The Medieval Academy Blog

What use is it to be given authority over man and land if others do not know about it?  Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do not respect it? These questions have been crucial since regulations for governance entered society.  In the years prior to 1707 Scotland and her nearest neighbours developed unique relationships between their people and the manifests of authority; whether it be crown or noble, government or church, burgh or merchant; these individuals and groups all desired power and influence, however, their means of representing their authority were often very different. The relations between these countries were also dominated by attempts to represent authority to each other both in war and peace; to what extent can similarities be drawn between these kingdoms and principalities, or can national distinctions always be found?

Keynote Speaker: Dr Katie Stevenson, University of St Andrews

We welcome 200 word proposals for 20 minute papers or panel proposals, from any discipline and any research level, considering any of the following themes in relation to the above topic:

• Queenship and/or study of women; or Regency representations
• Royal ceremonial; or court and household; or Noble display
• Early representative art; or Architecture; or Art
• Literature; or Language
• Monasteries; or Non-monastic ecclesiastics
• Parliament and politics; or Law and justice
• Burgh, merchants and trade; or international relations
  

Please send proposals for panels and papers by Tuesday 15^th May to representations.of.authority@gmail.com

This is a postgraduate organised event and there are plans for publishing the proceedings.

ANZAMEMS – Ninth Biennial Conference 2013 Melbourne Australia

The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Inc.

CULTURES IN TRANSLATION

Ninth Biennial International Conference 12-16 February 2013

Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, Australia

CALL FOR PAPERS – NOW OPEN

The conference seeks to explore the many varieties of translation at work in medieval and early modern studies. We invite papers which deal with diversity and change in areas such as language, culture, religion, space. We are interested in exploring both how medieval and early modern cultures understood translation, and how modern scholars make disciplinary, linguistic and social translations in their work. We encourage papers on these themes (and others pertaining to medieval and early modern studies), and papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers are especially welcome.

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/history/conferences/anzamems-2013/

24.-26.IX.2012 : The materiality of texts. International conference (Surham, Durham University). – Call for papers (until 31.V.2012). – http://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/events/upcoming_events/?eventno=12362