Medieval History
- Briefly Noted -- Accessus: A Journal Of Premodern Literature And New Media
Readers of Modern Medieval will want to go take a look at the inaugural issue of Accessus, a publication of the Gower Project. This excellent-looking first issue includes the following essays that bring together disability studies, medieval studies, manuscript...
- 34th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium
10, 11 and 12 October 2014 The Thompson Room (Room 110) Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street ~ Call For Papers The organizers of the 34th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium acknowledge with thanks the support of The Provostial Funds Committee for the Arts and...
- Call For Papers (extended) The Art Of Reading In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22nd International Biennial Conference28-31 August 2014, Stellenbosch, South Africa Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of OxfordDeadline...
- Upcoming Assc Event
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquiumannouncesa lecture and seminar *Joshua Davies* *(KIng's College, The University of London)* ??Visions...
- Peaking In Tongues: Language, Communication And Power In The Middle Ages
Communication in the Middle Ages could take place within a wide spectrum of languages, dialects, and tongues. Speaking in Tongues: Language, Communication and Power in the Middle Ages (14 June 2013) will explore how the use and manipulation...
Medieval History
Representing War and Violence in the Pre-Modern World
Call for Papers: deadline 1st March 2013
Representing War and Violence in the Pre-Modern World
Pembroke College, Cambridge, 23rd-24th September 2013
Proposals are sought for 20-minute papers on any aspect of how war and violence were documented, depicted and narrated in the medieval and early modern periods, including:
- the representation of conflict in chronicles, poetry,
correspondence, proclamations, pageantry;
- the visual depiction/performance of war and violence;
- questions of just war, holy war, necessary war, casus belli;
- perspectives of victor and victim, chivalry and atrocity;
- different interpretations of soldier and civilian, eyewitness and historian;
- changing philosophies, codes, practices, technologies and accoutrements of war;
- war as divine providence or human scourge;
- intersections of art, literature, and propaganda.
Keynote speakers: Professor Daniel Weiss, Lafayette College; Professor Richard Kaeuper, University of Rochester; Professor Anne Curry, University of Southampton
Other contributors: Laura Ashe, David Grummitt, Megan Leitch, Catherine Nall, Craig Taylor.
Please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers to Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater, by 1st March 2013, at [email protected]
This colloquium is generously sponsored by the Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation, which promotes research on all aspects of the human propensity to violence and aggression; and by Pembroke College, Cambridge. It will be a forum to foster conversation between historians, art historians and literary critics.
Conference website: http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/conferences-catering/representing-war-conference/
Pembroke College, Cambridge, 23rd-24th September 2013
Proposals are sought for 20-minute papers on any aspect of how war and violence were documented, depicted and narrated in the medieval and early modern periods, including:
- the representation of conflict in chronicles, poetry,
correspondence, proclamations, pageantry;
- the visual depiction/performance of war and violence;
- questions of just war, holy war, necessary war, casus belli;
- perspectives of victor and victim, chivalry and atrocity;
- different interpretations of soldier and civilian, eyewitness and historian;
- changing philosophies, codes, practices, technologies and accoutrements of war;
- war as divine providence or human scourge;
- intersections of art, literature, and propaganda.
Keynote speakers: Professor Daniel Weiss, Lafayette College; Professor Richard Kaeuper, University of Rochester; Professor Anne Curry, University of Southampton
Other contributors: Laura Ashe, David Grummitt, Megan Leitch, Catherine Nall, Craig Taylor.
Please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers to Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater, by 1st March 2013, at [email protected]
This colloquium is generously sponsored by the Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation, which promotes research on all aspects of the human propensity to violence and aggression; and by Pembroke College, Cambridge. It will be a forum to foster conversation between historians, art historians and literary critics.
Conference website: http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/conferences-catering/representing-war-conference/
- Briefly Noted -- Accessus: A Journal Of Premodern Literature And New Media
Readers of Modern Medieval will want to go take a look at the inaugural issue of Accessus, a publication of the Gower Project. This excellent-looking first issue includes the following essays that bring together disability studies, medieval studies, manuscript...
- 34th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium
10, 11 and 12 October 2014 The Thompson Room (Room 110) Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street ~ Call For Papers The organizers of the 34th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium acknowledge with thanks the support of The Provostial Funds Committee for the Arts and...
- Call For Papers (extended) The Art Of Reading In The Middle Ages And Renaissance
Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22nd International Biennial Conference28-31 August 2014, Stellenbosch, South Africa Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of OxfordDeadline...
- Upcoming Assc Event
The Anglo Saxon Studies Colloquiumannouncesa lecture and seminar *Joshua Davies* *(KIng's College, The University of London)* ??Visions...
- Peaking In Tongues: Language, Communication And Power In The Middle Ages
Communication in the Middle Ages could take place within a wide spectrum of languages, dialects, and tongues. Speaking in Tongues: Language, Communication and Power in the Middle Ages (14 June 2013) will explore how the use and manipulation...