June 30 - August 8, 1975

The Seventh Session of the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Sessions on Transmission of Classical and Liturgical Texts in the Middle Ages, Arthurian Romance and Poli-tics, Medieval Tragedy and Notions of Tragedy, Analytic Attitudein Fourteenth Century Thought, Shakespeare and Early Drama, and Empire as Fact and Idea in Early Modern Europe. For furtherinformation, write: Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Ren- aissance Studies; 320 Allen Building; Duke University; Durham, North Carolina 27706.

July 13 - August 1, 1975

An Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Spirituality of Western Christendom. Write: Division of Continuing Education; Medieval Institute Seminar; Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008.

August 11 - 15, 1975

International Comparative Literature Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. Write: The Secretariate; Second International Comparative Literature Conference; Room 202; Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences; Kin Hua Street; Taipei, Taiwan, 190; Republic of China.

August 22 - 29, 1975

The Economic and Material Frame of the University until 1800. International Commission on History of Universities. Write: A. L. Gabriel; President of the Commission; Box 578; University of Notre Dame; Notre Dame, Indiana 46556.

October 16 - 18, 1975

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Denver, Colorado. Write: Libor Brom; Department of Foreign Languages and Litera- tures; University of Denver; University Park, Denver, Colorado 80210.

October 16, 1975

A Second California Convocation on Romance Philology will be held at UCLA on October 16, 1975. For further information, contact Professor Charles B. Faulhaber, Department of Spanish and Portu-guese, University of California at Berkeley, CA 94720 (General Coordinator) or Professor Edward F. Tuttle, Department of Ital- ian, University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Local

Organizer). The first of this series of conferences took place on October 12, 1974, at Berkeley, and had papers on medieval litera- ture and linguistics.

October 16 - 18, 1975

The Ohio Conference on Medieval Studies, John Carroll University.For further information, see Olifant , Vol. 2, No. 3 (February 1975) or write: Thomas Michael Tomasic, Department of Philosophy, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio 44118.

November 6 - 8, 1975

Midwest Modern Language Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.  Write: Gerald L. Burns, Executive Secretary MMLA, English/Philosophy Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.

November 14 - 15, 1975

Medieval Workshop on Women in the Middle Ages. Papers accepted asof early April: Transformation of the Virgin in Twelfth Century Tympana of Northern France (Marc Pessin, Fine Arts, UBC); SexualEconomics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and the Book of Margery Kempe(Sheila Delany, English, Simon Fraser); Women of the Secular Lyrics: A Significant Sub-Group (Christopher Dean, English, U. of Saskatchewan); Robertson and Eloise (M. Manzalaoui, English,UBC); Anti-Feminism in Guillaume de Lorris (M. Bujila King, St.Thomas More); Women in Medieval Medicine (Beryl Rowland, English,York); Women in Medieval Politics (Seymour Philips, MedievalHistory, University College, Dublin); Marriage in Medieval Italy (Paul Mosher, University of Washington - tentative). The Koerner Lecture will be: Rising Dowries and the Value of Women in the High Middle Ages (Diane Owen Hughes, Visiting Fellow, The Society for the Humanities, Cornell). For further information, see Olifant , Vol. 2, No. 3 (February 1975), p. 236 or write: Rae S. Baudouin; Department of French; University of British Columbia; Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 Canada.

February 20 - 21, 1976

Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of California, Davis.  For further information, write: James J. Murphy; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; University of California; Davis, California 95616.

March 5-6, 1976

Second Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Florida State University. Write: Walter Moore; Department of

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Religious Studies; Florida State University; Tallahassee, Florida 32306.

May 2 - 5, 1976

Conference of Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Write John R. Sommer feldt; Western Michigan University; Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001.

Spring, 1977 (Final dates not yet established)

The Second Triennial Congress of the International CourtlyLiterature Society will take place at the University of Georgia in Spring (probably late March) of 1977. For further informationwrite: Professor Nathaniel B. Smith, Department of Romance Languages, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602.

We wish to thank James M. Peavler, Northern Illinois University, for his help in compiling these announcements of forthcoming meetings.

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The Savernake Horn, an eleventh century eastern olifant, recorded in Camden's Britannia of 1586 as the great tenure horn of Savernake Forest, has recently been acquired by the British Museum for £210,000.Made of elephant ivory, embellished with gilded silver, brilliant trans-lucent enamels, with a baldric (sling), the horn is considered one ofthe most important works of medieval art obtained by the British Museumthis century. The trustees of the Museum have given special permission to Olifant to publish photographs of the horn in a future issue.

Persons who wish to submit a paper for possible presentation at the 1975 meeting of the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch, held in conjunction with the Modern Language Association Convention inSan Francisco, December 1975, are urged to get in contact with the chairman of that meeting, Professor William W. Kibler, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78713, at their earliest convenience. Papers accepted for presentation will be printed in the December 1975 issue of Olifant .