Important News About the GMM Our event organizers have learned that the annual Marine Corps Marathon will be held in Washington DC on the same weekend as the GMM.  This event regularly draws tens of thousands of people, so flights and hotels in the area will be booking up fast. Consider making your GMM travel plans soon to beat the rush!   We have a block of rooms held for us

  The 2022 General Membership Meeting of the American Branch is now open for Registration.  Three exciting speakers will give talks:  Carol Ann Lloyd, Dr Kelly DeVries, and Dr Compton Reeves, and there will be a special musical performance by Hesperus Trio Nova following Saturday’s medieval banquet.  You can attend in person or by Zoom — but sign up soon, as space is limited!  All events are to be held

As we Zoom into the year 2022, it’s terrific to know that many scholarly institutions are maintaining a program of talks that will be of great interest to Ricardians and medievalists alike.  Here are two very intriguing talks that are available to on-line audiences, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Institute. They involve the study of pre-modern books and manuscripts.  The first talk involves a genealogy called the Canterbury

He painted the most famous portrait of Sir Thomas More. Opening on February 11 and running through May 15, 2022 at the Morgan Library in New York City, this is the first major American exhibit covering the art of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543).  Titled “Holbein: Capturing Character”, it travels to the Morgan Library from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.  Born in Augsburg, trained in Basel, and living a