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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture With apologies for cross posting, please find below the CFP for a conference. Conference: Roman breviaries from the 13th Century to the Council of Trent. Language, Script, Text, Image, Function, Structure Conference dates: Pazin/Poreč (Croatia), 4th-6th October 2018 Organizers: Old Church Slavonic Institute (Zagreb), State Archives in Pazin, Associazione Archivistica Ecclesiastica (Roma) Submission deadline: 1st June 2018 This international conference aims to bring together scholars working in different fields of medieval or early modern studies to discuss topics related to the investigation of the Roman breviaries created under the auspices of the Roman Church in Latin and other languages during the late medieval period. The goal of the interdisciplinary conference is to shed light on the historical development of Roman brevaries before the Council of Trent, their use, language and script, diversity of breviaries's content, elaborate illustrations, margin records and other topics. The conference will be held at the State Archives in Pazin, from Thursday 4th to Saturday 6th October 2018. The participants will be accommodated in a hotel in Poreč (old town on the coast, 32km from Pazin). The conference also includes an one-day excursion to Istria. The Call for Papers is addressed to scholars from various disciplines engaged in medieval and early modern studies (Textology, Language Studies, History, Art History, Liturgy, Paleography, Literature). Please submit an abstract (up to 400 words) with a short curriculum by *1st June 2018 *to the following email address: *[log in to unmask]*Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the programme committee and notification of acceptance will be sent by email by *20th June 2018.* Languages of the conference: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Croatian and all other Slavic languages. The papers should be 15 minutes long. Proposals may consider some of the following subjects topics: ·historical context (underlying the origin of specific codices); ·monastic and cathedral typology of the liturgy of the hours in the Middle Ages (monastization of the liturgy of the hours); ·Breviarium secundum consuetudinem Romanae Curiae, 12th century; ·Missale plenarium and Breviarium romanum in the processes of unification of the Roman liturgy in the West (Pope Honorius III, the historical context); ·Franciscan Breviarium Regulae, 13th century (Assisi, Biblioteca Sacro Convento, Fondo Antico Comunale, Ms. 694); ·role of mendicant orders in dissemination of the Breviary According to the Roman Curia; ·Breviary of Cardinal Quiñones (1535) and his role in reformative efforts preceding the Council of Trent; ·saints’ festivities in the breviaries from the Croatian territory in the second part of the Middle Ages (potential way forward for locating and dating codices); ·liturgy of the hours and Christian understanding of time; ·rite as a method of calculating and transforming time; ·miniature typology, iconography and style; ·relationship between text and image; ·iconographic and visual features of illuminations in breviaries compared to liturgical books, especially missals; ·differences between illuminating breviaries for liturgical and choral purposes and for private use (representation); ·relationship between illuminations in manuscript breviaries and illustrations in printed breviaries; ·specificities of visual design in Glagolitic breviaries compared to Latin breviaries; ·phenomenon of proactive use and subsequent visual supplements in the breviaries added by users; ·iconographic innovations in Late Gothic breviaries; ·graphic specificities in the Breviaries from Beram; ·place of the script in the Breviaries from Beram in the continuity of development of the Croatian Glagolitic script; ·textology of medieval breviaries; ·hagiographies, passions, apocrypha in breviaries; ·characteristics of the stylematic of (narrative and poetic) texts in breviaries ·the Bible, homilies and sermons in breviaries; ·the comparison between quoting Biblical quotations and texts of Church Fathers in breviaries; ·the linguistic layers and their characteristics in breviaries (depending on the section of the breviary, the type of text, the scribe, etc.); ·comparison between the Church Slavonic norm in breviaries and other similar Croatian Glagolitic texts; ·the phonological and morphological, syntactic and supra-syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the breviary All enquiries and proposals should be sent to: *[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. * Andrea Radošević, PhD, research associate Old Church Slavonic Institute Departement of Medieval Literature Demetrova 11, Zagreb Croatia [log in to unmask] --- Ova e-pošta je provjerena na viruse Avast protuvirusnim programom. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe 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: unsubscribe 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/medieval-religion