Brut in New Troy 2020, a conference devoted to discussions of the Brut tradition in all of its variety and the first scholarly conference about the Brut tradition as a whole, will take place at the University of Notre Dame’s London Centre in Trafalgar Square from 26 to 29 June 2020. In the heart of New Troy, we seek to provide a forum for comparative, multilingual, cross-period, and cross-disciplinary discussion of Brut-related texts and manuscripts, both canonical and less familiar, and by no means limited to ‘legendary’ material. The event will feature a keynote address by Professor Jane Roberts. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 October 2019. Full information is available on the conference website: https://www.brutinnewtroy.com/

Read all about the discovery of the Libro de los Epítomes manuscript and the astounding library of Hernando Colón in this article here in the Guardian newspaper.

23 May 2019, at King’s Manor, York

With papers from leading scholars, this one-day conference honours Linne Mooney’s contribution to the study of medieval English manuscripts.

Keynote speakers: Derek Pearsall and Simon Horobin

Other speakers: Margaret Connolly, Daryl Green, Helen Killick, Nicola McDonald, Andrew Prescott, Wendy Scase, Sebastian Sobecki, and Deborah Thorpe

With a special display of manuscript fragments donated to the University by Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya

For booking details and a provisional programme, please visit the website.

Registration: £22, £16.50 concessions

Generously supported by the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Department of English & Related Literature, and Boydell & Brewer

A double-issue of Poetica ( 89 & 90), edited by Ed Potten and entitled Association and Provenance, was recently published in Tokyo and includes several authors who are members of the Early Book Society. The volume is dedicated to Eric Stanley, who was a founding adviser of Poetica since its inception. Download full details and table of contents here.

If EBS members are interested in acquiring a copy of this and future issues for themselves or for their libraries, please contact Keiko Umishima at <keiko.umishima@maruzen.co.jp> for payment details. The product code is 0600103343.