medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hi, Carolyn. This year I did a paper on the wedding festivities in
Rome of Lucrezia Borgia to Alfonso I of Ferrara. NOW...may do a paper
on the wedding festivities of Lucrezia Borgia to Alfonso I of Ferrara
done in Ferrara? Great stuff. More interesting than Rome. Lots of
plays (Plautus in Italian), $money$, banqueting, etc. yrs, tom ault
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:52:48 +0100
Carolin Esser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture
>
> With apologies for cross-posting
>
> Call for Papers for the International Medieval Congress, Western
> Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
>
> 10-13 May 2007
>
>
> The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, sponsors two
> sessions on:
>
>
> The Exeter Christ Revisited
>
>
> Twenty years ago, George Hardin Brown wrote that the "composite art"
>of
> Old English religious poetry, specifically the Exeter Christ I poem,
>is
> "marvellous, even miraculous" in its ability to capture and express
> difficult and "paradoxical" Christian doctrine.
>
> This session solicits papers on all aspects of the Exeter Christ
>poems
> (Christ I, II, III). In particular we welcome papers which build on
>the
> tradition of those how have sought to interpret the Christ poems via
> axes of doctrinal, philosophical, aesthetic, stylistic and figural
> interest. We also encourage papers which treat the manuscript
>context of
> the Christ poems.
>
> Papers are welcomed on any one of the three Christ poems, but we
>also
> seek papers which regard the effect of the three poems as a
>'composite'
> whole and study connections of language and theme across the three.
>Can
> we read the Exeter Christ as an intellectual whole? If so, why has
>it
> generated far less scholarly interest than Beowulf? These sessions
>aim
> to provide a forum in which the discussion of the Exeter Christ is
> furthered and the appreciation of the poems fostered.
>
>
> Please send abstracts by 10 September 2006 via email to either of
>the
> organisers:
>
> Carolin Esser [log in to unmask]
>
> or
>
> Bruce Gilchrist [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
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