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Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France

Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France

Publié le par Sophie Okhee Poitral (Source : Estelle Doudet)

Call for Papers

Offers of papers are invited for a conference on Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France

Princeton University 1-4 November 2006

The conference will investigate poetry's role in transmitting and transforming knowledge, and the communities which it thereby assumes or creates, in France (including Occitania) in the period 1270-1530.

Possible topics include:
    •     poetry's objects of knowledge and how they are shaped by poetic form
    •     the relationship between verse and prose
    •     verse encyclopaedias
    •     poetry and philosophy
    •     the poetics of didacticism
    •     dreams and visions in poetry
    •     poetry, politics and power
    •     formal difference and social difference
    •      poetry, wisdom and memory
    •     the status of poetry as an object of knowledge
    •     arts of poetry
    •     citation
    •     poetic legacies
    •     the 'gay science'
    •     poetry and its subject(s) of knowledge
    •     poetry and authority
    •     textual histories and textual communities
    •     transmission and revision of poetic texts
    •     materiality of poetry
    •     knowledge and the unknown
    •     poetry and poetrie

Proposed titles with a brief (150-word) abstract should be sent to the project email address mmlpk@hermes.cam.ac.uk by 31 March 2006 together with details of the proposer's name, email address and professional affiliation (if any).

This conference forms part of the AHRC-funded project Poetic Knowledge in Late Medieval France based in the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester and is hosted thanks to the generosity of the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University.

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