<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Dear all,<br><br></font></div><font size="2">Just a reminder that the deadline is approaching.<br><br>The Other’s Chivalry: Alternative Chivalric Codes and Practices<br></font>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>Sponsor: Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>Organizers: </span><span>Ana Grinberg (Auburn University) and Stefanie Goyette
(Durham Academy)<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>Presider: Mercedes Vaquero (Brown University)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="ES"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="ES">The Arabic chivalric
novels known as “al-Siyar” feature heroes characterized by their bravery and
valor, reflecting values similar to those of the romance epic, as Lutfi Abdel
Badi argues in his almost forgotten </span><i><span>La </span></i><i><span lang="ES">Épica árabe y su influencia en la épica castellana</span></i><span lang="ES"> (31). And yet modern scholarly notions
of “chivalry” in the epic often seem to follow Ramon Llull’s thirteenth-century
<i>Book of the Order of Chivalry</i>, which claims
that chivalry requires loving and fearing the Christian god, foreclosing the
possibility that there could be a common code for both Christian and Muslim
knights. Llull further explains that nobility and chivalry “belong together”
(III.8) and thus women, due to their lesser nobility, are unable to be knights.
Likewise, “a deformed man or one who is obese or has another physical defect”
cannot be a knight (Llull III.16).</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="ES"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span lang="ES">Given the persistent
association of chivalry with Christianity, masculinity, able-</span><span>bodiness, nobility, and a narrowly defined idea of beauty and humanity,
how</span><span> <span lang="ES">can we understand
alterity in chivalric texts where the supposed Other </span></span><span>is often a worthy oponent? And furthermore, what happens to chivalry when
we find these Others often as heroes, and not enemies, at the center instead of
at the borders of the romance epic? This session invites papers that examine
how texts, writers, and audience negotiated the complexity of chivalry and
knighthood in medieval texts dealing with heroic deeds of those who are not
“normative.” We also welcome papers that question or resituate the very
definition of chivalry in the romance epic.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span>Please
send abstracts of no more than 250 words together with a completed Participant
Information Form (<a href="https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u434/2017/medieval-pif-2018.pdf">https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u434/2017/medieval-pif-2018.pdf</a>)
to session organizers Stefanie Goyette (</span><a href="mailto:stefaniegoyette@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span>stefaniegoyette@gmail.com</span></a><span>) or Ana Grinberg (</span><a href="mailto:ana.grinberg.phd@gmail.com"><span>ana.grinberg.phd@gmail.com</span></a><span>) by September
15. Please include your name, title, and affiliation on the abstract itself.
All abstracts not accepted for the session will be forwarded to Congress
administrators for consideration in general sessions, as per Congress
regulations.</span></font></p>
<font size="2"><br><br></font><div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Ana Grinberg, Ph.D.<br></font></div><div><font size="2">Secretary-Bibliographer, <i>Bulletin Bibliographique de la Société Rencesvals</i>, American-Canadian Branch<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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