Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:53:05 -0400
From: "Juris G. Lidaka" <[log in to unmask]>
To: Medtextl <[log in to unmask]>,
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Subject: CFP Kzoo '00: Sex & the Penitentials 1150-1450
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Sex and the Penitentials 1150-1450 (2 sessions)
The title follows hard upon Pierre J. Payer's Sex and the Penitentials:
The Development of a Sexual Code, 550-1150 (Toronto: U of Toronto P,
1984), but I'd like the two proposed sessions to examine this later time
with an eye on three particular aspects:
How the penitentials reacted to actual behavioral practices
How the penitentials reflect ecclesiastical or social concerns
How the penitentials were used by other writers & works, & why
If trends can be identified, that would be lovely, but the focus should be
on the connections between penitentials and practice, not on penitentials
and fervent idealism.
Abstracts 15 September 1999
Drafts 1 January 2000 (to beat any Y2K postal problems?)
Final versions 1 April 2000 (sorry, no April Fool's joke)
Presentations 4-7 May 2000 (in case you forgot)
*STRICT* reading time for presentations:
15 minutes if 4 papers are selected per session
20 minutes if 3 papers are selected per session
Send abstracts to
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or, if snail-mail, 10 August - 15 September:
Dr. Juris G. Lidaka
West Virginia State College
Campus Box 57
P.O. Box 1000
Institute, WV 25112-1000
USA
Please check the congress web site for further particulars (poke around
starting from www.wmich.edu/medieval), and consider carefully what
electronic, visual, or audio aids you might need. I have tended to like
good work with primary texts and historical or social background, and I
have always appreciated solid bibliographies.
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