Medieval-Renaissance Studies Program NEW COLLEGE OF USF 5700 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, Florida 34243-2197 THE ELEVENTH BIENNIAL NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES Sarasota, Florida March 12, 13, 14, 1998 I 1998 Conference Summar A B c D E Italian Art History Medieval Renais- 1998 Conference Summary Studies History Literature sance Literature D E A B c Medieval Renais- Session V Chronicles, Northern Late Dante: New Italian Art History Literature sance Friday Notaries, Italian Medieval Poetry Readings Studies History Literature 9-10:30 and Wills Paintings Nether- & Poetics of Hamlet AM lands I Early Medieval Italian Session I Civic Dante Medieval German Literature Thursday Humanism II History Literature Session VI Dressing Dante Late Italian Hamlet 9-10:30 Friday Women, In Renais- Medieval Intertext- II AM 11-12;30 Sex and sance Nether- ualities AM Marriage Art lands II Renais- Religion Medi evalia Medieval Chretien Session II sance and /Medieval- Spain de Troyes Thursday French Plenary 2:00 PM Alison "New New Politics isms l I-12:30 Literature Session I: Macmillan Men, Mores?" AM Brown: Medieval Northern Session Piety Italian Huizinga Sexuality Italian Session III Bishops, Late Medieval French Humanism vn & Renais- and New m Literary Thursday Nuns, Renais- English Literature Friday Politics sance Interpreta- Medieval Explora- 2-3:30 & Reform sance History Rome 3:30-5 Painting tion Literature tions PM PM Medieval Teaching Session IV Domestic Renais- War Individual: Shake- Thursday Life sance and Theory to speare 3:45-5: 15 Sculpture Chivalry Practice 1998 Conference Summar PM Session Renais- Early Burgun- Medieval English VIII sance Italian dian Music Literature Reception Bayfront Saturday Politics Art Studies and & Politics 5:30-7:00 9-10:30 Culture AM Plenary Saturday Linda "Consider Flowers Session II 11:00AM Seidel: the Lilies: in 15th C. Painting" Session IX Family Nether- French Troilus Marlowe's Saturday in Renais- landish Renais- and Aesthetic 1-2:30 sance Art sance Criseyde PM Florence Session X Arts in Medieval English Chaucer Marlowe Saturday Venice Saints & Renais- and IT 2:45-4: 15 & Florence Reform- sance Medieval PM ation Piety Poetry Culture Thursday.12 March Thursday,12 March Session Medieval German Literature Registration: 8:30 - 5:30 p.m. SudakoffLobby ID 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 1080 Sudakoff Center Chair: Glenn Cuomo, New College Session Italian Studies I: Civic Humanism IA 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center "The Girdle as Shield: Violence, Virginity, and Valor in Chair: TBA Three Medieval Texts" Rhonda L. Kelley, University of Georgia "Text to Image: The Concept of Civitas in Renaissance City Maps" "' ••.the Christian Life and the True Law': Christian Allusion Naomi Miller, Boston University and Courtly Culture in the Nibelungenlied and the Chlage" Larry Hunt, University of Georgia "Roma Rediviva: Late Medieval Rome and the Renewal of Martin V" "Liminal Traces in Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, and Ria Mairead O'Foghludha, Whittier College the Volsungasaga: The Role of the Dragon-fight in a Germanic Ritual of Status-Elevation• "Culture by Example: Enea Silvio Piccolomini as an Donald P. Beistle, University of Georgia Envoy of Humanism" Richard Hilary, Florida State University Session Italian Renaissance Literature Session Dante II IE 9 :00 - 10:30 a.m. Sudakoff East Lobby IB 9:00 - 10 :30 a.m. Room 1088 Sudakoff Center Chair: Naomi Yavneh, University of South Florida Chair: John Moore, New College "An Enchantress's Deception in Boiardo's Orlando innamorato" "'From Dante's Inferno to Dante's Peak': The Presence Julia M. Kisacky, Baylor University of Medieval Semiology in the Modern Global Marketplace" Mary Alexandra Watt, University of Toronto "From Brunetto to Michelangelo: Male Courtly Love Poetry in Medieval and Renaissance Italy" "Fear, Faith, and the Self in Dante's Commedia" Deborah Contrada, University of Iowa Silvia Ruffo Fiore, University of South Florida Session Early Medieval Transitions IC 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center Chair: Douglas Langston, New College "'Cum enim Ecclesiae causas agimus': A Preliminary Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Study of Leo I's Use of the Papal Rescript for Correspondence with Roman Emperors" Catherine Passantino-Mitchell, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley "Christ the Giant in Early Medieval Art and Exegesis" William Travis, University of Michigan-Dearborn "The Timaeus in Old English" Paul E. Szarmach, Director, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University 2 1 Thursday.12 March Thursday,12 March Session Rereading Chretien de Troyes IID Session Italian Studies II: Religion and Politics 11 :00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 1080 Sudakoff Center IIA 11 :00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center Chair and Organizer: Levilson C. Reis, Florida State University Chair: David Carr, University of S.Florida, St. Petersburg "The Future Cemetery: Mirror Scene of the Chevalier de la Charrette" "San Lorenzo in Florence: The 'Armenian Brothers' Olivia Marancy Ferrer, Florida State University and Others" William Bowsky, University of California, Davis "The Parallel Quest of Narrator and Protagonist in Chretien de Troyes' ConJoined Romances: Le Chevalier de la charrette (Lancelot) and Le "Four Saints in Two Acts: The Quattro Santi Coronati in Chevalier au lion (Yvain)" Art and Papal Politics" Nicholas Ealy, Florida State University Sharon Dale, The Behrend College "Conventional Recriture or Parodic Intertextuality? The Enigma of "Florentine Guilds as Large Scale Property Owners" L 'Atre-Perilleux" Michael Lingohr, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome Scott Taylor, Florida State University Session Medievalia/Medievalisms Renaissance French Literature Session IIE II B 11 :00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 1088 Sudakoff Center 11:00 -12:30 a.m. SudakoffEast Lobby Chair and Organizer: Tina Waldeie · Bizzarro Chair: TBA "Victor Hugo's roman and l'architecture romane" "Le livre du Cuer d'Amours espris. Rene d' Anjou, 1457: un coup d'oeil Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College sur !es sources de l'ecrivain et sur le personnage de Cuer" Lesley W. Hanlon, University of South Florida "'French Connection' to Angevin Feudalism in Hungary" Joan Dusa, Los Angeles "The Malady of Love in the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre" Zoe G. Urbanek, Southern Methodist University "A.W.N. Pugin's Mount Saint Bernard Abbey: The International Character of England's Nineteenth "A la recherche de la voix perdue. La representation de la voix dans le Century Monastic Revival" texte imprime: Les Propos rustiques de Noel du Fail" Victoria Young, University of Virginia Kathleen A. Loysen, New York University Session Medieval Spain II C 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room l08C Sudakoff Center Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Chair: TBA "Leon, 856-988: Royal City or Episcopal Enclave?" Bernard F. Reilly, Villanova University "Princeps namque: Defense of the Crown and Birth of the Catalan State" Donald Kagay, Albany State University "Sexual Content in the Cantigas de Santa Maria" Jose I. Suarez, Clemson University 4 3 Thursday,12 March Thursday,12 March Session Medieval French Literature IIID Session Italian Studies Ill: Bishops, Nuns and Reform 2:00 - 3:30 p.m . 1080 Sudakoff Center IIIA 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center Chair: David Schenck, University of South Florida, Sarasota Chair : David Hicks, New York University Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College "The Knight Sets Forth: The Second Miniature in Aiol" A. Richard Hartman, Southeastern Oklahoma State University "The Bishopric as a Field of Power and the Formation of Political and Religious Culture in the Early Communes" "Transtextuality in Guillaume de Machaut's Voir Dit" David Foote, University of California, Davis R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University "The Role of Clare of Assisi in Fifteenth-Century "Wailing Princes and Wealthy Poets: Guillaume de Machaut Observant Reform" and Jean Froissart on Patronage" Lezlie Knox, University of Notre Dame Deborah McGrady, Western Michigan University "Unruly Nuns: Conventual Reform and Social Discipline Session Northern Humanism in the Tuscany of Cosimo I and Francesco I, 1566-1580" IIIE 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. SudakoffEast Lobby Philip Gavitt, St. Louis University Chair: James Wallace Binns, York University Session Late Renaissance Rome "Re-placing Medieval Logic: The Topical Logic of Rudolf Agricola IIIB 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 1088 Sudakoff Center as a Precursor to Semiotics" Chair: Mitchell Merling, Curator, Ringling Museum of Art Cornelis de Waal, University of Miami "Climbing the Social, Political, and Financial Ladders: "Chaucer and the Inkhorn Controversy: A Crucial Issue in the The Rise of the Sacchetti in Rome" History of English Literary Nationalism" Lilian H. Zirpolo, Rutgers University Glen Bowman, University of Minnesota "Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane as a Familial "Cardinal Pole and the Inquisition" Discourse on Papal and Nepotic Justification" Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College Thomas E. Bryant, III, University Alabama-Birmingham "Say It with Stones: Rock Throwing as Play and Social Discourse in Early-Modern Italy" Break 3:30 - 3:45 Robert C. Davis, Ohio State University Session Medieval English History me 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center Chair : Ralph Turner, Florida State University Organized by Boyd Breslow "Henry Le Wayles: A Prosopographical Study" Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University "Charity and Piety in Medieval English Wills" David R. Carr, University of South Florida "Violence and Death in North-Riding c.1340-1360" Joseph Smith, Catholic University of America 6 5 Thursday,12 March Thursday,12 March Session Medieval Individual: Theory to Practice IVD 3:45 • 5:15 p.m. Room 108D Sudak.off Center Session Italian Studies IV: Domestic Life Chair and Organizer: Michael Osmann IV A 3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Room 108A Sudak.off Center Chair: Sheryl Reiss, Cornell University "Medieval Testimonials of the Self: Collection and Interpretation Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College of a New Category of Sources" Sabine Schmolinsky, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg "Slaves and Domestic Life in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages" "The Prosopography of English Peasants: Problems at the Medieval­ Carla P.