Medieval History
Call for Papers
Rethinking Medieval Liturgy: New Approaches across Disciplines
1819 June 2010, London
The study of medieval liturgy has undergone a remarkable
transformation in recent years. As the lines between various kinds of
cultural studies have become increasingly blurred, musicologists, art
historians, literary scholars, and historians have realised its
centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental insights into
the experience of worship and devotion in the middle ages, as the
medium through which religious ideas were transmitted. There is now a
need, we believe, to find coherent expression and a voice for the
emerging generation of students of the liturgy, by breaking
institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing so-called
para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and sermons, as
well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical contexts.
To this purpose, we are holding a two-day international workshop for
post-graduate students from a variety of disciplines on the subject
of medieval liturgy. It will include a training session in recent
developments of liturgical studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan
Boynton of the Department of Music at Columbia University. Proposals
are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have recently
finished their post-graduate studies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theories of ritual and their application to medieval liturgy
- Musicology and music history
- Art and architecture as related to liturgy
- Worship and devotion as cultural phenomena
- Liturgy in the history of religious institutions
- Christianization and reform
- Liturgy and material culture
- The social role of liturgy
- Hagiography, sermons and drama in their liturgical contexts
- Manuscripts and the representation of liturgical texts
Papers will be 20 min. in length. Individual paper proposals (papers
and proposals should be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should
be sent by 1 March, 2010 to:
Kati Ihnat (Queen Mary, University of London):
[email protected]
or
Erik Niblaeus (Kings College London):
[email protected]
If you have other queries concerning the workshop, please do not
hesitate to contact either of the above.
The workshop will take place in London at the Lock-keepers Cottage,
Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, from Friday June 18 (10am)
to Saturday June 19 (5pm) 2010. Application for AHRC funding pending.
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Medieval History
Rethinking Medieval Liturgy - Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Rethinking Medieval Liturgy: New Approaches across Disciplines
1819 June 2010, London
The study of medieval liturgy has undergone a remarkable
transformation in recent years. As the lines between various kinds of
cultural studies have become increasingly blurred, musicologists, art
historians, literary scholars, and historians have realised its
centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental insights into
the experience of worship and devotion in the middle ages, as the
medium through which religious ideas were transmitted. There is now a
need, we believe, to find coherent expression and a voice for the
emerging generation of students of the liturgy, by breaking
institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing so-called
para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and sermons, as
well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical contexts.
To this purpose, we are holding a two-day international workshop for
post-graduate students from a variety of disciplines on the subject
of medieval liturgy. It will include a training session in recent
developments of liturgical studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan
Boynton of the Department of Music at Columbia University. Proposals
are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have recently
finished their post-graduate studies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theories of ritual and their application to medieval liturgy
- Musicology and music history
- Art and architecture as related to liturgy
- Worship and devotion as cultural phenomena
- Liturgy in the history of religious institutions
- Christianization and reform
- Liturgy and material culture
- The social role of liturgy
- Hagiography, sermons and drama in their liturgical contexts
- Manuscripts and the representation of liturgical texts
Papers will be 20 min. in length. Individual paper proposals (papers
and proposals should be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should
be sent by 1 March, 2010 to:
Kati Ihnat (Queen Mary, University of London):
or
Erik Niblaeus (Kings College London):
If you have other queries concerning the workshop, please do not
hesitate to contact either of the above.
The workshop will take place in London at the Lock-keepers Cottage,
Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, from Friday June 18 (10am)
to Saturday June 19 (5pm) 2010. Application for AHRC funding pending.
- Margot Fassler Wins 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts. The prize was announced...
- Note Deadline!
AUDIENCE IN THE MIDDLE AGES // YALE UNIVERSITY Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 29th annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, to be held at Yale University on Saturday, March 31st, 2012....
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