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Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages

Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages is an association of scholars of medieval literature, art, intellectual, social and cultural history that encourages cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural scholarship on the ideas, practices and artifacts concerning food. The acquisition, preparation and consumption of food is a basic human need that provides a lens through which scholars can explore relationships among economic, religious, literary, legal, political, cultural and social activity. Scholarly study of food, as well as surrounding ideas and practices, illuminates the limits of and connections within material and mental exchanges that are so central, so fundamental to human experience that they often escape a culture's nominal categories and cross social and political borders. Founded in 2011, the society's primary activity has been sponsoring and co-sponsoring panels at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University each spring. Leveraging the members' contacts with existing journals and publishers, the society seeks to publish critical clusters of articles in journals and volumes of conference proceedings.

Session 2: Ana Pairet and Montserrat Piera
02/06/2017

Session 2: Ana Pairet and Montserrat Piera

Speakers at our Friday morning session "Medieval Mediterranean Foodways: The Dangers of Dining and Wining for Iberian Je...
02/06/2017

Speakers at our Friday morning session "Medieval Mediterranean Foodways: The Dangers of Dining and Wining for Iberian Jews and Muslims"

01/06/2017
Opening ceremony, May 31, Historic University of Malta
01/06/2017

Opening ceremony, May 31, Historic University of Malta

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01/06/2017

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Mens et Mensa 3rd international symposium: Valletta, Malta. Meeting jointly with Mediterranean Studies Assn. a wonderful...
01/06/2017

Mens et Mensa 3rd international symposium: Valletta, Malta. Meeting jointly with Mediterranean Studies Assn. a wonderful start! 🇲🇹

30/01/2017

CFP: 3rd Intl Mtg May-June 2017 – Due 2/1/2017

http://bit.ly/MetM2017Malta

invites proposals papers in sessions sponsored by the society during the annual meeting of The Mediterranean Studies Association, scheduled for May 31 – June 3, 2017 at the University of Malta. Proposals may address any issues involving ideas, practices and artifacts related to food in the medieval…

30/01/2017

Better late than never! If you are interested but can't meet the deadline let us know...

CALL FOR PAPERS--deadline February 1, 2017

Join us in Malta!

“Medieval Mediterranean Foodways”

Third Biennial Meeting of Mens et Mensa:
Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages

for presentation at the annual meeting of the
Mediterranean Studies Association
31 May - 3 June 2017, Malta

Mens et Mensa: The Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages, invites proposals for sessions sponsored by the society during the annual meeting of The Mediterranean Studies Association, scheduled for 31 May – 3 June 2017 at the University of Malta.

Proposals may address any issues involving ideas, practices and artifacts related to food in the medieval Mediterranean world.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROPOSALS

Interested participants must provide, by 1 February 2017:

• an abstract of 150 words, and
• a one-page curriculum vitae

All proposers must clearly indicate, in their curricula vitae:

• full name
• institutional affiliation (if any)
• email address
• postal address
• telephone number

Please send the abstract and curriculum vitae as attachments via email to John Bollweg, secretary of Mens et Mensa, at [email protected]

IMPORTANT

-Selected papers from Mens et mensa sessions will be published after the conference.

-Please note that:

• all proposals are subject to acceptance by Mens et Mensa AND by the Mediterranean Studies Association
• all proposers must be paid members of both Mens et Mensa (USD $20 per year) and the Mediterranean Studies Association (USD $60 per year)
• all proposers must complete payment of membership dues for Mens et Mensa and the Mediterranean Studies Association by 1 April 2017
• all proposers must complete conference registration ($260) with the Mediterranean Studies Association by 8 April 2017

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Mens et Mensa: http://mensetmensa.org

Mediterranean Studies Association: https: https://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/index.html

05/07/2016

And another great plenary at IMC Leeds 2016: Melitta Weiss Adamson, Western Unversity: "Cookbooks, Health Books, Drug Manuals: Culinary Recipes in Search of a Genre"

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Valletta
VLT1216

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