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CALL FOR PAPERS: REED-Sponsored Sessions at the International Medieval Congress 2005 University of Leeds, 11-14 July 2005 “Rereading Household Records” In thirty years of Records of Early English Drama (REED) editors’ fieldwork, the field itself matured from locating household texts to understanding their contexts. Abundant (if spotty) household records—accounts and letters—survive, but their entertainment expenses are only partially explicable without interdisciplinary sources and methodologies from the perspectives of economic, domestic, cultural, consumer, and preservation history. These REED-sponsored sessions consequently invite papers which address new ways of looking at household organization; stewards’ practices and record-keeping conventions; travel accounts; such socio-economic dimensions as seasons, hospitality, rites of passage, hierarchical structures, age groups; women’s management practices; education in estate management; delegation and deputization of household authority; the language and rhetoric of household communication; and archive acquisition, access, and preservation issues. The premise of these sessions is that the more household entertainment records REED editors have found, the more they have realized how much interdisciplinary knowledge is called for to understand their full contextual meaning. Please direct inquiries and expressions of interest to either of the REED-sponsored 2005 sessions’ co-organizers: Ted McGee, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>., or Barbara D. Palmer, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Further information on the 2005 International Medieval Congress (and its special thematic strand of “Youth and Age”) is available at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc.htm. By 15 September 2004, please send a one-page (maximum) abstract, preferably by e-mail, to Barbara Palmer. By 10 June 2005 the full text of accepted papers should be sent to Ted McGee so that potential session commentators have sufficient time to prepare their responses. C.E. McGee Professor of English, English Department, St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G3, Canada, (519) 884-8110 (or -8111), ext. 280, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Barbara D. Palmer Professor of English (retired), University of Mary Washington. Home and Mailing: 409 Shaw Court, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22405, U.S.A., (540) 899-2328, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr) Associate Editor, Records of Early English Drama Victoria College, University of Toronto REED on the web: <http://www.utoronto.ca/reed/reed.html> My site: <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young>