Call for Papers: MANUSCRIPT MANIFESTATIONS: POST-MEDIEVAL PERCEPTIONS OF MEDIEVAL MATERIAL CULTURE (I & II), Sessions at the 59TH ICMS, Kalamazoo (9-11 May 2024), Abstracts Due 15 September 2023

Call for Papers

MANUSCRIPT MANIFESTATIONS: POST-MEDIEVAL PERCEPTIONS OF MEDIEVAL MATERIAL CULTURE (I & II)

Sessions at the 59TH International Congress on Medieval studies, KALAMAZOO (MAY 9-11, 2024)

Abstracts due 15 September 2023

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 imagined 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: icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi

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