CFP: Re-periodization: Questioning Disciplinary Divisions of Time in the English Middle Ages

CFP: Re-periodization: Questioning Disciplinary Divisions of Time in the
English Middle Ages

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13-16, 2010

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We invite the submission of abstracts for our session on “Re-periodization:
Questioning Disciplinary Divisions of Time in the English Middle Ages”,
sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Recent scholarship in the history, literature and
culture of medieval England has begun to challenge conventional boundaries
between eras: for instance, pushing Anglo-Saxon studies past 1066, extending
the Middle Ages through the 16th century, and paying more attention to
literature and manuscripts marginalized by traditional periodization.
Scholars have also argued for continuities between periods, seen ways that
earlier literature or structures of thought continue into and influence
later periods, or asserted new boundaries for significant or cohesive units
of time. This session seeks to provide a forum to discuss issues of
periodization surrounding the study of England throughout the Middle Ages.

Please submit an abstract of 300 words and a completed Participant
Information Form (found at:

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#Paper) to
Shannon Godlove at godlove@illinois.edu by September
15, 2009.