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The Social History of Food in Dante: A New Ahmanson Fellow at Work in Library Special Collections
Danielle Callegari, Spring 2015 Ahmanson Research Fellow
Library Special Collections is pleased to welcome Danielle Callegari as an Ahmanson Research Fellow for Spring 2015. The Ahmanson Fellowships are made possible through the generosity of the Ahmanson Foundation, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and UCLA Library Special Collections. They support research in the medieval and Renaissance book and manuscript collections of the UCLA Library, including the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection, the Ahmanson-Murphy Early Italian Printing Collection, the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana, the Orsini Family Papers, the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection, the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, and the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts. Danielle received her Ph.D. in Italian Literature from New York University in 2014, having completed a dissertation on nutritional language and consumption in Dante. Her research interests include medieval Italian literature and material culture, world history of food and foodways, and medieval and early modern European women's writing and religiosity. Her recent publications include the co-translation of the works of Diodata Malvasia, Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and their Miraculous Madonna (Toronto, CRRS; Tempe, AZ, CMRS, 2015), with Shannon McHugh; the co-edited essay collection by John Freccero, In Dante's Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition (Fordham, 2015), with Melissa Swain; and her essay "The Danger of Digestion: Assimilation and Growth in Purgatorio 21-25" in Dante and Heterodoxy: The Temptations of 13th Century Thought, ed. Maria Luisa Ardizzone (Cambridge, 2014). She comes to the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies as an Ahmanson Fellow in Spring 2015 to work in the UCLA Library Special Collections. While in residence at UCLA she is consulting medieval and early modern medical treatises, dietary regimens, and histories of food and eating, especially those focused on wine and water consumption. This research will be the foundation for a chapter in her forthcoming book, tentatively entitled Crumbs from the Table: The Social History of Food in Dante, an examination of food items in the works of Dante and his contemporaries that will contextualize edibles and eating rituals in the Mediterranean of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and reconsider their representations in the literature of the period.
Illuminating Rouse MS 49: New Ahmanson Fellow to Study Genealogical Roll
As one of the two Ahmanson Fellows doing research in Library Special Collections this fall, Sara Torres will be studying Rouse MS 49, a Genealogical Roll Chronicle of the Kings of England. She is particularly interested in how these rolls represent dynastic rupture and succession crises in the English royal line during the Wars of the Roses. Her dissertation, Marvelous Generations: Genealogical Narratives and Romance in Late Medieval England, Portugal, and Castile, traces the legacy of dynastic internationalism in the late medieval and early modern periods, and has won support from the Ford Foundation, the Medieval Academy of America, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between US Universities and Spain's Ministry of Culture, the Luso-American Foundation, and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sara’s interests extend beyond the Middle Ages to encompass the Environmental and Digital Humanities. She serves as assistant editor of Boom: A Journal of California and coordinates the publication’s digital projects. She is also involved in the Digital Humanities Working Group at UCLA and has collaborated on the Los Angeles Aqueduct Digital Platform through the Center for Primary Training and Research.
Ahmanson Fellow Delves into Italian Literature Collection
Christiana Purdy Moudarres is a Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Study and Ahmanson Research Fellow for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts. Purdy Moudarres received her PhD in Italian Literature at Yale in 2010, her MAR (Master of Arts in Religion) from Yale Divinity School in 2012, and looks forward to returning to her alma mater this Fall as Assistant Professor of Italian. Having edited and co-authored several volumes of collected essays (Table Talk: Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature [Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010], Foundations of Modernity: New Worlds in the Italian Renaissance [Leiden: Brill, 2012]; and Dante’s Volume from Alpha to Omega [Tempe, Ariz.: ACMRS, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming]), she is currently at work on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, A Sacred Banquet: Medicine and Theology in Dante’s Divine Comedy. At UCLA Library Special Collections, she is exploring the rich collection of Aldine editions of the Comedy, as well as the medieval medical and religious works housed in the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing and in Biomedical History and Special Collections.
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts
Thanks to the generosity of the Ahmanson Foundation, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) and the UCLA Library Special Collections (LSC) are pleased to announce the new Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts.
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