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The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) promotes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from Late Antiquity to the middle of the seventeenth century. CMRS sponsors and co-sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences, and hosts visiting professors, post-doctoral scholars, and other visiting researchers. The journal Viator is edited and published annually by CMRS, as is the graduate-student journal, Comitatus. A range of books and monographs have also been published under the Center's aegis. CMRS assists scholars, students, and the larger community to acquire a deeper understanding of issues rooted in the past that continue to resonate in our contemporary world.

This Month at CMRS

What's New?

Our next CMRS Roundtable is “Legacy of Formalism in the Study of the Crusades: A Historiographical Cul-de-Sac” on February 1st at 12 noon.
Undergraduate students from Dr. Richard Pollard's Medieval History class last Fall Quarter will present their research papers on February 1st at 2 pm.
On February 2nd at 6 pm, the Annual William & Lois Matthews Samuel Pepys Lecture will feature Prof. James Hankins from Harvard on the topic of “The Study of Renaissance Latin Literature: its Past and its Prospects.” Advance registration is required--write cmrs at humnet.ucla.edu!
The quarterly peer-review panel at the California Medieval History Seminar convenes on February 11th. Call or write to be added to the list if you are a graduate student or faculty member researching medieval history topics.
The CMRS Annual Brochure for 2011-12 is online (PDF). Download the hard-copy calendar listings and program notes for the academic year.
The Center is very pleased to announce that the special issue of Viator honoring Richard and Mary Rouse is available for order from Brepols Publishers. Richard and Mary Rouse are members of the UCLA CMRS whose teaching, scholarship, and manuscript donations have significantly furthered the research of medieval and Renaissance studies at UCLA. The issue is titled Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users and can be ordered by downloading the form here.

A leaf from a fifteenth-century Parisian Book of Hours, with miniatures added in the lower margins by a French illuminator of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

From the manuscripts collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, UCLA Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections. R.H. & M.A. Rouse MS 82