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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture (With apologies for cross posting) Just a reminder about our conference in Huddersfield next summer. We have already received a good number of proposals, but will continue to accept them until the end of this month. Religious Men in the Middle Ages 6-8 July 2012 University of Huddersfield West Yorkshire, UK This conference seeks to explore and re-evaluate medieval men’s relationship with religion, both professed religious men and laymen of any faith. Despite their centrality to ‘traditional’ histories of the Middle Ages, many aspects of the lives and representation of medieval men remain relatively unexplored. Only recently have scholars begun to consider what religion, belief and devotion meant to men as men and how these informed and intersected with other aspects of their identity (social status, gender, occupation, ethnicity, age, location, etc). We invite papers which consider the experiences, self-perception or depiction of individuals or groups from any faith, religious tradition, monotheistic, pagan, or heretical, or which focus on men who rejected faith and religion altogether. We encourage proposals from scholars working in any relevant field: history, literature and language, art history, musicology, archaeology, etc, and from any Medieval period (c. 500 – early 1500s) or geographical setting. We hope to publish a volume of essays based on a selection of the papers delivered at the conference. Plenary speakers: Professor Michael L Satlow Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. ‘Antique and Early Medieval Rabbinic thought on constructions of masculinity and religiosity, with particular reference to Torah study’ Dr Jennifer Thibodeaux Associate Professor in Women’s Studies and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. ‘The disciplining of the Norman clergy and the engagement with celibacy as a defining feature of clerical identity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries’ Dr James Clark Reader in Late Medieval History, University of Bristol. ‘The attractions of the monastic life for English men between the Black Death and the Reformation’ The conference will be held at the University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK. It has been timed for the weekend before the Leeds IMC to allow international visitors to attend both. Leeds is a 20 minute train journey from Huddersfield. Huddersfield has good train connections to Manchester Airport which lies less than an hour away http://www2.hud.ac.uk/about/visiting/ The conference organisers are Dr Pat Cullum and Dr Katherine J. Lewis, editors of Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages (Cardiff, 2004) Please send a brief proposal to [log in to unmask] by 30 September 2011 This information can also be found online http://www2.hud.ac.uk/mhm/history/research/conferences/religiousmen.php Dr Katherine J. Lewis Senior Lecturer in History University of Huddersfield Huddersfield. HD1 3DH Tel. (+44) 01484 471870 Fax. (+44) 01484 472655 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Leaders in student-centred academic excellence www.hud.ac.uk/mh/ ________________________________ --- This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability. ********************************************************************** 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