THE FOURTEENTH BIENNIAL
NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE
ON
MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES


Sarasota, Florida

March 11, 12, 13, 2004

Thursday, 11 March

Registration: 8:30 - 5:30 p.m. Sudakoff Lobby

Session I A : Dante and Italy
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: George Dameron, St. Michael’s College

"Art and Literature in Medieval Italy: Dante’s Inferno"
Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin

"Under the Tuscan Sun: The Tristan Myth in the Tuscan Minstrels"
Joanne Frallicciardi Lyon, University of South Florida

"The Figure of Frederick II in the Divine Comedy: Infernal Inversion and a Less than Sturdy Rock"
Mary Watt, University of Florida

Session I B : The Mythology of Venice
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair: Susan McKillop, Sonoma State University

"The Myth of Venice in the Mouth of the Infidel”
Mary C. Fournier, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Displaying Piety: The Burial Monument of Doge Cristoforo Moro at San Giobbe in Venice"
Janna Israel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Saint Simeon’s Two Bodies: Relics as Political Instruments During the Reign of Louis of Anjou (1342-1382)”
Ana Munk, University of Washington

Session I C “Women and Scandal in Late Medieval Spain and France”
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: Michelle Herder, New College of Florida

"Gossip and Scandal at a Medieval Monastery: The Pregnancy of Sister Constancia"
Michelle Herder, New College of Florida

"Inquisitorial Procedure in a Fourteenth-Century Rape Trial: The Case of Ermessenda Sabater"
Marie A. Kelleher, California State University, Long Beach

“A Modicum of Bread: Divorce, Dowry, and Domestic Violence in Medieval Marseille”
Susan McDonough, Yale University

Session I D Medieval English Literature
9:00 - 10:30a.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida

"The Unsadness of Assumption and the Joy of Sadness in The Clerk’s Tale"
Liam O. Purdon, Doane College

"Something about Mary: Postcolonialities, Semitisms, and Thomas Hoccleve"
Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of Dayton

“The Word’s Two Bodies: Langland’s Comedy of Double Meaning”
Curtis Maxwell Perrin, Yale University

Session I E: Shakespeare I
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair: Julienne H. Empric, Eckerd College

"Shakespeare’s Venetian Ideal and the Self-Destruction of Christian Humanism"
Joseph R. Chaney, Indiana University South Bend

“Othello Without Iago or Desdemona’s Linguistic Emergence”
Barbara L. Estrin, Stonehill College

“Discrediting the Mystery: The Authority of the Audience in Measure for Measure”
Nova Myhill, New College of Florida

Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.

Session II A: Italian Studies I: Religion in the Italian Renaissance
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"San Lorenzo in Florence: A Church and its Canons in the Middle Ages"
William Bowsky, University of California, Davis

"The Piccolomini Legacy: Enea Silvio as Humanist, Pope and Patron"
Richard B. Hilary, Florida State University

"Liturgical Patterns In the Context of Early Medici Altars"
Susan McKillop, Sonoma State University

Session II B: Religion, Medieval to Humanism
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair: Basil Clark, Saginaw Valley State University

"Late Antique Remnants in the Dominican Monastery Church of St. Mary at Negropont"
Pierre A. MacKay, University of Washington

“Knight of the Red Cross and Knight of the Crimson Surcoat: The Influence of De ortu Waluuanii on The Faerie Queene, Bk.I”
Mildred Leake Day, Gardendale, Alabama

"'Heare My Words, O Lord': Donne’s Davidic Ecumenism"
Sarah McCollum, University of Tennessee

Session II C: Women and Their Wiles: Medieval Women who Got Their Own Way
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology

“Women Don’t Wimp Out: Two Jewish Female Martyrs”
Wendy Pfeffer, University of Louisville

"Women’s Wiles and Misogyny in Symphorien Champier’s Nef des princes"
Judy Kem, Wake Forest University

"Chaucer’s Lilith: The Winsome Fantasy and Willful Reality of the Wife of Bath"
Joel Feimer, Mercy College

Session II D: Medieval Nobles
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania

"Insular Heroes and Continental Courts: Chwedyl Gereint vab Erbin and the Norman Conquest of Wales"
Kathleen Formosa, New School University

"Double Crossing Bastards: The Significance of an Abbreviation in Burgundian Manuscripts"
Catherine Emerson, National University of Ireland, Galway

"The Discovery of Count Pedro Ansúrez"
Bernard F. Reilly, Villanova University

Session II E: Shakespeare II: Late Readings of Shakespeare’s Early Plays
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair and Organizer: Mark Taylor, Manhattan College

"Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Richard III"
James Schiffer, Northern Michigan University

"Two Families Unalike: A Saussurian Reading of Romeo and Juliet"
Marvin Hunt, North Carolina State University

“Choice in The Merchant of Venice”
Mark Taylor, Manhattan College

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

Session III A : Italian Studies II: Women in Literature and Politics
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Stan Chojnacki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"Apocryphal Women Poets and Petrarch’s ‘oziose piume’"
Deborah Contrada, University of Iowa

"'All Italy rejoices and hopes through you’: The Political Poetry of Virginia Martini Salvi (1550’s)"
Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto

"Foster-mother of vipers: Santa Verdiana, Episcopal Conflict and the Development of the Commune of Castelfiorentino"
Corinne Wieben, University of California, Santa Barbara

Session III B: Aspects of Florentine Mannerism I
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair and organizer: Edward J. Olszewski, Case Western Reserve University

"Venus as Mars: A Reversal of Male and Female Roles in Italian Renaissance Society"
Christine C. Wolkins, Case Western Reserve University

"Secrets of the Studiolo: Rearranging Paintings for Francesco I de’ Medici"
Karen Edwards, Case Western Reserve University

"Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa and the Spectacle of the Grotesque"
Christine Corretti, Case Western Reserve University

“The Signorini and Their Villa of Il Riposo”
Lloyd H. Ellis, Jr., Independent Art Historian

Session III C: Utopia and Government
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair: Daniel T. Lochman, Texas State University at San Marcos

"Utopia and the Republic of Letters"
John Freeman, University of Detroit Mercy

"Ruin and Utopia"
David Baker, Rutgers University-Newark

"English Romance and the Laws of War"
Brian Lockey, Saint Louis University, Madrid

Session III D: Medieval Spanish Religion
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Anna Macias, Ohio Wesleyan University

"In Common Parlance: The Jewish-Christian Debate and the Formation of Catalonian Culture"
Nina Caputo, University of Florida

"Ambivalence and Self-Construction in the Treatises of Teresa de Cartagena"
Kerry Kautzman, Alfred University

"The Task of the Exemplum is to Make Us See About the Creation of Strategies, the Transmission of Wisdom, and the Reading of an Unreadable Discourse"
Boncho Dragiyski, The John Hopkins University

Session III E: Shakespeare III: Hamlet: His Publics and Privates
2:00 - 3:30 a.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair and Respondent: Joel Feimer, Mercy College
Organizer: Laury Magnus, Merchant Marine Academy

"The Myriad-Minded Horatio: Friend, Therapist, Mentor"
Joseph Wagner, Kent State University

"’Rose of the fair state’: Hamlet and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty"
Antony DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology

"’Nay, then, I have an eye of you’: Public Audiences and Private Agendas in Hamlet Films"
Laury Magnus, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Break 3:30 - 3:45

Session IV A: Italian Studies III: Italian Renaissance Economics
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Howard Shealy, Kennesaw State University
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"The Rise and Fall of a 15th Century Venetian Merchant in London: Giovanni Marcanova"
Paula Clarke, McGill University

"Venetian Commerce in Sicily during the Second Half of the 15th Century"
Edoardo Giuffrida, Archivio di Stato, Venezia

"Aspects of Business Partnerships and Family Connections in the Alberti Family in the Late Trecento and Early Quattrocento"
Susannah Foster Baxendale

Session IV B: Aspects of Florentine Mannerism II
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: Edward J. Olszewski, Case Western Reserve University

"Reconfiguring Bosch’s Venice Panels to Reveal Their True Meaning"
Tamara Durn, Case Western Reserve University

"Pollaiuolo, Jason and the Golden Fleece"
Edward J. Olszewski, Case Western Reserve University

“Mutual Propaganda Fulfilled: Baccio Bandinelli’s Hercules and Cacus”
Michael Morford, Case Western Reserve University

“Lotto and Bonifacio: A Look at Artistic Circles in Renaissance Venice”
Todd A. Herman, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Session IV C: The Renaissance Female Voice
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair: Christine Probes, University of South Florida

A’Moyennerresse de Traictié de Paiz’: Re-examining Christine de Pizan’s Isabeau"
Tracy Adams, Auckland, New Zealand

"Putting Susannah in Perspective: Renaissance Constructions of the Apocryphal Susanna as Silent Rhetorical Subject"
Catherine R. Eskin, Florida Southern College

"’Her soule ever after this day to scourge’: The Vanquishing of ‘Feminine’ Response in The Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene"
Heather Hill-Vasquez, University of Detroit Mercy

Session IV D: Medieval Intellectual Analysis
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Douglas Langston, New College of Florida

"Grosseteste and the Rover: A Case Study in Influence"
Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College

"Gervase of Tilbury on Heresy and Fantasy"
Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania

“Langland and Ockham”
Daniel M. Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic University

Session IV E: Attitudes Toward Warfare in Classical and Renaissance Literature
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair: Flora J. Zbar, University of South Florida
Organized by Sara Munson Deats, USF

"The Chalice and the Blade: Engendering War in Classical Literature"
Georgia E. Brown, Fellow, Queen’s College Cambridge, England

“Violence, Terrorism. And War in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Plays”
Robert Logan, President of the Marlowe Society of America, University of Hartford

"Henry V at War: Christian Prince or Model Machiavel?"
Sara Munson Deats, Former President, Marlowe Society of America, University of South Florida

Reception 5:30 - 7:00
College Hall, Bayfront

Friday, 12 March

Session V A: Italian Studies IV: Religion in Tuscany
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Jacqueline Gutwirth, Bronx Community College
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"Catherine of Siena between Literature and Sanctity"
F. Thomas Luongo, Tulane University

"You Lack Only Wives: Masculinity and the Franciscan Friars"
Lezlie Knox, Marquette University

"Tuscan Communes of Their Churches at the Time of Dante: Comparisons and Contrasts"
George Dameron, St. Michael’s College

Session V B: Drawings and Manuscripts
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair: Malena Carrasco, New College of Florida

"The Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M.723: Illustrations of Hayton’s La Fleur des Histoires d’Orient"
Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine, Independent Scholar, Paris

"Horses at the Margin: The Secret of Secrets in Splendor Solis"
Sandy Feinstein, Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College

"The Recto and Verso of a Drawing by the Renaissance Artist Lodewijk Toeput"
Anat Gilboa, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University, University of Toronto

Session V C: English Humanism I: Religious Reform
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Organizer: John McDiarmid, New College of Florida

"Constructing Chronologies: Meaning(s) of Reform in John Colet’s Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy"
Daniel T. Lochman, Texas State University at San Marcos

"Printing the Monuments of Martyrs: Robert Waldegrave and Oppositional Identity in Late Tudor England"
Susannah Monta, Louisiana State University

"'Foolish Dreams and Fond baubles’: Pierre Viret’s ‘Amusingly’ Acrimonious Assaults on the Catholic Mass"
Margaret Rose Jaster, Penn State Harrisburg

Session V D: The Clash of Civilizations: Classical and Medieval
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: Raymond Cormier, Longwood University

"The Erotic Epigrams of Paulus Silentiarius and the Classical Tradition"
Angela Pitts, Mary Washington College

"Pagan Values in a Twelfth–Century French Antique Romance: Metempsychosis vs. The Christian Afterlife"
Raymond J. Cormier, Longwood University

"Boccaccio and Imaginary Spaces: Classical Etymology and the Humanist Polemic"
Teresa A. Kennedy, Mary Washington College

Session V E: “Life at the English Royal Court”
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sudadoff East Lobby
Chair: David Carr, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

"Escapist Erudition: Pursuit of Learning as a Solace in the Early Life of Elizabeth I"
Monica Piotter, Florida Gulf Coast University

"Errant Earls and Maids of (Dis)honor: The Nobility and Illicit Sex at the Court of Elizabeth I"
Johanna Rickman, Emory University

"Pomp and Circumstance: Understanding Prince Henry at the Court of James I"
Robert McJimsey, Colorado College

 

Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:00

Session VI A : Italian Studies V
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Judith Brown, Wesleyan University
Organizer: Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"’It’s a thousand years since I saw you’: Crossing the Genres in Renaissance Letters"
Alison M. Brown, Royal Holloway College, University of London

"Whose ‘cattivo disegno’?: Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Soderini and the 1505 Accusations of Tyranny against the Militia"
John M. Najemy, Cornell University

Session VI B: The Relationship of Pictorial Representation and Narrative in Several Medieval Manuscripts
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: Erika Laquer, Smith College

"The Collusion of Text and Image: Illustrations of the Wife of Bath in Manuscript and Printed Editions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales"
Geraldine Branca, Merrimack College

"The Evangelist John and the Eagle in the Douce Apocalypse"
Jeanne Krochalis, Pennsylvania State University

"The Legend of the Midwife to Jesus: Narrative and Pictorial Representation"
Erika Laquer, Smith College

Session VI C: English Humanism II: Mid-Tudor Protestant Humanism and the Crown
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair: Ronald Witt, Duke University
Organizer: John McDiarmid, New College of Florida

"Sir John Cheke’s De Ecclesia and the Latin Polemic of the Marian Exiles"
John McDiarmid, New College of Florida

“The Kingship of Edward VI: Appearance and Reality”
Dale Hoak, College of William and Mary

“William Cecil, William Daye and the New Cambridge Connection”
Stephen Alford, Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University

Session VI D : Medieval French Genre
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Mary Jane Schenck, University of Tampa

"The Question of Stature Revisited: Odo of Deuil and the Voyage de Charlemagne"
Anne Latowsky, University of Washington, Seattle

"The Hair of the Dog: Hair in Flamenca"
Susan Hopkirk, Auburn University

“The Nature of the Fabliau Genre and How it is Transgressed”
Jean E. Jost, Bradley University

Session VI E : Islamic Impact on Renaissance Europe
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair: Lee Daniel Snyder, New College of Florida

“Mandeville’s Travels: A ‘Rihla’ in Disguise”
Ana Pinto, Facultad de Fillologia, Madrid

“The 1589 Moroccan Delegation and The Battle of Alcazar”
Nabil Matar, Florida Institute of Technology

"The Scheming ‘Rossa’: Early Modern European Response to Roxolana"
Galina I. Yermolenko, DeSales University

Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.


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

Welcome: Gordon Michalson
President, New College of Florida

Conference Address: Stanley Chojnacki,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“The Gender of the Casa:Wives in the Renaissance Palace”

Saints and Scholars
A Tour of the Ringling Museum’s Permanent Collection and the special Exhibition, Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Organized by Joanna Weber and Maureen Thomas-Zaremba

The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art
Bayshore Road, 3:15 to 5:30

Session I: Of Lions and Red Hats: St. Jerome at the Ringling Museum
3:15 to 3:45: Joanna Weber, Associate Curator

Session II: Magnificent Martyrs
4:00 to 4:45: Paul Grootkerk, Ringling School of Art and Design
Maureen Thomas-Zaremba, Museum Educator

Courtyard Reception
4:45-5:30

Session VII A: Italian Studies VI: Women
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Ronald Witt, Duke University
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"Women and Dowry in Sienese Statutes: Theory and Practice"
Elena Brizio, Università di Siena

"Aches, Pains and Questions: Medical Care in a Florentine Girls’ Orphanage"
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto

"Births and Bets in Late Renaissance Venice"
Monica Chojnacka, University of Georgia, Athens

Session VII B : Literary Allegory
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: James J. Paxson, University of Florida

"Abandoning Pearl: Reading and the Erotics of Submission"
Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida

"History vs. Allegory: Chaucer’s Pardoner vs. Pasolini’s Pardoner"
James J. Paxson, University of Florida

"The Speech of Daemons” Kepler’s Somnium and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs"
Dean Swinford, University of Florida

Session VII C : English Humanism III: Sidney’s Circle and Continental Protestant Humanism
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: John McDiarmid, New College

"Paulus Melissus at the Court of Queen Elizabeth: Cultural Transmigration in Late Tudor England"
Lee Piepho, Sweet Briar College

“’Fog in Channel–Continent Isolated’: Sidney’s Correspondence and English Foreign Policy”
Roger Kuin, York University

“Sidney’s ‘Cosmopology’: Defending Poetry among the Philippists”
Robert Stillman, University of Tennessee

Session VII D: Teaching the Song of Roland
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: William W. Kibler, Univeristy of Texas at Austin

“The Rhetoric of Rivalry”
Kimberlee Campbell, New York University

"Beowulf, Roland and Hamlet: A Comparison of Medieval Heroes"
Ann Engar, University of Utah

"Teaching The Song of Roland in the Medieval History Survey"
Joel T. Rosenthal, SUNY-Stony Brook

"Teaching The Song of Roland in Modern English Translation"
Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology

Session VII E : The Impact of Italian Humanism
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair: Christopher Carlsmith, University of Massachusetts Lowell

"Italian Humanism and the Universities: A Reconsideration"
David A. Lines, University of Miami

"The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri: Historical Information and Colonial Humanism"
Carla P. Weinberg, The University of the Arts

"Whose Creation? Texts, Images, and the Role of Humanism in the Nuremberg Chronicle"
Constantine Hadavas, Beloit College

Saturday, 13 March

Session VIII A: Italian Studies VII: Plague and Public Health in the Renaissance
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Edward D. English, Independent Scholar
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"Saints and Salvation during the Renaissance Plagues"
Duane J. Osheim, University of Virginia

"Doctors and the Plague: Doctores, medici and barberii in Bologna during the Black Death"
Shona Kelly Wray, University of Missouri-Kansas City

"’She does the business of this hospital’: Gender, Religious Culture and Public Health in Late Medieval Bergamo"
Roisin Cossar, University of Manitoba

Session VIII B: Art And Community in the Italian Renaissance
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair: Joanna Weber, Assistant Curator, Ringling Museum of Art

"Antiquities, Artists, and the Printing Press: Sixteenth-Century Antiquarians and the Evidence of Monuments"
William Stenhouse, Yeshiva University

"San Carlo Borromeo: Imprinting the City"
Giles Knox, Indiana University

"ORSINI WORLD: Bomarzo and the Iconographic Conventions of Renaissance Mappae Mundi"
D.R. Edward Wright, University of South Florida

Session VIII C: Urban Culture in the 15th and 16th Century Low Countries
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: Peter Arnade, California State University, San Marco

"Literacy in the City"
Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Amsterdam and Gent Universities

“The Chambers of Rhetoric and Urban Culture in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands"
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene, Ghent University

“The Participation of a Devotional Brotherhood in the Cultural Life of the City of Brussels: The Case of O.L.V. van de Zeven Weeën”
Susie Speakman Sutch, University of California, Berkeley

Session VIII D : Medieval Music and Text
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Maribeth Clark, New College of Florida

"Polyphonic Settings of the Liturgies for Corpus Christi"
Vincent Corrigan, Bowling Green State University

"From Refrain to Polyphonic Rondeau: Music’s Role in the Stylization of the Carole in Late Thirteenth Century France"
Matthew Steel, Western Michigan University

"Women Trouvères: Just the Same Old Refrains?"
Beverly J. Evans, SUNY at Geneseo

Session VIII E: Children in Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair: Nova Myhill, New College of Florida
Organized by John McDiarmid, New College, and Suzanne Penuel, University of Texas

"The Imprint of Paternity in Early Modern England"
Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M University

"Twelfth Night: Mourned Fathers and Asexual Reproduction"
Suzanne Penuel, University of Texas and University of Mississippi

“The Art of The Slow Start: Precocity and Prodigality in I Henry IV and A Trick to Catch the Old One”
Robert W. Reeder, Providence College

Break 10:30 - 11:00

Plenary Session II: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Room 108

Conference Address: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College

“Finding a Use for Bad Kings: Saul as an Anti-Model in Early Modern England”

Lunch 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

Session IX A : Italian Studies VIII: Imagination and Restraint
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Alison Williams Lewin, St. Joseph’s University
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"Notaries Doodle: What Were Court Clerks Thinking?"
Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Aesop’s Fables and Emblematic Sculpture in the Gondi Palace in Florence"
Linda Pellecchia, University of Delaware

"Regulating the Margins of Women: Florentine Sumptuary Laws and Gendered Theories of Consumption"
Manu Radhakrishnan, City University of New York

Session IX B: Italian Renaissance Painting
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair: Mitchell Merling, New College of Florida

“Francesco di Giorgio, Neroccio de’Landi, and the Practice of Narrative in Renaissance Siena”
Benjamin David, The Ohio State University

"Giorgio Vasari’s Minerva: A Muse of Disegno"
Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell

“Investigating Issues of Gender Representation and Attribution in The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Portrait of a Couple”
Martha E. McLaughlin, Case Western Reserve University

Session IX C : Medieval English History
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair and Organizer: Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University

"Water World: The Prequel"
David R. Carr, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

"Greed and Episcopal Authority: Anglo-Norman Chroniclers on Simony"
Marylou Ruud, University of West Florida

"Eleanor of Aquitaine Viewed by her Contemporaries: The Twelfth-Century English Chroniclers"
Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University

Session IX D : Renaissance Erotic and Courtly Love
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Katherine Maynard, Washington College

"A Girl To Be Avoided Like the Plague: A Reading of the 55th Tale of the Cent nouvelles nouvelles"
David A. Fein, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"Narcissus Unveiled: Desire and the Death of the Image in Fernando de Rojas’ Celestina"
Nicholas Ealy, Emory University

"’The Virgin Mary’ or ‘Eve’: A Revisionist Look at Story Ten of The Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre"
Zoë Urbanck, Southern Methodist University

Session IX E : Marlowe’s Family Tree: Power, Politics, and Parenting
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair and Organizer: Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida

"The Hopeless Daughter of a Hapless Jew"
Lagretta Lenker, University of South Florida

“A Study in Ambivalence: Mothers and Their Sons in Christopher Marlowe”
Joyce Karpay, University of South Florida

"Masculinity, Performance, and Identity: Father/Son Dyads in Christopher Marlowe’s Plays"
Merry Perry, West Chester University

 

Break 2:30 – 2:45

Session X A: Italian Studies IX: Medici Politics
2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Room 108A Sudakoff Center
Chair: Alison M. Brown, Royal Holloway College, University of London
Organized by Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"Contra damnationis filios: Pope Gregory XI and the Creation of the Visconti Myth"
Sharon Dale, Penn State,Erie-The Behrend College

"Working Together for Florence: Medici Politics 1430’s to 1450’s"
Margery Ganz, Spelman College

"San Lorenzo as a Tool for the Medici Rise to Power in the 1430’s"
Laura de’Angelis, Università di Firenze

Session X B:Depictions of Death over the Centuries
2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Room 108B Sudakoff Center
Chair: Chris Hassold, New College of Florida

“The Arts of Death: Portrait, Icon, and Photograph”
Tina Waldeier Bizzarro, Rosemont College

"The Monument to Doge Leonardo Loredan in Ss Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, as a Power Play"
Adrienne DeAngelis, Morehead State University

"The ‘Infection’ of St. Anthony (?): Reconsidering Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece"
Jerry A. Marino, Independent Scholar

Session X C: Early English Life
2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Room 108C Sudakoff Center
Chair: David Rohrbacher, New College of Florida

"Suffering for Salvation in the Poems of Cynewulf"
Alexander M. Bruce, Florida Southern College

“The Boast Words of Beowulf"
Marie Nelson, University of Florida

“Royal Burials in the Isle of Man”
Valerie Hampton, University of Florida

Session X D: French Renaissance Humanism
2:45 - 4:15 p.m. Room 108D Sudakoff Center
Chair: Anne Latowski, University of Washington

"The Idea of Progress in Sixteenth-Century France"
Marian Rothstein, Carthage College

"Annales du mal: D’Aubigné, Ronsard, and Visions of the Valois"
Katherine Maynard, Washington College

“The Prince and the Subject at the Intersection of Emblematic Poetry and Art: Moral and Pragmatic Reflection in Jean-Baptiste Chassignet’s Poetry and Pierre de Loysi’s Emblems”
Christine McCall Probes, University of South Florida

Session X E: Florentine Imagination and Festivity
3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Sudakoff East Lobby
Chair: Silvia Ruffo Fiore, University of South Florida

"Neither Venetian nor a Letter: The First Venetian Love-Letter"
Diana Gilliland Wright, New School University

"Machiavelli’s Poetic Imagination: Narratology and Visual Design"
Slvia Ruffo Fiore, University of South Florida

"Masccherata della geneologia degli dei de gentili (1565): The Use of ‘Ornament’ in the Creation of Allegory”
Barbara Grammeniati, Roehampton University, London

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 213 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 5, 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 $10.00 each.  To assure service we must receive your check by March 5, 2004.  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. No one will be in charge; there will be no program. 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. 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.  Click here for motel list ; 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. The Pegasus Press will also have a table.

 

Activities:  Your registration will include coffee breaks and a reception on Thursday, March 11th 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.  See the special tour and reception, Friday at 3:15. (p.16).  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 or (800) 361-8388. For the Sarasota Opera, call (941) 366-8450 or (888) OPERA-12.  For the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, call (941) 953-3368, or (800) 826-9303 

 

This conference is sponsored by the Program in Medieval-Renaissance Studies, New College of Florida, and the New College Foundation, Inc. 

 

Events, activities, programs, and facilities of the New College of 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 College’s respect for personal dignity.

 

Program Director: Lee Daniel Snyder

Assistant Director: Nova Myhill

Program Committee: David Carr, USF

Michelle Herder, NCF

Margery Ganz, Spellman College

Anne Latowsky, NCF

David Rohrbacher, NCF

Joanna Weber, Ringling Museum

 

Program Assistants: Charlene Saeman

Robert C. Brown

Ann G. Snyder