Hi all,
I thought the below conference would be of interest.
All the best
Jim
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2011 14:38 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: FW: Oxford Medieval
Graduate Conference CFP Reminder ALL ENQUIRIES:
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Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Meat: Aspects and Approaches. Oxford
13-14 April 2012
The conference is aimed at early career scholars and graduate students
working in medieval and early modern studies. It is intended that a
volume of proceedings comprising selected papers will appear in the
Medium Ævum Monographs Series. Contributions are welcomed from diverse
fields of research such as history of art and architecture, history,
theology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and history of ideas.
Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes. Please email 250-word
abstracts (text only, no attachments please) to
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Suggested topics might include, but are not limited to: Feasting,
Fasting, Lent (Intellectual) Nourishment, Gluttony, Starvation,
Vegetarianism, Hunting and Game, Bones and Skins, Sacrifice, Recipe,s
Food and magic, Food taboos / prohibitions, Hospitality, Decay, Diet,
Killing the fatted calf (Clean and unclean), Animals Butchery
,Cannibalism, Poison, food and medicine, Corpus Christi
Transubstantiation Blood
The registration fee is expected to be £12. We hope to organize a
conference banquet in Lincoln’s hall on the Friday night and will
provide details of this as soon as they are available; it is hoped that
this will cost in the region of £20. All updates and further
information, including details of travel bursaries, can be obtained from
the conference website: http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/conf_grad.shtml
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