CFP: Eating Food, Imbibing Drink, and Devouring Texts in the Middle Ages (7/8/05; 10/15/05)

"How sweet are your words to my taste!"*
Eating Food, Imbibing Drink, and Devouring Texts in the Middle Ages

Call for Papers

Saturday, October 15, 2005
Philosophy Hall, Columbia University

Keynote Address: Professor Paul Freedman, Yale University

This conference will explore medieval eating in its broadest terms.
We invite essays that discuss the history of eating and food,
theories involving the digestion of words and the Word of God,
images of edibles, the Christian host, and dinner scenes. How did
medieval people eat? How did medieval people think about eating?
What does it mean to "eat"?

Suggested topics include:

Food: History, Trade, Diet

Representations of Food: imagistic, textual, and metaphorical

Rumination: tasting the words of your mouth—devouring a text

The Last Supper, the Eucharist, Communion, Transubstantiation

Monastic Rules, Fasting, Ascetics, Lent, Sumptuary Laws, Feeding the
Poor

Places for Food and Eating: the kitchen, the table, the inn, the
court, and the banquet hall

Drinking and Eating as a Social Activity

Gluttony and Drunkenness

Hunting Practices

Graduate students and recent recipients of the Ph.D. in Art History
and Architecture, Archaeology, History, Music, Philosophy,
Religion, and all Area Studies and Literature Departments are
invited to submit a 250-word abstract and cover letter indicating
any audio-visual requirements by July 8th, 2005. We also encourage
the submission of complete panels.

Medieval Guild
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall – MC 4927
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

For more information, please contact:
Alyssa Meyers anm2101_at_columbia.edu
or
Jon Williams jkw2002_at_columbia.edu

* (Psalm 119:103)

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