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To whom it may concern,
I would greatly appreciate if you forward the below call for papers for
the 2010 volume of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval
Studies to your readers.
Many thanks,
Grace Windsor,
Co-editor.
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Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Special Call For Papers for 2010 Issue on
Exile in the Middle Ages
Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed
journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval
world. Published electronically once a year, its mission is to present a
forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their
ideas. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any
discipline and period of medieval studies. We are also interested in book
reviews on recent works that reflect on some aspect of our theme: an
abbreviated list of possible review titles appears on our website. Given
the wide scope of the theme, we invite additional proposals for reviews.
For further information please visit our website at http://hortulus.net
Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations
of exile – political, spiritual, or intellectual - in art, chronicles,
letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. Expulsion,
banishment, or prolonged separation from one’s homeland was experienced by
many in the medieval world; it is likewise one of the earliest topics in
literature. From the Biblical depiction of Adam and Eve, to the Life of
St. Brendan, Grettir’s Saga, and the works of Dante, the pain and
difficulty inherent in the experience of exile lent itself to metaphoric
exploitation. Exile appears, too, in various religious traditions as a
symbol of separation, alienation, and the need for redemption. Hence, an
expanded definition of exile might encompass any forced displacement, be
it political, social, cultural, or spiritual. Though loss is inherent in
the experience of exile, it may also represent an opportunity for change
and growth. Self-imposed exile could be a form of protest against, or a
search for something in opposition to, known experience.
Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:
-Literary and artistic depictions of exile
-Kings, conflicts, and legal exile
-Cultural aspects of separation: ethnicity, religion, gender
-Christian exile in the Celtic tradition
-The depiction of Classical exile in medieval literature
-Exile in the Jewish imagination
-Exile in hagiography
-Religious exiles: interdict, excommunication, anathema, the expulsion of
heretics
-Treatments of the Garden of Eden; the concepts of Heaven, Hell, and
Purgatory
-Self-imposed exile: quest and transformation; exile as a form of
political protest, as pilgrimage, in anchoritic monasticism
-Diseases, such as plague and leprosy, and exclusion
-Women as migrants and exiles
The 2010 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval
Studies will be published in May of 2011. All graduate students are
welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries
via email to [log in to unmask] by March 1, 2011.
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