Wednesday, August 31, 2011
THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF BEDE’S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA
New book announcement:
THE OLD ENGLISH VERSION OF BEDE’S HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA
SHARON M. ROWLEY
The Old English version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and most substantial surviving works of Old English prose. Translated anonymously around the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century, the text, which is substantially shorter than Bede’s original, was well known and actively used in medieval England, and was highly influential. However, despite its importance, it has been little studied.
In this first book on the subject, the author places the work in its manuscript context, arguing that the text was an independent, ecclesiastical translation, thoughtfully revised for its new audience. Rather than looking back on the age of Bede from the perspective of a king centralizing power and building a community by recalling a glorious English past, the Old English version of Bede’s Historia transforms its source to focus on local history, key Anglo-Saxon saints, and their miracles. The author argues that its reading reflects an ecclesiastical setting more than a political one, with uses more hagiographical than royal; and that rather than being used as a class-book or crib, it functioned as a resource for vernacular preaching, as a corpus of vernacular saints’ lives, for oral performance, and episcopal authority.
UK:
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US:
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List Price: £60.00/$99.00
September 2011
ISBN: 9781843842736
7 b/w & 2 line illustrations; 272 pp., cloth
Anglo-Saxon Studies Series
“Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama”
“Affect and Emotional Production in Early Drama”
International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan
10-13 May 2012
In their Introduction to The Affect Theory Reader (2010), Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth argue that “affect is found in those intensities that pass body to body (human, nonhuman, part-body, and otherwise), in those resonances that circulate about, between, and sometimes stick to bodies and worlds, and in the very passage or variations between these intensities and resonances themselves.” Affect, then, “is the name we give to those forces…that can serve to drive us toward movement, toward thought.” Likewise, in her recent book Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (2010), Sarah McNamer examines affectively oriented medieval texts and argues that these texts supplied their users with “‘intimate scripts’…quite literally scripts for the performance of feeling—scripts that often explicitly aspire to performative efficacy.” Work like this has productively complicated our understanding of affect and its relation to emotional production.
This panel invites work that critically examines the relationship between affect and emotional production in medieval and Renaissance performance. How did devices such as gesture, sound and silence, music, rhythm and choreography, props and performing objects, staging and scenic choices, spatial arrangements, or visual and textual elements generate the kinds of intensities and resonances that Gregg and Seigworth describe? How were these forces specifically employed to enhance or complicate emotional responses in spectators and/or performers? What were the goals and stakes of such emotional production?
Given the slipperiness of these terms—and the many theories of affect and emotion—the organizer is open to a range of interpretive possibilities, approaches, and methodologies. The organizer also invites topics from across all geographies and performance traditions in the Middle Ages and/or Renaissance. Please submit one-page abstracts and a completed Participant Information form (http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to Jill Stevenson at jillstevenson@gmail.com no later than September 15, 2011. Feel free to contact Jill with questions about the session. For general information about the 2012 Medieval Congress, visit: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/
Studies in Medievalism
I would like to invite you to submit short proposals for contributions to two sections sponsored by Studies in Medievalism and Medievally Speaking at next year's Kalamazoo congress:
1) Imagining the Crusades in the Nineteenth Century. We welcome any and all contributions that consider the medieval crusades in literature, music, the fine arts, politics, etc. This is a traditional session with three to four 20-minute papers.
2) Coming to Terms with Medievalism. For this round table, we welcome contributions that would extend existing conceptual histories of the English term, "medievalism," to other languages/linguistic traditions/cultures. For the Anglophone world, HERE is a recent definition of the conceptual history of the English term I published in the European Journal of English Studies.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination
CFP Kalamazoo 2012: Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination.eml
Subject:
CFP Kalamazoo 2012: Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination
From:
"Hortulus"
Date:
8/19/11 8:08 PM
Special Call for Papers:
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
May 10-13, 2012
“Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination”
Sponsored by Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
This session welcomes scholars working on medieval representations of
spatial order, or on the sense of place in the construction of social
identities. We are seeking papers which investigate any time and place in
medieval Europe in which a strong local or regional identity was
emphasized; the papers should explore how an imagined order of space, or
the meaning of a particular place, aided in defining those identities. The
topic encourages literary scholars, historians and art historians to
consider the meaning of space in the past by situating it in its precise
historical context.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words, along with the
conference Participant Information Form, to Meghan Glass at
*m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk* by September 14, 2011. The Participant
Information Form can be found on the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html.
Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal
has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent
on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general
sessions at Kalamazoo. All proposals will additionally be considered for
special publication in Hortulus Journal. For further information:
http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/Call_for_Papers
Subject:
CFP Kalamazoo 2012: Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination
From:
"Hortulus"
Date:
8/19/11 8:08 PM
Special Call for Papers:
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan:
May 10-13, 2012
“Space and Place in the Medieval Imagination”
Sponsored by Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
This session welcomes scholars working on medieval representations of
spatial order, or on the sense of place in the construction of social
identities. We are seeking papers which investigate any time and place in
medieval Europe in which a strong local or regional identity was
emphasized; the papers should explore how an imagined order of space, or
the meaning of a particular place, aided in defining those identities. The
topic encourages literary scholars, historians and art historians to
consider the meaning of space in the past by situating it in its precise
historical context.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words, along with the
conference Participant Information Form, to Meghan Glass at
*m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk* by September 14, 2011. The Participant
Information Form can be found on the Congress website:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html.
Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal
has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent
on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general
sessions at Kalamazoo. All proposals will additionally be considered for
special publication in Hortulus Journal. For further information:
http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/Call_for_Papers
Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to Ninth-Century World
Call For Papers: 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2012
"Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to
Ninth-Century World"
Potsherds are the most ubiquitous archaeological evidence present from
the Late Antique and early medieval periods. From the complete amphora,
preserved intact through the passing centuries, to the smallest
fragments of a cooking pot’s rim, nearly unidentifiable to all but the
trained eye, pottery has provided generations of historians and
archaeologists with information about the date of a site, the trade
networks on which it relied, and the general economic status of its
inhabitants.
The focus of this sessions is on a different aspect of what ceramics are
capable of illuminating: the culture of a site’s inhabitants. Pottery
was among the most prevalent man-made item in the lives of most people,
and the meals cooked and eaten with pottery were among the most
important aspects of day-to-day existence. The common medium for
transactions of processed agricultural goods, pottery also speaks to the
range of individual economic exchanges and social structures that
underpinned relations between buyers and sellers. As the scholarship of
Paul Arthur, Nicholas Hudson, and Joanita Vroom has shown, these
ceramics are essential for the study of what is usually the most
inaccessible part of the lives of the ancients: the quotidian, ordinary
activities that make up such an important part of culture, economy, and
identity. These scholars use ceramics to explain, respectively, the
relationship between diet and cultural boundaries, the impact of
Christianity on dining practice, and cultural change over the longue
durée in Boeotia.
For this session we invite scholars working on ceramics from the eastern
and western Mediterranean –- and beyond –- to come together to discuss
the various ways pottery can be used to enhance modern understanding of
the cultures which produced it.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Andrew Donnelly at
adonnel@luc.edu along with a participant information form (available
here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF)
by September 15, 2011. Any papers not included in this session will be
forwarded to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the
General Sessions.
Andrew Donnelly
Department of History
Loyola University Chicago
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2012
"Diet, Dining, and Everyday Life: The Uses of Ceramics in the Third- to
Ninth-Century World"
Potsherds are the most ubiquitous archaeological evidence present from
the Late Antique and early medieval periods. From the complete amphora,
preserved intact through the passing centuries, to the smallest
fragments of a cooking pot’s rim, nearly unidentifiable to all but the
trained eye, pottery has provided generations of historians and
archaeologists with information about the date of a site, the trade
networks on which it relied, and the general economic status of its
inhabitants.
The focus of this sessions is on a different aspect of what ceramics are
capable of illuminating: the culture of a site’s inhabitants. Pottery
was among the most prevalent man-made item in the lives of most people,
and the meals cooked and eaten with pottery were among the most
important aspects of day-to-day existence. The common medium for
transactions of processed agricultural goods, pottery also speaks to the
range of individual economic exchanges and social structures that
underpinned relations between buyers and sellers. As the scholarship of
Paul Arthur, Nicholas Hudson, and Joanita Vroom has shown, these
ceramics are essential for the study of what is usually the most
inaccessible part of the lives of the ancients: the quotidian, ordinary
activities that make up such an important part of culture, economy, and
identity. These scholars use ceramics to explain, respectively, the
relationship between diet and cultural boundaries, the impact of
Christianity on dining practice, and cultural change over the longue
durée in Boeotia.
For this session we invite scholars working on ceramics from the eastern
and western Mediterranean –- and beyond –- to come together to discuss
the various ways pottery can be used to enhance modern understanding of
the cultures which produced it.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Andrew Donnelly at
adonnel@luc.edu along with a participant information form (available
here: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF)
by September 15, 2011. Any papers not included in this session will be
forwarded to the Congress Committee for possible inclusion in the
General Sessions.
Andrew Donnelly
Department of History
Loyola University Chicago
Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous
CALL FOR PAPERS: "Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the
Blasphemous"
Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference
October 27-29, 2011
The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation
in its second bi-annual meeting from October 27-29, 2011 in Dandridge, TN.
Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the
beautiful Fall color season!
Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the
teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.
In honor of All Saints Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing
with the teaching of Saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are
welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.
Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight
double-spaced pages).
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized
panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts
will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF
attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler
(kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30,
2011.
Blasphemous"
Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference
October 27-29, 2011
The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation
in its second bi-annual meeting from October 27-29, 2011 in Dandridge, TN.
Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the
beautiful Fall color season!
Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the
teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.
In honor of All Saints Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing
with the teaching of Saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are
welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.
Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight
double-spaced pages).
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized
panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts
will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF
attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler
(kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30,
2011.
Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the Blasphemous
CALL FOR PAPERS: "Saints and Sinners: Teaching the Blessed and the
Blasphemous"
Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference
October 27-29, 2011
The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation
in its second bi-annual meeting from October 27-29, 2011 in Dandridge, TN.
Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the
beautiful Fall color season!
Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the
teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.
In honor of All Saints Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing
with the teaching of Saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are
welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.
Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight
double-spaced pages).
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized
panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts
will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF
attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler
(kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30,
2011.
Blasphemous"
Second MART (Medieval and Renaissance Teaching) Conference
October 27-29, 2011
The Medieval and Renaissance Teaching Conference invites your participation
in its second bi-annual meeting from October 27-29, 2011 in Dandridge, TN.
Come join us in the heart of the Smoky Mountains, in the midst of the
beautiful Fall color season!
Submissions of abstracts are welcome in any discipline involved in the
teaching of the Middle Ages or Renaissance.
In honor of All Saints Day, we are especially interested in papers dealing
with the teaching of Saints and/or sinners! Any proposals on the topic are
welcome, but papers with a pedagogical focus will be given preference.
Papers should be limited to no more than 20 minutes (roughly eight
double-spaced pages).
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anyone interested in reading an original paper or proposing an organized
panel should submit a one-page abstract for consideration. All abstracts
will be submitted electronically. Email your abstract as a MS Word or PDF
attachment to Mary Baldridge (mbaldridge@cn.edu) or Kip Wheeler
(kwheeler@cn.edu). The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30,
2011.
medieval Icelandic law
Medieval Icelandic Law; Medieval Icelandic Bishops’ Sagas (2)
Jana K. Schulman
Western Michigan Univ.
Dept. of English, 924 Sprau Tower
1903 W. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331
Phone: 269-387-2627 Fax: 269-387-2562
email: jana.schulman@wmich.edu
I'm interested in abstracts exploring aspects of medieval Icelandic law, of law and literature, of medieval Icelandic law in comparison with some Scandinavian, German, or English laws. Regarding the bishops' sagas, basically any paper exploring some aspect of these sagas, comparative or otherwise, would be good. I've had papers looking at the difference between excommunication and outlawry, the difference between the Law of Nature and the Law of Man, extreme unction in Thorlak's saga. Really, the sessions are open in terms of their topics as long as the paper belongs, broadly, in the topic.
Jana K. Schulman
Western Michigan Univ.
Dept. of English, 924 Sprau Tower
1903 W. Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331
Phone: 269-387-2627 Fax: 269-387-2562
email: jana.schulman@wmich.edu
I'm interested in abstracts exploring aspects of medieval Icelandic law, of law and literature, of medieval Icelandic law in comparison with some Scandinavian, German, or English laws. Regarding the bishops' sagas, basically any paper exploring some aspect of these sagas, comparative or otherwise, would be good. I've had papers looking at the difference between excommunication and outlawry, the difference between the Law of Nature and the Law of Man, extreme unction in Thorlak's saga. Really, the sessions are open in terms of their topics as long as the paper belongs, broadly, in the topic.
New Age and Neopagan Medievalisms
Call for Submissions
New Age and Neopagan Medievalisms
We welcome contributions to a collection of essays that explores the medieval in New Age and Neopagan movements. Scholars of Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Art History, Music History, and Cultural Studies, as well as historians and literary critics, are particularly encouraged to contribute.
Current topics included in the volume:
n New Age appropriations of Kabbalah
n The medieval in New Age masculinities
n Hermeneutics and medieval-themed tarot decks
n Hildegard in the New Age
Abstracts of approximately 500 words and a brief academic bio should be sent to Dr. Karolyn Kinane at kkinane@plymouth.edu by December 1, 2011. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the article will advance theoretical and cultural understandings of medievalism and/or New Age and Neopagan movements. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee inclusion in the volume.
Upon preliminary acceptance, contributors will be asked to submit articles of approximately 7,000 words by August 1, 2012. Editors reserve the right to reject articles that do not meet editorial standards. We anticipate a Fall/Winter 2013 publication date.
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Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
MSC 40
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264
www.plymouth.edu/medieval
603-535-2402
PSUForum@gmail.com
New Age and Neopagan Medievalisms
We welcome contributions to a collection of essays that explores the medieval in New Age and Neopagan movements. Scholars of Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Art History, Music History, and Cultural Studies, as well as historians and literary critics, are particularly encouraged to contribute.
Current topics included in the volume:
n New Age appropriations of Kabbalah
n The medieval in New Age masculinities
n Hermeneutics and medieval-themed tarot decks
n Hildegard in the New Age
Abstracts of approximately 500 words and a brief academic bio should be sent to Dr. Karolyn Kinane at kkinane@plymouth.edu by December 1, 2011. Abstracts should clearly articulate how the article will advance theoretical and cultural understandings of medievalism and/or New Age and Neopagan movements. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee inclusion in the volume.
Upon preliminary acceptance, contributors will be asked to submit articles of approximately 7,000 words by August 1, 2012. Editors reserve the right to reject articles that do not meet editorial standards. We anticipate a Fall/Winter 2013 publication date.
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Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Plymouth State University
MSC 40
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264
www.plymouth.edu/medieval
603-535-2402
PSUForum@gmail.com
Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World
CALL FOR PAPERS
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo)
May 10-13, 2012
Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World
Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the microcosm for wider social order and interaction. It was also a model used to portray the close bonds of religious relationships, such as the ties between monk and abbot, layperson and priest, or human and God. Descriptions of familial love have much to offer scholars interested in early medieval social and cultural history as well as scholars of gender, as expressions of love varied based on the gender, age, and relative power dynamic of the parties involved.
This session will seek to explore expressions of familial love in the early Middle Ages. We hope to discover how love was expressed or enacted between spouses, parents and children, and siblings in natal, adoptive or foster families. We also encourage explorations of how descriptions of familial love compared to expressions of love between friends, within secular political relationships, religious communities, and even the wider “community of man.” We seek to have an interdisciplinary panel that reflects the various ways that familial love is reflected in the textual and material culture of the early medieval world. The aim of the panel is to bring together scholars who wish to explore how expressions of love and family bonds can deepen our understanding of the literature and emotional, social, cultural, and political history of the early Middle Ages.
Please send proposals and a Participant Information Form (link below) to ahandy@as.muw.edu by September 15th.
The Participant Information Form can be downloaded in MS Word or pdf format from http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF
All the best,
Amber Handy
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Amber Handy, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
Mississippi University for Women
1100 College St MUW-1634
Columbus MS 39701
ahandy@as.muw.edu
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo)
May 10-13, 2012
Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World
Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the microcosm for wider social order and interaction. It was also a model used to portray the close bonds of religious relationships, such as the ties between monk and abbot, layperson and priest, or human and God. Descriptions of familial love have much to offer scholars interested in early medieval social and cultural history as well as scholars of gender, as expressions of love varied based on the gender, age, and relative power dynamic of the parties involved.
This session will seek to explore expressions of familial love in the early Middle Ages. We hope to discover how love was expressed or enacted between spouses, parents and children, and siblings in natal, adoptive or foster families. We also encourage explorations of how descriptions of familial love compared to expressions of love between friends, within secular political relationships, religious communities, and even the wider “community of man.” We seek to have an interdisciplinary panel that reflects the various ways that familial love is reflected in the textual and material culture of the early medieval world. The aim of the panel is to bring together scholars who wish to explore how expressions of love and family bonds can deepen our understanding of the literature and emotional, social, cultural, and political history of the early Middle Ages.
Please send proposals and a Participant Information Form (link below) to ahandy@as.muw.edu by September 15th.
The Participant Information Form can be downloaded in MS Word or pdf format from http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF
All the best,
Amber Handy
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Amber Handy, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
Mississippi University for Women
1100 College St MUW-1634
Columbus MS 39701
ahandy@as.muw.edu
Postcolonial England
Call for Papers:
Sponsored Session: The Department of English Studies at Durham University invites submission of proposals for its session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from May 10-13, 2012. The panel seeks proposals of 300-500 words with a working title and department affiliation by September 1, 2011. Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general sessions at Kalamazoo. The CfP is as follows:
Postcolonial England
Postcolonial theory has been applied to studies of the Middle Ages with increasing frequency over the past decade. Throughout the 2000s, medieval studies has seen a plethora of publications in this area, from ‘Postcolonial Middle Ages’ to ‘Empire of Magic.’ This theory in particular has become a more prominent niche within contemporary criticism. Additionally, though it has been applied in many areas of disciplinary study, there are still many categories which need further research. One area in which postcolonial theory is particularly applicable is the analysis of national identity. This subject has also been a hot topic in the past few years, especially in relation to England (Ashe, McDonald, Lavezzo, Fenton). These two discourses sometimes, but not always, work together–and both areas could benefit from further exploration, both independently and symbiotically. Medieval postcolonialism can have the tendency to be too broad in its analysis and application throughout Europe, whereas discussions of national identity through specific texts can be overly narrow. By focusing on postcolonial interpretations of national identity in England alone, it makes for a more precise, but still broad area for discussion. This session will aim for papers which apply postcolonial theory to English texts in an attempt to better understand English concepts of national identity, specifically looking at less obvious, rather than canonical, texts as many of these have already been explored. For example, much work has already been done on romances such as Bevis of Hampton, Guy of Warwick, Richard Cour de Lyon, and Havelok the Dane. There is still much to be researched however, and this session aims to encourage such endeavours. As Thomas Crofts and Robert Rouse recently said in their 2009 chapter in ‘A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance,’ the lesser-explored romances “present more complex challenges for the critic [and] continue to demand individual detailed attention, lest we be lulled by their familiar rhythm into the belief that they speak with one voice.” We have chosen to propose this session to provide a more focused exploration of medieval national identity and postcolonialism by focusing on England, and hope this session will provide a larger litmus test for these ideas through its focus on lesser-explored English texts.
Contact: Meghan Glass m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk
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Meghan Glass
Doctoral Candidate, English Literature, Durham University
Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies: MRPDG
St. John's College Tuto
Sponsored Session: The Department of English Studies at Durham University invites submission of proposals for its session at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from May 10-13, 2012. The panel seeks proposals of 300-500 words with a working title and department affiliation by September 1, 2011. Participants will be contacted regardless of whether or not their proposal has been accepted. All proposals submitted but not accepted will be sent on to the general committee for consideration in one of the general sessions at Kalamazoo. The CfP is as follows:
Postcolonial England
Postcolonial theory has been applied to studies of the Middle Ages with increasing frequency over the past decade. Throughout the 2000s, medieval studies has seen a plethora of publications in this area, from ‘Postcolonial Middle Ages’ to ‘Empire of Magic.’ This theory in particular has become a more prominent niche within contemporary criticism. Additionally, though it has been applied in many areas of disciplinary study, there are still many categories which need further research. One area in which postcolonial theory is particularly applicable is the analysis of national identity. This subject has also been a hot topic in the past few years, especially in relation to England (Ashe, McDonald, Lavezzo, Fenton). These two discourses sometimes, but not always, work together–and both areas could benefit from further exploration, both independently and symbiotically. Medieval postcolonialism can have the tendency to be too broad in its analysis and application throughout Europe, whereas discussions of national identity through specific texts can be overly narrow. By focusing on postcolonial interpretations of national identity in England alone, it makes for a more precise, but still broad area for discussion. This session will aim for papers which apply postcolonial theory to English texts in an attempt to better understand English concepts of national identity, specifically looking at less obvious, rather than canonical, texts as many of these have already been explored. For example, much work has already been done on romances such as Bevis of Hampton, Guy of Warwick, Richard Cour de Lyon, and Havelok the Dane. There is still much to be researched however, and this session aims to encourage such endeavours. As Thomas Crofts and Robert Rouse recently said in their 2009 chapter in ‘A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance,’ the lesser-explored romances “present more complex challenges for the critic [and] continue to demand individual detailed attention, lest we be lulled by their familiar rhythm into the belief that they speak with one voice.” We have chosen to propose this session to provide a more focused exploration of medieval national identity and postcolonialism by focusing on England, and hope this session will provide a larger litmus test for these ideas through its focus on lesser-explored English texts.
Contact: Meghan Glass m.r.glass@durham.ac.uk
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Meghan Glass
Doctoral Candidate, English Literature, Durham University
Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies: MRPDG
St. John's College Tuto
The Nobility of Western France: Anjou and its neighbors
Seigneurie:the Group for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and
Chivalry
invites submissions for it's session at Kalamazoo 2012 on
The Nobility of Western France: Anjou and its neighbors
Please send submissions to :
Sarah Delinger
4109 Oglethorpe Street, apt 101
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Ph: 301-403-0452
sarah.delinger@gmail.com
or
Donald Fleming
PO Box 209
Hiram, OH 44234
Ph: 330-569-5467
FlemingDF@hiram.edu
Chivalry
invites submissions for it's session at Kalamazoo 2012 on
The Nobility of Western France: Anjou and its neighbors
Please send submissions to :
Sarah Delinger
4109 Oglethorpe Street, apt 101
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Ph: 301-403-0452
sarah.delinger@gmail.com
or
Donald Fleming
PO Box 209
Hiram, OH 44234
Ph: 330-569-5467
FlemingDF@hiram.edu
Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages Call for Papers 2012
Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages Call for Papers 2012
We invite abstracts for the following sessions at the 2012 ICMS and IMC. Abstracts (between 250 and 500 words) should be submitted electronically to publicmiddleages@gmail.com to the attention of Paul Sturtevant, and should indicate clearly your mailing address and phone number. If you need special equipment for the talk (digital projector, etc.), let us know when you submit your abstract. All abstract submissions are due by 15th September, 2011.
ICMS Kalamazoo, 2012
Growing Up with the Middle Ages: The Influences upon Children’s Ideas about the Medieval World
Children are bombarded with images of the Middle Ages every day— whether in school, in the popular media, in books, toys or play. But what impact do these childhood medievalisms have upon our children? And children grow up; how do the ideas about the Middle Ages formulated in childhood persist in adulthood?
Abstracts are invited for any subject pertaining to this topic, including medievalisms in media directed towards children, teaching the Middle Ages to children, or the ways in which the Middle Ages have become our collective default fairy-tale playground. Abstracts are particularly encouraged from practitioners in the fields of public history, educators, or medievalist mums and dads.
IMC Leeds, 2012
A Holiday to the Middle Ages: Medieval Public History Today
Contrary to popular belief, the Middle Ages is big business. The heritage industry in the UK contributes £20.6 billion to the British economy each year. A significant proportion of this is generated from countless trips to countryside castles, ruined abbeys, days out at a re-enactment, a museum or a living-history site which depicts the Middle Ages.
In recent years there have been significant developments in the ways in which the Middle Ages are interpreted and presented to the public through the heritage industry. This session invites abstracts pertaining to the presentation of the Middle Ages to the public today and its potential to influence the public knowledge of the Middle Ages. It particularly welcomes abstracts from any academics and professionals working in the heritage industry.
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We invite abstracts for the following sessions at the 2012 ICMS and IMC. Abstracts (between 250 and 500 words) should be submitted electronically to publicmiddleages@gmail.com to the attention of Paul Sturtevant, and should indicate clearly your mailing address and phone number. If you need special equipment for the talk (digital projector, etc.), let us know when you submit your abstract. All abstract submissions are due by 15th September, 2011.
ICMS Kalamazoo, 2012
Growing Up with the Middle Ages: The Influences upon Children’s Ideas about the Medieval World
Children are bombarded with images of the Middle Ages every day— whether in school, in the popular media, in books, toys or play. But what impact do these childhood medievalisms have upon our children? And children grow up; how do the ideas about the Middle Ages formulated in childhood persist in adulthood?
Abstracts are invited for any subject pertaining to this topic, including medievalisms in media directed towards children, teaching the Middle Ages to children, or the ways in which the Middle Ages have become our collective default fairy-tale playground. Abstracts are particularly encouraged from practitioners in the fields of public history, educators, or medievalist mums and dads.
IMC Leeds, 2012
A Holiday to the Middle Ages: Medieval Public History Today
Contrary to popular belief, the Middle Ages is big business. The heritage industry in the UK contributes £20.6 billion to the British economy each year. A significant proportion of this is generated from countless trips to countryside castles, ruined abbeys, days out at a re-enactment, a museum or a living-history site which depicts the Middle Ages.
In recent years there have been significant developments in the ways in which the Middle Ages are interpreted and presented to the public through the heritage industry. This session invites abstracts pertaining to the presentation of the Middle Ages to the public today and its potential to influence the public knowledge of the Middle Ages. It particularly welcomes abstracts from any academics and professionals working in the heritage industry.
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Friday, August 12, 2011
CFP on Hincmar!!
Sorry folks, I got busy doing a cross-continental move and left this one too long! So if you're interested in Hincmar, drop the organizers a quick note!
Call for Papers: Hincmar of Rheims at IMC 2012
The nineteenth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds from 9-12 July 2012. We are hoping to put together several sessions on Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims (845-882), whose text De Divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae we are currently translating. Hincmar is a central figure for historians working in a great number of fields, and to a great degree shapes our vision of the later Carolingian empire. However, though he and his writings have never been short of students, there has been no attempt to provide an overarching study since Devisse's book, published in 1976.
We would welcome 20 minute papers on any aspects of Hincmar's life and work as politician, author, liturgist, hagiographer and churchman. Please circulate this to anyone you know who might be interested in giving such a paper. We will be submitting proposal for sessions in September 2011, so please let us know if you are interested by the end of August. For further details, or to offer a paper, please contact:
Dr Rachel Stone (magistra@hotmail.co.uk) or Dr Charles West (c.m.west@sheffield.ac.uk)
Call for Papers: Hincmar of Rheims at IMC 2012
The nineteenth International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds from 9-12 July 2012. We are hoping to put together several sessions on Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims (845-882), whose text De Divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae we are currently translating. Hincmar is a central figure for historians working in a great number of fields, and to a great degree shapes our vision of the later Carolingian empire. However, though he and his writings have never been short of students, there has been no attempt to provide an overarching study since Devisse's book, published in 1976.
We would welcome 20 minute papers on any aspects of Hincmar's life and work as politician, author, liturgist, hagiographer and churchman. Please circulate this to anyone you know who might be interested in giving such a paper. We will be submitting proposal for sessions in September 2011, so please let us know if you are interested by the end of August. For further details, or to offer a paper, please contact:
Dr Rachel Stone (magistra@hotmail.co.uk) or Dr Charles West (c.m.west@sheffield.ac.uk)
Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
Call for Papers: Active Objects
Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13 2012
Active Objects I: Optics and Transparency
Active Objects II: Agency and Phenomenology
Inspired by the recent exhibitions of reliquaries in Cleveland, Baltimore, and London, these sessions invite considerations of how object-centered approaches develop our understanding of reliquaries, vasa sacra, and other instruments of faith. If we conceive of those objects as active agents, and not merely as passive elements in devotional practice, how does that change our perception of their function and their aesthetic nature? How did the vivid nature of these objects -- their mass and texture, their form, their brilliance, their aroma -- shape the way people acted with them, or simply behaved in their presence? Also, is it possible to track the ways in which the agency of a specific object changed over time? Finally, should we, can we, and do we want to consider how the agentic power of medieval objects influences our own relations with them in the present day?
“Active Objects” is organized by the Material Collective, a group of medievalists pursuing collaborative discoveries, humane histories, and the interpretive possibilities of the material. We invite proposals that engage phenomenology, optical theories, relational aesthetics, Actor-Network Theory, Thing Theory, notions of affect, and other object-centered approaches; we seek papers that consider how objects matter in medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, as well as in the interactions of faiths.
Please send paper proposals (abstract of no more than 300 words, and a completed Participant Information Form) by September 15, 2011 to Karen Overbey (karen.overbey@tufts.edu) and Ben C. Tilghman (btilghman@gmail.com).
Karen Eileen Overbey
Art & Art History
Tufts University
11 Talbot Ave
Medford, MA
Phone: 617.627.2597
Karen.overbey@tufts.edu<
mailto:Karen.overbey@tufts.edu>
Benjamin C. Tilghman
George Washington University
3002 Abell Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-963-2106
btilghman@gmail.com
Panels sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13 2012
Active Objects I: Optics and Transparency
Active Objects II: Agency and Phenomenology
Inspired by the recent exhibitions of reliquaries in Cleveland, Baltimore, and London, these sessions invite considerations of how object-centered approaches develop our understanding of reliquaries, vasa sacra, and other instruments of faith. If we conceive of those objects as active agents, and not merely as passive elements in devotional practice, how does that change our perception of their function and their aesthetic nature? How did the vivid nature of these objects -- their mass and texture, their form, their brilliance, their aroma -- shape the way people acted with them, or simply behaved in their presence? Also, is it possible to track the ways in which the agency of a specific object changed over time? Finally, should we, can we, and do we want to consider how the agentic power of medieval objects influences our own relations with them in the present day?
“Active Objects” is organized by the Material Collective, a group of medievalists pursuing collaborative discoveries, humane histories, and the interpretive possibilities of the material. We invite proposals that engage phenomenology, optical theories, relational aesthetics, Actor-Network Theory, Thing Theory, notions of affect, and other object-centered approaches; we seek papers that consider how objects matter in medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, as well as in the interactions of faiths.
Please send paper proposals (abstract of no more than 300 words, and a completed Participant Information Form
Karen Eileen Overbey
Art & Art History
Tufts University
11 Talbot Ave
Medford, MA
Phone: 617.627.2597
Karen.overbey@tufts.edu<
mailto:Karen.overbey@tufts.edu>
Benjamin C. Tilghman
George Washington University
3002 Abell Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-963-2106
btilghman@gmail.com
The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquium
announces the CFP for
The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Philology"
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Deadline for Abstracts: 26 September 2011
The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Eighth
Annual Graduate Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
“Philology,” to be held on 25 February 2012 at UC Berkeley.
More than twenty years ago, in response to tectonic shifts in the
academic landscape, Speculum and Comparative Literary Studies almost
simultaneously published special issues asking the same question:
“What is Philology?” Since that watershed moment, scholars have
continued to debate which methodologies deserve the title “Philology”
(whether “old” or “new”). Meanwhile, these very methodologies have
undergone significant theoretical and practical revisions. Bearing in
mind that “Philology” lies at the historical, institutional, and
intellectual core of Anglo-Saxon Studies, this conference seeks to
consider not only “What is philology now?” but also “How and why does
philology matter, particularly to emerging scholars?”
We invite proposals for papers that reflect on the idea of “Philology”
at a theoretical, methodological, or institutional level, as well as
papers that demonstrate philological practices, particularly from an
interdisciplinary perspective, or that address the relationship
between philology and contemporary critical concerns, such as
historicism(s), aesthetics, cognitive studies, manuscript studies,
textual criticism, intellectual history, and the digital humanities.
Please submit 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers by September 26,
2011 and kindly include your academic affiliation, e-mail address,
street address, phone number, and any audio-visual requirements.
Abstracts may be sent to assc2012@gmail.com. We very much look forward
to welcoming you to our campus, and we are excited about the rich
discussion that will ensue.
Organized by: Marcos Garcia, Jacob Hobson, Jennifer Lorden, R. D.
Perry, Benjamin A. Saltzman
Sponsored by: the UC Berkeley Department of English, UC Berkeley
Program in Medieval Studies, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, and
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
For other ASSC events, please visit the main ASSC website at
www.columbia.edu/cu/assc. To join the ASSC mailing list, please e-mail
ASSC@columbia.edu.
For conference updates and ASSC events at UC Berkeley please visit:
http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html
announces the CFP for
The Eighth Annual ASSC Graduate Student Conference
"Philology"
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Deadline for Abstracts: 26 September 2011
The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, invites submissions for the Eighth
Annual Graduate Conference of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium on
“Philology,” to be held on 25 February 2012 at UC Berkeley.
More than twenty years ago, in response to tectonic shifts in the
academic landscape, Speculum and Comparative Literary Studies almost
simultaneously published special issues asking the same question:
“What is Philology?” Since that watershed moment, scholars have
continued to debate which methodologies deserve the title “Philology”
(whether “old” or “new”). Meanwhile, these very methodologies have
undergone significant theoretical and practical revisions. Bearing in
mind that “Philology” lies at the historical, institutional, and
intellectual core of Anglo-Saxon Studies, this conference seeks to
consider not only “What is philology now?” but also “How and why does
philology matter, particularly to emerging scholars?”
We invite proposals for papers that reflect on the idea of “Philology”
at a theoretical, methodological, or institutional level, as well as
papers that demonstrate philological practices, particularly from an
interdisciplinary perspective, or that address the relationship
between philology and contemporary critical concerns, such as
historicism(s), aesthetics, cognitive studies, manuscript studies,
textual criticism, intellectual history, and the digital humanities.
Please submit 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers by September 26,
2011 and kindly include your academic affiliation, e-mail address,
street address, phone number, and any audio-visual requirements.
Abstracts may be sent to assc2012@gmail.com. We very much look forward
to welcoming you to our campus, and we are excited about the rich
discussion that will ensue.
Organized by: Marcos Garcia, Jacob Hobson, Jennifer Lorden, R. D.
Perry, Benjamin A. Saltzman
Sponsored by: the UC Berkeley Department of English, UC Berkeley
Program in Medieval Studies, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, and
Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium
For other ASSC events, please visit the main ASSC website at
www.columbia.edu/cu/assc. To join the ASSC mailing list, please e-mail
ASSC@columbia.edu.
For conference updates and ASSC events at UC Berkeley please visit:
http://graduatemedievalists.org/assc.html
Forthcoming Book!
PATTERNS OF EPISCOPAL POWER
Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe
Ed. by Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven.
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops – whose general importance for the time around the first millennium has been revealed by recent scholarship – as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops’ room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about “A Europe of Bishops” (“Ein Europa der Bischöfe”) is presented in English translation for the first time.
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
226 pp. | Hardcover RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026202-5
eBook RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026203-2
Series: Prinz-Albert-Forschungen 6
to be published August 2011
More information can be obtained online (http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ge/detailEn.cfm?isbn=9783110262025).
A PDF file including an order form can be found at http://bit.ly/Patterns-of-Episcopal-Power
Contents
Ludger Körntgen: Introduction, p. 11
Timothy Reuter: A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms, p. 17
Monika Suchan: Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics, p. 39
Theo Riches: The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, p. 51
Ernst-Dieter Hehl: Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischöflichen Handelns
bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen, p. 63 (English Summary, p. 87)
Dominik Waßenhoven: Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings, p. 89
Catherine Cubitt: Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England, p. 111
Pauline Stafford: Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035–1042/1043, p. 127
Joyce Hill: Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190, p. 145
Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day, p. 163
Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe
Ed. by Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven.
In medieval Europe, the death of a king could not only cause a dispute about the succession, but also a severe crisis. In times of a vacant throne particular responsibility fell to the bishops – whose general importance for the time around the first millennium has been revealed by recent scholarship – as royal counsellors and policy makers. This volume therefore concentrates on the bishops’ room for manoeuvre and the patterns of episcopal power, focusing on the Eastern Frankish Reich and Anglo-Saxon England in a comparative approach which is not least based upon the research of a renowned medievalist, Timothy Reuter. His article about “A Europe of Bishops” (“Ein Europa der Bischöfe”) is presented in English translation for the first time.
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
226 pp. | Hardcover RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026202-5
eBook RRP € 89.95 / US$ 135.00, ISBN 978-3-11-026203-2
Series: Prinz-Albert-Forschungen 6
to be published August 2011
More information can be obtained online (http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/ge/detailEn.cfm?isbn=9783110262025).
A PDF file including an order form can be found at http://bit.ly/Patterns-of-Episcopal-Power
Contents
Ludger Körntgen: Introduction, p. 11
Timothy Reuter: A Europe of Bishops. The Age of Wulfstan of York and Burchard of Worms, p. 17
Monika Suchan: Monition and Advice as Elements of Politics, p. 39
Theo Riches: The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, p. 51
Ernst-Dieter Hehl: Bedrängte und belohnte Bischöfe. Recht und Politik als Parameter bischöflichen Handelns
bei Willigis von Mainz und anderen, p. 63 (English Summary, p. 87)
Dominik Waßenhoven: Swaying Bishops and the Succession of Kings, p. 89
Catherine Cubitt: Bishops and Succession Crises in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England, p. 111
Pauline Stafford: Royal Women and Transitions. Emma and Ælfgifu in 1035–1042/1043, p. 127
Joyce Hill: Two Anglo-Saxon Bishops at Work. Wulfstan, Leofric and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 190, p. 145
Selective Bibliography on Bishops in Medieval Europe, from 1980 to the present day, p. 163
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