Call for Articles for publication: Spiritual Vegetation

We welcome considerations of transgression, transition, crossover, transformation, and other dynamics, such as:

  • plants as metaphors (metaphorein) or as signa translata,
  • transformations in the long tradition of plants as figures of speech and in narratives
  • the agency of vegetal nature and (inter-)actions with plant
  • heterotopy, heterochronology, heterogenous vegetation
  • or tensions between:
    • novelty and tradition
    • consolidation and innovation
    • abstraction and concreteness
    • delicacy and opulence
    • beauty and horror or disgust
    • perishability and imperishability
    • aesthetic intensity, religious ebriety, and sobriety
    • obsession, irrationality and rationality
    • magnitude, splendour, and humility
    • marginality, periphery, and centrality
    • meaning and ornament
    • religious and profane codes

Submission Instructions

Contributions are welcome in English or German from any arts and humanities discipline focusing on the medieval or early modern eras for chapters of around 8,000 words. Potential contributors are encouraged to first submit an expression of interest with a brief bio and an abstract of 500 to 800 words by December 1 2017.