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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Periodizing Race” (LLC Chaucer & Shakespeare Forums) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoWhat can/should be the role of the premodern in the transhistorical history of race? Chaucer/Shakespeare’s entanglements in the history of racialization; the history of race before race. Please submit 250-word abstracts of roundtable-length papers by March 1 to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Northwestern U (susie-phillips@northwestern.edu) and M…[Read more]
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Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic CFP MLA 2020: “Chaucer's Walls” (LLC Chaucer Forum) in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoWhat makes a wall medieval? Chaucerian walls as physical, political, phenomenological, and psychic structures. Porosity and impenetrablity. Demarcation and enfoldment. Polity and publicity. Privacy and voyeurism. Classical echoes and contemporary resonances. 250-word abstracts by March 15 to Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U (kaow@wlu.edu) and…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Seattle – "Comparative Orientalisms" — CLCS-Medieval Forum in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoJust as there are many Orients, there are many Orientalisms, or approaches to, constructions of, and lenses upon the Orient. This CLCS-Medieval Forum session invites examinations of Comparative Orientalisms including (but not limited to): the comparative rhetoric of description and association attaching to different eastern spaces (the Holy Land,…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis is an Accepted Manuscript, for an article forthcoming in Antiquity (2019), and remains subject to pre-publication type-editing and proofing. Please cite as James M. Harland, ‘Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD,’ Antiquity 93 (2019). A link to the final publication at Cambridge University Press…[Read more]
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD in the group
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis is an Accepted Manuscript, for an article forthcoming in Antiquity (2019), and remains subject to pre-publication type-editing and proofing. Please cite as James M. Harland, ‘Memories of Migration? So-called “Anglo-Saxon” Burial Costume of the 5th Century AD,’ Antiquity 93 (2019). A link to the final publication at Cambridge University Press…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqānī’s Christian Qaṣīda and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān,” Journal of Persianate Studies (2016) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThis article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communities (ahl al-zemma), I offer a new perspective on…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqānī’s Christian Qaṣīda and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān,” Journal of Persianate Studies (2016) in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThis article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communities (ahl al-zemma), I offer a new perspective on…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 7 years agoA central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]
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Clare Vernon deposited Symposium programme: Conquest and Construction: Architecture and Landscapes in the Medieval Mediterranean in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoArchitecture Space and Society Research Centre, Birkbeck (University of London) Friday 1st March 2019
Keynes Library, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-and-construction-tickets-55022443610 -
Björn Gebert deposited Iste libellus pertinet … Goethe? Zwei spätmittelalterliche Handschriften mit Werken von Matthäus von Krakau, Heinrich von Langenstein und Johannes von Hildesheim aus Goethes Bibliothek in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoTwo late medieval manuscripts have been rediscovered in the library of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar in 2018. The paper gives, for the first time, a complete codicological and paleographical analysis of both manuscripts, presents a medieval owner and, last but not least, identifies the works contained in both codices.
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Björn Gebert deposited Iste libellus pertinet … Goethe? Zwei spätmittelalterliche Handschriften mit Werken von Matthäus von Krakau, Heinrich von Langenstein und Johannes von Hildesheim aus Goethes Bibliothek in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years agoTwo late medieval manuscripts have been rediscovered in the library of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar in 2018. The paper gives, for the first time, a complete codicological and paleographical analysis of both manuscripts, presents a medieval owner and, last but not least, identifies the works contained in both codices.
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Martin Roland deposited Basler Buchmalerei um 1430/40: zwei Neuzuschreibungen aus dem bestand der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThe article presents two manuscripts illuminated in Basle c 1420/40.
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Martin Roland deposited Illuminierte Handschriften im Internet. Kurzinventar der Handschriften des Zisterzienserstiftes Stams in Tirol in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThe contribuition presents an online-repository of illuminated manuscripts preseved in the abbey Stams in Tyrol
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Martin Roland deposited Illuminierte Urkunden im digitalen Zeitalter. Maßregeln und Chancen in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThe article presents illuminated charters and discusses how they might be presented online.
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Martin Roland deposited Illuminierte Urkunden im digitalen Zeitalter. Maßregeln und Chancen in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThe article presents illuminated charters and discusses how they might be presented online.
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La anónima elegía a la muerte del Rey Católico (Dutton 18*EF): poesía funeral en memoria de un monarca postergado in the group
Late Medieval History on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoStudy and critical edition of this anonymous elegy written in 1516 shortly after King Ferdinand II of Aragon’s death. This paper focuses on both political and cultural circumstances surrounding the Catholic Monarch’s death, together with the tradition of poetical testaments within Castilian songbook poetry. The edition of the text underscores the…[Read more]
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