ACMRS is pleased to invite submissions to its annual ASMAR (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) volume, published by Brepols Publishers, Belgium. Submissions are welcome from both scholars who presented their research at the joint conference of ACMRS and MAP (Medieval Association of the Pacific) in February 2019 as well as from all specialists working […]
Author: Heather Maring
Dear MAP Members and Friends, As you are no doubt aware, the Medieval Association of the Pacific will be meeting next year concurrently with the Medieval Academy of America at the University of California-Berkeley. The dates of the conference are March 26-28, 2020. The MAA Program Committee has allowed MAP to steward three panels of […]
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2019 Founders’ Prize Recipients
The 2019 Founders’ Prizes were awarded to papers presented by graduate- student members at the 2018 annual conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, “Memory and Remembrance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” held jointly with the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, April 13-15, 2018. “Monarch […]
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2019 Benton Award Recipients
MAP’s 2019 Benton Awards for travel to a conference were awarded to the following recipients. Michelle Brooks, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for “Reading the Invisible Science of Air in Chaucer’s The House of Fame.” $1000 (USD) to attend the 2019 Medieval Association of the Pacific meeting, held jointly with the Arizona Center for Medieval […]
Session Title: “Materiality and . . . ?” An object’s physicality is one of its defining characteristics—something that helps to separate material culture from other cultural products. Of late, scholarship has increasingly focused on the materiality of medieval objects as a way of understanding their ritual, symbolic, and economic significances. This session builds on this […]