Medieval History
- Conference Explores Land And Sea In Middle Ages
The great religious, political and economic upheaval of the early medieval era has been the topic of conversation at a meeting of international scholars at The University of Queensland this week. The Land and Sea in the Early Middle Ages Conference...
- Southern African Society For Medieval And Renaissance Studies Conference: 26-28th August, 2016
We are pleased to announce that the 23rd biennial conference of SASMARS will be held at Mont Fleur in Stellenbosch, South Africa on 26 ? 28th August 2016.?Texts and Transformations: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures?Medieval and Early Modern...
- Representing War And Violence In The Pre-modern World
Call for Papers: deadline 1st March 2013Representing 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,...
- 52nd Annual Midwest Medieval History Conference
52nd Annual Midwest Medieval History Conference18-19 October 2013Hosted by Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN ?The Medieval World in the Modern Classroom? ? Call for PapersThe theme of the 52nd annual meeting of the Midwest Medieval History Conference...
- Call For Applicants: Neh Summer Institute (barcelona, July 2012)
Call for ApplicationsDEADLINE REMINDER1 March 2012 - Email and postmark deadline for applications.Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean*The Mediterranean Seminar http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/ announces...
Medieval History
Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Literary Culture
Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Literary Culture
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
April 4-5, 2013
The literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern periods were profoundly affected by the expansion of new artisanal and scientific technologies-innovations and ideas that would lead to the production and consumption of new forms of knowledge. In both periods, knowledge was conceptualized across a range of intersecting disciplines, including natural philosophy, astrology, mathematics, medicine, art, mechanics, and cartography, among others. Literature embraced, criticized, or participated in these fields in diverse ways, often examining how these new forms or categories of knowledge influenced the locus and ontology of the individual and social self.
Collectively, we will investigate the ways in which medieval and early modern literature engages with scientific, technological and textual processes of making and disseminating knowledge. In addition, we are interested in discussing the creation and development of modern/postmodern technologies through and around medieval and early modern texts. As such, scholars studying medieval and early modern texts, performances, and art-or later reassessments thereof- are welcome.
This conference is part of a three-year collaboration between King's College, London and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previous conferences include "Shakespeare and the Natural World" at UNC and "Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture" at KCL. "Making Knowledge" aims to continue this collaboration and engage in critical discussion with graduate students from both institutions and from across the US.
Dr. Pamela Smith, a cultural historian at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote titled "From Matter to Ideas: Making Natural Knowledge in early Modern Europe" on Saturday evening, April 5th. Dr. Smith's publications include Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, and Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800.
We invite papers on these and related topics. Abstracts of 300-400 words are due December 1st, 2013
to [email protected]. Participants will be notified on January 25th.
- Conference Explores Land And Sea In Middle Ages
The great religious, political and economic upheaval of the early medieval era has been the topic of conversation at a meeting of international scholars at The University of Queensland this week. The Land and Sea in the Early Middle Ages Conference...
- Southern African Society For Medieval And Renaissance Studies Conference: 26-28th August, 2016
We are pleased to announce that the 23rd biennial conference of SASMARS will be held at Mont Fleur in Stellenbosch, South Africa on 26 ? 28th August 2016.?Texts and Transformations: Medieval and Early Modern Cultures?Medieval and Early Modern...
- Representing War And Violence In The Pre-modern World
Call for Papers: deadline 1st March 2013Representing 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,...
- 52nd Annual Midwest Medieval History Conference
52nd Annual Midwest Medieval History Conference18-19 October 2013Hosted by Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN ?The Medieval World in the Modern Classroom? ? Call for PapersThe theme of the 52nd annual meeting of the Midwest Medieval History Conference...
- Call For Applicants: Neh Summer Institute (barcelona, July 2012)
Call for ApplicationsDEADLINE REMINDER1 March 2012 - Email and postmark deadline for applications.Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean*The Mediterranean Seminar http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/ announces...