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by ALANA BENNETT The past few weeks seem to have provided a constant stream of new online and digital projects in the humanities: everything from databases, to reconstructions of historical sites, to the announcement by the Smithsonian museum that historical artefacts are being made available for 3D printing. This post will survey some recent projects … Continue reading Recent Digital Medieval and Early Modern Projects in Brief

by MAKOTO HARRIS TAKAO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0M9Gu2Ua0 Fringed by a coastline of unrivalled tropical beauty and humidity to burn, the Caribbean port city of San Juan played host to this year’s annual Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Amongst hundreds of papers with varying disciplinary foci ranging from religious polemics in the early modern world to representations of the pregnant … Continue reading In Conversation with Greg Prickman and the (Digital) Atlas of Early Printing at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

by BRÍD PHILLIPS In a recent blog post for Impressions: Ceræ, Sarah Russell ably pointed out that it would strongly curtail historical research if all modern theories were dismissed as anachronistic in their origin. She also made the valuable point that the term “passions” was as much subject to change over the medieval period as … Continue reading Shame: The difficulties of moving backwards from modern to medieval

by MICHAEL OVENS Disclaimer: The content of this post is provided for information purposes only. No claim is made as to the accuracy or authenticity of the information provided. For specific legal advice, contact a lawyer or the Australian Copyright Council at http://www.copyright.org.au/. Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies was founded as an … Continue reading Australian DVD & Video Copyright Law and Academia

by MICHAEL MCGINNES Michael McGinnes is the Collections Manager at Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum and a CHE Practitioner-In-Residence. He has set up numerous exhibitions for the Smith museum over the years, most notably the permanent exhibition The Stirling Story and is also the Official Keeper of the World's Oldest Football (c. 1540). Michael visited … Continue reading Emotions in Curation

by LOUIS CHARLAND Response Post: In her insightful blog entry on the passions, Sarah Russell attributes to Ribot the view that passions organize emotions. I do say so much, or at least strongly suggest this, in some of my writings on Ribot. But in fact I do not believe that Ribot ever makes the point … Continue reading On Emotions and Passions: Being Clear about Analytical Categories (Part 2)

by SARAH RUSSELL At a recent conference, I was approached by an Oxford don of many summers who took exception to my use of the term emotions as an analytical construct in a paper I had delivered earlier that day. Without being at all patronizing, he spoke of his concerns about using a category that, … Continue reading On Emotions and Passions: Being Clear about Analytical Categories (Part 1)