Call for Papers
Renaissance Society of America
Annual Meeting 24-26 March 2011 (Montreal)

Title: The Arts of the Other Friars: Cultural Production of
the Smaller Mendicant Orders

Contact:
Joseph Hammond (University of St Andrews): jrh46st-andrews.ac.uk

Co-Organiser: Arnold Witte (University of Amsterdam)

This panel will examine the differing approaches and roles that
Mendicant Orders other than the Franciscans and Dominicans took to
the arts in the Renaissance. Many such smaller Orders, for example
the Carmelites or the Servites, proliferated from the fifteenth
until the seventeenth centuries, and their involvement with, use
of, and impact on the cultural productions of the time has
received relatively little study in comparison with the two
largest Mendicant Orders. This panel will take both an exploratory
and comparative approach, considering such questions as: how and
in what ways do these Orders manifest similarities to, or
differences from, the artistic productions of their larger
mendicant brothers? Do the same paradigms of corporate identity
and promotion still apply? How are they influenced by specific
locations? What is distinctive about their liturgical and
devotional practices that is reflected in their cultural
productions?

All areas of cultural production (painting, sculpture, music,
manuscripts, architecture, etc), locations and mendicant orders
besides the Franciscans and Dominicans will be considered.

Please send abstracts (of 150 words maximum) for a 20 minute paper.
Provide a brief CV, with full name, email address, institutional
affiliation, title of paper and any A/V requirements you may have.

Deadline: 17 May 2010.
Submit to Joseph Hammond (University of St Andrews, Scotland) at:
jrh46st-andrews.ac.uk