Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies
Special Call For Papers for Issue on Medieval Space and Place

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR VOLUME 7, Issue 1: 1 March 2012

Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed journal devoted to the literature, history, and culture of the medieval world. Published electronically twice a year, its mission is to present a forum in which graduate students from around the globe may share their ideas. Article submissions on the selected theme are welcome in any discipline and period of Medieval Studies. We are also interested in book reviews on recent works: interested reviewers should send a query, indicating the book they would like to review.

Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of spatial order, and place as a socially constructed category, in the art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music of the Middle Ages. Place and space theories have manifested themselves in Medieval Studies recently in a number of ways, from analysis of specific spaces and places, such as gardens, forests, cities, and the court, to spatially theorized topics such as travel narratives, nationalism, and the open- or closedness of specific medieval cultural areas. Over an array of subjects, the spatial turn challenges scholars to re-think how humans create the world around them, through both physical and mental processes. Articles should explore the meaning of space/place in the past by situating it in its precise historical context.

Possible article topics include, but are not limited to:

Medieval representations of spatial order
The sense of place in the construction of social identities Mapping and spatial imagination
Topographies of meaningful places
Beyond the binary of center/periphery
Spatial policies of separation: ethnicity, religion, or gender Travel and the sense of place
Creating landscape
The idea of place in medieval religious culture
Pilgrimage
Workplaces
Intimate space, public place
Liminality and proximity as social categories

The 2011 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2012. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews or send their queries via email to submit@hortulus.net before March 1, 2012.

Posted by: Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies, http://www.hortulus.net (hortulus@hortulus.net).

Dear all,

I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list.

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012)

The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011.

Marco Manuscript Workshop: READERS

February 3–4, 2012
The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Seventh Marco Manuscript Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4, 2012, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; the workshop is organized by Professors Maura K. Lafferty (Classics) and Roy M. Liuzza (English).

For this year’s workshop we invite presentations that focus on the reading, interpretation, and use of manuscripts. The relationship between a text and its readers is reciprocal – the text speaks to readers, readers in turn talk back to the text, and meaning emerges through this series of encounters between readers and texts and negotiations among different readers. Readers sometimes create new texts to answer the ones they read – literary practices such as commentary, quotation, or reference. But they also leave traces of their reading in material ways: physical wear and tear, annotations and corrections, interpolations and excisions, glosses and marginalia, the purposeful grouping or arrangement of texts in a codex or books in a library. How is such evidence recognized and understood? How is it presented to modern readers? What does it tell us about the history of the text? We welcome presentations on any aspect of this topic, broadly imagined.

The workshop is open to scholars and students at any rank and in any field who are engaged in textual editing, manuscript studies, or epigraphy. Individual 75-minute sessions will be devoted to each project; participants will be asked to introduce their text and its context, discuss their approach to working with their material, and exchange ideas and information with other participants. As in previous years, the workshop is intended to be more a class than a conference; participants are encouraged to share new discoveries and unfinished work, to discuss both their successes and frustrations, to offer both practical advice and theoretical insights, and to work together towards developing better professional skills for textual and codicological work. We particularly invite the presentation of works in progress, unusual manuscript problems, practical difficulties, and new or experimental models for studying or representing manuscript texts. Presenters will receive a stipend of $500 for their participation.

The deadline for applications is October 15, 2011. Applicants are asked to submit a current CV and a two-page letter describing their project to Roy M. Liuzza, preferably via email to rliuzza@utk.edu, or by mail to the Department of English, University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0430.
The workshop is also open at no cost to scholars and students who do not wish to present their own work but are interested in sharing a lively weekend of discussion and ideas about manuscript studies. Further details will be available later in the year; please contact Roy Liuzza for more information.

Posted by: Dot Porter (dot.porter@gmail.com).

Dear all,

I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list.

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012)

The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011.