CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PANEL

LINCOLN DOCUMENTARY CULTURE(S) AND PRACTICE

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL CONGRESS (7-10 JULY 2025)

DUE By 31 AUGUST 2024

Lincoln Medieval Bishop's Palace, Kspindley (2014), CC BY-SA 3.0

Organisers: Jess Holt (University of Lincoln) and Dean Irwin (University of Lincoln)

The archives of medieval Lincoln are both rich and extensive, reflecting a diverse range of documentary traditions and contexts. We invite papers which consider any aspect of source production, use, and preservation of documents in the city, town, and diocese of Lincoln during the High and Later Middle Ages. In focusing on a single, richly documented, centre of production, these panels will consider the emergence and evolution of documentary culture over the centuries. Equally they explore the extent to which practices were shared, or differed, across Lincoln at different times and in different spaces.

The organisers invite proposals for 20-minute presentations which address this topic. Themes for consideration include (but are not limited to):

· Forms of documents and mode of production

· Scribal cultures and agency

· Time, space, and memory

· Individual and institutional authority

· Use of sources in the decades and centuries following their production, and their archival afterlives

· Architectural and visual expressions of document production

· Book culture

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with affiliation and contact information to Dean (DIrwin@lincoln.ac.uk) by 31 August. Any queries can be sent to the same address.