We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Schallek Awards These grants of $2,000 support graduate students conducting doctoral research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain. They help defray research expenses such as the cost of travel to research collections and the cost of photographs, photocopies, microfilms, and other research materials. Four outstanding Ph.D. candidates are this year’s recipients: Bethany Donovan at the
Some of you may enjoy listening to podcasts, especially when they are about medieval or military history. If so, we’ve got a great podcast to share with you called “Bow and Blade” and hosted by Professors Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries, both renowned military historians. Started in 2021, and available on Apple Podcasts, it has a series of entertaining discussions about battles – famous and infamous – from the Hundred
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
