & Littlefield Publishing Group], 2010), 2:
616-618.
—. “Purgatory,” The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 4 vols., ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010), 3: 1372-
1373.
Monica Green. “Baths, Blossoms, and Bones: Report on a 2009 NEH Summer Seminar for College and University
Teachers, ‘Disease in the Middle Ages’,” in Medieval Academy News Online (February 2010), www.medievalacademy.org/
medacnews/20101news/GreenGoddess.html.
—. Introduction and Chapters 8 and 9 to A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Middle Ages, ed. Linda Kalof (Oxford:
Berg, 2010).
—. “Bibliography on Medieval Women, Gender and Medicine, 1980-2009,” www.sciencia.cat/english/libraryenglish/publicationssc.htm,
posted 02 March 2010.
—. Three entries in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
—. “Introduction to Tributes to Joan Cadden,” Medieval Feminist Forum 46 no. 1, 2010: 63-65, http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/
vol46/iss1/.
Leslie MacCoull. “A Date for P.KRU 105?” in Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology, ed. T. Gagos (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Library Publications, 2010), 453-58.
—. Entries in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): Anastasius of Antioch, Eustratius
of Nicaea, John of Damascus, Iamblichus, John Philoponus, Leontius of Byzantium, Neoplatonism, Seven Liberal
Arts, Trappists.
—. “Philoponus and the Coptic Eucharist,” Journal of Late Antiquity 3 (2010): 186-203
—. “Severus of Antioch or Severus of Ashmunein? The Eucharistic Fraction in Early Medieval Egypt,” Journal of Eastern
Christian Studies 62.3-4 (2010): 191-201.
—. “Why and How Was the Aphrodito Cadaster Made?” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 50 (2010): 625-38.
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Dhira Mahoney. Romance and Rhetoric: Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney, ed. Georgiana Donavin and Anita Obermeier,
Disputatio Series, vol. 19. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2010.
Jonathan Rose. Musing on Clio and Legal History: Why Study the Past, History, and Legal History. Tarlton Library Legal History
Series: Annual Rare Book Lecture, Univ. of Tex. Law School, 2010.
—. Studying the Past: The Nature and Development of Legal History as an Academic Discipline, 31 J. Leg. Hist: 101-28, 2010.
—. Review of Peter Linebaugh, The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All, 50 Am. J. Leg. Hist., 2010.
Corine Schleif. “Albrecht Dürer between Agnes Frey and Willibald Pirckheimer,” in The Essential Dürer, Larry Silver and
Jeffrey Smith eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010: 185-205.
—. “Does Religion Matter? Adam Kraft’s Eucharistic Tabernacle and Eobanus Hessus,” in Art, Piety and Destruction in the
Christian West, 1500-1700, Virginia Raguin, Farnham and Burlington eds. (Ashgate, 2010): 45-63.
—. “Gifts and Givers that Keep on Giving: Pictured Presentations in Early Medieval Manuscripts” in Romance and Rhetoric:
Essays in Honor of Dhira Mahoney, Georgiana Donavin and Anita Obermeier eds. (Brepols, 2010): 51-71.
—. “Medieval Memorials: Sights and Sounds Embodied; Feelings, Fragrances and Flavors Re-Membered,” Senses and Society
5 (2010): 71-90.
Stefan Stantchev. “Devedo: the Venetian Response to Sultan Mehmed II in the Venetian-Ottoman Conflict of 1462-79.”
Mediterranean Studies 19 (2010): 43-66.
Robert Sturges. “Between Heresy and Authority: St. Augustine, the Bible, and the Lollards in the Middle English Soliloquies.”
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaisssance Studies. September, 2010.
—.Repr. In Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 173. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit:
Gale, 2010.
—. “‘Nerehand nothyng to pay or to take’: Poverty, Labor, and Ideology in Four Towneley Plays.” In Money, Morality, and
Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Juliannn Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal. (Ashgate, 2010): 13-32.
—. “The State of Exception and Sovereign Masculinity in Troilus and Criseyde.” In Men and Masculinity in Chaucer’s Troilus
and Criseyde, ed. Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec. London: Boydell & Brewer, 2008: 28-42. Repr. In Literature Criticism
from 1400 to 1800, vol. 173. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale, 2010.
—. “Visual Pleasure and La vita nuova: Lacan, Mulvey, and Dante.” In Pleasure and Danger in Perception: The Five Senses in
the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Corine Schleif and Richard Newhauser. Special issue of Senses and Society 5.1 (March,
2010): 93-105.
Hoyt Tillman. “Shehui, jingji lingyu zhong xuanzexing de Rujia jiazhiguan he shequn guanxiwang” in Zhongguo Ruxue 4,
Wang Zhongjiang and Li Cunshan eds. China’s Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2009: 287-315.
—. “Zhang Shi’s Philosophical Perspectives on Human Nature, Heart/Mind, Humaneness and the Supreme Ultimate,” in
Neo-Confucian Philosophy, John Makeham ed. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2010): 125-151.
Juliann Vitullo. “Men and Money: Negotiating Masculinity in Early Modern Europe,” in Money, Morality, and Culture in
Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Juliann Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal (London: Ashgate, 2010): 155-196.
—. Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (London: Ashgate, 2010). Co-edited with
Diane Wolfthal.
—. “Taste and Temptation in Early Modern Italy,” Senses and Society 5, Issue 1 (2010): 104-116.
Retha Warnicke. “Anne Boleyn, Anne Stanhope, and Poetic Animal Imagery: A Hind, a Lion, and a Wolf,” Keynote Address,
Midwest Conference on British Studies, Cleveland, 2010.
—. “Anne Boleyn, Lady Leicester, and Diplomatic Imagery: A Whore and a She-Wolf,” Marting Humanities Lecture, Baldwin-
Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, 2010.
—. “Investigation into Why Elizabeth I Never Married,” History Review: The Journal for History Students 67(2010), 15-20.
ASU Alumni Publications 2010
Christina Francis. “Playing With Gender in Arthur, King of Time and Space,” Arthuriana, Vol. 20, No. 4 (31-47). Dissertation
Defense 2005.
Ryan Muckerheide. “The English Law of Treason in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur,” Arthuriana, Vol. 20, No. 4 (48-77). Dissertation
Defense August 2010.
ACMRS Visitng Professor
ACMRS welcomes back Visiting Professor Dr. Chauncey Wood, Professor Emeritus of McMaster
University in Canada, and previously an ACMRS Distinguished Visiting Professor. He has returned
to ASU as a faculty-in-residence teaching in the English Department. Professor Wood specializes
in medieval and Renaissance English literature, and he will be teaching English 494/598
“Studies in Troilus and Criseyde”this semester. We are honored to have Dr. Wood with us again.
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ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance
Certificate Program
ACMRS continues to offer an interdisciplinary medieval
and Renaissance certificate to interested students attending
ASU. The program provides students the opportunity to
take classes from several disciplines and to receive training
in both Latin, the international language of the periods,
and paleography, the study of the physical medium through
which Latin and other languages were transmitted.
Obtaining the certificate prepares undergraduate
students for advanced study, and it augments the
skills and knowledge necessary for graduate students
to succeed in academic positions in their
field. In addition to rigorous language studies
and upper-level cross-disciplinary courses, the
certificate provides students an opportunity to
conduct scholarly research and produce an original
thesis. Along with their departmental advisor,
ACMRS supports certificate students throughout
the academic plan and awards successful students
with a certificate appropriate to their level of achievement.
To learn more about the ACMRS Certificate Program and
to see the Interdisciplinary Course Listing for the Spring
semester, please visit our website at: http://acmrs.org/
web_pages/academic_programs/ac_pro_certificates.html
ACMRS Reading Groups
ACMRS Hires Outreach Coordinator
In December 2010 ACMRS hired an Outreach Coordinator to fill the position formerly held by
Karen Lackey as Research Coordinator. Kendra TerBeek brings an array of academic, professional,
and life experiences to this new role. She received her B.A. in Ancient and Medieval European
History from Hillsdale College with a minor in Classical Studies. After obtaining her degree she
studied at Michigan State University where she completed intensive coursework in German, Latin,
and English Constitutional history. She came to Arizona in 2010 when her husband was accepted
to ASU for doctoral work in theoretical physics. Most recently, Kendra has worked as a substitute
teacher, a private tutor, and a fiction writer. Throughout her formal education and beyond, Kendra
has been an avid reader, writer, and world-traveler. She joined the weekly Latin Reading Group last
August and has been an active participant in ACMRS sponsored events and activities ever since.
ACMRS Programs
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Camrbidge Study Abroad Program 2011
The 16th annual ACMRS study abroad program will be in
residence at St. Catharine’s College in Cambridge July 8-August
12, 2011. The Cambridge program continues to be a
vital part of ACMRS’s offerings, and the Center strives to
continually attract quality faculty to teach dynamic courses
that take full advantage of the location. For the 2011 program,
Dr. Albrecht Classen of the U of A has been chosen
as the new Cambridge Program Director. He will
teach “Crossing Borders: Medieval and Renaissance
Travelers and Travel Narratives,” while Dr.
Paul Hartle of the University of Cambridge will
teach “Shakespeare in Performance” and also take
the students to see plays at the Globe Theater and
Stratford-upon-Avon. Dr. Diane Facinelli of ASU
will be the instructor for “The Arthurian Legend
in History, Literature, and Art,” and Dr. Charles
Connell of NAU for “Harry and Liz – The Tudors
in Fiction and History.” These courses include an
off-site excursion each week, organized by one
of the faculty and pertaining to his or her specific course.
This summer, students will venture to Canterbury, Dover,
Stratford-upon-Avon, London, and Glastonbury. During
the five-week program, students immerse themselves in
Cambridge life and have opportunities to travel and explore.
The next Cambridge meeting for interested students
will be held on February 9, 2011, in Coor Hall, room 4403
from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Several of the program’s faculty and
alumni will be there to speak and answer questions. Visit
our Cambridge webpage: acmrs.org/web_pages/academic_programs/ac_pro_cambridge.html,
or contact Kendra
TerBeek at kendra.terbeek@asu.edu for more information.
Each semester ACMRS hosts reading groups open to interested students, faculty, and friends. Typically
Latin, Old English, and Old Norse are offered, led by experts in their fields. This semester, Dr. Heather Maring will
conduct an Old English Reading Group Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in the ACMRS conference room, Coor 4457. Dr.
Taylor Corse and Dr. Almira Poudrier will lead a Classical/Medieval Latin Reading Group Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. also
in Coor 4457. Additionally, Dr. Bjork will teach Old Norse sagas. Interested students are welcome to sit in on the
class, which will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30-2:45 p.m. in Coor 4438. For complete details on reading
groups meeting during the Spring 2011 semester, visit the ACMRS website, acmrs.org/public_programs.html.

Spring 2011
Calendar of Events
Friday, 28 January 2011
ACMRS Lecture Series
Civic Rhetoric in the Martyrial Liturgy
and Hagiography of Medieval Liège
Dr. Catherine Saucier
Asst. Professor of Music History, ASU
2:00 pm Coor Hall 4403
Free lecture open to the public
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
ACMRS Lecture Series
Return to Roncesvalles:
Reflections on the Song of Roland
Dr. Gerard J. Brault
Pennsylvania State University
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of French and Medieval
Studies & Fellow Emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and
Humanistic Studies
2:00 pm Coor Hall 4403
Free lecture open to the public
10–12 February 2011
17th Annual ACMRS Conference
Performance and Theatricality
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Sheraton Phoenix Airport Hotel Tempe
1600 S. 52nd Street, Tempe, AZ 85281
For details visit: acmrs.org/conferences
Friday, 25 March 2011
Formal Record and Courtroom Reality
in 13th-Century England
Dr. Paul Brand
All Souls College, Oxford
Brown-bag, Coor Hall 4403
For more information, please check the events
calendar for SHPRS: shprs.clas.asu.edu/events
Friday, 25 February 2011
Melikian Center Lecture
Preserving the World’s Historic Written Cultures
Fr. Columba Stewart, OSB
Exec. Director, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
1:00 pm Coor Hall 4403
14–16 April 2011
Meeting of the
86th Annual Medieval Academy of America and
32nd Annual Medieval Association of the Pacific
Chaparral Suites Scottsdale
5001 Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85250
For more information visit:
acmrs.org/conferences/MAA_2011/MAAconference
All events will be held on the ASU Tempe campus unless otherwise noted.
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Friends of ACMRS 2010
John Alexander
George Berkner
Robert and Mary Bjork
Christine B. Blunt
Sheila A. Bonde
David P. Brokaw
Markus I. Cruse
Joerg Fichte
Deluxe Corporation Foundation
Lori R. Geare
William F. Gentrup
Monica Green
Inez Casiano and Robert Hardy
James and Christine Helfers
Gabrielle B. Jackson
Alyce Jordan
Siiri and Paul Julian
Thomas and Sally Kitch
Asuncion Lavrin
John and Deborah Losse
Harriet MacCracken
Murdo J. MacLeod
Clark Maines
James McCutcheon
John H. Olson
A. Compton Reeves
Paul and Agatha Sellin
Retha M. Warnicke
Robert C. Dare and Penelope D. Wilson
Richard and Marilyn Wurzburger