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Eric Weiskott deposited Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the…[Read more]
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Aileen A. Feng started the topic CFP: “Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” — RSA 2021 (Dublin) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRenaissance Society of America (RSA), 2021 Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland, 7-10 April 2021 (https://www.rsa.org/page/RSADublin2021)
“Dante’s Legacy in Renaissance Politics & Religion” sponsored by the Dante Society of America (DSA; https://www.dantesociety.org/)
Organized by Erminia Ardissino, with Aileen A. Feng (DSA representative to…[Read more]
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Lisa H. Cooper started the topic Call for Papers – Women & Language (Journal) in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues, (apologies for previous multiple posts; a website glitch, now fixed), I have been asked to share this call for papers. You can also see it here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions
Call for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an internation…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Women & Language CFP (on behalf of Leland G. Spencer) in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoShared on behalf of Leland G. Spencer, PhD, editor of Women and Language:
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical,…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Calls for Papers: Old English for MLA 2021 in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIsidore of Seville and the Persistence of Classical Antiquity in Iberia and the British Isles during the Middle Ages--Collaborative session with LLC Old English and LLC Medieval IberianMLA official CFP page: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12918.html Papers on the dissemination of Isidore ́s works across Western Europe d…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic CLCS Medieval Cfps – MLA Toronto in 2021 – deadline 3/15 in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDeadline tomorrow!
Two CFPs for MLA 2021 in Toronto, sponsored by the CLCS Medieval ForumAbstracts by March 15th
ObjectsHow do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Kha…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA 2021 in Toroto – cpf – CLCS Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA 2021 in Toronto, CLCS Medieval — two CFPs:
Objects
How do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Khanmohamadi (shirin1@sfsu.ed) by March 15.
Medieval Empir…[Read more]
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Rev Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoReview of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Open letter on ISAS from the MLA Old English Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoFrom the MLA Old English Forum Executive Committee:
We write to express our support for the changes currently being pursued by the membership of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.
First: We wish to recognize the work of Dr. Mary Rambaran-Olm, who served as second vice-president of ISAS from 2017 to the present, whose resignation from…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Whose Spain is it, anyway? in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Iberian Peninsula during the Latin Middle Ages was home to large populations of Muslims and Jews. During the period we like to call the Middle Ages, much of the Iberian Peninsula was under Muslim rule. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the entire peninsula was under Christian rule, and Judaism and Islam were officially banned.…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited The Future Demands Work: William Morris’s utopian medievalism in an age of precarity, flexibility, and automation in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIMC paper for panel 374 Medieval Futura 1: Now, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington and organised by Dr Andrea Whitacre.
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David Wacks started the topic CFP Medieval Academy 2020: Abrahamic Mediterranean retellings of Bible (may 15) in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months ago2020 Medieval Academy, University of California at Berkeley (March 26-28) Call for Abstracts: Session of papers Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Retellings of the Old Testament in the Medieval Mediterranean The Hebrew Bible or Old Testament is a sacred text for both Judaism and Christianity, and Islam reveres biblical figures such as Abraham and Mo…[Read more]
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Melissa Ridley Elmes deposited Using Medieval-Themed Video Games and RPGs to Jumpstart Research-based and Student-centered Assignments in the group
CLCS Arthurian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA description of how I employ video games and RPGs, especially open-world online games, to harness student curiosity and foster an interest in research-based assignments in literature and humanities courses. Talk was presented to a K-16 audience with emphasis on K-12 teaching, but assignments work well at 9-12 and undergraduate university levels.
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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Eric Weiskott deposited The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring…[Read more]
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