Making Spaces: Medieval Boundaries, Modern Fictions?
c.1450-c. 1600

Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies,
University of Kent at Canterbury
Saturday, 4 July 1998

An interdisciplinary conference on urban space between c1450 and c1600. The conference will provide an opportunity for postgraduates from a number of different disciplines to meet and share their ideas. The morning will consist of a series of 20 minute papers, while the afternoon will be devoted to a less formal session where theoretical approaches to the study of space can be discussed amongst all the participants.

The focus of this discussion will be upon the ways in which we, as modern readers of medieval documents, imaginatively reconstruct historical spaces. We will examine the processes by which we read documents about
objects, actions and events in terms of the information they reveal about inhabited spaces, and the further use of these constructions as metaphors for identity and personhood. More specifically, we would like both papers and discussion to include areas such as personal spaces (gesture, social relations); domestic spaces (organisation, embellishment, privacy); and urban spaces (boundaries and authorities).

Closing date for abstracts: 31 May 1998

Please contact: Catherine Richardson, School of English, Rutherford
College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NX; 01227 764 000
x3402; ctr1@ukc.ac.uk. Or Pam Hartshorne: pbh101@york.ac.uk

http://crane.ukc.ac.uk/english/space1.html

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