Call for papers for the 38th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, at Kalamazoo, MI, 8-11 May 2003
"Medieval Texts in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Manuscript
and Early Print Settings"
This special session, focused on later medieval texts in their
early codicological settings (both manuscript and early prints),
will investigate connections between texts and their material
forms, taking into account the critical implications of a text’s
variant readings, its formatting, and the circumstances of its
publication. By opening the session to a range of genres, we
hope to encourage a critical analysis of texts in ways that might
blur generic lines, mirroring the fluidity of genres in the late
Middle Ages. The session also directs attention to vernacular
literacy and the secular reading public as parts of a distinctive
cultural environment in the late Middle Ages, a literary milieu
both strengthened and transformed by the introduction of
printing. Given that the presentation of texts in late-medieval
manuscripts and in early printed editions can provide
illuminating commentaries on each other, papers in this
session might also take into account 19th- and 20th-century
scholarly representations of medieval texts.
Please submit 300-word abstracts by September 15 to
Professor Myra Seaman
Department of English
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424
email: seamanm@cofc.edu
Queries may also be directed to Bill Fahrenbach:
bfahrenb@depaul.edu
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