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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear All, I am deeply sorry, but in the previous CFP I have circulated for the AAIS conference there was a mistake: the 2014 AAIS Annual Conference will take place on May 23-25, and not, as I have wrongly indicated, on May 13-15. To avoid any confusion, please find below the correct and definitive copy of the CFP. Sorry again. Best wishes, Nicolò Maldina CALL FOR PAPERS Panel: Preaching in Late-Medieval Florence Organizer: Dr Nicolò Maldina (University of Leeds), on behalf of the AHRC founded project “Dante and Late-Medieval Florence Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society”, co-led by the University of Leeds and the University of Warwick. Project website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125117/dante_and_late_medieval_florence Venue: American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference – Zurich (Switzerland, 23-25 May 2014) Conference website: http://www.rose.uzh.ch/forschung/kongresse/aais2014_en.html The AHRC-funded project “Dante and Late-Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society” aims to recover the multiple experiences of theology in late-medieval Italy, focusing on Florence in the 1280s and 1290s. The project therefore casts light on the ways in which medieval theology was mediated and experienced within a specific historical and geographical context, paying close attention to its varieties and their effects upon different publics. Organized as part of the research activities of this project, this panel at the AAIS aims to investigate late-medieval Florentine preaching during the second half of the 13th century, with a specific focus on the 1280s and the 1290s. Although the specific goal is to locate preaching within the particular context of Florence during the last two decades of the 13th century, the panel also aims to take into account the context of late-medieval preaching in Italy as well as the evolution of preaching throughout the 13th century and the early 14th century. Questions addressed in this panel include, but are not limited to: – Who where the preachers that delivered sermons in late-medieval Florence? – What sort of documentary evidence do we have in order to reconstruct their activities? – Were the sermons delivered in Florence in any way different, compared to those delivered in other Italian cities? – Was there a specific relationship between the sermons delivered in Florence and the books housed in the convents of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce? – Is it possible to reconstruct the circulation of sermons collections, summae exemplorum and other tools for preachers in the libraries of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella? – Do we have any evidence of a relationship between lay and religious culture of that period, taking advantage of the role of sermons as mediators of theological ideas in a non learned context? – What sort of relationship is it possible to identify between sermons and other forms of theological expression (e.g. Quaestiones, liturgy, visual arts, ecc.) in the context of late-medieval Florence? Papers are welcomed from all disciplines in Italian studies (e.g., literature, history, paleography, philology, social sciences, etc.) and can be in Italian or English. Anyone interested in submitting a paper should send a proposal - including the title of the paper, a short abstract (250 words) and a curriculum vitae – to [log in to unmask] by 20 November 2013. Dr Nicolò Maldina Postdoctoral Research Fellow SMLC - Italian University of Leeds Leeds Centre for Dante Studies Leeds Humanities Research Institute 29-31 Clarendon Place Leeds, LS2 9JT (UK) +44 (0)1133435839 ________________________________________ From: Nicolo Maldina Sent: 16 October 2013 23:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CFP - AAIS 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS PANEL: Preaching in Late-Medieval Florence ORGANIZER: Dr Nicolò Maldina (University of Leeds), on behalf of the AHRC founded project “Dante and Late-Medieval Florence Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society”, co-led by the University of Leeds and the University of Warwick. Project website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125117/dante_and_late_medieval_florence VENUE: American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference – Zurich (Switzerland, 13-15 May 2014) Conference website: http://www.rose.uzh.ch/forschung/kongresse/aais2014_en.html The AHRC-funded project “Dante and Late-Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society” aims to recover the multiple experiences of theology in late-medieval Italy, focusing on Florence in the 1280s and 1290s. The project therefore casts light on the ways in which medieval theology was mediated and experienced within a specific historical and geographical context, paying close attention to its varieties and their effects upon different publics. Organized as part of the research activities of this project, this panel at the AAIS aims to investigate late-medieval Florentine preaching during the second half of the 13th century, with a specific focus on the 1280s and the 1290s. Although the specific goal is to locate preaching within the particular context of Florence during the last two decades of the 13th century, the panel also aims to take into account the context of late-medieval preaching in Italy as well as the evolution of preaching throughout the 13th century and the early 14th century. Questions addressed in this panel include, but are not limited to: – Who where the preachers that delivered sermons in late-medieval Florence? – What sort of documentary evidence do we have in order to reconstruct their activities? – Were the sermons delivered in Florence in any way different, compared to those delivered in other Italian cities? – Was there a specific relationship between the sermons delivered in Florence and the books housed in the convents of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce? – Is it possible to reconstruct the circulation of sermons collections, summae exemplorum and other tools for preachers in the libraries of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella? – Do we have any evidence of a relationship between lay and religious culture of that period, taking advantage of the role of sermons as mediators of theological ideas in a non learned context? – What sort of relationship is it possible to identify between sermons and other forms of theological expression (e.g. Quaestiones, liturgy, visual arts, ecc.) in the context of late-medieval Florence? Papers are welcomed from all disciplines in Italian studies (e.g., literature, history, paleography, philology, social sciences, etc.) and can be in Italian or English. Anyone interested in submitting a paper should send a proposal - including the title of the paper, a short abstract (250 words) and a curriculum vitae – to [log in to unmask] by 20 November 2013. 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