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Tenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval TENTH BIENNIAL NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES Sarasota, Florida March 14, 15, 16, 1996 1996 Conference Summary 1996 Conference Summary A B C D E F Italian Literature 16th C. History Medieval A B c D E F Art Literature Italian Art Literature 16th C. History Medieval Studies History Literature Studies History Literature Literature Session V Demand 16thC . Theory& Shake- Medieval Arthurian Friday for Art: Italian Medieval speare Monarchy Literature 9-10.30 Female Painting Studies I Session I 14th Renegoti- Late Renaiss. Middle AM Devotion Thursday Century ating Old Medieval Civic Life English 9- 10:30 History Stones Courtly Literature AM Literature & Society Session VJ Renais- Renais- Medieval Shake- Medieval Epic Friday sance & sance Feminism, speare England Literature Session II Machia- Perseus, Medieval Spenser Late 11-12;30 The Painting Bpdy- II hurch theory Thursday velli The Poetry and Medieval AM & Style 11-12:30 Medusa& &Music England England AM Androme- Plenary 2:00 PM Lee "Medieval at the End da Session I: Patterson: Studies of the Session III Siena Viewing Medieval 16th C. Early Century" Thursday Narrative French Spain Medieval Session Gender Post Epic Gender in Ren- Dante & 2-3:30 I Literature History VII & Women Plague and Ren. naissance Struggle PM Friday in Italy Italy Tradition Drama Warfare Against 3:30-5 I & Epic Evil PM Session IV Italian Viewing French Marlowe Lombard Thursday Politics Narrative Courtly History 3 45-5.15 & Force II Poetry PM 1996 Conference Summary Se sion Venice Post Lyric Roman- 16th C. Dante, Reception Bayfront vm &Civic Plague Poems: esque Religious History. 5.30-7·00 Saturday Ritual Italy Ren. & Humnism Reform & Poetry 9-10:30 II Others and Art in France AM Plenary Saturday John "A Crisis ession JI 11:00AM ajemy: ofMascu- linity" Session IX Hunting Byzantine Trans- Women Impact Chaucer Saturday &Food Back Alpine Saints of the 1-2.30 ground Exchange Reform- PM of Books at ion Session X Art in Art& Humanism Medieval Old Debate Saturday Ren. Religion in and Monastics English about 2:45-4 l 5 Italy Late 16th Rhetoric Women PM Century Thursday, 14 March Thursday, 14 March Registration: 8:30 - 5:30 p.m., Sudakoff Lobby Session Renaissance Civic Life and Building I D 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. 1080 Sudakoff Center Session Fourteenth Century History: Chronicles and Crises Chair: Robert Benedetti, University of the Pacific I A 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center Chair: TBA "How to Become the Leading Architect: Baccio d'Agnolo, A Career in Florence "Facts and Fables of Urban Violence: Gower, Michael Lingohr, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Chaucer, and the Rising of 1381" Eve Salisbury, SUNY Geneseo "Robert Cecil on the Strand: Architecture and Court Entertainments in Early Modern London" "Describing Plaque in Fourteenth-Century Europe" James M. Sutton, Florida International Duane J. Osheim, University of Virginia University "The Uses of Usury: City and Country in the "Civic Ceremony as Urban History in Early Modern Thirteenth-Century Lucchesia" London" Thomas W. Blomquist, Northern Illinois William Hardin, Virginia Tech University Sessi on Middle English Literature and Society Session Renegotiating Old Stones I E 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sudakoff East Lobby I B 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center Chair: Suzanne Keyworth, Manatee Community College Chair and Organizer: Tina Waldeier Bizzarro "Revisioning Authority: The Court and the Middle "Against a Tower of Babel: Ruskin's Beacons for English Text" Medieval ism" Stephen D. Powell, University of Kentucky Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College "Folk Culture in the Wakefield Noah" "Anti-Rationalism in Fin-de-Siecle French Warren Edminster, Baylor University Appreciation of Medieval Architecture" Kevin Murphy, University of Virginia "The Bull's Bloody Balls and Other Mnemonic Devices" "Domus Ecclesia: Nao-Colonialism, the Protestant Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College Ethos, and the Richardsonian Church" Mark Petersen, Clarkson University Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Session Late Medieval Courtly Literature I C 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center Chair: TBA Burgundy as Poetic Construct: Jean Molinet's Poemes de circonstance" Beverly J. Evans, SUNY Geneseo "La Rose et la Marguerite: Les Epîtres de l'Amant Vert" Lucie Brind'Amour, Louisiana State University 2 3 Thursday, 14 March Thursday, 14 March Session Machiavelli, Then and Now Session Spenser and Elizabethan England II A 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center II D 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 1080 Sudakoff Center Chair: Michael J. Evans, Kenyon College Chair: David Dykstra, New College "A Machiavellian Irony: Dante in the Discorsi" "To Fashion a Patron: Spenser's Fictions of Michael J. Evans, Kenyon College Patronage and The Faerie Queene" Jeffrey B. Morris, Carroll College "The Trials of Fortune, Ambition and Virtu" Jack D'Arnico, Canisius College "Bacon's Spenser: The New Atlantis as Sequel to The Faerie Queene "The Postmodern World of Machiavelli" W. A. Sessions, Georgia State University Edmund E. Jacobitti, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville "Brazil for the Elizabethans" James Seay Dean, University of Wisconsin­ Comment: Victor Santi, University of New Orleans Parkside Session Late Medieval to Tudor England Session Perseus, The Medusa, and Andromeda II E 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby II B 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 1088 Sudakoff Center Chair: Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University Chair and Orgnizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney "Possession: Land and Women in Sir Degrevaunt" "The Gorgon Stare and the Evil Eye: Coral in the Donna Crawford, University of Richmond Renaissance" Helen Roberts, Harvard University "Sinking Bones: Lollards and Relics" Carol Miller, Tallahassee Community College "The Medusa Legacy and the Perseus Legend" Alicia Faxon, Simmons College "The goods or Cattalles of our late Father of Famous memorye: The 1547 Inventory of Henry VIII" "The Legend of Andromeda in Renaissance Art" Maria Hayward, London School of Economics Liana De Girolami Cheney, Univeristy of Massachusetts at Lowell Session Medieval Poetry and Music Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. II C 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center Chair: John Robison, University of South Florida, Tampa "The Figure of the Shepherdess in the Medieval Pastourelle" William D. Paden, Northwestern University "From Narrative Lyric to Jeu, the Transformation of the Traditional Pastourelle in 12th- and 13th­ Century Arras" Matthew Steel, Western Michigan University "Thomas, martyr sanctissimus: Prosas for Thomas Becket" Kay Slocum, Capital University 4 5 Thursday, 14 March Thursday, 14 March Session Renaissance Spanish Literature and Society Session Italian Studies I: Siena III D 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center III A 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room l08A Sudakoff Center Chair: Terry Palls, New College Chair: William M. Bowsky, University of California, Davis "Epistolarity in the Spanish Sentimental Novel, 1440-1550" "Sienese Democracy: an Assessment" James C. Murray, Georgia State University David Hicks, New York University "Penetrating Tongues: Language, Architecture and "The Political Pragmatism of Catherine of Siena" the Body in Celestina" Antonio Rutigliano, New York University Miriam Moore, Emory University "Politics of Catherine of Siena's Virtual Family" "Sixteenth-Century Spanish Nobility" A National F. Thomas Luongo, University of No tre Dame Obsession" Josi I. Suarez, Clemson University Session Visualizing and Viewing Narrative I III B 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 1088 Sudakoff Center · Chair: Mary Weitzel Gibbons, New York Session Early Medieval History Organized by Mary Wietzel Gibbons and Elizabeth III E 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby Rodini Chair: Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Southern Methodist University "Mapping Narrative at San Marco" Elizabeth Rodini, University of Chicago "Cities and Kings: The Literary Evidence for Urbanization in Early Medieval Britain" "Luxury as Signifier: Cross-Cultural Appropriation Christopher A. Snyder, College of William and in the High Middle Ages" Mary Jennifer Spreitzer, University of Chicago "Alfred the Great's Literacy Program: How "The Narrative Object: The Spatial Trajectories of Inclusive Was It?" a Thirteenth-Century Heraldic Box" Susanne s. Thomas, Louisiana State University Lisa Pincus, University of Chicago "Early Medieval Suretyship (fideiussio) in the Burgundian Law" Session Medieval French Literature Dmitri Starostine, Univrsity of Michigan III C 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center Chair: TBA Break 3:30 - 3:45 "Guillaume de Machaut's Prise d'Alexandrie and 14th Century Orientalism" R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University "Keeping Up Appearances: Female Public Conduct in Deschamps' Le Miroir de mariage" Michelle Stoneburner, University of Indianapolis "Lawyers in Love in a Courtly Society: Love Poems in the Guise of Legal Text, or Legal Text in the Guise of Love Poems, in Fifteenth Century France" Joan E. McRae, University of Virginia 7 6 Thursday, 14 March Thursday, 14 March Marlowe Sessi on Session Italian Studies II: Italian Politics and Force IV D 3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Room 1080 Sudakoff Center IV A 3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center Chair: Flora Zbar, University of South Florida Chair: Howard Shealy, Kennesaw State College Organized by Sara M. Deats Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College "Marlowe's Fire: Hero and Leander, Paracelsus, and "Giovanni Villani and Henry VII: A Black Guelph the Life Force" Admirer of the Emperor" Matthew Proser, University of Connecticut Charles T. Davis, Tulane University "Sexuality and Manliness in Edvard II: Putting "The Companies of Adventure and The Decline of Into Perspective 'His Wanton Humor'" Siena, 1342-1399" Robert Logan, University of Hartfort William Caferro, University of Tulsa "The King's Bruised Body: The Inviolability of "The Florentine Criminal Underworld: The Underside Homosexual Love in Marlowe's Edward II" of the Renaissance" Steven Patterson, Temple University Jchn K. Brackett, University of Cincinnati "The Mirror of Venus and the Dart of Mars: The construction of Gender in Marlowe's Tamburlaine" Session Visualizing and Viewing Narrative II IV B Sara M.
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