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> >Subject: CFP: Intersections: Traffic and Transportation in the Early >Modern Period & The Representation of Subtle Bodies (10/1/05; >journal issues) > >From: "Todd, R.K." <[log in to unmask]> > >I should be grateful if the following calls for papers could be posted = >on your site. As you will see, Intersections is a series of primary = >interest to scholars working in the early modern period. > >START TEXT: > >CALL FOR PAPERS - Intersections vol. 8 and 9 > >Vol. 8: Traffic and transportation in the Early Modern Period Vol. 9: = >Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern = >European Culture [please scroll down] > > > >Intersection brings together new material on well considered themes = >within the wide area of Early Modern Studies.=20 >Contributions may come >from any of the disciplines within the humanities:=20 >history, art >history, literary history, book history, church history, social history, = >history of the humanities, of the theatre, of cultural life and = >institutions. The themes are carefully selected on the basis of a number = >of criteria, the most important of which are that they should address = >issues about which there is a lively and ongoing debate within the = >international community of scholars and that they should be of interest = >to a variety of disciplines. > > >Volumes published to date are: >vol. 1 (2001) Karl Enenkel et alii, Recreating Ancient History. [...]. >vol. 2 (2002) Toon van Houdt et alii, On the Edge of Truth and Honesty. = >Principles and Strategies of Fraud and Deceit in the Early Modern = >Period. vol. 3 (2003) Arie-Jan Gelderblom et alii, The Low Countries as = >a crossroads of Religious Beliefs vol.=20 >4 (2004) Karl >Enenkel and Wolfgang Neuber, Cognition and the Book. Typologies of = >Formal Organisation of Knowledge in the Printed Book of the Early Modern = >Period. vol. 5 Alister Hamilton et alii, The Republic of Letters and the = >Levant vol. 6, Karl Enenkel and Jan Papy, Petrarch and his Readers in = >the Renaissance will appear in 2005. > > >--------------------------------------------------------- >Call for Papers --- Intersections vol. 8 > >Traffic and transportation in the Early >Modern Period > > >One of the distinctive aspects of the Early Modern Period in Western = >Europe is the organisational improvement as well as the increase of = >traffic and transportation. Not only were contacts established with = >'new' countries and continents, but at the same time an intensification = >of contacts occurred between the various countries of Western Europe and = >between the cities within these countries. This expansion and increase = >of contacts were a result of and gave rise to new developments in = >knowledge, technology, and patterns of consumption of food, luxury = >articles and services (such as travelling). > >Essay topics might include: >* The development of new means of=20 >transportation: by what necessity >were they created, what were their consequences in the short and in the = >longer term, and what new needs and knowledge did they generate? * > How far did the cultural, political and social consequences of the = >increasing mobility reach? Did it lead to the opening up of new areas or = >rather to the improvement and expansion of existing routes to known = >places? Did it lead to new contacts and connections, or only to a more = >intensive use of already existing routes? Was there an increase in = >travelling, or did people just travel faster and more conveniently? * = >Who used the new means of transportation, and who profited most from = >them? Did they give rise to new social classes or different social >relationships? * What were the consequences of=20 >the increasing >mobility on intellectual fields? Was there a concomitant increase in = >mail and correspondence, and consequently a faster and wider exchange >of news, information, ideas and concepts? * How=20 >were the new >developments of traffic and transportation represented and assessed in = >the arts and literature? Did they give rise to new ideas and genres, = >such as landscape painting, travel literature and utopian themes? * Did = >the new means of transportation and the increasing mobility have = >consequences for the infrastructure of Western Europe? Did they affect = >city planning and the design of buildings, for instance due to the need = >for parking space for new and bigger vehicles? > >Proposals are invited for contributions discussing these and other = >aspects relating to the increasing mobility in the Early Modern Period, = >such as the consequences for warfare, diplomacy and trade. >Proposals of maximum 300 words should be sent by e-mail to the secretary = >of the editorial board of Intersections, Dr. Jan L. de Jong, = >[log in to unmask], before 1 October 2005. The authors of the proposals = >that have been accepted will be invited to write a paper of 6.000 words = >(including notes) before 1 september 2006. The final decision on the = >acceptance of any paper will be made by the editors following receipt of = >the complete text. > >------------------------------------------------------- >Call for Papers --- Intersections vol. 9: > >Spirits Unseen: The Representation of Subtle Bodies in Early Modern = >European Culture > > >Spirits - gaseous, vaporous, volatile "subtle bodies" (corpora subtilia) = >- occupied a prominent place in early modern thought. The terms = >"spiritus" or "corpora subtilia" may refer to angels, demons and souls = >as well as those immaterial or corpuscular energies, virtues and small = >atomic particles that regulated natural phenomena and = >psycho-physiological functions, in fact the whole universe and its laws. = >Early modern notions of spirits and subtle bodies often combined >observation, empirical evidence and religious doctrine. > >Despite increasing interest in early modern cosmologies, little = >attention has been paid to problems of the representation of spirits. = >For this reason, volume 9 of Intersections seeks to initiate a = >discussion on the ways in which ethereal or subtle bodies were imagined, = >described and represented in early modern philosophical, scientific, = >religious, moral and artistic discourse. What qualities were associated = >with energies and subtle substances in early modernliterary, poetic and = >scientific texts? How were spirits and invisible bodies depicted in the = >visual arts or staged in the theatre? In which >respects do representational codes and conventions change over time and = >differ according to social and cultural contexts and conditions? > >In particular, contributions are encouraged that discuss descriptions, = >depictions and meanings of spirits across various=20 >disciplines and cultural practices, or that consider competing = >representations indifferent visual and textual media over a broader = >period of time. Papers may focus on such aspects of early modern natural = >philosophy, medicine and magic as the origin of fossils, crystals and = >rocks; the phenomena of light, heat, gravity and electromagnetism; the = >propertiesof the air; the substance dreams were made of; the effects of = >music on >the animal spirits of the body. Contributions on experiments, projects = >and executed works that (re)define models of vision and sensory = >perception are also welcome. Early modern optics offers a particularly = >rich field for further research: the fascination with catoptrical = >machines and other devices of visual deception; the uses and functions = >of mirrors and magnifying lenses in science, warfare and religious = >practice. > >As unseen and invisible bodies spirits aroused artistic fantasy and = >imagination. Possible topics include the iconography of sounds and = >sights (in painting, the emblem literature and other literary and = >pictorial genres) and the role of spirits and ghosts as literary motifs = >and personae. The religious disputes of the sixteenth century led to = >conflicting views in Protestant and Catholic culture concerning ghosts = >and other apparitions as well as the physics of the transubstantiation. = >Liturgical and devotional practices provide another fruitful area of = >research: the construction of monstrances and other receptacles for the = >exhibition of the host and relics; the use of talismans and amulets. > >The volume is scheduled to appear in 2007.=20 >Proposals, about 300 words, should be sent (preferably electronically) = >no later than October 1st, 2005 to:=20 >Christine G=F6ttler=20 >Division of Art History,=20 >University of Washington=20 >Box 353440 Seattle, WA 98195-3440=20 >USA=20 >e-mail: >[log in to unmask] > >For more information on this volume please contact Christine G=F6ttler. > >________________________________________ >_ > >J.L. de Jong, >Institute for the History of Art and Architecture, >Groningen University, >P.O. Box 716, >9700 AS Groningen, >The Netherlands, >tel. (+31) 50 - 3636091, fax: (+31) 50 - 3637362 > >________________________________________ > >END TEXT > >For any queries, please contact: > >Richard Todd, >Professor, British literature after 1500 >Faculty of Arts >University of Leiden >PO Box 9515 >2300 RA LEIDEN >The Netherlands ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Meghan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html