Law | Book | Culture in the Early and High Middle Ages

Call for Submissions

for an edited collection

Law | Book | Culture in the Early and High Middle Ages

Edited by Thomas Gobbitt, PhD,

Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Vienna, Austria

Article submissions are invited for an edited collection focusing on the cultural contexts of medieval manuscripts containing laws and related texts. The moments when laws and related texts were first written have often been prioritised over the subsequent dissemination, emendation, transmission and reception of their later copies. However, rather than relegating later textual witnesses as passive and often flawed copies, modern scholarship has turned to seeing each manuscript witness of a text within the contexts of its production, and as an active, equally authoritative expression of the agency of the scribes and readers in the community for which the book was produced.

We are particularly interested in contributions addressing scribal strategies and the production and use of legal documents and books of medieval law. Contributors may focus on a wide range of medieval legal texts, such as ‘barbarian’ and royal law-codes, capitularies, Canon, Roman, Civil or Common Law, treaties, formularies, charters and cartularies, as well as related works of medieval legal scholarship such as commentaries and sample pleas.

We are especially interested in interdisciplinary and transcultural medieval studies, as well as those that incorporate the disciplines of history of the law, history of the book, codicology, palaeography, diplomatics, literature, linguistics, law, legal history, history, sociology, archaeology, folklore, theology, art history, and material culture. 

Abstracts of 250-500 words for proposed articles of 7,000 to 10,000 words, including references, should be sent to thomas.gobbitt@assoc.oeaw.ac.at for consideration by 31 Dec. 2015. This volume is under consideration for the series Explorations in Medieval Culture (Brill).

The Technical Details of Everyday Life

2016 Medieval Graduate Symposium

“The Technical Details of Everyday Life” 

Keynote: Nicola Coldstream- “Behind the Scenes at the Medieval Entertainment”

Call For Papers: Topics from any discipline, any time-Late Antique to Early Renaissance 

Preference given to those that address the conference theme 

300 word abstracts are due December 1, 2016, submitted via email to Mickey.Abel@unt.edu.

Conference Dates: March 3rd and 4th, 2016 

Available Awards: $200 AVISTA Prize 

Location: University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Sponsored by AVISTA

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Tamara Bentley Caudill

Department of French and Italian
Tulane University
311 Newcomb Hall | 1229 Broadway
New Orleans, LA 70118

tcaudill@tulane.edu

Call for Papers: Death, Art and Anatomy Conference

Call for Papers: Death, Art and Anatomy Conference

by Christina Welch

 

 

Dear List Subscribers, 

 

3-6 June 2016, University of Winchester

http://carvedcadavers.wix.com/daaconference

 

The intersection between death, art and anatomy is a largely marginalised area of study, but one this conference hopes to explore.

 

A major strand of the conference will be addressing a core problem in medical history, that is the growing awareness of human anatomy in Britain between the medieval and early modern periods (c.1350-1560). This will be explored through the study and analysis of extant late-medieval carved cadaver sculptures which largely pre-date Vesalian knowledge of anatomy and suggest sculptors may have had an opportunity to study and recreate, emaciated (and eviscerated) human corpses.  This raises the question of what religious and ethical considerations surrounded the creation of such pieces, and how their creators may have gained access to the emaciated dead and/or dying. As such, central to the conference will be the presentation of a newly-commissioned carved cadaver sculpture inspired by historical counterparts, with reflections by the artist, world-leading anatomical sculptor, Eleanor Crook.  

 

Allied subjects such as medieval hospitals, visual culture and death, the inspiration of the dead in medical art, physicality and poetry, and death and medieval theology will also be explored by invited speaker.

 

Papers are invited that broadly address the theme of death, art and anatomy in the following areas:

• Death and art
• Anatomy and death
• Anatomy and art
• History of anatomy
• History of death
• Religion and anatomy
• Religion and death
• Medieval and early modern death beliefs and practices

 

Presentations should be in English, and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of 200-250 words in Word. Proposals must include name, institutional affiliation (if relevant), a short bio (no more than 100 words) and an e-mail address. Proposals for panel discussions (organised by the participants) will be considered.

 

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 11th December 2015

 

For enquires please contact Christina.Welch@winchester.ac.uk

 

It is proposed that a selection of papers will be published.

he Abbey Library of Saint Gall and the Chair for Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at Friedrich-Alexander-University

The Abbey Library of Saint Gall and the Chair for Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg organize their first Summer SchoolMedieval Writing Culture (V to XV century), which will be hold from 4 till 9 July 2016.

This SCRIPTO Summer School Saint Gall (SSSS) offers an introduction in history, models and cultural impact of western script. Sessions will take place in Saint Gall.

The number of participants is limited to 10.

The application deadline is 1 March 2016. Those applicants accepted to the course will be charged 475€/500CHF.

Further information (including the application form) may be obtained online: 

www.scripto.mittellatein.phil.fau.de

Call for Papers - The Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference: Sufism and Islamic Manuscript Culture

Call for Papers - The Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference: Sufism and Islamic Manuscript Culture

 

13-15 September 2016, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

The Islamic Manuscript Association—in cooperation with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge—invites the submission of abstracts for the Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference, to be held from 13 to 15 September 2016 at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

 

The theme of the conference is Sufism and Islamic manuscript culture. Sufis have written litanies, panegyrics, didactic works in verse and prose, hagiographies, discourses, exegetical works, and metaphysical treatises made into manuscripts both humble and lavish. Sufi lodges have housed libraries and manuscript ateliers, and Sufi networks have disseminated manuscripts across the Muslim World. This conference seeks to present current international research trends on the relationship between Sufism and Islamic manuscript culture and generate discussion and study in this field. Possible topics for papers include but are not limited to:

 

•Apotropaic uses of Sufi and non-Sufi manuscripts by Sufis

•The arts of the book and Sufi artists and patrons

•Bibliophilia and bibliophobia in Sufism

•Cataloguing manuscripts on Sufism

•Collection care programmes for collections of Sufi manuscripts

•Conservation treatments on Sufi manuscripts

•Diagrams and illustrations in manuscripts on Sufism

•Digital humanities and the study of manuscripts on Sufism

•The effects of recent conflicts in the Muslim World on collections of Sufi manuscripts

•The history of Sufi libraries

•Paratexts in manuscripts on Sufism

•Preparing printed and digital editions of manuscripts on Sufism

•The production of manuscripts by Sufi lodge ateliers

•Publication programmes or series of editions or facsimiles of manuscripts on Sufism

•Dissemination of texts and manuscripts through Sufi networks

•The use of manuscripts in Sufi rituals

 

This invitation is open to members and non-members of the Association. The languages of the Conference will be Arabic and English, and submissions will be accepted in both languages. The duration of each conference paper will be 20 minutes followed by ten minutes of questions and answers. The Association will pay for round-trip economy-class travel to Cambridge, accommodation in Magdalene College, and College-based meals for authors whose papers are accepted. 

 

Papers should not have been presented or published previously. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Association’s peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, and speakers are expected to give the Journal the right of first refusal.

 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10.00 GMT on Monday, 23 November 2015. Please submit the cover sheet (downloadable here), an abstract of no more than 250 words, and a biographical statement (a personal statement of no more than 200 words detailing your current work, education, research interests, and previous publications or research projects in third-person prose form), to the email, fax, or postal address below. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

February 18-20, 2016 at Rice University

Vagantes, North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies, is seeking submissions for its 15th annual meeting at Rice University, February 18-20.

www.vagantesconference.org

 

Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across the disciplines. Every conference features thirty papers on any aspect of medieval studies, allowing for exciting interdisciplinary conversation and the creation of new professional relationships between future colleagues. Vagantes travels to a new university every year, highlighting the unique resources of the host institution through keynote lectures, exhibitions, and special events. Out of consideration for graduate students’ limited budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee.

 

New this year is the availability of travel honoraria for conference speakers thanks to generous funding support from Rice University!

 

Graduate students are invited to submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words on any medieval topic along with a 1-2 page C.V. to organizers@vagantesconference.org by November 2, 2015.

 

For more information, please see the attached poster and visit: www.vagantesconference.org

TheEarlyModernColloquium at the University of Michigan

TheEarlyModernColloquium at the University of Michigan

invites abstracts for papers for their interdisciplinary graduate student conference

Performance and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 11-12^th, 2016

with conference keynotes by

Professor Jill Stevenson (Department of Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College)

and

Professor Andrew Sofer (Department of English, Boston College)

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the agency of nonhuman objects. Practitioners of “New Materialism” such as Bill Brown, Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Bruno Latour have provided scholars with tools for investigating the relationships between things both material and immaterial. The questions posed by these figures have challenged preconceptions about subject/object distinctions in disciplines including Archeology, History, Musicology, Literature, Philosophy, Science Studies, and many more. Likewise, in the field of medieval and early modern performance studies, scholars such as Seeta Chaganti and Claire Sponsler have interrogated the generic boundaries of dramatic texts, and embraced a wider field of texts and traditions, while scholars such as Jonathan Gil-Harris and Andrew Sofer have used the concept of “stage property” to explore the semiotics and ritual actions of drama.

This conference will dialogue between performance studies and material culture, two fields that have proven especially fruitful for early modern and medieval scholars in the past years, and we are looking for papers that engage either or both of these fields. Some questions this conference hopes to pose include: how is medieval and early modern performance shaped by material conditions? How are props and other performing objects contributing to theories of materiality? What role do nonhuman objects such as props, costumes, devotional objects, art, and architecture play in premodern performance? How can we best understand the agency of nonhuman objects in these environments? What do recent theories like Object-Oriented-Ontology or Extended Cognition have to offer thinking about past performances?

Please submit 250-300 word abstracts for 15-20 minute papers to Sheila Coursey (scoursey@umich.edu) or Tony Gillum (gillanth@umich.edu) with the subject heading “EMC Conference” by January 10th, 2016. The Early Modern Colloquium is an interdisciplinary graduate student group at the University of Michigan and will give priority to abstracts submitted by graduate students.

Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England

Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England

Within the growing field of Anglo-Saxon hagiographical studies, much academic emphasis has been placed on peculiarly English saints such as Oswald, Swithun, Cuthbert and Guthlac.While the study of these more localized cults has produced both productive and enlightening discourse, it has so far eclipsed research into Anglo-Saxon participation in the cults of saints more widely revered throughout Christendom, both in Western and Eastern hagiographical traditions.These “universal cults,” of course, constitute some of the most celebrated and theologically important saints to have been venerated in Anglo-Saxon England, including but not limited to the Virgin Mary, the Twelve Apostles, St. Paul, St. Mark and St. Luke.In recent years, this apparent desideratum in the field has already begun to be addressed by several established and up-and-coming scholars, though much work remains to be done.This panel proposes to offer a forum for scholars to share their work on “universal cults” as celebrated in Anglo-Saxon England.In particular, we are looking for papers that focus on the literary reception, pastoral usage and unique contribution to hagiographical traditions about “universal saints” during the Anglo-Saxon period.

kkritsch@email.unc.edu

CFP for Kalamazoo 2016: The Early Irish Saints, their Lives, and their Monasteries

 

CFP for Kalamazoo 2016: The Early Irish Saints, their Lives, and their Monasteries

 

Because of a late withdrawal, we have ONE space left in this session.

 

If you’re interested, please contact me IMMEDIATELY at obroinb@wpunj.edu

 

Brian Ó Broin, Ph.D. 

Dept. of English, William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
President of ASIMS 2015-2017 www.asims.org
Linguistics - Medieval Studies - Irish Studies 

Teangeolaíocht-Léann na Meánaoise-Léann na hÉireann 

Níos Mó / More Information: http://sites.google.com/site/professorbrianobroin/

Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

June 20-22, 2016

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis, Missouri

 

The Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 20-22, 2016) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.

 

The plenary speakers for this year will be Barbara Newman, of Northwestern University, and Teofilo Ruiz, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned rooms as well as a luxurious boutique hotel. The campus is surrounded by a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance.

 

While attending the Symposium, participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library.

 

The Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each, and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.

 

The deadline for all submissions is December 31. Decisions will be made in January, and the final program will be published in February.

 

For more information or to submit your proposal online, go to: http://smrs.slu.edu

 

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The John Doran Prize - $500
Dr. John Doran (1966-2012) was senior lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Chester, UK, and an expert in the history of the papacy and the city of Rome. In honor of his commitment to scholarly excellence, the annual John Doran Prize recognizes outstanding work by a graduate student each year. The author of the winning paper will receive $500 and the option to have their paper published in the journal Allegorica. The prize is endowed by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. Submissions are due by April 31, and the winner will be announced at the Symposium. More info at http://smrs.slu.edu/johndoran

 

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Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

June 20-22, 2016

http://smrs.slu.edu

8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

November 12-14, 2015 

Picking Up the Pieces

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is ple ased to announce the 8th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. This year's theme, "Picking up the Pieces," considers the notions and consequences of fragmentation and reconstitution. When books are broken up, collections dispersed, or a society's intellectual heritage is fragmented by time, nature, and human interventions, the act of piecing together the remains can lead to surprising insights about how and why books--the artifacts of our intellectual heritage--were produced, collected, and saved in the first place. Our aim is to examine various facets of the fragmentation of books, collections, and cultural heritages in literal, metaphorical, and philosophical terms. The topic also allows us to consider how the processes of both physical and virtual reconstitution inform our understanding of these artifacts and our relationship to them.

 

The program begins Thursday evening, November 12, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, with our keynote speaker Nicholas Pickwoad, Director of Ligatus, a research center of the University of the Arts London with projects in historical libraries and archives, and a leading authority on the conservation and history of bookbindings. The symposium continues, November 13-14, at the Kislak Center of Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvani a Libraries, with papers and workshops that delve into various aspects of fragmentation and reconstitution. The symposium will end with a roundtable discussion led William G. Noel, Director of SIMS, and  Brian C. Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, on the historical, social, and political consequences of fragmentation and reconstitution in the cultural heritage sector.

 

For more information and to register, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium8.html

 

Pilgrim’s Prize

Dear Medieval scholars and Canterbury Tales enthusiasts. I would like to draw your attention to an online project based out of the University of Edinburgh. Pilgrim’s Prize is an adaptation and modernization of The Canterbury Tales told through online media. It reimagines each of the twenty-four characters (including Chaucer and Harry Bailey) as contemporary figures participating in an online story telling contest.

Premise

Harry Bailey is the managing editor of rPilgrim Literary: a new web-based magazine launched last April. The website includes a forum, where one serendipitous night a motley group of readers found themselves conversing amongst each other. Harry decided that he would host a tale-telling contest in honour of the magazine launch. Pilgrim’s Prize was born. Along with his webmaster, Chaucer, Harry has been coordinating this year-long contest, which has seen stories told through a variety of media, including video, text-messaging, live Tweeting, an advice column, and spoken word poetry.

Objective

The creators of Pilgrim’s Prize are endeavouring to explore the potential of multi-media and hypertext in retelling The Canterbury Tales. It seeks to bring a new audience to the medieval masterpiece through open access, mainstream media. We also hope it will serve as an auxiliary teaching tool for undergraduate and introductory courses on medieval literature and The Canterbury Tales.

Pilgrim’s Prize Sitemap

New content is posted every Wednesday. It alternates between the prologues—posted on the Forum, and the tales—published on the Blog. The Artist page features bios of each of the characters, along with links to their social media accounts. Finally, the About page contains biographies of the creators.

We hope that you explore Pilgrim’s Prize and follow along in the rest of this literary pilgrimage through the Internet. If you have any questions or would like to contact the creators, please emailpilgrimsprize@gmail.com or use the contact form on the website: www.pilgrimliterary.com.

We can also be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PilgrimsPrize

And Twitter: @PilgrimsPrize

All best wishes,

Jessica Legacy and the Pilgrim’s Prize team

Jessica Legacy

Woflson Foundation Recipient

PhD Candidate

University of Edinburgh

Profile

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in

Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

February 18-20, 2016 at Rice University

Vagantes, North America’s largest graduate student conference for medieval studies, is seeking submissions for its 15th annual meeting at Rice University, February 18-20.

www.vagantesconference.org

 

Since its founding in 2002, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars from across the disciplines. Every conference features thirty papers on any aspect of medieval studies, allowing for exciting interdisciplinary conversation and the creation of new professional relationships between future colleagues. Vagantes travels to a new university every year, highlighting the unique resources of the host institution through keynote lectures, exhibitions, and special events. Out of consideration for graduate students’ limited budgets, Vagantes never charges a registration fee.

 

New this year is the availability of travel honoraria for conference speakers thanks to generous funding support from Rice University!

 

Graduate students are invited to submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words on any medieval topic along with a 1-2 page C.V. to organizers@vagantesconference.org by November 2, 2015.

 

For more information, please see the attached poster and visit: www.vagantesconference.org

The Viking World - Diversity and Change

The Viking World - Diversity and Change

27th  June 2016 – 2nd July 2016

University of Nottingham


We are pleased to announce this major international conference, to take
place at the University of Nottingham 27 June - 2 July 2016.


2016 sees a range of significant anniversaries: not only the millennium
of Knut's accession to the English throne, but also the 950th
anniversary of the Norman Conquest, arguably the end of the Viking Age
in England, not to mention possibly the 900th anniversary of the
martyrdom of St Magnus of Orkney. These are end points of a period of
major transformations - from the voyages and settlements of
Scandinavians across the North Sea, the Atlantic and the Baltic, to the
conversion of the homelands and the rise of medieval kingship. The
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age will host this conference which
aims to capture the diversity of and change in the Viking Age and its
aftermath.


Papers of 20 minutes' length are invited on the following themes:

    The Danish dynasty

    Technologies

    Far-flung places

    Nature and nurture

    Transformations

    Open theme


Poster presentations are also welcome.


Please send abstracts (no more than 300 words) to Dr Christina Lee
christina.lee@nottingham.ac.uk by 31st January 2016 (for papers) and
31st March 2016 (for posters).

Centre for the Study of the Viking Age:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/csva/index.aspx

Dr Christina Lee
Associate Professor in Viking Studies
School of English
University of Nottingham
NG7 2RD

christina.lee@nottingham.ac.uk
0115 8467194

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csva/index.aspx

CFP: Archipelago

 

Sponsored by Rutgers University's Center for Cultural Analysis

 

 

The core conceptual understanding of the archipelago, as Simone Pinet frames it, is “unity in diversity,” as the island, self-enclosed by its shoreline, neatly circumscribes a people within its limits, while the close collection of these insular worlds encourages fellow-feeling and a shared experience within a wider system. As such, the archipelago is an ideal structure within which to examine issues of cultural connection and isolation in any time period. For this reason, Rutgers University's Center for Cultural Analysis has selected the Archipelago as its AY 2015/2016 theme. By organizing this panel, we seek to extend our conversation beyond the confines of the center and to deepen the topic's engagement with medieval studies. The European continent and its surrounding seas include several archipelagoes that can serve as the field of such inquiry. This session seeks papers in any discipline that examine the dynamics of archipelagoes in the medieval era. How does the geographical reality of the archipelago distinguish the communities that populate them from the mainland? What are the interactions of those communities and their limits? How is life within an archipelago shaped by its geographical reality? How is that reality and its impact reflected in the region's literature and art? By examining questions such as these we will treat typically peripheral communities as central to the development of medieval Europe.

 

Please send abstracts to Dr. Jeremy DeAngelo, JeremyDeAngelo@gmail.com

Call for Papers: Anglo-Saxons 2016 - Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials

Call for Papers: Anglo-Saxons 2016 - Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials

 

Please find below details of the first Call for Papers for Anglo-Saxons 2016, a postgraduate and early-career multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Edinburgh on 9-10 June 2016.

 

Please share with your respective departments/students.

 

Thank you.

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Anglo-Saxons 2016

Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials

 

The organising committee is delighted to announce the call for papers forAnglo-Saxons 2016, a multidisciplinary two-day conference celebrating Anglo-Saxon culture and history. This event is to be held at the University of Edinburgh on9-10 June 2016.

Anglo-Saxons 2016 is calling for papers on the impact of Anglo-Saxon culture and history, engaging with the theme of ‘exchange’.

The year 2016 marks the one thousandth anniversary of Cnut’s Danish Conquest and 950 years after William marched onto British shores, but what of those they conquered? The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms stood for four centuries before the Danes or Normans took the monarchy, and even after these conquests, the Anglo-Saxon peoples remained the primary indigenous population. Anglo-Saxons 2016 reflects upon the culture, history, and impact of the Anglo-Saxons, looking back over their influence across the medieval world.

Anglo-Saxons 2016 is a two-day multidisciplinary conference for postgraduate students and early-career researchers. The conference brings together scholars from different disciplines studying the Anglo-Saxon period in order to share papers outlining their current research around a central core celebration of Anglo-Saxon culture, history, and impact. We will promote discussion, and explore how a range of perspectives can lead to a new understanding of the Anglo-Saxons.

The early medieval period is one of exchange in all senses of the word. The fifth to eleventh centuries in England marked a period of great transformations in culture, history, intellectual development, and materiality through internal and external factors and different cultural influences. Beyond this, we ourselves as researchers will come together in an exchange of knowledge, thoughts, and approaches.

We invite those working in any facet of Anglo-Saxon history (inclusive of art history), culture, literature, or archaeology to submit abstracts for papers of approximately 20 minutes.

We welcome proposals for papers and sessions related to, but not limited by, this list:

• The exchange of ideas in the Anglo-Saxon world
• Exchange, trade, and economic relations 
• North Sea/Scandinavian cultural exchange and influence
• Intellectual exchange 
• The Danish and/or Norman Conquests
• The Anglo-Saxons and the rest of the early medieval world
• Transformation or continuity in the Anglo-Saxon world
• Anglo-Saxon art as a means of idea exchange
• Old English literature
• Anglo-Saxon coinage
• The Danelaw
• Anglo-Saxon laws
• Material culture in the later Viking Age

Submission details:

Please send all proposals to: OrganisingCommittee@anglosaxons2016.net

Individual Paper Proposals:
·       Title of Paper;
·       Abstract – including potential strand (250 words maximum);
·       Short Speaker’s Biography (approximately 50 words)

Session proposals:
·       Session Title
·       Session Abstract/Rationale (approximately 100 words)
·       Organisers’ details
·       Details for each paper (3) as per Individual Paper Proposals

Posters:
·       Title of Poster;
·       Abstract (250 words maximum);
·       Short Speaker’s Biography (approximately 50 words)

 

Please note the deadline for abstract submissions is 31 December 2015.

Send all submissions and queries to OrganisingCommittee@anglosaxons2016.net.

Full details and contact via:

www.anglosaxons2016.net

Facebook.com/AngloSaxons2016

Tweet @AngloSaxons2016

Marco Manuscript Workshop Performing Texts

Marco Manuscript Workshop

Performing Texts

February 5-6, 2016

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Eleventh Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday, February 5, and Saturday, February 6, 2016, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Roy M. Liuzza (English) and Maura Lafferty (Classics).

For this year’s workshop we invite presentations that explore the idea of “performing texts.” In a sense all pre-modern texts are performative; reading was generally an auditory and often a social experience, unlike modern practices of silent and usually solitary reading. Textual elements such as rubrics, initials, and punctuation all work to ease the passage from visual artifact to living performance. Other manuscripts are sites of performance in their intertextual composition, blending word and image, juxtaposing one text to another, adding meaning at the moment of interaction between a text and reader. Still other manuscripts are explicitly scripts for vocal performance: examples include texts with musical notation, poems and songs, dramas to be enacted or transcripts of acts already performed, liturgical texts and prayers, medical recipes and charms. The manuscript is only the silent record of the voices and actions it inspired. How do we interpret and represent this record to recover the performance imbedded in the text? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more like a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.

The deadline for applications is October 15, 2015. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email torliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.

The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.