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Digital humanities jobs!

L'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT-CNRS) at Paris-Aubervilliers is hiring 8 positions for digital medievalists for the Biblissima project, in jobs from software development to processing of historical data, for contracts of 6 to 36 months. Application deadlines from 2 to 8 July 2024, with positions starting in September or October.

More info (français/English): https://tinyurl.com/4bpdrwy4

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Any going to this year?

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Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Lawler, 2012

This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in the Middle Ages, from the years 500 to 1500 C.E. The geographical scope of this work is wide, with entries on women from England, France, Germany, Japan, and other nations around the world.

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Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and protector of kings. Some know of Hildegarde and Beatrice and Blanche and Clare. There are many famous women of the Middle Ages whose lives and leadership brought important changes to history. There are entries on queens, empresses, and other women in positions of leadership as well as entries on topics such as work, marriage and family, households, employment, religion, and various other.
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    Saw THE BEEKEEPER (2024) last night. I, of course, loved this movie. I will watch anything with Jason Statham (I'm not the only one as it turned out after the movie was over last night. 😆).

    I also got a kick out of the movie as a medievalist. Apparently, there is a secret society of assassins called Beekeepers, who protect human civilization based on the idea that it is like a beehive.

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    Two upcoming online lectures next Tuesday, 14 May (alas, their times overlap).

    Here's the first, sponsored by the Celtic Studies Association of North America: Sarah Waidler (NYU) will speak on ‘Arthur, Authority and the Saints Revisited’ at 12 noon EDT (= 5 pm BST).

    Here is the link to register:
    https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqdOqtqTgtH9W5DjYRwfskiOe0tFdRU0LF#/registration

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    And here is the second online lecture, again on Tuesday, 14 May, at 5:30 pm BST (= 12:30 pm EDT), from the London Palaeography Seminar:

    Dr Laure Miolo (Lincoln College, Oxford) will discuss ‘Manuscripts and Scientific Exchanges in Fourteenth-Century Paris and Oxford’.

    More information and registration here:
    https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/manuscripts-and-scientific-exchanges-fourteenth-century-paris-and-oxford

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    A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale, 2024

    A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to the court of China and beyond.

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    Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and alluring history, medievalist Anthony Bale invites readers on an odyssey across the medieval world, recounting the advice that circulated among those venturing to the road for pilgrimage, trade, diplomacy, and war. Journeying alongside scholars, spies, and saints, from Western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes and the ends of the earth, Bale provides indispensable information on the exchange rate between Bohemian ducats and Venetian groats, medieval cures for seasickness, and how to avoid extortionist tour guides and singing sirens. He takes us from the streets of Rome, more ruin than tourist spot, and tours of the Khan’s court in Beijing to Mamluk-controlled Jerusalem, where we ride asses across the holy terrain, and bustling bazaars of Tabriz. We also learn of rumored fantastical places, like ones where lambs grow on trees and giant canes grow fruit made of gems. And we are offered a glimpse of what non-European travelers thought of the West on their own travels. Using previously untranslated contemporaneous documents from a colorful range of travelers, and from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, North Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a witty and unforgettable exploration of how Europeans understood―and often misunderstood―the larger world.
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