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The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) promotes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from Late Antiquity to the middle of the seventeenth century. CMRS sponsors and co-sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences, and hosts visiting professors, post-doctoral scholars, and other visiting researchers. The journal Viator is edited and published annually by CMRS, as is the graduate-student journal, Comitatus. A range of books and monographs have also been published under the Center's aegis. CMRS assists scholars, students, and the larger community to acquire a deeper understanding of issues rooted in the past that continue to resonate in our contemporary world.

This Month at CMRS

What's New?

Mediterannean Seminar Part 2 continues Monday, November 23rd with Professor Alex Metcalfe (History, Lancaster University) discussing “The Language(s) of Power in Medieval Sicily.” The seminar leaders are Christine Chism (English, UCLA) and Peter Stacey (History, UCLA). Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for “Transforming the Humanities at UCLA.”
The 2009-10 annual brochure is available to download here.
Viator, the CMRS multidisciplinary journal of medieval and Renaissance studies, is now accepting submissions of articles in French, German, Italian, or Spanish, in any field, for publication in 2010 in a new multi-lingual third issue.
“A Digital Window on the Medieval World”, in the Chronicle of Higher Education,highlights UCLA English department professor Matthew Fisher's efforts implementing the new Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts.

A leaf from a fifteenth-century Parisian Book of Hours, with miniatures added in the lower margins by a French illuminator of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

From the manuscripts collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, UCLA Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections. R.H. & M.A. Rouse MS 82