Session 1: Metaphysical Poetry: Approaching the Divine
Chair: Nova Myhill, New College of Florida

Tradition and Innovation in the Metaphysical Poetry of Donne and Rumi
Manijeh Mannani, University of Alberta

The Sweetness of Love in George Herbert’s Lyrics
Chris Hill, University of Tennessee at Martin

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Session 2: Books Between Manuscript & Print
Chair: Lesley Stone, University of South Florida (Tampa), Special Collections

“If great ladies give her presents”: Rethinking Anne de Graville’s Presentation of Boccaccio’s Theseida to Queen Claude de France
Jennifer Courts Naumann, Florida State University

The Feldbuch: Origins and History of the Text
Ayesha D. Bey, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Reading at the Threshold: The History of Reception of the Medieval Celestina in its Early Modern Illustrations
Ana I. Montero, Willamette University

Session 3: Women in Tudor England
Chair: David Carr, University of South Florida (St. Petersburg)

To the King Go the Spoils: The Dissolution of Barking Abbey
Kay Slocum, Capital University

A Woman Enthroned: Margaret of York and the Constructed Self in the Recuyell Engraving
Lee Todd, Florida State University

De-sanctifying Hermione: Irigarayan Engenderment in The Winter’s Tale
Barbara L. Estrin, Stonehill College

Session 4: Language and Society in Piers Plowman & Patience
Chair: Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida

The Language of Feudal Custom and Practice in Patience
Liam Purdon, Doane College

Erasing Piers the Plowman: An Agenda of the C-Text Revision
Daniel M. Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic University

Patience's Riddle in Piers Plowman
Allison Adair, Georgetown University

Session 5: Roman Palimpsests
Chair: Lee Snyder, New College of Florida

Art and Archaeology in the Quattrocento: The Restoration of Rome in the Collectio antiquitatum of Giovanni Marcanova
Sarah Cartwright, New York University

Michael Sweerts’ Plague in an Ancient City (Rome, ca. 1650): Deciphering the Enigma
Franco Mormando, Boston College

Piranesi and the House of Cola di Rienzo
Carrie E. Benes, New College of Florida

Session 7: Beyond the Manuscript
Chair: Maribeth Clark, New College of Florida

Inscribing Order: The Didactic Function of Schemata in Walters Art Museum MS W.73
Jennifer Feltman, Florida State University

The Pistoia Codices and the Politics of Power: Formulating Hypotheses about the Dating & Creation of the Manuscripts
James Maiello, University of California at Santa Barbara

The Inserted Refrains in Jacquemart Gielee’s Renart le nouvel and Their Curious Relationship with Contemporaneous French Motets and Rondeaux
Matthew Steel, Western Michigan University

Session 8: Sixteenth-Century Italian Society I
Chair: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida

The Miroir in Reflection:  Shattering the Perceived Image
Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology

The Wife of Bath: Postmodern Feminist or Patriarchal Puppet?
Dana Lawrence, Texas A & M University

Squire Jankyn’s Legs and Feet: Physiognomy, Social Class, and Fantasy in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida

Session 10: Great Myths of Italian History
Chair: Benjamin G. Kohl, Vassar College

Italy, Crisis, and the Early Modern World
Duane Osheim, University of Virginia

Errors of Omission: Mollat and the Avignon Papacy in Italy
Sharon Dale, The Behrend College, Penn State University, Erie

Communes and Factions: A Historiographical View
Paula Clarke, McGill University

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Session 11: The Inexhaustible Shakespeare
Organizer and chair: Mark Taylor, Manhattan College

All's Well That Ends Well: Helena and Her (Father’s) Triple Eye
Joseph Wagner, Kent State University (Stark)

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Orpheus
Anthony DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology

The Food of Love
James Schiffer, Northern Michigan University

Session 13: Italian Renaissance Sculpture
Chair: Maureen Zaremba, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Scuole delle Arti as Patrons of Art: Venetian Myth and Reality
Kristin Lanzoni, Elon University

Ahead of the Curve: Michelangelo and the Invention of the Figura Serpentinata
Karen V. Edwards, Case Western Reserve University

Dressing the Emperor: Leone Leoni’s Charles V Triumphing over Fury
C. Cody Barteet, State University of New York at Binghamton

Session 14: Medieval England
Organizer and chair: Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University

Henry le Waleys, London Merchant and Royal Servant
Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University

The Incident at Antioch and the “Black Legend” of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University

The Privy Paper
David Carr, University of South Florida (St. Petersburg)

Session 15: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Trecento Florence
Chair: Carrie Benes, New College of Florida

If You Want Peace, Work for Justice: Dino Compagni’s Cronica and the Ordinances of Justice
Teresa P. Rupp, Mount St. Mary's University

Kinship and Conspiracy in Late Trecento Florence: A Case Study of the Alberti Family and their Parenti
Susannah F. Baxendale, University of California, Los Angeles

The Murals of the Strozzi Chapel and the Chiostro Verde: Nimrod and the Dominicans of Santa Maria Novella
Amber A. McAlister, University of Miami

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Session 17: The Early Middle Ages
Chair: Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

A Price of Life: Feud and Compensation in Early Medieval Laws
Karina Tokareva, Millikin University

Image/Afterimage: Signs of Sacrament and the “Invention” of Romanesque Sculpture
Peter Scott Brown, University of North Florida

One and One: An Esthetic Imperative in Medieval Insular Arts
Robert Stevick, University of Washington

Session 18: Religion & Renaissance Culture
Chair: Daniel Bornstein, Texas A & M University

The Climacteric of Late Medieval Camaldolese Spirituality: Ambrogio Traversari, John-Jerome of Prague and the Linea Salutis Heremitarum
William P. Hyland, St. Norbert College

Savonarola and the Construction of a Public Religious Imagination
John E. Allard, O.P., Providence College

Michelangelo, the Mystic?
Pavel Kalina, Czech Technical University and South Bohemian University

Session 19: Modern Echoes: Reflecting the Medieval Past
Chair TBA

Women of a Certain Age: A Twenty-First-Century Artist Responds to Sonnets by Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance
Carol L. Moore, The University of the Arts

Reembroidering the Bayeux Tapestry in Cinema and Television:  The Flip Side of (Women’s) History
Richard Burt, University of Florida

Session 20: Travel and Communications: Social Networks of Late Medieval Italy
Chair: Anne Jacobson Schutte, University of Virginia

Travel, Economy and Identity in Fourteenth-Century Italy: An Alternate Interpretation of the “Mercenary System”
William Caferro, Vanderbilt University

“Made Exiles for the Love of Knowledge”: Students in Late Medieval Italy
Julius Kirshner, University of Chicago

Divided Loyalties: Civic and Military Banners in Mid-Fifteenth-Century Venice
Dennis Romano, Syracuse University

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Session 21: Shakespeare and his Critics: Questioning Theory, Theorizing Questions
Chair: Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida

“Like to a Mortal Butcher Bent to Kill”: Humans, Animals and Hunting in Venus and Adonis
Joyce Chaney, University of Kentucky

“Fantasy Island”: Spatial and Imaginative Geography in The Tempest
Richard Horwich, New York University

Invocations, Evocations, and Naming-as-Metaphor in Early Modern Drama
Darlene Farabee, University of Delaware

Session 22: Reading Chartres in the Thirteenth Century
Chair: Malena Carrasco, New College of Florida

Illuminating Differences: Varying Articulations of Divine Light in the Gothic Cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges
Katie Poulin, Penn State University

The Charlemagne Window at Chartres and the Other Visio Constantini
Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida (Tampa)

Image and Text: Charlemagne’s Mission in Spain in the Window at Chartres
Mary Jane Schenck, University of Tampa

Session 23: Sixteenth-Century England I: Religion & Politics under Henry VIII
Organizer and chair: John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida

The Origins of the Protestant Reformation:  Politics, Religion, and Henry VIII, 1543-47
Dale Hoak, College of William & Mary

“Ways of Lying”:  Dodging the Question in Henrician England
Megan L. Hickerson, Tulane University

Two Republicans in Search of a Commonwealth: Thomas Starkey, Richard Morison, and the Ecclesiastical Polity
Ethan H. Shagan, Northwestern University

Session 24: Individuals & Institutions: The Role of Religion in Late Medieval Society
Chair: Douglas Langston, New College of Florida

Filling Clerical Office: The Non-Noble Elite of Santa Coloma de Queralt
Gregory Milton, Marquette University

Libraries of Secular Canons and their Churches in Late Medieval Belgium
Benjamin Victor, Université de Montréal

Session 25: Florence under the Medici
Chair: Margery Ganz, Spelman College

The Syndication of Public Officials in Renaissance Florence
Moritz Isenmann, European University Institute

“Hammering Away at the Pope”: Nofri Tornabuoni, Medici Henchman and Collaborator
Melissa Meriam Bullard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A Window on Cosimo de’ Medici, Paterfamilias and Politician, from within his own Household: The Letters of his Personal Assistant, Ser Alesso Pelli
Dale Kent, University of California, Riverside

Session 27: Saints & Iconography: Intention vs. Interpretation
Chair: Joanna Weber, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Competing Saints in Early Renaissance Padua
Benjamin G. Kohl, Vassar College

The Trebon Resurrection, Divinely Human
Sasha Suda, Williamstown, MA

“St. Stephen Preaching to the Jews” by Jaume Serra: An Example of Anti-Jewish Iconography in Spanish Painting
Leslie Ann Blacksberg, Berea College

Iconoclastic Aesthetics
Laura A. Smit, Calvin College

Session 28: Expanding the Idea of Europe
Chair: Uzi Baram, New College of Florida

Bring Us Your Best: Hostage-Taking and Diplomacy during the Baltic Crusade
Peter Rebane, Penn State University–Abingdon

Did the Balkans Have the Renaissance?
Alexander Mirkovic, McNeese State University

Jesuits and the Arts in Mughal India
Punam Madhok, East Carolina University

An Examination of Bernard Connor's The History Of Poland (1698) and its Depiction of the Political, Religious, and Cultural History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
John Paul Bardunias, Florida International University and Miami-Dade College

Tracing Jewish Trajectories of Solomon’s Demonological Wisdom
Sarah L. Schwarz, Haverford College

The History of the Jews in the Middle Ages from the North Sea to the Southern Alps: A User's Guide
Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania

God is in the Gloss: Conflicting Commentaries of Genesis 1:1-2, from Hellenistic Judaism to the Christian Reformation
Giovanna Calvino, New York University

Session 30: Machiavelli: His Life, Thought, & Writings
Chair: Jacqueline Gutwirth, Bronx Community College

Liberate Diuturna Cura Italiam: Hannibal in the Thought of Machiavelli
Robert Fredona, Cornell University

Clizia’s Histories
Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley

Machiavelli and the Eight Saints
David S. Peterson, Washington and Lee University

Approaching the Medici: Machiavelli as Co-Author of Paolo Vettori’s Ricordi of 1512
Mikael Hörnqvist, Uppsala University

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Session 31: Sixteenth-Century England II: Books for Elite Readers: Counsel in Print
Organizer: John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Chair: Steven May, Emory University

 “The counsell that he gave to kinges terrestrial”:  Thomas Sternhold and Edwardian Political Culture
Beth Quitslund, Ohio University

 “Let none such office take, save he that can for right his prince forsake”:  A Mirror for Magistrates, the English Magistracy, and the Limits of Political Obedience
Scott Lucas, The Citadel

The Art of Presentation: Matthew Parker and the Presentation of “Deluxe” Books to Elizabethan Elites
Elizabeth Evenden, University of Cambridge

Session 32: Saints & Cities: Combining Religion & Urbanism in the High Middle Ages
Organizer and chair: Florin Curta, University of Florida

Canon Law, Kings, and Sainthood in the 12th Century: When Does Canonization Not Count?
Jace Stuckey, University of Florida

The Medieval Town in Thirteenth- to Fourteenth-Century Bulgaria
Pavel Murdzhev, University of Florida

The Saints at War: Sin and Saints in Crusades Propaganda During the Siege of Antioch
Andrew Holt, University of North Florida

Session 33: Renaissance Scholarship: Reworking Past & Present
Chair: Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University

Did Ptolemy of Lucca Insert Humanist Ideas in Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Kingship?  Reflections on a Newly-Discovered Manuscript of Hans Baron
James Blythe, University of Memphis

At Petrarch’s Tomb: Cultural Baggage and Gendered Dialogue
Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto

The Letters of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini: Narratives and Themes
Nancy Bisaha, Vassar College

Session 35: Sixteenth-Century Italian Society II
Chair: Stanley Chojnacki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Masculinity and Politics in the Roman Aristocracy: The Colonna Family, 1520-1584
P. Renée Baernstein, Miami University of Ohio

Thinking about the State: Notaries and Testators in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany
Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida (Tampa)

Bolognese Do It Better? Cultures of Governance and Cultures of Charity in Late Renaissance Italy
Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto

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Session 36: Sixteenth-Century England III: Sidney & Spenser: Petrarchism & Politics, Print & Poetic Fame
Organizer: John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Chair: Scott Lucas, The Citadel

Badmouthing Spenser:  Short Poems Critical of The Faerie Queene
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College

How Did The Faerie Queene and Astrophel and Stella First Come to the Press?
Steven May, Emory University

Secrets and Lies:  Sidney, Politics and Astrophil and Stella, Revisited
Roger Kuin, York University

Session 37: Early Modern France & its Curious Texts
Chair: Max Adrien, New College of Florida

To the Point: The Needle, the Sword, and Female Exemplarity in Du Bartas’s La Judit
Katherine Maynard, Washington College

Chemistry by a Lady for the Ladies: Sexing the Art and Other Alchemical Acts
Sandy Feinstein, Penn State University, Berks

Becoming Global in the Early Modern: A Case of Modernity in French Emblematics
Christine McCall Probes, University of South Florida (Tampa)

Session 38: Late Antiquity
Chair: David Rohrbacher, New College of Florida

Early Christian Funerary Portraits: Pagan Origins and Christian TransformationsMarice E. Rose, Fairfield University

The Roots of the Thought of John Philoponus
Joan Dusa, Los Angeles, CA

The Castaway Demon: Christian History, Hagiography and Folk Tradition in the Medieval Arabic Chronicle of Si`irt
Scott McDonough, William Paterson University

Session 39: Medieval Latinity & the Rhetoric of Instruction
Chair: John Scott Campbell, University of South Florida (Tampa)

Perpende, obsecro, quae debes: Heloise Confronts Abelard on Marriage
Sally Livingston, Harvard University

Identity and Textual Authority in Humbert of Romans’ De Dono Timoris
Andrea L. Winkler, Mercer College

“To be or not to be”: Clues to Hamlet’s Question from a Fourteenth-Century Schoolmaster
Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College

Session 40: Civic Ideals & Realities in Late Medieval & Renaissance Siena
Chair: Howard Shealy, Kennesaw State University

The Use of Wealth by Women of the Countryside: The Sienese Case (Late Fourteenth to Mid-Fifteenth Century)
Elena Brizio, Università di Siena

The Magnates of Siena Strike Back: Lordship and the Commune, 1350-1400
Edward English, University of California, Santa Barbara

Eucharistic Themes in the Chapel of Saint Catherine of Siena
Timothy B. Smith, DePaul University

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Session 42: Fifteenth-Century French Manuscripts
Chair: Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida (Tampa)

Building Narrative in the Earliest Manuscripts of Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame
Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum

Framing Identity: Jean Colombe’s Frames as a Form of Self-Representation
Richard Gay, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

The Quest for Love: Narcissistic Doubling and Author Portraiture in René d'Anjou's Livre du Coeur d'Amour épris
Nicholas Ealy, Wesleyan College

Session 44: Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Angels & Monsters
Chair: Nicole Guenther Discenza, University of South Florida (Tampa)

Awreðed weorðlice . . . engla mægne: Angels in Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Alexander M. Bruce, Florida Southern College

Beowulf: A Narrative of Massive Reversal or: “What goes around, comes around”
Chris Vinsonhaler, Florida State University

Joint Heirs to Heaven: Angels in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination
Kevin Caliendo, University of Oklahoma