Call For Papers: Medieval Weather and the Natural Order
\nNew Chaucer Society Congress, Portland OR July 23-26, 2012<\/p>\n

Organizer: Robert Stanton
\n(robert.stanton@bc.edu<\/a>)
\nPaul Dutton has written that “‘weather’ is properly historical and stubbornly
\nsubjective, since it involves humans in time thinking about it and how it
\naffects their lives.” How were meteorological phenomena in the late Middle Ages
\nobserved, described, and interpreted? Recent work in ecocriticism has signaled
\nthe endlessly fluid and negotiable character of nature; can we reconfigure the
\nnotion of “natural phenomena” as a negotiated interaction among divine, human,
\nand physical orders? Submissions to this panel might address the reception of
\nstorms, floods, earthquakes, or droughts across genres; a comparison of
\nrepresentations of weather in textual and visual sources; or the relationship
\nbetween generalized and archetypal descriptions of weather events and their
\nstrategic deployment as narrative and rhetorical elements.<\/p>\n

Please send a one-paragraph abstract by June 1, 2011 to Robert Stanton,
\nDepartment of English, Boston College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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