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UCLA-CMRS Publications is pleased to announce a new book just out in our Cursor Mundi series, Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle…

CMRS Director Massimo Ciavolella is pleased to announce that Sharon Gerstel (Art History, UCLA) has agreed to serve as CMRS Associate Director for the next two years. Professor Gerstel’s organizational…

CLASSICS 144 has been added as a spring term class, meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, 12-1:30 pm. “The Legacy of Ancient Medicine will be taught by Alain Touwaide, Visiting Professor, and…

Our director Massimo Ciavolella‘s study of love-sickness in the Renaissance significantly influenced Umberto Eco in his novel “The Name of the Rose” who based the character Fra’ Massimo of Bologna…

Our former director and dear friend, Professor Henry Ansgar “Andy” Kelly’s latest book, The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment, was just published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. His book…

Three new books by our faculty members—CMRS Director Massimo Ciavolella, and Professors Sharon Gerstel and Matthew Fisher—have just been published. All three are based on the proceedings of conferences that…

In Spring 2017, Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World:Essays in Honour of Paul Freedman is available from Brepols Publishers. This book, part of the UCLA-CMRS series Cursor Mundi, is…

CMRS sponsors the Fall 2016 Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance (LAMAR) Seminar which is being taught this quarter by Professor Christine Chism and listed as English 244 with the generic…

Congratulations to CMRS faculty member Charlene Villaseñor-Black from the UCLA Department of Art History, the winner of this year’s Gold Shield Faculty Prize for recognition and reward to mid-level faculty…

We are delighted to announce that UCLA Art History professor and CMRS faculty member Sharon Gerstel has won the prestigious 2016 Runciman Award, an annual literary award offered by the…