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“Voces”. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words
« Voces ». Le Moyen Âge latin à travers ses mots-clés
Expressing and Performing Emotions
Émotions et représentations
Published on Wednesday, June 07, 2023
Abstract
The conference cycle “Voces. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words” aims to take a closer look at Latin words that have played an important role in the medieval culture. Every two year we propose to focus on a different major medieval concept and its linguistic expressions. This year’s edition will focus on Expressing and Performing Emotions.
Announcement
Workshop – 5th October 2023 – Paris
Argument
In recent years, medieval emotions have become the subject of intense research (Boquet and Nagy 2015). A number of studies showed that they were not the domain of a purely individual experience, but instead they were deeply influenced by the emotive styles, norms and conventions that were adopted in different communities (Rosenwein 2006). Attitudes towards the expression of emotions in the social sphere should also be seen in their historical dynamics, as they are a reflection of the constantly evolving relationship between individuals, society and its institutions (Nagy 2000).
Although voices calling for a more systematic analysis have been heard for years, we are still far from having a comprehensive account of how emotions were linguistically expressed and conceptualised in the Middle Ages (Rosenwein 2008). This may come as a surprise, given that current linguistics offers both a rich theoretical reflection and a rigorous descriptive framework, as well as a wealth of in-depth studies of terms and concepts related to emotions.
Suggested topics
We invite papers that discuss both single words or concepts and entire lexical fields or conceptual domains. Particularly welcome are interdisciplinary contributions that combine linguistic and historical (sociological, anthropological etc.) analysis, or provide cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspective.
- Expressing and talking about emotions in the Middle Ages: private and public affects; authenticity and convention; theorizing about emotions
- Emotion words: Latin vs. vernacular terms; Biblical emotions in translation; affects and metaphor; universality of medieval emotions; culture-determined expressions
- Theories and methods (how to research medieval emotions?): emotional turn in Medieval Studies; cognitive linguistics and medieval emotions; Latin vocabulary and categories of medieval thought (a simple link?); lexical borrowing and semantic change (new words = new worlds?); medieval Latin and individuals: cognition, experience, emotions; scientific vs. folk knowledge
Submission Guidelines
We welcome two forms of submissions:
- Long papers (20 minutes, 10 minutes discussion), that go beyond a single text or author, and provide either wider (historical, social, cultural etc.) context for the discussion or pose important theoretical and methodological questions (historical change, methodological issues etc.);
- Short papers (10 minutes, 5 minutes discussion), which are more limited in scope, but still bring forward links between vocabulary, conceptualization and socio-cultural reality of the Middle Ages.
Conference languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=voces2023)
by 20 June 2023 (23:59 CEST):
- long papers: up to 500 words (without references)
- short papers: up to 250 words (without references)
Submissions should clearly state the paper topic, briefly discuss existing research and explain why the analysis of the suggested term or field is important to our understanding of medieval culture.
Important dates
- submission: by 20 June 2023
- acceptance notice: 31 July 2023
- registration: from 1st September 2023
- conference date: 5th October 2023
Organizing Committee
Renaud ALEXANDRE, Bruno BON, Anita GUERREAU-JALABERT, Sébastien HAMEL et Nathalie PICQUE (IRHT-CNRS), Krzysztof NOWAK (IJP-PAN).
Program Committee
François BOUGARD (IRHT-CNRS), Carmen CARDELLE DE HARTMANN (Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie – Univ. Zürich), François DOLBEAU (EPHE), Helena LEITHE-JASPER (Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Bayerische Akad. der Wissenschaften), Maria SELIG (Institut für Romanistik –Univ. Regensburg), Anne-Marie TURCAN-VERKERK (EPHE-PSL).
Selected references
- Boquet, Damien, et Nagy, Piroska. 2015. Sensible Moyen Âge : Histoire des émotions dans l’Occident Médiéval. Le Seuil.
- Nagy, Piroska. 2000. Le Don des larmes au Moyen âge: un instrument spirituel en quête d’institution. Albin Michel.
- Rosenwein, Barbara H. 2006. Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. Cornell University Press.
- Rosenwein, Barbara H. 2008. Le Sujet des émotions au Moyen âge, éd. par Piroska Nagy et Damien Boquet, Beauchesne.
Subjects
Places
- Institut de France, 23 quai de Conti
Paris, France (75)
Event attendance modalities
Hybrid event (on site and online)
Date(s)
- Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Attached files
Keywords
- historical semantics, medieval Latin, corpus linguistics, history of concepts, emotions
Contact(s)
- Section de Lexicographie et Sémantique
courriel : section [dot] lexicographie [at] irht [dot] cnrs [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Renaud Alexandre
courriel : renaud [dot] alexandre [at] irht [dot] cnrs [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« “Voces”. Latin Middle Ages through Key Words », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, June 07, 2023, https://doi.org/10.58079/1bc0
