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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture 72nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians Cfp 'The Body' 2-4 July 2003 'From Aristotle to Foucault, the body has been widely regarded (and no less widely denied) as the essential crossroads between self and society. Next year's Anglo-American Conference will be devoted to the history of the body in all its multifarious aspects and multiple meanings: as corporeal and disembodied, mind-body-soul, the body politic; as diet, eating, nutrition and malnutrition; as skin and bones, head and heart, flesh and blood, sanity and madness; as childhood, youth, maturity and old age; as men and women, black and white, civilised and barbarian, saved and damned; as regulation, discipline, coercion, punishment, defilement and torture; as health, hygiene, medicine, anatomy, treatment and cleanliness; as dress, undress, dance, theatre, sport, performance and recreation; as morals and manners, behaviour and politeness, beauty and purity; as fasting, piercing, tattooing and self-mutilation; as photographs, portraits, effigies, death masks and other forms of representation; as birth (and birth control), copulation, incest, death, funerary rituals and commemoration.' The deadline is 1 NOv 2002 and suggestions and proposals should be sent to Dr Debra Birch ([log in to unmask]) ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html