Call for Papers
From Hortulus
Our upcoming issue will be devoted to representations and interpretations of monsters and monstrosities in art, chronicles, letters, literature, and music from the Middle Ages. We are also interested in book reviews on foundational works that would be helpful for graduate students exploring medieval monsters and monstrosities. Article submissions may address but are not limited to:
-Bestiaries and manuscript illuminations of monstrosities
-Classical and Eastern transmissions and receptions of monsters
-Desires and sins of the flesh that degrade humans into monstrosities in allegories, exempla, and
hagiography
-The Green Man, the Owl Man, the Wild Man and the Wild Woman
-Medical accounts of monstrous births and the ‘monstrous’ female, intersexed, or male body
-Monsters and monstrosities in epics, exempla, fables, lais, and romances
-Monsters and monstrosities in chronicles and travel literature
-Purgatorial and demonic monsters and monstrosities in visionary literature
-The racial ‘other’ as a monstrosity
-Saints as and/or versus monsters and monstrosities in vitae and legends
-Transformations of humans into animals and vice versa
The 2009 issue of Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies will be published in May of 2010. All graduate students are welcome to submit their articles and book reviews to submit@hortulus.net by March 1, 2010.
