36.2973, Confs: Time in Medieval and Early Modern England: Linguistic and Manuscript Perspectives (France)

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Subject: 36.2973, Confs: Time in Medieval and Early Modern England: Linguistic and Manuscript Perspectives (France)

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Date: 03-Oct-2025
From: Oxana Kharlamenko [oxana.kharlamenko at univ-tours.fr]
Subject: Time in Medieval and Early Modern England: Linguistic and Manuscript Perspectives


Time in Medieval and Early Modern England: Linguistic and Manuscript
Perspectives

Date: 03-Apr-2026 - 03-Apr-2026
Location: Tours, France
Contact: Oxana Kharlamenko
Contact Email: oxana.kharlamenko at univ-tours.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Phonology; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 15-Dec-2025

The concept of time was central to medieval and early modern
intellectual and textual traditions, shaping liturgical cycles,
scholarly computation, and the organisation of written knowledge.
Across these periods, time was recorded, calculated, and represented
in multiple ways — embedded in language, structured in manuscript
design, and transmitted through textual traditions.
This one-day conference brings together researchers to explore how
linguistic evidence and manuscript culture reflect and shape
conceptions of time in medieval and early modern England.
We are especially interested in papers examining how tense, aspect,
and mood are deployed in medieval texts to encode temporal relations
and narrative sequencing, as well as how changes in these systems
reflect broader shifts in medieval thought. Equally important is the
study of lexical and semantic fields of time, including vocabulary for
calendars, seasons, liturgical cycles, and historical periods, along
with idiomatic and pragmatic ways of expressing temporal relations in
medieval discourse. Beyond grammar and lexicon, time can also be
explored through sound and prosody (vowel and consonant length,
prosodic timing, rhythm in verse), diachronic change in timing
contrasts, as well as manuscript evidence for phonological quantity
and prosody.
Manuscripts themselves offer another perspective, providing visual and
codicological evidence for temporal organisation through calendars,
diagrams, rubrics, and marginal notes that transmit knowledge about
time across cultures and traditions.
We particularly encourage interdisciplinary approaches integrating
linguistic and manuscript evidence, as well as comparative studies
across languages and manuscript traditions.
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit abstracts (Word format) of no more than 300 words
(excluding references) along with a short bio (max 150 words) to
ileana.sasu at univ-tours.fr and oxana.kharlamenko at univ-tours.fr by 15
December 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 25
January 2026.
For any inquiries, please contact Dr. Ileana Sasu
(Ileana.sasu at univ-tours.fr) or Dr. Oxana Kharlamenko
(oxana.kharlamenko at univ-tours.fr).



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