Session “Representations of Space in Medieval Iberia” sponsored by the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA) for the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo 2024.
- Location: Kalamazoo, MI
- Date: 9-11 May 2024
- Submit abstract (about 200 words) via the ICMS website by 15 September 2023 (link goes live July 15).
- Contact: Anita Savo ([email protected]) or Wiktoria Bryzys ([email protected])
- Call for Papers (below)
Representations of space in medieval Iberian literature reflect the religious, cultural, and linguistic diversity that shaped the region and set it apart. This session invites papers that examine how medieval authors used language to create a sense of place, and how space functioned as a literary device that allowed the audience to “inhabit” the text. In line with the “spatial turn” in humanistic inquiry, we welcome papers that analyze real and/or imagined spaces in a range of narrative genres (including but not limited to epics, chronicles, ballads, chivalric romances, and travel literature) and in any of the various peninsular literary languages. We are especially interested in papers that explore the intersections between historical, fictional, and metaphorical spaces, as well as works that reflect on the presence and absence of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish spaces in the Iberian literary imagination.