The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Announces a Call for Submissions to a special-topic issue:

"Edges: Social and Cultural Encounters in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity"

Edited by Kalman Bland and Annabel Wharton

Exchange among cultures in the medieval and early modern periods has been traditionally represented as "influence." Now scholars have begun to reconceive this interaction in terms of "Collective participation" in
a shared cultural environment. The "edges" of the title refers to encounters of the Other within a dominant culture as well as to convergences of great empires. We seek essays that explore various aspects of medieval and early modern participatory interactions between Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Indians wherever they met, in Latinate
Europe, in the Byzantine Empire, in Islamicate domains, or in the Americas. The exchange presented may be friendly or hostile; the object of study may be the texts and artifacts of interaction or its social forms. We are especially interested in historical accounts that explicitly engage questions of method and historiography.

Deadline for papers (not proposals): 1 October 1998

Send 2 copies of the MS double-spaced throughout, including notes, following the style guidelines of the *Chicago Manual of Style* (14th ed., esp. chap. 15 on documentation). For return of MS, include an
SASE. We do not consider essays that have been published elsewhere or are under simultaneous consideration with another publisher.

Send submission to:

Michael Cornett, Managing Editor
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Duke University
01 West Duke Building
Durham, NC 27708

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