This page is devoted to news about the Institute, its fellows and programs, as well as items of interest to the wider medieval community.
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.
Prizes & Awards
The President and Fellows of the Institute are proud to announce the election of four new Mellon Fellows drawn from the U.S., Canada, and Italy for the current academic year.
In memoriam, Prizes & Awards
Through the generosity of James Hankins the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies has established a fund to support the Virginia Brown Endowed Chair in Latin Palaeography.
Prizes & Awards
Ainoa Castro Correa has been awarded a Virginia Brown Fellowship at The Ohio State University.
Publications
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural volume of Text Image Context: Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination, edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Harvard University.
In memoriam
We mourn the loss of Professor Andrew Hughes, internationally renowned scholar of medieval music.
In memoriam, PIMS
Professor John Munro, among the world’s leading authorities on late medieval and early modern monetary, financial, and industrial history, died on 23 December 2013.
Publications
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book by an alumnus of the Institute.
Prizes & Awards
The Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa, will be conferred on James K. McConica, CSB at the University of St Michael’s College Faculty of Theology and Continuing Education Convocation on 2 November 2013.
Courses
The Institute will soon be celebrating its 2013 Convocation for the conferring of the Licence in Mediaeval Studies and Diploma in Manuscript Studies.
Prizes & Awards
The Royal Society of Canada has awarded James P. Carley, a fellow of the RSC, Associate Fellow at the Institute, and Distinguished Research Professor at York University, the Pierre Chauveau Medal for his remarkable contributions to the humanities.
In memoriam
Don Faustino Avagliano, OSB, one of the most illustrious doctores honoris causa of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, died unexpectedly during the night of 4–5 September 2013.
In memoriam
Professor Brian Merrilees, the consulting editor for Medieval French Literature for the Department of Publications since 2008, died on 6 September 2013.
Prizes & Awards
The Rome Prize is awarded annually to about thirty candidates, each selected by a jury of distinguished peers through a national competition.
Courses
This past summer the Institute’s Manuscript Studies Programme re-convened at the American Academy in Rome.
Appointments, PIMS
At the annual meeting of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales held at Porto in June, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Institute Librarian, was elected vice-president.
Publications, Resources
The Initiative’s website, recently relaunched, features a calendar of principal humanities events on campus, and its online archive and publications provides access to a wide range of research in the humanities globally.
