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Approaching Medieval and Early Modern Cultures IntersectingDisciplines ApproachingMedieval and Early Modern Cultures Edited by Karen Christianson IntersectingDisciplines: ApproachingMedieval and Early Modern Cultures Selected Proceedings of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies 2010 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Edited by Karen Christianson Contributing Editors: Laura Estill, Julie Grissom, David Hahn, Megan Heffernan, Denna Iammarino, April Morris, Dana Schumacher, Amrita Sen, and Beth Zold THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, Chicago, Illinois IntersectingDisciplines: Approaching Medievaland Early ModernCultures Selected Proceedingsof the Newberry Library Center for RenaissanceStudies 2010 Multidisciplinary GraduateStudent Conference EDITOR Karen Christianson TheNewberryLibraryCenterforRenaissanceStudies CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Laura Estill April Morris DepartmentofEnglish,WayneStateUniversity DepartmentofArtHistory, UniversityofTexasatAustin Julie Grissom DepartmentofHistoryofScience, Dana Schumacher UniversityofOklahoma DepartmentofEnglish UniversityofMinnesota David Hahn DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofChicago Amrita Sen DepartmentofEnglish Megan Heffernan MichiganStateUniversity DepartmentofEnglish,UniversityofChicago Beth Zold Denna Iammarino DepartmentofEnglish,IllinoisStateUniversity DepartmentofEnglish,MarquetteUniversity 2010 by the Newberry Library. All rights to the publication Intersecting Disciplines: Approaching Medieval and Early Modern Cultures reserved. Copyright in individual articles remains with the authors. For information, please address the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610, or e-mail renaissance@ newberry.org. Publication URL: http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/conferenceproceedings.html Cover image: Newberry Case MS 75, f. 129, Lectionary and Capitulary of the Charterhouse of San Lorenzo, Florence, c. 1408 Intersecting Disciplines: Approaching Medieval and Early Modern Cultures TableofContents Introduction, byKarenChristianson .................................................................................................................................. 2 The Construction of the femina in Hildegard’s Symphonia, byJakeJohnson................................................ 4 Wonders, Marvels, and Magic in a Divinely Ordered World: Gervase of Tilbury and Book III of the Otia Imperialia, byJenniferWestrick ................................................. 10 Suspended Animation: Identity and the Lump-Child in King of Tars, byStephanieNorris............................................................................................................................... 19 Sustenance for Life: The Madonna del Latte as a Backdrop for Celebration of the Eucharist in Late Medieval Italy, byCeceliaDorger.......................................................... 29 Africa on Display: Ivory Saltcellars in Italian Collections, byIngridGreenfield.............................................. 39 A Citadel of Slavery in a Frontier of Tolerance: The Bagno in Seventeenth-Century Livorno, byStephanieNadalo .................................................................. 46 “A Spectacular Liturgy of State”: King Charles I and the Order of the Garter, byNile Blunt................................................................................ 60 “Law, doth make the Irish grow civil, and become English”: Sir John Davies and the Reformation of the Irish Constitution, byJaneWong YeangChui....................... 67 John Brinsley’s Ludus literarius and the Ritualization of “Writing Faire,” byCorrineHinton ................................................................................................. 74 Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief: Representations of Female Reponses to Early Modern Drama, byEricDunnum........................................................................... 82 Changing Attitudes toward Advertising: The Evolution of the Printed Madrigal Book, 1538 – 1580, bySherriBishop ................................................. 89 Sancdaemonium: Anglican Anti-Syncretism and the Demonization of Catholicism, byKerryDelaney .................................................................................102 John Jarret and Roaring Dick of Dover: Popular Attitudes toward Drinking in Seventeenth-Century England, byMarkHailwood ......................................................113 1 Introduction Introduction by Karen Christianson During the academic year 2009-2010, the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies observed its thirtieth anniversary, and in celebration we expanded our annual multidisciplinary graduate student conference from one day to three. As always, the conference was entirely organized and run by advanced doctoral students, in a variety of disciplines, from member universities of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium. This year the nine organizers selected had their work cut out for them: the call for papers generated a whopping one hundred seventy-three abstracts, from students at forty-seven schools across North America and Europe. Disciplines represented include art history, comparative literature, English, film studies, French, history, history of science, Italian, music, religion, Spanish, and theology. The organizers met in Chicago in November 2009 to peruse the proposals; they selected seventy-eight papers, then allocated them among twenty thematic conference sessions. At the end of the three day conference, January 21 – 23, 2010—during which each organizer chaired two sessions—they met once again, this time to decide which papers should be included in a conference proceedings publication. Over the next few months, each organizer worked with one or two authors as they revised their conference paper into publishable form. This volume of thirteen essays represents the result.1 These essays demonstrate the remarkable variety and sophistication of current work being done in medieval and early modern studies. Jake Johnson analyzes literal, metaphorical, allegorical, and figurative interpretations of the words and music—both the melodic line and the notation—of a work by the twelfth-century abbess, Hildegard. Jennifer Westrick explores how Gervase of Tilbury, in the third book of his thirteenth-century masterpiece, Otiaimperialia, cleverly uses marvelous stories of the supernatural to fight heretical ideas arising from the Albigensian creed. Stephanie Norris uses methodology from philosophy to probe issues of medieval identity formation in the fourteenth- century French romance, King of Tars. Cecelia Dorger scrutinizes the relationship between a thirteenth-century decree limiting lay people’s reception of the Eucharist and the rise in popularity of images of Mary nursing the baby Jesus in Italian church altarpieces. Ingrid Greenfield examines two early modern ivory saltcellars carved in Africa for the Italian market, and what they may reveal about Europeans’ perceptions of the African continent and its inhabitants. Stephanie Nadalo illuminates the complexities of the lives of slaves and others of non-free status in seventeenth- century Livorno, Italy. Nile Blunt investigates the meaning invested in the material culture and 1 See www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/2010GradConferenceSchedule.pdf for the complete schedule of the 2010 conference. 2 Intersecting Disciplines: Approaching Medieval and Early Modern Cultures rituals associated with Order of the Garter ceremonies during the reign of England’s King Charles I. Jane Wong Yeang Chui assesses the legal reasoning behind Sir John Davies’ attempts to impose both common law and statute law during the seventeenth-century conquest of Ireland by England. Corrine Hinton posits that in his early seventeenth-century grammar school textbook, Ludus literarius, John Brinsley promoted a ritualized pedagogy intended to socialize both pupils and their schoolmasters to become part of the educated elite. Eric Dunnum draws on three early modern plays to consider the pressures playwrights faced to keep audiences from becoming overly engrossed in the action on stage. Sherri Bishop, using techniques related to history of the book and printing, provides a glimpse into the development of advertising stategies by printers during the sixteenth century. Kerry Delaney’s analysis of The Witch of Edmonton suggests a relationship between persecution of witches, demonization of Catholics, and creation of Anglican identity during the English Reformation. Finally, Mark Hailwood interrogates two seventeenth-century popular ballads to uncover the attitudes of ordinary people toward drinking and drunkenness. The Center’s annual conference has become a premier opportunity for emerging scholars to present papers, participate in discussions, and develop collaborations across the field of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies. Participants find a supportive and collegial forum for their work, meet future colleagues from other institutions and disciplines, and become familiar with the Newberry Library and its resources. The energy and enthusiasm of the students who organized, presented papers, and attended this year’s conference, and the acuity of their scholarship, inspire confidence and optimism in the ongoing vitality of medieval and early modern studies, as the essays included here demonstrate. KarenChristianson,Ph.D.,isassistantdirectoroftheNewberryLibraryCenterforRenaissanceStudies. 3 The Construction of the femina in Hildegard’s Symphonia The Construction of the femina inHildegard’s Symphonia By Jake
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