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• 15 sep 2016

  Kalamazoo

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Walruses, Whales and Narwhals

  Maritime Ivories in Western Europe, 900-1500

  In the history of carved ivories, maritime mammals have often been eclipsed by the elephant, considered as a nobler ivory to which walrus or whale ivory would only be a poor man's substitute. But this historiographical view is not without its shortcomings, as not only did walrus hunting play a significant role in the first European explorations toward the west, but the trade for those ivories went as far as the Islamic world and even the Far East. This session at the 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the National Museum of Scotland, aims to address the variety of questions posed by the maritime ivories: how the raw material was collected, how it was traded, the workshops that carved them and their specific symbolic value in medieval treasuries

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• 15 sep 2016

  Kalamazoo

  Call for papers - Representation

  Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture

  52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies

  This session seeks papers that explore the range of ways in which medieval artists responded to the anthropological duality of body and soul in the visual arts of the Byzantine and Western medieval worlds.

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• 15 nov 2013

  Montreal

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Society through the mirror of hagiographical discourse

  Les Cahiers d’Histoire journal

  La revue Les Cahiers d’Histoire sollicite des propositions d’articles pour son numéro de l’automne 2014 qui portera sur le discours hagiographique et sera publié sous la direction de Philippe Genequand et de Véronique Olivier. Les personnes intéressées par cette thématique sont invitées à soumettre un texte d’environ 500 mots décrivant sommairement l’article envisagé et les sources privilégiées au plus tard le 15 novembre 2013. Les articles pouvant être rédigés en français ou en anglais et ne dépassant pas les 8 000 mots seront ensuite attendus pour le 1er mai 2014. Ils seront alors soumis au processus habituel d’évaluation de la revue Les Cahiers d’Histoire.

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