Foreigners, Strangers, and Others

The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts and proposals for complete sessions for its 2006 Symposium organized around questions of foreignness, strangeness, and alterity in France from c. 500 to c. 1600. These issues have gained prominence recently as scholarship in all fields of medieval studies has redefined both the literal and figurative boundaries of medieval society to take in the geographic, social, and cultural “margins” of pre-modern Europe