International Anchoritic Society in association with the University of Leicester, UK: Conference Announcement
RHETORIC OF THE ANCHORHOLD
(including three sessions on de Doctrina Cordis / The Doctrine of the Hert)
July 8th - 10th, 2005
Gregynog, Newtown, Wales
Plenary Speaker: Bella Millet (Southampton)
Keynotes: Vincent Gillespie (Oxford)
Anne Savage (McMaster)
Areas for discussion could include but need not be restricted to:
· Gendered discourse, rhetoric and the anchorhold: (Re)constructing sisterhood/brotherhood
· Negotiation and persuasion in anchoritic guidance writing
· Sermon rhetoric and the anchorhold
· Constructions of power, authority in anchoritic writing
· Anchoritic ideologies
· Reading anchoritic bodies: The discourse of space
· The rhetoric of fear and/or fury
· Subversive discourse
Offers of papers or abstracts of 500 words should be sent to Dr. Liz Herbert McAvoy (ehm1@le.ac.uk) or Ms. Mari Hughes-Edwards (mari.hughes-edwards@man.ac.uk) by August 31st, 2004.
In addition, there will be three full sessions devoted to the under-examined de Doctrina Cordis / Doctrine of the Hert. Abstracts for these three sessions should be sent to Dr. Denis Renevey (denis.renevey@unfri.ch) or Dr. Christiania Whitehead (c.a.r.whitehead@warwick.ac.uk), also by August 31st, 2004.
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