THE THIRTEENTH BIENNIAL
NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE
ON
MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Sarasota, Florida
March 14, 15, 16, 2002

2002 Conference Summary
Thursday	A Italian Studies	B Art History	C History	D Medieval Studies	E Renaissance Literature
Registration & Coffee 9-10 AM
Session I Thursday 10-11:30 AM		Diversity in Renaissance Art	Drama in Spain and England	Views of Women in 16th Cent. France
Session II Thursday 1-2:30 PM	Italian Studies I	Italian Renaissance Texts	Medieval England	13th Century Culture	Shakespeare I
Session III Thursday 3:00-4:30 PM	Italian Studies II	Venetian Art	Diverse Medieval Meetings	Late Medieval Literature	Shakespeare II
Opening Reception 5:30-7:00 PM	Bayfront: College Hall
Friday	A Italian Studies	B Art History	C History	D Medieval Literature	E Renaissance Literature
Session IV Friday 9-10:30 AM	Italian Studies III	Manuscript Illumination        I	English Humanism        I	Madness, Folly in Literature	Perceiving Diversity in 16th Century Literature
Session V Friday 11-12:30 AM	Italian Studies IV	Manuscript Illumination         II	English Humanism       II	Medieval Drama	16th Century Religious Controversy
Plenary Session I 2:00 PM: Welcome!	Gene A. Brucker: Fede and Fiducia: The Problem of Trust in Italian History
Session VI Friday 3:30-5 PM	Italian Studies V	Image & Meaning in Italian Art	Renaissance Seminaries & Colleges	Late Ren. English Literature	Marguerite de Navarre
Saturday	A Italian Studies	B Art History	C History	D Medieval Literature	E Renaissance Literature
Session VII Saturday 9-10:30	Italian Studies VI	Italian Renaissance Art & Music	Late English Humanism	Visual in Medieval Religion	Marlowe
Plenary Session II Saturday 11:00 AM	James D. Tracy: William of Orange and The Crisis of the Dutch Revolt
Session VIII Saturday 1-2:30	Italian Studies VII	Dante and Renaissance Art	14th Century Governments	Sisters of Cressida	English Ren Bodies in Space
Session IX Saturday 2:45-4:15	Italian Studies VIII	Florentine Art	Medieval Martial Arts & Demon-stration	14th Cent. English Literature	Elizabethan Drama

 

 

2002 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Thursday, 14 March

 

Registration: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.   Sudakoff Lobby

 

Session   Diversity in Renaissance Art

I B       10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Harriet McNeal, Indiana State Univ.

 

“Heroic Passages: The Frieze of Scipio Africanus  in the Palazzo dei Conservatori”

Debra Murphy, University of North Florida

 

“Invincible in Art: The Case of Albrecht Dürer’s Rhinoceros”

Andrea S. Bubenik, Queen’s University, Kingston

 

“Phallicism in Watermarks in Sixteenth-Century Paper”

Mark L. Sosower, North Carolina State

 

Session   Interpreting Drama in Spain and England

I C       10:00 – 11:30 a.m.  Room 108C Sudakoff Center

Chair: Frank Norris, University of Miami

 

“Beautiful Weapons of Love: Windows to Lope de Vega’s Soul in his La hermosura de Angélica"

Beulah Maxfield-Downey, Kentucky State Univ.

 

“Art and Politics in the Film Versions of Don Quijote”

Jane W. Albrecht, Wake Forest University

 

“‘And everything is bent’: Hamlet, Text and Performance”

Jason S. Polley, McGill University

 

Session   Views of Women in Early Sixteenth Century France

I D       10:00 – 11:30 a.m.   Room 108D Sudakoff Center

          Chair: Martha Nichols-Pecceu, Eckerd College

 

“Medical Humanism and Misogyny in Symphorien Champier’s Nef des dames vertueuses (1503)”

Judy Kem, Wake Forest University

 

“Trobar clus à Lyon: Courtly Love and the Délie of Maurice Scève”

     Alison Lovell, CUNY Graduate Center

 

     Buffet Luncheon  11:30 - 12:30

 

Session   Italian Studies I: Churches and Chronicles in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy

II A      1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

          Chair: Benjamin G. Kohl, Vassar College

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“From Charisma to Bureaucracy: The Making of an Episcopal Register in Medieval Orvieto”

David Foote, Mississippi State University

 

“Wrestling with Chronicles: Two Case Studies"

Alison Williams Lewin, St. Joseph’s University

 

“Florentine Church History: Some Archival Wanderings”

William Bowsky, University of California, Davis

 

Session   Italian Renaissance Texts

II B      1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Paula Clarke, McGill University

 

“Sweet Venom: The Polemical Nature of Poliziano’s Stanze Per La Giostra”

Grace Chan, University of Illinois

 

“La Sfera: A Renaissance Interplanetary Voyage”

Naomi Miller, Boston University (withdrawn)

 

“Venetian Archival Sources Regarding 15^th Century Cartographers and the Cabot Family”

Edoardo Giuffrida, Archivio di Stato, Venezia

 

Session   Medieval England

II C      1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108C  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University

 

“Companions of Richard I”

Ralph Turner, Florida State University

 

“Pollution Ordinances in Medieval

 English Towns”

David Carr, University of South Florida

 

“Miracles in Medieval England”

Marylou Ruud, University of 

West Florida

 

Session   Thirteenth Century Culture

II D      1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Douglas C. Langston, New College of Florida

 

“John of Garland’s Commentarius: Words for the Wealthy”

John Scott Campbell, University of South Florida

 

“The Conflict in the Pulpit: Preaching and Pluralism during the ‘Great Dispersion’ of 1229-1231”

Brandon Hartley, University of Arizona

 

“The Mandala in Dante’s Paradiso”

Kathleen Robinson, University of South Florida

 

Session   “Rome indeed, and room enough”: Shakespeare’s Classical Tragedies

II E      1:00 - 2:30 a.m. Sudakoff East Lobby

Chair and Organizer: Mark Taylor, Manhattan College

 

“Lofty Scenes in Ages Hence: The Theatres of Julius Caesar”

Marvin Hunt, North Carolina State University

 

“Shakespeare’s African Queens”

Mark Taylor, Manhattan College

 

“Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and The Sopranos”

Joseph B. Wagner, Kent State University, Stark

 

Coffee Break: 2:30-3:00

 

 

Thursday, 14 March

 

Session   Italian Studies II: Culture, Politics and the Economy in Renaissance Tuscany

III A     3:00 - 4:30 p.m.  Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Gene A. Brucker, University of California, Berkeley

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“In the Aftermath of the Duke of Athens: Structural Reconfiguration, Sacred Resonance”

Jacqueline Gutwirth, Bronx Community

College of CUNY

 

“War as a Stimulus to the Italian Economy (1350-1450)?”

William Caferro, Vanderbilt University

 

“Social Geography of Florence in the Sixteenth Century”

Carol Bresnahan Menning, University 

of Toledo

 

Session   Venetian Art

III B     3:00 - 4:30 p.m.  Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Aaron DeGroft, Ringling Museum of Art

 

“The Meaning of Giovanni Bellini’s Saint Jerome in the Desert"

Tamara Durn, Case Western Reserve University

 

“Titian’s Art, Imaginative Vision, and The Flaying of Marsyas”

Brian D. Steele, Texas Tech University

 

“Princely Patronage, New Archival Answer: The Rediscovery of Titian’s ‘Unknown/Third’ Portrait of Frederico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, of 1539-40”

     Aaron DeGroft, Ringling Museum of Art

 

 

Session   Large Meetings and Small Discussions in Medieval Europe

III C     3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Room 108C  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Howard Kaminsky, Florida International University

Organized by Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania

 

“Charlemagne’s Success and the Schmooze Factor”

Bernard Bachrach, University of

 Minnesota

 

“The Trials of Ganelon and Models of Dispute Resolution”

Mary Jane Schenck, University of Tampa

 

“A Sabbat of Demonologists: 

Basel, 1431-1449”

Edward Peters, University 

of Pennsylvania

 

Session   Late Medieval Literature

III D     3:00 - 4:30 p.m. 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Daniel M. Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic University

 

“Shepherdess as Blessed Virgin Mother: The Role of Refrains in the Religious Contrafacta of Trouvère Pastourelles”

Matthew Steel, Western Michigan

 University

 

“The Discursivity of Woman’s Body and the Punctuation of Criseyde as Text: The Mater/iality of Courtly Love Culture and Woman as Text”

Sharmain van Blommestein, University of Florida

 

“Deschamps and Chaucer: The Weed and 

the Garden?”

Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology

 

 

Session   New Architectures: Closure and Anti-Closure in Shakespeare and Wole Soyinka

III E     3:00 - 4:30 p.m.  Sudakoff East Lobby

Chair: Mark Taylor, Manhattan College

Organizer: Laury Magnus, Merchant Marine

 Academy

 

“Antic Tragedy: The Defiance of Closure in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus”

Joel N. Feimer, Mercy College

 

“Whatever Happened to Fortinbras?  Textual Closure in Hamlet Re-Imaged in Film”

Laury Magnus, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point

 

“‘This the Work, This the Labor’: The Spirit of Mourning in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Wole Soyinka’s Death of the King’s Horseman”

Anthony DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology

 

Reception 5:30 - 7:00

College Hall, Bayfront

 

 

Friday, 15 March

 

Session   Italian Studies III: Issues for Women in the Italian Renaissance

IV A      9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

Chair: David Peterson, Washington and Lee Univ.

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“The Politics of Marriage in the Conservatories of Early Modern Florence and Bologna”

Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto

 

“Women and the Renaissance: A More Positive Approach?”

Paula Clarke, McGill University

 

“Gasparo and the Ladies: Representing Misogyny in The Courtier”

William J. Connell, Seton Hall University

 

Session   New Perspectives on Manuscript Illumination I: Europe

IV B      9:00 - 10:30 a.m.  Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Susan L’Engle, Getty Museum

Organized by Helena Szepe, Univ. of South Florida

 

“Limners, Textwriters, Stationers: Recent Approaches to Understanding the Production of Illustrated Manuscripts in 15^th Century England”

Michael Orr, Lawrence University

 

“Simon Marmion and the Attribution Game”

Steven Clancy, Ithaca College

 

“Manuscripts as Relics and as Art Objects in Sixteenth-Century Venice”

Helena Szepe, University of South

 Florida

 

Session   English Humanism I: Religion and Culture

IV C      9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108C  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Ronald G. Witt, Duke University

Organized by John F. McDiarmid, New College

 

“Erasmus anceps: Humanism and 

Religious Renewal”

Dominic Baker-Smith, Universiteit van Amsterdam

 

“The Humanism of Reginald Pole, Reformer”

Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College

 

“Two Versions of Rome, or English Humanism Radicalized: Surrey and Bacon”

     William A. Sessions, Georgia State

     University

 

Session   Madness, Folly, and Literature

IV D      9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair: R.A. Shoaf, University of Florida

Commentator: Carol Barton, Averett University

Organized by Mario Di Cesare, SUNY Binghamton

 

“Madness, Folly, and Incest: Boccaccio and the Normans”

Teresa Kennedy, Mary Washington College

 

“Folly, Insanity, and Love in King Lear”

Mario Di Cesare, SUNY Binghamton emeritus

 

Session   Perceiving Diversity in 16^th Century Literature

IV E      9:00 - 10:30 p.m.  Sudakoff East Lobby

Chair: Julie Empric, Eckerd College

 

“Unnatural Sexuality: The ‘Turk’ in Renaissance Drama”

Judy A. Hayden, University of Tampa

 

“The Merchant Formerly Known as Jew”

              Jennifer Rich, Hunter College (withdrawn)

 

“Altered Humanism: Monstrous Identity in Montaigne’s Of Cripples”

Zahi Zalloua, Princeton University

 

Coffee Break: 10:30-11:00

 

 

Friday, 15 March

 

Session   Italian Studies IV: Between Literature and Politics

V A       11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Howard Shealy, Kennesaw State University

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“Leon Battista Alberti and Florentine Politics: The Relationship with the Medici”

Luca Boschetto, National Humanities Center

 

“‘Suave mare magno’: Marcello Adriani between the Haven of Humanism and the High Seas of Florentine Politics in the Late Quattrocento””

Alison Brown, Royal Holloway College, University of London

 

“Literature in the Crisis of Italy”

John M. Najemy, Cornell University

 

Session   New Perspectives on Manuscript Illumination II: Bologna, Armenia, and Ethiopia

V B       11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Helena Szepe, University of South Florida

 

“Legal Manuscripts in Bologna and the Iconography of Law”

Susan L’Engle, Assistant Curator, Getty Museum

 

“What Makes a Medieval Manuscript Medieval?  Problems with the Periodization of Armenian Manuscripts”

Sylvie Merian, J. Pierpont Morgan Library

 

“Gender and Power in  Ethiopian

 Manuscripts”

Susan Kelliher, University of South Florida (withdrawn)

 

Session   English Humanism II: Politics and History

V C      11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108C  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: John F. McDiarmid

 

“Mid-Tudor Humanism and the Commonwealth Ideal: Synthesis and Disjuncture”

Scott C. Lucas, The Citadel

 

“William Cecil, Sir Thomas Smith and the 'Monarchical Republic' of Edward VI”

Dale Hoak, The College of William and Mary

 

“Sine Ira et Studio: The Politics of Camden’s 1607

Britannia”

David Weil Baker, Rutgers University, Newark

 

Session   Medieval Drama

V D       11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Jane Anderson Jones, Manetee Community College, Venice

 

“The Mimetic Language of Hildegard of Bingen”

Cheryl M. Clark, Miami-Dade Community College

 

“The Impact of Twentieth-Century Scholarship on Musical Performance and Interpretation of the Beauvais Daniel”

Constantine T. Hadavas, Beloit College

 

“Repudiation of the Eschatology of Labor in the Towneley Coliphizacio”

Liam O. Purdon, Doane College

 

Session   Sixteenth Century Religious Controversy

V E       11:00 - 12:30 p.m.  Sudakoff East Lobby

Chair: James Tracy, University of Minnesota

 

“Mariken van Nieumeghen and The World

 Upside-Down”

Ken Kurihara, New York University

 

“Gender and the Protestant Rhetoric of Martyrdom in Sixteenth-Century France: The Case of Marguerite Le Riche”

Nikki Shepardson, Rider University

 

“‘No man has power, jurisdiction or dominion over another’s conscience’: D.V. Coornhert (1522-1590) and Spiritual Freedom”

Gerrit Voogt, Kennesaw State University

 

 

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

 

 

Plenary Session I:  2:00 - 3:15 p.m.  Room 108

 

Welcome: Gordon Michalson, President of

New College of Florida

 

Conference Address: Gene A. Brucker,

Shepard Professor of History emeritus,

University of California, Berkeley

 

        “Fede and Fiducia: The Problem of Trust in

               Italian History, 1350-1500”

 

Friday, 15 March

 

Session   Italian Studies V: Painting, Memory and Homicide: Questions of Gender in Late Medieval Italy

VI A      3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“Homicidal Marriage in

 Thirteenth-Century Bologna”

Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

“Female Spirituality as a Contributing Factor in the Visual Revolution in Tuscan Art c. 1250-c.1350”

George Dameron, St. Michael’s College

 

“Shaping Memory: Mariano of Florence’s History of the Order of Saint Clare”

Lezlie Knox, California State University, Long Beach

 

Session   Meaning Behind the Image in Italian Art

VI B      3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Edward J. Olszewski, Case Western Reserve University

 

“Piero di Cosimo’s Lady Fiammetta”

Edward J. Olszewski, Case Western Reserve

 

“Michelangelo’s Painted Genii on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling”

Dena M. Woodall, Case Western Reserve

 

Session   Amidst City, Church, and Court: Colleges and Seminaries in the Late Renaissance

VI C      3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Room 108C  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Christopher Carlsmith, University of Massachusetts Lowell

 

“Seminaries Between City-State and

 Church”

Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern Univ.

 

“The Municipal College and the City of Chalons”

Amy Enright, Emory University

 

“Ursuline Education Between Court and Convent"

Danielle Culpepper, University of

 Virginia

 

Friday, 15 March

 

Session   Late English Renaissance Literature

VI D      3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Room 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Mario Di Cesare, SUNY Binghamton emeritus

 

“‘Comments Would the Text Confound’: The Fate of Logos in George Herbert’s The Sacrifice”

Gardner Campbell, Mary Washington College

 

“‘I Did But Prompt the Age’: An Eikonklastic Reading of Eikon Basilike”

Carol Barton, Averett University

 

“Marching on to War: The Soldier’s Bible and the Soldier’s Catechism”

Robert Fallon, LaSalle University emeritus

 

Session   Marguerite de Navarre

VI E      3:30 – 5:00 p.m.  Sudadoff East Lobby

Chair: Amy Reid, New College of Florida

 

“Setting the Stage: The Prologue to the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre”

Zoë G. Urbanek, Southern Methodist University

 

“The Mule-driver’s Wife Meets the Misogynists: The Second Novella of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron and the Querelle des femmes”

Leanna Bridge, Boston College

 

“The Case of the Bitten Thumb: Italians and Italian Renaissance History in Marguerite de Navarre’s Twelfth Tale of the Heptaméron”

Silvia Ruffo Fiore, University of South Florida    

 

 

Saturday, 16 March

 

Session   Italian Studies VI: Women’s Legal Issues in Renaissance Florence

VII A     9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Sheryl Reiss, Cornell University

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“Confessio Dotis: Acknowledging Receipt of the Dowry in Renaissance Florence”

Julius Kirshner, University of Chicago

 

“Disinheriting Mother: Statutory Law, Wills and Cases in Early Quattrocento Florence”

Thomas Kuehn, Clemson University

 

“Women and Property in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Florence"

Susannah F. Baxendale, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California Los Angeles

 

Session   Italian Renaissance Art/Music History

VII B     9:00 - 10:30 a.m.  Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Carla Weinberg, University of the Arts

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“The Doge in Triumph: The Insufficiently Hidden Message of the Loredan Monument in SS. Giovanni e Paolo”

Adrienne DeAngelis, University of

 Oregon (withdrawn)

 

“San Marco Organists Parabosco and Padovano and the Widow They Left Behind, The Chaste and Sincere Diana”

Rebecca Edwards, Santa Clara University

 

“Leonardi, Superchi, Grazioli: Illuminating Connections Between Venice and Pesaro in the Mid-Sixteenth Century”

Eric Apfelstadt, Santa Clara University

 

Session   Late English Humanism

VII C     9:00 – 10:30 a.m.   Room 108C  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Justus Doenecke, New College of Florida

 

“Richard Hakluyt and the Renaissance: The Scholarly Ideal in Action”

Robert McJimsey, Colorado College

 

“Renascence and Retrenchment: The Argument of Fulke Greville’s A Treatie of Humane Learning”

Jim Pearce, Meredith College

 

“Christian Equity in Early Seventeenth-Century English Casuistry"

Mark Fortier, University of Winnipeg (withdrawn)

 

Session   The Visual in Medieval Religion

VII D     9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Stephen Clancy, Ithaca College

 

“‘Seeing with closed eyes’: The Importance of the ‘Visio’ for German Women Mystics of the 11^th and 12^th Centuries”

Brigitte Edith Archibald, North Carolina A&T State University (withdrawn)

 

“The Illuminated Initials of a Bibbia atlantica of the Gregorian Reform (Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare: MS.2)”

Charles S. Buchanan, Ohio Universsity

 

“Exoticism in the Cantigas de Santa María”

José I. Suárez, Univ. of Northern Colorado

 

Session   Marlowe and Intertextuality

VII E     9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sudakoff East Lobby

Chair: Flora Zbar, University of South Florida

Organized by Sara M. Deats

 

“‘Unfelt Imaginations’: Influence and Characterizations in the Massacre at Paris,

Titus Andronicus, and Richard III”

Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford

 

“Hero’s Needlework”

Georgia E. Brown, Queen’s College, Cambridge

 

“Clothes, Class, and Character in Marlowe’s Plays”

Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida

 

 

Coffee Break  10:30 - 11:00

 

 

Plenary Session II:  11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon  Room 108

 

   Conference Address: James D. Tracy,

Professor of History, University of Minnesota

 

     “The Conflicting Imperatives of War and Finance: 

William of Orange, the States of Holland, and the Crisis of the Dutch Revolt (1572-1576)”

 

 

Buffet Luncheon 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

 

 

Saturday, 16 March

 

Session   Italian Studies VII: Politics, Power and Prose in Early Renaissance Italy

VIII A    1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Judith C. Brown, Wesleyan University

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“Chronicle and Civic Life in Sercambi’s Lucca”

Duane Osheim, University of Virginia

 

“Counting Virtues: Pietro Castellato’s Funeral Oration for Giangaleazzo Visconti”

Sharon Dale, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, The Behrend College

 

“From Chronicle to Legend: Carrara Court Chronicles in the Early Renaissance”

Benjamin G. Kohl, Vassar College

 

Session   Dante and Renaissance Art

VIII B    1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell

 

“Signorelli and Dante at Orvieto: The Means to Salvation”

Sara N. James, Mary Baldwin College

 

“Dante and Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’”

Barbara Watts, Florida International University

 

“Dante and Vasari’s ‘Last Judgment’"

Liana De Girolami Cheney, UMASS Lowell

 

Session   Fourteenth Century Governments

VIII C    1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108C  Sudakoff Center

Chair: David Hicks, New York University

 

“A Government Besieged by Conflict: The Parliament of Monzón (1362-1363) and the War of the Two Pedros”

Donald J. Kagay, Albany State University

 

“Old and New in the Legal System of Medieval Livonia”

P. Peter Rebane, Pennsylvania State, Abington

 

“Casimir the Great: Go East, Young Man”

John Paul Bardunias, University of South Florida

 

Session   The Sisters of Cressida: Ambiguity and Sex

VIII D    1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center

Chair and Organizer: Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology

 

“Les Belles Rebelles: Criseyde and Her Sisters Look For Love”

Gale Sigal, Wake Forest University

 

“Boccaccian Genealogy: History, Myth and the Sisters of Criseyde”

Teresa Kennedy, Mary Washington College

 

“Feminizing the Late Medieval Love Debate: From Guillaume de Machaut to Christine de Pizan and Alain Chartier”

Barton Palmer, Clemson University

 

Session   The English Renaissance: Bodies in Space

VIII E    1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby

Chair and Organizer: Nova Myhill, New College

 

“‘A Peculiar Fondness for Oranges’ 

circa 1597”

Julian Yates, University of Delaware

 

“‘Mangled bodies which do gaspe and grone’: Reading Corpses on the Stages and Streets of Early Modern London”

Nova Myhill, New College of Florida

 

“Gender and Sex in Early Modern Theatrical Spaces”

Meg Powers Livingston, Penn State Altoona

 

“‘Consum’d in going’: Allegories of Silence in Donne’s Satyres”

Kevin Farley, Newberry College

 

 

Saturday, 16 March

 

Session   Italian Studies VIII: The Voices of Women As Primary Sources

IX A      2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Room 108A  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara

Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

 

“Poets Priests Mystics: Voices of Women in Thirteenth Century Italy”

Deborah Contrada, University of Iowa

 

“Poets and Patriots: The Women of Siena at the End of the Republic”

Konrad Eisenbichler, Victoria College, University of Toronto

 

“Rethinking Testaments through Tuscan Women”

Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida

 

Session   Florentine Art

IX B      2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Room 108B  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Debra Murphy, University of North Florida

 

“Stained Glass and Fresco in the Velluti Chapel in Santa Croce”

Nancy Thompson, St. Olaf College (withdrawn)

 

“Pietas erga patriam: Lorenzo de’ Medici, St. Zenobius, and Ghirlandaio’s ‘Famous Men’ Cycle in the Palazzo Veccchio”

D. R. Edward Wright, University of South Florida

 

“Myth, Method, and Monument: The Unnatural History of the Palimpsest Wall of the Palazzo Vecchio”

Mia Reinoso Genoni, New York University

 

Session   Workshop on the Martial Arts in Medieval-Renaissance Europe

IX C      2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Room 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State University

 

“European Martial Arts during the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries”

John Clements, ARMA - The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts

 

“Demonstration of Combat Based on the Methods of Hans Liechtenauer of 1389 (Swabia) And Fiore Dei Liberi’s Flos Duellatorum, c. 1410 (Padua)”

John Clements

 

Session   Fourteenth Century English Literature

IX D      2:45-4:15 p.m.   Room 108D Sudakoff Center

Chair: Teresa Kennedy, Mary Washington College

 

“‘As myself in a Mirour’: Langland between Augustine and Lacan”

Daniel M. Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic University

 

“God’s Game in Sir Gawain and the 

Green Knight”

Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida

 

“Sounding the Hunt in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

                Sandy Feinstein, Penn State,

                Berks/LehighValley College

 

Session   Elizabethan Drama

IX E      2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Room 108D  Sudakoff Center

Chair: Peggy Endel, Florida International University

 

“Writing Women: Evadne and Aspatia’s Negotiation of Social Positions in Beaumont and Fletcher’s

The Maid’s Tragedy”

Susan Flatt, University of Miami

 

“Power and Impotence in Webster’s The White Devil”

Mathew Winston, University of Alabama

 

“Negotiating Sovereignty: Love, Power, and Politics in The Knight’s Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen”

Carol Richards, Duke University

 

 

 

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 $45 if received by March 6, 2002, but $50 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 6, 2002.  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).

 

Graphics:  Clipart courtesy of www.godecookery.com/

 

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 packett.  For information, call 359-5700.  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. For the Sarasota Opera, call 366-8450.  For the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, call 953-3368.

 

This conference is sponsored by the Program in Medieval-Renaissance Studies, New College of 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

Rob Brown

Anne G. Snyder

 

 

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PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES

MARCH 14, 15, 16, 2002

 

NAME_________________________________________ PHONE_________________

 

HOME ADDRESS _______________________________________________________

 

ZIP____________ E-Mail_________________________ Fax_________________

 

Registration fee of $45 enclosed (Sarasota area $10):      $________

Reservation for Thursday buffet luncheon enclosed ($9.00): $________

Reservation for Friday buffet luncheon enclosed   ($9:00): $________

Reservation for Saturday buffet luncheon enclosed ($9.00): $________

 

                                           Total Enclosed: $________

 

Make checks payable to:  NEW COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC.

 

Would you like to join the informal dinner group at nearby restaurants:

Thursday_____     Friday_____     Saturday_____

 

Send motel list:_____

 

Pre-registration and reservations must by received by MARCH 6, 2002

 

Send to:

Program in Medieval-Renaissance Studies

New College of Florida

5700 N. Tamiami Trail

Sarasota, FL  34243-2197

 

 

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