The Tenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 12-14, 2023) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown St. Louis campus of Saint Louis University.
This year, the SMRS warmly invites members of the North American Patristics Society to propose papers, organize individual sessions, or organize coordinated sessions under the broad theme, “The Inheritance Given by Early Christianity to the Middle Ages.” Papers and sessions may focus on influential figures, theological ideas, and religious movements in their own context, especially from the fourth century onward, or in terms of their later reception in the Latin Middles Ages, Byzantium, or other African and eastern Christian traditions of the 6th – 17th centuries.
While attending the Symposium, participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Books Division, and the general collection at Saint Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library. These collections offer access to tens of thousands of medieval and early modern manuscripts on microfilm in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic.
If a sizeable number of NAPS members attend the Symposium, the SMRS organizers are happy to arrange a NAPS luncheon or other social gathering to help facilitate scholarly exchanges among early Christian scholars. Proposals are due December 31, 2022. Please submit via the online submission portal, at https://www.smrs-slu.org/submit.html.