Konrad Eisenbichler Fund. At the annual Gratitude Reception this past 1 December 2000, CRRS Director William Bowen announced that a new fund has been established at the CRRS to honour the remarkable achievements of Konrad Eisenbichler during his ten years of service as Director (1990-2000). The new fund reflects Prof. Eisenbichler's drive to increase the international profile of the CRRS in so far as it is meant to provide financial support for scholars who wish to come to Toronto to use the resources of the CRRS library. Contributions to this fund are most welcome and are income-tax deductible. Friends and supporters of the CRRS who wish to contribute to this fund are asked to send a cheque made out to "Victoria University" to the attention of Prof. W.R. Bowen, Director CRRS, Victoria University, 71 Queen's Park Cres. East., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7, Canada. Please indicate that the donation is for the "Konrad Eisenbichler Fund."
Donations. The year 2000 has
drawn to a close. As we look back at all the events and at the life of the
CRRS we cannot help but notice how much of the success of the CRRS depends
on the hard work and strong support of many, many people, from the faculty
members who volunteer their time to serve on committees, to the students who
work for us as Fellows or Assistants (and keep the CRRS bubbling with vitality
and excitement), and to the donors who, with their generosity, have helped
to develop the Centre's library or its resources.
In particular, we would like to thank Mrs. Margaret Secor who, after the passing of her husband Professor Harry Secor last March, gave the CRRS the opportunity to cull from his personal collection of some 6,000 volumes those books that might be useful additions to the CRRS collection. David Galbraith, Chair of the CRRS Library Committee, examined Professor Secor's collection and, with the help of a couple of bibliophiles from the Centre (in particular with the help of Professor Emeritus James Carscallen) selected several hundred volumes for the Centre: these include scholarly editions of 15th-16th century texts, commentaries, some fine critical studies, and several rare 16th-17th century editions. These volumes will now be added to the CRRS collection and will carry a specially-designed bookplate to commemorate Professor Secor.
Among the many other donors to the CRRS in 2000 we would like to thank the following for their generosity to the CRRS: Jane Abray, William F. Blissett, Benoit Bolduc, William R. Bowen, James Carscallen, Diane Dyer, Konrad Eisenbichler, James M. Estes, James Farge, The Harold Fox Foundation, Paul F. Grendler, Eva Kushner, Anne Lind, Marantrup Investments Inc., Michael Milway, James K. McConica, Margaret McGeachy, Barbara Michaels, Olga Z. Pugliese, Erika Rummell, Nicholas Terpstra, Victor Thiessen, Michael Ukas, Germaine Warkentin, and the Victoria College Alumni Bookshop.
A number of colleagues and friends made donations to the CRRS in memory of Professor Harry Secor, in particular: Adam Ayliffe, Sylvia M. Ayliffe, John Bertram, John F. Botterell, William R. Bowen, Natalie Davis, D.P. de Montmollin, Konrad Eisenbichler, James M. Estes, Robert H. Farquharson, G. Wallis Field, David Galbraith, John W. Grant, Sara W.A. Hamill, Hugh Harden, Amelia Humphrey, Richard W. Jeanes, Kingsley J. Joblin, Mary G. King, Anne Y. Lindsey, Penelope Lash Lorimer, Margaret McGeachy, Michael D. Milway, Jacqueline Murray, Marjorie Pitchford, Emma A.M. Pogacar, Olga Z. Pugliese, Alice Rathe, Charles Rathe, John H. Reibetanz, Gordon Roberts, Aubrey Rosenberg, Stephen Roughton, Barbara Saipe, Robert E. Secor, Robert D.Scythes, David W. Smith, Douglas Thomson, Sally E. Williams, and John L. Wright To all who contributed, in time, money, in kind, or in memory to the CRRS, we wish to express our heartfelt thanks for your support of the Centre's work.
Our new home. Renovations to the Pratt Library are on schedule. This means that the CRRS will be able to move back into the building and into its new home on the reconfigured third floor sometime in the summer months. The new walls are up and we have had a chance to "walk around" the space. The north third of the floor will be CRRS library and offices, with splendid views onto the Victoria College quadrangle and plenty of natural light coming from the floor-to-ceiling northern-exposure windows. The process of re-entry will be more arduous and time consuming than the chore of packing up and moving out, but we are optimistic that by the beginning of classes in September everything will be functioning and operating smoothly in our new home, just in time to welcome back the students, professors, and scholars from their summer vacations.
Iter Fellowships at the CRRS. In co-operation with the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Iter Inc. has started a new fellowship programme for graduate students. The $5,000 fellowships are funded equally by Iter and participating graduate departments, and are managed by the CRRS. Of the eighteen fellowships available for 2001, eleven have been negotiated thus far with the graduate departments of Fine Art, Germanic Languages, History, Italian Studies, Music, and Religious Studies. Fellowship holders are assigned work which as far as possible is relevant to their graduate studies. In most cases, this entails the reading and analysis of secondary scholarship in their research field. The assignment normally requires a maximum of 256 hours of work including any training and consultation. For further information, contact Professor William Bowen, Director of Iter, c/o Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 71 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1K7.
The 2001 membership renewal campaign for the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium is now underway. Membership forms are available from the secretary/treasurer, Dr. Victor Thiessen (416-926-1300 ext 1-3328) or at the CRRS. Membership is $12 for regular members and $6 for student members. The TRRC was founded in the early 1960s to serve as an inter-university association that would bring together Southern Ontario scholars working on pre-modern Europe; it organizes public lectures in the fall and spring term and it co-sponsors conferences on pre-modern topics held in the Toronto area. Its official journal is Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme, which it co-sponsors together with the CRRS, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, and the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference.
The CRRS website has moved to a new address. The advantages are two-fold. In the first place, our new domain address will be somewhat less forgettable and, in the second, we will be able to accommodate secure on-line orders for our publications. Please remember to adjust the bookmark on your web browser to: crrs.utoronto.ca For the foreseeable future we will continue to host a referring page at our old address. Do also remember to check our website regularly for information about forthcoming events of interest to the Renaissance and Reformation community at large; these are updated weekly. Just follow the link "Local Events" from our home page.
The CRRS is pleased to welcome three new chairs for its various committees. Professor Nicholas Terpstra, from the Department of History, has accepted not only to serve as Associate Director of the CRRS, but also as Chair of the Publications Committee. Professor John McClelland, the previous Chair of Publications and Professor Emeritus from the Department of French, has accepted responsibilities as Series Editor for Texts in Translation, while Professor Konrad Eisenbichler has taken over the same post for the Occasional Publications Series (left vacant by the death of Professor Harry Secor). Professor Jane Abray, past Chair of Humanities at Scarborough College and a member of the Department of History, has agreed to serve as Chair of the Programmes Committee overlooking the various series of public lectures, seminars, and workshops the Centre organizes every year. And Professor Germaine Warkentin, a Past Director of the CRRS and Professor Emeritus from the Department of English, has kindly consented to fill in, for one year, as Chair of the Library Committee while Professor David Galbraith is on sabbatical leave.
This year the CRRS is organizing and sponsoring two international conferences. The first, Shell Games: Scams, Frauds and Deceits, 1300-1650 will be held on 28-29 April 2001 at Victoria College. Please consult the conference programme posted on the CRRS web page for further details. The second, The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century / Le 19e siècle renaissant, is co-organized with the Sablé Centre for Nineteenth-Century French Studies (St. Michael's College) and seeks to examine the "rediscovery" of the Renaissance in the nineteenth century. The conference will take place on 4-6 October. The program is being finalized and will shortly be available on the web page.
Prof. David Starkey, Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, who gave the 35th Erasmus lecture at the CRRS last September entitled "Erasmus and the Young Henry VIII" has just published the first volume of what he intends to be a trilogy about Elizabeth I, entitled Elizabeth: the Struggle for the Throne. CRRS Fellow, Philippa Shepherd has reviewed this work for the Globe and Mail newspaper. See here.
CONGRATULATIONSThe new millennium brought good news to the CRRS. It had hardly started when we heard that our Fellow Sara Beam had accepted a tenure-stream appointment as Assistant Professor in Early Modern European History at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia. Sara works on 16th-century France.
Congratulations also to Professor Paul Grendler (Emeritus, History), a past member of the CRRS Managing Committee, whose Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (a six-volume reference work published by Charles Scribner's of New York in association with The Renaissance Society of America), received the 2000 Dartmouth Medal awarded by the Reference Division of the American Library Association as the best reference book in any field to appear in 1999. This is the most important award in the world of reference works and highly sought by publishers. In addition, the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference awarded Professor Grendler its 2000 Roland H. Bainton Reference Book Prize as the editor in chief of the Encyclopedia. This is not an annual award, but is conferred whenever the SCSC believes that it is warranted. It includes prize money of US $500. Because so many editors and contributors were involved, Professor Grendler did not think it would be appropriate for one person to accept the money, so he arranged for it to go to the endowment fund of the Renaissance Society of America where it will help support RSA Research Grants for scholars.
PUBLICATIONS The CRRS publications are doing well. Giovanni Della Casa's marvellous book of manners, the Galateo, continues to be a popular text for courses on the culture of the Renaissance, so much so that we have just had to reprint it for the 4th time! Other volumes doing well as course texts are: Olga Pugliese's translation of Lorenzo Valla's treatise On the Donation of Constantine and his dialogue on The Life of the Religious; Mangrum and Scavizzi's collection of three treatises on the iconoclasm controversy of 1522 in Wittenberg (A Reformation Debate: Karlstadt, Emser, and Eck on Sacred Images); and Pearl and Scott's translation of Jean Bodin's On the Demon-Mania of Witches. The latest addition to the series, Nicole Prunster's Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare: Four Early Stories of Star-Crossed Love, issued just last spring, is picking up nicely and promises to attract lots of interest from Shakespeare students and teachers. A title that's in the works and on the way is James Estes' collection of documents showing how a state church gradually emerged in small German territories. Entitled Godly Magistrates and Church Order, it focuses on the work of Johannes Brenz, a close ally of Martin Luther.
Anyone who has a suggestion for a text or for a collection or, better yet, has something ready that would be suitable for our series, is encouraged to contact Nicholas Terpstra
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: 19 January 2001. Papers for the Mid-Atlantic Renaissance and Reformation Seminar, 6-7 April 2001, at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Twenty minute presentations on art, literature, religion, history, or any other aspect of Renaissance and Reformation studies will be welcome. Send proposals and direct inquiries to David S. Peterson, Dept of History, Newcomb Hall, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450, USA. Tel: (540) 463-8094, fax (540) 463-8498, email PetersonD@wlu.edu
Deadline: 31 Jan. 2001. The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society announces a call for papers for its 2001 conference to be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, on 10-12 May 2001. The conference welcomes participation from a wide variety of disciplines on this year's special topic "Renaissance Styles and Renaissance Status." Proposals of 250 words for individual papers or of 500 words for panels should be submitted in triplicate to: Patricia Badir, Dept of English, University of British Columbia, 397-1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.
Deadline: 15 April 2001. SHARP, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Printing, is organizing sessions at the 2001 RSA meeting in Tempe, Arizona. Abstracts are invited for papers on the history of manuscripts, printed books, libraries, editing, collectors, etc. in any area of Renaissance and Early Modern studies (1350-1700). Papers should have a distinct "book history" focus, and cross-disciplinary proposals are encouraged. Please submit a one-page abstract, with a brief (again, one page) CV, by 15 April 2001. Anyone whose proposal is accepted is required to be a member of RSA at the time of registration for Tempe. Acceptances will be mailed out (or e-mailed) by early May, 2001. E-mail abstracts and C.V.s to: Germaine Warkentin, or by regular post to VC 205, Victoria College, 73 Queen's Park Cres. East, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7 Canada
Deadline: 15 May 2001. Papers on "The Body" are invited for a session at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, to be held in May 2002. Send 250 word abstracts (literature, religion, culture, politics, law) to Maureen Thum, English, Univ. of Michigan-Flint, Flint, MI 48502-1950 USA or to Harvey Brown, Political Science, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 5C2, Canada.
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