THE TWELFTH BIENNIAL
NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE
ON
MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES
Sarasota, Florida
March 9, 10, 11, 2000
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2000 Conference Summary |
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Registraion & Coffee |
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Session I |
Italian |
Mannerism |
Anglo-Saxon |
Medieval |
Italian |
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Session II |
Italian |
Humanist |
Medieval |
Late |
French |
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Session III |
Italian |
Apocalytic |
Medieval |
Poetry |
French |
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Opening |
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Friday |
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C |
D |
E |
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Session IV |
Italian |
Medieval |
Historical |
Medieval |
Shakespeare |
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Session V |
Italian |
Franciscan |
Medieval |
Bakhtin |
Shakespeare |
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Plenary |
2:00 PM |
Ronald |
"Origins of |
Italian |
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Session VI |
Italian |
Italian |
Central |
Dante |
Teaching |
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Session VII |
Italian |
Italian |
Late |
Medieval |
Marlowe |
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Plenary |
Saturday |
Martha |
"The Medieval |
Marriage |
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Session VIII |
Italian |
Religion |
English |
Courtly |
Elizabethan |
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Session IX |
Italian |
Courtly |
English |
Courtly |
Renaissance |
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2000 CONFERENCE PROGRAM |
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Thursday, 9 March |
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Registration: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sudakoff Lobby |
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Italian History: Siena and Venice "Antonio Petrucci and the End of Sienese Democracy" "Caffa and Tana, Italian Colonial Enterprise in the Middle Ages" |
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Mannerism in Painting "Parmigianino’s Code of Signifiers for The Madonna of the Long Neck" "A New Reading of El Greco’s St. Lawrence’s Vision of the Virgin" "The Learned El Greco: New Observations on the Martyrdom of St. Maurice" |
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Anglo-Saxon Studies "Ecclesiastical and Royal Law in Seventh-Century Kent" "Scyld Scefing in Scandinavian Sources" "Anglo-Saxon Word-Warriors: In the Name of Community" Donna Schlosser, Univ. of South Florida |
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Thursday, 9 March |
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Medieval Drama "Questioning the Role of Secular Authority in the Ludus Danielis" "Shrews and Sheep in the Second Shepherd’s Play" "[Secunda] Pagina Pastorum and the Empirical ‘Inventive’" |
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Italian Renaissance Courtly Culture "The Istoria Imperiale of Matteo Maria Boiardo and Fifteenth-Century Ferrarese Courtly Culture" "A Bloodthirsty Pacifist: More Harmony of Opposites in the Orlando Furioso" |
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Buffet Luncheon 11:30 - 12:30 |
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Thursday, 9 March |
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Italian Studies I: Italian Popular Culture and Universities "Towards the Definition of a Popular Urban Culture in Late Medieval Italy" "The Universities of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600" "‘Before the bread buns are distributed’: The Context of Feast-Day Plays in Florentine Confraternities" |
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Italian Humanist Patronage "Pius II Piccolomini (1458-1464): A Humanist as Patron" "Renaissance Education(s) in Art: The Early Reception of Alberti’s De pictura" "Filippo Strozzi’s Pliny Project: Glossing a Humanist Text with Political Ambition" |
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Medieval Religion "Place and Journey: Celtic Pilgrimage in Ireland" "Jean Gerson and Fifteenth Century Views on the Devotional Life" "The Sadistic Ritual of Didacticism: Middle English Mystery Plays and Homiletic Romances" |
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Late Medieval Poetry "Polyphonic Technique in the Poems of Philippe de Vitry" "Metatext and Intertext in Froissart’s Prison Amoureuse" "Chaucer Reading the Italian Tradition: Conflict in Lyric Form" |
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Renaissance French Literature "Rhetorical Symmetry and Ambiguity in Lemaire’s Trois Contes de Cupido et d’Atropos" "Reflections of Humanism in the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre" "The Transformation of Sacred Symbols into Sordid Weapons: An Examination of Panurge’s Revenge on the Parisian Noblewoman in Pantagruel" |
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Coffee Break: 2:30-3:00 |
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Thursday, 9 March |
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Italian Studies II: Florence and Tuscany "Attributing Authorship: or, Who Wrote the Petriboni Priorista?" "The Magtistrato Supremo, Justice and Property Rights" "All in the Family?: The Magistrato Supremo and Intra-Family Litigation in Late 16th Cenury Tuscany" |
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Apocalyptic Religion "Evangelizing and the Expectation of the Millennium: John of Montecorvino’s Embassy to China on the Eve of the Fourteenth Century" "The Art of Rhetoric and the Art of the Page: ‘Figurae’ in the Illuminations of the Getty Apocalypse" "The Invisible Aesthetics of Apocalyptic Imagery in Fifteenth Century Castilian Poetry" |
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Thursday, 9 March |
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Medieval Norms and Practices "The Practice of Medieval Marriage: Evidence from the Archives of Southern France in the 12th Century" "The Promulgation of the Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council in England" "Medieval Society’s Positive Influence on Feminist Writers" |
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Thursday, 9 March |
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Poetry and Music "The Troubadour Chanson: Action and Passion in Arnault Daniel’s Lo ferm voler qu’el cor m’intra" "The Influence of St. Augustine of Hippo on Guillaume de Machaut’s Remede de Fortune" "Musical Responses to the Text: Spatial Manipulation and Tonal Processes in John Dowland’s Lutesongs" (withdrawn) |
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The Ideal and/or Intended Reader in the French Renaissance "Le Théâtre d’Agriculture et le Mesnage des Champs: An Artwork to Admire or (just) a Means to Multiply Nature’s/God’s Gifts? Olivier de Serres and His Problematic Reader" "Utilisation d’éléments de la nature chez quelques poètes de la Renaissance: un appel au lecteur" "Le lecteur idéal de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet" "Teresa of Avila’s Literry Response Through Images" "The Roman de Brut’s Trojan-origin Myth vis-à-vis its Precedent in the Historia Regum Britanniae" |
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Reception 5:30 - 7:00 |
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Friday, 10 March |
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Italian Studies III: Chronicling Italian History "Jacopo Doria and the Genoese Chronicle Tradition" "Salimbene, The Problematic Chronicler" "Pro Patria et Penates: Pietro Azario and the Creation of the Visconti Myth" |
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Medieval Art and Religion "The Romanesque Capitals of Autun" "Cephalophory and the Authentication of Relics in the Altarpiece of St. Miniatus" "Eternal Beauty: The Canzoniere of Petrarch and the Transi Tomb" |
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Historical Change "Twenty-Five Years of Witchcraft Research: The Second Edition of Kors & Peters, Witchcraft in Europe" "Asylum and Immunity, The Concept of Geleit and the Tallinn Geleitsbuch" |
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Thursday, 12 March |
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Medieval Characterization "Thomas Malory’s Lancelot: A Study in Self-Reflective Character Analysis" "‘Every man of worshyp’: Characterization in Malory’s Morte Darthur" "Thoma, martyr sanctissimus: Characterization in the Historiae of Saint Thomas of Canterbury" |
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Shakespeare I "The Question of Dominion in Hamlet: Prospects for Further Study" "Questioning Colonialism in Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline" "Unraveling Law and Equity in Lambarde, Hake, and Shakespeare" |
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Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00 |
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Friday, 10 March |
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Italian Studies IV: Renaissance Venice: Doges, Diplomacy and History "The Tomb of Doge Francesco Foscari "‘Cum verbis decentibus’:Venetian Diplomatic Language in the Trecento" "Women and the Construction of History in 12-16th Century Venice: The Convent and the Chronicle of Santa Maria delle Virgini" |
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Franciscan Art "Assisi and the Jubilee: The Pro-Roman Character of the Frescoes of the Life of St. Francis in Assisi" "Giotto’s Narrative Vision" "Saint Francis and the Apocalypse: The Early Apse Glazing of Santa Croce in Florence" |
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War in Medieval Spain "Count Armengol VI of Urgel (1102-1154): Medieval Prince as Warrior" "Flodoard as a Military Historian" "War and Finance in Eleventh-Century Spain: Alfonso VI’s Response to the Almoravid Invasion" |
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Friday, 10 March |
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Bakhtin and Medieval Culture/Poetics at the Millennium "Bakhtin and the Contemporary Chaucer Industry" "Theory and the Primacy of the Text" "Bakhtin, De Man, and Other Medieval Stage Devils" |
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The Play’s (Still) the Thing: How We See Shakespeare "Capulet’s Choice: Does Father Know Best?" "Amazed Faculties of Eye and Ear (in Hamlet)" "Birth Order of Children in King Lear" |
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Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. |
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Plenary Session I: 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. Room 108 Welcome: Michael Bassis, Conference Address: Ronald G. Witt, "The Origins of Italian Humanism" |
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Friday, 10 March |
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Italian Studies V: Sex and Politics in Late Medieval Italy "Caterina di Jacopo or Caterina di Mona Lapa: Gender and the Geneology of a Saint" "Petrarch and the Restraint of Feminine Mourning" "Leon Battista Alberti on Sex and Politics" |
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Italian Renaissance Art "Michelangelo’s Commision for Apostle Statues for the Cathedral of Florence: The Medicean Connection" "On the Political Theology of Vision in the Mass at Bolsena" "The Boundary of Real and Fictive Spaces (Cima’s Madonna and Child in Landscape, 1496-1499)" |
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East-Central European History "The Wars Between Louis I of Hungary and Stephen Dusan of Serbia" "Using Textual and Visual Sources to Describe Peasant Villages in Sixteenth Century Ottoman Occupied Hungary" "A Dead Queen’s Beneficence: Elizabeth of Habsburg’s Estate, 1592-1600" |
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Friday, 10 March |
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Dante "Rome and Florence in Dante’s Divine Comedy" "Inscribing the Trinity: The Processional Implications of Purgatorio 24's Incipit" "Ritual as Education in the Purgatorio" |
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Teaching Shakespeare "Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: An Appreciation" "Hippolyta in Performance: Film and Video" "The Swelling of a Scene: Othello, Scenes 1-3" |
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Saturday, 11 March |
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Italian Studies VI: Italian Politics, Immigrants, Citizens and Criminals "Criminal Justice in Medieval Bologna: Comune and Signoria" "Immigrants and Citizenship in Trecento and Quattrocento Florence" "Good Friends for a Time: Agnolo Acciaiuoli, Dietisalvi Neroni, Luca Pitti, Niccolò Soderini and the Medici, 1430's to 1460" |
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Italian Studies IX: Italian Art "The Influence of Pliny’s Natural History on the Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art" "Baldassare Cossa, Florence and a Relic of St. John the Baptist" "Mercantile Patronage and Courtly Diplomacy: Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi’s Portrait of Bartolommeo Compagni (1549)" |
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Saturday, 11 March |
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Late Medieval History "French History at Stake in the Hundred Years’ War: Robert Jolivet and the Rewriting of French History in the Early Fifteenth Century" "Offices and Ideology in the Household of Charles the Bold" "To Serve...but Not Too Far: The Threshold of Territorial Defense and Treason in Late-Medieval Catalonia" |
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Medieval Scotland "Desperately Seeking (St.) Triduana: The Creation and Functionality of Gendered Sanctity at the Late-Medieval Scottish Court" "Time in Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaits" |
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Marlowe and the Early Modern Culture "The Influence of Gender Roles in Marlowe’s Dido Queen of Carthage on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra" "Thoroughly Modern Marlowe(?)" "Sartorial Discourse in Marlowe’s Plays" |
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Saturday, 11 March |
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Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00 |
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Plenary Session II: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Room 108 Conference Address: Martha C. Howell, "The Marriage Exchange in Medieval and Renaissance Europe" |
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Buffet Luncheon 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
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Italian Studies VII: Women, Inheritance and Testaments "Piety and Testaments in Dante’s Florence" "Renunciation of Inheritance by Females in Renaissance Borgo San Sepolcro" "Lineage Building, the Spini Family and its Florentine Palace" |
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Sixteenth Century Art and Religion "Reinterpreting Hieronymus Bosch’s Table Top of the Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things through the Seven Day Prayers of the Devotio Moderna" "Diagnosing Suicidal Tendencies in Altarpieces: Old Testament Subjects and Reform Polemic" "A Recently Rediscovered Tintoretto: The Raising of Lazarus of 1556-57" |
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Saturday, 11 March |
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English Humanism "Thomas More’s Utopia: The Reality of an Ideal" "Toward Symbolic Capital: Value in More’s Utopia" "The Art of Government in John Skelton’s Magnificence" |
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Varieties of Courtly Literature "Design and Adaptation in the Middle Dutch Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet" "Il ne scet rien qui ne va hors: Eustache Deschamps, Travel and Consistency" "Courtly and Warrior Ethos in Medieval Japanese Heroic Narrative, A Cross-Cultural Perspective" |
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Elizabethan Literature "Applying as Well Her Fingers to the Web as Her Tongue to the Tale: English Women’s Textile Work and Story-Telling in Penelope’s Web (1587)" "Spenser’s Anachronism" "Deja-Woo all Over Again, Donne’s A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and Umberto Eco’s Island of the Day Before" |
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Saturday, 11 March |
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Italian Studies VIII: Italian History "Warfare and Debate over the Economy of Renaissance Italy" "The Twilight of the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Botero and The Concept of The Ragion di Stato" "August 12, 1480: The Tragedy at Otranto, History, Legend, Literature" |
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Courtly Arts "Le Temple de Bocace (ca. 1463), by Georges Chastellain, Historian and Chronicler of the Burgundian Court, a Glance at the Importance of the Illuminations of Mss. P2, La Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Fr. 1226" "The Artistic Creations of Guillaume Tirel (a.k.a. "Taillevent"), Head Cook to Philip VI Valois" |
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English Renaissance History "A Leopard CAN Change His Spots: The Humanism of John Ponet" "Social Inclusion and Religious Assimilation: The Protestant Conversion of a Crypto-Jew in Elizabethan England" "The Earl of Essex’s Rebellion and the Court of Elizabeth I" |
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Saturday, 11 March |
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Courtly Literature II "Middle Dutch Answers to ‘Old’ French Problems: The Wrake van Ragisel and Walewein ende Keye Sequence in the Lancelot Compilation" "Eliduc and Haizumi: A Reconsideration of Conventional Gendered Discourse in Medieval French and Heian Japanese Literature" |
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Renaissance Gender Issues "The Figuring of Gender in the Humanist Educational Paradigm" "Renaissance Conceptions of the Kiss and the Suppression of Male Sexuality" "Portraits of Women in Italian Proto-Renaissance Poetry and Art" Cecilia Cerutti, University of South Florida |
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Location: All sessions will take place in the Sudakoff Conference Center, on the New College campus, which is immediately adjacent to the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport. The airport has a new terminal, and is served by several airlines. Tampa airport is about a 1-1/2 hour limousine ride away. The Sudakoff Center is just off U.S. 41, on the east side immediately south of the Sarasota-Manatee County line. There is ample parking. Use Exit 40 University Parkway, if coming by way of I-75; continue until you reach U.S. 41 and then turn north (right).
Registration: You should register in advance to be assured of access to the reception and buffet luncheons. The registration fee is $40 if received by March 3, 2000, but $45 if paid at the Registration Desk. Sarasota area residents may participate for $10. Students and local faculty are admitted free. The registration fee includes coffee breaks, reception, and miscellaneous expenses. Luncheons are handled separately on a self-supporting basis. Please make checks payable to the New College Foundation, Inc., and pick up your registration packet at the registration desk in the Sudakoff Conference Center lobby. It will include your meal tickets.
Food: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, there will be buffet luncheons on campus across from the conference center. The cost will be $9.00 each. To assure service we must receive your check by March 3, 2000. Note that no dinners are included in the program. There will, however, be informal group dinners at nearby restaurants for those of you who wish to join the group. Please check the space provided on the registration form. You would order from the menu. There are many fine restaurants of all types in Sarasota, some of them close by. A restaurant list will be included in your registration packet. If you wish to explore restaurants away from campus or see Sarasota sights, a rental car would be handy.
Car Rental: Discount rates are available with AVIS RENT A CAR SYSTEMS, INC. for in-state. Call reservations at 1-800-331-1212 and give them the contract rate code (A113400).
Housing: Sarasota has many motels of all different qualities and price ranges. A motel list is posted on our web site, www.ncf.edu/Conferences/MedievalStudies, and a hard copy will be sent on request. Since this conference will come during the high tourist season, we urge you to take quick action.
Book Exhibit: There will be a book exhibit by the Scholar's Choice, known to many from Kalamazoo, in the main auditorium of Sudakoff Center.
Activities: Your registration will include a reception on Thursday, March 14th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in College Hall, on the bayfront. For those who are interested, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which is particularly strong in the Baroque Period, is adjacent to the New College Campus. It is open 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. The museum has been recently restored, including the Reubens Gallery. Admission is free with the pass in your packet. The new Asolo State Theater is located immediately south of the campus library (across the bridge). The Box Office telephone number is (941) 351-8000.
This conference is sponsored by the Program in Medieval-Renaissance Studies, New College of the University of South Florida, the New College Foundation, Inc., and the University Program, University of South Florida at Sarasota.
Events, activities, programs, and facilities of the University of South Florida are available to all without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, Vietnam or disabled veteran status, handicap, or age, as provided by law and in accordance with the University's respect for personal dignity.
Program Director: Lee Daniel Snyder
Program Assistants: Charlene Saeman, Beth Corbin, Anne G. Snyder
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES
MARCH 9, 10, 11, 2000
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5700 N. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34243-2197
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