
The 2015 Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies
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.
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
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.
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.