CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session, 57th Virtual ICMS, 9-14 May 2022, "Neomedivalist Images and the Robin Hood Tradition"

57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoowill take place FULLY VIRTUALLY from 9^th May to 14^th May 2022.

The session title is:

NEOMEDIEVALIST IMAGES AND THE ROBIN HOOD TRADITION

This is a session sponsored by the International Association for Robin Hood Studies.

Neomedievalism is understood as ideas or concepts that are detached from the historical Middle Ages, but are nonetheless seen as of medieval origin. The Robin Hood tradition has long inspired neomedievalist imagery: for example, the idea that medieval outlaws protected women and children. Such images are not confirmed by history or the literary Robin Hood texts. Neomedievalist ideas inspired by the Robin Hood tradition can be found in film, children’s literature, and other media. We seek paper proposals that address the question of how the medieval is reworked in such imagery and images.

The abstract should be in 250 words.

Please send the abstract for your paper proposal by 1^st September 2021 at: annaczarnowus@tlen.pl

CFP: IARHS-Sponsored Session “The Material Relevance of Robin Hood, ca. 1500-1900” Leeds IMC 2022

 

“The Material Relevance of Robin Hood, ca. 1500-1900”, Leeds IMC, 4-7 July 2022.

This session examines (re)presentations of Robin Hood in the past, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.  It centres on the way in which creators of Robin Hood in image, performance, and story sought to make their subject relevant to their own contemporary audiences, and the nature of the relevance they presented.  It also asks why these authors/creators used the Robin Hood persona/image rather than any other legendary, mythological, literary, or cultural icons from amongst a wide variety of other options that were available to available to them. Did he ever move from the marginal to the mainstream?

Papers are sought, of no longer than 20 minutes’ duration, on the above theme in relation to any period from the Middle Ages to the end of the nineteenth century, inclusive. 

Please send a working title and an abstract of 100 words to Dr Lesley Coote by email at l.a.coote@associate.hull.ac.uk or coote081@gmail.com  by  20^th September 2020.