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Call for Papers – Kalamazoo 2021
The International Marie de France Society is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring three sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Western Michigan University from May 13-15. Abstracts and queries should be sent to Dr. Simonetta Cochis, scochis@transy.edu, no later than September 15, 2020. Food and Furnishings: The Domestic in Marie…
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New Member Publication – An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle
Congratulations to Logan E. Whalen, past president of the International Marie de France Society, and his co-translators, Catherine M. Jones and William W. Kibler, on the publication of An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle (University of Florida Press, 2020). From the publisher: While most English-language readers are familiar with Old…
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Le Cygne, 3rd Series, Vol. 6 (2019)
In the past year the 2019 issue of Le Cygne has appeared. It contains four articles on the works of Marie de France and two editions taken from MS S of the Lais. Karen Casebier writes about two episodes from the natural world that are found in Eliduc, the storm and the incident involving the…
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Call for Papers: IMFS @ ICMS 2020 (Kalamazoo)
The International Marie de France Society is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring three sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held at Western Michigan University from May 7-10. Abstracts and queries should be sent to Dr. Simonetta Cochis, scochis@transy.edu, no later than September 15, 2019. Food and Furnishings: The Domestic in Marie…
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Call for Papers: New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
From the New College Conference organizers: The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 12-14 March 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries.…
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ICLS Panels, Exeter, July 22-27, 2019
The International Marie de France Society has organized two panels for the 16th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society to be held July 22-27 at the University of Exeter. For more information on the Congress, click here. MARIE DE FRANCE I: Kids, Cloth, Clothing, and Connections: Complex Communities in Marie de France “It Takes a Village: Lactation and Childcare Communities in Marie de France’s Lais,” Miriam Rheingold Fuller “Talking Textiles: Marie de France’s Le Fresne as Feminist Philomela,” Susan…
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 15
Congratulations to IMFS member Monica L. Wright, co-editor of the recently-released Medieval Clothing and Textiles 15 (Boydell and Brewer, 2019).From the publisher: The essays in this volume continue the Journal’s tradition of groundbreaking interdisciplinary work. The volume opens with a survey of the discipline of medieval clothing and textiles, written by founding editor Gale R. Owen-Crocker.…
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Kalamazoo 2019
Papers of Interest: S43, Thursday at 10Far and Foul Winds in the Lais of Marie de France Karen Casebier, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga Session 242, Friday at 1:30A Concerning Complex: Courtly Love and Chivalry in Marie de FranceRachel Walkover, Univ. of Rochester S320, Friday at 3:30Obscure Names: Reimagining Origins in the Lais of Marie de France Emily Dalton, Princeton Univ. S348, Sponsored by the International Marie…
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Le Cygne to JSTOR
We are very pleased to announce that Le Cygne has been added to the new collection Lives of Literature, offered by JSTOR. According to JSTOR, Lives of Literature is a collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. When complete, Lives of Literature will include approximately 120 journals…
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Le Cygne, Volume 5
We are pleased to announce the publication of Le Cygne, Volume 5. It contains two articles, one by Katherine Pierpont, which examines the issue of disability and deformity in the works of Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France (with special reference to Bisclavret and Yonec), and the other by Matthieu Boyd, who examines three Breton…