Monthly Archives: November 2017

Medieval and Early Modern Centre – Celtic Influence on English, Luther, CARMEN

  1. The Medieval and Early Modern Centre invites you to a lunchtime lecture

Celtic Influence on English, for, against, and/or why not?

Professor Anders Ahlqvist (University of Sydney)

Monday 13 November 2017, at 12 noon

Woolley Common Room N480, Level 4, John Woolley Building A20

See Abstract and more details attached below.

Please note:

Anders’ lecture will include a light lunch. RSVP (for catering purposes: acceptances only) by Thursday, 13 November 2017, to the MEMC Information Co-ordinator Dr Penny Nash: penny.j.nash@gmail.com

  1. SMRG (Sydney Medieval and Renaissance Group)

Martin Luther and the Jews

Sybil Jack

7pm for 7:30pm, 8 November, Judith Bonzol’s home at Five Dock.

Please contact Judith on 0411 415176 or at bonzol@iinet.net.au to register attendance and to confirm the address if necessary.

A donation in money or food for the dinner would be appreciated.

  1. CARMEN (The Worldwide Medieval Network)

http://www.carmen-medieval.net/cz/about-us-10039.html

Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North – Call for Papers

2018 Call for Papers

We invite submissions to our 8th annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North, which will take place at the University of Iceland, on April 13-14th, 2018.

This student organized two-day event is intended as an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (MA and PhD level) of Old Norse and medieval Scandinavia. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit.

In accordance with the HÍ Student Conference‘s previous installments the theme of this year is left broadly open for any independent research related to medieval Scandinavia.

Participation at the conference is not restricted to those enrolled in the University of Iceland, and interested students from other universities are encouraged to submit. In the past years the conference has becoming increasingly international, and last year the conference was attended by speakers from ten universities, in eight countries.

Submission guidelines

If you wish to present a paper at the conference, please e-mail an abstract of 250-300 words to HIstudentconference@gmail.com before 5th of January 2018. The student conference committee reserves the right to make selections based on quality of written abstracts, adherence to submission guidelines, and timely submissions of abstracts.

The conference languages are Icelandic and English, and individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10 minute discussion time.

Further information can be found on the conference blog at histudentconference.wordpress.com. Please direct any further inquiries to the student conference committee via e-mail (see above).

 

Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
June 18–20, 2018
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

The Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 18–20, 2018) is a convenient summer venue for scholars from around the world to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.

The plenary speakers for this year will be Geoffrey Parker of The Ohio State University, and Carole Hillenbrand of the University of St Andrews.

The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On-campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned apartments as well as a luxurious boutique hotel. Inexpensive meal plans are available, and there is also a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance of campus.

While attending the Symposium participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library.

The Sixth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.

The deadline for all submissions is December 31. Decisions will be made in January and the final program will be published in February.

For more information or to submit your proposal online go to: http://smrs.slu.edu

II Dialogues around Early Medieval Ages – Call for Papers

II DIALOGUES AROUND EARLY MEDIEVAL AGES (4TH-11ST CENTURIES):

«FALL AND RISE OF THE POWER STRUCTURES»

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE OF MADRID

For 8 and 9 March 2018 will take place the II Dialogues around Early Medieval Ages (4th-11st centuries): «Fall and rise of the power structures» in Geography and History Faculty of Complutense University of Madrid, seminar organized within the formative activities of the program of Doctorate in History and Archaeology – Medieval History investigation line of the above college.

Same as the previous edition, the objective of this colloquium is again specialists in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Ages can share their researches in a congress organized in discussion tables, for exchange common or divergent impressions (with a clear enriching end) about how, during the transition stage between ancient and medieval words, the different power structures wavered in the social, politic, economic, religious and cultural system.

So we call for participation proposals both those that are doing actually their thesis and recent PhDs, as well as all interest in the thematic independently of their academic grade; opened not only for Complutense attached, but to rest of national and international universities.

In correspondence, to this interuniversitary character, they have fit all versed in any brunch inside the Humanities (historians, art historians, philologists, philosophers, archaeologies, arabists, etc.).

We pretend this seminar would be a dialogue, discussion and debate space around the imbalances produced after the Western Roman Empire’s end and the promotion of Germanic and Islamic words, along with the multiple answers that different Mediterranean and European power groups yielded to that events, lest obtain a global outlook and observe continuity or rupture processes.

By last, we’ll stimulate dialogue and coexistence spaces articulated around social plans alien to academic area with the porpoise of cement a series of personal and professional relationship in a distended environment.

CALL FOR PAPERS.

  Have place all the proposals that adjusts to the thematic and chronologic framework, between commonly is known as Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (4th-11st centuries), both in Mediterranean and European ambit.
  Inside new interdisciplinary methodologies, they can take part specialists in History, Science and Technique, Art History, Philosophy, Philology, Literature, Archaeology and Geography, Anthropology and Sociology, Arabism and Islamism, Byzantinism, Theology, etc.
  Papers will impart individually, although the authority will be able to be collective.
  Advisably the language will be Spanish, in order to promote more fluid debates; however, a priori, any idiom will be good received.

To participate simply write an email to <dialogosaltaedadmediaucm@gmail.com> before 15 December 2017, sending a Word document indicating the proposal title, name and surname, university affiliation, these director/s (if they would be), a short curriculum of no more of one page, contact e-mail, the abstract of maximum 150 words in single space and three key words. Each intervention will take less than 20 minutes.

Anyone who want participate like assistant, must let known to the Organization sending an e-mail to <dialogosaltaedadmediaucm@gmail.com> indicating their name and surname, a contact e-mail and their desire of assist in person.

Luther and Dreams Public Lecture

‘Luther and Dreams’
A public lecture by Prof. Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford) at The University of Melbourne.
 

Date: Monday 4 December 2017
Time: 6.15–7.30pm
Room 153 (Forum Theatre)
Level 1, Arts West North Wing
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 301
 
Registrations:  http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/lutheranddreams
Information: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/luther-and-dreams/ 
Enquiries: che-melb-admin@unimelb.edu.au
 
This lecture marks the 1517–2017 quincentenary of the European Reformation, set in motion by Martin Luther in the German university town of Wittenberg.
 
Luther regularly labelled superstition, Catholic dogma, and the beliefs of the Turks and the Jews, as ‘dreams’. ‘Lauter somnia’, pure dreams, was one of his favourite insults, and he liked nothing better than to debunk them. Yet Luther was also fascinated by signs and portents, and though he often joked about dreams, he too noted important dreams. Dreams also happened to be recorded at key turning points of the Reformation, and they give rare insight into Luther’s deepest anxieties and feelings. Discussed collectively, Luther and his followers used dream interpretations to communicate concerns they did not discuss explicitly. This lecture explores how historians can make use of dreams to understand the subjectivity of people in the past.
 
The lecture is co-hosted by the History Discipline of The University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion.

Professor Lyndal Roper is Regius Professor of History, Oriel College, University of Oxford, and one of the world’s most renowned historians of early modern times. She is the first woman, and the first Australian, to hold the Regius Chair, and in 2016 she received the prestigious Gerda Henkel prize for her ‘trailblazing’ work on social, gender, and psychological history in the age of the Reformation. Her latest book, Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Random House, 2017), is the first historical biography of Luther to be published in English for many decades. She is now writing a history of the German Peasants’ War (1524–1525), the greatest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. Professor Roper is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften; she is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.

Biblical Creatures: The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in Pre-Modern Abrahamic Hermeneutic Traditions – Call for Submissions

Biblical Creatures
The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in Pre-Modern Abrahamic Hermeneutic Traditions
 

Deadline 1 February 2018

In recent years, the growing field of ‘Human-Animal Studies’ has done much to bring animals into the focus of a variety of academic disciplines. Pre-modern texts offer many possibilities for interdisciplinary research on the subject. In the Middle Ages, for example, Jewish as well as Christian and Muslim authors often use discourses on the allegorical meanings of animals in order to express their attitudes towards God and the world, normative religious and social orders, or interdependencies between nature and culture. In many instances, they deal with animals as carriers of meaning which are of interest to members of different religious communities because they appear in a common authoritative reference text, i.e. the Hebrew Bible / the Old Testament. The pre-modern authors’ respective hermeneutic approaches show how they develop different religious, social, political, philosophical, and scientific ideas and how they distance themselves from the other religions’ hermeneutic traditions but also exchange elements and integrate them into their own discourses.

To name but one example: What do Medieval and Early Modern Jewish, Christian and even Muslim authors make of the dove or turtle-dove which is mentioned as a potential sacrificial offering in the Bible but also appears as a messenger announcing the end of the Deluge and as a symbol denoting the beloved woman in the Song of Songs? How do Jewish scholars handle the fact that the dove is often associated with Christianity’s Holy Spirit? What becomes of the rabbinic idea that the dove symbolizes the congregation of Israel needing to take flight from danger? What stance do Jewish and Christian authors take up regarding the assumption that doves are especially loyal and faithful, and what consequences do they infer from this assumption? How does the way a dove looks figure in their interpretations? What happens with theological ascriptions when they find their way into secular texts? In what ways do new theoretical approaches to animals bring new fresh insights into biblical literature?

These and similar questions can be asked concerning many biblical animals. Jewish and Christian discussions on the symbolic meanings of these animals are especially suitable for comparative studies because both religions refer to the same religious core text which is subject to ever new exegeses and commentaries. The comparison could also include Muslim and Manichaean engagement with Biblical creatures. Medieval and Early Modern authors deal with the allegorical meanings of biblical creatures in commentaries on the Bible and in literary re-workings of the Bible, in homilies, in mystical and in scientific texts, in secular narrative literature, and in secular pragmatic texts.

Interfaces invites contributions investigating how Jewish and Christian, Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern scholars developed different perspectives on the animal as a carrier of religious and secular meaning. Authors will be free to address any European literature, language, genre, or text, or to work across these categories, provided they give a strong theoretical framing to their argument. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and diachronic studies will be welcome, as well as more specific analyses of single texts or small groups of texts. Contributions on the differences and interdependencies between Latin and Hebrew texts are welcome as well as studies on vernacular texts (i.e. German, Yiddish, French, English, Italian, etc.). Moreover, Interfaces would also like to encourage contributions on animal discourses in Islam and Manichaeism that draw on biblical traditions.

Interfaces invites papers in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

https://riviste.unimi.it/interfaces/pages/view/cfp_biblical_creatures

CARMEN PROJECT PRIZE

CARMEN PROJECT PRIZE

Do you have a great idea for a research project in Medieval Studies?

The new CARMEN Project Prize could be for you! This unique award will recognise a project idea in any area of Medieval Studies, which has the potential to advance our understanding of the medieval period or its reception in important and/or innovative ways. Unlike conventional publication prizes, the CARMEN Project Prize seeks to identify the highest-quality academic research at the planning / development stage and to encourage its future progress.

The aims of the CARMEN Project Prize reflect the distinctive mission of CARMEN, The Worldwide Medieval Network, as an international forum for scholars at all levels to exchange ideas, build partnerships and develop collaborative research.

The application form is short (just 2 pages). Why not give it a go? Deadline for entries is 15 January, 2018. Find more information and the application form at http://www.carmen-medieval.net/

Magna Carta and New Zealand: History, Politics and Law in Aotearoa

Recent Publication:

Magna Carta and New Zealand
History, Politics and Law in Aotearoa

This volume is the first to explore the vibrant history of Magna Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal, political and popular culture. Readers will benefit from in-depth analyses of the Charter’s reception along with explorations of its roles in regard to larger constitutional themes.
The common thread that binds the collection together is its exploration of what the adoption of a medieval charter as part of New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements has meant – and might mean – for a Pacific nation whose identity remains in flux. The contributions to this volume are grouped around three topics: remembrance and memorialization of Magna Carta; the reception of the Charter by both Māori and non-Māori between 1840 and 2015; and reflection on the roles that the Charter may yet play in future constitutional debate. This collection provides evidence of the enduring attraction of Magna Carta, and its importance as a platform of constitutional aspiration.

Edited by Stephen Winter & Chris Jones 

For more information: 
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319584386 

Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy

Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy

International Conference December 13-15, 2017

Monash University Prato Centre

This conference represents the first analysis of how diseased bodies were represented in Italy during the ‘long Renaissance’, from the early 1400s through ca. 1650. Many individual studies by historians of art and medicine address specific aspects of this subject, yet there has never been an attempt to define or explore the broader topic. Moreover, most studies interpret Renaissance images and text through the lens of current notions about disease. This conference avoids the pitfalls of retrospective diagnosis, and looks beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ by viewing ‘infirmity’ in Galenic humoural terms. Papers explore what infirmities were depicted in visual culture, in what context, why, and when. Specific examples consider the idealized body altered by disease, and the relationship between the depiction of infirmities through miracle cures and through medical treatment. Speakers also examine how and why these representations change across media and over time. Thus, certain types of diseased bodies appear often in votive images, but never in altarpieces or sculptures; representations of wounds and sores grow increasingly less graphic and frequent, but with notable exceptions. Finally, it explores how the development of greater knowledge of the workings and structure of the body in this period, through, for example, the growth of anatomy, was reflected in changing ideas and representations of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic meanings of infirmity and disease. The conference addresses the construction of the notion of disease, and aims to present a new paradigm for the field.

The event is open to all and free of charge, no reservation required. For additional information, please contact: infirmity2017@gmail.com

For more information, including the speakers and conference schedule, see http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/the-body-in-the-city/events/

 

Updated programme for the upcoming Law and Legal Agreements conference

Updated programme for the upcoming Law and Legal Agreements conference, 12-13 January 2018.

The registration link is here:: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/anglosaxon-norse-and-celtic/law-and-legal-agreements-6001250/law-and-legal-agreements-6001250 

The deadline for registration is 04 January 2018.

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