Call for Papers

44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
7-10 May 2009
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Session Title:
Lines of Thought: Drawing Diagrams and Figures
to Think, Analyze, and Prove, 1100-1500

Johan Huizinga, William Ivins, Walter Ong, and Erwin Panofsky, are among
the eminent historians who saw a visual turn in the intellectual culture
of the later middle ages. However problematic their arguments, one can
point to a variety of evidence supporting their conclusions, from the
figures drawn by the Oxford Calculators to the diagrams introduced by
Greek emigres in fifteenth-century treatises on logic. This session
seeks papers that engage the issue and that discuss the use of visual,
graphic means (as opposed to verbal arguments) to analyze evidence and
establish conclusions. Contributions from all fields are welcome.

Please send a short abstract by Aug. 25 to Renzo Baldasso:
rbaldassoyahoo.com (or baldassoumd.edu).
Early submissions are strongly encouraged.

[Session sponsored by AVISTA]

General information on the 44th International Congress on Medieval
Studies can be found at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/index.html

An overview on all Sessions is availalbe at:
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/Assets/pdf/congress/Sessions09.pdf