Arizona Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies
Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 874402, Tempe, AZ 85287-4402
Phone: (480) 965-5900
Fax: (480) 965-1681
Humanity and the Natural World
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
11 - 13 February 2010
Tempe, Arizona
Online Submission 1 June - 16 November 2009:
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference/
2nd
Annual Undergraduate Conference
Discipuli Juncti:
Students Connected through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
30 October 2009
ASU West Campus
Phoenix, Arizona
International Conference of MEMESAK
Yonsei University
October 30-31 (Friday-Saturday), 2009
Call for Papers: The expression “Time and Space” is so
familiar a one that we rarely stop to reflect on the full significance of the
words for ages before our own. The great French medievalist Jacques Le Goff
began his book The Medieval Imagination (1992) by claiming that, for
the historian of the middle ages, “space and time provide a conceptual
framework for viewing both the 'real' and the imaginary” and outlining the
different kinds of space (constructed, natural or supernatural) within which
the people of times past saw themselves living, and the different rhythms of
time (natural, mechanical, eschatological) governing their lives. It is
impossible for us today to forget the unimaginable immensities of intergalactic
space soaring above our heads, and the unthinkable eons that have passed since
the “Big Bang.” For the people of the Middle Ages and the early modern period,
space was largely measured by the distance a horse could travel in daylight,
and time was measured by fragile memory. For them, we may think, concepts both
of space and time were dominated by the invisible but nearby realities of
Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, of the Last Things, death, and Doomsday.
Papers are invited that explore
ways in which space and time were observed and exploited by the medieval and
early modern literary imagination, especially in ways that seem strikingly
different from what is found today.
Please send queries and conference proposals to
Professor D. C. Lee at dclee01@yahoo.co.kr.