Call For Papers

Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage
Call for Submissions: Art & Architecture

The editorial staff for the single-volume Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Brill, forthcoming, 2009) continues to seek contributors to write signed articles on all topics related to pilgrimage between the Late Antique and the Reformation. Articles range from 150 to 2000 words in length. Compensation (for longer contributions only) will be in the form of discounts on Brill volumes. Below please find the lemmata list for the portions of the work handled by Rita Tekippe (rtekippe@westga.edu), the subject editor for Art & Architecture of Pilgrimage. The volume will also cover economic, social and ritual aspects, canon law, geography, theology, literature. Timeframe: 300-1500.

If you are interested in writing but do not see topics of interest to you on this portion of the lemmata list, please contact either Dr. Tekippe or our executive editor, Dr. Larissa Taylor (ljtaylor@colby.edu), and we can cheerfully and speedily put you in contact with the appropriate subject editor.

Late 2007."Walsingham: Its Historical, Literary, and Cultural Significance." Call for papers: Essays are sought for a collection on the historical, literary and broader cultural significance of Walsingham, the medieval pilgrimage site in Norfolk, England, to the Virgin Mary, which was been revived in the Twentieth Century. Recent accounts have generally focused on historical origins, theology, or personal devotion: while these approaches will not be ignored, essays are especially sought on artistic, anthropological, architectural, poetical (e.g. the Walsingham ‘Ballad’ and its many settings, Walter Raleigh's and Robert Sidney’s poems, Hamlet, Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Robert Lowell), and broader cultural impact and significance of pilgrimages to Walsingham including gender, sexuality, pilgrimage, cultural nostalgia, magic, goddess religion. Poems and photo-essays would be considered. The project is to be co-edited by Gary Waller (Purchase College, SUNY) and Dominic Janes (Birkbeck College, London). A conference on Walsingham and Pilgrimage is tentatively planned for Walsingham in the Spring of 2008, and a call for participants can be expected early 2007. Gary Waller, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies and Drama Studies, School of Humanities, Purchase College, Purchase, NY 10577 ( 914-251-7464; gary.waller@purchase.edu )

December 7-8, 2007. Jerusalem as Narrative Space (4th-15th Century); Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut. Jerusalem is a site of historical events and eschatological expectation. It could be experienced in its 'real' place, but it was also handed down through collective memory and belief, or 'merely' imagined. Over the centuries, in its central role for the Jewish, Christian and Islamic cultures, Jerusalem became the setting or motif of oral, written and pictorial narratives. These narratives range from the Bible and Apocryphal legends, historiographical texts and novels to 'real', fictional or spiritual pilgrim's reports. Jerusalem thus became a narrated space as well as a 'narrating' space, or a continuous origin of narratives.

The terms 'narrative' and 'space' are in themselves multi-layered and their conflation built a highly complex concept. The colloquium will look at the latter not only in the sense of the Bakhtinian chronotopos, but also by inviting a broader approach to the study of narrative space. Basic questions that could be addressed are: How and on what levels has Jerusalem been transformed into a narrative space? What correlations can be observed between narrative and iconic dimensions regarding the holy place(s)? What role do different media (text and image), authors/artists and the public play, and what are their dynamics? How do pictorial and textual narratives contribute to the construction and transmission of animage of Jerusalem? How is Jerusalem portrayed in narrative pictures (scenes of the Passion, for example) and in illustrated books such as the Bible and the Haggadah? How are places specified in and by the narrative? How does the narrative become associated with places? How does the narrative create and/or transfer places? In the colloquium, the study of the translocation of Jerusalem (in texts, images, architecture, landscape or relics) will try to overcome the isolated notion of a copy or topographical resemblance.

We look forward to receiving contributions from all medieval sections of art history, literary studies, history, theology, Jewish and Islamic studies, as well as related disciplines. Please send your contribution suggestions (1 page) by May 10, 2007 to: Annette Hoffmann and Gerhard Wolf; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck- Institut; Via Giuseppe Giusti 44; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; 50121 Firenze - Italia; Tel.: 0039-055-2491178; Fax.: 0039-055-2491166; e-mail: hoffmann@khi.fi.it

The Church Monuments Society
Patron HRH Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO
Registered Charity 279597
http://www.churchmonumentssociety.org

The Church Monuments Essay Prize

The Council of the Church Monuments Society has launched a biennial prize of £250 called the Church Monumments Essay Prize, to be awarded with a certificate for the best essay submitted in the relevant year. The aim of the competition is to stimulate more people, particularly those who are perhaps aiming to write on church monuments for the first time or who are not regular contributors, to submit material for the CMS journal Church Monuments. The competition is therefore open only to those who have not previously published an article in Church Monuments.

The subject of the essay must be an aspect of church monuments of any period in Britain or abroad. The length (including endnotes) shall not exceed 10,000 words and a maximum of 10 illustrations. The prize will only be awarded if the essay is considered by the judges to be of sufficiently high standard to merit publication in the Society’s journal.

The closing date for entries is 1 January 2008. Please contact the Hon. Journal Editor for details or see the Society’s website www.churchmonumentssociety.org for a copy of the rules and for the guidelines to contributors.

Address for details and for submission of articles (before 1 January 2008):
Dr Sophie Oosterwijk FSA
Hon. Journal Editor, Church Monuments
Department of History of Art and Film
University of Leicester
University Road
LEICESTER
LE1 7RH
(United Kingdom)

February 7-9, 2008. Strangers in the City. Orders, Representations and Practices 13th to 15th centuries. Call for Papers (deadline: April 30, 2007) International Conference, University of Trier. This international conference is part of the project "Orders of Images: The Representation of Strangeness and Poverty in Italian Art and Visual Culture (13th-15th c.)," set within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center "Strangers and Poor People: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day." The conference is organized in cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, and is dedicated to representations of strangers in cities. While the focus will be on 13th-15th-century Italy, comparisons with other European and Mediterranean centers are more than welcome. Besides, there will be an introductory session on traditions and conventions of the representation of strangers since late antiquity.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: representations of "close" and "distant" strangers in an urban context as well as the roles assigned to these in images and in imaginary spaces. What is the relation between pictorial languages and orders of images, on the one hand, and social practices or constructions of social reality, on the other? Which figures of inclusion and exclusion can be found in visual, ritual or political representations of: festivities and ceremonies (e.g., adventus, processions, diplomatic encounters), economic exchange and trade connections, or political alliances and conflicts? In how far are strangers as represented in texts and images characterized as part of comprehensive orders? Which are the places, spaces and contexts in which strangers are represented, where do they remain invisible? In which categories (e.g., pilgrims, slaves, scholars, ambassadors, merchants, enemies etc.) do strangers appear in images, are they represented as individuals or groups, and what is their relation to each other? What is the role of religious or ethnic affiliation? What is the function of scholarly and literary discourses about strangers in the cities? What are the dimensions that manifest themselves or are reflected in the visual arts (including architecture)? Are the cities themselves represented as "strange" or heterogeneous? What mental maps do different groups of inhabitants or visitors create of a city? Finally, and from the Collaborate Research Center's point of view, it is those representations in which poverty and strangeness coincide (as, e.g., in "poor strangers") that deserve particular attention. This CFP is aimed at scholars in the fields of art history, literary studies and history as well as from related disciplines. Papers will be 30 minutes long with anadditional 15 minutes for discussion. Please submit your one-page proposal (2,000 signs max.) including a working title by April 30, 2007 to: Peter Bell and Dirk Suckow, Universität Trier, SFB 600, Teilprojekt C 2 D-54286 Trier; Tel.: +49 (0)651 201 3100; Fax: +49 (0)651 201 3293; bellp@uni.trier.de, suckow@uni.trier.de

September 2-5, 2008. "Teaching Writing, Learning to Write," the XVIth Colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine CIPL), will be held at Senate House, University of London. From the medieval viewpoint writing meant not only the skill of handwriting, but also the ability to write with "correct" understanding of grammar, punctuation, etc. The colloquium will address the psychology and sociology of the medieval scribe. How did scribes learn to write in the Middle Ages? What was the social and cultural significance of a script chosen for a particular function ? How was script influenced by features of fashion? What was the interface between scribe and reader and the graphic signs used to communicate a message? Such questions have an impact on the transmission of texts, the growth of literacy, and the history of reading. Call for papers: papers may be on any aspect of manuscript production (script, epigraphy, codicology, decoration) that relates to the above theme. One-page proposals should be sent no later than June 15, 2007 to Pamela Robinson, Institute of English Studies, Univ. of London, Senate House, Malet St., London WC1E 7HU, U.K. (pamela.robinson@sas.ac.uk).

September 7-10, 2008. "CHYMIA: Science and Nature in Early Europe (1450–1750)," an International Conference held at El Escorial, in Madrid. At San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Philip II planned a monument that would perpetuate his glory for centuries. A church for God. A monastery for the Jeronymite order. A palace for the king. A tomb for the Royal Spanish dynasty. A temple for science. It is this last aspect that, unfortunately, has received the least historical attention over the years. This temple of science hosted during the final decades of the sixteenth century some of the most advanced chemical practitioners in Early Modern Europe in its pharmacy and distillation laboratory. The monastery/palace of El Escorial will serve as a backdrop and co-host of this international conference on science and nature in Early Modern Europe. The conference seeks to bring together Spanish and international scholars of science to discuss several topics, including the role of Alchemy from recent historical perspectives. (http://www.revistaazogue.com/conference/presentation.htm). Contact: Miguel López Pérez, Organizing Committee (baeyens@revistaazogue.com).

Ongoing. Donald J. Kagay is currently soliciting further essays for the collection, New Perspectives on the Hundred Years War (volume 1 has appeared, and there may be plans for a third volume). Their previous collection, Medieval Warfare around the Mediterranean, is forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer. The prospective time-frame to publication of new collection is one to two years. For further information, contact the editors at villalonlja@worldnet.att.net.

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