In Search of the Medieval Voice
A group of four postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers from the department have published the proceedings of a highly successful conference they organised in 2008 on the theme of identity in medieval literature, music and art. They had experienced organising a day seminar as part of their research training programme, and decided to put their skills into practice with a fully-fledged conference and a volume of proceedings.
The conference, entitled "Locating the Voice", brought together postgraduates and early career researchers from around the world in a multi-disciplinary approach to individuality and identity in the medieval world. The keynote address was given by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne from the University of York. The conference was hosted by the University of Sheffield's renowned Humanities Research Institute.
The eleven contributions published in the proceedings analyse the construction of identity in written texts from Isidore of Seville to vernacular romance and lyric poetry, consider evidence for the sound worlds of medieval speech and song, and discuss topics as varied as representations of clothing on funeral monuments, the expression of ethnicity in South-West Britain, and the iconography of the devil.
Publication details:
In Search of the Medieval Voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages, edited by Lorna Bleach, Katariina Närä, Sian Prosser and Paola Scarpini (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, December 2009). ISBN13: 978-1-4438-1434-8 ISBN: 1-4438-1434-2
Full details are available on the publisher's website.