IMC, Leeds 2025

Despite a burgeoning interest in global and comparative literary contexts, the hermeneutic frameworks of national philologies continue to shape how we as scholars approach historical narrative traditions from the medieval period and beyond. This session calls for a reassessment of these frameworks, by asking scholars to engage with new formats for studying historical literary traditions that transcend linguistic and cultural borders. We invite abstracts for papers that deploy innovative, interdisciplinary methods, theoretical frameworks, or tools to analyse cross-regional text traditions of the later medieval period. Texts may include but are not limited to romances, hagiographies, chronicles, or advice literature of any kind.

Papers should be 15-20 minutes. Please submit your abstract (no more than 250 words), name, affiliation (if any), and contact details to Miriam Edlich-Muth at edlichmu@uni-duesseldorf.de

The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2024.

Sponsor: Post-National Reconceptions of European Literary History (Post-REALM). PI: Miriam Edlich-Muth. Project funded by the European Research Council.