Editor's Notes

Editor's Notes Louis L. Martz, one of the most deeply influential scholars and teachers of Renaissance literature and a longtime Editorial Board member of the George Herbert Journal, died on December 18, 2002. Memorial contributions in his name may be made to the Yale University Library, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. Jonathan F.S. Post and R.V. Young are currently assembling a collection of essays in honor of Professor Martz, which will be published in a forthcoming volume of the John Donne Journal. The George Herbert Journal is sponsoring a session on Herbert at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11, 2003, at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. The program includes Patricia Ward (College of Charleston), speaking on "Herbert's 'Sighs and Grones' as Devotional Parody," Kate Narveson (Luther College), on " 'Chained by the Teeth': Herbert, Fasting, and Ascetic Rejection of the Flesh," and Sean McDowell (Seattle University), on "Finding Readers: Herbert's Homeopathic Aims." The session will be chaired by Chauncey Wood (McMaster University and Arizona State University). Chauncey Wood is also organizing one or more sessions on George Herbert for the 39th Kalamazoo Congress in 2004 and welcomes suggestions, proposals, and topics. Communicate with him as soon as possible, but no later than mid-April, 2003. E-mail is the best way to correspond: cdwood@mcmaster.ca or cwood@kwic.com. Or write to him at: Department of English, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. The fifth volume in the George Herbert Journal Special Studies and Monographs series, to be published as the next issue of the journal, Volume 25, will be Patricia Ward's edition of Henry Herbert's The Broken Heart, a collection of prayers existing in a single manuscript in the Bodleian Library. All previous volumes in this series are still available: Joseph H. Summers' Collected Essays on Renaissance Literature; George Herbert in the Nineties: Reflections and Reassessments, edited byJonathan F.S. Post 106Editor's Notes and Sidney Gottlieb; Chauncey Wood's edition of Henry Herbert's manuscript of biblical paraphrases, Herbert's Golden Harpe or His Heauenlie Hymne; and The Wit To Know: Essays on English Renaissance Literature for Edward Tayler, edited by Eugene D. Hill and William Kerrigan. Each volume costs $10 in the regular journal format (plus postage), or slightly higher in clothbound or trade paperback format. Contact the Editor for discounted prices on multiple copies and class orders, and for review and examination copies. We are actively seeking proposals for future volumes in this series. Our basic area of interest is Herbert-related material, broadly interpreted. Send all proposals and queries to the Editor. Applications are invited for an NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on The English Reformation: Literature, History, and Art (June 23 to August 1, 2003). Directed by John N. King at Ohio State University in Columbus, this interdisciplinary program will consider different phases in a moment that contributed to the transformation of the literary and artistic production of early modern England between the time of Tyndale's Bible translations and publication of Milton's biblical epics. The seminar will bring together literary, historical, and artistic concerns that conventional disciplinary boundaries still tend to separate. Texts under consideration will include selections from Foxe's Book ofMartyrs, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Milton's Paradise Lost. Applications are welcome from college and university teachers and independent scholars who specialize in literature, history, art history, women's studies, religious studies, bibliography, or print culture and are interested in the English Renaissance and Reformation. Participants will receive a stipend of $3,700. The deadline for application is 1 March 2003. Direct inquiries to: Justin Pepperney, Department of English, Ohio State University, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1370. Phone: (614) 294-3846 E-mail: pepperney.3@osu.edu The Editor would like to thank the following people for editorial advice on recent and forthcoming issues of the GHJ: John Ottenhoff, Jonathan F.S. Post, and Chauncey Wood. ...