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>From: Christine Neufeld <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Magic and the Occult in Medieval Literature (9/13/05; 
>Kalamazoo, 5/4/06-5/7/06)
>
>CFP: Magic and the Occult in Medieval Literature
>Special Session
>41st International Congress of Medieval Studies
>Kalamazoo, MI
>May 4-7, 2006
>
>I would like to invite submissions for a special session on the role
>of Magic and the Occult in Medieval Literature. Medieval discourse on
>magic and the occult can be seen to mingle Western and Eastern
>cultures, religion and science, folk beliefs and educated theories,
>not to mention the conventions of fiction with the realities of
>mundane life. Yet, since Simon Magus and the Early Church, notions of
>magic have played a role in how medieval Christendom established or
>blurred boundaries between Self and Other, the sacred and the profane
>(or diabolical), the authentic and the illusory. This panel will
>investigate how the concept of magic was used in medieval literature
>to negotiate identity, establish authority or dream new futures.
>
>Some topics for consideration could include:
>-gender/race/sexuality and the supernatural in medieval romance
>-the relationship between the theories of the occult and medieval
>heresies
>-witches in medieval literature
>-the alchemist in medieval literature
>-magic and the Other (Jews, Muslims, colonized Irish, etc)
>-spiritual warfare and magic in saints' lives or missionary accounts
>-the charlatan
>-magic and madness
>-magic as metaphor for the artistic imagination
>-magic and the Crusades
>-the Templars in medieval literature
>-magic vs. miracle: licit and illicit magic
>-magic as an aspect of oral or textual traditions
>
>
>Please submit a 200 word abstract, along with a completed Medieval
>Institute Abstract Cover Sheet (see the forms on the 41st Congress
>homepage), no later than September 13th, 2005. Abstracts may be
>submitted by mail or fax to the address below, or, as an electronic
>attachment in the form of a MS Word Document to [log in to unmask]
>
>Dr. Christine Neufeld
>Assistant Prof., Dept. of English
>Eastern Michigan University
>613D Pray-Harrold Bldg.
>Ypsilanti, MI, 48197
>Fax: 734-483-9744

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