“Can These Bones Come to Life? Insights from Re-construction,
Re-enactment, and Re-creation”

Two sessions to be sponsored by the Association for Historical Fencing at
the Forty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI May 10-13, 2007.

We invite dance historians, musicians and musicologists, historical
fencers, armorers, brewers, theater historians and performers, textile
researchers, and scholars in other fields to submit papers for a unique
interdisciplinary session on the insights into history that can be gained
from attempts to reconstruct medieval arts, as well as the
historiographical issues involved in such work. Proposals for papers
should discuss insights gained by practical, hands-on attempts to arts,
how these insights modify existing scholarship or solve a question, and
the historiographical issues involved therein—i.e., to what extent can we
hope to play music, ride horses, weave textiles, brew mead, or wield
swords as medieval people did and why.

Please submit abstracts and curriculum vitae to Ken Mondschein at
mondschein-at-fordham.edu by September 1, 2006. Please also take note of
the Congress' various guidelines at
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/..

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