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>Subject: CFP: Medieval Children (UK) (1/31/06; 6/17/06-6/18/06)
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>Please kindly forward this CFP as widely as you can.
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>Medieval Children: 1200-1500
>17 (Saturday) -18 (Sunday) June 2006 (will 
>include Friday the 16th if necessary)
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>Keynote Speakers:
>Prof. Derek Brewer (English, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)
>Prof. Nicholas Orme (History, University of Exeter)
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>The Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor 
>Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, 
>United Kingdom, is hosting an international 
>conference on Medieval Children 1200-1500.
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>Foregrounding interdisciplinarity, CCMTS 
>welcomes papers employing any literary, 
>historical, art-historical, demographic, or 
>anthropological approaches and source materials.
>
>Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
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>Parents and children
>Incest, child abuse, sexual initiation, and education of children
>Fosterage and abandonment
>Generation conflict
>Christian and non-Christian attitudes compared and contrasted
>Perceptions of children
>Children as leaders of adults
>Children on crusade
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>Prof. Peter G. Beidler (Lehigh University) has 
>offered to lead a pre-conference
>walking tour (about three hours) to Harbledown (ìBobbe-up-and-downî, under the
>Blean forest), to pick up the trail that Chaucerís pilgrims may well have
>followed to the West Gate and the Cathedral.  They will pass the spring where
>the Black Prince is said to have visited often.
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>Conference Organiser: Christine Li Ju Tsai
>Please send a title and 200-word abstract for a 
>20-minute paper by 31 January 2006 to 
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>Postal address: Canterbury Centre for Medieval 
>and Tudor Studies, University of Kent, 
>Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, CT2 7NZ
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