CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

May 20-23, 1999

 

Session: LATE MEDIEVAL DISPUTATIONS

Sponsor: DISPUTATIO: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages

 

The organizers of this session seek papers on 14th or 15th century disputations. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, debate in schools, synods or courts; the rules for debate in rhetorical manuals or courtensy books; debates in discourse, such as debate poetry, rebuttals of widespread ideas or letters of refutation.

Volume 5 (2000) of Disputatio will feature a collection of articles on late medieval disputations. Participants on this panel may have the opportunity to publish their work.

Send one-page abstracts to the session organizer:

 

Georgiana Donavin, English Program, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105.