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The French of Outremer Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean

The French of Outremer Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean

Publié le par Florian Pennanech (Source : Laura Morreale)

 Call for Papers

The French of Outremer:

Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean

34th Annual Conference • Center for Medieval Studies • Fordham University • Lincoln Center Campus • Saturday, March 29, 2014

Plenary Speakers: Peter Edbury (Cardiff University); Laura Minervini, (University of Naples)

    We welcome papers that address any of the following questions, and encourage papers on related topics:

ôDifferences between the real and imagined Outremer 

ôThe cultural identities of communities in the Latin East, and the mechanisms that perpetuated or contravened these identities

ôTies developed with the West through crusading, pilgrimage, and merchant               activities; their contribution to the “French” quality of these communities ôSingle texts or textual traditions that originated or were preserved in the lands of Outremer

ôFrench-language translations in the Latin East

ôThe role of Outremer in the diversification of French-language genres or French-inspired cultural products (art, architecture, legal andintellectual concepts, sacred or urban spaces)

ôThe place of Outremer within a Francophone medieval world

Please submit an abstract and cover letter with contact information by September 30, 2013 to Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405b, Bronx, NY 10458, by e-mail to medievals@fordham.edu, or by fax to 718.817.3987.

Our website is www.fordham.edu/frenchofoutremer.