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Molly A. Martin started the topic Introductions in the discussion
Arthurian Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHello Arthurian Forum Members!
We are hoping to make our MLA Commons site as vibrant and interactive as our face-to-face conversations at MLA and other venues, so we’ll be starting some new threads over the next couple of days. We invite your participation in these conversations, and we would (of course!) love to see some new ones pop up.
I am…[Read more]
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Yasmine Beale-Rivaya started the topic CFP Companion to Medieval Toledo in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoShared Common Spaces: Medieval Toledo 711-1517
Editors: Dr. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya and Dr. Jason Busic, with a preliminary agreement with Brill.
Abstract:
Toledo is recognized as emblematic nucleus that brought together all the heterogeneous communities that made up medieval Iberia and from which emanated significant ideas, fashions,…[Read more]
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Allan Mitchell deposited Unbecoming Human in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years agoProposing an alternative phraseology of “unbecoming” to accent the risky, tentative, epigenetic processes of human development.
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years agocontribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 10 years agoRead 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]
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Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 10 years agoRead 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]
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Lynn Ramey started the topic CFP Transnational Medieval (journal) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoLICO Call for Papers: Medieval Literature and the Trans-National
Literature Compass invites contributions for a special issue on transnationalism in medieval literature.
The period from c. 500 to c. 1500CE can be characterized by fluidity of borders and identities. While a town or individual might have belonged to a particular religious group or…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited The Privileging of Visio over Vox in the Mystical Experiences of Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoIn twelfth‐century Germany, where mysticism was a common phenomenon, Hildegard of Bingen and her visions were readily accepted — making it all the more significant that, despite the generally receptive conditions, Hildegard went to such trouble to make sure her visions and her writings were endorsed by the Church. In contrast, Joan of Arc, liv…[Read more]
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Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
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Alex Mueller deposited Wikipedia as Imago Mundi in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWikis have become enormously attractive to Internet users because they are open-access web pages or networks of web pages that can be modified by any interested editors, making them perpetual works-in-progress that evolve and change at the behest of their contributors. Wikipedia, the limitless fountain of collected, and sometimes inaccurate,…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Wikipedia as Imago Mundi in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoWikis have become enormously attractive to Internet users because they are open-access web pages or networks of web pages that can be modified by any interested editors, making them perpetual works-in-progress that evolve and change at the behest of their contributors. Wikipedia, the limitless fountain of collected, and sometimes inaccurate,…[Read more]
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Lucia Treanor deposited Palindromic Structure in the group
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDefinition of Palindromic Structure
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Lucia Treanor deposited Palindromic Structure in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoDefinition of Palindromic Structure
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Miriamne Ara Krummel started the topic Executive Committee in the discussion
Arthurian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoGreetings.
I am honored to have been asked to stand for election to the Executive Committee of CLCS Arthurian. As a member of the executive committee, I will work to protect the representation of this field at the MLA Conferences and in the PMLA journal (when possible) by proposing sessions/topics that reflect on the exciting possibilities…[Read more]
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Lynn Ramey started the topic Digital World Map Broadens Scope for Middle Ages Teaching and Research in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoOnline users can now travel back in time to the medieval world by clicking through a collection of international research on the first digital platform of its kind from The University of Texas at Austin.
The Web portal known as “MappaMundi” — a Latin word meaning “world map” — presents the world of 500-1500 A.D. on a modern platform created by…[Read more]
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Ruth Cecile Wehlau started the topic CFP Darkness, Depression and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England in the discussion
Old English Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoI’d like to bring the following CFP to the attention of any interested Anglo-Saxonists:
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<div class=”column”>Proposals are sought for Darkness, Descent and Depression in Anglo-Saxon England, a collection of articles that will cover the depiction of emotional or…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoVisual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association…[Read more] -
Lynn Ramey started the topic CFP Austin 2016 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoWe’re still looking for a few good abstracts! Please consider sending an abstract if you work on any aspect of space, geography, or place in medieval literature.
The Spatial Turn
How and why do medieval and modern notions of space differ? Papers on
aspects of medieval space and mapping, including use of GIS or technology.250-word abstracts by M…[Read more]
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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: U of West Georgia Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Medieval Academy Meeting 2015 in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi all,
The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15. The full CFP is here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf
Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:
o English Manuscript Studies
o Women in the Sc…[Read more] - Load More
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