Paper proposals for the following Kalamazoo session are welcomed by
the organizers, Lisa Reilly & Elizabeth Fowler. Abstracts of 300
words or less should be submitted by September 15, 2001 to the
organizers at the addresses listed below. They may be e-mailed,
faxed or sent by conventional mail. Further details on submission may be
found at the Congress website(www.wmich.edu/medieval).
READING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
The European Middle Ages understood and used space in ways we are still
discovering through the evidence of poetry, maps, frescoes, chronicle
accounts, and archeological finds. What is the nature of medieval
descriptions of the built environment -- fictional worlds, urban or rural
worlds, architectural interiors and exteriors, landscapes and gardens,
civic and processional arenas, monastic fora, domestic enclosures? We
propose two sessions that deliberately mix disciplinary approaches to this
issue and will seek literary, art historical, architectural, archeological,
theological, and philosophical contributions. We feel that the most
exciting sessions at Kalamazoo bring different audiences together; thus we
have worked together (as an architectural historian and a literary scholar)
to design a session that would draw from both our fields and more. What
are the features of the spatial imagination in the Middle Ages? How do
written accounts relate to illustrations? How do uses of the built
environment relate to social or corporate institutions? How do they
represent social practices of ritual, of liturgy, of civic or domestic
life? Papers are sought from a variety of disciplines for a truly
comparative set of sessions.
Elizabeth Fowler
Department of English
University of Virginia
219 Bryan Hall
PO Box 400121
Charlottesville VA 22904-4121
fowler@virginia.edu
fax (804) 924-1478
-- Lisa Reilly Department of Architectural History School of Architecture Campbell Hall P.O. Box 400122 Charlottesville VA 22904-4122 USA tel.(804)924-1316 fax (804)982-2678 e-mail lar2f@virginia.edu^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Elizabeth Fowler Associate Professor Department of English University of Virginia 219 Bryan Hall PO Box 400121 Charlottesville VA 22904-4121 ef4n@virginia.edu 804-924-6627
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