Medieval History
Here be Monsters: Beasts, Beastliness and Hybridity
> in the Long Middle Ages
>
> 3rd Annual Medieval Studies/Pearl Kibre Medieval
> Study
> Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
>
> March 28, 2008: CUNY Graduate Center, New York
> In the middle ages, beasts decorated the margins of
> manuscripts,
> offered symbolic import in tales and fabliaux, were
> classified
> scientifically, kept as part of real households, and
> reached legendary
> proportions as part of travelogues. In religious and
> secular thought,
> animals ? whether anthropomorphized or in
> interaction with humans ?
> often figured as the other which could mark or blur
> the limits of the
> human or the familiar.
> We invite papers from graduate students in all
> academic disciplines
> that address the role of beasts, beastliness,
> monstrosity and hybridty
> from late antiquity through the early modern period.
> How do these
> concepts intersect? How were ideas about animals
> constructed? How did
> these various constructions inform concepts of
> monstrosity, race,
> religion, and social mores?
> Topics may include but are not limited to:
> Fabliaux
> Chivalric animals
> Transformations and Metamorphoses
> Limits of the human
> Monstrous or hybrid humans
> Temporal Hybridity
> Dragons and other mythic beasts
> Quests for beasts
> Heraldric animals
> Monsters in travelogues
> Monsters in marginalia
> Monsters elsewhere
> Bestiaries
> The motif of the Hunt
> Devils, Devilishness and Devilry
> Theatre of Beasts and Festivals
> Concepts of medieval beasts in other eras
> Beasts and sexuality
> Taming and Falconry
>
>
> Please submit abstracts of 250 words to
> [email protected] by
> February 14, 2008.
>
> Professor Susan Crane of Columbia University will
> deliver our keynote
> address. "A Taxonomy of Creatures in the
> Second-Family Bestiary"
> proposes a new way to read bestiaries such as the
> well-known Book of
> Beasts translated by T.H. White. The bestiaries'
> attentiveness to
> animals and their concern for spiritual teaching
> converge in a world
> view that is taxonomic: their classification of
> animals expresses a
> theory of creation's logic.
>
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Medieval History
Grad Student Conference
Here be Monsters: Beasts, Beastliness and Hybridity
> in the Long Middle Ages
>
> 3rd Annual Medieval Studies/Pearl Kibre Medieval
> Study
> Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
>
> March 28, 2008: CUNY Graduate Center, New York
> In the middle ages, beasts decorated the margins of
> manuscripts,
> offered symbolic import in tales and fabliaux, were
> classified
> scientifically, kept as part of real households, and
> reached legendary
> proportions as part of travelogues. In religious and
> secular thought,
> animals ? whether anthropomorphized or in
> interaction with humans ?
> often figured as the other which could mark or blur
> the limits of the
> human or the familiar.
> We invite papers from graduate students in all
> academic disciplines
> that address the role of beasts, beastliness,
> monstrosity and hybridty
> from late antiquity through the early modern period.
> How do these
> concepts intersect? How were ideas about animals
> constructed? How did
> these various constructions inform concepts of
> monstrosity, race,
> religion, and social mores?
> Topics may include but are not limited to:
> Fabliaux
> Chivalric animals
> Transformations and Metamorphoses
> Limits of the human
> Monstrous or hybrid humans
> Temporal Hybridity
> Dragons and other mythic beasts
> Quests for beasts
> Heraldric animals
> Monsters in travelogues
> Monsters in marginalia
> Monsters elsewhere
> Bestiaries
> The motif of the Hunt
> Devils, Devilishness and Devilry
> Theatre of Beasts and Festivals
> Concepts of medieval beasts in other eras
> Beasts and sexuality
> Taming and Falconry
>
>
> Please submit abstracts of 250 words to
> [email protected] by
> February 14, 2008.
>
> Professor Susan Crane of Columbia University will
> deliver our keynote
> address. "A Taxonomy of Creatures in the
> Second-Family Bestiary"
> proposes a new way to read bestiaries such as the
> well-known Book of
> Beasts translated by T.H. White. The bestiaries'
> attentiveness to
> animals and their concern for spiritual teaching
> converge in a world
> view that is taxonomic: their classification of
> animals expresses a
> theory of creation's logic.
>
- Aberdeen Bestiary Goes On Public Display For The First Time
The Aberdeen Bestiary, a beautifully illustrated manuscript that dates back to the twelfth century and which once belonged to King Henry VIII, can now be seen by the public for the first time at the the University of Aberdeen. The new exhibition Gilded...
- Hortulus
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies Special Call For Papers for 2009 Issue on Monsters and Monstrosities in the Middle Ages Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature...
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Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies Special Call For Papers for 2009 Issue on Monsters and Monstrosities in the Middle Ages Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature...
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