Call for Papers

Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture

INTERSECTIONS brings together new material on well considered themes
within the wide area of Early Modern Studies. Contributions may come
from any of the disciplines within the humanities. The themes are
directed towards hitherto little explored areas or reflect a lively
debate within the international community of scholars.

Call for Papers
COPERNICUS AND HIS INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION

Copernicus's theories did not enter the scene of European thought
(science and theology) without dispute. The volume will concentrate on
the debates it triggered and it is specifically dedicated to two aspects
of the international reception of Copernicus:

1) the reception and criticism of Copernican theories in astronomy,
philosophy, religion, art history, and early modern literature;

2) the biographical, literary, artistic representation and ideological
appropriation of 'Copernicus the man'.

Among the main questions will be:

Ad 1) Why did Copernicus leave an open flank in this theories by
numerous mathematical imprecisions and how did physics cope with this
deficit? Did the pluralisation of the worlds give change to the
diagrammatical representation of world models? By which temporal shifts
did the various arts react to the Copernican model? Did the metaphorical
language of the areas concerned change (the heavens, planets,
satellites)? Was there a change in the position of the mythological
figures in pictorial arts? Were there new allegories? How did the
iconography of the heavens change? Is there a difference in the ways
Catholicism and Protestantism reacted to Copernicus? What was
Copernicus's influence on the utopian literature?

Ad 2) By which processes in early modern European science and literature
did Copernicus and his theory become a pan-European point of reference
within the history of knowledge and how was he re-nationalised in
historiography and literature after the early modern period? How did
this nationalist and/or ideological appropriation of Copernicus come
about (e.g. the reception of Copernicus in socialist societies)? What
kind of reception is reflected in the various monuments and images of
Copernicus?

This volume will be edited by Thomas Rahn, Wolfgang Neuber, and is
scheduled to appear in 2012. Proposals, about 300 words in length,
should be sent (electronically) no later than September 1st 2010, either
to:
Thomas Rahn: trahnzedat.fu-berlin.de
Wolfgang Neuber: neuberzedat.fu-berlin.de
Claus Zittel: zittelkhi.fi.it

General Information about Intersections or specific issues of the series
are to be had from:
Prof. Dr. Karl Enenkel (general editor)
Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
e-mail: Enenkeluni-muenster.de
or
Dr. Jan L. de Jong (editorial secretary)
Institute for the History of Art and Architecture,
Groningen University,
P.O. Box 716,
9700 AS Groningen,
The Netherlands,
e-mail: J.L.de.Jonglet.rug.nl
tel.: 0031 50 - 3636091, fax: 0031 50 - 3637362