Session I: Vernacular Religious Writing in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England
Silenced Reader: Christina of Markyate and the St. Albans Psalter
Erin Dee Moore, Florida State University
The Otho Homilies: Extracts from a Lost Early Middle English Manuscript
Stephen Pelle, University of Toronto
Pastoral Care before Lateran IV: English Vernacular Preaching in the [...]
Poor Manuscripts, Rich Manuscripts:
Early Middle English Manuscript Production
Many of the earliest Middle English texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries are found in relatively “shabby” manuscripts. We would like to take up the complex manuscript milieu that could often produce both “poor,” or shabby, manuscripts, and “rich,” or deluxe, manuscripts. We are [...]
The International Lawman’s Brut Society and the Early Middle English Society are accepting proposals for the next International Medieval Congress on “The Law in Early Middle English Literature.”
Travel and Exploration in Early Middle English Texts will take place on Thursday, 13 May 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in 2303 Sangren (session 105):
Presider: Dorothy Kim, Vassar College
“Ful nobelelike upon a stede” or “Overþwert upon an asse”: Portrayal of Travel and Traveling in the Middle English “Matter of England” Verse Romances
John [...]
Textual Travel and Early Middle English, session 1311, is scheduled for Wednesday, 14 July 2010, at 4:30 p.m.:
Moderator: Sjoerd Levelt, Warburg Institute, University of London
Feminine Morality in Cross-Cultural Depictions of Olympias
Jena Abdullah Al-Fuhaid, North Carolina State University
Who Was Karl Brunner?: The Cultural Implications of the Pre-World War I Publications [...]
Please send abstracts to Dorothy Kim at dorothyk@humnet.ucla.edu by September 15, 2007.
Early Middle English Society I: Speaking Across Boundaries in Early Middle English Texts ca. 1100-1300
We invite abstracts that consider the ways in which early Middle English texts negotiate boundaries, as well as the implications of those negotiations, from the early twelfth century [...]
Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of California at Los Angeles, 2-3 March 2007
Inventio
Organizer: Dorothy Kim, UCLA
Chair: Christopher Baswell, UCLA
Andrea Jones, UCLA: The Gesta Herewardi as Outlaw Reliquary
Michael Hanly, Washington State University: Langland, Gower, and War
Translatio
Organizer: Dorothy Kim, UCLA
Chair: Matthew Fisher, UCLA
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42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 10-13 May 2007
Early Middle English Society I: Women and Devotion
Coordinator: Dorothy Kim
Description: We invite paper abstracts that consider the topic of women and devotion from the twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century, in relation to the period’s multilingual, multicultural, and multidisciplinary range of texts. [...]
The Early Middle English Society (emesoc.org) is sponsoring two panels at the 44th International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7-10 May 2009.
Please send abstracts and any questions to Dorothy Kim.
Abstracts are due 25 September 2008.

