Call for papers - Language and culture of the Goths

[Alessandro Zironi]

Filologia germanica
1 (2008)

Lingua e cultura dei Goti
[Language and culture of the Goths]

Editorial board: Fabrizio D. Raschellà (editor-in-chief), Fulvio Ferrari, 
Valeria Micillo.
Scientific committee: Alessandro Zironi (co-ordinator), Carla Falluomini, 
Marusca Francini, Nicoletta Onesti.


Call for papers


2008 will be the starting year of the periodical Filologia germanica, a 
journal published under the patronage of the Associazione Italiana di 
Filologia Germanica (AIFG), or the Italian Society for Germanic Philology. 
Each issue will be devoted, entirely or predominantly, to a specific 
linguistic and cultural sphere of the Germanic area.
               The subject of this first issue is ‘Language and culture of 
the Goths’. The scientific committee, which is made up by teachers and 
researchers from several Italian universities, intends to consider the Goths 
and the Gothic language in the broadest possible sense, taking into account 
linguistic aspects as well as historical and cultural ones. Both approaches 
can range in time from the remote beginnings, namely from pre-wulfilian 
times, to Crimean Gothic. The main accent is placed by the scientific 
committee on linguistics, philology and textual criticism, nevertheless 
cultural themes concerning Gothic history will not be left out. The 
distinctive feature of Gothic language and culture, flourished chiefly from 
Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages, is the close relationship with the Greek-
 Latin world (and, then, with the rising Romance languages) at a time when 
this latter was still thriving and prestigious. This leads to the 
consideration that the themes of linguistic and cultural interference are 
also of central relevance. Other interesting possibilities of research in 
Gothic studies reside in the study of semantic fields and, in a broader 
sense, of the vocabulary. As far as the spatial aspect is concerned, all the 
fields and all the areas occupied by the Goths, in Europe and in the 
Mediterranean, are included.


Whoever intends to propose a paper for this issue of the journal (which is to 
appear in spring, 2009) is requested to send an abstract (within 2,500 
characters, spaces included) not later than October 7th, 2007, to:

prof. Alessandro Zironi
Università di Ferrara
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane
Via Savonarola, 27
44100 Ferrara- Italia

email: zra at unife.it

Contributors who are not members of the AIFG are kindly requested to enclose 
a brief scientific curriculum and, when existing, a list of publications on 
the subject of the  journal’s issue.

The authors will be informed that the papers have been accepted within 
October 15th, 2007.

The papers should be drawn up according to the editorial rules (style sheet 
etc.) that will be communicated to the authors. The papers can be written in 
Italian, English, German, and French, and should not exceed the number of 
75,000 characters (spaces included), including the final bibliography. All 
the papers have to contain a brief summary in English, not exceeding the 
number of 1,500 characters (spaces included).

Dead-line for sending the papers is June, 15th, 2008.

 
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