Brock News is reporting on an exciting announcement regarding Professor Leah Knight, who teaches in the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Society and the Department of English Language and Literature, together with David Sharron, Brock Library’s Head or Archives and Special Collections, winning the MLA-EBSCO Collaboration for Information Literacy prize for their work in MARS 4P01. Check out the story
The Modern Language Association confers these awards annually for coursework developed in collaboration between department faculty members and academic librarians in literature, language, or related disciplines. The award recognizes successful integration of the disciplinary objectives of the course with learning objectives in information literacy.
An award ceremony during the MLA convention, and the winning submissions with be deposited in CORE, the Open Access Repository for the Humanities.
MARS 4P01 Sources and Methods in Medieval and Renaissance Studies is just one of the exciting courses we offer. Check out our course offerings here.
Congratulations Leah and David!
David Sharron (left), the Brock Library’s Head of Archives and Special Collections, and Renee-Claude Breitenstein, Associate Professor of French and Director of Brock’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS), examine some of the newest medieval materials in the University’s collection during an end-of-term celebration held by MARS. Recently acquired by Archives and Special Collections, the parchments include two legal documents from the 14th and 15th centuries, intricately illustrated pages from a 13th-century psalter and two 15th-century books of hours. These new additions expand the opportunity for Brock students and researchers engage with medieval artifacts on campus.
The Isle of Man is a small island in the middle of the Irish Sea with a rich heritage from the Viking and Medieval eras. In the central Middle Ages it was home to a dynasty of powerful and influential sea kings of mixed Gaelic and Norse heritage. Highlights of this course (subject to change):
