Medieval History
- Men, Marriage, And The Family In The Middle Ages
CALL FOR PAPERS, Kalamazoo 2010 - please don't hesitate to circulate, and sorry for cross-listing. Session: Men, Marriage, and the Family in the Middle Ages The literature on women in the domestic sphere, as wives, mothers, daughters, and in work,...
- Cfp For The Writing England Conference
We are delighted to open a CFP for the Writing England Conference to be held in Leicester, 28-30 April 2010. After the success of the Writing England Conference in 2007, we have expanded the temporal remit of the conference to exchange ideas about manuscript...
- Criseyde Married: Faithless Wives In Middle English Law And Literature
I am seeking papers for my 3-paper session "Criseyde Married: Faithless Wives in Middle English Law and Literature." The session will offer interventions into the ongoing examination of marriage customs and laws and their representation in literature,...
- More Mla Cfp
Please also note this call from the Division on Language Change: The MLA Division on Language Change invites papers for three sessions at the Modern Language Association convention in San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008. We invite papers that deal with...
- Authority, Authorship, And Audience In The Middle Ages
The sixth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student conference sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies student organization, will be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana from February 15-16, 2008. The theme for...
Medieval History
CFP
Call for papers:
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention
November 9-11, 2007
Renaissance Hotel Downtown, Atlanta
Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2007
Old English Session ?Responses to War?
Tacitus, in The Agricola and Germania, identifies a range of factors--
political, social, and economic--that shaped the Germanic/medieval response to
war; according to him, war made its way into religion, feasting, the lives of
children, and even the marriage ceremony. This session welcomes 20-minute
papers that shed insight on the influences and responses to war and related
topics in Old English literature and culture. The following list of paper
suggestions is not exhaustive. Please send one page abstracts to
Emily Redman,
Purdue University, via email at [email protected] by April 10, 2007.
Aesthetic reactions to war as evidenced in Old English language, literature,
art, and weaponry/artifacts;
Ecclesiastical and secular responses to war, ?war? between Church and State,
war between Church and indigenous belief systems, saint?s lives and Holy War,
war between individual and the State/Church;
War out of times of peace, strife born out of feasting in the hall, war and/as
negotiation;
Women and war, shield maidens, wives, mothers, daughters, infants, peace
weavers, the childless woman, the woman lamenting, woman as stabilizer;
Aspects of battle, such as warriors, deities, rituals, ritual behavior and
ritual speech, vows and promises, weapons and armor, individual weapons, maps,
the landscape, armies, war machines, horses and other animals;
War rhetoric, colonialism, war methods, the emotional and the
strategic, battle
descriptions, function of wyrd;
Enemies and war, monsters and the monstrous, the ?bad guys and villains,? the
enemy from within your own camp, scapegoating, otherness;
The aftermath of war, the dead, wounds and the wounded, ?last words
of a fallen
warrior,? war and peace, wereguild;
Studies of individual war-related Old English words or groups of words and
their contexts;
Reponses to war in history and legend;
Material culture and war
- Men, Marriage, And The Family In The Middle Ages
CALL FOR PAPERS, Kalamazoo 2010 - please don't hesitate to circulate, and sorry for cross-listing. Session: Men, Marriage, and the Family in the Middle Ages The literature on women in the domestic sphere, as wives, mothers, daughters, and in work,...
- Cfp For The Writing England Conference
We are delighted to open a CFP for the Writing England Conference to be held in Leicester, 28-30 April 2010. After the success of the Writing England Conference in 2007, we have expanded the temporal remit of the conference to exchange ideas about manuscript...
- Criseyde Married: Faithless Wives In Middle English Law And Literature
I am seeking papers for my 3-paper session "Criseyde Married: Faithless Wives in Middle English Law and Literature." The session will offer interventions into the ongoing examination of marriage customs and laws and their representation in literature,...
- More Mla Cfp
Please also note this call from the Division on Language Change: The MLA Division on Language Change invites papers for three sessions at the Modern Language Association convention in San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008. We invite papers that deal with...
- Authority, Authorship, And Audience In The Middle Ages
The sixth annual Conference for Medieval Studies, a graduate student conference sponsored by Comitatus, the Purdue Medieval Studies student organization, will be held at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana from February 15-16, 2008. The theme for...