Workshop on Medieval Hagiographic Collections in Central Europe took place in Stift Klosterneuburg
11/06/2013
A workshop on Medieval Hagiographic Collections in Central Europe/ Mittelalterliche Hagiographische Sammlungen in Zentraleuropa took place in Vienna on 7 June 2013, coorganized by the Project Visions of Community of the University of Vienna and Institut für Mittelalterforschung of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The
aim of the workshop was to present and discuss ongoing research in the
field of medieval hagiography in Central and Eastern Europe as well as
future plans for cooperation, bringing together representatives of
several projects based in Austria. Kateřina Horníčková, member of the Austrian team from the Institut für Realienkunde, represented our project with a contribution Seeing Saints: From Symbolic Communication to Visualising Narratives.
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for Medieval Studies of the
University of Leeds
Visions of Community
at the
International Medieval Congress 2013
VISCOM Sessions |
Associated Sessions
In 2013, VISCOM will have a large
presence at the
International Medieval Congress, which takes place from 1-4 July,
and is organized by the Institute
for Medieval Studies of the
University of Leeds. In the course of this VISCOM
Session Strand, on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 July, the Junior and Senior
members of VISCOM, as well as a great number of invited guests, will
present papers on a wide variety of topics, showcasing both the
diversity and the internal coherence of the Project, as well as its
emphasis on comparative approaches to the Middle Ages.
110:
Visions of Community I: After the End of Ancient Christianity -
The Reconfiguration of Late Antique Topographies in Merovingian
Historiography and Hagiography
Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University) – The Merovingian six
book-version of Gregory of Tours’ Histories and the creation of new
Spielrδume for the spiritual topography of Gaul
Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) – A Contest at Brioude:
Hagiography after Gregory of Tours
Gordon Blennemann (DHI Paris/Universitδt Erlangen-Nόrnberg) –
The Creation of Martyrs in Early Medieval Burgundy: King Sigismund
as Archetype?
Moderator:
Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
As Christendom had consolidated its foothold in the
hearts and minds of the peoples in Western Europe, and the political
influence of the Roman Empire was gradually fading from view, the new
intellectual elite, consisting mainly of ecclesiastical officials who
had imposed themselves on the legacy of Rome, went at lengths to
reconfigure the spiritual landscape of the lands they had inherited.
Chief among these authors, as Helmut Reimitz will argue, was the
sixth-century bishop Gregory of Tours, whose Histories perhaps most
clearly reflects these shifts and the subsequent search for new
boundaries – both real and spiritual. Building on this paper, Jamie
Kreiner will then look at the cult of Saint Julian to demonstrate how
this process continued in hagiographical narratives produced in the
seventh century, which both adopted and challenged Gregory's
topographies. Finally, Gordon Blennemann will show how the two "genres"
would essentially overlap by focusing on the Passio Sancti Sigismundi
regis, a strikingly dyadic text in which a Burgundian origo gentis is
combined with the life of this saintly king. As such, all three papers
focus not only on narrative references to the Roman and Biblical past,
but also try to situate these within the specific social and political
context of the production of these texts, as well as to the longue durιe
of hagiographical and historiographical traditions.
210:
Visions of Community II: Related Narratives, Entangled
Communities - Strategies of Identification in Central European
Historiography and Hagiography
Christina Lutter (University of Vienna)– Narrating
Community: Methodological Approaches
Bernhard Zeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences) – A Community in
Search of Itself: Sankt Gallen and the Making of Saint Otmar
John Eldevik (Hamilton, NY) – Communities of Violence: Saracens
and Saints in Medieval Bavaria
Martin Haltrich (Klosterneuburg)– The Stories of a Community:
Zwettl and the Magnum Legendarium Austriacum
Moderator:
Steffen Patzold (University of Tόbingen
Whenever a group of people gets together, whenever a
community gradually comes into being, its members inevitably start
reflecting on their own histories and retelling them in terms of how
their lives had become intertwined, and, eventually how their shared
feeling of belonging together had developed. In doing so, they would of
course also take recourse to the previously existing narratives that
inspired them to make their own story one worth relating to, and look to
other communities around them for comparison and inspiration – both
positive and negative. As such, stories developed into narratives and
the people and communities that produced them would develop almost
continuously throughout the ages, feeding off one another and becoming
increasingly intertwined: a fascinating process, which this session
hopes to address more fully. First, Christina Lutter will present an
overview of the methodological issues that arise when one considers the
functions of narrative sources and their uses in the formation and
consolidation of communities. Bernhard Zeller will then focus on a
particular case by showing how the formation, use and and Nachleben of
Saint Otmar in the Carolingian age helped the monastery of Sankt-Gallen
find its own way in history. John Eldevik will then go on to
examine the peculiar tradition of the Passio of the crusading archbishop
Thiemo of Salzburg. As he argues, the images of violence in this work
should not only be seen an example of medieval (mis)perceptions of Islam
as a polytheistic cult, but also were also appropriated for negotiating
conflicts and identities in other contexts, particularly monastic
reform. Finally, Martin Haltrich will then present
the case of the Magnum Legendarium Austriacum, a huge and ostentatious
twelfth-century collection of mostly older, but also some contemporary
saints' lives that may only be found in Austrian libraries, addressing
the observation that not only the composition, but also the copying of
texts could help bring a community together
310:
Visions of Community III: Time and History in the Construction
of Authority
Veronika Wieser (Austrian Academy of Sciences) – The Best
Prophets of the Future: Bishops and Kings in Late Antiquity
Erik
Goosmann (Utrecht University) – From dux Francorum to custos
anserum: Managing Perceptions in Carolingian Historiography: the
Case of Carloman's Conversion (747)
Graeme
Ward (University of Cambridge) – (Re)sources of
Authority in Frechulf of Lisieux's Histories
Moderator:
Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University)
This session revolves around the question to what
extent time, history and authority interact in the historiographical
output of late antiquity and the early middle ages. On the one hand, it
was often implied that authority was often found in the past – be it to
establish the political power of a dynasty aspiring, or to have the last
word on a theological issues. On the other hand, however, the
progression of time itself could factor into this equation as well,
changing the status of certain historical actors as their presence
became increasingly subject to (carefully managed) perceptions. Starting
in Late Antiquity, Veronika Wieser will show one curious aspect of this,
by showing how images of the future also became ever more authoritative
as their age increased. This observation is then taken up by Erik
Goosmann, who will demonstrate that not only intellectual phenomena, but
also controversial figures such as Carloman could be used by Carolingian
historiographers, who can be shown to have been very astute managers of
their dynasty's sometimes turbulent past indeed. Graeme Ward will then
turn these questions around, by focusing on the relationship between
textual authority and ideas of rulership as seen through the eyes of
Frechulf of Lisieux, for whom ancient texts both were invested with
special qualities and packed full of examples which aimed at shaping the
morals of more contemporary actors.
510:
Visions of Community IV: Urban Communities in Late Medieval
Central Europe, 1350-1550 – Regions
Michaela Malanikovα (Masaryk University Brno) – South Moravian
Urban Communities within the Corona regni Bohemiae in the Late
Middle Ages
Judit Majorossy (CEU Budapest) – Urban Communities and Their
Networks in the Western Part of Late Medieval Hungary
Niels Petersen
(University of Gφttingen) – Salt, Money, Politics: The Sόlfmeister
of Lόneburg as a Leading Group in the City and Duchy of Brunswick
and Lόneburg
Christian Opitz (University of Vienna – The Dominican
Communities of Konstanz and the Many Faces of Saint John
Moderator:
Elisabeth Gruber (University of Vienna) During the late Middle Ages, a number of cities
located in the duchy of Austria, the kingdom of Bohemia including
Moravia, as well as the West-Hungarian region represented relevant nodes
in terms of infrastructure, knowledge, political influence and
administration, and thus played an important role within economic,
political and cultural relations in Central Europe. The main issue of
this session is to describe the influence exerted by these cities when
shaping and structuring the specific regions to obtain a comprehensive
picture of the reasons for their importance and, more specifically, of
the role of various social groups in an urban context.
610:
Visions of Community V: Urban Communities in Late Medieval
Central Europe, 1350-1550 – Relations
Elisabeth Gruber (University of Vienna) – Trust is Good –
Kinship is Better: Kinship Relations among Late-Medieval Urban
Elites in the Duchy of Austria
Karoly Goda (Mόnster University) – A Self-Made Community?
Eucharistic Fraternities in Medieval Vienna and Beyond
Maria Theisen (University of Vienna) – Creating Infrastructure
for Crafts and Arts in the City of Prague During the Late 14th
Century: the Noble, the Church and the Urban Community
Response:
Simon Teuscher (University of Zόrich)
Moderator:
Christina Lutter (University of Vienna) Social relations in late medieval cities are intra-
and interurban and manifest themselves in terms of kinship related,
legal, institutional and economic aspects. To reconstruct the interplay
of these elements and their impact on community building different
methodological approaches are required. Analysing urban society as a
social network of differently structured groups can be fruitful
especially in times of social, political or economic change. We will
focus on different social groups, their different forms of interaction
and ask for different patterns of representation in terms of social
heritage, family, affiliation with confraternities, but also age and
gender.
710:
Visions of Community VI: Conflict and Competition
Maria Mair (University of Vienna)– Negotiating Community:
Narratives of Conflict in Late Medieval Vernacular Austrian
Historiography
Fabian Kόmmeler (University of Vienna)– Social Conflict in Rural
Communities in the Southern Dalmatian Areas of Korčula and Split
(1420-1540)
Daniel Mahoney (Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of
Chicago)– The Divisive Formation and Contentious Competition of
Tribal Groups in the Highlands of South Arabia during the Early
Medieval Period
Moderator:
Christina Lutter (University of Vienna) By approaching conflict as a social practice that
helps shape communities, the groups involved and their motivations may
be interpreted as reflecting a wider picture of political competition in
a specific historical context. Using comparative examples from both
medieval Europe and Asia, this session will explore the ways social
conflict appears explicitly and implicitly in a variety of media such as
historiographical narratives, court records, wall paintings, and even
geographical descriptions. Additionally, it will demonstrate how these
accounts of conflict may be used to indicate the social tensions of both
the original context of the conflict itself and the period when it was
recorded or retold. To that end, Maria Mair will look at how authors of
Austrian vernacular verse chronicles in the late 13th century used
conflict narratives to establish and reinforce the political position of
their own social groups and to discuss concepts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’
community. Fabian Kόmmeler will then examine the role of conflicts in
the everyday life of rural communities in late medieval Dalmatia on the
basis of court records using pastoral nomads acting in confrontation
with their urban, patrician, and rural counterparts as an example.
Finally, Daniel Mahoney will look at the political competition and
conflict within the tribal community of highland South Arabia as
manifested in the genealogies, geographies, and anecdotes found in texts
of the early medieval period.
810:
Visions of Community VII: Enclaves of Learning - Religion,
Ideologies, and Practices in Europe, Arabia, and Tibet
Rutger Kramer (Austrian Academy of Sciences/Utrecht University) –
Monks on the Via Regia? Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel between Ideal and
Reality
Eirik Hovden (Austrian Academy of Sciences)– Managers of
Knowledge: Hijras and Madrasas in medieval South Arabia
Mathias
Fermer – (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Enlightened Activities
of Buddhist Masters: The Religious Establishment(s) of the Sakya
School in Southern Central Tibet
Moderator:
Walter Pohl (Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Vienna) In all major religions, communities may be found that
exist for the purpose of safeguarding the knowledge and propagating the
practices upon which the culture they operated in were founded – from
the monasteries that dotted the religious landscape of the Christian
west, to the the Sakya institutions of Tibetan Buddhism, and the hijras
and madrasas in South Arabia. These communities all had a central place
in their respective societies, but were also kept isolated in order to
guard the knowledge they keep against outside contamination. In reality,
however, they all also interacted with the world around them, and
depended upon its secular wealth as much as the world depended on their
spiritual prowess. In spite of these apparent similarities in the
social, religious and economic functions of such communities, it has
proven to be surprisingly difficult to find a definition that fits all
of them, due to the fact that there are also major differences between
them – differences that only become apparent when they are looked at in
a comparative context. This session aims to do just that. First, Rutger
Kramer will provide a backdrop by presenting a vision of monastic
communities described by the Carolingian abbot Smaragdus, who thus
simultaneously fulfilled the roles of participant and observer in the
monastic world of the turbulent early ninth century. Eirik Hovden will
then showcase a specific type of enclave existing in Yemen, the hijras,
and show how they had found a peculiar balance between their religious
heritage and the wide array of social and economic responsibilities they
also carried. Finally, moving further eastwards, Mathias Fermer will
present the way the activities of the spiritual masters of the Sakya
sect of Tibetan Buddhism provided a blueprint for monastic life that
also is both strikingly similar and surprisingly different from the
European situation. In all cases, however, these enclaves of learning
were shaped as much by the needs of the community around them as by
forces operating from within, and by analysing the interplay between
these, surprising observations are brought to light.
Associated Sessions
Below, you will find a list of sessions organized by researchers or
projects associated with VISCOM. 103:
New Research in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism 203:
Neglected Texts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism
Organization:
Network for the Study of Late Antique & Early Medieval Monasticism
824:
The Growth of Religious Reform Movements in Late Medieval Central and
Eastern Europe: Contexts and Comparisons
1003:
Being Roman after Rome I
1103:
Being Roman after Rome II
Organization: ERC Advanced
Grant: Social Cohesion, Identity & Religion in Europe (SCIRE)
1010:
Texts and Identities I: Governing the Body - Governing the Soul:
Christianity and Society in the Carolingian Period
1110:
Texts and Identities II:
Early Medieval Episcopal Self-Fashioning
1210:
Texts and Identities III:
Organising Knowledge and Constructing
Communities
1310:
Texts and Identities IV:
Violence, Legitimacy, and Identity during the
Transformation of the Roman World
1510:
Texts and Identities V:
The Merovingians and Their Past
1610:
Texts and Identities VI:
Barbarians, Arians, and Other Monsters
1710:
Texts and Identities VII:
Defining Community in Early Medieval Kingdoms - Theory and Practice 1203:
The Rules of Debate in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages I
1303:
The Rules of Debate in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages II 1503:
The Reign of Louis the Pious and the Productivity of an Empire I:
High
Fidelity
1603:
The Reign of Louis the Pious and the Productivity of an Empire II:
The Return of the King
Organization:
Rutger Kramer (project: Hludowicus: Die Produktivitδt einer
Krise/La Productivitι d'une Crise)
The Stephen and Catherine Pappas Patristic Institute of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is pleased to announce its annual thematic conference on "Family and Children in the Patristic Tradition", which will be held next Fall on the school's campus in Brookline, Massachusetts beginning Thursday evening, October 13, and ending with dinner on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
The Conference Theme: Children play a surprising role in several of the narratives in the canonical gospels. They are even viewed by Jesus as paradigmatic of the Kingdom of God, -"to such as these the Kingdom of Heaven belongs" (Mat 19:14). In other writings of the New Testament, and in the later patristic corpus, the treatment of children is more varied and complex, including shared viewpoints with the Graeco-Roman culture. The purpose of our conference is to engage those patristic writings, Greek, Latin, and Syriac, that treat the subjects of family and children; we will seek to examine both theological and socio-historical treatments of the family and children, attempting to deal with any gaps between the theoretical and the historical. Paper proposals that examine the use of "family" and "children" as metaphors will also be welcomed, including those treating monasticism.
If you would be interested in presenting a paper related to the topic of the conference (approximately 20 minutes in length), please submit a one-to-two paragraph abstract of your paper between December 15, 2010 and February 15, 2011. Abstracts should: 1) present a clear thesis; 2) indicate knowledge of the sources; 3) show awareness of relevant methodological, historiographical, or philosophical issues; and 4) treat subject matter that falls within the parameters of Late Ancient and Patristic Studies. Please send your abstract, registration, or any inquiries, to Dr. Bruce Beck, Director, Pappas Patristic Institute (pappaspatristic@comcast.net). All papers will be considered for publication in our series Holy Cross Studies in patristic Theology and History published annually by Baker Academic.
Please register at your convenience by email to Dr. Bruce Beck at pappaspatristic@comcast.net, with your name, institutional affiliation, address, and phone number. There is a $125 registration fee, which also includes all the meals and breaks during the conference. This fee is payable upon check-in. The registration fee for students is $40.00. The registration fee is waived for those presenting a paper. The conference hotel is the Sheraton of Needham. Shuttle service will be provided between the conference hotel and the campus.
Funded in 2003 by a generous grant from the late Stephen Pappas and his wife Catherine, the goal of the Pappas Patristic Institute is the advancement and promotion of primarily eastern patristic studies and education in the service of the academy and the Church.
Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond
Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1, 2011
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4–5 June 2010. "Litterature et folklore dans le recit medieval," an international colloquium to be held in Budapest, Hungary. Le Centre Interuniversitaire d'Études Françaises et le Département d'Études Françaises de l'Université ELTE, avec le concours de l'Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, se proposent d'organiser un colloque international de Littérature française du Moyen Age, dont le thème sera la reprise et l'adaptation de motifs folkloriques dans le récit médiéval.
La littérature de l'Europe médiévale, savante ou moins savante, religieuse ou laïque, "vaine et plaisante" ou édifiante, entretient des rapports étroits avec le folklore, dont on pourrait dire qu'il l'irrigue profondément. Des personnages surnaturels, fées, géants, monstres divers, mais encore des scénarios d'origine folklorique sont entrés de plein droit ou subrepticement dans le récit littéraire médiéval.
Ce colloque s'intéresse non à élucider les sources folkloriques de tel ou tel texte mais à retracer le cheminement complexe des motifs. Il s'agira d'examiner comment un motif folklorique est repris et adapté dans des contextes littéraires variés. On pourra suivre par exemple le transfert et l'évolution d'un motif d'une culture ou d'une langue à une autre; ou à l'intérieur de la même aire linguistique, l'adaptation d'un même motif folklorique en vers et en prose, d'un siècle à un autre (début du moyen âge/ fin du moyen âge), d'un genre à l'autre (roman/ hagiographie/ épopée...).
UNIVERSITÉ EÖTVÖS LORÁND, CENTRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE D'ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES, DÉPARTEMENT D'ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES, H-1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 4/f., Hungary (+36-1-485-52-74; fax: +36-1-485-52-75; cief@ludens.elte.hu)
4–6 June 2010. "Displaying Word and Image," the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI) Focus Conference, at the University of Ulster, School of Art and Design, Belfast, U.K. This conference will bring together word and image, as well as literary scholarship, art history and theory, art practice, curatorial practice, museology, and visual culture, in order to address the interrelationship between word & image and display.
Relevant questions will be, e.g., how does the art exhibition function as mediator of literature? Which approaches to Word and Image are specific to curators or museum practitioners? How do Word and Image studies theorize, inform or imply display? We also wish to investigate the use of text/writing in and surrounding exhibitions, and the semiotics of museums' visual identities. How do competencies interact in the tri-disciplinary field between (1) art/art history/theory, (2) museum studies/curatorial practice and (3) literary studies? How are competencies acquired, and how do policies and funding structures enable work in this field?
We seek with this conference to (in)form a network that will investigate literary art exhibitions and work on relevant outputs. A publication on the conference theme is being planned.
Contact: Dr Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (m.lermhayes@ulster.ac.uk) or Dr Karen Brown (karen.brown@ucd.ie).
5 June 2010. "Imagining Inquisition in Medieval England" to be held at Queen Mary College, London. Inquisitio (‘inquiry’, ‘investigation’) in the later medieval period was one means of investigating crime in general and heresy in particular. Scholarship on medieval inquisition, ranging from Edward Peters’s, Inquisition (1989), to John Arnold’s Inquisition and Power (2001) and Christine Caldwell Ames’s Righteous Persecution (2009), has done much to illuminate its role in continental Europe, not only in combating heresy but also in shaping individuals and communities. However, the place of inquisition in England has not been so clearly established. As has often been noted by historians of the Middle Ages, England occupied a unique position in relation to ecclesiastical developments in medieval Europe, being somewhat outside the immediate influence of Rome and the continent. Our aim is to investigate the role of inquisitio in medieval England and the medieval English imagination, not only by exploring inquisition’s specific legal and pastoral applications, but by examining its more general role as a dialogic mode of inquiry and means of discerning truth. This workshop, which is part of a research project on inquisition and confession in medieval England, is an opportunity to reconsider the standard history and role of inquisitio in medieval England and to explore it not merely as part of a developing ‘Inquisition’ but as part of a broader development in the medieval English consciousness.
Call for papers: We particularly welcome interdisciplinary proposals that address the following questions:
• How do both the historical practice and the constructed idea of inquisition in England differ from those in continental Europe during this period?
• Where are inquisitional discourses located? What are the sources for inquisitional discourse outside of the context of heresy, and in fictional contexts in particular?
• How is inquisition imagined? Can we make claims (as we have for confession) for the role of inquisition in a) creating a sense of self, and b) for generating poetry in later medieval England? What impact do legal and pastoral developments have on fictional inquisition and on literary activity?
• How is the relationship between inquisition and truth imagined in medieval English literature, law, and pastoralia?
• What is the extent of the role of inquisition in legal and pastoral contexts in medieval England? What are its goals? How do they differ from and/or collapse into those of confession?
• Are there medieval roots to the post-medieval concept of "The Inquisition"? To what extent does this concept differ (if at all) from medieval discourses and ideas concerning inquisition?
Proposals for papers should be sent to Mary Flannery (m.flannery@qmul.ac.uk) or Katie Walter (katie.walter@rub.de) by 15 January 2010.
8 June 2010. "Late Medieval Episcopal Humanism," in the Queen Mary Seminar series, at Queen Mary College, London.
Professor Andrew Cole (Princeton), will talk on 'Acting on Advice: Scenes of Episcopal Humanism in the work of Thomas Chaundler'. Andrew Cole is the author of Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer and the forthcoming From Modern to Medieval: Hegel, the Dialectic and Other Stories. He also co-edited the forthcoming book The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory and is co-editor of The Yearbook of Langland Studies. He is spending spring 2010 at All Souls in Oxford.
There will be responses from Dr Warren Boutcher (QM), Professor Virginia Davis (QM), and Dr Daniel Wakelin (Cambridge), as a prelude to further questions and discussion. The seminar will be followed by a wine reception.
Queen Mary contacts: Professor Miri Rubin, History (m.e.rubin@qmul.ac.uk) Professor Julia Boffey, English (j.boffey@qmul.ac.uk)
10–12 June 2010. "Studium Conference: Sacred Space, Sacred Memory: Bishop-Saints and their Cities," an international conference to be held in Tours, France. The keynote speaker will be Maureen Miller (Univ. of California Berkeley).
The history of many European cities was shaped by one or more saintly figures whose ties to the city—real or imagined—had both spiritual and tangible consequences. The topography of the city, its economy, its institutions, its liturgy, its reputation, and even its inhabitants’ sense of civic pride, could all be shaped by and were dependent upon an idiosyncratic understanding of the saint’s association with the city. The figure of the bishop-saint, moreover, bestowed with extraordinary spiritual and temporal prerogatives, represents a distinctive type which this conference seeks to address. What was his impact on religious, political, and cultural practices and institutions in a given city? What are some of the privileges associated with promoting his cult? In what ways do local claims on the bishop-saint evince tensions on a regional/national level or between elites and the masses? Possible perspectives on these and other related issues may include, but are not restricted to, liturgy, music, hagiography, art history, theology, history, and paleography.
Call for papers: The conference organizers are soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Conference, and are inviting scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to offer their perspectives on issues coinciding with the Conference’s theme. Ideally, papers will deal with different parts of Europe and address periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. Abstracts in French or English of 300 words or less for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed no later than 30 January, 2010. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (reduced for students and post-docs). Contact: Christine Bousquet (Christine.bousquet@univ-tours.fr) or Yossi Maurey (ymaurey@mscc.huji.ac.il).
10–13 June 2010. "Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ," at Queen's University, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The culmination of the AHRC-funded "Geographies of Orthodoxy" project, the "Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ" conference hosts leading international scholars who will be exploring all aspects of late medieval Christological piety, with a particular emphasis on the cultural manifestations of the pseudo-Bonaventuran tradition, in a variety of European contexts. Registration for the conference is now open and a draft programme is online (http://www.qub.ac.uk/geographies-of-orthodoxy/discuss/conference-mapping-late-medieval-lives-of-christ/).
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16–17 June 2010. "The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching And Research," the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches - Ordinateurs et Textes), will be held at Barnard College, Columbia University New York. This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Plenary speakers: David Trotter (Aberystwyth University, Wales) and John Unsworth (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) For full program information and registration see the conference website (http://margot.uwaterloo.ca/DMAConference/index.html).
18–19 June 2010. "Rethinking Medieval Liturgy: New Approaches across Disciplines," in London. The workshop will take place in London at the Lock-keepers Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS.
The study of medieval liturgy has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. As the lines between various kinds of cultural studies have become increasingly blurred, musicologists, art historians, literary scholars, and historians have realised its centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental insights into the experience of worship and devotion in the middle ages, as the medium through which religious ideas were transmitted. There is now a need, we believe, to find coherent expression and a voice for the emerging generation of students of the liturgy, by breaking institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing so-called para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and sermons, as well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical contexts.
To this purpose, we are holding a two-day international workshop for post-graduate students from a variety of disciplines on the subject of medieval liturgy. It will include a training session in recent developments of liturgical studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan Boynton of the Department of Music at Columbia University.
Call for papers: Proposals are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have recently finished their post-graduate studies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theories of ritual and their application to medieval liturgy
- Musicology and music history
- Art and architecture as related to liturgy
- Worship and devotion as cultural phenomena
- Liturgy in the history of religious institutions
- Christianization and reform
- Liturgy and material culture - The social role of liturgy
- Hagiography, sermons and drama in their liturgical contexts
- Manuscripts and the representation of liturgical texts
Papers will be 20 min. in length. Individual paper proposals (papers and proposals should be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should be sent by 1 March 2010 to: Kati Ihnat, Queen Mary, University of London (kati_ihnat@yahoo.ca) or Erik Niblaeus, Kings College London (erik.niblaeus@kcl.ac.uk).
18–19 June 2010. "Studies in Cotton Nero A X (the Gawain-Manuscript)," the 10th Annual Summer Conference organized by LOMERS (London Old and Middle English Research Seminar).
Speakers will include Alcuin Blamires, Helen Cooper, Tony Davenport, Rosalind Field, Susanna Fein, Julian Harrison, Derek Pearsall, Ad Putter
Call for papers: Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers on relevant topics such as: Workshop, Palaeography; Codicology; Patronage; Reception; History and Context; Texts; Illustrations; Authorship(s); Literary Contexts; Textual Editing . . . Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words by the end of February to Ruth Kennedy (r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk).
Proceedings will be edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon Meecham-Jones. For previous proceedings see: http://us.macmillan.com/author/ruthkennedy.
18–19 June 2010. "Rethinking Medieval Liturgy: New Approaches across Disciplines," in London. The workshop will take place in London at the Lock-keepers Cottage, Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, from Friday June 18 (10am) to Saturday June 19 (5pm) 2010. Application for AHRC funding pending.
The study of medieval liturgy has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. As the lines between various kinds of cultural studies have become increasingly blurred, musicologists, art historians, literary scholars, and historians have realised its centrality and importance. Liturgy provides fundamental insights into the experience of worship and devotion in the middle ages, as the medium through which religious ideas were transmitted. There is now a need, we believe, to find coherent expression and a voice for the emerging generation of students of the liturgy, by breaking institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and by bringing so-called para-liturgical genres, such as drama, hagiography, and sermons, as well as art and architecture, back into their liturgical contexts.
To this purpose, we are holding a two-day international workshop for post-graduate students from a variety of disciplines on the subject of medieval liturgy. It will include a training session in recent developments of liturgical studies, led by acclaimed professor Susan Boynton of the Department of Music at Columbia University. Call for papers: Proposals are invited from researchers who are engaged in or have recently finished their post-graduate studies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theories of ritual and their application to medieval liturgy
- Musicology and music history - Art and architecture as related to liturgy
- Worship and devotion as cultural phenomena
- Liturgy in the history of religious institutions
- Christianization and reform
- Liturgy and material culture
- The social role of liturgy
- Hagiography, sermons and drama in their liturgical contexts
- Manuscripts and the representation of liturgical texts
Papers will be 20 min. in length. Individual paper proposals (papers and proposals should be in English) to a maximum of 300 words should be sent by 1 March, 2010 to: Kati Ihnat, Queen Mary, University of London (kati_ihnat@yahoo.ca) or Erik Niblaeus, Kings College London (erik.niblaeus@kcl.ac.uk).
23–27 June 2010. "Perceptions of Place: English place-name study and regional variety," an international conference to be held in association with the English Place-Name Society at the Institute for Name-Studies, University of Nottingham, in England.
Speakers include:
• Professor Thomas Clancy (Glasgow) on English place-names in the Scottish border region
• Professor Richard Coates (UWE) on place-names and linguistics
• Professor Klaus Dietz (Freie Universität Berlin) on place-names and English historical dialectology
• Professor Gillian Fellows-Jensen (Copenhagen) on the Scandinavian background to English place-names
• Professor Carole Hough (Glasgow) on women in English place-names
• Professor John Insley (Heidelberg) on personal names in place-names
• Dr Kay Muir (Northern Ireland Place-Name Project) on English place-names in Ireland
• Dr Oliver Padel (EPNS president) on the Celtic element in English place-names
• Dr Matthew Townend (York) on the Scandinavian element in English place-names
Contact: Perceptions of Place, Institute for Name-Studies, School of English, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD (rebecca.peck@nottingham.ac.uk). Further details on arrangements and costs will be available on the conference website (http://ww.nottingham.ac.uk/english/ins/).
24–26 June 2010. "Translatio," the 7th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris (IMS), in collaboration with the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP).
Keynote speakers: Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania, and Serge Lusignan, Université de Montréal & LAMOP.
The medieval term translatio brings into contact linguistic, material, and cultural fields. It was attached to a group of related concepts: the physical displacement of objects, the rewriting of a text in a new language, or the transfer of meaning proper to metaphor. Eventually, writers of the Latin West began to employ the concepts of translatio studii et imperii in an attempt to define their conflicted relationship with the authority and learning of Classical, Muslim, and Byzantine cultures; the term thus expressed their understanding of cultural contact and exchange. Recent work has shown how these various iterations of translatio can indicate complex acts of cultural negotiation or appropriation, which repositioneded the opposing forces of old and new, the other and the self.
The present symposium will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines, in order to study the various modes and meanings of translatio. Papers might address such topics as: the adaptation of texts from one language into another in literary or musical sources; the transfer of themes from one medium to another (among, for example, texts, music, painting, sculpture, or textiles); the use of spolia in building or orfèvrerie; the translation of relics; the exploitation of Classical themes or narratives by medieval political figures or historiographers; the controversies over Biblical translation; the function of translatio as metaphor in religious or secular writing; the appropriation of words from one language into another.
Call for papers: The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Symposium, which will explore the practice and function of translatio in medieval France. The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting abstracts for individual papers and proposals for complete sessions for its 2010 Symposium, which will explore the practice and function of translatio in medieval France. Papers should address France, Francia, or post-Roman Gaul in some way, but they need not be exclusively limited to this geographic area.
We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to: Anthropology * Archaeology * Art History * Classical Studies * Comparative Literature * Gender Studies * History * History of Medicine * History of Science * Linguistics * Literary Studies * Musicology * Philosophy * Religious Studies * Theology * Urban Studies. Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper should be e-mailed to contact@ims-paris.org no later than 1 February 2010. In addition to the abstract, please submit full contact information, a CV, and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual equipment required for your presentation.
The IMS will review submissions and respond via e-mail by 15 February 2010. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS website. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students). The registration fee will be waived for IMS members. The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English) organization founded to serve as a center for medievalists who research, work, study, or travel to France. For more information about the IMS and the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see our website: www.ims-paris.org.
28–30 June 2010. "Orthodox Constructions of the West," a conference hosted by the Christian Orthodox Studies program at Fordham University, and co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, at the Rose Hill campus. Contact George Demacopoulos (demacopoulos@fordham.edu) or Aristotle Papanilolaou (papanilolaou@fordham.edu).
8–10 July 2010, "Central Asian Islamic Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections," the Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference, organized by the Islamic Manuscript Association, will be held at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, England. The Conference will be hosted by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge.
Call for papers: The Association invites the submission of abstracts on topics related to the study of Islamic manuscripts—particularly codicology—and the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections. Preference will be shown to submissions pertaining to the Conference's theme. The Conference will be organised around the Association's four key working areas: cataloguing, conservation, digitisation, and research and publishing; and papers falling into these broad categories will be included in the relevant panel. The Association will also consider submissions on topics that do not fall directly under the purviews of the working groups but are yet concerned with scholarship on Islamic manuscripts or the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections. Please note that the total number of papers accepted will not exceed 25 and that preference will be given to speakers who have not presented papers at the Association's previous conferences.
The invitation is open to members and non-members of the Association. The languages of the Conference will be Arabic and English and submissions will be accepted in both languages. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2010. Late submissions will not be considered. The duration of each conference paper is 30 minutes inclusive of 10 minutes of questions and answers.
Please send an abstract of 500 words, a resume, and the cover sheet (available at http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2010conference/CallForPapers.html) to the Association's Executive Committee: The Islamic Manuscript Association Ltd, c/o 33 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QY, United Kingdom (fax: +44 (0)1223 302 218; ima@islamicmanuscript.org; http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/conferences/2010conference/SixthIslamicManuscriptConference.htm).
12–14 July, 2010. "Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible," a conference hosted by the Centre for the History of the Book, at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
At the beginning of the thirteenth century a new type of Bible emerged from Paris and southern England and spread rapidly throughout Western Europe. Innovations in script and parchment enabled the creation of single-volume Bibles, some of which could easily fit a modern pocket; other features, such as the modern chapter division, introduced unprecedented ease of usage. These Bibles became the template for Gutenberg's celebrated 42-line version and have had an influence on printed Bibles ever since. Today, hundreds of these manuscripts survive, bearing witness to one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. The ubiquity of these Bibles has only recently been met by scholarly interest, and questions remain regarding their evolution as well as their place within the medieval university, pulpit and priory.
The conference will bring together experts in medieval liturgy and sermons, art, religion and manuscripts, to examine the material culture of the Late Medieval Bible and its setting. Presentations, discussions and two workshops would draw on the wealth of manuscripts in the University Library and the NLS in analysing variants of text and layout, imagery and addenda. Speakers will include: • Nicole Bériou (Université Lumière Lyon 2) • Laura Light (Independent Scholar, Boston) • John Lowden (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) • Eyal Poleg (CHB, University of Edinburgh) • Diane J. Reilly (Indiana University, Bloomington) • Paul Saenger (The Newberry Library, Chicago) • Paul Antonio (Calligrapher, London).
Call for papers: Papers are invited on any aspect of the late medieval Bible (c.1230–c.1450) and its place within medieval religion, culture and society; sessions will address the evolution of the late medieval Bible, its layout, addenda and art, as well as its connection to exegesis, preaching and liturgy. Proposals (up to 300 words) should be e-mailed to L.M.B@ed.ac.uk or sent to the Centre for the History of the Book, 22a Buccleuch Place, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LN, Scotland, by December 20.
A small number of postgraduate bursaries will be made available towards defraying costs of travel and registration. The date of the conference is planned to enable attendees to take part in the CHB's Material Cultures 2010 conference, 16–18 July.
12–15 July 2010. The 17th International Medieval Congress (IMC) will be held at Leeds, England. Contact: International Medieval Congress Administration, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Bldg. 1.03, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (+44-113-343-3614; fax: +44-113-343-3616; imc@leeds.ac.uk; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc).
15–19 July 2010. The Seventeenth Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society will take place in Siena, Italy, in 2010. In keeping with the suggestions made at the 2003 Glasgow Congress, there is no single theme for the Congress. The overall structure reflects areas of inquiry that emerged from members' initial proposals for sessions. Sessions will consequently follow several threads: Chaucerian Temporalities; Medievalisms; Found in Translation: Italy and England in the Age of Chaucer; Transnationalism; Insular Multilingualisms; Political Languages; Visual Cultures; Religious Practice, Institutions, and Theology: Chaucerian Contexts; Bodies; Animal Discourses; Philosophy and Science; and Manuscripts and Printed Books. In addition, there will be a number of non-aligned panels and sessions, and several plenary sessions.
Call for papers: paper sessions will comprise three or four fifteen-minute papers. At least one paper will be given by a graduate student or research student. Panel sessions will comprise seven or eight five-minute presentations. For both paper and panel sessions, organizers will enforce time limits to allow for discussion.
The NCS Constitution requires that Congress participants (except for invited speakers from other fields) be members with their dues paid. We encourage you to share information about the Congress with other interested people who may not be NCS members at present—graduate students, new colleagues, and others working outside the field who may find sessions related to their specialisms. (Graduate students and research students may join NCS at a reduced membership rate.) Finally, a tight limit has been set on prior invitations to participate in any session. The overwhelming majority of participants in the Congress will be those who respond to this call.
NCS members who wish to give papers or participate in panels at the Congress should send a one-paragraph abstract to the organizer(s), to arrive before 15 July 2009, preferably at the e-mail addresses given below in the session description. Please indicate any specific audio-visual needs. Session organizers will select papers and panels soon afterwards, in consultation with the Program Chairs. The Program Committee will form additional sessions as interests arise. Names of Congress participants will be announced in an upcoming Chaucer Newsletter. Members may apply to participate in more than one session, but they may finally take part in only one.
The program committee is composed of Thomas Hahn (Chair), Marion Turner, David Wallace, Jessica Brantley, Orietta Da Rold, and Stefania D'Agata D'Ottavi (Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee) with Richard Firth Green (NCS President) and David Lawton (NCS Executive Director) ex officio. For more information, visit the NCS website (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~chaucer/congress/congress2010call.php).
17–19 July 2010. "Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles," the second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS) will be held at the University of Cambridge. The new symposium will comprise keynote addresses, panel discussions, a tour of Cambridge College Libraries, formal conference dinner, publications fair and wine reception. Refreshments and lunches are provided for conference guests and college accommodation is available. As on the previous occasion, a limited number of small bursaries will be awarded.
Call for papers: the organizers are accepting proposals from scholars in the disciplines including but not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. Topics for discussion could include:
-Kingship and queenship, earls and ealdormen;
-Abbots and abbesses, monks and nuns;
- Ecclesiastical and secular authorities;
- Institutional authority;
- National authority and identity;
- Masculine, feminine, and neuter: linguistic authority;
- Auctors and Auctoritas;
- Textual authority, witnesses, and scribal traditions;
- Kinglists and genealogies;
- Nuns in the scriptorium;
- Female voices, male scribes—authority and authorship;
-Gender and legal practices;
- Moral authority;
- Ritual and authority;
Establishment of authority: feuds, force, and warfare;
- The construction of gender in chronicles.
Abstract (of approximately 250 words) are due no later than 15 December 2009. In special cases, papers will be commissioned for publication without presentation at the conference (contact the organisers for more information). Please check the website for regular updates (CambridgeICS@gmail.com; http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/diary/cics/index.html).
19–23 July 2010. "1212–1214: El trienio que hizo a Europa." XXXVII Semana de Estudios Medievales de Estella, at the Palacio de los Reyes de Navarra, in Estella, Spain.
Speakers will be
* Prof. Dr. D. William Chester Jordan University of Princeton
* Prof. Dr. D. Jacques Verger Université de Paris-Sorbonne
* Prof. Dra. Dña. Maria Ginatempo Università degli Studi di Siena
* Prof. Dr. D. Laurent Macé Université de Toulouse
* Prof. Dr. D. José Manuel Nieto Soria Universidad Complutense de Madrid
* Prof. Dr. D. Francisco García Fitz Universidad de Extremadura
* Prof. Dra. Dña. María Joao Branco Universidade Aberta de Lisboa
* Prof. Dr. D. Martín Alvira Cabrer Universidad Complutense de Madrid
* Prof. Dr. D. Pascual Martínez Sopena Universidad de Valladolid
* Prof. Dr. D. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani Università della Svizzera italiana. Lugano
* Prof. Dr. D. Nicholas Vincent University of East Anglia
* Prof. Dra. Dña. Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero Universidad Pública de Navarra
* Prof. Dra. Dña. Monique Bourin Université de Nantes
19–24 July 2010. The 13th Colloquium of SITM (Société internationale pour l'étude du théâtre médiéval) will meet in Giessen, Germany. Papers will be in English, French, or German. Contact: Prof. Dr. Cora Dietl, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Germanistik, Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B, 35394 Gießen, Germany (http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g91159/sitm.htm).
21–24 August 2010. "Music for the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries (1050–1550)," an international conference in Antwerp, Belgium. The conference, supported by the International Musicological Society Study Group "Cantus Planus", will take place during the yearly festival Laus Polyphoniae (Flanders Festival Antwerp), and in close collaboration with the festival program.
The office is the most substantial portion of the liturgy: in all types of communities and services, whether of monastic, cathedral, or courtly signature, it formed a crucial part of their musical culture. Because the Low Countries knew an unprecedented variety of communities and institutions, the contexts in which the office was celebrated in the region were equally varied. Indeed, the wealth of sources for the office from the Low Countries has led many scholars to study selected aspects of the celebration of the office in the region, such as prose or versified historiae, tropes and prosulas, motets composed for Vespers and Salve services, and 'paraliturgical' pieces. The conference sets out to explore the variety of the extant repertory and its sources, by bringing together new research into the music for the office in, or related to, the Low Countries (understood to include Northern France and the Meuse-Rhineland), and studying plainchant as well as polyphony and their interrelations.
Call for papers: Scholars and performers studying chant and/or polyphony from analytical, historical, liturgical, or interdisciplinary perspectives are invited to send proposals of no longer than 350 words to Pieter Mannaerts (pieter.mannaerts@arts.kuleuven.be) before 15 February 2010. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 March 2010. The final conference program will be published around 1 April 2010, on the website of the Alamire Foundation (http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire). A selection of conference papers will be published in the internationally peer-reviewed Journal of the Alamire Foundation in 2012.
23–27 July 2010. "In Principio Fuit Interpres," the international Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, at the Università degli Studi di Padova, in Padua, Italy.
Linguistic and literary traditions include translation in their myth of origin–thus the linguistic and scholar Gianfranco Folena proposed to substitute the motto In principio fuit poëta with the humbler In principio fuit interpres. Following his suggestion, we welcome papers addressing translation in the Middle Ages, marking the relationship between classical, Middle Eastern, and vernacular languages, and studying translation as the representation of ideas and texts in different media.
Plenary speakers: Roger Ellis, Domenico Pezzini, David Wallace.
Contact: Alessandra Petrina and Monica Santini, Dipartimento di Lingue e Lett. Anglo-Germaniche e Slave, Via Beato Pellegrino, 26, 35100 Padua, Italy (or to both: alessandra.petrina@unipd.it and monica.santini@unipd.it).
25–30 July 2010. The Thirteenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS) will take place in Montreal, Canada. The Congress's overarching theme is "Courtly Cultures on the Move," and speakers are especially invited to consider the theme in relation to three areas:
transmission and reception of courtliness;
books and courtly culture; and
languages of courtliness.
The organizers also welcome proposals for thematic sessions organized by individuals or groups.
Call for papers: Please submit a title and a 250-word abstract by 15 December 2009 to the program committee (icls2010@listes.umontreal.ca). Papers may be given in any of the official languages of the ICLS: French, English, or German. All speakers must be members of the ICLS and should indicate their branch affiliation in their abstract. Anyone not yet a member should contact the secretary of the appropriate national branch to join. For more information, see the conference website (http://www.icls2010.ca/en/home.html).
17–19 August 2010. "New techniques for old documents: Scientific examination methods in the service of preservation and book history." The IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and The Rare Books and Manuscripts section invite speakers to present papers for a satellite meeting in conjunction to the IFLA World Library and Information Conference 2010. The satellite conference takes place at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Within this theme we welcome papers on scientific techniques such as DNA, infrared spectroscopy, imaging techniques and micro x-ray fluorescence. All these techniques may be used in conservation treatments and material bibliographic issues such as the determination of animals for leathers, provenance through DNA-analysis, measuring paper strength, examination of pigments and inks for palimpsests and other documents, and ICR - (Intelligent Character recognition) for the recognition of hand-written text. We would like to encourage a multi-disciplinary meeting and therefore, relevant papers from both scientists, conservators, book-historians and others who may add interesting and new knowledge within the overall topic, are welcome to submit abstracts for a paper.
The conference will be a two-day meeting, including social events. Visits are planned for August 19. Please note that speakers will have to cover their own expenses for travel and accommodation. However, IFLA satellite conferences normally attract a worldwide audience with many opportunities for discussions and interesting meetings.
Call for papers: Please send an abstract of no more than 350 words by e-mail only, to Per Culhed (Per.Cullhed@ub.uu.se) and Raphaele Mouren (Raphaele.Mouren@enssib.fr) before 1 March 2010. The submissions will be examined during March and prospective speakers will be notified on 6 April. The abstract should include the following: name of the speaker, institutional affiliation and address, title of the paper, and short biography.
21–24 August 2010. "Music for the Office and Its Sources in the Low Countries (1050–1550)," At the Conference Center Elzenveld, Antwerp, Belgium.
The office is the most substantial portion of the liturgy, and has incited medieval and Renaissance composers to contribute to its musical splendour for at least half a millennium. In all types of communities and services, whether of monastic, cathedral, or courtly signature, the office formed a crucial part of their musical culture. Because the Low Countries knew an unprecedented variety of communities and institutions, the contexts in which the office was celebrated in the region were equally varied. Indeed, the wealth of sources for the office from the Low Countries has led many scholars to study selected aspects of the celebration of the office in the region, such as prose or versified historiae, tropes and prosulas, motets composed for Vespers and Salve services, and 'paraliturgical' pieces.
This conference sets out to explore the variety of the extant repertory and its sources, by bringing together new research into the music for the office in, or related to, the Low Countries (understood to include Northern France and the Meuse-Rhineland), and studying plainchant as well as polyphony and their interrelations.
Scholars and performers studying chant and/or polyphony from analytical, historical, liturgical, or interdisciplinary perspectives are invited to send proposals of no longer than 350 words to before 15 February 2010. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 March 2010. The final conference program will be published around 1 April 2010, on the website of the Alamire Foundation (www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire). The program committee is currently being composed, and will be announced within the coming weeks.
All International Musicological Society languages may be used (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish); the principal conference language will be English.
The conference, supported by the International Musicological Society Study Group "Cantus Planus," will take place during the yearly festival Laus Polyphoniae (Flanders Festival Antwerp), and in close collaboration with the festival program. Participants will have a unique opportunity of hearing concerts related to the conference theme, which will thus include both chant and polyphony from Low Countries sources. A selection of conference papers will be published in the internationally peer-reviewed Journal of the Alamire Foundation in 2012 (www.arts.kuleuven.be/alamire).
Σάββατο 20 Μαρτίου 2010
Events & Conferences
Mediaevalia at the Lilly Library
Lectures and Workshops given by Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Monday, April 26, 2010 at 9:30 A.M. & 2:30 P.M.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 5:00 P.M.
The Lilly Library (1200 East 7th Street)
The speaker for this year's Mediaevalia at the Lilly (April 26–27) will be Dr. Falk Eisermann, director of the Union Catalogue of Incunabula (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke) at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
On Monday, April 26th, Dr. Eisermann will conduct two mini-workshops on how to describe incunables in the Internet Age and on how to work with scholarly research facilities for 15th-century printing available on the internet. The workshops also will present opportunities to work with both original source materials as well as electronic resources. The workshops will be in held in English from 9:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M., and in German from 2:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. The number of participants is limited. Enroll by sending an e-mail to the organizers: Cherry Williams and Hildegard E. Keller.
On Tuesday, April 27th at 5:00 P.M., Dr. Eisermann will give a public lecture, to be held at the Lilly Library. His topic will be: "Secrets of Success: Printers, Patrons, and Audiences in 15th Century Leipzig." A reception will follow the lecture.
The series Mediaevalia at the Lilly Library (directed by Cherry Williams, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly, and Professor Hildegard E. Keller, Department for Germanic Studies) aims to both better exploit and publicize the collection by bringing in established scholars and experts for a lecture and a workshop with hands-on-approach for students and faculty. The series is sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute and the Lilly Library. In seeking to combine lectures with workshops, our goal is to make abstract ideas, as presented in the classroom, concrete by confronting students with the intractable nature of sources and giving them some sense of just how much can be gleaned from handwriting, type, parchment, paper, watermarks, title pages, musical notation, format, decoration, in short, all material aspects of the book over the course of the period stretching from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, i.e., comprehending at the outset the transition from roll to codex and, at the end, the shift from manuscript to print. Flyer for the Event
Urban Allegories: Walter Benjamin and Medieval Temporalities
A lecture by Ethan Knapp, Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 4:30 P.M.
State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union (900 East 7th Street)
This talk revisits the often disembodied history of medieval allegory by returning to Walter Benjamin's famous analysis of the particular modernity of Baudelaire's urban lyricism. Rather than privileging Benjamin's late essay, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," which presents a stark sense of the alterity of the modern, we might instead consider his earlier, and richer, treatment in the Arcades project, a treatment that draws on a persistent parallel between Baudelaire and Dante in order to construct a modernity that cannot be read as a simple chron- ological proposition. The talk will then turn to specific examples of late medieval English allegory in Hoccleve, Langland, and Gower. Flyer for the Event
The Man with the Pale Face, the Relic, and Du Fay's Missa Se la face ay pale
A lecture by Anne Walters Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, University of Chicago
Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:15 P.M.
Ford-Crawford Hall (Simon Building, 200 S. Jordan Ave.)
Professor Anne Walters Robertson writes on subjects ranging from the plainchant of the early church to the Latin and vernacular polyphony of the late middle ages. In her work, liturgical and secular music, and often the interactions of the two, mirror theological and courtly ideas and shape the development of medieval spirituality and personal devotion, architecture, institutional identity, and politics. Her research on fourteenth-century polyphony points to the fundamental roles of local musical dialect in understanding Philippe de Vitry's life and music, and of mystical theology in illuminating the compositions of Guillaume de Machaut. More recently, she has studied the symbolic and folkloric aspects of the seminal masses and motets of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Flyer for the Event Directions to Ford-Crawford Hall
Little Nothings: "The Squire's Tale" and the Ambition of Gadgets
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 4:00 P.M.
Indiana Memorial Union, State Room West
Despite advancements in architecture, optics, philosophy, literature, music, and mechanics, the Middle Ages remains more often associated with conservation than it is with innovation. This paper, part of a larger book-length study of the meaning and reach of medieval accounts of novelty, analyzes one telling example of the altogether ambivalent discourse of the medieval "newfangled." Geoffrey Chaucer's "Squire's Tale," I argue, cross-cuts a fascination with novel technological gadgetry with the fascinations of impossible love, raising for us the promise and problem prompted by wonder in the new and unusual. Flyer for the Event Directions to the Indiana Memorial Union
Σάββατο 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2010
Medieval related Conferences for March 2010
1–2 March 2010. "Seeing Voices," the 6th annual MANCASS postgraduate conference will be held in the historic John Rylands Library, in Manchester, England. How do we evaluate early medieval visual and material cultures? How do we 'see', via art and artefacts, the multivalent voices of the Anglo-Saxon world? This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference aims to explore and interpret the contribution made by Anglo-Saxon artwork and material objects to the various cultural discourses of the era - involving ideas about family, gender, religion and belief, nationhood and identity. It also seeks to address the issue of how the multi-disciplinary voices of researchers in Anglo-Saxon studies can speak effectively to each other.
The conference links with the Toller Memorial lecture and also includes Interdisciplinary Research Master Classes with Prof. Catherine Karkov (University of Leeds) and Prof. Gale Owen-Crocker (University of Manchester). Call for papers: Twenty-minute papers from postgraduate students are invited for submission that explore how we interpret image and object as discursive media. Presentations of research that challenge the discreteness of Anglo-Saxon literature, art and artefact are particularly encouraged. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, to arrive by 18 December 2009. Contact: Melissa Markauskas (melissa.markauskas@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk).
Medieval Association of the Pacific
5–6 March 2010. The annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP), hosted by the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Call for Papers: The Program Committee invites proposals for individual 20-minute papers in any area of medieval studies, as well as organized sessions of three 20-minute papers. Abstracts and session proposals should be submitted using our online system. Just click Submit General Session Abstract or Submit Organized Session Proposal on the MAP home page (http://www.csun.edu/english/map09/). The deadline for abstracts and organized session proposals is 15 October 2009. Conference registration (not yet available) will also work through the MAP web site. Take note: Participants will only be able to register for the conference if they are logged in. That is, they must be fully-paid ("active") members of MAP.
Conference Program
Thursday
Registration and Opening Reception: 5:30-7:00 pm -- Wyatt Hall Atrium
Friday
Registration 8:00 am - 4:00 pm -- Kilworth Chapel Lobby
Coffee Service: 8:00-9:00 am -- Kilworth Chapel Lounge
Session I -- 9:00 - 10:30 am
1. Sacred Portraits, Sacred Images -- Wyatt 109
Chair: Linda Williams, University of Puget Sound
The Imago Pietatis: Origins-Influences-Forms
Ermioni Karachaliou, University of Manchester
Birmingham (U.K), Peckover Gr. 7: A Twelfth Century Greek Gospel Book with Later Additions
Kathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara University
Once Again about the Toufa
Diana Gilliland Wright, Independent Scholar
2. Law and Literacy -- Library Shelmidine Room (290)
Chair: Greta G. Austin, University of Puget Sound
Who Owns the Land? How did we Get it?
John-Hilary Joseph Martin, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
Put in His Place: the Medieval English Attorney at “Home” in 1329
Arlene M Sindelar, University of British Columbia
The Literate Rebels of St Albans in 1381
James Thomas Bennett, The Ohio State University
3. Love and Sexuality -- Library Misner Room (127)
Chair: Henry Ansgar Kelly, UCLA
When I was in my Tender Adolescence: Guibert of Nogent and the Trials of Virginity
Karen Cheatham, University of Toronto/University of Puget Sound
Patterns of Love in the Twelfth Century: the Vision of Aelred of Rievaulx and Marie de France
Elizabeth Walsh, Uiversity of San Diego
The Uncourtly Lovers of Havelok the Dane: A Mirror for Merchants
Jane Alison Minogue, California State University, Northridge
4. Chaucer I: The Clerk's Tale -- Library McCormick Room (303)
Chair: Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
Coming to Terms with the Clerk’s Tale
John M. Fyler, Tufts University
Is Chaucer’s Griselda Immaterial?
Maria Bullon-Fernandez, Seattle University
The Good Griselda
Patricia Rasmussen, Eastern Washington University
5. Silences and Gaps: The Missing Monsters -- Library Presentation Room (020)
Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman, Chico State University and MEARCSTAPA
Chair: Marcus Hensel, University of Oregon
Maps without Monsters
Asa Simon Mittman, Chico State University
Re-Membering Monsters: The Nature of Traits in Wolfram’s Parzival
Laurynn Lowe, Independent Scholar
Monster Esthetics, Material Monsters: Representing and Presenting Monsters in the Libro del conosçimiento de todos los reinos, manuscript Z
Heather Bamford, University of California at Berkeley
Break and Coffee Service: 10:30-11:00 am -- Kilworth Chapel Lounge and Wyatt 109
In the Phoenix’s Paradise: The Legacy of the Celtic Otherworld in the Old English poem The Phoenix
Christopher Jeremiah Janus, Western Washington University
The Old English Advent Lyrics: From Exile to Eulogy
Heather C. Maring, Arizona State University
The Anglo-Saxon Reception of the Moralia: Hero and Exile in Gregory the Great’s Depiction of Job
Karl Arthur Erik Persson, University of British Columbia
Images of Enclosure in The Seafarer and The Wanderer
Keri Wolf, University of California, Davis
13. Masculinity and Sexuality -- Wyatt 313
Chair: Katherine Allen Smith, University of Puget Sound
Representations of Femininity and the Presentation of Masculinity in von Aue’s “Der arme Heinrich”
Seth Alexander Berk, University of Washington
Armor Makes the Man: Virginity, Saintliness and the Ultimate Medieval Masculinity
Katherine Michelle Coty, University of Washington
Homoagapic, Homoerotic, and Everything In Between: Depictions of Love and Affection Among Men in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Justin Dylan Brock, Willamette University
14. Performance -- Wyatt 109
Chair: Peter Greenfield, University of Puget Sound
“Turning th’ Accomplishment of Many Years Into an Hour Glass:” Henry V and Shakespeare’s Choral Historian
Christina Lynn Gutierrez, University of Texas at Austin
The Interrelation of Music and Liturgy: The Case of Meditation Chants
William Peter Mahrt, Stanford University
The Dean of Amiens Cathedral Interviews the Master Sculptor
Georgia Sommers Wright, Institute for Historical Study
15. Philosophy and Spirituality -- Wyatt 101
Chair: George Hardin Brown, Stanford University
“There is No Reason to Take Recourse to Our Glorious God”: Nicole Oresme and Naturalistic Explanations of Religious Visions in Fourteenth-Century Paris
Andrew Michael Fogleman, University of Southern California
Transcendentia and the Harmony of Mind and World in Aquinas
Caery A. Evangelist, University of Portland
Nature and the Academic Pilgrim in St. Bonaventure’s Soul’s Journey Into God
Wendy Petersen-Boring, Willamette University
16. Gower and the Gower Project -- Wyatt 301
Organizer: Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Chair: Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Gower and Langland
Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles
New Readers in the Early Audiences of Chaucer and Gower
Chair: Richard Unger, University of British Columbia
Monastic Perspectives on the Conversion of Warriors to the Religious Life, ca. 1000-1200
Katherine Allen Smith, University of Puget Sound
After the Crusade: Popular Resistance to the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century
Nathan Adam Daniels, San Francisco State University
Chaucer and Augustinian Just War Theory
Jennifer Arch, Washington University in St Louis
18. Encounters with the Other -- Wyatt 101
Chair: Kirsten M. Christensen, Pacific Lutheran University
Encounters with the Other in Medieval German Literature
David Tinsley, University of Puget Sound
The Places Between: Hybridity and Identity in Medieval Travel Narratives
Dianne Margaret Evanochko, University of Rochester
Slaying the Tripartite Beast: The Movement Toward Charity in The Turke and Sir Gawain
Kyle Timothy Gustafson, University of Northern Colorado
19. Romance and Rhetoric: A Presentation of Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney -- Wyatt 301
Organizer: Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Chair: Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
The Light of the Virgin Muse in Anglo-Latin Meditative Poetry
Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Rhetoric and Reception in Machaut’s “Je Maudi”
Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara University
Malory’s and the Vulgate Quest’s Grail of Fertility and Sterility
Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
20. Middle English Literature II -- Wyatt 307
Chair: Denise Despres, University of Puget Sound
Christ’s Speech and the Power of the Word: The Life of the Virgin Mary and the Christ
Barbara Zimbalist, University of California, Davis
The Body of Christ and The Body of (Biblical) Texts: Julian of Norwich’s Eighth Showing of Jesus on the Cross
Jonathan Juilfs, University of Notre Dame
Playing Passion, and Playing Jews
Agatha Hansen, Queens University
21. Irish, Welsh, and Norse Literature -- Wyatt 313
Chair: Karen Cheatham, University of Toronto/University of Puget Sound
Men of Action, Women of Wit: Gender as Characterisation in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
Kit R.L. Kapphahn, Aberystwyth University
God in a Body: Loki’s Inescapable Corporeality in Snorri Sturleson’s The Prose Edda
Jennie Rebecca Friedrich, Western Washington University
Divine Deformity: The Plinian Races (via Isidore of Seville) in Irish Mythology
Phillip Andrew Bernhardt-House, Columbia College, NAS Whidbey Campus and Naval Station Everett/Marysville College
Break and Coffee Service, 10:30-11:00 am -- Wyatt Hall Atrium
Session VI -- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
22. Byzantine Art and Architecture -- Wyatt 109
Chair: Kathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara University
The Jewels of Diplomacy: Pearls and Pearled Objects in the Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle East
Joel Walker, University of Washington
“Knead your devotion with this affirmation of faith”: the Mosaics of San Vitale and the Promotion of Justinianic Belief
Andrew Griebeler, University of Puget Sound
The Portico of the Empress Theodora
Diliana N. Angelova, University of California, Berkeley
Shifts in Byzantine Attitudes toward Pagan Imagery in Female Bodily Adornment
Alicia Wilcox Walker, Washington University in St Louis
23. English Vernacularities -- Wyatt 301
Chair: Colette Moore, University of Washington
Foreign Language: Beowulf, Etymological Style, and the Uncanny
Matthew Thomas Hussey, Simon Fraser University
Lemmatizing the Old English Corpus
Scott Kleinman, California State University, Northridge
The Englishness of the Wycliffite Bibles
Henry Ansgar Kelly, UCLA
24. Old French Corporal Identities -- Wyatt 308
Chair: Carol Harding, Western Oregon University
Thirst, Fire and Water: Desire and Empire in Old French Literature
Sandra Louise Evans, University of Puget Sound
This is not my Body: Understanding Transcendent Desire in Rutebeuf’s La vie de sainte Marie l’Egyptienne
Brody Dean Smith, University of California, Davis
Cycling through Spaces and Identities in Chrétien de Troyes’s Yvain
Heather Herrick Jennings, University of California, Davis
25. Crusades -- Wyatt 204
Chair: Peter Diehl, Western Washington University
The (Un)Spoken Speech of 1095: Textual Complications and the First Crusade
Danielle N. Magnusson, University of Washington
An excitatorium for the Third Crusade: the Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum
John Henry Pryor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney
Fall of the Angeloi: How the 1204 Siege of Constantinople Led to the End of Empire
Gwendolyn Lea Perkins, Northcentral University, Washington State Historical Society
26. Sanctity and Devotion -- Wyatt 307
Chair: Theresa Marie Earenfight, Seattle University
Reforming Self or Society? Omobono of Cremona, Raimondo ’Palmerio’ of Piacenza and the Beginnings of Lay Sanctity in the Italian Communes
Mary Harvey Doyno, Columbia University
Aelred of Rievaulx’s Life of Saint Edward, King and Confessor and the Seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus
Kevin Padraic Roddy, University of California, Davis
Religion in Don Juan Manuel: Faith, Loyalty and Ambition
Maria Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego
27. The Pearl Poet -- Wyatt 101
Chair: Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles
Labors of Love: “Crafte” in Cleanness and Piers Plowman
Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State University
The First Shall be the Last: The Pearl and Equality in New Jerusalem
Blair Michelle Citron, University of California, Davis
Hit Is To Dere a Date: Pearl’s Parable of the Vineyard and the Rhetoric of Ricardian Kingship
David Kennedy Coley, Simon Fraser University
Lunch: 12:30-1:50 pm -- Kilworth Chapel Lounge
Session VII -- 1:50 - 3:00 pm
28. Plenary Address -- Wheelock Center Rasmussen Rotunda
Chair: Kriszta Kotsis, University of Puget Sound
The Hand of God and the Hand of the Scribe
Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Harvard University
MAP Business Meeting: 3:00-3:30 pm -- Wheelock Center Rasmussen Rotunda
Break and Coffee Service: 3:00-3:45 pm -- Wyatt Hall Atrium
Session VIII -- 3:45 - 5:30 pm
29. Perceptions of Powerful Women -- Wyatt 109
Chair: Sandra Louise Evans, University of Puget Sound
The Bad Witch
Logan Dale Greene, Eastern Washington University
The Strange Case of Adela of Blois
Kimberly Anne Klimek, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Honor-informed Knightly Transgressions and ’Gender Trouble’ in the Nibelungenlied
Brikena Ribaj, The Ohio State University
The Childless Queen: Maria of Castile (1401-48)
Theresa Marie Earenfight, Seattle University
30. Medievalism and Modern Translation -- Wyatt 204
Chair: Jane Minogue, California State University, Northridge
“A singularly delightful picture-book”: Reading medieval books in modern pictures
Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
The Ugly Mother
Shannon Genzone, Eastern Washington University
The Modern Translations of Saint Gerald of Aurillac
Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University
The Ministry of Women: The 1920 Lambeth Conference and Modern Perceptions of the Double Monastery
Thomas Cramer, University of Washington
31. Chaucer II: Self-Representation -- Wyatt 101
Chair: Miceal Vaughan, University of Washington
When Mary becomes Eve: The Legend of Good Women and the Demise of Dido
Joanna Shearer, Nevada State College
Chaucerian (Im)potence: The Poetic and Empirical ’We’
Heather Ann Ritzer, Simon Fraser University
Chaucer’s Retraction: Examining the Case for Disavowal
Jason M. Herman, University of Arizona
Picturing Chaucer: Comic Philosophy Embodied in Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes
Melinda Nielsen, University of Notre Dame
32. Translations of Antiquity -- Wyatt 301
Chair: David Lupher, University of Puget Sound
Mightier than the Sword: Translatio as Conquest in the Roman de Troie
Alissandra Paschkowiak, Whitworth University
Amity and Profitability: Rereading Cicero in the Middle Ages
John Garrison, University of California, Davis
Ecclesiasticus classicus: The De Roma Poems of Hildebert of Lavardin
Cynthia White, University of Arizona
33. Naming, Knowing and Remembering Monsters -- Wyatt 307
Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman, Chico State University and MEARCSTAPA
Chair: Asa Simon Mittman, Chico State University
Can the Monster Speak?: Silence and the Grendelkin’s Status as Monsters
Marcus Hensel, University of Oregon
The Monstrous and Modified Heroism in Beowulf
John Hill, US Naval Academy
Wulfstan’s Werewolf
Joyce Lionarons, Ursinus College
34. Contemporary Critical Approaches -- Wyatt 313
Chair: Anne Laskaya, University of Oregon
“I have ordained you to be a mirror”: Margery Kempe’s Psycho-religious Quest for Self
Claudia Yaghoobi Massihi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Julian of Norwich’s Queer Text and Transgender Jesus
Lisa Manter, Saint Mary's College of California, and Stephanie Miller, Saint Mary's College of California
From Sinner to Saint to Symptom: A Lacanian Approach to the Digby Manuscript of Mary Magdalene
Joshua Michael Cohen, University of Northern Colorado
“Words that emanate from a living heart”: Henry Suso’s Vita and an audio-book as a means for teaching and research
Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Indiana University
35. Medieval Visuals in the Pacific Northwest -- Kittredge Gallery
Chair: Kriszta Kotsis, University of Puget Sound
Modern Icons: A North-West Painter Responds to the Medieval Tradition
Lisa Sweet, Evergreen State College
The Medieval Bible of the Tacoma Public Library
Michael Curley, University of Puget Sound
The Medieval Portland Project
Anne McClanan, Portland State University
Closing Reception: 5:30-7:00 pm -- Wyatt Hall Atrium
Vagantes
11–13 March 2010. The ninth annual Vagantes Graduate Student Conference will be held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Affiliated with the Medieval Academy's Graduate Student Committee, Vagantes is an annual traveling conference for graduate students studying any aspect of the Middle Ages. Its goals include fostering a sense of community among junior medievalists, providing a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship, and showcasing the resources of the host institution. To make the conference available to as many graduate students as possible, expenses are kept to a minimum. There is no registration fee, and social events such as receptions and the banquet are free to participants. The conference at UNM is partially funded by the University of New Mexico Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) Projects Committee. The conference will include twenty-four papers presented by graduate students in all areas of medieval studies. In addition, two keynote lectures are given by faculty members. The opening keynote for 2010 will be delivered by Timothy Graham, director of the Institute for Medieval Studies and Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Call for papers: abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited from graduate students working on any medieval topic. In keeping with the mission of Vagantes to advance interdisciplinary studies, submissions are encouraged in, but are not limited to, Art History, Manuscript Studies, History, Literature, Musicology, Religious Studies, and Philosophy. E-mail a brief c.v. and abstract of no more than 300 words by 9 October 2009 to Marisa Sikes, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (msikes@unm.edu; http://www.vagantesconference.org).
Program
All Events will take place in Student Union Building (SUB) Ballroom A unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, 11 March
7:00-9:00PM Welcome Reception at O’Neill’s on Central
Friday, 12 March
8:00-9:30AM Registration and Breakfast
9:30-9:40AM Welcome Remarks
9:40-11:00AM Session I: Intellectual Debate, and Reform in Female Cloisters
Hrothsvita and the Women of Gandersheim: Modernity in the Tenth Century Judy Spence, University of Maryland Effective Piety: Deconstructing the Categories of Learning in the Twelfth Century Sarah Spalding, Catholic University of America Alien Cultures: Gender, Reform and Patronage in Late Medieval Germany Jamie McCandless, Western Michigan University
11:00-11:20AM Break
11:20AM-12:40PM Session II: Creating Meaning with the Oral, the Visual, and the Verbal
'The Venym of Faueles Tonge': Modes of Oral Discourse and Textual Authority in Hoccleve's Autobiographical Poems Danielle Bradley, University of Connecticut Rewriting the Bayeux Tapestry: Baudri de Bourgueil’s Adelae Comitissae Daniel Perett, University of Notre Dame On Public Reading of Vernacular Literature in the Fifteenth Century Hélène Haug, Université catholique de Louvain
12:40-2:20PM Lunch, not provided. See Registration packet for food options in SUB and nearby
2:20-3:40PM Session III: Imagining the Other in the Middle Ages
Slouching Towards Exegesis: Critical Approaches to The Siege of Jerusalem as Myth Aaron Mercier, Ohio State University Eschatology and Cosmology in the Illustrations of the LiberFloridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer Elizabeth Woodward, Florida State University A Phenomenological Reading of the Dead Whore of Babylon in Medieval Apocalypses Nadia Pawelchak, Florida State University
'I Charge You, Daughters of Jerusalem': The Venerable Bede, the Song of Songs, and the Work of the Church Hannah Matis, University of Notre Dame Found in Translation: Medieval Translation Movements and the Rise of Hebrew Science in Provence Eugene Smelyansky, University of California-Irvine Mechthild of Hackeborn and the Kitchen God Donna Ray, University of New Mexico
5:30-6:30 Keynote Address: “Antiquaries, Anglicans, and Anglo-Saxonists: Redeeming the Middle Ages in Early Modern England” Timothy Graham, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico, in SUB Santa Ana A&B
The Continental Short Recension of Adomnan's Vita Sancti Columbae: Its Origins and Redactions Caitlin Murphy, Western Michigan University Visual Faculty, Bodily Healing: Hieronymus Bosch’s Lisbon Temptation of St. Anthony Nicole Conti, University of Texas-Austin The Role of Bernard of Clairvaux in the Annulment of the Marriage of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine Maria Wagner, Loyola University of Chicago
11:00-11:20AM Break
11:20AM-12:40PM Session VI: Textual and Material Patterns in the Middle Ages Presider: Julia Finch, University of Pittsburgh
Cosmo-Coporeal-Cartography: Remapping the Medieval Body in the Works of Opicinus de Canistris Peter Bovenmyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Image and the Pearl of Greatest Price Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Indiana University Coin a Proverb: Inventive Paremiology in Minnesang Adam Oberlin, University of Minnesota
12:40-2:00PM General Meeting with provided lunch
2:00-3:20PM Session VII: Medieval Structures: Breaking Up, Propping Up, and Putting Back Together
Confessing Desire: Bending the Discourse of Inquisition towards Dissent in the Occitan Romance Flamenca Christine Moreno, Ohio State University Per Visibilia Invisibilia: Caryatidic Metaphors and Experience in the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux Shaun Wright, Florida State University Human Rights, Authority, and Concilarism in the Late Medieval Church Katherine Meyers, University of New Mexico
3:20-3:40PM Coffee Break
3:40-5:00PM Session VIII: Roots & Origins Presider: Ketievia Segovia, University of New Mexico
"Anglo-Saxon Echoes of Feud and Family: The Sister’s Son in Malory’s Morte Darthur" Bram Cleaver, University of New Mexico Giotto’s St. Francis: Whence the Chariot? Mithuiel Barnes, University of Louisville Wulfstan and the Widows Ben Reinhard, University of Notre Dame
5:00-6:00PM Keynote Address: “Jewish History, Medieval Persecution, and Shifting Ethical Paradigms in Modern Scholarship” Hannah Johnson, Dept. of English, University of Pittsburgh, in SUB Santa Ana A&B
6:00-7:00PM Keynote Reception in SUB Scholars
7:00-9:00PM Banquet and Closing Remarks
The seventeenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
11–13 March 2010. The seventeenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place in Sarasota, Florida. The conference will be held on the campus of New College of Florida, the honors college of the Florida state system. The college, located on Sarasota Bay, is adjacent to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which will offer tours arranged for conference participants. Sarasota is noted for its beautiful public beaches, theater, art and music. The average temperatures in March are a pleasant high of 77F (25C) and a low of 57F (14C). Call for papers: the program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference's broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome. The deadline for abstracts is 1 October 2009. More information will be posted on the conference website as it becomes available, including plenary speakers, conference events, and area attractions (http://faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies). Send inquiries and abstracts (email preferred, no attachments please) to Nova Myhill, Division of Humanities, New College of Florida, 5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota FL 34243 (nmyhill@ncf.edu).
2010 Program
The sixteenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place March 11–13, 2010, in Sarasota, Florida. The program that follows is correct as of 5 February 2010. Further details will be added as we ascertain them. Please check that your name and paper title are listed correctly and email any corrections to medren@ncf.edu. Many thanks, and we look forward to seeing you in March! Except where noted, all conference events will be held in the Sudakoff Conference Center on the New College campus.
—The Program Committee
Schedule
Thursday, March 11th
9-10:30 am
Sessions 1-5
Break
10:45-12:15 pm
Sessions 6-10
Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm
Sessions 11-15
Break
3:45-5:15 pm
Sessions 16-20
5:30-7:00 pm
Conference Reception, College Hall
Friday, March 12th
9:00-10:30 am
Sessions 21-25
Break
10:45-12:30 pm
Sessions 26-30
Lunch
2:15-3:30 pm
Plenary I: “Battles for Bodies: Preaching, Burying and Building in the Medieval Italian City”
Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University
4:00-5:30 pm
Choice of Tours at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5:00-6:30 pm
Reception, Ringling Museum
Saturday, March 13th
9:00-10:30 am
Sessions 31-35
Break
10:45-12 noon
Plenary II: “Rereading the Complete Sermons: A New Direction for Donne Studies”
Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University
Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm
Sessions 36-40
Program
Session 1: Renaissance Rome
Chair: Samantha Kelly, Rutgers University
Papal Ceremony as a Tool of State: Martin V, Eugenius IV, and the Legacy of Avignon
Elizabeth McCahill, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The SPQR and the Reassertion of Papal Rule in Renaissance Rome
Carrie Benes, New College of Florida
Built Form and Meaning in the Sixteenth Century: The Building Campaigns of Pope Sixtus V, Counter Reform Style and a Spanish Connection
Rosanna Mortillaro, University of Western Ontario
Session 2: Women and Art
Chair: Maureen Zaremba, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
From Annunciation to Visitation at Reims Cathedral: Medieval Women as Wives and as Mothers
Marian Bleeke, Cleveland State University
The Naked, the Nude, and the Downright Unfeminine: Figures of Eve in Renaissance Italy
Allison Morgan, Case Western Reserve University
Savoldo’s Magdalen and the Veil: Meaning and Material in Renaissance Venice
Charlotte Nichols, Seton Hall University
Session 3: Conversion, Compulsion and Confusion: Religious Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Organizer: Howard Louthan, University of Florida
Chair: Emily Graham, University of Central Florida
A Jew in the Margin: The Conversion Narrative in Medieval Culture
Nina Caputo, University of Florida
The Role of Compulsion in the Sacraments: The Forced Baptism of Aragonese Muslims, 1521-28
Ben Ehlers, University of Georgia
Humanism and Heterodoxy in Renaissance Poland: The Confusing Origins of Anti-Trinitarianism
Howard Louthan
Session 4: Early Modern Bodies, Sex, & Text
Chair: Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida
Setting Plato Straight: Sexuality and Medical Hermeneutics in the Renaissance
Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh
Dé-jà Wooing in Othello’s Venice and in Shakespeare's Sonnet 95
Barbara L. Estrin, Stonehill College
Session 5: Cross-Cultural Currents in Mediterranean Literature
Chair: Uzi Baram, New College of Florida
Representations of the Afterlife in Dante and the Islamic Mi’raj
Jean Hakes, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston
The Philosopher-Castaway from Medieval Andalusia to Modern Europe
Mahmoud Baroud, University of Sydney Perché in Genoa al nido mio: Spiritual Colonialism in Tommaso Stigliani’s Il Mondo Nuovo
Mary Watt, University of Florida
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Session 6: Art in Renaissance Tuscany Chair: Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University
Saints Matthew and Anthony Abbot as Franciscan Exemplars in the Cappella Migliorati, San Francesco (Prato)
Amber A. McAlister, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
Benvenuto di Giovanni’s Painted Prophets in Siena Cathedral
Timothy B. Smith, Birmingham-Southern College
Maiolica and Manuscripts in Renaissance Pesaro
Sarah Cartwright, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Session 7: High Medieval Saints and Mystics: Sources and Authorial Intent
Chair: Thomas McCarthy, New College of Florida
Saint’s Life as Soapbox: Authorial Self-Insertions and Asides in the Work of Jocelin of Furness
Lindsay Irvin, University of Toronto
A New Melody for Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo virtutum Matthew Steel, Western Michigan University
The Promise of Eternity: Love and Poetic Form in Hadewijch's Stanzaic Poems or Liederen
Steven Rozenski, Harvard University
Session 8: Learning and the Transformation of the Late Medieval City
Chair: David Scheffler, University of North Florida
The Sins of Urban Society in the Preaching of Blessed John Soreth
D. Henry Dieterich, Ann Arbor, MI
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, the Transformation of the Guild System, and the Journeymen's Story-telling
Ken Kurihara, Fordham University
Portrait of a Medieval Canon Lawyer: Heinrich of Saxony
Michael J. Alexander, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Session 9: Contextualizing Marlowe Organizer: Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida
Chair: Flora Zbar, University of South Florida
Christopher Marlowe, University Wit
Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford The Jew of Malta and the Development of City Comedy: “The Mean Passage of a History”
Sarah K. Scott, Mount St. Mary's University
Searching for Faustus: The Context of Marlowe’s Great Tragedy
Sara Munson Deats
Session 10: The Crossroads of Travel and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean
Organizer: Tovah Bender, Agnes Scott College
Chair and Commentator: Kathryn L. Reyerson, University of Minnesota
Tarsiana’s Priestly Arts: Narration, Education, and Sacrament in the Libro de Apolonio
Matthew V. Desing, University of Texas, El Paso
On the Trail of Knowledge: Travel and Medical Education in the Middle Ages
Kira Robison, University of Minnesota
“Niccolaio of Lucca, Now of Florence”: Artisan Immigrants, Identity, and Social Networks
Tovah Bender
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Session 11: The Debate over Mary: Protestants, Catholics and Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Organizer: Duane Osheim, University of Virginia Chair: Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto
Pier Paolo Vergerio and the Polemic over the Holy House of Loreto in Reformation Italy
Duane Osheim
Counter-Reformation Mary: Printed Miracle Books and the Defense of Marian Piety
David D’Andrea, Oklahoma State University
Protestants, Demons, and the Virgin: An Exorcist’s Defense of Marian Images
Sherri Franks Johnson, University of California, Riverside
Session 12: Renaissance Tombs Chair: Scott Perry, University of South Florida, Sarasota–Manatee
“That’s Not Really What I Was Going For”: Rejected Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
Colleen Halpin, Case Western Reserve University
The Monument to Doge Leonardo Loredan in Ss Giovanni e Paolo (Venice) as Power Play
Adrienne DeAngelis, Courtauld Institute
Eternity under the Arches: Leon Battista Alberti, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta and the Façade of the Tempio Malatestiano
Mimi Ginsberg, University of Maryland
Session 13: Tudor/Stuart Culture: Rhetoric and its Contexts Organizers: Natalie Mears, University of Durham, and John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida Chair: Scott Lucas, The Citadel
Education in Political Rhetoric in Early Modern English Grammar Schools
Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki
Governance and Persuasion in Early Modern English Localities
Phil Withington, Cambridge University
Physic and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
Jennifer Richards, Newcastle University
Session 14: Shakespeare’s Imitations I—In Honor of Professor Mark Taylor
Chair: Anthony DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology
Imitation and Adaptation in The Two Noble Kinsmen
Joel N. Feimer, Mercy College Troilus and Cressida in the Light of Day: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer
Daniel M. Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic University
Shakespeare Imitating Montaigne
Joseph B. Wagner, Kent State University
Session 15: Minority Voices in Late Antique Christianity
Organizer: Robert McEachnie, University of Florida
Chair: Susan Marks, New College of Florida
Jews as the Other “Race” in Fifth-Century Northern Italy
Robert McEachnie, University of Florida
“Can You Hear Her Now?”: The Woman's Voice in Patristic Literature
Amy Hughes, Wheaton College
Redeeming the Memory of an “Arian” Past: Representation of Mission in the Fifth Century
Anna Lankina-Webb, University of Florida
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Session 16: Rethinking and Rewriting the Past in the Italian Renaissance Chair: Duane Osheim, University of Virginia
The Renaissance and the Print Revolution Reconsidered: The Case of Neapolitan Historiography
Samantha Kelly, Rutgers University
The “Judicious Antiquarian”: A Reexamination of Cinquecento Ferrarese Historiography
Richard Tristano, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
Machiavelli’s Bitter Ironies: Alberti and The Prince William J. Connell, Seton Hall University
Session 17: Renaissance Masters
Chair: Virginia Brilliant, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Nothing As It Seems: Annotations (Reconstructive and Deconstructive) upon Domenico Bernini’s Life of the Cavalier Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Franco Mormando, Boston College Poesia and Portraiture: Titian’s Allegory of Prudence Reconsidered
Jerry Marino, Johns Hopkins University
The Gift of Rubens: Rethinking the Concept of Gift-Giving in Early Modern Diplomatic Culture
Michael Auwers, Universiteit Antwerpen
Session 18: Tudor/Stuart Culture: Aristocratic Women
Organizer: Natalie Mears, University of Durham Chair: Elizabeth H. Hageman, University of New Hampshire
Mary, Lady Cheke: Surviving at Court through Five Reigns
John McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Elizabethan Noblewomen and Local Politics: Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, and Bess of Hardwick
Alan Bryson, University of Sheffield
The Villiers Women at Court, 1628-1641
Sara Wolfson, University of Durham
Session 19: Shakespeare’s Imitations II—In Honor of Professor Mark Taylor
Chair: TBA
“The Jerks of Invention”: Shakespeare and Serious Play in the Renaissance
Anthony DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology
Hearing and Metahearing in Hamlet
Laury Magnus, US Merchant Marine Academy
Leering in Lear
Marvin Hunt, North Carolina State University
Session 20: Early Medieval Texts & Contexts Chair: David Rohrbacher, New College of Florida
Relic Ordeals by Fire in Visigothic Iberia
Mary Lester, University of Florida
The Martyrs of Cordoba and Changing Identities in Ninth-Century Muslim Spain
Alexandra de Padua, University of Florida
A Wolf with Sheep-Skin Papyri: Lupus of Ferrières and the Preservation of the Classical Past in the Carolingian Age
Sean Lafferty, University of Toronto
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Session 21: New Directions in the History of Medieval Southern Italy
Organizer: Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College Chair: Carrie Benes, New College of Florida
Archaeology and the Study of Southern Italy and Sicily in the Early Middle Ages
Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College
From Robert Guiscard to Andreuccio of Perugia: Northern Italian Perspectives on the Regno during the Middle Ages
Joanna Drell, University of Richmond
Courtly Models: The Entertainments of the Counts of Ceccano
Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara
Session 22: Medieval French Romance Chair: Christine McCall Probes, University of South Florida
Masculinities in Chrétien de Troyes: A Homoerotic Subtext
Basil A. Clark, Saginaw Valley State University
Matter of Greece, Rome, Britain, or France? Political Ideology and Literary History in Chrétien de Troyes’s Cligés
Levilson C. Reis, Otterbein College
Garden Walls and Perfume: Definitions of Space in Le Roman de la Rose Elizabeth Lucia, Rhodes College
Session 23: Tudor/Stuart Culture: Executions Organizers: Natalie Mears, University of Durham, and John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Chair: Natalie Mears
Judicial Punishment in Ideal Societies
Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield
Dressing for the Block: The Significance of Clothing Worn at Royal and Noble Executions in Sixteenth-Century England
Maria Hayward, University of Southampton
Painted Copies of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments: Their Production and Purpose
Elizabeth Evenden, Brunel University
Session 24: Sidneian Poetics, Sacred and Profane
Sponsor: The Sidney Society Organizer: Joel Davis, Stetson University
Chair: Andrew Strycharski, Florida International University
Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella as Occasional Verse: The Autobiographical Problem of Sidney Criticism from the Point of View of Manuscript Culture
Teemu Manninen, Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies
“The Sunn-Beames of thy Face”: Re-Revealing God in the Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes
Claire Falck, University of Wisconsin
Sidney’s Epistolary Muse: The Defense of Poetry and Generic Ambivalence in Astrophil and Stella
Adam Neff, University of Virginia
Session 25: New Contexts for Beowulf
Chair: Nicole Guenther Discenza, University of South Florida
Blurring Distinctions Between the Mythological and Heroic in Old English and Old Norse Poetry
Ruth Cheadle, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
Beowulf and Thor: Additional Analogues?
Alexander M. Bruce, University of the South
Beowulf’s Arm/s
Lizz Angello, University of South Florida
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Session 26: Household and City-State: Social Relations in Renaissance Tuscany Chair: Margery Ganz, Spelman College
Marital Relationships and Household Dynamics in Renaissance Florence
Megan Moran, College of Charleston
The Logistics of Trust: Aspects of Late Medieval Business Practices Among the Alberti and their Parenti
Susannah F. Baxendale, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
The Grand Ducal State through the Eyes of a Tuscan Grand Duchess
Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida
Opportunities and Barriers in the Creation of a Tuscan “Nobility” in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Judith Brown, Wesleyan University
Session 27: Religion, Rhetoric, and Education in Early Modern France Chair: Amy Reid, New College of Florida
Silence and the Disconnected Poet: Possible Implications of Deafness in Du Bellay’s Les Regrets David de Posada, Georgia College & State University
Marguerite de Navarre’s l’Heptaméron: A Finely-Tuned Sensitivity to Ancient and Renaissance Conceptions and Theories of Humor
Kristin Wasielewski, Franklin College
Torture, Martyrdom, and Social Pollution: An Image from Richard Verstegan's Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostri temporis Erin Glunt, Yale University
Poetry and Education in the Early Modern: The Petites Écoles of Port-Royal
Christine McCall Probes, University of South Florida
Session 28: Writing English Religious Identity Chair: Heather White, New College of Florida
Assimilating the Ovidian: Christian Marriage as Conversion Technique in John Metham’s Amoryus and Cleopes
Jennifer M. Gianfalla, Young Harris College
Prospero’s Exile: A Sacramental-Historical Reading of The Tempest
Todd Edmondson, University of Louisville
Heresy and the Use of Allegory: Constructing the Radical Persona in Early Modern England
Douglas F. Jones, University of Iowa
George Herbert’s Anglican Anagrams and Mental Pictures
Jean-Christophe Van Thienen, Université Lille3
Session 29: Artful Passions among Sidneian Romances
Sponsor: The Sidney Society
Organizer: Joel Davis, Stetson University Chair: Kathryn DeZur, State University of New York, Delhi
“Some kind of measure”: Form, Genre, and Authorship in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania Kristiane Stapleton, University of Wisconsin
Thought and Movement: Et in Arcadia est
Brad Tuggle, Spring Hill College
Closure and the Politics of Form in Sir Philip Sidney’s Poetics
Andrew Wadoski, Oklahoma State University
Session 30: Civic Institutions
Chair: Thomas Kuehn, Clemson University
Plainchant & Prestige: Chant Composition at the Cathedral of San Zeno, Pistoia
James Vincent Maiello, Vanderbilt University
The Presence and Absence of Peacemaking Rituals in Fourteenth-Century Italian Cities
Glenn Kumhera, University of the South
Who’s in Charge Here? Office and Lordship in a Small Catalan Town
Gregory Milton, University of South Florida
Perugia’s Podestà and the Circumstances of his Citizenship
Jennifer Konieczny, University of Toronto
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Session 31: Observing and Transmitting Culture in Mid-Cinquecento Tuscany
Organizer: Konrad Eisenbichler, Victoria College, University of Toronto
Chair: Nicholas Terpstra, Victoria College, University of Toronto
“The country is large and beautiful and happy”: Lelio Pecci’s Diary of his 1549 Mission to Flanders
Elena Brizio, Medici Archive Project
On Wings of Song: The Musical Fortune of a Poetic Gloss
Konrad Eisenbichler
Entertaining the Medici: Beltramo Poggi’s Plays for Francesco and Isabella de’ Medici
Gianni Cicali, Georgetown University
Session 32: Ideal and Reality in Medieval Governance Chair: Gregory Milton, University of South Florida
Rebellion and the Perversion of Order in Frutolf of Michelsberg’s Chronicle
T. J. H. McCarthy, New College of Florida
Re-colonizing France: Templar Organization in the County of Champagne
Michael J. Peixoto, New York University
Burgesses under Secular and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the Latin Kingdom of Cyprus (Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Marwan Nader, Cambridge University
Session 33: Tudor/Stuart Culture: Media for History Organizers: Natalie Mears, University of Durham, and John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Chair: John F. McDiarmid
Henry VIII and the Problem of Historical Perspective in Edward Hall’s Chronicle
Scott Lucas, The Citadel
Letters and History: Private Correspondence and the Creation of a Narrative
Roger Kuin, York University
The Threads of (Personal) History: Lord Admiral Howard’s Tapestries of the Spanish Armada
Natalie Mears, University of Durham
Session 34: Stages of Early Modern Drama
Chair: Julienne H. Empric, Eckerd College
Staging Space and Time: Theater Design in The Menaechmi and The Comedy of Errors
Jennifer Low, Florida Atlantic University
A Most Conspicuous Eminence: Onstage Seating in the Caroline Private Theater
Nova Myhill, New College of Florida
“Exceeding rare & full of variety”: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Seventeenth-Century Masque
Eliza Fisher Laskowski, Peace College
Session 35: Shaping Identity in Fourteenth-Century Literature
Chair: Angela Tenga, Florida Institute of Technology
Resemblance, or the Importance of Paternity: Ideological Reflections of the Patrilineage in Boccaccio’s Ninfale fiesolano Kristen Swann, Columbia University
The Domesticating of Sister Emelye in Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale
Liam O. Purdon, Doane College
Traumatic Loss and the Internal Landscape of Memory in Pearl
Anthony Adams, Brown University
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Session 36: Social Responsibility in Late Medieval & Renaissance Italy
Chair: Jacqueline Gutwirth, Bronx Community College
Mendicant Prisons in Late Medieval Italy
Lezlie Knox, Marquette University
A Very Pious Union: Confraternities in the Bolognese Contado
Matthew Thomas Sneider, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Icons of Charity and the Limits to the Reform of Poor Relief in Cinquecento Bologna Nicholas Terpstra, Victoria College, University of Toronto
Session 37: Discourses of Literature and Theology in Early Modern Spain Chair: Maria Esformes, University of South Florida
Fray Luis de León’s Spanish Commentary on the Song of Solomon and the Question of Biblical Translation
Mike Fulton, Wake Forest University Oratoriae Libri: The Theological Discourse within Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
Martha Garcia, University of Central Florida
The Material Celestina: The Literary Value of Objects in Early Modern Spain
Samuel Sánchez-Sánchez, Davidson College
Session 38: Tudor/Stuart Culture: Religious Practices, from Liturgy to Laughter Organizer: John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Chair: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University
Bringing Home the Becon (and Whittingham, and Gilby…): Exile Writing and Practice in the Elizabethan Settlement
Beth Quitslund, Ohio University
Imaginary Calendars and Parodic “Saints” in Some Early Modern Satirical Almanacs
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College Volpone’s Colorless Heaven
Suzanne Penuel, University of South Carolina, Lancaster
Session 39: Negotiating Female Authority in Medieval and Early Modern England
Chair: Nova Myhill, New College of Florida
Sexual Purity as Property: Economic Exchange in the Life of Christina of Markyate, the Vie de Seinte Audree, and the Book of Margery Kempe
Sally Livingston, Harvard University
Mothers of Sons Challenging Masculine Identity in the Chester Cycle
Betty Ellzey, Shepherd Universty
Maintaining the Quiet of the Country: Elizabeth I and Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Desmond
Karen A. Holland, Providence College
“Natures House”: Margaret Cavendish and the Country House Poem
Lise Mae Schlosser, Northern Illinois University
Session 40: New Perspectives on Medieval England
Chair: Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University
Shame, Masculinity, and the Killing of Thomas Becket
Hugh M. Thomas, University of Miami
The Children of King John and Isabelle of Angoulême and their Upbringing
Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University
The County Elite and Political Power in Early Tudor Somerset, 1485-1547
Simon Lambe, St Mary’s University College, London
15–16 March 2011. "Quand l'image relit le texte," colloque organisé en collaboration entre l'Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle (CEMA–EA 173) et l'Université Paris 4 Sorbonne (Sens, texte et histoire–EA 4089), in Paris. Ce colloque a pour vocation d'approfondir, en s'appuyant sur des exemples précis et argumentés, l'étude des liens qui peuvent se tisser entre le texte et son iconographie dans les manuscrits médiévaux. Les conférenciers sont invités à montrer comment ils ont été amenés, à partir de l'illustration, à s'interroger sur la compréhension d'un texte ou même à la remettre en question, quel que soit le genre auquel ce texte appartient (romanesque, lyrique, dramatique, historique, scientifique, etc.). Plusieurs axes peuvent être envisagés, entre autres : - analyser le rôle que les images sont susceptibles de jouer dans la constitution de manuscrits cycliques en créant des jeux d'échos visuels chargés de souligner la continuité entre des oeuvres à l'origine indépendantes, comme c'est le cas, par exemple, dans le manuscrit de la BnF, fr. 60, où sont regroupés Thèbes, Troie et Enéas. - étudier un corpus d'images marginales, afin de caractériser les rapports que ce type particulier d'iconographie entretient avec le texte. - dans le cas précis des écrits historiques, et l'on songe par exemple à l'illustration des Chroniques de Froissart, interroger l'image quand elle se met au service de la propagande. - questionner aussi, de façon plus théorique, la nature du lien entre le texte et l'image, qui peut se penser en termes de traduction, de contraction, de développement, de transposition ou même de contradiction. - penser la spécificité de la rhétorique visuelle de l'image médiévale et de sa mise en page. A partir des cas individuels, on essaiera de dégager des perspectives propres à enrichir les études théoriques et de proposer de nouveaux outils d'analyse. Quelle que soit l'approche privilégiée, les perspectives textuelle et iconographique seront suivies conjointement : les études iconographiques seront nourries d'un travail précis sur la tradition textuelle et sur la matérialité des manuscrits. Les frais de déplacement et de logement (une nuit d'hôtel) seront pris en charge par les Universités organisatrices. Les Actes du colloque feront l'objet d'une publication. Appel à contributions: Les communications devront durer 20 à 25 minutes. Les propositions (1000 à 2000 signes), accompagnées de vos coordonnées académiques, sont attendues pour le 15 janvier 2010 (un accord de principe, avec un titre provisoire, d'ici le 15 novembre 2009) par voie de courriel à la double adresse: Sandrine Hériché-Pradeau (s.heriche_pradeau@aliceadsl.fr; Maître de Conférences–Université Paris 4 Sorbonne), et Maud Pérez-Simon (msimon@univ-paris3.fr; Maître de Conférences–Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle).
The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy
18–21 March 2010. The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy will be held 18-21 March 2010, on Yale University Campus, New Haven, hosted by Connecticut College, Southern Connecticut State University, Trinity College (Hartford), University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, and Yale University. The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal, except that those who presented papers at the annual meetings of the Medieval Academy in 2008 and 2009 are not eligible to speak in 2010. Please do not submit more than one proposal. Sessions usually consist of three thirty-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. A different format for some sessions may be chosen by the Program Committee after the proposals have been reviewed. Session organizers may wish to propose different formats for their sessions, subject to Program Committee approval.
The annual meeting of the Medieval Academy brings together medievalists from all disciplines and time periods. The Program Committee will capitalize on this strength by encouraging sessions that (1) address subjects of interest to a wide range of medievalists, and (2) put scholars from different disciplines and time periods in dialogue with each other. We are seeking innovative proposals for papers and sessions and hope to see cross-disciplinary participation wherever possible. For both the commissioned and the open sessions, we are looking for the broadest possible range of proposals of topics and of time periods, within and across all the disciplines.
Call for papers: Proposals should be submitted to Anders Winroth, preferably by e-mail (anders.winroth@yale.edu) or on paper in two copies, to Anders Winroth, Dept. of History, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven CT 06520-8324. The deadline is 15 May 2009. Please do not send proposals to session organizers or to the Academy office. The proposal must have two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer's name, statement of Academy membership (or statement that the individual's specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy), professional status, postal address, home and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), e-mail address (if available), and paper title; (2) a second sheet containing the proposer's name, session for which the paper should be considered, paper title, 250-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements. If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September, that address should be included.
For updated news of the conference, please go to the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33799240816.
Program
Thursday, March 18
12:00-6:00 Registration Linsly-Chittenden Hall
2:00-3:15 Plenary Session
1. Opening Address
Welcome: Anders Winroth, Yale University
Introduction: Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University
Opening address: Angelika Neuwirth, Freie Universität Berlin, “Reclaiming the Qur’an as a European Text. Reflections on a New Qur’an Hermeneutics”
3:15-3:45 Coffee and Tea
3:45-5:30 Concurrent Sessions
2. Manuscripts, Texts, and Libraries of Medieval England: A Session in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff
Organizer and Chair: George Hardin Brown, Stanford University
Charles F. Briggs, University of Vermont, “Reconstructing the Role of Moral Philosophy in Medieval England and Beyond, One Manuscript at a Time”
Matthew Salisbury, Worcester College, Oxford, “A Reconsideration of the Identification and Properties of Medieval English Liturgical ‘Uses’”
Rodney Thomson, University of Tasmania, “Bringing the Renaissance to Oxford: The Early Library of Corpus Christi College”
3. A Millennium Ago: Scandinavia, 1010
Organizer and Chair: Oren Falk, Cornell University
Alison Finlay, Birkbeck College, University of London, “Negotiating the Millennium: Pagan Poets and Christian Patrons”
Douglas Bolender, University of Massachusetts, Boston, “The Creation of a Propertied Landscape: Iceland at the Millennium”
Margaret Cormack, College of Charleston, “Iceland’s First Christian Century”
Organizer: Christopher Cannon, New York University
Chair: Traugott Lawler, Yale University
Katherine Zieman, Notre Dame University, “The Secret Lives of Schoolchildren: Early Education and Privacy in Late Medieval England”
Kimberly Durkota, Fordham University, “Horae as Children’s Books: Teaching Literacy to Lay Children through Prayer. An Examination of New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, PML 19604”
Erika Kihlman, Stockholm University, “Poetry in Motion: The Medieval Sequence as a Vehicle for Grammar Teaching”
5. A Mediterranean Society in Retrospective: S. D. Goitein and His Work
Organizer and Chair: Youval Rotman, Tel Aviv University
Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University, “‘A Dwarf Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant’”
Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center, “Goitein and Braudel: The Story of a Failed Collaboration”
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman, Vanderbilt University, “Transcending Time, Space, and Communal Boundaries: Goitein’s Vision of the Mediterranean”
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania, “Goitein, Free Trade Zones, and the Writing of Economic History”
6. Writing Work: Narrating Labor in the Later Middle Ages
Organizer and Chair: Kellie Robertson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ellen K. Rentz, Claremont McKenna College, “Half-Acre Bylaws: Harvest-Sharing in Piers Plowman”
Lisa H. Cooper, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “‘If I Had a Hammer’: Christ of the Trades and the Treachery of Tools in Late Medieval England”
Ethan Knapp, Ohio State University, “Labor in Gower”
7. Literature and the Courts
Organizer and Chair: Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University
Carl Davila, The College at Brockport, “‘They called her the imâm’: Artiste Slaves and the Production of Courtly Music in Ninth-Century Cordoba”
Jocelyn Sharlet, University of California, Davis, “Being Somebody: Women, Subjectivity, and Material Life in Medieval Arabic Literary Culture”
8. Outside In, Inside Out: Medieval Theologies of the Self
Organizer: Barbara Newman, Northwestern University
Chair: Jessica Brantley, Yale University
Barbara Newman, “Persona: Coinherence, Performance, and the Inner Self”
Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago, “Vas admirabile, opus Excelsi: The Virgin Mary as the Container of God”
Nicholas Watson, Harvard University, “The Whited Sepulchre: Towards a History of Hypocrisy, 1100-1400”
9. The Middle Ages in Film
Organizer and Chair: Brian Noell, Quinnipiac University
Martha W. Driver, Pace University, “What’s Right with this Picture? Meaning and Memory in Medieval Movies”
Carl James Grindley, Eugenio María de Hostos College, City University of New York, “Dante, Doré, Damned, and Dumb”
Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages, “King Arthur, Warrior Woman of Camelot? The Transformation of the Matter of Britain in TYPE-MOON’s Fate/stay night Franchise (2004– )”
5:30-7:00 Opening Reception British Art Center, with major funding from the Yale University Art Gallery
Friday, March 19
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast Linsly-Chittenden Hall
8:00-6:00 Registration Linsly-Chittenden Hall
8:30-10:00 Plenary Session
10. CARA Session: Beyond Vikings: Identity and Belief in Medieval Scandinavia
Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA)
Organizer: Thomas Goodmann, University of Miami
Chair: Nancy Wicker, University of Mississippi
Sverre Håkon Bagge, University of Bergen, “Snorri and Saxo: The Meeting between Latin and Vernacular Historiography in Scandinavia”
Olle Ferm, Stockholm University, “‘A good joke is now told about all abbots’: Just a Comic Tale or a Harsh Satire on Monastic Life?”
Brian Patrick McGuire, Roskilde University, “When Heaven Came Closer: The Coming of Pastoral Christianity to Medieval Denmark”
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea
10:30-12.15 Concurrent Sessions
11. Global French, Multilingual France in the High Middle Ages
Organizer and Chair: R. Howard Bloch, Yale University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Old French in/and the Medieval Mediterranean”
Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University, “Tour de Babel and lo parler materno”
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University, “The Most Delectable of Languages”
12. A Millennium Ago: Courtiers and Bishops 1010
Organizer and Chair: C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer P. Kingsley, Columbia University, “Aesthetic Self-Consciousness and Aesthetic Reform in the Imperial Church”
Helmut Flachenecker, Universität Würzburg, “1010: A Bishopric Is Born, Foreigners Have to Go?”
Gerd Althoff, Universität Münster, “Bishops and Other Magnates at the Court of Emperor Henry II”
Courtney de Mayo, University of Houston, “The West Frankish Bishops and the Early Capetian State, 987-1031”
13. Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Interaction
Organizer and Chair: Nora Berend, University of Cambridge
Kathryn A. Miller, Stanford University, “Operating an Interfaith Institution: Redemption of Christian and Muslim Captives in the Medieval Mediterranean”
Thomas Devaney, Brown University, “Religion, Community, and Spectacle in Jaén and Cyprus”
Micha J. Perry, Yale University, “Jewish Heaven, Christian Hell: A Twelfth-Century Jewish Perception of the Afterlife”
Alexandra Cuffel, Independent Scholar, “Ten Tribes as Muslim Trope: Intersections in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Apocalyptic”
14. Round Table: Medieval Economic History and Robert Lopez
Organizer: Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia
Chair: Kathryn L. Reyerson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Participants: John H. Pryor, University of Sydney; James Masschaele, Rutgers University; James M. Murray, Western Michigan University; Richard W. Unger.
15. The Gift of Literature: New Perspectives on Medieval Patronage and Literary Circulation
Organizer and Chair: Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia
Jeanette Patterson, Johns Hopkins University, “Stolen Scriptures: The Wartime Politics of Owning the Bible historiale”
Jennifer E. Naumann, Florida State University, “Problematizing Patronage: The Book as Gift and the Repackaging of Harley MS 4431”
Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, “‘Circuits of power’: A Model for Rereading Poet-Patron Relations in Late-Medieval Defences of Women”
16. Gregory of Tours Reappraised
Organizer and Chair: Walter Goffart, Yale University
Alexander Callander Murray, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “The Political Perspective of Gregory of Tours’ Histories”
Joachim Henning, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, “Sixth-Century Gaul’s Transformation: Gregory Read by an Archaeologist”
Joaquín Martínez Pizarro, State University of New York, Stony Brook, “The Pathos of Pretenders: Gundovald, Munderic, and Gisulf in Gregory of Tours’ Histories”
Andrew Gillett, Macquarie University, “Love and Grief in Merovingian Diplomacy”
17. The Medieval Book: Structure and Symbol
Organizer: Raymond Clemens, Illinois State University
Chair: Sarah Kelen, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Catherine Brown, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Remember the Hand: Early Iberian Scribes and the Articulate Codex”
Diane J. Reilly, Indiana University, “Scribebant auro: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Choir Manuscript”
Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh, “Romance Illustration as Symbol: Choices, Placements, and Treatments”
18. Beauty in the Two Cities: Religious Faith and Embodied Perception
Organizer: Sara Lipton, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Chair: Miri Rubin, Queen Mary College, University of London
Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia, “On Liturgy and Beauty”
Sara Lipton, “Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder”
Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania, “Sensing Torah: A Medieval Jewish Thinker on Beauty as a Springboard to Faith”
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Plenary Session
19. Medieval Academy of America Business Meeting
Presider: Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University
Presentation of reports; election of officers; awarding of prizes
2:00-3:45 Concurrent Sessions
20. From Medieval to Early Modern: Continuity or Change
Organizer and Chair: Jim Rhodes, Southern Connecticut State University
David Aers, Duke University, “A Second Whisper”
James Simpson, Harvard University, “Diachronic Dialogue, or Shouting across a Century”
21. A Millennium Ago: Thought 1010: Where Theory Met Practice
Organizer and Chair: Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University
Faith Wallis, McGill University, “Chartres and Medicine’s ‘theoretical turn’ in the Eleventh Century”
Florence Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University, “Libri passionorum: Guarimpotus on the Passions of the Saints and the Diseases of the Body”
Domenico Lanera, Independent Scholar, “The Geometric Design of Castel del Monte Decoded”
22. Jewish Identities
Organizer and Chair: Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College, Hartford
Suzanne Yeager, Fordham University, “Medieval Jewish Identity and the Image of the City Besieged”
Wolfram Drews, Universität Bonn, “Jewish Identity in the High Middle Ages. Megillat Ahimaaz as Evidence for the Intersection of Different Cultural Traditions”
David Shyovitz, University of Pennsylvania, “The Origins of the ‘Mourner’s Kaddish’: Theological Adaptation and Interreligious Polemic in Medieval Jewish Liturgy”
Yosi Israeli, Tel Aviv University, “Undermining and Constructing Jewishness in conversos Identity: Profiat Duran and Pablo de Santa María”
23. Round Table: The Practical Uses of Manuscripts in Research and Teaching (Graduate Student Committee Session)
Organizer and Chair: Andrew Kraebel, Yale University
Participants: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Consuelo W. Dutschke, Columbia University; Martin Foys, Drew University; Fiona Somerset, Duke University
24. The Aesthetics of Enigma in Medieval Literature
Organizer and Chair: Jeff Rider, Wesleyan University
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College, “Laughter Where You Least Expect It: The Puzzling Pleasures of Humor”
Irit Ruth Kleiman, Boston University, “The Enigma of Origin, or Whom the Grail Serves”
Lucie Dolezalová, Charles University, Prague, “The Charm and Challenge of Textual Enigma in Twelfth-Century Latin Literature”
25. Food, Drink, Environment, and Crisis in Northern Europe
Organizer: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS) Society
Chair: Tim Newfield, McGill University
John H. Munro, University of Toronto, “Changing Patterns of Alcoholic Consumption in Late-Medieval Flanders: The Relative Shift from Wine to Beer Consumption, as Revealed in the Excise Taxes, 1300–1500”
Richard Oram, University of Stirling, “Evaporating Profits? Economic and Environmental Benefits and Costs of Sea-Salt Manufacture in Medieval Scotland”
Nils Hybel, University of Copenhagen, “Food Supplies, Long Distance Trade, Climate, and Population, 1000-1350”
Philip Slavin, Yale University, “The Impact of War on the Fourteenth-Century Food Crisis in England”
26. Round Table: The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Organizer: Paul Freedman, Yale University
Chair: Adam J. Kosto, Columbia University
Participants: Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara; Geoffrey Koziol, University of California, Berkeley; Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University.
Respondent: Thomas N. Bisson, Harvard University
27. “The Loveliness of Many-Colored Gems”: Jewels in the Middle Ages
Organizers: Valerie Allen, John Jay College, City University of New York, and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Rhode Island School of Design
Chair: Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles
Brigitte Buettner, Smith College, “Neither Dead nor Alive: Precious Stones’ Paradoxical Materiality”
Karen Eileen Overbey, Tufts University, “Seeing through Skin: Gems, Jewels, and Crystals on Medieval Reliquaries”
Adin Lears, Cornell University, “Glittery Things: The Jeweled Rhetoric of Sanctity and Female Homoaffective Desire in Hali Meidenhad and the Passion of St. Margaret”
Respondent: G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., Georgetown University
3:45-4:15 Coffee and tea
4:15-6:00 Concurrent Sessions
28. John Boswell’s Medieval World
Organizer: María Rosa Menocal, Yale University
Chair: Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Ralph Hexter, Hampshire College, “‘In the spring of 1410 the saint came to Barcelona’: Fragments of an Unfinished Historical Novel by John Boswell”
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago, “The Power of Love in John Boswell’s Spain of the Three Religions”
María Rosa Menocal, “John Boswell’s Medieval Spain: That Stop on the Road to Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality”
29. Anselm of Laon and His School
Organizer and Chair: John Wei, Grinnell College
Cédric Giraud, Université de Nancy 2, “Anselm of Laon in the Twelfth-Century Schools: Between fama and memoria”
Alexander Andrée, University of Toronto, “In principio erat uerbum: the Gospel of John, Anselm of Laon, and the Origins of a Standard Commentary to the Bible”
Suzanne M. LaVere, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, “‘Preach, O Gathering of My Friends!’ The Active Life in Anselm of Laon’s Song of Songs Commentary and the Glossa Ordinaria”
30. Old English Studies: A Celebration of Fred C. Robinson
Chair: Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University
Mary Blockley, University of Texas, Austin, “Assimilative Variation, or, Come Mighty Must! Inevitable Shall!”
Mary K. Ramsey, Southeastern Louisiana University, “What’s in a Name If the Name Be Christ’s?”
Theo Vennemann, Universität München, “Athel, atheling, ethel: Origin and Decline of a Noble Family of Words”
J. R. Hall, University of Mississippi, “The Sword Hrunting in Beowulf: Unlocking the Word hord”
31. Planning the Action: Editions and Translations of Medieval Ordinals and Customaries
Organizer and Chair: Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame and Yale University
Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University, “Assembling the Ordinal of Monte Cassino”
Susan Boynton, Columbia University, and Isabelle Cochelin, University of Toronto, “A Collaborative Edition and Translation of the Cluniac Customary of Bernard”
Peter Jeffery, University of Notre Dame and Princeton University, “How Do You Get to St. Mary Major? Three Itineraries through the Eighth-Century Ordo Romanus Primus”
32. Medieval Holy Women at Home and Abroad
Organizer and Chair: Rosalynn Voaden, Arizona State University
Ann Marie Caron, Saint Joseph College, “The Liber Specialis Gratiae in Two Contexts”
Jane Tylus, New York University, “Habits of Writing: Catherine of Siena, and Late Medieval Women’s Literacy”
Claire Sahlin, Texas Woman’s University, “Violence against Women, Sexual Purity, and Ascetic Spirituality in the Lives of Holy Women of Medieval Scandinavia”
33. Communication and Reform in Medieval Italy
Organizer and Chair: Maureen C. Miller, University of California, Berkeley
Alison Locke Perchuk, Los Angeles, “Monastic Identity and Reform: Strategies of Visual and Material Communication in Twelfth-Century Lazio”
Kathryn L. Jasper, University of California, Berkeley, “Between Papal and Local Reform: Peter Damian and the Administration of Monastic Property”
Benjamin Brand, University of North Texas, “Echoes of Ecclesiastical Reform in the Liturgies of Medieval Tuscany”
34. New Voices in Medieval Paleography: How Manuscripts Speak to Us in a Digital Age
Organizer and Chair: Barbara A. Shailor, Yale University
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, University of Missouri, Kansas City, “Medieval Manuscripts in a Remote American Collection: Preserved, Protected, and Accessible”
William P. Stoneman, Harvard University, “New Science out of Old Books: New Tools for the Study of Medieval Paleography”
David Ganz, King’s College, University of London, “Digital Scriptorium and the Study of the Earliest Latin Manuscripts in North America”
35. Performance Theory and Medieval Texts
Organizer and Chair: Irina Dumitrescu, Southern Methodist University
Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State University, “Performing Legal Discourse in the Trentham Manuscript”
James A. Schultz, University of California, Los Angeles, “Performance and Performativity in the Middle High German Frauenlied”
Thomas Meacham, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Exchanging Words: Patronage and Epistolary Performance in Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.14.5”
Respondent: Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
6:15-7:30 Reception Beinecke Library, with major funding from Cambridge University Press
7:30-9:00 Banquet
Saturday, March 20
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast Linsly-Chittenden Hall
8:00-1:00 Registration Linsly-Chittenden Hall
9:00-10:00 Plenary Session
36. Presidential Address
Introduction: Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University, “Speculum: Reflections on the Shattered Surface of Late Medieval Art”
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea
10:30-12:15 Concurrent Sessions
37. Revisiting the Spanish Kingdoms: Session in Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of J. N. Hillgarth
Organizers: Ann Kuzdale, Chicago State University; Lucy Pick, University of Chicago; Thomas Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto.
Chair: Ann Kuzdale
Miguel Gomez, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “‘Si finirem vitam meam in exercitu contra sarracenos’: The Wills of Las Navas de Tolosa”
Natalie Oeltjen, University of Toronto, “Money Talks: Fiscal Realities and the Shaping of Converso Identity in Majorca, 1391-1416”
Damian Smith, St. Louis University, “Crusade, Heresy, and Inquisition in and around the Lands of the Crown of Aragon, c. 1167-1276”
Respondent: Lucy Pick
38. A Millennium Ago: Law 1010
Organizer: Greta Austin, University of Puget Sound
Chair: Robert Somerville, Columbia University
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, “The Secularization of Islamic Law”
Charles M. Radding, Michigan State University, “Secular Law in Northern Italy”
Greta Austin, “The Rise of Western Canon Law in the Year 1010”
39. Jewish-Christian Relations and Vernacular Culture
Organizer and Chair: Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London
Ruth Nisse, Wesleyan University, “The Wars of the Sons of Jacob and the Rebirth of Epic in Early Medieval Europe”
Susan Einbinder, Hebrew Union College, “Jewish Physicians and Their Poetry: Responses to Christian Medicine Reflected in Verse”
Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of Dayton, “Rendering the Unseen Visible: The Language of Thirteenth-Century Manuscript Pictorials”
Lisa Lampert-Weissig, University of California, San Diego, “Temporality and the Myth of the Jew”
40. Medieval Drama: New Approaches
Organizer and Chair: Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland
Lynn Staley, Colgate University, “Wasteland and Dissolution”
Gail McMurray Gibson, Davidson College, “Medieval Drama in Afterlife: Early Modern Collectors and the Mystery Plays”
Helen Solterer, Duke University, “Three Paradoxes of Medieval Performance: Chartres 1935-1945”
41. Multilingualism and Macaronics
Organizer and Chair: Elizabeth Archibald, University of Bristol
Donna Alfano Bussell, University of Illinois, Springfield, “Penitence, Code-Switching, and the Inner Life in the Ancrene Wisse”
Simon Meecham-Jones, University of Cambridge, “Language Contact in the Welsh Penumbra: Evidence from MS Brogyntyn II”
Mark Amsler, University of Auckland, “Multilingual Literacies, Writing across Languages”
42. Revisiting Enclosure: New Approaches to the Study of Medieval Women’s Religious Life
Organizers: Arbeitsgruppe geistliche Frauen im europäischen Mittelalter / Sigrid Schmitt, Universität Trier, and Alison Beach, Universität zu Köln
Chair: Alison Beach
Gisela Muschiol, Universität Bonn, “A Legacy of the Fathers: The Reception of Late Antique Concepts of Enclosure in the Early Middle Ages”
Julian Hendrix, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, “Gender and Intercessory Prayer in Carolingian Monasticism”
Jasmin Hoven, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Projekt Germania Sacra, “Noble Nuns: between Contact, Claustration, and Isolation”
Sigrid Schmitt, “‘We Poor, sorrowful, god-captivated.’ Communities of Enclosed and Non-Enclosed Religious Women in the Late Middle Ages”
43. Script as Image: Epigraphy and Inscription in Medieval Art
Organizer and Chair: Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
Ben C. Tilghman, Walters Art Museum, “Letters of Expanded Meaning in Insular Manuscripts”
Joshua O’Driscoll, Harvard University, “Visual Vortex: An Ineffable Image from an Ottonian Gospel Book”
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center, “The Inscribed Image: Sculpture, Epigraphy, and the Making of Public Art”
Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross, “Christ’s Golden Voice: Inscriptions at the Papal Palace, Avignon”
44. Cicero Refused to Die: The Fate of the Classics in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate University
Chair: Sabine G. MacCormack, University of Notre Dame
Nancy van Deusen, “Medieval Cicero through the Eyes of Quintilian”
Frank T. Coulson, Ohio State University, “Reading Ovid in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance”
Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania, “The Advanced Authors in the Grammatical Curricula”
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:15 Concurrent Sessions
45. Round Table: The Toronto Feminists: How Did We Get Here from There? And Where Is “Here”?
Organizer and Chair: Nancy Partner, McGill University
Participants: Judith M. Bennett, University of Southern California; Kathleen Biddick, Temple University; Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University; Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University.
46. Law, Church, and Crown in the Long Twelfth Century
Organizer: Joshua C. Tate, Southern Methodist University
Chair: Dominique Bauer, Sint-Lucas, Belgium
Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University, and Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University, “Once a Tyrant, Always a Tyrant? John of Salisbury and the Becket Problem”
Emily K. Wood, Clemson University, “The Pragmatism of Protection: Philip Augustus’s Defense of the Church”
Joshua C. Tate, “Property, Patronage, and the Birth of the Common Law”
47. The Manuals of Instruction and Social Control in Fourteenth-Century England
Organizer: Margaret Jennings, Boston College
Chair: Stephen F. Brown, Boston College
Margaret Jennings, “The 1350 Revision of the Speculum Curatorum: Catechesis and Complaint as Tools for Social Control”
Eugene Crook, Florida State University, “Ranulph Higden ‘Edits’ Magna Carta: Maintaining Social Control as Mores Change”
Michael Haren, Dublin, “Confession, Social Ethics, and Social Discipline: The Case and Context of the Memoriale Presbiterorum”
48. Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer and Chair: Ralph W. Mathisen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John Matthews, Yale University, “The Place of Classical Antiquity in Late Antiquity”
Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University, Chicago, “The Emotions of Late Antiquity: Bridges or Ruptures with the Classical and Medieval Worlds?”
Danuta Shanzer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Practice, Ritual, Law: Continuity and Change in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”
49. A Millennium Ago: Art 1010
Organizer and Chair: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Jonathan M. Bloom, Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University, “The Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (996-1021) and the Arts”
Carolyn Malone, University of Southern California, “Saint-Bénigne in Dijon (1001-1018) and Bishop Bruno’s Ambitions during the Burgundian Wars”
William J. Diebold, Reed College, “‘Enthusiasm is astir for the great German rulers of the past: precisely at a time when there are no more emperors’: Exhibiting Ottonian Art in Modern Germany”
50. Tree Lines: Nature and Culture in Medieval Woodlands
Organizer and Chair: Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Matthew Scribner, Queen’s University, Kingston, “Tree and Technology: Articulating the Ecological in The Dream of the Rood”
Laura L. Howes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Forests in Middle English Romance: On the Page and on the Ground”
Richard L. Keyser, Western Kentucky University, “Common Rights, Eminent Domain, and Sustainability in Medieval Woodlands”
51. Chaucer Criticism: The Next Ten Years
Organizer and Chair: Alastair Minnis, Yale University
Robert W. Hanning, Columbia University, “Toward a New Chaucerian Synthesis: Possible? Desirable?”
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto, “Chaucer in Circulation”
Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Oon of thyne eyen thre’: Chaucer in the Future”
52. Dante: Theology, the Arts, and Poetry
Organizers: Filippo Naitana, Mt. Holyoke College, and Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
Chair: Filippo Naitana
Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley, “Authors and Readers, Active and Passive: Recanting De Vulgari Eloquentia 2.8 in Purgatorio 2”
Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University, “The Poetry of Theology and the Theology of Poetry: from Dante’s Lyrics to the Paradiso”
Ronald L. Martinez, Brown University, “‘Benedictus qui venis’: Palm Sunday in Dante’s Works”
3:15-3:45 Coffee and Tea
4:00-5:30 Plenary Session
53. Fellows Session
Organizer: Fellows of the Medieval Academy
Presider: Joan M. Ferrante, Columbia University
Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows
Charles Donahue, Jr., Harvard Law School, “The Legal Professions of Fourteenth-Century England”
5:30-7:00 Closing Reception Whitney Humanities Center
22–25 March 2010. "Old St Peter's Rome," a conference at the British School at Rome, Italy. The basilica that was built by Constantine at the Vatican in the early fourth century to mark the burial place of the Apostle Peter became the central place for Christian worship in the West for more than a millennium until its protracted demolition over the course of the sixteenth century. The essential chronology of the construction of Old St Peter's, and the major modifications made to its fabric over subsequent centuries, are well established. But a great many questions remain to be answered about details of the building and its monuments, and on the ways in which the basilica and its environs functioned as a 'theatre' of worship, burial and power throughout the middle ages from the fourth to sixteenth centuries. Confirmed contributors include: Prof. Dr. Lex Bosman and Prof. Dr. Bram Kempers (Univ. of Amsterdam) ; Prof. Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins Univ.) ; Prof. Paolo Liverani (Università degli studi di Firenze) ; Prof. Rosamond McKitterick (Univ. of Cambridge) ; Dr. Richard Gem (UK) ; Dr. Pietro Zander (Reverenda Fabbrica di San Pietro). Contact: John Osborne, Carleton Univ., Canada (john_osborne@carleton.ca); Carol Richardson, Open Univ., UK (c.m.richardson@open.ac.uk); or Joanna Story, Univ. of Leicester, UK (js73@le.ac.uk).
Programme – updated February 15 2010
SPEAKERS
Monday 22 March
Plenary lecture (18.00–19.00 as part of the BSR public lecture series)
Paolo Liverani (Università degli studi di Firenze), St. Peter’s and the City of Rome
between the Late Antique and the Early Middle Ages
Tuesday 23 March
Session I 09.00-10.30 Chair for session I – Christopher Smith (British School at Rome)
Opening of conference and welcome - Christopher Smith (Director of the British
School at Rome)
Pietro Zander (Fabbrica di San Pietro in Vaticano), La costruzione della basilica costantiniana nelle testimonianze superstiti della Necropoli di San Pietro
Richard Gem (UK), Constantine, Constans and St Peter's: A New Solution to the Building History of the 4th-century Basilica
Session II 11.00-12.30
Lex Bosman (University of Amsterdam), Spolia in the Fourth-century Basilica
Joan Barclay Lloyd (LaTrobe University, Melbourne), Revisiting Old St. Peter's with Richard Krautheimer
Olof Brandt (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana), The Early Christian Baptistery of St. Peter's
Session III 14.00-15.30 Chair for sessions III and IV - Serena Romano (Université de Lausanne)
Meaghan McEvoy (Dumbarton Oaks/ University of Oxford ), The Mausoleum of Honorius: Late Roman Imperial Christianity and the City of Rome in the Fifth Century
Judson J. Emerick (Pomona College), Did the Early Christian Sant'Anastasia copy Old St. Peter's?
Annie Labatt (Yale University), The Life of the Roman “Anastasis” in Old St. Peter's from John VII to Formosus
Session IV 16.00-17.30
Antonella Ballardini (Università degli studi Roma Tre), Per una ricostruzione dell'oratorio di Giovanni VII nell'antica basilica Vaticana: la decorazione architettonica e scultorea
Paola Pogliani (Università degli studi della Tuscia), Per una ricostruzione dell'oratorio di Giovanni VII (705-707) nell'antica basilica Vaticana: i mosaici
Per Jonas Nordhagen (University of Bergen), Palladium of the Urbs: The Orant Maria Regina of A.D. 705-707. Byzantine Image-making before Iconoclasm
Wednesday 24 March
Respondent/chair for sessions V and VI - Yitzhak Hen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Session V 09.00-10.30
Alan Thacker (IHR University of London), Clergy and Custodes at Old St Peter's, 4th- 8th Centuries
Eamonn O'Carragain (University of Cork), Interactions Between Liturgy and Politics in Old St Peter's, 670-740: John the Archcantor, Sergius and Gregory II and III
Peter Jeffery (University of Notre Dame), The Roman Liturgical Year and the Early Liturgy of St. Peter's
Session VI 11.00-12.30
Charles McClendon (Brandeis University), Old St Peter's and the Iconoclastic Controversy
Ann van Dijk (Northern Illinois University), Old St. Peter's and the Cult of Icons in Rome
Session VII 14.00-15.30
Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge), The Role of Old St Peter's in the Liber Pontificalis
Joanna Story (Leicester University), The Carolingians and Old St Peter's
Caroline Goodson (Birkbeck College, University of London), Old St Peters and the political topography of Carolingian Rome
Session VIII 16.00-17.30
Carmela Vircillo Franklin (American Academy in Rome), The Legendary of St Peter's Basilica: Hagiographic Traditions and Innovations in the Late 11th century
John Osborne (Carleton University), Plus Caesare Petrus: The Medieval Understanding of the Vatican Obelisk
Thursday 25 March
Session IX 09.00-10.30
Katharina Christa Schüppel (Leipzig University), The Stucco Crucifix of St. Peter's: Textual Sources and Visual Evidence on the Renaissance Copy of a Medieval Silver Crucifix
Carol M. Richardson (The Open University), Papal tombs in Old St Peter's after Avignon
Robert Glass (Princeton University), Filarete's Renovation of the Porta Argentea at Old St. Peter's
Session X 11.00-12.30
Catherine Fletcher (Rome Fellow, British School at Rome), The Altar of St Maurice
and the Invention of Tradition in St Peter’s
Bram Kempers (University of Amsterdam), A Hybrid History: The Antique Basilica with a Modern Dome
Close of conference – Susan Russell (British School at Rome)
"Voix de femmes médiévales / Medieval Women's Voices,"
26–27 March 2010. "Voix de femmes médiévales / Medieval Women's Voices," colloque du Centre d'Etudes Médiévales Anglaises (CEMA) à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4). Contact: Gloria Cigman (gloria.cigman@orange.fr; http://www.cema.paris4.fr). Consultez le programme du colloque et visualisez la couverture du programme.
The Mid-Atlantic Renaissance-Reformation Seminar (MARRS) 26–27 March 2010. The Mid-Atlantic Renaissance-Reformation Seminar (MARRS), at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia. The plenary address by Melissa Meriam Bullard will be on “The Secrets of a Renaissance Merchant in His Studiolo.” Call for papers: submit a proposal for a twenty-minute paper by 19 December to David S. Peterson, History Dept., Washington and Lee Univ., Lexington, VA 24450 (540-458-8094; fax: 540-458-8498; petersond@wlu.edu; http://mrst.wlu.edu).
Mid-Atlantic Renaissance-Reformation Seminar (marrs) March 26-27, 2010 - Conference Program
Friday Evening, March 26
5:00- 6:15 PM: Opening Reception, Alumni House (#1 on map)
8:30-10:00 AM:Panel I: Italian Studies (Northen Auditorium)
Moderator: George Bent, Washington and Lee University.
Anthony J. Lichi, Old Dominion University, "From the Good Death to the Art of Dying
Well. Petrarch, Savonarola and Deathbed Imagery."
Alan Cottrell, Montclair State University, "The Physicality of Poliziano's Language in
the Miscellanea."
Robert Policelli, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Between Fortuna and Virtù:
The Idea of Italia in Machiavelli's Last Years."
10:00-10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 AM: Panel II: Travelling East (Northen Auditorium)
Moderator: Domnica Radulescu, Washington and Lee University.
Pascale Barthe, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, "(Re)capturing Constantinople: Poetics of Conquest in Bertrand de La Borderie's Discours du voyage de Constantinoble (1542)."
Rosemary Lee, University of Virginia, "Observing Trifles in Jerusalem: Pietro della Valle and the Holy Fire of 1616."
11:30-11:45AM: Coffee Break
11:45 AM -12:45 PM: Panel III: To the North (Northen Auditorium)
Moderator: Holly Pickett, Washington and Lee University.
Jeff Persels, University of South Carolina, "A Huguenot Keeping Catholic Accounts: The Polemical Uses of Corporate Greed, Circa 1580."
Clifton W. Potter, Jr., Lynchburg College, "'Life Upon the Wicked Stage . . . .' Elizabeth I in Nineteenth-Century Drama."
Conference Registration:
Please send me a check for $35.00, which includes the price of the banquet, made out to Washington and Lee University, by March 12. The menu will include chicken, beef, seafood and vegetarian choices, and the chicken and beef items can be prepared gluten free. You need not choose now, but please indicate if you have any special dietary requirements.
David S. Peterson
History Department, Baker Hall
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8094
petersond@wlu.edu
Lodging
Rooms will be available at Lexington's Hampton Inn Col Alto, 401 East Nelson St., for a conference rate of $99.00 + tax. For reservations call (540) 463-2223 before March 14, 2010. Indicate that you will be participating in the conference. Note: Hampton Inn Col Alto has extended the deadline to receive the $99 conference rate to March 14.
"Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations," 26–27 March 2010. "Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations," an international workshop organized by the Department of History of York University and the Graduate School "Human Development in Landscapes," at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, to be held on the Keele Campus of York University, Toronto, Canada. This is the Fourth International Workshop of the Interdisciplinary Association "Gentes trans Albiam - Europe East of the Elbe in the Middle Ages." Landscapes can be defined, in the words of Denis E. Cosgrove, as "visibly distinct regions." Landscapes can be understood as the natural environments in which a society is embedded, or as the set of representations with which members of a society observe and describe a region and give it significance. The idea of landscape is dependant on the one hand on the material reality of a given region, on the other hand on the sense attached to it by human beings beholding it. Medieval Europe east of the Elbe presents an interesting field for the investigation of landscape transformations. The area is characterized by many features that clearly distinguishes it from the Mediterranean regions throughout the Middle Ages—absence of Roman traditions, late appearance of Latin culture, colonization movement, chartered towns. There were generally independent developments concerning society, economy, and religion which led to the creation of a distinct cultural area. All of this makes this part of the European continent attractive for a consideration of large-scale and longue durée interactions between landscapes and societies. The workshop will bring together a small group of young scholars (16 papers) from North America and Europe working in the fields of archaeology, history, palaeobotany and palaeozoology. Call for papers: Papers in the fields of history, archaeology and related disciplines are invited. The papers should present a link with parts of Europe outside the borders of the Roman Empire as well as with environmental and/or social history. The main focus will be on the medieval period but papers dealing with Antiquity are invited, too. Doctoral students and young scholars will be particularly considered. Please send a short abstract (less than one page) and a CV by e-mail to one of the organizers by 20 October 2009. Deadline for abstracts: 20 October 2009. Invitations will depend upon available funding. A publication following the workshop is considered. Contact: Sunhild Kleingärtner (skleingaertner@ufg.uni-kiel.de), Sébastien Rossignol (rossigno@yorku.ca), or Donat Wehner (donatwehner@gshdl.uni-kiel.de).
Friday, 26 March 2010
9.00-9.20 Welcome
- Carolyn Podruchny (York University): For the Department of History
- Sébastien Rossignol (York University): Presentation of the Interdisciplinary Association “Gentes trans Albiam – Europe East of the Elbe in the Middle Ages”
- Sunhild Kleingärtner, Ulrich Müller, Donat Wehner (University of Kiel): Presentation of the Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes” at the University of Kiel
- Grischa Vercamer (German Historical Institute in Warsaw): Presentation of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw
9.20-9.35 Sunhild Kleingärtner, Donat Wehner (University of Kiel), Sébastien Rossignol (York University): Introduction to the subject “Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe. Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations”
9.35-10.15 First Keynote Address
Chair: Richard C. Hoffmann (York University)
- Piotr Górecki (University of California at Riverside): People, land, and settlement “East of the Elbe,” 1150–1310: A very large subject in a very small place
10.15-10.25 Discussion
10.25-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-12.00 Session 1 Colonization, expansion, and the environment
Chair: Sébastien Rossignol (York University)
- Corneliu Varlan (Université Laval): Présence romaine au Nord-ouest de la mer Noire et son impact sur la société et l’environnement de la région
- Artur Blażejewski (University of Wrocław): Cultural changes in the upper Oder basin in late Antiquity
- Timothy Newfield (McGill University): The Eastern European origins of early medieval livestock pestilences
12.00-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Session 2 Communications and networks
Chair: Richard C. Hoffmann (York University)
- Martin Gravel (Université de Montréal): Les missi impériaux et la conquête de l’Est : les défis de la communication dans l’expansion orientale de l’Empire carolingien
- Sarah Nelly Friedland (University of Kiel): Network analysis in Slavonic archaeology – An example from the Plön area in Wagria (Schleswig-Holstein)
- Kai Schaper (University of Kiel): Cultural landscapes and aspects of Slavonic musical instruments and soundtool
15.15-15.45 Discussion
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-17.30 Session 3 Encountering the environment
Chair: Sunhild Kleingärtner (University of Kiel)
- Ülle Sillasoo (Tallinn University): A cultural history of plants in medieval Livonia
- Ulrich Schmölcke (Kiel): Animals in the ports of trade of the Baltic sea
- Magdalena Wieckowska (University of Kiel): Settlement history on the basis of pollen analysis in the Middle Ages
17.30-18.00 Discussion
Saturday, 27 March 2010
9.00-9.40 Second Keynote Address
Chair: Sébastien Rossignol (York University)
- Jüri Kivimäe (University of Toronto): Colonizing the landscape: a
case study of medieval Livonia
9.40-9.50 Discussion
9.50-10.40 Session 4 Perception of landscapes
Chair: Donat Wehner (University of Kiel)
- Andris Šnē (University of Latvia): Landscape and long-term change: Sense of place, centrality, and identity in medieval Livonia
- Heidi M. Sherman (University of Wisconsin Green Bay): Staking the Novgorodian frontier: The Orthodox Christianization of Staraia Ladoga’s pagan landscape in the twelfth century
10.40-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.35 Session 5 Taming of nature
Chair: Ulrich Müller (University of Kiel)
- Ben Krause-Kyora (University of Kiel): “Pig in a poke.” Molecular-genetic and archaeological investigations at early mediaeval pigs (Sus scrofa) in North-East-Europe
- Ingo Petri (University of Kiel): Topography of metal handicrafts
- Daniel Zwick (University of Kiel): Dynamics for cultural change in the Baltic Sea region in the age of the Northern Crusades: A maritime archaeological perspective
12.35-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.35 Session 6 Social formation and symbolic landscapes
Chair: Colin M. Coates (York University)
- Krzysztof Fokt (University of Wrocław), Archaeological remarks on rural landscapes in Silesia and Upper Lusatia
- Tomasz Gidaszewski, Jarosław Suproniuk, Marta Piber Zbieranowska, Michał Zbieranowski (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences): Transformations of the natural landscapes of the Upper Noteć Region from the tenth to the sixteenth century
15.35-15.50 Discussion
15.50-16.10 Coffee break
16.10-17.00 Session 7 Political and social transformations
Chair: Grischa Vercamer (German Historical Institute in Warsaw)
- Przemysław Wiszewski (University of Wrocław), Power, memory and political landscape in the late middle ages
- Cameron M. Sutt (Austin Peay State University): “The empty land” and the end of slavery: social transformation in thirteenth-century Hungary
17.00-17.20 Discussion
17.20-18.00 Session 8 Interaction between physical environment and social landscape
Richard C. Hoffmann (York University): Summarizing remarks
All participants: Interdisciplinary Roundtable Discussion
Kontakt:
Sunhild Kleingärtner
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Uni
Johanna-Mestorf. Str. 2-6, D-24118 Kiel
0431/880-7115
0431/880-7300
skleingaertner@ufg.uni-kiel.de
26–27 March 2010. "Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega: A Graduate Symposium on the Poet's Universe," is sponsored by the Department of Italian Language and Literature, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Dante's Divine Comedy is a totalizing vision—a work emanating from and culminating in the poet's glimpse of a universe "bound with love in a single volume." In the twenty-first century, the goals of universal digitization and constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed from Dante's vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic impulse that stretches back to, and extends well beyond, the fourteenth century. "Dante's Volume from Alpha to Omega" will explore how the encyclopedism of today can enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante's universe and its poetic representation. The keynote speaker will be Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University). Call for papers: in the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may include, but are not limited to the following: Receptions of Dante: commentary, exegesis, and philology Representations of Dante: the visual, acoustic, and cinematic arts Dante and the place of language Dante and the sciences Poetry as knowledge and self-knowledge In the shadow of the Comedy: the 'minor' works Nature, necessity, and freedom in the Comedy The world outside the secretissima camera: social/institutional history in Dante's time Justice earthly and divine Dante and the lyric tradition Theology, history, and the politics of exile Classical and medieval theories of love Ethics and psychology Style and rhetoric Theological and philosophical debates in the thirteenth century. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9–10 pages of double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or in English. Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a separate page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name, affiliation, and contact information (including telephone and e-mail address). Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to yaledantesymposium@gmail.com by 15 November 2009. Further information will be available on the events webpage of the Yale Italian Department http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html as the symposium draws nearer.
"New Directions in Medieval Scandinavian Studies,"
27–28 March 2010. "New Directions in Medieval Scandinavian Studies," the 30th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, will be held at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, in New York City. This international conference seeks to explore the ways in which traditional interpretations of medieval Scandinavian culture, literature, history, and religion are being challenged or advanced by new methodologies and new questions. Plenary speakers will be Vésteinn Olason, recently Director of the Arni Magnússon Institute in Reykjavík; Matthew Driscoll, Director of the Arnamagnaean Institute in Copenhagen; and a Norwegian scholar now residing in the U.S., Kirsten Seaver. Call for papers: we welcome papers in all disciplines, including art and architecture, archaeology and landscape, folklore, history, law, linguistics and philology, literature, and religion, but we are particularly interested in papers that can speak to larger issues in Scandinavian studies. These include, but are not limited to how to resolve disputes about dating the earliest vernacular texts; orality and literacy; methods of editing vernacular texts and translations; the mechanics and meaning of Christianization; the relationship between sanctity and politics, particularly in terms of saintly rulers; the extent and impact of the Scandinavian diaspora; the periodization and pace of state formation; settlement patterns and social stratification in town and country; and the influence of nationalism and romanticism on interpretative frameworks. Send an abstract and a cover letter with contact information (incl. e-mail address) to Conference Committee, Center for Medieval Studies, FMH 405, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA (fax: 718-817-3987; medievals@fordham.edu).
30–31.March 2010. "Utrumque ius? The Education of a Lawyer," a colloquium to be held at Robinson College, Cambridge. Utrumque ius will focus on the "technical" issues of the discipline: the genres and formats of medieval legal collections; people and books; education "centres"; and the ways lawyers were trained and became professionals. It will also address navigating the books and related literature, as well as the benefits and difficulties of using legal texts as historical sources. The colloquium is aimed chiefly at postgraduate students and early career medievalists. There are a limited number of places and CLASMA (Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages Research Network) would like to invite applications for grants covering the colloquium, accommodation in Cambridge for the nights of 29-30 March, meals including a reception and colloquium dinner on 30 March. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, 24 February 2010. Completed forms and any queries should be addressed to Danica Summerlin, CLASMA Administrative Assistant (clasma.colloquia@googlemail.com).
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