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Authority and the Book in Medieval Culture

April 4, 2009
Yale University

   Abstracts from graduate students are now being accepted for the 26th Annual New England
Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference, the theme of which will be “Authority
and the Book in Medieval Culture.”

   The organizers hope that this broad heading will elicit proposals for papers from all disciplines
of Medieval Studies. Of especial interest are papers dealing with palaeography and manuscript
studies; hagiography; literary studies; art history; history and historiography; gender studies;
religious studies; musicology and medieval liturgical studies; as well as biblical exegesis and the
relationship between Latin and various medieval vernaculars. Further, we look forward to
receiving proposals that take more theoretical approaches to ideas of authority in the medieval
period. We also hope to have one panel devoted to papers that explore different aspect of the
history of modern Medieval Studies.

   Papers are to be no more than twenty minutes in length and read in English. Abstracts of no
more than 250 words should be sent by e-mail to Andrew.Kraebel_at_Yale.edu or
SamanthaLily.Katz_at_Yale.edu; a hardcopy may be mailed to:

   Andrew Kraebel
   Department of English
   Yale University
   P.O. Box 208302
   New Haven, CT 06520-8302

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.

   Graduate students whose abstracts are selected for the conference will have the opportunity to
submit their paper in its entirety for consideration for the Alison Goddard Elliott Award. The
conference will also feature a plenary speaker, to be announced at a later date.

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