EXTENDED DEADLINE: Submissions will be reviewed as received until April
1, 2002
Folk-Justice in the Early Modern Period: Charivari and Community
Violence.
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers to be presented at an
approved session of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain
Medieval and Renaissance Association, "The Presence of the Past,"
University of Las Vegas, May 23-25th, 2002.
The term "charivari" designates a whole host of cultural practices which
can be loosely understood as extra-judicial actions undertaken by a
community to enforce conformity with perceived socio-sexual standards.
Such practices include, but are not limited to, skimmingtons, rough
music, rough ridings, cuckstools, the stocks, May Day celebrations, and
apprentice holidays. This session will focus on the various roles that
such rituals of community sanctioned violence played in the formation of
or resistance to various culturally constructed identities. Papers are
particularly welcome which address the ways in which such practices
remain connected with the contemporary world.
Please submit abstracts (mail or email) by April 1, 2002 to:
Gareth M. Euridge
Dept. of English
Denison University
Granville, OH 43023
(740) 587 5741
euridge@denison.edu
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