Medievalists part of Canada’s largest academic conference
This year’s Congress, hosted jointly by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, includes more than 7,000 delegates from nearly 70 associations in Canada’s largest and most significant interdisciplinary academic gathering.
Perfect Virgins and Suicidal Maniacs: Monks in Early Thirteenth-Century Pastoralia
This summary is of a paper that was the last in the English Cistercian series at Kalamazoo.
Fuck This: On Finally Letting Go (A Roundtable)
A summary of the controversial “Fuck This” session at Kalamazoo.
“A Fragment Detached”: The Hobbit and The Silmarillion
This summary is a brief explanation of a paper that focused on the influences of The Hobbit, and The Hobbit in contrast with The Silmarillion.
The Mythology of Magic in The Hobbit: Tolkien and Andrew Lang’s Red Fairy Book “Story of Sigurd”
This paper was part of the Tolkien at Kalamazoo sessions.
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies draws over 3000 medievalists
Over 3000 scholars, historians, writers, students and medievalists came to Kalamazoo, Michigan over the last four days, where they took part in the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies.
VAGANTES: Between Tradition and Change: Monastic Reform in Three fifteenth-century German Redactions of the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Using the life of St. Mary of Egypt, this paper will consider three different Middle High German versions produced by reform communities and will analyze how the reform ideologies and goals manifest in the texts.
VAGANTES: “What has Beowulf to do with a Christian King?” Heroic Legend as Poetic Speculum Principis
Through a rhetorical analysis based in grounded theory that analyzes fifteen speeches and their contexts made by Hroðgar, Beowulf, and Wiglaf, I will show how the poet appropriated the Beowulf legend to present a dramatized speculum principis using the rhetorical devices common to oral-traditional narratives to articulate the three traits of kingship most highly valued by both secular and sacred authorities: generosity, faith, and protectiveness.
VAGANTES: Hālnes and hǽlþ:Anglo-Saxon Bodily Wellness
Since most of the surviving mentions of wellness relate to the health of the soul, it is not clear what constituted a healthy Anglo-Saxon body. This paper will use the Old English poem Soul and Body and Old English medical texts to explore Anglo-Saxon bodily wellness.
St.Louis University to host Medieval Academy of America Conference this week
Saint Louis University’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24.
Making Christian Landscapes: Conversion and Consolidation in Early Medieval Europe
International conference to be held at University College Cork, Ireland on 21-23 September, 2012
University of Tennessee hosts Symposium on Reading, Writing in Pre-modern World
Now in its tenth year, the symposium will feature a stellar line-up of specialists in the interdisciplinary field of book history who will explore the complex interaction between pre-modern writers and readers, their books, and the places—libraries, museums, monasteries, university classrooms, the courts of patrons—where they used them.
Erotica and the Erotic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance – conference to be held in Arizona
The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be hosting its annual interdisciplinary conference next month, which will bring more than seventy scholars to talk about the sexy side of the Middle Ages.
Moravian College to Host Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Moravian College will host the Sixth Annual Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies on Saturday, December 3
HASKINS CONFERENCE: Regarding the Water: Landscapes of Conversion in Early Medieval England
This paper focused on Christian influences and viewsheds for burials near water and conversion period monuments.
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Conference on ‘Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment’ taking place at University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is hosting an international conference – Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment – which will include over…
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Call for Papers: Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions
Conference: Gothic Ivory Sculpture: Old Questions, New Directions Friday 23rd March 2012, Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum Proposals are invited for papers…
Major Viking Exhibition and Conference at the County Museum, Dundalk, Ireland
Following the discovery of the Viking site in Annagassan last year, the County Museum, Dundalk has announced details of a major exhibition entitled…
Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine: Problems and Perspectives
Anglo-Gascon Aquitaine: Problems and Perspectives A conference organised by Dr Malcolm Vale and Dr Guilhem Pépin University of Oxford – History Faculty, Old…
Arthurian scholars meet in Bristol
World-leading experts on the legend of King Arthur gather in Bristol next week for the 23rd Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society,…
The ‘Big Society’ is a Medieval Society
More than 1,600 experts on the Middle Ages have gathered at the International Medieval Congress, which began today at the University of Leeds.…
Medieval graffiti reveals how ordinary people practised their faith
Whether you consider graffiti an eye-sore or an art form, scholars at this year’s International Medieval Congress will debate the use of graffiti…
International Medieval Congress to examine disabilities, deserving and undeserving poor, in the Middle Ages
More than 1,600 experts on the Middle Ages will gather next week at the International Medieval Congress to be held at the University…