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UCLA Medievalist Wins Book Prize

Published: July 17, 2017

Congratulations to Meredith Cohen (UCLA, Art History) for receiving the 2017 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award. This book award is given annually by the Society of Architectural Historians in recognition…

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Publications Manager at UCLA-CMRS

Published: May 15, 2017

Job Posting Requisition Number: 25897 Job Title: Editor, Principal Working Title: Publications Manager Department Name: 0800 Medieval & Renaissance Studies Ctr The Publications Manager is responsible for all aspects of…

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CMRS Associate Director Sharon Gerstel

Published: March 7, 2017

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…

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The Legacy of Ancient Medicine

Published: February 16, 2017

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…

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Massimo of Bologna

Published: January 27, 2017

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…

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Andy Kelly’s “The Middle English Bible”

Published: December 12, 2016

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…

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New CMRS Conference Proceedings

Published: November 2, 2016

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…

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Celebrating Paul Freedman at CMRS Conference

Published: October 11, 2016

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…

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LAMAR Seminar Fall 2016

Published: August 16, 2016
Chaucer Astrolabe, 1326; British Museum.

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…

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