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2019 ACMRS & MAP JOINT CONFERENCE: Panels of Interest
1c. Textual and Linguistic Transformation in Medieval Scandinavia “Transforming the Werewolf: Bisclavret’s Textual Transmission and Reception in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century Scandinavia” Basil Price, Arizona State University “The Magical Other: The Marginalization of Magical Women in the Íslendingasögur” Tristan Rebe, Arizona State University “Religion, Magic, and Medieval Narratives” Laurie Price, University of New Mexico 4e. The…
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2019 MAP/ACMRS Conference CFP: “The Magical Mammal in Marie De France”
Call For Papers for International Marie De France Society Sponsored Session 2019 MAP/ACMRS Conference “Magic, Religion, and Science in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance” “The Magical Mammal in Marie De France” This session seeks papers that focus on the works of Marie de France and the intersection of magic and the animal body. Recent…
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International Marie de France Society Call For Papers for Kalamazoo 2019
(1 – Papers) Family and Kinship in Marie de France Twelfth-century woman poet and author of the Lais, Marie de France has long been celebrated for the richness of her courtly texts. However, her detailed insights into life and love are by no means limited to the courtly love paradigm. Rather, Marie’s works present her…
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New Edition of Marie de France’s Lais
The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Translation Translated and edited by Claire M. Waters (UC Davis) Copyright: Broadview Press, 2018 ISBN: 9781554810826 Cost: $15.95 Broadview Press is publishing a new, facing-page edition of Marie de France’s lais. Alongside the twelve lais, the Appendices features critical essays and manuscript information.
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Kalamazoo 2018 Panels of Interest
Thursday 10:30 a.m., Bernhard 205 Session 34: Old French Literature I Presider: Christine Chism, Univ. of California–Los Angeles Two Kings, Two Cuckolds, and the Meaning of Love in Marie de France’s Equitan Sarah Kooienga, Grand Valley State Univ. Discovering the Ship in Marie de France’s Guigemar Yue Chen Hou, McMaster Univ. The Sensory Perception and…
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CFP for ICMS 2018, Kalamazoo, Michigan
The International Marie de France Society will sponsor three panels for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held on the campus of Western Michigan University, May 10-13, 2018. Abstracts must be received by the session organizer, Tamara Bentley Caudill (tcaudil1@ju.edu), by September 15, 2017. New for 2018: Graduate Students who participate as panelists…
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New Site: mariedefrancesociety.org
Due to an administrative oversight, we have lost rights to our former site. We are in the process of moving as much content as possible to the new one as well as setting up electronic membership payments. Thank you for your patience.
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Panels and Papers of Note for Kalamazoo 2017
In advance of the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11-14, 2017, here is a list of papers and panels of interest to IMFS members. Speakers with asterisks are also members of the Society. Session 372, Saturday 10:00 a.m., Schneider 1280 — Teaching Marie de France (A Roundtable): A roundtable discussion with Dorothy Gilbert…
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Call for Papers: CFP for Kalamazoo 2017
The International Marie de France Society will sponsor three panels for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, to be held on the campus of Western Michigan University, May 11-14, 2017. Abstracts must be received by the session organizer, Tamara Bentley Caudill (tcaudil1@ju.edu), by September 15, 2016. Note: You do not have to be a member…
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Announcing New Officers, 2016
The following were elected via e-mail following nomination at the annual meeting at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10, 2014 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. President—Tamara Bentley Caudill, Tulane University Vice-President—Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania University Secretary-Treasurer—Ed Ouellette, Air Force Officer and Staff College Appointees and other leadership changes: Ann McCullough (Middle Tennessee State) rotated into the…
