They emerged from archives around the world, let their eyes adjust to the daylight, and then headed for Kalamazoo. Some 3,000 medieval scholars gathered at Western Michigan University early in May for the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies. For four days, the group discussed and debated every aspect of the Middle Ages (roughly 800-1500AD). Some 1,800 papers were presented. The presence on the souvenir stalls of Ovidian t-shirts (much too early) and Shakespearean Christmas-tree ornaments (too late) showed that the organisers accepted no temporal bounds to their work.
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