medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear All,
Programming for next summer's International Medieval Congress at Leeds (9-12 July 2007) is very close to completion. As always, there are a few sessions which for one reason or another could now use a third 20-minute paper. Several (the majority, actually) falling within the purview of this list are described briefly after my signature. Please have a look at these and please share this information with others as appropriate. Proposals, specifying session number and session title and including both a title for one's paper and an abstract not exceeding 100 words, should be addressed to:
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Papers must be scholarly in orientation and may be given in any major European language. All proposals will be evaluated as quickly as possible. Offers tendered within the next few weeks may lead to the form of immortality that only a listing in the IMC programme book can confer. General information about the Congress is available at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/
With all best wishes,
John Dillon
John B. Dillon
Programming Committtee
International Medieval Congress
University of Leeds
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1911: Comparative Hagiography in Early Medieval Europe, I: Apostolic Legends
Session abstract: Researches on the production of saints' lives are so far organised according to cultural areas and tend to underline specificities of each one. It could be interesting to overstep these frontiers in order to go to the root of resemblances and differences in the process of writing saints' lives. As a first step, scholars specialised on different area will suggest ways toward further comparative studies.
2044: The Use of Charters in 12th-Century Normandy
An expansion of of this topic to include twelfth-century Brittany or Flanders is certainly possible.
2047: Testamentary Strategies
An additional paper could easily discuss a bequest or bequests in some religious context.
2077: Saints in the City, III
Papers deal with relationships between a town and a cult (including, of course, the latter's hagiography).
2088: Rome: Readings and Projections
Papers have to do with views of medieval Rome in its actual as well as symbolic aspects.
2090: City and Monastery, IV: Monasteries as Transmitters of City Ideals
2093: Bede's Writings
2137: The Fall of Constantinople
Papers deal with reactions to and/or with later interpretations of the Turkish capture of the city in 1453.
2157: Crime and Punishment
Papers treat canon as well as civic law and could also address punishment for infractions in a monastic or mendicant context.
2169: Imagined Cities and Antisemitism in the Later Middle Ages
Papers deal with ways in which antisemitism may have informed representations of particular cities (actual or wholly imaginary) in literature and in plastic or pictorial art.
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