{"id":16893,"date":"2022-07-07T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=16893"},"modified":"2023-01-14T01:52:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T01:52:55","slug":"2023-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2023-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Preparations<\/h1>\n

58th ICMS (11\u201313 May 2023)<\/h2>\n

To occur in a transitional ‘hybrid’ form
\nwith Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Sessions
\nTo be held either<\/em> in person or<\/em> online<\/h3>\n

(Note:\u00a0 Only, by special permission,
\ndo some Sessions occur in ‘blended’ and verily ‘hybrid’ form)<\/h4>\n

Call for Papers<\/h2>\n

Proposals due by 15 September 2022<\/h2>\n

[Posted on 7 July 2022, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n

With the successful completion of our activities at the 2022 ICMS in May (see our 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program<\/a>), we begin preparations for the 2023 ICMS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, we thank the organizers, sponsor and co-sponsor, presiders, speakers, respondents, and participants of those activities, which included four Sessions and an Open Business Meeting.\u00a0 Sessions co-sponsored with the Societas Magica<\/a> marked Year 18 of our co-sponsorship with that organization; one Session was co-sponsored for the first time with the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA).<\/p>\n

Next, we assemble proposed Sessions to be sponsored or co-sponsored for next year’s Congress.\u00a0 With proposals to be submitted by 1 June 2022, we would expect to hear decisions from the Congress Committee in July for sessions approved for the general Call for Papers, with a deadline for submissions of proposals for papers, via the Congress website, by 15 September.<\/p>\n

On 1 June, the proposals were successfully submitted.\u00a0 We waited, hopefully, for the acceptance of these proposals.\u00a0 Today we learn that they are.\u00a0 And so, we announce them and their plans.<\/p>\n

They are these, both sponsored and co-sponsored.<\/p>\n

For the Congress, the listings of Sessions site the Sponsor and then any Co-Sponsor, so that finding specific Sessions among the groups of offerings on the Congress website would progress through the name of the organization, grouped primarily by the Sponsor, then the Co-Sponsor.<\/p>\n

For information about how to propose papers for these sessions, see below.\u00a0 First:\u00a0 the sessions we prepare.\u00a0 Then the instructions.<\/p>\n

I.\u00a0 Session Co-Sponsored with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<\/h2>\n

This session represents a new co-sponsorship with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<\/a> at the Congress.\u00a0 The proposal is designed to continue the series of RGME Sessions at the Congress on “Medieval Writing Materials”.<\/p>\n

\"Front

Front cover and ties of French notebook for ‘Recettes’ reusing a vellum bifolium from a medieval Latin Psalter. Photography \u00a9 Mildred Budny<\/p><\/div>\n

1. “Bound but not Gagged:
\nThe Eloquence of Medieval Book Bindings”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sponsor<\/strong>:\u00a0 Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
\nCo-sponsor<\/strong>:\u00a0 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies<\/p>\n

Organizer<\/strong>:\u00a0 William H. Campbell<\/strong> (University of Pittsburgh \u2014 Greensburg) and
\nCo-Organizer:\u00a0 Mildred Budny<\/strong> (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)<\/p>\n

Modality:<\/strong> Online<\/p>\n

Medieval books communicate far more than the words on their pages.\u00a0 They were frequently subjected to damage and repair, to loss and addition, to division and recombination. Their bindings bear witness to the moments in their history that altered and shaped them, or \u2014 in the case of still older books recycled into binding material \u2014 destroyed them. This session is dedicated to everything about the codex that is not its text, to what J. A. Szirmai called The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Note<\/em>:\u00a0 On the image shown here, see our blog:<\/p>\n