CFP

59th ICMS, Kalamazoo (May 9-11, 2024)

Manuscript Manifestations: Post-Medieval Perceptions of Medieval Material Culture (I &II)

Sponsored by Stanford Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Literature, art, and, more recently, film have used the invented medieval manuscript to signal, construct, or untangle a relationship to a distant past. These two sessions seek to investigate the effects of these “manuscript manifestations” appearing after the Middle Ages. Who writes them? How do they appear? Most importantly, how do they reimagine a medieval past, and how does that reimagined past reshape understandings of the present?

We welcome 15–20-minute papers from any discipline that examine post-medieval perceptions and deployments of manuscripts and manuscript culture. Abstracts of no more than 300 words must be submitted by 15 September 2023 via the Congress proposal portal: http://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi.

Questions may be directed to the session organizer, Catrin Haberfield: catrinh@stanford.edu.