THE EDITORS OF MONASTIC MATRIX
(http://monasticmatrix.org) ANNOUNCE
A PRIZE COMPETITION FOR UNDERGRADUATES:
"Cloister and Community:
Lives of Medieval Women Religious"
As a part of our ongoing project to present the most comprehensive online resource for the study of medieval women's monastic experience, the editors at Monastic Matrix are expanding our collection of Vitae--brief profiles of medieval abbesses, prioresses, nuns, female saints, blesseds, and mystics associated with the monastic life.
We invite undergraduates to submit biographical profiles of women involved in the medieval monastic experience. The editors will review all submissions received by the deadline (below), and award a prize of $300 for the best profile, with a runner-up award of $100. Winning entries will be published, with authors fully credited, in the Vitae of Monastic Matrix. Prizewinners will be announced on our Contributors page.
We are soliciting biographical profiles of women who:
- ...were involved in monastic experience as leaders, practitioners, or notable patronesses of women's monasticism;
- ...lived between 400 and 1600 c.e.; and
- ...lived in Europe (eastern or western), North Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, Byzantium, or Russia/Ukraine.
Examples of some fully-developed profiles can be viewed at: Brigit of Kildare and: Margery Kempe
Submissions
- Must be the product of the contributor's original research; all sources should be thoroughly credited in the bibliographic fields (i.e., "Manuscript Sources", "Published Primary Sources", "Secondary Sources").
- Should not be in essay format, but rather input as field-specific information on Monastic Matrix's submission form (see link below). Although scholars retain intellectual ownership of their materials, Monastic Matrix reserves the right to publish electronically any information submitted.
- Connections with other areas of the website (Bibliographia, Monasticon, Figurae) should be noted within the submission in the appropriate field.
Monastic Matrix focuses on monasticism in the Catholic Christian church, but submissions on other branches of the Christian church (e.g. Orthodox, Coptic, etc.) are most welcome.
2008 Deadline for Submission: May 15. Contributions will be judged on breadth and depth of the profile; clear writing is also expected. Winners will be notified by mail and announced on the website by June 6.
For further information, and instructions on how to submit information, please contact:
Marie Kelleher
Assistant Editor, Monastic Matrix
mkellehe@csulb.edu