Dear friends, We’re delighted to once again present our call for paper for next year’s International Medieval Congress, below: image and pdf versions of the call are attached, and we strongly encourage you to share the call widely in your networks. We encourage scholars at all levels to submit, and look forward to seeing you in Leeds next year! With best wishes, James, Nick, John, Bella & Kate (Convenors) Plaintext version: The Medieval Caucasus Network are seeking papers for a…

We once again had a great run of International Medieval Congress sessions this year, with two panels and a roundtable covering a wide array of approaches and aspects of life in the medieval Caucasus. Our first panel focused on religious responses to crisis: Kate Franklin and Ani Honarchian gave the first paper, looking at how different texts encoded different relationships between landscape and the body in Armenian medieval writings, and how the ‘pollution’ of bodies could act as a literary…

Welcome to the new Medieval Caucasus Network website. This space will include updates on our current and future activities promoting study and connecting scholars of the Caucasus across the region. The website includes a blog which will be used to post details of upcoming events and calls for papers, and information about the network and its convenors: more information and areas of the website will be opened in the coming months. If you want to add our site to an…