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June 1996
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:27:44 +0000
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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From: "Graham A. Runnalls"
Organization: Arts
Subject: Acts of the 1992 Gerona Conference of the SITM
The above have just been published, in a fine volume of 544 large
pages:
Formes teatrals de la tradicio medieval : Actes del VII col=B7loqui de
la Societe Internationale pour l'Etude du Theatre Medieval, Gerona,
juliol de 1992
Edicio a cura de Francesc Massip
Institut del teatre, Disputacio de Barcelona
(Carrer de Sant Pere mes baix, 7, 08003 Barcelona,
Telefon 268 20 78; Fax 268 10 70)
ISBN 84-7794-413-X
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Professor Graham A. Runnalls
Department of French
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK, EH8 9JU
Fax +44 (0)131 650 6538
Tel work: +44 (0)131 650 8410/8420
Tel home: +44 (0)131 337 1737
email g.a.runnalls@ed.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 10:52:30 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "T. Scott Clapp"
Subject: Call for Papers
Call For Papers
November 1, 1996
ACMRS (the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies) at Arizona State University invites papers for its third
annual interdisciplinary conference on February 13-15, 1997.
Papers on any topic in Medieval or Early Modern studies are
acceptable.
Selected papers related to the conference theme, Crossing
Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance, are automatically considered for
publication in the third volume of the new "Arizona Studies in the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance" series, published by Brepols
Publishers of Belgium. Papers dealing with any facet of the
Mediterranean region will be automatically considered for
publication in the journal Mediterranean Studies, sponsored by the
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, the Medieval and
Renaissance Colloquium (MARC) at the University of Michigan,
and ACMRS at Arizona State University.
The setting of the conference is the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, a
five-star luxury resort featuring swimming pool, sauna, and
proximity to numerous attractions in the Phoenix-Scottsdale-Tempe
area. The hotel is just two blocks from the ASU campus and 15
minutes from the Phoenix airport. The high temperature in the
"Valley of the Sun" during February averages 70 degrees. The
conference registration fee is just $45 and includes welcoming
reception, two days of concurrent sessions, concert, complimentary
refreshments between sessions, and keynote address.
The conference keynote speaker will be Annabel Patterson, Karl
Young Professor of English, Yale University.
The conference will also host The Medieval Book: A Workshop in
Codicological Practice. This pre-conference half-day workshop led
by Richard Clement, University of Kansas, will focus on the
making of the medieval codex. Participants will discuss the
preparation of parchment and paper, the making of pens and ink,
and then will make and prepare several quires in preparation for
writing. NOTE: This workshop does not cover scripts and is not
calligraphic.
A limited number of travel awards and stipends, based on
demonstrated need, are available for scholars from abroad.
Contact ACMRS for more information.
By November 1, send two copies of session proposals, one-page
abstracts, or complete papers, along with two copies of your
current c.v., to the program committee chair: Robert E. Bjork,
Director, ACMRS, Arizona State University, PO Box 872301,
Tempe, AZ 85287-2301. Email: robert.bjork@asu.edu. Phone:
(602) 965-5900. Fax: (602) 965-1681.
T. Scott Clapp, Program Coordinator
ACMRS (AZ Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
Arizona State University
PO Box 872301
Tempe, AZ 85287-2301
Phone: (602) 965-5900; FAX: (602) 965-1681
Internet: Scott.Clapp@asu.edu
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:09:42 0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: terry wade
Subject: medieval paint colours?
Dear Friends,
Last year, about this time, we were knee deep in grease, preparing three
old Ontario farming wagons for the PLS contribution to the SITM
conference. And while I would have liked to have used 'authentic'
colours on the wagons, I didn't have any time to research the problem:
the wagons were ready to roll, but I only restored them to their
'original' (circa 1977) colours. This year, we're ruining our weekends
(again) restoring an old CNR wagon (once designed as a train platform
lugguge cart) and I'm facing this same problem: What colours would the
people of York (or anywhere else for that matter)have had available to
paint pageant wagons? (Yes, I've looked at the visual records.) Any
articles, on medieval ceramics? or pigments? Suggestions, please, (or
else it's green) welcome.
'tremclad' Terry at the University of Toronto
jwade@chass.utoronto.ca
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 16:26:10 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: "Jesse D. Hurlbut"
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: (Fwd) PERFORM: error report from ACPUB.DUKE.EDU
Sorry if the following message has already appeared in your box. It
came with lots of unusual headers indicating some kind of error. It
looks like the original note was intended for PERFORM, but I can't
tell if it ever made it. JDH
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Someone forwarded the message below to me. I'm a specialist in medieval
medicine, but I've never heard of such a discussion group. Perhaps it's
high time we had one! In the meantime, if this person would like to get in
touch with me and let me know what she is working on, I'd be glad to give
her addresses of people she might like to contact.
Monica H. Green
Dept. of History
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0719
e-mail: mhgreen@acpub.duke.edu
On Tue, 11 Jun 1996 perform@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu wrote:
> Subject: group dealing with medieval medicine?
>
> Dear Friends,
> A colleague, and graduate of Oxford, now in Melbourne Australia on a
> Commonwealth Scholarship, would like to know whether there's a
> discussion group, like Perform, on medieval medicine. If anyone has any
> ideas about who she might contact, or where she might look, please
> contact
> kdoran@eduserve.its.unimelb.EDU.AU
> or jwade@chass.utoronto.ca (and I'll pass on the info)
> Thanks for your help,
> Terry Wade
>
>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:48:47 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Clifford Davidson
Subject: Re: medieval paint colours?
In-Reply-To: "Your message dated Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:09:42 +0400"
<199606122106.RAA02339@chass.utoronto.ca>
With regard to pigments used in painting on wood - would tempera, as in wall
paintings, have been used? I think E. Clive Rouse may have something about such
pigments, perhaps even in a small but rather good little pamphlet entitled
_Discovering Wall Paintings_. I will look for my copy, and if I can find it I
will drop an email to Terry Wade, who I hope will report on PERFORM something
of what turns up from others. Would the lab at the British Museum or the London
Museum be helpful?
As an addendum to this, I would like to announce on PERFORM the topic for the
Early Drama, Art, and Music sessions at the next Kalamazoo Congress since this
ties right in. The topic will involve Technology, Guild involvement in plays,
both English and Continental. A paper on pigments used in decorating pageant
wagons would be in order, but there are many other areas which could be
covered. What I am hoping for is a range of papers on what is now trendily
called "material culture," I guess. Papers could cover a number of areas where
the technical expertise of various crafts would have been called upon for plays
and pageants. Proposals (or queries) should be directed to me.
Clifford Davidson
The Medieval Institute
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
616-387-8753
FAX: 616-387-8750
email: davidson@wmich.edu
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:23:29 -0400
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Steve Wright
Subject: PLS summer address
I have been trying to get in touch with someone from PLS about plans for
the 1998 summer performance of the York Cycle in Toronto. E-mail and
snail-mail letters have gone unanswered, probably because of summer
vacation. Does anyone have a summer address for a representative of PLS
so that I could contact him/her regarding our participation in the event?
Thanks,
Steve Wright
Catholic University
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 16:03:35 BST
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Avril Henry
Subject: Re: medieval paint colours?
D. V. Thompson, _The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting._ NY: Dover,
1956?
Avril
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e-mail: A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk
tel: 01392 264252
fax: +44 1392 264361
snail: Professor Avril Henry, School of English & American Studies,
Queen's Building, Queen's Drive, University of Exeter,
EXETER, UK, EX4 4QH.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:48:35 GMT2
Reply-To: fgmr@engl.uovs.ac.za
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Margaret Mary Raftery
Organization: University of the Orange Free State
Subject: METh journal request
Dear PERFORMers,
I've just received the latest edition of the journal Medieval English
Theatre - a super number, on Spectacle in England & France, with some
lovely and most useful illustrations.
In the introduction, the editor recalls the 1989 edition of the
journal, on Evil on the medieval stage. This is a field in which I'm
very interested, but I've been unable to obtain a back number from
the editorial staff at Lancaster University - it's sold out.
I was wondering whether anyone had a spare copy - I'd refund postage
costs.
Just in case today's my lucky day, you can reach me on
fgmr@engl.uovs.ac.za (yes, I guess I'm the list's only South
African!)
Thanks a million,
Margaret Raftery