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Subject: Thirty-Third Medieval Colloquium of the Centre of Medieval
Studies U of T
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:21:51 -0400
From: Barbara North <[log in to unmask]>
To: Barbara North <[log in to unmask]>
*Call for Papers: Reminder - Submissions due September 1^st , 2011*
*Imitation, Emulation, and Forgery: Pretending and Becoming in the
Medieval World*
*March 2-3 2012*
The Thirty-Third Medieval Colloquium of the Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of Toronto
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/Opening Keynote: Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of
Medieval Latin, Harvard/
/Closing Keynote: Marjorie Curry Woods, //Jane Blumberg Centennial
Professor of English, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, The
University of Texas at Austin/
//
Imitation is a central concept within medieval thought, linking
disparate genres and avenues of human experience within a network of
interconnected models and interpretive structures. Medieval people saw
their work standing within a relationship of resemblance to models and
sources that predated their efforts, from the image of God in man, to
the examples of poets, historiographers and hagiographers. Imitation
implies both a faithfulness to its sources and also an inherent
differentiation, and medieval culture used this space that embodied both
sameness and difference as a particularly fertile zone; the religious
found an imperfect mirror within the world and humanity, reflecting the
transcendent world beyond matter; saints imitated Christ and one
another, authors and poets looked to the models of both Christian and
pagan antiquity, texts were copied and diffused, artists looked to the
work of their forbears and the world around them, and knights fashioned
themselves in the guise of the heroes of romance. Establishing a
relationship to a transcendental model was a primary mechanism of
producing authority, and it formed the basis for traditions of textual
transmission, institutional legitimacy, personal identity, and a
sweeping range of other persistent ideas. While scholars of medieval
subjects have each grappled with imitation in their own fields, rarely
have those discoveries been brought together in a concentrated
interdisciplinary conversation.
We invite abstracts of *250 words* together with a 1-page CV by the
deadline of *1st September 2011 *that deal with the broad issue of
imitation in the Middle Ages as encountered in (but not limited to)
literature, theology, hagiography, historiography, art history, and
philosophy. We hope to bring together scholarly discourses regarding the
imitative traits found in medieval subjects in ways that combine and
seek to reveal the often-neglected similarities present in medieval
forms of imitation. Topics might include, but are not limited to
- Literary, dramatic, or artistic mimesis
- Medieval forgeries and frauds
- Textual copying and diffusion
- Legal precedents
- Vernacular translations and adaptations of Latin classical or
patristic sources
- Dionysian mysticism, the imitatio Christi and the theology of imitation
- Imagination and simulation in the Middle Ages
- Magic and illusion (including diabolic deception)
- The Speculum as concept and organizational method
- Genre building and imitation
- Historiography and ‘borrowing’
- Discipleship and 'following'
- Sacred topology
Papers should be 20min in length. To submit a proposal, or for any other
inquiries, please email the Conference Committee c/o Daniel Price at
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information and updates will be available through the CMS website at
http://medieval.utoronto.ca/.
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Barbara North
Institute Secretary
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
59 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, ON M5S 2C4
416-926-7142
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