CFP: Erudites and Polymaths
Call for Papers
“Erudites and Polymaths”
at the Renaissance Society of America meetings
27-29 March 2014, New York City ç
The
sixteenth century saw the rise of a new breed of scholar – the highly prolific
and vastly erudite polymath who could write books, translate ancient texts into
contemporary vernaculars, compile variorum collections of letters or poetry,
proof-read printers’ galleys, at times even typeset them, and generally survive
by the skill of his erudite wits. A jack of all (scholarly) trades, the
sixteenth-century erudite could also be profoundly philosophical and
tantalizingly controversial.
Proposals
are invited for papers that examine the career, life, works, and impact of such
sixteenth-century figures from across Europe – people like Jakob Wimpfeling and
Konrad Peutinger in Germany, Guillaume Budé and Joseph Justus Scaliger in
France, Ludovico Domenichi and Girolamo Ruscelli in Italy, Michael Servetus and
Juan Luis Vives in Spain, John Dee and William Camden in England, Justus
Lipsius and Hugo Grotius in the Netherlands, and many others like them.
These
sessions will be part of the meetings of the Renaissance Society of America
this coming 27-29 March 2014 in New York City. They will be sponsored by the
Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium as part of its year-long
celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its founding, in Toronto, by
Natalie Zemon Davis and James K. McConica.
Proposals
for these sessions should be submitted electronically to Konrad Eisenbichler
at: konrad.eisenbichler@utoronto.ca
Each
proposal must include: the paper title; an abstract of the paper (150-word
maximum); a short list of keywords; and the speaker’s brief curriculum vitae
(300-word maximum).
Deadline
for submission of proposals: 30 May 2013.
Please
note: presenters will need to be members of the RSA and will need to pay the
relevant conference fee through the RSA website. For more information, please
see the RSA submission guidelines at: http://www.rsa.org/?page=2014NewYork
Prof.
Konrad Eisenbichler
Secretary-Treasurer
Toronto
Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium
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Germaine Warkentin // English (Emeritus), University of Toronto
g.warkentin@utoronto.ca
http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/germainew/
"There has never been a great age of science and technology without
a corresponding flourishing of the arts and humanities."
-- Cathy N. Davidson
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