{"id":346,"date":"2021-08-02T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/magic\/?p=346"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T09:33:27","slug":"call-for-papers-project-fringe-at-imc-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/magic\/2021\/08\/02\/call-for-papers-project-fringe-at-imc-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers – project fringe at IMC 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fringe Expertise? Cross-Cultural Readings of Occult Practices in Premodern Eurasia<\/b><\/p>\n

International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 4-7 July 2022<\/p>\n

Sponsored by\u00a0The Sorcerer\u2019s Handbook: Medieval Arabic Magic in Context Project<\/b><\/p>\n

Organisers: Dr Sarah Ortega, Dr Geoff Humble (University of Leeds)<\/p>\n

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This session seeks to bring together a cross-cultural comparative reading of occult practices and practitioners. The term \u2018Occult\u2019 encompasses a wide range of intellectual, religious, and scientific practices. In addition to the manuals that explain how to undertake these, their purpose and status are navigated through a diverse array of perspectives that includes narrative historiographies, folk tales, miracle stories, and artworks. Such sources may extol the benefits of useful technologies and syncretic or folk wisdom, or they may formulate allegations of deceitful charlatanry and dangerous meddling. Likewise, practitioners were subject to an extremely wide range of patronage, control, and proscription. By tracing the shifting borders of orthodoxy and acceptability across medieval Eurasia and beyond, it is possible to investigate a broad spectrum of experiences running from the quotidian to the extraordinary across diverse social strata. We would like to invite papers that explore how legacies of occult practices were shaped by such influences as gendered ideas, political conflict, social upheaval, and debates in philosophy and religion.<\/p>\n

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Occult practices most broadly defined, including (but not limited to):<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Divination<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exorcism<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Astrology<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Production of talismans<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Magic<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Miracle cures and medical magic<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shamanic activity<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dowsing<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Alchemy<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charlatans<\/p>\n

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If you are interested, please email\u00a0Geoff Humble\u00a0<\/span>G.F.Humble@leeds.ac.uk<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or Sarah Ortega\u00a0aneguemis.platonis@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0with an abstract of no more than 100 words by\u00a0Monday 23rd\u00a0<\/sup><\/b><\/span>August 2021<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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The IMC call for sessions and papers can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/www.imc.leeds.ac.uk\/imc-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n

For the IMC\u2019s Proposal Guidelines see:\u00a0https:\/\/www.imc.leeds.ac.uk\/proposals\/criteria\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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