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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:02:22 -0500 From: Max Harris <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Corpus Christi Happy Corpus Christi Day (Thursday, 3 June 1999)! If any of you are blessed or wise enough to be spending today at some continental (or New World) Corpus Christi fiesta, festa, or fete, perhaps you could post reports on PERFORM, so that the rest of us might share your joy vicariously and get some sense of what fun Corpus Christi must once have been all over Europe. And, if any of you see ants being thrown "to drive away the Jews," please let me know! Which brings me to an early call for papers for Kalamazoo 2000. For what seem to me to be excellent reasons, the session on "Exotic Influences on Early Drama" has been moved to the MLA Annual Meeting, where it will be organized by Margaret Pappano, and the session on "Corpus Christi Outside England" has been moved to Kalamazoo (May 2000), where I will be the organizer. Corpus Christi day seems a good day to issue a first call for papers. So here goes: "It is well known that Corpus Christi was the setting for much of the great English medieval theatre, but the same feast stimulated considerable theatrical activity throughout the Spanish-speaking world and, I suspect, in many other places. I would welcome proposals for papers on Corpus Christi activities (dramatic, processional, festive) in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, and indeed anywhere but England." Comparative studies (England and somewhere else) would also be acceptable. I'm also open to reports on current Corpus Christi practices that may have their roots in the Middle Ages or Renaissance. I don't need formal abstracts at this stage. If you're interested, send me a brief paragraph or two on your topic. If you know somebody else, not on this list, whom I should contact, please let me know. Thanks for your help. Max _________________________________ Max Harris, Executive Director Wisconsin Humanities Council 802 Regent Street, First Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53715-2610 tel: 608/262-0706 fax: 608/263-7970 http://www.danenet.wicip.org/whc email:[log in to unmask]