Medieval History
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Dear Colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting. Please find attached the CFP for an edited collection of essays by Alan Baragona and Elizabeth Rambo, titled: Cornering the Snarket: Sarcasm and Snark in Medieval Literature They are looking...
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- Monsters
MONSTERS I: Haunting the Middle Ages Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman, California State University-Chico; Sarah Alison Miller, Duquesne University This panel proposes to explore those monstrous figures that haunt the borders between the living and the dead:...
- Cfp: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting
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- Babel News
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Medieval History
MEARCSTAPA Sponsors "Behavior in Medieval Literature and Law: In Memory of Lisi Oliver"
It has only been a week since the devastating loss of Lisi Oliver, but we would like to honor her at SEMA this year. So:
SEMA 2016
CFP: Monstrous Behavior in Medieval Literature and Law: In Memory of Lisi Oliver
Session Sponsor: MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology Through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application).
Session Organizer: Larissa Tracy (Longwood University)
Session Presider: Larissa Tracy (Longwood University)
In the introduction to The Body Legal in Barbarian Law, Lisi Oliver explains that her complex and interdisciplinary analysis is designed to help ?lay to rest the use of the adjective ?medieval? often employed in modern prose to represent ?uninformed?? (4). As her work often does, in The Body Legal Oliver took fragments and pieces of the past, with a particular interest in wounds, feud, community, and compensation, and created a clearer more nuanced understanding of the medieval world through a legal lens. Her work often explored monstrous behavior, or the modern assumptions of monstrous behavior, and sought to elucidate the causes and consequences of such actions. Her work has had a profound impact on the work of medieval scholars who have a similar interest in investigating the presumed monstrosity of the medieval past: torture, punishment, rape, feud, murder, wounding, and warfare. This session honors her work and her numerous contributions to this discipline with papers on monstrous behavior of any kind in medieval literary and legal texts. Interdisciplinary papers that also consider material, physical or visual evidence are also welcome.
Please send abstracts of 300 words and a brief bio to session organizer Larissa Tracy ([email protected]) by June 25.
- Snark! Cfp
Dear Colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting. Please find attached the CFP for an edited collection of essays by Alan Baragona and Elizabeth Rambo, titled: Cornering the Snarket: Sarcasm and Snark in Medieval Literature They are looking...
- Call For Papers For Mla Convention Vancouver, Canada, January 8-11, 2015
"Monstrous water and water monsters in the medieval and early modern imagination"Water monsters and water as monstrous are both part of the same complex -- the reminder that there are extents to our reach as human beings and a vast world that we...
- Monsters
MONSTERS I: Haunting the Middle Ages Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman, California State University-Chico; Sarah Alison Miller, Duquesne University This panel proposes to explore those monstrous figures that haunt the borders between the living and the dead:...
- Cfp: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting
CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Meeting Vanderbilt University October 15-17, 2009 /Knowing and Unknowing/ What did medieval peoples know about their world? What do we know about the Middle Ages? We welcome papers on all aspects of the Middle...
- Babel News
the theme of the 2009 Leeds Medieval Congress is "heresy and orthodoxy," which seems to me to be an ideal BABEL-y theme, and Jeffrey Cohen will also be one of the plenary speakers. Due to heavy organizing duties for other conferences, I could not get...