The SMRS is proud to host the 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies as a mini-conference concurrent with the main Symposium.
Call for Papers or organized sessions: 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies; June 12–14, 2023.
Below are four suggested session themes, each needing 3 20-minute papers. You may offer to organize a full session yourself, submit an abstract for a paper in one of them, or propose a paper on a topic of your own. Papers will cover research on manuscripts produced in many different locations and comprising many different texts, focusing on elements such as paleography and codicology, reception, usage and function, patronage, illumination, or whatever niche your own interests have established.
Proposals with title and abstract should be registered on the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) conference page for the Manuscript Conference:
https://www.smrs-slu.org/annual-saint-louis-conference-on-manuscript-studies.html and also be sent to Susan L’Engle at susan.lengle@slu.edu and to Frank Coulson at coulson.1@osu.edu .
Please give this CFP some thought and send proposals and abstracts (250 words or fewer) by February 28, 2023.
Below are four suggested session themes, each needing 3 20-minute papers. You may offer to organize a full session yourself, submit an abstract for a paper in one of them, or propose a paper on a topic of your own. Papers will cover research on manuscripts produced in many different locations and comprising many different texts, focusing on elements such as paleography and codicology, reception, usage and function, patronage, illumination, or whatever niche your own interests have established.
- Unexpected elements in illustrations to medieval legal manuscripts: Planned, spontaneous, or accidental?
- Early Chansonniers and their illustration. A number of thirteenth-and early fourteenth-century manuscript songbooks present illustration programs, both decorative and iconographic. What do they contribute to the manuscript’s use?
- Illustrations in astronomical manuscripts. Panel intended as a complement to the keynote speaker’s lecture: Eric Ramirez-Weaver, Compiling Spheres of Knowledge: Medieval Creativity in the Astronomical Arts, focusing on a range of creative painterly decisions made by early to late medieval astronomical artists to present unconventional iconographical compositions, for theologically orthodox and ideological reasons.
- Codicological strategies of scribes. Scribes have often needed to be very creative in formatting text and image, and incorporating added elements to the manuscript page. What examples have you come across?
Proposals with title and abstract should be registered on the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) conference page for the Manuscript Conference:
https://www.smrs-slu.org/annual-saint-louis-conference-on-manuscript-studies.html and also be sent to Susan L’Engle at susan.lengle@slu.edu and to Frank Coulson at coulson.1@osu.edu .
Please give this CFP some thought and send proposals and abstracts (250 words or fewer) by February 28, 2023.
