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OUT NOW: Free to Write: Prison Voices Past and Present (Headland)
Foreword by Erwin JamesEdited by Gareth Creer, Hannah Priest and Tamsin SpargoBlurb:"The Free to Write Project has demonstrated that the long, rich and resilient tradition of writing in prison is as...
View ArticleCFP: Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2014
9‐11 JanuaryThe University of WinchesterGender and StatusKeynote speaker: Barbara Yorke, Professor Emerita of Early Medieval History, University of Winchester In a social hierarchy, gender and status...
View ArticleCFP: 15th Global Conference: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Saturday 22nd March – Monday 24th March 2014Prague, Czech RepublicCall for PresentationsThis inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues surrounding evil...
View ArticleCFP: Suffragette Legacy: How Does the History of Feminism Inspire Current...
Saturday 8 March 2014Call for PapersFrom The Village and David Bowie’s Suffragette City to Femen activists and Pussy Riot, the suffragette legacy is everywhere in modern culture.As part of the...
View ArticleCFP: Religious Men in the Middle Ages: Networks and Communities
3-5 July 2014 University of Lincoln, UKCall for PapersThis conference seeks to explore and re-evaluate the forms and functions of networks and communities for men in the middle ages. We invite papers...
View ArticleCFP: Revisiting the Legacy of Boethius in the Middle Ages
Harvard University, March 13-15, 2014For the conference website, please click here. The legacy of Boethius in the Middle Ages has been enjoying a resurgence of interest in recent years, with new...
View ArticleCFP: Un/making Mistake in Medieval Media (Kalamazoo, 2014)
Organizers: Barbara M. Eggert (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Christine Schott (Erskine College, South Carolina)Errare humanum est – and just as today, errors and mistakes occurred in every field of...
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OUT NOW: Impossible Spaces (Hic Dragones, 2013)
edited by Hannah KateBlurb:It doesn’t have to be this way… Sometimes the rules can change. Sometimes things aren’t how they appear. Sometimes you can just slip through the cracks and end up… somewhere...
View ArticleCFP: Little Horrors: Representations of the Monstrous Child
Book ProjectCall for ChaptersGone is the Victorian innocence of childhood. We have entered the age of the monstrous child, the little horror.Each historical period can be seen to have prioritised a...
View ArticleCFP: Death and Decay
This call for papers invites submissions from Postgrads or Early Career Researchers on the subject of ‘Death and Decay’ for the third edition of HARTS + Minds, an online journal for students of the...
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Review: The Hunters (dir. Chris Briant, 2011)
I know it’s a little strange to review a film two years after its release, but RS and I watched this a couple of nights ago, and I wanted to post a little something about it. In fact, this isn’t really...
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Review: Mazarkis Williams, The Emperor's Knife (Jo Fletcher Books, 2011)
Full disclosure: I was sent a copy of this book by the author for review – but that’s not really news, as that’s true of most books reviewed on here and it carries absolutely no guarantee of anything...
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Twihards and Directioners
So… it’s been a good week for derisively labelling young women as mentally ill.In the worlds of (predominantly) female fandoms, there have been two big stories this week. The first, an interview with...
View ArticleCFP: Locating the Gothic
October 22-25, 2014 Limerick School of Art and Design and Mary Immaculate College, LimerickThe Gothic is a mode that is intimately connected to location. Sites and spaces both define and demarcate the...
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Another Guest Post from a Non-Existent Blogger
A while ago I wrote a blog post about some underhand marketing techniques practised by snakeoil salesmenSEO companies. Specifically I wrote about ‘guest blogging services’, where a company makes a fake...
View ArticleCFP: Sessions at Kalamazoo 2014
The 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 8-11, 2014 Please note: these CFPs are for different sessions at Congress. If you are intending to submit to an...
View ArticleCFP: The Health of the Realm: The Historical Context of Medicine in the Early...
IMC Leeds 7-10 July 2014 While interest in medicine and medical texts has been growing in recent years, its historical context has largely been neglected. Illness and treatment do not exist in a...
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Review: House of Fear, ed. by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris, 2011)
Published in 2011, House of Fear is an anthology of haunted house short stories, edited by Jonathan Oliver and featuring stories by writers such as Adam Nevill, Sarah Pinborough and Christopher Priest....
View ArticleDress and Textile Discussion Group (University of Manchester)
Programme for 2013-14Where: TBC – please see reminders Time: 5pmThursday 10th October 2013Dr Brenda King: Stitch and Stone. The Leek Embroidery Society and its collaboration with Gothic Revival...
View ArticleCFP: The Geographic Imagination: Conceptualizing Places and Spaces in the...
2nd Annual Indiana Medieval Graduate Student Consortium ConferenceCall for PapersKeynote Speaker: Professor Geraldine HengPerceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature,...
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