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CALL FOR PAPERS
“Varieties of Service: From Courtly to Domestic”
Sessions at the Renaissance Society of America meetings
23-26 March 2015, in Berlin, Germany
Christians, and especially the religious, served God and their
neighbours; subjects served rulers; soldiers served their leaders;
courtiers served their lords; clients served their patrons; lovers
served their beloved; wives served their husbands; apprentices and
domestics served their masters and mistresses. Ideals and practices of
service, with both religious and feudal roots in the Middle Ages,
continued in the Renaissance and early modern centuries to shape many
social, political, economic and cultural relationships. In parallel
with patron/client bonds, gift-giving and other non-capitalist
reciprocities, service was a means of negotiating hierarchies. Gender,
age, and social rank mediated relations of service.
Service implied subordination, and sometimes indeed exploitation. At
the same time, it could be honorable and elevating, and sometimes a
basis for making claims of the one you served. Proposals are invited
for papers that examine service as concept and moral ideal, but
especially as a real life framework for conducting human relationships
of many kinds.
These sessions will be part of the meetings of the Renaissance Society
of America to be held in Berlin, Germany, 26-28 March 2015. They will
be sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium.
Proposals for these sessions should be submitted electronically to
both Konrad Eisenbichler <[log in to unmask]> and
Elizabeth Cohen <[log in to unmask]>.
Each proposal must include: the paper title; an abstract of the paper
(150-word maximum); a short list of keywords; and the speaker’s brief
curriculum vitae (300-word maximum) and contact information (address,
telephone, email).
Deadline for submission of proposals: Friday, 6 June 2014.
Please note: presenters will need to be members of the RSA and will
need to pay the relevant conference fee through the RSA website. For
more information, please see the RSA submission guidelines at:
http://www.rsa.org/?page=2015Berlin
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