There is a newly formed International Hoccleve Society, and they are offering this Call for Papers for Kalamazoo this coming year: proposals are due by September 15th. “Tradition and the Individual Hoccleve”: a Session for the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2012, sponsored by The International Hoccleve Society In “Tradition and …
The theme of Leeds 2012 is “Rules to Follow (or Not),” which should dovetail beautifully with sessions about lollards. Submitters might especially look at the last “area of discussion” that Leeds proposes to define their topic: “Modalities of creating, adapting, legitimating, proclaiming, enforcing, transferring, transgressing, overriding and/or resisting rules.” Sessions at Leeds need to be …
Here are the sessions we hope to offer next year; the Congress will be on May 10-13. Next year, all three Lollard Society panels will emphasize comparative study – between disciplines, across the supposed divide between medieval and early modern culture, and between thinkers and movements that have in the past been embedded in particular …
46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 12-15, 2011). Sessions will take place Friday, May 13th. The first session will be in Fetzer; the latter two in Valley I. Session 193: Versions of the Bible (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Presider: Kathleen Kennedy, Penn State–Brandywine) “Concatenations: Biblical, Lollard,” Michael P. Kuczynski, Tulane Univ. “Literal …
This will be a one-day colloquium on 7 May 2011 at Christ Church College, Oxford. Researchers and students are welcome. This is to initiate a project to “investigate in close detail all copies of the Bible currently in Oxford collections in order to elicit more evidence about their production and circulation. The study will cover …
This conference will be held from 7 – 9 April 2011, King’s College, Cambridge. What are the forms in which later medieval thinkers articulate epistemological skepticism, relativism and doubt? Is it possible to voice different forms of uncertainty in different institutional contexts and languages? This will be an interdisciplinary workshop for invited speakers, bringing into …
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Two Calls for Papers are approaching rapidly: both are due December 1st. Both of them can be found in full on the Medieval Academy’s Conference Calendar. 1. John Gower in Iberia: Six Hundred Years, the Second International Congress of the John Gower Society, in Valladolid, Spain. Spain has been chosen as a site for Congress …
CFP Leeds 2011: “Dives and Pauper “ The very title of this Middle English treatise speaks to the theme of the Leeds International Medieval Congress. Well-known yet under-studied, its prologue deals with questions of wealth and evangelical poverty, while its treatment of the Ten Commandments has provided historians with a wealth of information about fourteenth- …
UPDATED: The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will be held jointly with that of MAP (the Medieval Association of the Pacific) at the Chaparral Suites Hotel (http://chaparralsuites.com/) in Scottsdale, Arizona, 14-16 April 2011. It will be hosted by ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe. …
The Call for Papers for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds for Summer 2011 has been posted. The theme will be “Poor . . . Rich”: How uneven was the distribution of wealth in medieval communities and polities? How was the distribution of wealth affected by environmental and commercial cycles of paucity and plenty? How …