Medieval History
- Cfp: "julian" At The 2016 Scs Annual Meeting
Call For Papers The Emperor JulianOrganizer: Gavin Kelly, University of EdinburghSponsored by the Society for Late AntiquityJulian ruled as sole emperor for less than 20 months between November 361 and June 363; however, his reign is among of the best...
- Traveling Through Texts In / To The Middle Ages
South Atlantic MLA Convention, Durham NC, November 9-11, 2012: Traveling through Texts in / to the Middle Ages (DEADLINE EXTENDED) Writers of the Middle Ages frequently wrote about travels?their own or someone else?s?as a way to bring their contemporary...
- South Atlantic Mla Convention
South Atlantic MLA Convention, Durham NC, November 9-11, 2012: Traveling through Texts in / to the Middle Ages Writers of the Middle Ages frequently wrote about travels?their own or someone else?s?as a way to bring their contemporary readers to distant,...
- Late Antiquity Newsletter -- Call For Papers, Apa 2013 Seattle
Letters in Late Antiquity Organizer: Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at BoulderSponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity We are fortunate to have more letters and letter collections from Late Antiquity than from the rest of Greco-Roman antiquity...
- Call For Papers: Late Antiquity
CALL FOR PAPERS: LATE ANTIQUITY The Society for Late Antiquity will be sponsoring three sessions at the International Medieval Studies Congress, May 7-10, 2009, at Wes- tern Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. As in the past,topics are...
Medieval History
SLA Panel for APA 2015 Meeting, New Orleans Travel, Travelers, and Traveling in Late Antique Literary Culture
Travel, Travelers, and Traveling in Late Antique Literary Culture
Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts for the following panel sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity has been extended until 21 March 2014 (apologies for cross-posting).
Organizer: Cam Grey, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity
The 2015 panel sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association on Jan. 8-11 in New Orleans, will explore aspects of travel and traveling in late antique literary culture. Narratives of travel can be found structuring devotional pilgrimage accounts and ethnographic treatises, and they constitute a crucial element in hagiographical texts, where the saint?s physical journey often functions as a metaphor and analog for his or her spiritual journey. These narratives are also enlisted for political and military purposes, such as the anonymously authored fourth-century Itinerarium Alexandri or accounts of travel contained in historiographical works. Meanwhile, the phenomenon of the imperial adventus acquired an unprecedented level of ceremony and ritual in the period, and envoys and ambassadors traveled extensively both within and beyond the boundaries of the empire, treating with domestic and foreign potentates. Aristocratic and ecclesiastical letter writers penned?and preserved in their collections?letters of recommendation for an extraordinary variety of individuals, who appear to have walked or rode the roads of the Roman with little regard for the apparent deterioration in safety and security that haunts a work like Rutilius Namatianus? De Reditu Suo.
- Cfp: "julian" At The 2016 Scs Annual Meeting
Call For Papers The Emperor JulianOrganizer: Gavin Kelly, University of EdinburghSponsored by the Society for Late AntiquityJulian ruled as sole emperor for less than 20 months between November 361 and June 363; however, his reign is among of the best...
- Traveling Through Texts In / To The Middle Ages
South Atlantic MLA Convention, Durham NC, November 9-11, 2012: Traveling through Texts in / to the Middle Ages (DEADLINE EXTENDED) Writers of the Middle Ages frequently wrote about travels?their own or someone else?s?as a way to bring their contemporary...
- South Atlantic Mla Convention
South Atlantic MLA Convention, Durham NC, November 9-11, 2012: Traveling through Texts in / to the Middle Ages Writers of the Middle Ages frequently wrote about travels?their own or someone else?s?as a way to bring their contemporary readers to distant,...
- Late Antiquity Newsletter -- Call For Papers, Apa 2013 Seattle
Letters in Late Antiquity Organizer: Noel Lenski, University of Colorado at BoulderSponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity We are fortunate to have more letters and letter collections from Late Antiquity than from the rest of Greco-Roman antiquity...
- Call For Papers: Late Antiquity
CALL FOR PAPERS: LATE ANTIQUITY The Society for Late Antiquity will be sponsoring three sessions at the International Medieval Studies Congress, May 7-10, 2009, at Wes- tern Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. As in the past,topics are...