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.

The Heroic Age, Issue 14: “Law and Legal Culture in the Early Middle Ages.” Guest Editor: Andrew Rabin, University of Louisville. The Heroic Age invites submissions for a special issue on law and legal culture in the early middle ages. We construe the subject of this issue broadly, and we are eager to receive submissions representing a variety of perspectives, methodologies, national or ethnic cultures, and disciplines. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): royal legislation, legal manuscripts, law in/and literature, legal procedure, charters and diplomatics, writs and wills, dispute resolution, theories of law and justice, canon law, editing medieval law, law and philosophy, perceptions of medieval law in later periods, law in/and art, international law, and intersections between medieval Asian and European legal traditions. We welcome traditional philological and historicist approaches, as well as those informed by modern critical theory. Prospective contributors should feel free to contact Andrew Rabin (andrew.rabin@louisville.edu) if they have any questions. Articles should be 7000 words including bibliography and endnotes, and conform to The Heroic Age’s in-house style. Instructions may be found at http://www.heroicage.org/authors.html. All submissions will be reviewed by two readers according to a double-blind policy. All submissions should be sent to haediting@yahoo.com. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2008.

Feminist Approaches to Medieval Art and Visual Culture: Past, Present, Future. We invite submissions for a special issue of the Medieval Feminist Forum (volume 44 number 2) to address the past, present, and future of feminist approaches to medieval art and visual culture. Some contributors may wish to highlight the ways in which feminist perspectives have enriched the understanding of medieval art or to identify the contributions that studies of visual materials have made to feminist work in medieval studies. Others may prefer to identify dead ends to which feminism has led medieval art history or to critique ways in which feminist scholarship on medieval visual culture has been co-opted in a post-feminist age. We also welcome essays on current research that utilize feminist approaches and essays that seek to chart a path forward for feminist work on medieval art. Inquiries from potential contributors may be addressed to either or both of the co-editors of the issue: Marian Bleeke, Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Cleveland State University, m.bleeke@csuohio.edu or Felice Lifshitz, Professor of History, Department of History, Florida International University lifshitz@fiu.edu. The deadline for completed submissions, which should be sent via email to Felice Lifshitz, is August 15, 2008. Style guidelines and other contributor information for MFF are available on the website of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (http://www.minotstateu.edu/mff/contributor.shtml).

October 2-4, 2008. Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association hosted by Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Conference Themes: "Medieval Imagination"/ "Medieval Southwest" with papers are welcomed on all aspects of medieval history and culture, including medieval art, medieval languages, history, Neo-Latin, connections between the Old and New Worlds, the Coronado expedition, medievalisms, music. Early submissions are greatly welcomed, but please try to send in all session proposals and paper abstracts (150-300 words) no later than September 1, 2008. Please send submissions to Prof. John Howe, Department of History, Texas Tech University, Box 41013, Lubbock TX 79409-1013 USA John.Howe@ttu.edu or to Don Kagay, 2812-A Westgate, Albany, GA 31721 USA dkagay1@netzero.com

October 3-4, 2008. The forty-seventh annual “Midwest Medieval History Conference” will be held on the campus of Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, USA. The conference will commence on Friday afternoon with graduate student papers. Saturday's meeting will feature a plenary address, as well as several sessions of presentations on a range of topics. At the end of the day there will be a banquet and the President's Reception. This year's plenary speaker will be Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University). A particular theme of the conference will be "violence" in all its aspects in the Middle Ages, but paper proposals are welcome on any area of medieval history. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals, and those presenting will receive a $100 honorarium. Abstracts of 200-300 words in length may be sent via e-mail attachment to mdbailey@iastate.edu, or by regular post to Michael D. Bailey, MMHC Program Chair, Iowa State University, Department of History, 603 Ross Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1202. Any questions regarding the conference may be directed to the same address. Deadline for submission: July 1, 2008.

December 2-6, 2008. Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.) 7th Biennial International Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. See http://www.anzamems2008.utas.edu.au/ Open theme. Twenty-minute papers on all aspects of medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies welcome. Proposals for panels of 3 papers are also welcome. Deadline for abstracts (maximum 300 words) is September 1, 2008. Please send abstracts to anzamems2008@utas.edu.au or to one of the convenors Elizabeth Freeman Elizabeth.Freeman@utas.edu.au or Jenna Mead Jenna.Mead@utas.edu.au

April 3-4, 2009. "The City in Medieval Life and Culture" is the theme of the 36th annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, to be held at the University of the South. Plenary lecturers are John Najemy (Cornell University) and Pamela King (University of Bristol). Call for papers: proposals are invited for papers or sessions relating to any aspect of the theme. Please submit abstract (maximum 250 words) and brief c.v. to sridyard@sewanee.edu no later than October 1, 2008. If you would like to propose a session, please include abstracts and CVs from all participants. For further information on the conference and on the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize please see: http://www.sewanee.edu/medieval/main.html. Contact: Susan J. Ridyard, Dept. of History, Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Univ. of the South, 735 University Ave., Sewanee TN 37383.

April 22-25, 2009. “Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy An International Conference to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the death of Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) at the University of Kent, at Canterbury. Taking as its theme the legacy of Anselm, the conference will operate with a broad interdisciplinary remit. The organisers welcome papers on all aspects of the legacy of Anselm’s thought and career. The conference will be an opportunity to celebrate, deepen and re-examine key questions about the name that Anselm has enjoyed in the fields of philosophy and theology; to re-assess the impact that he and the intellectual methods he developed had upon his immediate, 12th century and later successors; to look again at the historical Anselm and the role he played in the political and ecclesiastical issues of his day, and to explore the rich and diverse ways in which his memory has been preserved and debated since his death. It is hoped that the breadth and depth of Anselm’s interests, from the centre of his monastic life to his activity in the world, will be reflected in the subject matter of the conference. Please send proposed paper titles, with an abstract of 300 words (papers to be 20 minutes long) to: Dr Giles E. M. Gasper, Department of History, Durham University, 43 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EX, United Kingdom, 44 (191) 3341073, g.e.m.gasper@durham.ac.uk. The deadline for proposal submissions is mid-October 2008.

July 13-16, 2009. "Heresy and Orthodoxy" will be the theme of the International Medieval Congress, Leeds. The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. Papers and sessions on any topic related to the European Middle Ages are welcome. Call for papers: Proposals completed on line are preferred. Proposals must be submitted by August 31, 2008; session proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2008. The Imc welcomes session and paper proposals submitted in all major European languages. Contact: Axel E. W. Müller, International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Bldg. 1.03, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (+44-113-343-3614; fax: +44-113-343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc).

August, 20-22, 2009. “Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages IV” at the University of Tampere, Finland. Organized by: Trivium Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere in collaboration with the Finnish Historical Society and the Classical Association of Finland. The fourth international Passages-conference focuses on religion in its social context. Religion is seen as an active, ongoing process involving society and community. We welcome papers which focus on different religious acts and actors - communities, families or individuals - and with sensitive approach to social differences: gender, age and status. Important themes in the conference are the differences and similarities between elite culture and popular religion in Classical and Medieval society. The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but also geographically and disciplinary (all branches of Classical and Medieval Studies). We strongly encourage contributions from a comparative and/or interdisciplinary perspective. The conference will concentrate on: Religious rituals in everyday life, Writing and reading religion vs. oral religious culture, Devotional groups and their functions in society, Official and nonofficial religious practices and practitioners, Gendered participation, Forms of devoted life: e.g. living as devoted child/man/ woman/couple, Sacrifice and self sacrifice. A one-page abstract (setting out thesis and conclusions and containing name, academic affiliation, postal address, e-mail) should be submitted preferably by mail-attachment to the conference secretary, passages@uta.fi., or to the address below. The deadline for abstracts is October 1, 2008, decisions on the acceptance of papers will be made in December 2008. Presentation of conference papers preferably in English, although papers in other major scientific languages are accepted if provided with English summary or translation. For further information, please contact passages@uta.fi or visit http://www.uta.fi/trivium/.

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