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CFP: “‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak and frail’: Feminising Death, Disability and Disease in the later Middle Ages,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3rd-6th July 2017

Call for Papers: “‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak and frail’: Feminising Death, Disability and Disease in the later Middle Ages,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3rd-6th July 2017 Deadline: 23rd September 2016. **Should this session attract enough interest it will become a three-part series, with each session focussing more deeply on theContinue reading “CFP: “‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak and frail’: Feminising Death, Disability and Disease in the later Middle Ages,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3rd-6th July 2017″

International Workshop: Relics @ the Lab, KIK-IRPA, Brussels, October 27-28 2016.

International Workshop: Relics @ the Lab, KIK-IRPA, Brussels, October 27-28 2016. Over the past decade the scientific interest in relics and kindred artifacts has grown enormously. Without any doubt relics as well as relic shrines and associated objects have played a prominent role in European history since the introduction of Christianity. While in the pastContinue reading “International Workshop: Relics @ the Lab, KIK-IRPA, Brussels, October 27-28 2016.”

CFP: Mutual Imaginings of Europe and the Middle East 800-1700 (3rd December 2016)

Beyond Borders: Mutual Imaginings of Europe and the Middle East (800-1700) Barnard College’s 25th Biannual Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference Saturday, December 3, 2016 Call for Papers Recent scholarship is challenging the stark border between Europe and the Middle East during the long period between 800-1700. Rather than thinking of these areas in isolation, scholarsContinue reading “CFP: Mutual Imaginings of Europe and the Middle East 800-1700 (3rd December 2016)”

CFP: Discipline and Excess (Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016)

DISCIPLINE AND EXCESS A Graduate and Early Career Conference, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016 CFP Deadline: 1st February 2016 We invite paper proposals for Discipline and Excess, a conference which seeks to consider questions relating to boundaries and their transgression until 1750. The theme invites diverse interpretations of “discipline”—moral, religious, cultural, aesthetic,Continue reading “CFP: Discipline and Excess (Cambridge Friday, April 15, 2016)”

The Challenges and Opportunities of Medieval Difficulty (Kalamazoo 2016 session)

Session at International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 12-15 May 2016) University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 12 – 15, 2016 Organizer: Beth Williamson, University of Bristol Deadline: Sep 15, 2015 “What is sought with more difficulty is discovered with more pleasure.” (On Christian Doctrine 2.6.8). In praising difficulty, Augustine reminds us of its roleContinue reading “The Challenges and Opportunities of Medieval Difficulty (Kalamazoo 2016 session)”