Byzantium on Scotland, Hospital Food and the 1970s: Medieval News Roundup

For our fellow medievalists, here are some of the news and interesting posts that we came across in the last week:<br/><br/><div class="storify"><iframe src="//storify.com/medievalists/byzantium-on-scotland-hospital-food-and-the-1970s/embed?header=false&border=false" width="100%" height=750 frameborder=no allowtransparency=true></iframe><script src="//storify.com/medievalists/byzantium-on-scotland-hospital-food-and-the-1970s.js?header=false&border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/medievalists/byzantium-on-scotland-hospital-food-and-the-1970s" target="_blank">View the story "Byzantium on Scotland, Hospital Food and the 1970s: Medieval News Roundup " on Storify</a>]</noscript></div> Finally, this image, created in 1512, shows the first mention of the phrase: "Throw out the baby with the bath water".<br/><br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJgK1va7Qf5t146FdKILiOlScqGVZUNH_oGleM_Hwo3jMnpg-caywD1hlQlhQ8jQryrhTTB742oW1jr1MV0-T2lWNeDaZ_tuFiIe56_GOKqMwbm2yxhseyOG5cwDeP1kO3PIUv1JXI7Hg/s1600/baby+bath+water.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJgK1va7Qf5t146FdKILiOlScqGVZUNH_oGleM_Hwo3jMnpg-caywD1hlQlhQ8jQryrhTTB742oW1jr1MV0-T2lWNeDaZ_tuFiIe56_GOKqMwbm2yxhseyOG5cwDeP1kO3PIUv1JXI7Hg/s1600/baby+bath+water.png" /></a></div> <br/>Found in <i>Narrenbeschwörung</i> (<i>Appeal to Fools</i>) by Thomas Murner.

Byzantium on Scotland, Hospital Food and the 1970s: Medieval News Roundup

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Call for Papers: 7th Annual University of North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium

The University of North Texas is sponsoring the <b>7th Annual Medieval Graduate Student Symposium </b>on Thursday and Friday April 11th and 12th, 2013.  <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_HVNVk9tjCQwc1ZtNKxHEJQEMBBbmtSvqNbqUwz04oIcyi-55CkOd3esI49EoMlKoXHV8Fc1x284_58aUUzI6H1babeZMUr9P_zvavxsu42dBtKUo0OZEmOBXPx9r6r_SF7-FGf7tsOg/s1600/University+of+North+Texas.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_HVNVk9tjCQwc1ZtNKxHEJQEMBBbmtSvqNbqUwz04oIcyi-55CkOd3esI49EoMlKoXHV8Fc1x284_58aUUzI6H1babeZMUr9P_zvavxsu42dBtKUo0OZEmOBXPx9r6r_SF7-FGf7tsOg/s400/University+of+North+Texas.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />“To Move and Be Moved: Physical and Psychological Transportation and Transformations in the Middle Ages.”<br /><br /><b>Keynote Speakers </b><br /><br />Dr. Janet Snyder, Professor of Art History at the West Virginia University, author of Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France: Appearance, Materials, and Significance (Ashgate 2011).<br /><br />Dr. Susan Boynton, Professor of Musicology at Columbia University, author of Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (Cornell University Press, 2006).<br /><br /><b>Call for Papers  </b><br /><br />While we will entertain papers on any topic from any discipline of Medieval Studies—Art History, Religion, Philosophy, English, History, Foreign Languages, Music, we particularly welcome those that engage the multifaceted topic of “To Move and Be Moved: Physical and Psychological Transportation and Transformations in the Middle Ages.”<br /><br />We encourage submission of papers that have been submitted and/or delivered elsewhere. Travel subvention of $300 will be awarded to the best paper. Deadline for submission of a 300 word abstract is December 1, 2012. Selected full papers will be due March 30th. Paper Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to: <br /><br />Mickey.Abel@unt.edu or Dr. Mickey Abel Associate Professor, Medieval Art History University of North Texas 1155 Union Station #305100 Denton, TX 76203-5017<br /><br />See <b><a href="http://art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium/">http://art.unt.edu/medieval-symposium/</a></b> for more details

Call for Papers: 7th Annual University of North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium

The University of North Texas is sponsoring the 7th Annual Medieval Graduate Student Symposium on Thursday and Friday April 11th and 12th, 2...

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