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• 31 déc 2020

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Pestilence and resilience

  Études Médiévales Anglaises (EMA) journal issue 97

  The French Journal of Medieval English Studies Études Médiévales Anglaises (EMA) invites you to submit an article for its 97th issue on the theme "Pestilence and Resilience", a current topic that we are all led to reflect on in our daily lives. We recommend that interested authors send a title and a brief description of the content of their article as soon as possibl

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• 29 mar 2019

  Paris

  Study days - History

  “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere!”

  Féminisme, multiculturalisme et luttes contre les intégrismes religieux

  Si l’origine exacte de l’expression « good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere! » est incertaine, tantôt attribuée à l’actrice et scénariste américaine Mae West tantôt à la rédactrice en chef du magazine Cosmopolitan, Helen Gurvey Brown, elle a été reprise comme slogan par les féministes qui dénoncent la double norme sexuelle imposée aux femmes par les religions. Aujourd’hui quels que soient les intégrismes religieux (catholique, protestant, islamique, juif, hindouiste, bouddhiste, orthodoxe, etc.) ils partagent tous la volonté de maîtriser le corps et la sexualité des femmes dont l’existence aurait, selon eux, pour but unique la maternité.

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• 30 mai 2019

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Medieval Conceptions and Practices of Space

  Revue « Études Médiévales Anglaises »

  Though space is by no means a medieval concept (in 14th century use, the word referred primarily to time, or to an interval between two objects, rather than to the abstract idea of an extended area that can be filled or crossed), the concept in its complexity has over the last decades gained considerable critical importance in medieval studies. Medievalists have always paid attention to spatial questions, namely in the shape of inquiries into the location of national or religious communities, into medieval practices of pilgrimages, processions and travels, or into the symbolic associations of various places (the forest, the garden, the castle…).

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