tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33024919364147930742024-03-13T09:11:51.505-04:00Modern MedievalThe Middle Ages still have something to say.Rick Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109263756022001400noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-78325185434793350142017-04-23T19:45:00.001-04:002017-04-23T19:45:35.497-04:00Heroic Age Issue 17<div class="MsoNormal">
On behalf of the Heroic Age board and my co-editor, I would
like to announce the first parts of Issue 17!!
That will be further explained below. We are very happy to release these
well-deserving materials out to our readers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The forgoing also means the completion of Issue 16 of the
journal. Truth be told, this issue has been done for some time, and I am just
getting around to announcing it. We have
two articles in the general section and two related to Alcuin along with a
translation of Alcuin’s <i>De Virtutibus et
Vitiis. </i>The issue is rounded out with two columns and book reviews. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There have been a number of changes here at <i>HA</i>. Brad Eden who was our book editor,
and has been since the beginning of <i>The
Heroic Age</i>, has moved on to other projects. He does so with our very great
and deep thanks for all the service he has done for the journal. For a time,
Thjis Porck acted as our book review editor, but he too has moved on to other
projects. So we now welcome Krista Murchison of Leiden University. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition to book review editor, columnist John Soderberg
is now an associate editor as is Heather Flowers. Melissa Ridley Elmes and
Richard Scott Nokes join our editorial board.
In addition we have new columnists!
Mary Kate Hurley joins us taking over and rethinking the Babel column.
Richard Ford Burley takes over the Electronic Medievalia column from Dan
O’Donnell who also has moved on to other projects though remains a stalwart
board member. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking ahead, the editorial team has decided to change our
release policy. Whereas since our inception we have released whole issues as
the issue has been completed, we are now moving to a model that, at least in my
view, is more consistent with our open source, internet environment. Now, we
will release each column, article, or review as it completes our process and is
ready, called a “rolling release.” Each issue will be a calendar year. And as
fortune would have it, the current issue number coincides with the century’s
year: 17. So that’s all good! <o:p></o:p></div>
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We have growing pains. We have issues with not enough hands
to do the work. Both co-editors teach 4/4 loads at their respective
institutions plus carry on their own research and service requirements. Some
who help are graduate students trying to finish dissertations. Some are
undergraduates. Some are senior scholars lending a hand. In short, <i>HA</i>
is an all-volunteer organization and receives no support from any institution:
neither in the form of graduate assistants nor in release time for the
editorial team. So any help is appreciated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The above paragraph outlines some of the issues we have in
producing the journal. We welcome any new volunteers who would like to lend a
hand. We need social media people, copy editors, section editors, coders, and
of course authors! Both Deanna and I are working hard to ensure that the
journal begins to appear more regularly, but that depends largely on how many
capable hands we have assisting us. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Throughout the rest of this calendar year, additional
articles, columns, and reviews will appear under the “current issue” tab, and I
will try to make announcements as each is added. We are already in the planning
stages for Issue 18, so if you have something you would like to submit for that
issue, now is the time to send it in. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thank you all for your support and patronage of <i>The Heroic Age </i>through the years.
Believe it or not, our first issue was in 1999! I would like to especially
thank my longsuffering co-editor Deanna Forsman, our associate editors, Heather
Flowers and John Soderberg, my production assistant, Sarah Sprouse, and one of
my former students, Nicole Mentges who provided copy editing services. And
thank you for reading!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #003366;">Recent scholarship has suggested that the political landscape of early medieval northwestern Europe owed a greater debt to the Huns, as opposed to the Romans or Germanic peoples. This session invites paper proposals that examine the Merovingian Kingdoms within the context of their relationships with their neighbors. We are particularly interested in papers that examine traditionally studied relationships from new perspectives and papers that examine little-studied interactions.</span></div>
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theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-20911931433210431372016-05-24T20:43:00.001-04:002016-05-24T20:43:12.094-04:00Modern, Medieval, preserved for posterityProf Awesome hears some of my wild and wide-eyed theories!! See it here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjE_fS-plg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjE_fS-plg</a>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-49983182383427618632016-05-17T14:21:00.001-04:002016-05-17T14:21:32.193-04:00A New ConversationYeah, so.....I just noticed it has been a year plus since one of us has posted here. But that's not what I want to reflect on......<br />
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I wanted to start a conversation on whatever platforms we use now re: a problem many of us face. Many of us medievalists, fresh from the Congress, feel like medieval impostors. No, not the usual impostor syndrome where we think we have nothing to say in spite of our years of training, but that because we have such big teaching commitments (4/4 or more) and the accompanying grading plus the service requirements, etc etc that many of us are unable to do any research during the school year. This in fact gives rise to that problem of finishing one's Congress paper en route or even during the conference: we have no time no matter how well we plan to get it researched, written, and done for 3/4 of our year. <br />
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So I wanted to open a discussion on strategies and ways to deal with the problem of being full plus time teacher and only part time scholar. Comments here, or on Facebook, etc welcome.theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-9297705654575488482015-03-14T04:25:00.001-04:002015-03-14T04:25:26.187-04:00<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>ENGL 4183 Intensive Latin Online 2015</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Dr. Larry Swain </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Course Description: This course is an intensive introduction to Latin, covering in nine weeks a full academic year’s worth of the language. This will require a lot of work and dedication on the part of both instructor and student. By the end, however, the student should be able to read Latin prose with the aid of a grammar and a good dictionary or lexicon. There will be a great deal of memorization. Via our online tools, discussion board, online office hours, recorded lectures, live lectures, exercise sharing and corrections, and Q&A sessions delivered via D2L, power point presentations, and other tools, we will go through the entire text and master basic Latin. The course will require a commitment from the student. A MINIMUM of 2 hours and preferably 4-6 hours a day will need to be spent working on the exercises, in class, interacting with the professor etc. Because delivery is online rather than in a traditional classroom, the need for each individual student to apply him- or herself diligently daily is even more important than in a face-to-face class. We will meet virtually in an online classroom for each lesson to explain the grammar lesson, to do some in class exercises, to correct exercises, and so on, for approximately an hour, more if necessary or if student interest. The rest of your time will be spent working on exercises, translating sample passages of actual Latin, memorizing the forms. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Texts:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Intensive Latin</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Floyd Moreland and Rita Fleischer <o:p></o:p></div>
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(I will have advice about students’ dictionaries, additional grammar aids in print and online and so on as well throughout the course). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Highly Recommended:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>English Grammar for Students of Latin: The Study Guide for Those Learning Latin</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski <o:p></o:p></div>
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This course is six credits; I think a full year of Latin deserves a full year of credit. The above URL at the top is the Center for Extended Learning Admissions website. This URL is for the tuition calculator:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.bemidjistate.edu/offices/business/tuition_fees/tuition_calculator/" target="_blank">http://www.bemidjistate.edu/offices/business/tuition_fees/tuition_calculator/</a><i>. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-26782452140870638622015-01-08T13:18:00.001-05:002015-01-08T13:18:18.739-05:00Charlie Hebdo and NeighborlinessI'm cross-posting this from my <a href="http://rickgodden.com/2015/01/08/charlie-hebdo-and-neighborliness/">personal blog</a>. There is a lot more to say, and a lot more to tease out, but these brief thoughts seem like an important reminder while so many are so busy with the Clash of Civilizations narrative.<br />
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, I began reading David Nirenberg’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Neighboring-Faiths-Christianity-Judaism-Middle/dp/022616893X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1420738023&sr=8-3&keywords=neighboring+faiths"><span style="color: #420178;">Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in
the Middle Ages and Today</span></a>, and the attacks in Paris on the offices
of Charlie Hebdo and the all-too-expected violence against Mosques provide an
unsettling and imminent backdrop for what is otherwise some light research
reading. Even if I were not horrified by these propagating acts of violence, my
professional interests would already be raised in light of Salman Rushdie’s
invocation of a “medieval form of unreason” as a way to describe Islamic
radicalism. </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As many others have noted, the labeling of something as “medieval”
is a comforting fantasy of casting the present (and our own responsibilities to
it) into the darkened past. See this </span><a href="http://theconversation.com/medieval-makes-a-comeback-in-modern-politics-whats-going-on-31780" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #420178;">piece</span></a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> for an excellent take on it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, this event has brought back “The Clash of
Civilizations” (as if it ever left). As a perfect example, Senator Lindsay
Graham has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/lindsey-graham-france-attack_n_6432226.html"><span style="color: #420178;">stated</span></a> that “Our way of life doesn’t
fit into their scheme of how the world should be. If you stopped talking about
radical Islam, if you never did a cartoon again, that’s not enough. What people
need to get is they can’t be accommodated. They can’t be negotiated with. They
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rather cartoonish portrait, obscure the interdependence of Christianity and
Islam. Nirenbeg describes this interdependence as “coproduction,” that
religions coproduce each other in a dense network of identification and
dis-identification. Another phrase he uses here is “ambivalent neighborliness,”
an array of responses to the neighbor “ranging from love and toleration to
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goal in them [the ensuing chapters] is simply to convince you that Islam,
Christianity, and Judaism have never been independent of each other: that is as
neighbors, in close relation to one another, that they have constantly
transformed themselves, reinterpreting both their scriptures and their
histories. Their pasts are not discrete, independent, or stable, and neither
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Rick Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109263756022001400noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-51160705631162206312014-09-12T08:58:00.004-04:002014-09-12T08:58:33.815-04:009/11, the Qur'an, and Sympathy to DiversityToward the end of last week, I sat down to look ahead at my teaching topics for this week, looked at the syllabus for my World Literature I course (antiquity to early modern), and realized that I had scheduled the Qur'an on 9/11. When I had made the schedule weeks before, I had taken my pre-made template and populated the empty slots with the reading trajectory that I imagined for the course, without regard for dates--more concerned with overall and weekly organization. At first, I was daunted by the prospect of teaching the Qur'an on the historic date that had practically introduced American culture to Islam through an international tragedy; eventually, I came around to hoping that it would be a good opportunity.<br />
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As it turns out, the class went wonderfully--thanks to great students. They were engaged, interested, and some of them knowledgeable about the Qur'an and Islam from previous reading (on their own or in other classes). They identified the nuance of the Qur'an as a religious text, acknowledging the complicated nature both in comparison with and distinct from some of the other world religious texts we've read over the past few weeks (the Hebrew Bible, Christian gospels, Confucius' <i>Analects</i>). Discussion was lively. About halfway through the class, the elephant in the room finally reared up when students began to confront multiple interpretations of certain passages in the text itself, the historical spread of Islam, and themes of militant conversion in both the text and the history of Islam--and in the history of world religions more generally.</div>
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I took the opportunity to underscore one of my key goals in the class: to instill a sense of diversity and sympathy for world cultures and various representations of what it means to be human. I was honest: I told them that I had no idea about the date when I had put the Qur'an on the scheduled, but that I thought it was a good opportunity for rethinking and revising some of our assumptions and expectations on a day when those thoughts may be very present in our minds. I told them that we had to understand culture and literature through interpretation; that we had to understand cultures not as monolithic (there is no single "Islamic culture" just like there is no single "Christian culture"); that all of our readings and discussions lead us to consider diversity and sympathy. As I said all of this, I watched as they took in what I was saying--nodding, smiling, taking notes, agreeing. They chimed in, echoing some of my words, extending my ideas, and our discussion turned to reflections on how we live in a moment ripe with possibilities for cross-cultural, multi-faith, ecumenical conversations. It gave me hope, and one more reason to remember why I love teaching.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-87443546161553173912014-05-27T12:35:00.001-04:002014-05-27T12:49:26.536-04:00On Teaching BisclavretI originally wrote this for my personal blog, <a href="http://rickgodden.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/on-teaching-bisclavret/">ParaSynchronies</a>, but I've decided to cross-post it here as well.<br />
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Like many people I know, I've been reading article after article on the Isla Vista shootings last Friday. When I haven't been reading articles, I've been delving into the heartbreak and poignance of #<a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YesAllWomen?src=hash" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YesAllWomen?src=hash" style="color: #1b8be0; text-decoration: none;">YesAllWomen</a>. I get like this (I'm certainly not alone). When an event like Isla Vista or Newtown happens, I always seem to have difficulty escaping the event horizon of such senseless tragedy. Well, I wish I could say it was always senseless. There is too much sense (I do not, in any way, mean reason). Rather, there is too much to be read, too many free-floating signifiers of hate and violence that demand to be interrogated, if not interpreted. It's in this state that I finally poked my head out to get back to work prepping Marie de France's "Bisclavret" to teach in a summer British Lit I Survey course.</div>
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This text has always struck me as a deeply troubling one. The first time I taught it, I selected this lai because of its werewolf. I was teaching my first upper-level medieval lit class (in fact, the last such course of its kind I have taught), and I chose as my theme "The Monstrous Middle Ages." A short text about a werewolf seemed like an obvious and perfect choice. For those of you who aren't familiar with the tale, here is a brief summary:</div>
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A Lord seems to have a wonderful life -- status, nobility, and a lovely wife; however, he has a secret. For three days a week he disappears into the forest to become a werewolf. His wife, anxious about these frequent disappearances, confronts him and asksHim and him what is going on. She fears that he has a lover on the side (I would add that this is a fairly justifiable fear given the evidence she had) and so she needs to know. At first, he refuses to tell her but after much coaxing he relents. He also reveals, after initial resistance, where he hides his clothes. He runs about naked in the forest, subsisting on whatever prey he can find, but he needs his clothes to once again resume human form. The lady, aghast at this state of affairs, convinces a knight (one who has attempted to woo her) to steal her husband's clothes. In return, she marries the knight. The husband is then trapped in his wolfish form, and is eventually taken in by the King who recognizes the seeming nobility of the animal. The story comes to a climax when the lord sees his connubial usurper and attacks him. Next, the wolf sees his wife and, in a fit of rage, launches himself at her and swipes off her nose. At this point, it seems like the wolf is going to be punished for this, but one of the wise counselors of the King suggests that the animal has never acted so viciously before and so there must be a reason. Agreeing, the King has the lady tortured until she reveals everything. Ultimately, the lord is returned to his human form and his one-time wife, now disfigured, is exiled. As a sign of her crimes, future generations of the women in her line are born without noses.</div>
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Whenever I teach this text, there is always an excellent conversation about the tensions between the spaces of the forest and the court, between civilization and wildness. The early going consensus in class often seems to be that the werewolf is not the true monster of the text, but rather the lady exhibits more monstrosity in her actions. Now, part of the reason we reached such conclusions might be because of how I lead class discussion, choosing to focus on some questions, and not others, but I also think that Marie de France provokes her readers to both overlook certain key details and to be rattled by that act of overlooking. After we've talked for a while about the working of monstrosity in the text, I often pose the following question: "Is there any way we can discover a sympathetic reading of the Lady?" When I first posed this question, there was silence for a considerable duration. Finally, someone raised the point that there was very little evidence to merit the lady's being tortured. This conversation soon turned to the idea that torture was extreme regardless.</div>
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Then, the ball got rolling. We returned to the prologue, which tells of the savage nature of werewolves, and the seeming contrast to Bisclavret (except for that whole disfiguring thing). If this is what people knew about werewolves, why wouldn't the lady be a bit freaked out? Why wouldn't she take extreme measures to extricate herself from such a situation? And, why include a prologue that seems to be contradicted by the tale, allowing for it to be easily forgotten? We discussed how, in her vulnerable position, she had few options. It no longer seemed that easy to pinpoint where monstrosity could be found in the text.</div>
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Last night, I posted to twitter that I was unsettled prepping this text in the wake of UCSB. Someone then asked me if I'm not always unsettled by "Bisclavret." I certainly am always bothered by it, but somehow I had missed a few details before that I couldn't ignore now. After being told how praised and how good and handsome the lord is, the lady confronts him about his curious, alarming behavior. What I hadn't thought too much about before was the lady's first words:</div>
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"My lord," she said, "my friend, my dear,<br />
There's just one thing I might care<br />
To ask, if only I might dare--<br />
But I'm afraid that you'll get angry,<br />
And, more than anything, that scares me" (From Judith Shoaf's translation)</div>
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Sure, his later anger may seem justified, but does that justify such savage bodily violence? And, what do we do with the statement that the lady fears, "more than anything," that her husband will get angry. On one hand he is great and noble and praiseworthy, but we must not forget the threat of his anger. She was right to fear not only the anger of men, but also how others would normalize and justify the action taken from such masculine anger. Surely the wolf would only show anger if there was just cause, even though the court had no data for this, and so the lady must automatically be at fault. The torture is retroactively justified because of her guilt, but it is clear that this justification was already accepted before her confession.</div>
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After writing out this blog post, I realized that I really have nothing new to add at this moment to the critical discussion of either a.) teaching Marie de France's "Bisclavret or b.) the <a data-mce-href="https://medium.com/the-archipelago/1bb065f76278" href="https://medium.com/the-archipelago/1bb065f76278" style="color: #1b8be0; text-decoration: none;">toxic sludge of misogyny</a> that the UCSB shooter seems to have waded in. I am just struck by how the nice guy so suddenly turns violent, and how his virtue is taken at face value. Yes, this is an imperfect analogy between this text and the state of affairs today, but I find it necessary to note that it seems all too easy to find contemporary resonance in a text which can be read to interrogate 12th-century notions of masculinity, violence, and patriarchal culture. And, I'm not saying that last Friday's act of violence should be described as medieval. I'm saying that "Bisclavret" is all too modern.</div>
Rick Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109263756022001400noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-31156366225286621412014-04-23T16:53:00.001-04:002014-04-23T16:53:31.556-04:00Modern Medieval at Kalamazoo 2014<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so it comes around again, Spring, when medievalists long to go ... to Kalamazoo. The blog has been a bit quiet of late, but as you can see from the run-down below, we've all been very busy! We're organizing, presiding, and presenting like crazy over here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">David Hadbawnik, Univ. at Buffalo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Corey Sparks, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Medieval Literary Ethics<br />Sunday 8:30 a.m. Schneider 1350</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Organizer: Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara<br />Presider: Emily Houlik-Ritchey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>“Doctrine by ensample”: Literature’s Ethical Problem and Spenser’s Aesthetic Solution</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maria Devlin, Harvard Univ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>By Writing Amended: The Ethics of Interpretation in Hoccleve’s Series</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A. Arwen Taylor, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Virtues and the Will in Chaucer’s <i>Parliament of Fowls<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sarah Powrie, St. Thomas More College<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Prosthetic Neighbors: Enabling Community in <i>The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Richard H. Godden, Tulane Univ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>New Methods in Anglo-Saxon Homiletics<br />Thursday 10:00 a.m. Schneider 1325</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sponsor: Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics (SSASH)<br />Organizer: Brandon W. Hawk, Univ. of Connecticut<br /> Presider: Stephen Harris, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>“It maie be Alfricus for al my conninge”: Authorizing Ælfric in the Long Seventeenth Century</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">R. Scott Bevill, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Ut quidam perverse opinantur</i></b><b>: Bede’s Criticism of Unnamed Sources</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Damian Fleming, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>People of the Bread and the Book: Ecclesiology and the Eucharist in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rae Grabowski, Cornell Univ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Universal Saints Located in Anglo-Saxon England<br />Thursday 7:30 p.m. Bernhard 204</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Organizer: Kevin R. Kritsch, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill<br />Presider: Bryan Carella, Assumption College<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>An Old Testament Saint? Judith in Anglo-Saxon England</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Brandon W. Hawk, Univ. of Connecticut<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How to Read a Saint: Agatha and Interpretation</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Using Swedish Fragments to Shed Light on the Anglo-Saxon Marian Conception Feast</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sean Dunnahoe, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How Was Bartholomew Killed? Apocryphal Traditions of Saint Bartholomew in Anglo-Saxon England</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Medievalists and the Social Media Pilgrimage: The Digital Life of Twenty-First- Century Medieval Studies (A Roundtable)<br />Sunday 8:30 a.m. Schneider 1280</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sponsor: Massachusetts State Universities Medieval Blog<br />Organizer: Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State Univ. <br />Presider: Kisha G. Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A roundtable discussion with John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ.; Peter Konieczny, Medievalists.net; Brandon W. Hawk, Univ. of Connecticut; Andrew M. Pfrenger, Kent State Univ.–Salem; Joshua R. Eyler, Rice Univ.; and M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State Univ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A while back, I was at a conference and a fellow conference
attendee made a really important observation. Now, the truth
contained in this oberservation is one we all know, especially those
of us working in Digital Humanities and using the Web for scholarship
and pedagogical needs. But his comment really made me realize both
how widespread this is and how problematic it has become. The Web is
empty.
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Ok, so that's not how my colleague put it. And of course it is
not literally true. The Internet is full of all sorts of things.
But what it now lacks and once had in abundance is the activity of
scholars and teachers. Once not long ago, it was common for
professors and instructors to upload syllabi, course exercises and
materials, articles and thoughts in progress. Truly, the amount of
material we all shared regularly with one another and the world was
mind boggling. Now, however, our universities encourage and
sometimes require us to use Blackboard, D2L, and similar content
management software to run classes, upload materials, and so on. Of
course, these are all proprietary. They discourage sharing, worry
about firewalls, and generally put materials out of reach. Most
faculty no longer have a personal web page. Not even me, in my case
because the university has it so buttoned down that it is impossible
to use. Point is, we no longer share.<br />
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This is not the first time we have seen this corporatization, this
clamping down on things once freely available. Back in the day,
between the “internet” being shared with universities by the DOD,
and the explosion of the web, we had BBS, bulletin board services.
Folks programmed all kinds of things: games, office software,
communication software, and shared it all on the BBSes, delivered of
course over dial up (thank heaven for smart modems!). Of course,
that has all but become a thing of the past as companies have gobbled
up smaller companies and rolled over the individual developer. Rare
is a Linus Torvalds or even a Zuckerberg who develop a program and
make it free to use. No, the phenomenon is not non-existent; but it
is becoming more and more rare.
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Someone might point out the various open source projects. Or
ResearchGate, Academic.edu, and other such sites where scholars are
sharing their materials. And that's true! I don't disagree. But
too few are sharing, and most are sharing pre-publication versions of
papers, a few will add conference papers, fewer add materials prepped
for the classroom or just plain materials not really suitable for
publication but very good research tools or data-mined material.
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Anyway, the point is, 12-16 years ago when the web was new, we
shared things. Now, we don't share as much. Some of this is simply
that our home institutions discourage it by making everything go onto
Blackboard and like sites. We've seen this before. It hasn't in the long run done us any good other than push up prices, require a constant round of updates, a culture of "let's see if we can X corporation's locks" rather than "let's see who can create the best product." And so it goes.<br />
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Point is, it is just too easy to give in to the corporatization of
our work. We're encouraged to. Just put it all on the university's
subscribed site, D2L, Blackboard, something else. And that's fine to
a degree; but it does rob a larger audience of your work, of shared
community resources, of useful information that we once upon time as
medievalists gladly gave one another and our students.
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So this is an appeal. I hope to encourage people to once again
share more of their work, in particular class materials, freely
online. There are multiple ways of doing so for free: a web page,
Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Linkedin, etc. Even (but beware the
dangers) Dropbox and Google Docs. In the long run, our field would
be better off, our students would be better off, and it shows the
world just how vibrant and exciting our field is.<br />
theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-1694454163779387862014-01-22T09:59:00.000-05:002014-01-22T09:59:19.008-05:00Exploring Wellcome Library ManuscriptsAnother win for open access to special collections holdings is making the <a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/page/News.html">news</a>: <a href="http://wellcomeimages.org/">the Wellcome Library</a> has made over 100,000 high-resolution images of items in their collections available to the public, all under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 2.0) licenses. For good reason, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=wellcome+library&oq=wellcome+library&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i60j0l4.3483j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8#q=wellcome+library&safe=active&tbm=nws">this news is getting due attention</a>. What struck me was the number of medieval treasures now available--especially manuscript images.<br /><br />In the cases of some of the Wellcome manuscripts, images provided are just the inside pages with modern descriptions (so hopefully more images from these items will appear in the future). In other cases, there are images of full pages. Many of these are fascinating witnesses to medieval scientific practices, such as an unidentified eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript with Old English medical recipes that Stewart J. Brookes <a href="http://www.digipal.eu/blog/wellcome/">discussed on the DigiPal blog</a>.<br /><br />I highlight a few others to give a sense of the Wellcome holdings.*<div>
<br />Some of the manuscripts contain astronomical lore, such as this Arabic Horoscope of the Mongol Prince Iskandar, grandson of Tamerlane, showing (according to the description) "the positions of the heavens at the moment of Iskandar's birth on 25th April 1384" (Or MS PER 474).<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V61pGLCFvp4/Ut_PQKAPLRI/AAAAAAAAAgM/jVPa0hU32js/s1600/Iskandar+Horoscope.jpg"><img border="0" height="321" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V61pGLCFvp4/Ut_PQKAPLRI/AAAAAAAAAgM/jVPa0hU32js/s1600/Iskandar+Horoscope.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br />This horoscope, from <i>The Book of the Birth of Iskandar</i>, is a good witness to the holdings of Arabic items in the Wellcome collection. For example, searching for "Iskandar" with date range between 0 and 1500 calls up 392 results; searching for "Arabic" between the same date range calls up another 83 results.</div>
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For those interested in 15th-century English texts, the Wellcome Images hold a selection of scientific writings from the period. A few good examples: first, a collection of English and Latin scientific tracts (MS 411/3), with the image here from a text "On Unlucky Days"--a particularly fascinating genre of astronomical lore; and, second, a manuscript of the Pseudo-Galen <i>Anathomia</i> in English (MS 290).<br />
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* On a side note, a few frustrating issues make navigating the site difficult. One is a lack of clear browsing abilities--for example, to browse just manuscripts, or to limit by time or geography. Another is the lack of permalinks for items, making it difficult to cite individual images or item entries in the collection. For this reason, I've provided the low-resolution images here, though high-resolution images are available to download from the Wellcome site.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so we come to the end, again. Always again,
or at least always until the end. Endings have been inescapably on my mind
these last few days, especially provoked by Karl’s <a href="http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2013/12/withdrawing-grain.html"><span style="color: #0000e9;">excellent post</span></a> at ITM. And, as I'm sure
everyone is aware, we are at year's end, with all the existential (and
financial and personal and…) accounting that that entails. But, endings are
opportunity for beginnings, and so there is some hope for optimism. Or is
there? What does it mean to make a new beginning? Does the beginning of a new
year mean anything outside of our collective agreement to mark this as the time
in which we begin a new sequence of months?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's also about time for all of us to begin
making new resolutions as we look forward to the promise of a new year. In
addition to Karl’s ruminations on plucking the grain from the little clergeon
in Chaucer’s “Prioress’s Tale” (the dead body of the boy is miraculously
singing, and he will only be quiet and restful once the grain is pulled from
his tongue), I am mindful of another medieval text: <i>Piers Plowman</i>. More
specifically, I’m thinking of D. Vance Smith’s reading of the poem in his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Incipit-Beginnings-Fourteenth/dp/0816637601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388512552&sr=8-1&keywords=book+of+the+incipit"><i><span style="color: #0000e9;">Book of the Incipit</span></i></a>. Smith gives us a way
to grapple with the repeated new beginnings of Langland’s poem -- the poem
can’t seem to quite fashion an end, but it continuously fashions new
beginnings. Smith observes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the crucial importance of beginnings to the
formal structure, theology, and political phantasmatics of the poem suggests
the powerful presence of what might be called, rather, an <i>inceptive </i>animus,
the epiphenomenon of beginning—the anxiety of beginning that is manifest
indirectly as indirection itself, as the reluctance to make closure, or as the
irrepressible remnant of what comes before the beginning, which is made to end.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During New Year’s, we’re often possessed of such
“an <i>inceptive</i> animus.” Already I’m seeing New Year’s Resolutions, both
sincere and glib, all over my various social media feeds. The New Year's
Resolution (NYR) is a curious speech act: through it we attempt to call forth a
better tomorrow by attempting to dissolve the past. Common and recurring
resolutions for myself include the desire to “get more work done” or “be better
organized” or “write more,” etc. In each case, the hope for better future
behaviors is predicated upon a negative evaluation of past behavior. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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past in a larger sense: as the annulment of history, of what must become the
outside, the exterior, of an event to make the event unique—which is to say,
intelligible, initiating, and historical” (21). To make sense of this moment as
new, to decide to make it different, we often attempt to annul the moments that
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unlike Langland’s insistent re-beginning of the
poem, we don’t necessarily have the same “reluctance to make closure.” Instead,
the NYR expresses a deep desire for closure, but only as a way to redress and
make right past experience. “Sure, I screwed up last year, but this year, <i>this
year</i>, I’ll fix it all and be better.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inevitably, though, we make the NYR only to
break it, often sooner rather than later. The past we seek to annul is indeed
an “irrepressible remnant,” always ready to haunt us. We can't fully annul
the past, and any gesture to do so only confirms it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But, I want to be clear here: I’m not saying
that the lazy are always lazy, or the overindulgent always so. Rather, I just
think it would be good to remember that while 2014 is a new year, with all the
promise that suggests, mostly it’s just the next year, another item in a series
whose ultimate length we can’t know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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final beginning. Remember that it's just one of many. Instead of conjuring away our past selves with futile speech acts, let's just go on, incrementally,
with lots of small new beginnings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rick Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109263756022001400noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-84554670158094901212013-12-22T15:44:00.003-05:002013-12-22T15:44:53.029-05:00Review of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maps Over the past few days, medievalists have been abuzz about a new resource for manuscript study in the digital age: the folks at <a href="http://sexycodicology.net/">Sexy Codicology</a> (a team made up of <a href="http://sexycodicology.net/blog/author/giulio/">Giulio Menna</a> and <a href="http://sexycodicology.net/blog/author/marjolein/">Marjolein de Vos</a>) launched the <a href="http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/">Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maps website</a>. I have been personally eager for this launch for several weeks now, since versions of some maps already appeared on <a href="https://twitter.com/SexyCodicology">Twitter</a> (Giulio Menna first conceived of the maps in July 2013), as teasers for the main launch this week. If the emergence of digitized manuscripts has caused a major sea-change the field of medieval studies, Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maps is a rising star to help with navigation.<div>
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What are the Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maps? Most simply, they present interactive visualizations of thousands of digitized medieval manuscripts in hundreds of libraries geographically plotted on world maps. The maps and data are presented in four basic forms. On the <a href="http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/maps/standard/">"Standard" map</a> (built on GoogleMaps), each point represents a library, which can be clicked on for more information about the institution, its digitized holdings, and a link. The <a href="http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/maps/heat-maps/">Heatmap</a> (also based on GoogleMaps) presents a visualization of the concentration of digitized manuscripts across geography--the more manuscripts in a location, the more concentrated the visualization; the heatmap is currently presented as a series of static images, with promises of future developments. The <a href="http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/maps/fancy-map/">"Fancy" map</a> (built on MapBox) is the most fully developed, an improvement on the "standard" map and heatmap. While it is still in development, the "fancy" map is fully usable and fully interactive, and the creators promise future capabilities that will encompass those of the other maps on a single platform. Finally, the creators give full, open access to the <a href="http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/maps/data/">original data</a> used to construct the maps--a complete list of libraries that have put digitized manuscripts online.</div>
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Little needs to be said about the quality of these maps, since users can see for themselves that the maps are a useful addition to the field. Instead, I want to focus on three foundational characteristics of the project that make this project excellent. First, although this launch presents some already great resources, the project is not complete but in a state of development. While this may seem to be a drawback for those focused on long-term sustainability and other related issues, for this project it suggests much potential for future improvements. In relation to sustainability and quality, my second assessment relates to the use of already well-established tools. The site itself is built on the all-purpose <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> platform, while the maps are built on <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/">GoogleMaps</a> and <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/">Mapbox</a>--all apt choices that have been tested and well met in digital humanities work. Third, the entire project is fully open, licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. The project creators' laudable openness and willingness to share is already evidenced by the posting of complete data sets, as well as the use of other software devoted to open access (notably, WordPress and Mapbox). It is hoped that other projects associated with digitized manuscripts will follow this same path.</div>
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If there is any drawback to the project--a review must have its quibbles, and mine are both minor and hopefully remedied in the future--it is the lack of stable funding. Unfortunately, this does affect the "fancy" map, since the creators are only able to use the free version of Mapbox to create it, and are limited in the amount of space for the maps. Thus, the "fancy" map is limited in numbers of monthly views (currently at 3,000) as well as functionality for zooming in and out on the map. Moreover, the lack of stable funding hinders the overall progress; although the creators seek to improve the "fancy" map, they admit that their efforts at this point must go toward the "standard" map and heatmap. (If you do want to help defray costs, the creators suggest checking out the <a href="http://www.zazzle.nl/sexycodicology">Sexy Codicology store</a>.) With these concessions, however, it should be acknowledged that the project team has already achieved extraordinary feats without formal financial support. This fact in itself should speak to the potential for still greater accomplishments.</div>
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<br />There is no doubt that the launch of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maps is already a success. Yesterday the <a href="http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/matenadaran/">project blog</a> reported that "In just 48 hours, the website was visited around 3,000 times." With such positive response, and still more to come from the Sexy Codicology team, the future of medieval manuscripts online seems a bright one indeed.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-26429298883102801632013-12-04T10:59:00.001-05:002013-12-04T11:09:47.071-05:00Briefly noted -- Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Readers of Modern Medieval will want to go take a look at the inaugural issue of <i><a href="http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/accessus/vol1/iss1/">Accessus</a>, </i>a publication of the Gower Project. This excellent-looking first issue includes the following essays that bring together disability studies, medieval studies, manuscript studies, and new media:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Blindness, Confession, and Re-membering in Gower's <i>Confessio</i>" Tory Vandeventer Pearman</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"The Trentham Manuscript as Broken Prosthesis: Wholeness and Disability
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Gower’s poems have been part of The Gower Project since its inception. To en-vision, re-vision, and see things anew is something of a leitmotif among the several essays presented here, all of
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hopefully next week I'll have a review up of these four essays, but for now, some finals week(s) reading for all of you. Also, see Bruce Holsinger's take over at <a href="http://burnablebooks.com/unseeing/">Burnable Books</a>.</span></div>
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Rick Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109263756022001400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-87216798323852626432013-11-17T11:37:00.001-05:002013-11-17T11:43:04.325-05:00On Mass Killings: The Importance of "Cultural Ether"<br />
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There’s a lot to like about <a data-tooltip-position="bottom" data-tooltip-type="link" data-tooltip="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303309504579181702252120052" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303309504579181702252120052" target="_blank">Ari Schulman’s article</a> in last week's <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>. The very best part is simply this:</div>
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Rampage shootings are fed by many other sources that also must be addressed, of course… [But] these factors are more or less perennial problems of human life and cannot, alone, bear the blame for rampage shootings. In coverage of these events, the focus on insanity particularly risks playing into the need of potential future shooters to convince themselves that the world rejects them, rather than the other way around. The minority who really are psychotic, or just act impulsively, are even more likely to draw their ideas from the cultural ether.</blockquote>
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But let’s double-back and continue on the path. Mental illness undoubtedly plays a role in almost all mass killings, but we can’t downplay that “cultural ether.” <a data-tooltip-position="bottom" data-tooltip-type="link" data-tooltip="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-language-and-violence-health-care.html" href="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-language-and-violence-health-care.html" target="_blank">Action occurs at a moment of complex interaction between idea and reality, between rhetoric/ language and reception</a>. Yes, we can and should attempt to understand the psychological profile of these shooters but we should also understand how cultural (humanistic) factors influence them.</div>
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And perhaps this is the way out, an addendum to Schulman’s article. Don’t focus on the killer, don’t focus on his propaganda, but read it/ watch it. Understand it. Deconstruct it. Find the cultural cues embedded within it and trace their roots. Maybe it’s religion (as <a data-tooltip-position="bottom" data-tooltip-type="link" data-tooltip="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-relevance-of-middle-ages-at.html" href="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-relevance-of-middle-ages-at.html" target="_blank">here</a> & <a data-tooltip-position="bottom" data-tooltip-type="link" data-tooltip="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2007/09/seung-hui-cho-and-religion-take-2.html" href="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2007/09/seung-hui-cho-and-religion-take-2.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Maybe it’s a our cultural <a data-tooltip-position="bottom" data-tooltip-type="link" data-tooltip="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-language-and-violence-health-care.html" href="http://modernmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-language-and-violence-health-care.html" target="_blank">valorization of violence</a> as a problem-solving option. Schulman is right that, in and of themselves, these ideas percolating in the cultural ether are not dangerous. The vast, vast majority deal with those ideas daily without recourse to violence. The problem is that, once in a while, sometimes suddenly, they don’t anymore. Suddenly, that cultural ether coalesces, become the demons that whisper in someone’s ear. And we must interrogate those moments when the demons become manifest.</div>
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</section>Matthew Gabrielehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300129034304529436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-72075543380624644742013-10-25T10:29:00.001-04:002013-10-25T10:37:14.404-04:00Is There a Comment for this Blog?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Recently, Jeffrey Cohen wrote a thoughtful <a href="http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2013/10/why-is-blogging-hard-work.html">blog post </a> (prompted by Christopher Schaberg's <a href="http://whatisliterature.blogspot.com/2013/10/fall-trips-other-things.html">post</a>) on why blogging seems like such hard work.</span><br />
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Somehow, blogging has come to feel less dynamic and more permanent. The elevation of the blog as a venue for more "serious work" has a direct relation, I think, to the increasing use of FB and Twitter by many academics. Jeffrey writes the following about why it seems easier or preferable to dash out thoughts on FB/twitter versus composing blog posts:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I agree with Jeffrey about the immediacy of FB/twitter, and he goes on to note that composing a blog post takes real labor, whereas a series of tweets can reach the level of stream-of-consciousness. I know why I don't blog enough, and I am not happy with it, but for the moment I am most interested in the idea that blogs "<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">have become a forum more often read than interacted with, as well as great magnets for trolls and spam." What's going on here? Why has the blog comment section become a no-mans-land?</span></span><br />
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Part of the problem might be how we circulate posts now. We not only write a blog post, but also promote and advertise that post on other social media, and as a result, comments and dialogue seem to find a home on the links, and not the linked pages themselves. During the <a href="http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2012/12/a-periodization-collation.html">Great Swervian Dustup of 2013</a>, many of us remarked (on twitter and FB of course) that it was difficult keeping track of the conversation. Comments were popping up all over various social media, and this proved to be a problem because not everyone is connected in the same ways. The rhizomatic quality of social media can be invigorating, but it can also be bewildering and disorienting.</span><br />
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Looking back, I wonder if we have been so good at building community that we have forgotten to build community. I discovered <i>In the Middle</i> when I was feeling particularly isolated during the dissertation. I took the risk and put myself out there by commenting on the blog, under my own name, and folks responded. These early interactions encouraged me, and some of the other commenters on the blog became actual friends. What seemed like a remote and impenetrable field suddenly felt open and even hospitable. So, naturally, when social media came around, it was natural that we would extend those professional communities to other spaces. Because of how we are all so interconnected, I suspect that for many academics (of course, not all), FB can feel as much a professional space as a personal one. And many use twitter exclusively for professional/public discourse.</span><br />
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While anyone can set up a twitter account and then follow most anyone, there is still a barrier to Facebook. Speaking for myself, I feel comfortable following anyone on twitter--there is a different set of expectations there concerning public discourse. But for FB, I wouldn't feel comfortable friending everyone. Nor do I want to. But since FB allows for more robust commenting, this could be a real problem. Although many of us are "friends"/friends on FB, we are perhaps reinforcing exclusive communities even if that is explicitly opposite our goal.</span><br />
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Not only might graduate students feel less than comfortable with friending more established scholars (and really, there is an argument to be made for preserving more personal spaces), but the movement of conversations to FB or twitter make it so that people from other disciplines, fields, and those outside of the University are unintentionally excluded from conversation. And without a possibility of robust comments on a blog, then a blog is nothing more than a mini–journal article.</span><br />
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So, what to do about this? Given how we share information, I don't really see commenting necessarily coming back exclusively to the blog. But, we can perhaps do a better job of archiving and updating blogs with relevant comments. Even then, though, there could be a sense of gatekeeping. Perhaps we can also put links to public FB posts where others might at least view the conversation unfolding. At the moment, I don't have a better suggestion that doesn't include telling people how to use the Internet. But, I think that these questions of community are something we can all think more about.</span><br />
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My <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rick.godden/posts/10202252015760635">public FB link</a> for this post.</span>Rick Goddenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109263756022001400noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-75943541175278297972013-10-13T18:55:00.001-04:002013-10-13T18:55:48.120-04:00Go to HEL!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">So. I've thought for years I ought to do something about the History of English Language book choices out there, frustrating as they all are and far too expensive. But I haven't. Then after discussions earlier this year with Mary Kate Hurley and Nicole Discenza and others on this and related HEL matters, I really though I ought to do something about it. Finally, at SEMA last weekend during the HEL roundtable I volunteered. So under the auspices of the Heroic Age journal (because my co-editor has her own dedicated server), we're opening and developing an open source History of the English Language textbook and workbook. So if you have materials written, exercises composed, homepages constructed, links, etc and you are willing to share them with other HEL instructors, send them to me at lswain@bemidjistate.edu and me and my minions will begin organizing and constructing an open source, web-accessible text book out of our collective materials.</span>theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-5224313305391832972013-10-07T16:55:00.003-04:002013-10-07T16:55:48.013-04:00“Lost Children” Texts: Returning to the Archive in the “Google Books Era”[Cross-posted from <a href="http://brandonwhawk.net/2013/10/07/lost-children-texts/">my personal blog</a>.]<br />
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Jockers' point is, of course, generally taken to be true, and the massive digitization of texts has certainly changed research across the humanities (he addresses copyright issues in his final chapter, "Orphans"). There is no denying the major benefits to scholarship that have come from initiatives such as Google Books, HathiTrust, and Project Gutenberg.</div>
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Though what about pre-modern, unedited texts? Jockers points to his own idealism & problems such as copyright, but there are also other problems of access: e.g., some of these texts have never (or almost never, or not properly) freed from the archive.</blockquote>
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Of course, medievalists benefit greatly from free, open access to many texts, particularly those printed before and even into the early twentieth century. In the USA, copyrights up to 1923 have now generally expired--through there are exceptions, such as when estates continue to hold rights--putting all works printed before then in the public domain. It's worth noting that many resources and editions of medieval texts still consulted (such as those published by the Early English Text Society) were printed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There's no doubt that digitization of these texts are game-changers.</div>
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Yet, if Jockers is concerned in his final chapter about copyright and "orphan" texts--instances in which ownership and copyright are unclear--I'm concerned about what we might think of as "lost children" texts (though the two types aren't mutually exclusive) that have yet to be brought out of the archive and made accessible to scholars.</div>
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Many examples come to mind. One instance that I've encountered and worked on is a Hiberno-Latin commentary on Colossians that survives in St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395, which has been mentioned in various scholarship but remained unedited and, subsequently, largely unexamined (see now my transcription and analysis in <em>Sacris Erudiri</em> 2012). This text is just one representative of many Hiberno-Latin texts available only by directly examining the manuscripts; in fact, this issue is the reason for the initiative behind the Corpus Christianorum Scriptores Celtigenae series (published by Brepols). Other examples abound in J.-P. Migne's monumental nineteenth-century <em>Patrologia Latina</em> (PL), some volumes of which are digitally available, while the whole text corpus and searchable database remains locked behind a hefty commercial paywall maintained by Chadwyck-Healey, despite the texts being theoretically available to the public domain. Again, the Corpus Christianorum is relevant here, since the Series Latina seeks to supplant Migne with a new line of critical editions. Like the PL database, however, the Brepols counterpart--the Corpus Christianorum Library of Latin Texts (CCLT)--remains available only to users (or institutions) paying the steep subscription price.</div>
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Presumably, we need to turn back to the archive, to construct corpora or add unprinted materials to our already existing corpora even before we can begin our macroanalysis. (On a small scale, this has been my intent with my project on <a data-mce-href="http://studyingjudith.wordpress.com" href="http://studyingjudith.wordpress.com/" style="color: #3c2bb6;">"Studying Judith in Anglo-Saxon England"</a>.) In both his first and final chapters, Jockers quotes an article by Rosanne Potter from 1988: "Until everything has been encoded... the everyday critic will probably not consider computer treatment of texts" (qtd. 4 and 127).** Jockers follows this up, "It is a great shame that today, twenty-four years later, everything has been digitized, and still the everyday critic cannot consider computer treatments of texts" because of copyright (175). He does offer a caveat in a footnote, remarking, "No, not everything, but compared to 1988, yes, everything imaginable." In our age of big data, it's easy to meet this assumption and accept it; but compared to 1988, much from the medieval period remains in the archive, not even transcribed, edited, or printed, let alone digitized. While some of us are working on computer treatment of texts, there is still much to do in the archives before some of it can be done.</div>
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* None of my discussion is meant to denigrate Jockers's work: he makes an excellent case for literary "macroanalysis" and offers a series of superb analyses throughout his book. Furthermore, related to my concerns tangentially, his comments about copyright in the final chapter are salient. The fact that he does not address the same issues that I raise here is not to be seen as a mark against his work, but perhaps indicative of one difference that exists between digital humanities work on 19th-century texts (Jockers's own field) and medieval texts (my own field).</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-36475494858840826782013-10-04T08:58:00.001-04:002013-10-04T08:58:57.844-04:00London LayersI haven't posted any medieval content here for a while, nor have I ever written about my trip to London--so I'm using this post to do both. I've long been fascinated by London, and I finally had the chance to visit (for a conference and sight-seeing) in July. I'm no less fascinated, and my wonder of the city is even more now.<br />
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While there, my wife and I had several conversations about how much of a remix-mashup the city is: its earliest bits coming from the Romans, through tot he medieval mercantile hub that it became, into the modern, surviving the Great Fire, with reconstruction and continued growth up to the present.<br />
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Layers. Layers of the city are visible everywhere.<br />
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There some are pieces--like the Saxon arch in All-Hallows-by-the-Tower (below) and the remains of the earlier Roman building in the basement below, where visitors can still walk--that have been preserved pretty well intact, with more recent (though still medieval) construction around them. Yes, some of the city's treasures are quite well preserved in the many museums, but many are still kept in street corners, in the open, or tucked into churches that have stood against time. There are other bits--like the London Wall, once spanning along the city, now only visible at certain sites--that are crumbling, in need to restoration. And still some sites--like the Tower of London, with its Norman keep and massive fortification built up around it over time--are now regarded as national treasures, teeming with guards and security. Walking along the streets in central London, many of the buildings show the layering quite visibly, as the soot from the Great Fire lines the walls.<br />
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The mashup of the city's history is stunning, and a wonder I look forward to beholding again.<br />
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So here's a photo-set of just a few of my favorite details.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Charterhouse in Charterhouse Square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Saxon Arch in All-Hallows-by-the-Tower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Anglo-Saxon stone cross in the basement of All-Hallows-by-the-Tower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One site of the crumbling London Wall</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-6862633386381222322013-09-23T20:48:00.001-04:002013-09-23T20:48:25.969-04:00Call for Papers: 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Medieval Studies - "Celebrations"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Hello all! Jenn here again. Here's another CFP from my friends at the CUNY Grad Center. I'm well into the first semester of my very first year as A.B.D., and I'm beginning to contemplate some blog posts on the dissertation project I am cooking up. In the meantime, I hope these CFPs are useful to you or those you know. </i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">9th Annual Pearl Kibre Medieval Study Graduate Student Conference</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1286396831" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">February 28, 2014</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Medieval Celebrations"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, CUNY Graduate Center’s student-run organization for medieval studies, is hosting their ninth annual graduate student conference: Medieval Celebrations. We invite grad students to submit proposals about celebrations of all kinds.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Topics for presentations include but are not limited to:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Festivals, feasts, and food</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Holy days and saints days</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Forms of ritual</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· The Mass</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Coronation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Baptisms, weddings, and funerals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Entertainment and performance</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Agriculture and pagan vestiges</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Markets</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">· Mockery and foolery</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also invite grad student performers of medieval music or dramatic arts to submit proposals for short performances (up to 30 minutes; please include estimation of time).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1286396832" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">November 30, 2013</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Include your name and affiliation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Papers must be 15-20 minutes in length, and performances no more than 30 minutes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Submissions should be emailed to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="mailto:medievalstudy@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;">medievalstudy@gmail.com</a></span>Jennifer Lynn Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591257224217929921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-87237078476867579022013-09-16T15:52:00.002-04:002013-09-16T16:46:36.666-04:00Call for Papers: “New Media and the Medieval Ages”<br />
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<i>Hello all! Jenn here. Here's a CFP from some of my very good medievalist friends at the CUNY Grad Center. This sounds like it will be a great Kalamazoo panel. </i><br />
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The Pearl Kibre Medieval Study is currently accepting abstracts for its panel at the 49<sup>th </sup>International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_600261810" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">May 8 – 11, 2014</span></span>) titled: “<i>New Media and the Medieval Ages.”</i><br />
The field of medieval studies has a relatively long and recognized history of scholarship assisted by technology. One of the first to merge new advances in technology with humanities scholarship was a medievalist, Fr. Roberto Busa, who in the 1940s conceived and developed the <em>Index Thomisticus</em>—a tool for performing text searches within the massive corpus of Aquinas’s works—in collaboration with IBM. Today dozens of digital resources are available for the medievalist: online collections of digitized manuscript images, full-text databases, online scholarly editions, and tens of thousands of books and journals. One of the more recent and popular trends amongst medievalists in new media technology is the transformation of widely conceived medieval texts and data into new forms of media and technology. Projects such as Piers Plowman Electronic Archive and the Mapping Medieval Chester project exemplify only a few of the innovative applications of new media to our study of the medieval world.<br />
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Shared amongst these projects’ use of digital tools is an emphasis on remediation, taking data in one form and transforming and transposing it into another form of usable media. Additionally, through a greater focus on developments in contemporary technology, or as result of its proliferation, scholars and researchers have also become more attuned to the use, development, and creation of medieval technologies in the contexts of the written word, manuscripts, works of art, music, architecture, warfare, urban planning, and others. The panel “<i>New Media and the Middle Ages”</i> aims at addressing some of the key concepts, questions, and methodologies concerning the convergences between developments in both new and old technologies and our study of the medieval past. Papers might address such questions as: What insights might digital humanities allow in our study of medieval texts, architecture, music, manuscripts, and art? What kinds of multimedia objects or events existed in the medieval period, and how might we as modern scholars still have access to them? What are the consequences of considering medieval manuscripts, texts, and works of art as multimedia works?<br />
Other topics for presentations include:<br />
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<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Digital projects in the visual and performance arts</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Encoding of medieval manuscripts and printed texts</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Management and preservation of digital resources</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">The cultural impact of the new media</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">The role of digital humanities in academic curricula</li>
<li style="margin-left: 15px;">Funding and sustainability of long-term projects</li>
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Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words by September 15, 2013<i> (but extended through the end of the week!)</i><br />
Include your name and affiliation.<br />
Papers must be 15-20 minutes in length.<br />
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Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, Medieval Studies Certificate Program<br />
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY</div>
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Jennifer Lynn Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591257224217929921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-55141370006561056362013-09-15T04:20:00.000-04:002013-09-15T04:20:09.475-04:00The Job Market: a few chunks of advice<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This is the first opportunity I
have had to really add anything here since our “reconstitution.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not for lack of things to muse upon!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as it is late September, the JIL has just
released the first job list of the season, I thought I might toss a few things learned
on both sides of the job hunt table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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First, it is hard, and it is
frustrating, to have to shape each and every job application to the school/job
you are applying for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But let me tell
you: I’ve chaired a half dozen search committees in the last two years, and the
last thing I want is to read a boilerplate application that doesn’t tell me
anything about what you the applicant can do for my program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ninety per cent of the applications received
are people who are just as qualified as you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And ninety per cent of those also sent in
boiler plates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The applicants that get
looked at first are those who took the time to talk about what they want and
can do for our program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the ad says
we want X and you have X tell us how you fit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If there is no reason for you to stand out of the pile, you won’t.</div>
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Second, if you are not qualified
for the job, please don’t apply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes,
once in a great while, someone will get lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But honestly, if you do not have the qualifications for the position,
you are simply wasting your time and money as well as the search committee’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your application will end up on the waste
pile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Third, many state schools now have
online applications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FILL THESE OUT
COMPLETELY!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, you have to restate
information that is in your letter and on your CV and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the state schools’ HR departments may not
even forward your materials due to an incomplete application.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if they do, the application is a key
piece in your arsenal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The application is
on top of your materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We look at it
first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The application will tell us
whether or not we should continue to read the rest of your materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, after you’ve written the letters, the CV,
the philosophy, etc etc, do fill out the repetitious, annoying, seemingly waste
of time, application.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could be the
difference between and interview and the dust bin.</div>
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Fourth, PROOF READ!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should go without saying, but an
ungrammatical sentence in your application materials stands out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some committees won’t care; some will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But look at it this way: when a committee is
deciding whom to interview, why give them an excuse not to include you in their
top list of potential interviewees?</div>
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Fifth, one of the counter intuitive
things that I learned while on the market was that especially in the state
public institution arena, the search committee is not the final say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure, the search committee does all the work,
and most of the evaluating when you are on a campus visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the administration has a say in many
cases, so you have to sell yourself to the administrators too; that part of the
interview is not simply a formality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
my university’s case, the administration has final say, and the administration
makes the offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually the
administration will go along with the search committee’s recommendation, but
they don’t have to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So you must sell
yourself that direction as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Sixth, know the market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look, one of the things that grad school does
is force us to specialize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the
academy helps all think that we’re landing jobs in a Tier 1 school and will
only teach Old English, or only teach Chaucer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the majority of jobs out there require more breadth than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majority of jobs require a “medievalist”
and quite frankly and rather unfairly are interested in Middle English, and
even at that, interested in Chaucer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Helpful if you have some linguistics in there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s just an English example, but the
situation is no different in other fields as far as I can tell. The point is
that most jobs are going to require teaching outside of your dissertation area
and area of specialization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the more
teaching in areas outside your comfort zone you have, the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, there are all sorts of reasons that being
an adjunct sucks, but honestly a year or two adjuncting and building up your
teaching experience in as many areas as you can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, you should also be publishing and
so on….publish as broadly as you can.</div>
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Seventh, NETWORK!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not enough graduate students take this
seriously enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Network, network,
network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personal connections can make a
huge difference in every stage of the job hunt process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’ve met you, I’m more likely to suggest
or even argue for an interview for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Network, network, network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Eighth, and this is not easy to admit, but make sure the people from whom you have requested letters send them. Look, I never would have thought that a faculty job takes as much time as it does, but I have few spare moments in the day. Your letter too often will slip down the list of priorities as course prep, demands by the administration, other students, etc all demand my time. So while I intend to send the letter on time, I might not have gotten to it yet, or might even have forgotten. It is vital that you keep pestering. And you might want to do something to make it easier, like using Interfolio. Also ASK EARLY. If you can start asking in fact in July, you have a much better chance of timely letters of recommendation reaching the desired destination on time. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Ninth, do not get depressed or lose hope. Just know that the competition is fierce, too much of it is dumb luck, and the best thing you can do for your job search is realize that you will be better off to spend some time as a post-doc, visiting scholar, or adjunct, before you are able to land that TT job. This is not a bad thing. This is good career building and networking. So keep the faith, keep hope, and keep applying.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Tenth, when interviewing, have some good, not obvious but perceptive, questions about the school, student body, or department ready. A natural part of the interview is for the committee to tell you things about the school, often times things that you can get from researching the school (and I should have to tell you to do that!!). So when it comes time to ask "do you have any questions for us", have some! And do not ask the search committee about pay, and that sort of thing. Ask about what they see as your role in the dept, ask about their five year plan, ask about the intellectual life of the community, etc, Develop a set of good questions that they are not likely to tell you in the normal run of conversation so that you have something to ask at that moment...and having something at that moment is always better than "gee, you answered all my questions."</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Best of luck to all on the market this year!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Larry Swain</span></div>
theswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-9575229741665905402013-07-28T14:42:00.001-04:002013-07-28T14:42:38.882-04:00When Is a Product of Research Ready for Public Release?By now, many readers will probably be aware of the debate surrounding the recent release of the American Historical Society's <a href="http://blog.historians.org/2013/07/american-historical-association-statement-on-policies-regarding-the-embargoing-of-completed-history-phd-dissertations/">Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations</a>. The discussion has gained quite a bit of attention on social media (particularly Twitter) under the tag #AHAgate, and there has been an eruption of responses--including the AHA's own <a href="http://blog.historians.org/2013/07/qa-on-the-ahas-statement-on-embargoing-of-history-dissertations/">Q & A</a>. Tim McCormick has taken the initiative to crowd-source <a href="http://openhistory.uservoice.com/forums/216483-ahagate-collection">a curated, online collection of the discussion</a> via the newly launched <a href="http://openhistory.uservoice.com/">Open History project</a> (click through to those sites for a summary, with relevant links to many responses). At first, I had little to contribute to the already strong debate, but the more I read and thought about it, the more I wondered how much of this is actually a debate. Much of my reading has been strong criticism of the AHA, with only a few responses seeking a balance to the debate.<br />
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My central issue with the debate so far is that many critics of the AHA seem to be approaching the question of open access to dissertations as if these PhD theses are finished, published products. But dissertations are not publications, and they are not, themselves, the end results of research and scholarly work. If consensus is forming (at least in some circles) that academic research should (pedagogically, financially, ethically, etc.) be available to the public--as in the sciences--then we should also consider that this assumption regards what happens to published results, not drafts of research in progress. After all, scientists do not publish data openly as soon as they have lab results; they work to frame that data into reports. So, as my title suggests, I want to pose the question: When is a product of research ready for public release? I argue that the point of publication (public-ation, making public) is the point at which we need to ask the question of making that research available via open access, and that notion can drastically affect the questions we ask about the public release of dissertations.<br />
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In my own response to the AHA and the debate so far, I find myself on the fence, but not from indecision. Here, in brief, are my opinions on just some issues already raised:<br />
Do I fundamentally agree with the AHA? Yes... and No. I am sympathetic (to varying degrees) to aspects of their statement and criticisms of it.<br />
Do we need more studies and facts (not anecdotes) about dissertations, open access, and publications before making assumptions and recommendations? Yes.<br />
Do attitudes and assumptions about hiring, tenuring, adjuncts, and other systemic issues in academia need reform? Yes.<br />
Do assumptions about publication need to change? Yes.<br />
Are authors' rights worth defending? Yes.<br />
Should graduate students have release rights over their own dissertation work? Yes.<br />
Is open access important? Yes.<br />
Should end results of publicly funded research be openly accessible? Yes.<br />
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That last question and response is where I want to focus. First, some caveats.<br />
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Of the responses to the AHA's recommendations, my thoughts resonated especially with those of Michael J. Altman, on <a href="http://michaeljaltman.net/2013/07/24/why-i-embargoed-my-dissertation/">why he embargoed his dissertation</a>. I certainly support open access, sharing research, extending academia into the public sphere, bringing the public sphere into academia--whatever metaphors for such interaction we can muster, though whatever means we can imagine. I especially think this is important for scholars working from public funding (such as at state schools, which I'm keenly aware of since I'm a graduate student at one). I have written about my issues with publishing on this blog before; I maintain my own curated profile for my publications on Academia.edu to make my work freely available (when allowed by publishers--I also learned the hard way to be more careful with whom I publish in the future); and I have long viewed blogging as part of this endeavor. Yet, for all of my support for scholarly openness in its many possibilities, I am aware of my place in an academic setting that still must change radically before the issues are resolved. I also acknowledge that this awareness does not free me from an ethical responsibility to seek that change, or to work to contribute my own efforts to shifting the status quo.<br />
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So I return to my initial question. As I am in the process of writing my dissertation, I am all too aware that it is a draft of something that I will only be comfortable releasing into the public after much more work. I have already gone through several distinct drafts of various chapters in consultation with my advisors and some friends. I know that I will write and revise these chapters several more times before they're ready for public life--and some of those drafts will be after my defense, as I work to turn this project into a book. That may be several years. Will it take 6 beyond my PhD? More? Less? (Will academic publishing shift so dramatically in that time that it will not be a physical book but a digital publication of some sort? Could it be both?) In some sense, regarding open access, perhaps the time table is inconsequential, because until it is ready for publication, this project is in a liminal state.<br />
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I think there is a good analogue if we think about scholarly production beyond dissertations and books. For example, what about articles? I have many research documents currently in liminal states on my computer hard drive--seminar papers, conference papers, various side projects--that I have never released to the public because they were not ready for publication of any sort. Should those be openly accessible just because they are some type of result of my (publicly funded) research? I certainly hope not, since some of these research avenues are half-baked, and I may never return to them. I have chosen to publish articles that I felt were ready; in those cases, I made my research results available via my Academia.edu profile. Or, to take another, more recent means of publication--perhaps closer to the notion of electronic theses--what about digital projects? Over the last several months, I have been working on a digital project, and I recently began writing about that process on a <a href="http://studyingjudith.wordpress.com/">development blog</a>. Of course, I have, in one sense, published some of my notes and research up to this point; but I have kept other aspects of this work in files on my computer, not ready for release until the project is further underway. With this digital project, I have wondered at what point I will release my work. Will I publish the project as a final, fully formed product, or will I release it in stages? I expect it to be a year or more before some of the products of this research are released.<br />
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I have also thought about my dissertation in similar ways. Will I publish one or two articles from my dissertation before publishing it as a book? At what point is my research ready for publication? When will I make my work public? Some scholars may choose to publish in different ways, at different points, via either traditional means or new means of digital dissemination; and that is fine, since authors' rights should be pre-eminent. Yet I think that these questions raise new ways of thinking about dissertations and open access. In writing this post, perhaps I have asked more questions than I have made any specific claims. I do hope that these questions point to one more issue that will be considered among the mass of discussion already happening.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-70332664985839566572013-07-23T11:29:00.002-04:002013-07-23T11:29:38.538-04:00Call for Papers: Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics at Kalamazoo 2014Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies<br /> Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)<br /> May 8-11, 2014<br /> <br /> New Methods in Anglo-Saxon Homiletics<br /> <br /> For over ten years at Kalamazoo, the Society for the Study of Anglo-Saxon Homiletics (previously organized by Aaron J Kleist) has thrived in its aims to promote scholarship related to the sources, practices, appropriations, and early studies of Anglo-Saxon homilies. The Society recently experienced a three-year hiatus from Kalamazoo, but scholars have continued to support the possibility of future sessions by the Society. This session seeks to renew the presence of the Society at Kalamazoo, as well as vibrant scholarship and collaborative thinking about new directions for the field. Over the years, the Society has fostered a wide range of interests and methodologies both old and new: for example, source studies, Anglo-Saxon theologies, rhetoric and style, linguistics and philology, the interplay of Christian and pagan practices, paleography and codicology, afterlives of Anglo-Saxon homilies, translation theories, gender studies, and digital initiatives. This session provides a welcome forum for continued discussion of such issues of central importance to Anglo-Saxon studies, especially focused on new avenues of study in the field of homiletics.<br /> <br /> Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words with a completed Participant Information Form (available at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wmich.edu%2Fmedieval%2Fcongress%2Fsubmissions%2Findex.html&h=IAQHFh07dAQFx67pd2O7KVcl6QppRA2DvzlbmesuiEYtCWg&s=1">http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html</a>) to Brandon Hawk (brandon.hawk@uconn.edu) by September 15, 2013.<br /> <br /> Abstracts not accepted for this session will be forwarded to the Congress Committee for consideration in general sessions.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3302491936414793074.post-86299061776423965552013-07-09T11:50:00.000-04:002013-07-09T11:50:03.749-04:00Call for Papers: The Exegetical Turn (Kalamazoo 2014)<style>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Biblical verses were never "naked" in the early Middle Ages. They were clothed in the heavy garments of tradition & weighed down with the burden of commentary. We have the tendency to see an 11th-century monastic chronicler cite Jeremiah and think "Jeremiah," when we shoul dbe thinking, with the author & intended reader, "Hrabanus," "Haimo," "Paschasius," and "Jerome." We tend to forget that men of the early Middle Ages, and the 10th and 11th centuries especially, encountered the Bible through Carolingian and Patristic commentaries. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This session will therefore seek to
see what precisely we may have missed, to reconsider historical, literary, and/
or artistic artifacts from the Middle Ages in light of the exegetical tradition
in which they were created. Then, in turn, this session will allow us to ask if
this new understanding of how these objects were created and received
fundamentally change how we understand the European Middle Ages itself. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Session sponsored by <a href="http://www.rc.vt.edu/medieval" target="_blank">Virginia Tech Medieval & Early Modern Studies</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Proposals, with <a href="http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF" target="_blank">Participant Information Form</a>, should be emailed as PDFs to <a href="mailto:mgabriele@vt.edu" target="_blank">Prof. Matthew Gabriele</a> by <b>September 15, 2013.</b></span></span>Matthew Gabrielehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14300129034304529436noreply@blogger.com0