Sunday, January 18, 2009

Annual General Meeting 2009: October 16-18

Mark your calendar now for the 2009 American Branch, Annual General Meeting, which is being planned now and will be held in Las Vegas, NV. Expand your knowledge of Richard III in history and in literature, make new friends, meetup with online friends, catch up with old. (What's an Annual General Meeting like? Details on the 2008 meeting here.)

Schallek Fellowship Recipients 2005-2008

Since 2005, the Richard III Society, American Branch has funded an annual $30,000 fellowship award. This program is endowed by generous gifts from the late William B. and Maryloo Spooner Schallek during their lifetimes and by a bequest from Maryloo Schallek. The program is administered on behalf of the American Branch by The Medieval Academy of America.

Judging is in process for the 2009 award, for which applications were due October 15, 2008.

Recipients since the project's inception were:

  • 2005: Janelle A. Werner, University of North Carolina. "'As long as their sin is privy': Clerics and Concubines in Late Medieval England."
  • 2006: Katharine K. Olson, Havard University. "'Fire from Heaven': Understanding Popular Religion and Social Transformation in Wales c. 1400-1600 in Comparative British Context"
  • 2007: Janes Bennett, Ohio State University. "St. Albans, Bury St. Edmunds, and the Evolution of the Later Medieval English Polity"
  • 2008: Mary Raschko, University of North Carolina. "Rendering the Word: Vernacular Accounts of the Parables in late Medieval England"
Information on the program, including application guidelines, can be found at the Medieval Academy of America website.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Graduate Awards Deadline: February 15, 2009

Five $2,000 awards will be given for graduate study by this American-branch sponsored program administered by the Medieval Academy of America. Details and links to application forms here.

2009 American Branch Tour - Brochure Online

In the Footsteps of King Richard III, June 21-July 1, 2009. From the brochure:

This unique tour fits the bill perfectly if you are a sociable person with a keen interest in Richard and in medieval England! Sites we will visit having associations with Richard III and his contemporaries include, among others, Middleham, Bolton, Pickering, Skipton, Conisburgh, Sandal and Ashby-de-la-Zouch castles, as well as the parish churches of Middleham, Sutton Cheyney, Skipton and Pickering. Our travels will also include fabulous Tewkesbury Abbey and Minster Lovell Hall (the lovely home of Sir Francis Lovell), an entire day at leisure in ancient York, and an optional visit to Ludlow Castle. And, of course, we will make our annual pilgrimage to Bosworth Battlefield where Richard lost his crown and his life. The day will include the hanging of our memorial wreath at Sutton Cheney church, as well as several hours at the fine Battlefield Centre. Here we will be treated to an excellent presentation on the the most valid of the proposed battlefield sites, short jaunts to both the traditional site on Ambion Hill and the site nearer to Dadlington, and visits to both Richard’s memorial stone and King Richard’s Well.
Deadline for registration and deposit: February 12, 2009

Download the brochure:
http://www.r3.org/travel/tours/2009/r3-2009tourbrochure.pdf