This page is devoted to news about the Institute, its fellows and programs, as well as items of interest to the wider medieval community.
Publications
Sir John Prise, one of Wales’ foremost Renaissance figures, is the subject of an exhibition at the National Library of Wales. A book launch for the edition and translation of his Historiae Britannicae Defensio co-published by PIMS and the Bodleian Library will be held there on 20 June.
Courses
Institute Librarian and Fellow Greti Dinkova-Bruun taught a three-week course in advanced Latin palaeography at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil from 4 May to 23 May.
Appointments
The President and Fellows of the Institute are pleased to announce the election of five new Mellon Fellows for the academic year 2015-2016. We are also pleased to welcome our York Fellow for the year.
In memoriam
A memorial service commemorating the life and work of Roger Reynolds, Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Institute, will be held on Monday, 13 April 2015.
Miscellanea
James Carley, Associate Fellow at the Institute, has been featured in a recent article in The Guardian. While visiting the library at Lanhydrock in Cornwall, Carley discovered a book that he identified as having belonged to King Henry VIII.
Prizes & Awards
We are very pleased that Karl Whittington’s Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination, published by PIMS, has been selected by the College Art Association as one of the four finalists for the 2015 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award.
Appointments, Courses
Linda Safran, Research Fellow at the Institute, will be teaching medieval art in Guangzhou, China, during the fall 2015 semester, as part of a Getty Foundation-funded Connecting Art Histories project, “Global and Postglobal Perspectives on Medieval Art and Art History.”
Courses
Applications are now open for the 2015 Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies, which will convene at the America Academy in Rome from 8 June to 17 July 2015.
Publications, Resources
The Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has found a new home at PIMS, with our distinguished librarian Greti Dinkova-Bruun as editor in chief. The tenth volume of this prestigious series, edited with the assistance of James Hankins and Robert A. Kaster, has just been published; the next volume is due in 2016.
PIMS
For its special project this year, the Friends of the Library are raising funds to help acquire a beautiful facsimile of the Pamplona Bible and to complete our holdings of the journal Hortus Artium Mediaevalium, in honour of the late Roger Reynolds.
Courses
Our librarian Greti Dinkova-Bruun was recently invited to teach a graduate class for the interdisciplinary Doctorate in Digital Humanities for Medieval Studies (DHuMS) at the Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy.
In memoriam
Read more to view information at the Turner and Porter website.
In memoriam
Visitation: Wednesday, 1 October 2014, 6:00–9:00 PM, Turner & Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6S 1P4 (Bloor West Village).
Funeral service: Thursday, 2 October 2014, 11:00 AM, Saint Thomas’s Church, 383 Huron Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2G5.
Read more to view information at the Turner and Porter website.
In memoriam
It is with sadness that the Council of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies reports the passing of Roger E. Reynolds, Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, on 24 September 2014.
PIMS
We are proud to announce the new PIMS website, launched officially today at the open meeting of Academic Council.
Courses
PIMS’ Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies reconvened in Toronto this past summer. Fifteen participants joined us from around the world: from Finland, Italy, Poland, and Switzerland in Europe; from Argentina and Brazil in South America; from Canada, the U.S., and the U.K.
PIMS
Long weekends are traditionally hives of activity at the Institute: presidents, fellows, and staff are found working eagerly away on the transformation of the world, or at least the world of medieval studies.
PIMS, Prizes & Awards
Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Institute Fellow and Librarian,and Edouard Jeauneau, Institute Professor, have been awarded with SSHRC Insight Grants.
Appointments, Courses
On 9 April, James Carley, Associate Fellow at PIMS, gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of the History of the Book at the University of Kent.
