Call for papers: Auctor – Auctoritas – Authorship at Munich
Via EAJS: The Unit for Judaic Studies (LMU, Munich) invites submissions for the workshop: Auctor – Auctoritas – Authorship; Claiming authorial agency in rabbinic literature and medieval midrash, December 5-6, 2024 at the at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. The workshop focuses on different aspects of authoriality, authorial agency, and new more nuanced concepts of medieval authorship in rabbinic literature early medieval midrashic texts (2nd to 10th centuries CE). It approaches them also with a comparative perspective to Judaeo-Arabic literary production, in which novel notions of authorship emerge.
Abstracts that seek to explore one or several of aspects on a textual, material or/and structural level are welcomed.
Deadline for application: July 31, 2024. Details