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IMC 2021: Late Call for Papers
We are presently looking for individual paper submissions for the below session proposals. Each year, the IMC welcomes papers on all aspects of medieval studies, alongside a special thematic focus. In 2021, this special thematic focus will be 'Climates'. The proposed sessions listed below currently require an additional paper. Please note that inclusion here does not imply that a session has been included in the IMC programme, which is still being reviewed by the Programming Committee.
Climatic Change and English Landscapes
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| Session | 1811 | |
| Date/Time | 08 July 2021, 16.30-18.00 | |
| Organiser | IMC Programming Committee | |
| Moderator/Chair | Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, University of London | |
| Paper -a | The Changing Marshlands along the River Alt, Lancashire: Evidence of Minor Place-Names, c. 1220-1300 (Language: English) Jonathan Masters, Department of History, Lancaster University |
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| Paper -b | Living with Water on the River Trent (Language: English) Susan Kilby, School of History, Politics & International Relations, University of Leicester / Institute for Name-Studies (INS), University of Nottingham |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
Scholars have long acknowledged the significant economic development of rural communities generated by the agricultural improvement of wetland landscapes such as the Cambridgeshire Fens and Somerset Levels. Despite its small geographical coverage, the wetlands along the River Alt in south-west Lancashire offer an important case study for similar developments in watery environments during the medieval period. Arguably, a substantial proportion of change in the local landscape can be attributed to the introduction of two Cistercian communities from the start of the 13th century. Our knowledge and interpretation of these developments can be enhanced using place-name evidence recorded in title deeds to better understand the geographical context and what impact agricultural practices had on wet lowland climates. Paper -b: Alrewas (Staffordshire) sits at the Trent/Tame confluence. The name reveals that its Anglo-Saxon inhabitants were aware of the propensity for this landscape to flood – nevertheless this did not discourage them from settling there. Later medieval field-names allow us to reconstruct the ways in which locals understood this occasionally unpredictable landscape. During a period in which a deteriorating climate frequently undermined peasants’ attempts at agrarian success, a thorough understanding of this challenging environment was essential for local inhabitants. The field-names emphasise this community’s close observation of their watery surroundings, revealing how they lived successfully with the ever-present threat of flooding. |
Crusades and Nature, I
| Session | 215 |
| Date/Time | 05 July 2021, 14.15-15.45 |
| Abstract | An understanding of Anthropocene – the history of human interactions with natural environment – has never been more pressing than today. The session will explore the intersection of crusader studies and environmental studies. It will address encounters with, responses to, and representations of a broad variety of natural phenomena (broadly defined) having to do with crusades and the Latin States. The topics include portents and marvels; encounters with familiar and unfamiliar fauna, flora, and natural phenomena; and cultivation, consumption, and trade in crops, fruit, spices, etc. The session will serve as a springboard for an edited collection of articles. |
| Organiser | Jessalynn Bird, Department of Humanistic Studies, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana Organiser email: jbird@saintmarys.edu [View delegate history] |
| Elizabeth Lapina, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Organiser email: lapina@wisc.edu [View delegate history] |
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| Moderator/Chair | Elizabeth Lapina, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison [View delegate history] |
| Paper -a | Celestial Phenomena in Fall 1097 / Spring 1098 in the Chronicles of the First Crusade (Language: English) Elizabeth Lapina, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison [View delegate history] Index Terms: 20: Crusades; 37: Historiography – Medieval |
| Paper -b | Growing, Growing, Gone: Reconstructing Agricultural Cultivation Areas in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Language: English) Heather Elizabeth Crowley, Department of Art History, Cabrillo College, California [View delegate history] Index Terms: 20: Crusades; 25: Economics – Rural |
Erasure in Late Antiquity, II: Erasure, Law, and the Late Roman Court
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| Session | 1619 |
| Date/Time | 08 July 2021, 11.15-12.45 |
| Organiser | Kay Boers, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht & Guy Walker, Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair | Hope Williard, University Library, University of Lincoln |
| Paper -a | Claudian and Roma: Fighting Pagan Erasure at a Christian Court (Language: English) Ben Kybett, Department of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Paper -b | ‘As if said law had never even been promulgated’: Justinian’s Legal Erasures (Language: English) David Rockwell, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien |
| Abstract | This session will focus on alternative forms of historical, cultural, and even legislative erasure at the very highest political level: the court of the emperors’ itself. The first paper (Kybett) explores the personification of the goddess Roma in the poetry of Claudian as a rebuttal to Prudentius’ Christian portrayal of the goddess and his attempts to erase pagan culture from the political sphere. The second (Rockwell) looks at the retroactive ‘erasure’ of legislation by Justinian and its repercussions on various aspects of sixth-century life. |
Female Saints in the Nordic Region
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| Session | 707 |
| Date/Time | 06 July 2021, 14.15-15.45 |
| Organiser | Tiffany White, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley |
| Moderator/Chair | To Be Announced |
| Paper -a | The Saints of Heilagra meyja drápa and Their Cult in Medieval Iceland (Language: English) Ermenegilda Rachel Müller, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík |
| Paper -b | Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir and the Penitent Women Saints: Overlap, Influence, and Function (Language: English) Natalie van Deusen, Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies, University of Alberta |
| Abstract | This panel addresses the several understudied female vitae, both in prose and verse, that are extant in the Old Norse-Icelandic corpus. The main focus throughout is the Icelandicization of non-Icelandic saints, both in hagiographic material and so-called secular literature. |
Heretical, Mystical, and Poetical Innovations in and around Bohemia
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| Session | 1619 |
| Date/Time | 05 July 2021, 16.30-18.00 |
| Abstract | Paper -a: The Granum Sinapis, an early 14th-century, eight-stanza poem in Middle High German is a literary precis of the mystical theology of Meister Eckhart to whom the work has been sometimes been attributed. To assist in contemplating the poem, an anonymous commentator appended two crude diagrams to the manuscript: an empty circle bounded by a solidly drawn circumference; and a set of concentric, permeable circles each labeled with one of the rankings in a pseudo-Dionysian hierarchy. Together the poem and diagrams portray a mystical cosmography, collapsing light and darkness, the universe and nothingness – a space in which god may be found.Paper -b: Defeated on many battlefields, and at an advanced age, Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376-77/1445) retreated to a safer, but always pugnacious literary war against the Hussites. He had been facing them and their ideals since the Council of Constance and composed against them two poems, Kl. 27 and Kl. 32. Kl. 27 is Oswald’s only certified anti-Hussite song, in which the nobleman calls all his peers to fight against the army of geese in the name of God; Kl. 32 is a strict prediction of eternal punishment for heretics, Jews, heathens, and unbelievers. Realising how ruinous the crusades had proved, Oswald abhorred the incompetence of his allies, and started directly addressing God and the Virgin Mary for immediate intercession: Kl. 109b is a translation of a Marian hymn containing references to doctrines condemned by Hus’s followers; Kl. 134 is the beginning of a longer lost anti-Hussite poem in which the poet puts Christianity in God’s hands. This paper intends to investigate, from a lexical and semantic point of view, the changes in Oswald’s perception of the Hussites in his late works, and the turning of his vivid and aggressive exhortations into silent and almost resigned prayers. |
| Organiser | IMC Programming Committee |
| Moderator/Chair | Arnold Otto, Historisches Institut, Universitaet Paderborn |
| Paper -a | A Mystical Cosmography: The Granum Sinapis – Poem and Pictures (Language: English) Philip Liston-Kraft, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University |
| Paper -b | Oswald Von Wolkenstein and His Literary War against the Hussites: From Sword to Prayer (Language: English) Dario Capelli, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature, Comunicazione, Formazione e Società, Università degli Studi di Udine |
Practical Equestrianisms in the Middle Ages
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| Session | 1616 |
| Title | Practical Equestrianisms in the Middle Ages |
| Date/Time | 08 July 2021, 11.15-12.45 |
| Organiser | Timothy Dawson, Independent Scholar, Tilbury |
| Anastasija Ropa, Department of Management & Communication Science, Latvian Academy of Sport Education, Riga | |
| Moderator/Chair | Jürg Gassmann, Independent Scholar, Wexford |
| Paper -a | Running Blind: The Shaffron as a Form of Equine Control in the Tournaments of Maximilian I (Language: English) Emma Herbert-Davies, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper -b | The ‘Ideal’ Horse: Characteristics throughout Pre-Modern Sources (Language: English) Hylke Hettema, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Universiteit Leiden Jennifer Jobst, Independent Scholar, Texas |
| Abstract | The pre-industrial world was characterized by a closer contact with non-human animals, including equines, than a 21st century researcher can imagine. Most medieval people would have at least some idea about the basics of taking care of an equine or how to judge a horse – and a horseman – by appearance. The papers in this session explore different aspects in medieval equestrian practice, from the characteristics of various equines, both horses and mules, to the peculiarities of using specific tack, such as blind shaffrons. The authors come from a variety of disciplinary fields, including archaeology and Arabic studies. |
Reconsidering the Boundaries of Religious Dissent in the Long 12th Century, I
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| Session | 1221 |
| Date/Time | 07 July 2021, 14.15-15.45 |
| Sponsor | Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
| Organiser | Andra-Nicoleta Alexiu, Historisches Seminar, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
| Stamatia Noutsou, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno | |
| Moderator/Chair | Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Departament d’Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona |
| Paper -a | Blazing Words in Sulfury Tongues: Heresy as a Symptom of Ecclesiastical Corruption (Language: English) Rachel Ernst, Department of History, Georgia State University |
| Paper -b | Reform, Dissent, and the Monasticisation of the World in Geoffrey of Auxerre’s Polemical Sermons (Language: English) Stamatia Noutsou, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
| Abstract | The aim of the two sessions is to reconsider heresy with a broader understanding of the concept of religious dissent during the long 12th century. We seek to explore this topic by discussing a selection of the various discourses on religion that emerged during this period. We will demonstrate the growing diversity of religious ideology in Western Europe by discussing how these discourses targeted a variety of audiences and served many different purposes. Thus, the sessions will focus on the tumultuous atmosphere wherein various reforming groups risked their total exclusion from the Church and society by attempting to re-negotiate the boundaries of ‘orthodoxy’ from within. In addition, given the purpose of their mission and their position within the Church as monks, nuns, or laymen, these authors felt pressured to better flesh out and redefine certain categories from a social or gender-based perspective, while holding on to tradition. |
The Social Dynamics of Religious Dissent, IV: The Social Impact of Inquisitions and Anti-Inquisitorial Resistance in Italy
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| Session | 2319 |
| Date/Time | 09 Jul 2021, 16.30-18.00 |
| Abstract | The records of inquisitions provide us with an invaluable source for the social history of the regions in which they took place. It cannot be forgotten, however, that the inquisitors who recorded these details also had a major effect on both dissident communities and wider society through their operations. While there has been much discussion of the way inquisitors ‘constructed’ heresy, or represented an increasingly persecuting society, our sessions seek to follow the pioneering lead of James Given in exploring the social stresses and strains created by inquisitions, social strategies for coping with investigation, and resistance to authority. In particular, the potential for regional variation in inquisition impact and dissident reaction deserves greater attention: this session will focus on Italy, the previous having focussed on Languedoc. |
| Sponsor | Centre for the Digital Research of Religion & Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
| Organiser | Robert Shaw, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
| David Zbíral, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno | |
| Moderator/Chair | Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Departament d’Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona |
| Paper -a | How Confiscation for Heresy Helped Redistribute Land Ownership in North-Central Italy, 13th-14th Centuries: Was Its Impact Deliberate or Random? (Language: English) Jill Moore, Independent Scholar, London |
| Paper -b | Repression, Resistance, and Politics in the Inquisitorial Trials in Piedmont, 1387-1388 (Language: English) František Novotný, Centre for the Digital Research of Religion, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |