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**Kalamazoo 2006 Workshop Sponsored Sessions** 1. "Loss and Mourning in Medieval Literature" - Loss figures so prominently in so many medieval narratives, that a list of examples might just contain all of medieval literature! From Genesis to the Wife's Lament to Pearl and Sir Orfeo to, as has been argued, the very structure of courtly desire--these narratives often center around the debilitating loss of a beloved person, thing, or state of being. This session will focus on the ways in which loss is represented in medieval literature, and how these representations inform loss's place in medieval thinking, e.g., in notions of subjectivity, ethics, and desire. 2. "Center and Periphery Relations in Medieval Europe" - The focus on borderlands that began more than twenty years ago brought scholars' attention to contested space on Europe's physical and/or ideological periphery. This panel aims to take that idea one step farther and discuss the interactions between the periphery of Europe and Europe's historical center in England, France, and Germany. This will capitalize on the recent burst of scholarship on medieval Russia, Hungary, Scandinavia, and elsewhere, and put that work in the context of examining how those places fit into a larger schema of medieval European history. Such a schema will advance all medievalists' understanding of the true scope of medieval Europe.
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