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Sym: 0701.30
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:39:59 +0100 [13:39:59 CET]
From: "Wim van Anrooij" <W.van.Anrooij@let.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Sym: 0701.30: Call for papers: Intersections. Internationale conferentie 'Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production', Leiden, do 21 - za 23 augustus 2008
Call for Papers, Intersections, Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, Vol. 15
Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production
International Conference Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay
between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production, University of
Leiden (The Netherlands), 21-23 August 2008.
The early modern period was marked by plural discourses on the
Middle Ages. Both scholarly work and artistic production created
images of the philological Middle Ages, the imagined Middle Ages,
the utopian Middle Ages, and even the anti-Middle Ages. Although
this plurality was certainly conditioned by the early modern
period's relation to Antiquity, it also reflected an interest in the
Middle Ages as such.
Paradoxically, early modern medievalism can therefore be
conceived as a form of classicism as well as anti-classicism,
exoticism as well as nationalism. Emphasizing this diversity, the
conference focuses on the interplay and tensions between discourses,
continuities and discontinuities, and competing images of the
medieval during the early modern period.
We invite papers that address these topics. We are particularly
interested in papers that explore one or several of three
interrelated questions:
- The conceptualization of the medieval in early modern
scholarship. How was the medieval transformed into an object of
study? Which topoi did scholars and collectors use to legitimize
their interest in the medieval past? Is it possible to discern a
transition, as postulated by R. Howard Bloch and Stephen G. Nichols,
from appreciation of the medieval past (gendered female) to
scholarship (gendered male)?
- Continuities and discontinuities between the medieval and the
early modern. How did different perceptions of time (cyclical time,
converging time) and place (the New and the Old World, East and
West) provide the contexts for scholars and artists to inscribe
themselves in a tradition? How did the Middle Ages and the early
modern communicate? How did actual scholarly and artistic work
relate to topoi establishing a distance between the medieval and the
contemporary?
- The interplay of medieval studies and artistic production. How
did literary and visual images of the Middle Ages influence
scholarly practice? And how did scholarship inspire artists, writers
and musicians? What were the processes of cultural transmission from
one disciplinary context to another? How did medieval traditions
move between popular and elite culture, thereby problematizing our
view of the early modern public sphere?
The conference will take place from 21 to 23 August 2008. A volume
with selected papers is scheduled to appear in 2009, and will be
edited by Alicia Montoya, Wim van Anrooij and Sophie van Romburgh.
Proposals, about 300 words, should be sent electronically no later
than 1 May 2007, to Alicia C. Montoya (Department of French,
University of Leiden):
A.C.Montoya@Let.Leidenuniv.nl
The authors of the proposals that have been accepted will be invited
to participate in the conference before July 2007.
Wim van Anrooij (Universiteit Leiden)
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