{"id":1235,"date":"2014-07-16T17:51:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2019-08-13T20:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:28:36","slug":"call-for-papers-for-2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/call-for-papers-for-2015-international-congress-on-medieval-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Congress Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALL FOR PAPERS<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Sessions Sponsored and Co-Sponsored
\nby the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
\nat the<\/strong> 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Western Michigan University, 14\u201317 May 2015<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Deadline for Proposals:\u00a0 15 September 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Logo<\/a>For the 50th Congress, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME)<\/strong> prepares five Sessions to celebrate a wide range of interests and explorations in the realms of medieval, early modern, and related studies.\u00a0 We continue sponsorships and co-sponsorships of sessions, designed to showcase the work of younger, independent, and established scholars and teachers alike, in a constructive interchange between areas of expertise and spans of experience.<\/p>\n

We invite proposals for papers for the 2015 Sessions.\u00a0\u00a0Please send your proposed title and abstract directly to the session organizers by 15 September 2014<\/strong>, along with the completed Congress Participant Information Form<\/strong> (PIF) [no longer online, following the deadline<\/em>].\u00a0\u00a0We welcome your questions and suggestions. <\/p>\n

I. Sessions Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence (RGME)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1. \u201cMaking It or Faking It:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Strange Truths of \u2018False Witnesses\u2019 to Medieval Forms\u201d
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em> Organizers:\u00a0\u00a0Mildred Budny, RGME, and Sarah M. Anderson, Princeton University<\/h4>\n

2. \u201cPredicting the Past: \u00a0Dream Symbology in the Middle Ages\u201d
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Organizer:\u00a0\u00a0Valerio Cappozzo, University of Mississippi<\/h4>\n

II. Session Co-Sponsored with the
\nCenter for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/a> (MEMS)
\nat the University of Florida<\/strong><\/h2>\n

3. \u201cThe \u2018Good\u2019, the \u2018Bad\u2019, and the \u2018Ugly\u2019 Ruler: \u00a0Ideal Kingship in the Middle Ages\u201d
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Organizers:\u00a0\u00a0Florin Curta, University of Florida, and Mildred Budny, RGME<\/h4>\n

III. Sessions Co-Sponsored with the
\nSocietas Magica<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Societas<\/a>4. \u201cMagic in Manuscript Versus Print Cultures\u201d
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Organizer:\u00a0\u00a0Frank Klaassen, University of Saskatchewan<\/h4>\n

5. \u201cEfficacious Words: \u00a0Spoken and Inscribed
\n<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Organizer:\u00a0\u00a0Jason Roberts, University of Texas at Austin<\/h4>\n

The Scope of the Sessions<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\"Corbel<\/a>

Photography by Ilya V. Sverdlov<\/p><\/div>\n

1.\u00a0 \u201cMaking It or Faking It: \u00a0The Strange Truths of \u2018False Witnesses\u2019 to Medieval Forms\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Endlessly fascinating and endlessly emerging, forgeries, imitations, and re-creations of earlier forms challenge the study of medieval texts, art, artefacts, modes of thought, and systems of belief. \u00a0Among these \u201cfakes\u201d or \u201cre-makes\u201d are texts, compilations, and other media created in the style of, or attributed to, known authors, artists, craftsmen, or \u201ccelebrities\u201d \u2014 whether made or claimed as such during the medieval period or subsequently.\u00a0\u00a0There are many methods for discerning, at least in part, the deliberately deceptive from the imitations, \u201cimpersonators\u201d, or genuine exercises in recreating processes so as better to understand the products of earlier ages. Identifying criteria for the \u201cfalse witnesses\u201d can include later symptoms, materials, or forensic clues, which advancing research may exclude for the purported period of production. \u00a0Whether aimed to fool, amuse, instruct, or re-educate their audiences with a \u201cbetter\u201d or \u201ctruer\u201d version of the past, these \u2018false witnesses\u2019 call for recognition of their potential truths, for their own (as well as later) times, in their complex testimony to the Middle Ages in many forms, as part of a living legacy, with afterlives included.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 \u201cPredicting the Past:\u00a0\u00a0Dream Symbology in the Middle Ages\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Like medieval bestiaries, dream-books constitute compelling tools to investigate the collective imagination of the Middle Ages. \u00a0These manuals, such as the widely circulated Somniale Danielis,<\/em> were usually structured so that key terms in the text corresponded to the subject of the dream, while the key-words were arranged alphabetically with a concise interpretation of its symbol.\u00a0\u00a0The system established both quick and easy access to terms, symbols, and their meanings, and functioned as a convenient guide to the interpretation of dreams. \u00a0It serves, too, as an important tool for understanding medieval literary as well as other dreams, and for identifying and describing traditional dream topoi<\/em>. \u00a0Our session analyses the origin and circulation of dream symbology as transmitted in dream-manuals, in both manuscript and early printed sources.\u00a0\u00a0It also concentrates on how dream symbols developed and changed, in their transfer across religious texts and imagery, literature, and the visual arts, into settings and contexts (including genres other than the literary and media other than the book) where they reveal new layers of meaning. \u00a0In such ways, dream-books and their study may function as portals to the medieval past.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 \u201cThe \u2018Good\u2019, the \u2018Bad\u2019 and the \u2018Ugly\u2019 Ruler:\u00a0\u00a0Ideal Kingship in the Middle Ages\u201d
\n(co-sponsored with the<\/strong> Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/strong> at the University of Florida)<\/h3>\n

This session will address the techniques employed in shaping the ideal medieval ruler.\u00a0\u00a0Texts such as the \u201cMirrors of Princes,\u201d pedagogical literature, and historiography functioned as models in the education of princes, while the historical actions of princes were shaped in hindsight according to idealized patterns of behavior.\u00a0\u00a0We propose to examine:<\/p>\n

1)<\/strong> the formation of the canon of virtues expected of rulers according to medieval theorists, combining ancient and Biblical models with the cardinal and the theological virtues (Justice, Fortitude, Temperance, Prudence, Charity, Faith, and Hope);<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> the r\u00f4le of language in describing concrete \u201cpower,\u201d rendered by multiple Latin words (auctoritas, potestas, potentia, imperium, vis, dicio, dominium<\/em>), which, however, mostly could not apply to the power of usurpers, requiring other strategies; and<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> the differing narrative concepts and methods employed by medieval historians, according with their own attitudes, intentions, and backgrounds (regional, national, social, educational, and more), in their depictions of rulers, as revealed by the markers of \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d rulers \u2014 or the qualities of both in one person.<\/p>\n

Such case studies could cast significant light upon the many natures of medieval kingship, in principle and in practice.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cMagic in Manuscript Versus Print Cultures\u201d<\/strong> (co-sponsored with the Societas Magica<\/strong>)<\/h3>\n

Even if early modernists (such as Elizabeth Eisenstein) may have overdramatized the transition of manuscript to print culture, there are nevertheless qualitative differences between books of magic in the two media.\u00a0\u00a0This session will explore these differences as well as the fortunes of magic in the transition to an intellectual culture and market place that included printed books.\u00a0\u00a0How did intellectual entrepreneurship and mass markets associated with printing transform the presentation of magic? \u00a0How did manuscript and printed books of magic interact? Were they used in different ways?\u00a0\u00a0What books never found their way into print and why?\u00a0\u00a0If printing was a popularizing or democratizing force, how did it change magic? \u00a0How did printers collect and reorganize manuscript material?\u00a0\u00a0How did the new capacities and limitations of the printed word alter magic texts, or has the impact of form (and process) on content been overblown?<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 \u201cEfficacious Words:\u00a0\u00a0Spoken and Inscribed\u201d<\/strong> (co-sponsored with the Societas Magica<\/strong>)<\/h3>\n

From the Tetragrammaton<\/em> (\u201cYHWH\u201d) to abracadabra<\/em>, from runic letters carved on a blade to the task of guessing Rumpelstiltskin\u2019s name, words \u2013 spoken or written \u2013 have been believed not only to inspire, but to be efficacious in and of themselves.\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, the acts of naming, inscribing, or pronouncing aloud, as well as renaming or erasing, reveal a belief in the power of the word in itself.\u00a0\u00a0What are such words?\u00a0\u00a0What power are they believed to have and what is the source of their power?\u00a0\u00a0When are some words more powerful than others?\u00a0\u00a0Moreover, how do antiquity and foreignness affect the power of efficacious words?\u00a0\u00a0This session will explore examples of efficacious words in texts and artifacts, as well as the beliefs and practices that support the power of words to effect change directly.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

IV.\u00a0 Images Included<\/h2>\n

The logo<\/strong> of the Societas Magica<\/strong> and the photographs by Ilya V. Sverdlov<\/strong> of carved corbel heads on Le Pont Neuf<\/strong>, Paris<\/strong>, are reproduced by permission.<\/p>\n

The “New Bridge”<\/strong> across the River Seine was constructed in stages (1578\u20131587 and 1599\u20131607), with various renovations and renewals (especially in 1848\u20131855, for example replacing the crumbled corbels, and thoroughly in 1994\u20132007).\u00a0 So which part is original and which is not?\u00a0 Good question!<\/p>\n

\"5<\/a>

Photography by Ilya V. Sverdlov<\/p><\/div>\n

*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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