Session 6: Supporting Women and the Poor in Medieval and Renaissance Bologna
Organizer and chair: Shona Kelly Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Nuns and the City: Communal Support for Religious Women in Late Medieval Bologna
Sherri Franks Johnson, University of California, Riverside
“The Rector Proposes”: Hospital Administration in Early Modern Bologna
Matthew Sneider, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Altar and Cradle: Devising a Demographic Policy for Late Renaissance Bologna
Nicholas Terpstra, Victoria College, University of Toronto
Session 7: Virtual Selves: Advancing the Narrative in Fifteenth-Century English Romance
Chair: Katheryn Giglio, University of Central Florida
Creative Deviance: Emergent Game-Play and Late Middle English Romance
Angela Tenga, Florida Institute of Technology
Deferred Sacrifice and Chivalric Cenotaphs: Narrative Purpose in Malory’s “The Poisoned Apple”
Anthony Adams, University of Tennessee
Session 8: Modern Medievalisms
Chair: Catherine Daly, New College of Florida
Will in the Great War: “A Book of Homage to Shakespeare” in its Contexts
Marvin Hunt, North Carolina State University
Rewriting the Saints: Maurice Maeterlinck
Christina Chabrier, Eckerd College
A Medieval Escape from the Southern Phallus? Queer History and the Quest for Timelessness in Robert Penn Warren’s A Place to Come To
Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida
Session 9: Interpreting the Divina Commedia
Chair: Lee Daniel Snyder, New College of Florida
Consequentia rerum: Words as Events in Dante’s Paradiso
Dennis Costa, Boston University
Dante’s Allegorical Alphabet
Richard Lansing, Brandeis University
Reading and Seeing Dante’s Divine Comedy
Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin
Session 10: Shakespeare and the Law
Chair: Julienne Empric, Eckerd College
The Reasons of Our State: Shakespeare and the Discourse of Sovereignty in All's Well That Ends Well
Anthony DiMatteo, New York Institute of Technology
Litigious Shakespeare: Putting “Aliens” on Trial
Joseph B. Wagner, Kent State University
Language and Law in Measure for Measure
A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles
Session 11: Civic Negotiations I
Chair: Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida
“Let Peace Be in Your Power”: Remigio dei Girolami’s True Feelings about Charles of Valois?
Teresa Rupp, Mount Saint Mary’s University
Making Sense of Military Wages in Fourteenth-Century Florence
William Caferro, Vanderbilt University
Humanism and the Transformation of the Practice of Declaring War in the Sixteenth Century
Frederic J. Baumgartner, Virginia Technical Institute
Session 12: Medieval England
Organizer: Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University
Chair: David Carr, University of South Florida, St Petersburg
Disputed Marriages in the Register of John Chandler, Dean of Salisbury 1404-17
Byron J. Hartsfield, University of South Florida
The Amazing Life of Agatha, King John’s Wet-Nurse
Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University
Law and Order in Medieval London
Boyd Breslow
Session 13: The Dangers of Endogamy: Portuguese Queens of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance
Organizer and chair: Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Universidade do Minho
Lancaster and Avis: An Alliance in the Origin of the Fifteenth-Century Portuguese Nobility
Manuela Santos Silva, University of Lisbon
Between Husband and Father: Queen Isabel de Lencastre’s Crossed Loyalties
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, University of Lisbon
Cousin Marriage Among the Portuguese Royal Family During the Time of Leonor de Lencastre (1458-1525)
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá
Session 14: Renaissance Sinners and Saints
Chair: Malena Carrasco, New College of Florida
Picturing Illness: Martin Schöngauer’s Temptation of St. Anthony
Jerry Marino, Plantation, FL
Bronzino’s London Venus for Henry II
Edward J. Olszewski, Case Western Reserve University
Respondent: Veronique Plesch, Colby College
Session 15: Where Words Prevail Not: Early Modern Drama and the Instability of Language
Chair: A. R. Braunmuller, University of California, Los Angeles
Utopian Illiteracy in The Parnassus Trilogy
Katheryn Giglio, University of Central Florida
The Nature of Revision: The 1597 and 1602 Additions to The Spanish Tragedy
Patrick McGuire, University of Akron
Spectacular Bodies in The Duchess of Malfi
Nova Myhill, New College of Florida
Session 16: Humanism and Political Theory
Chair: John M. Najemy, Cornell University
The Theogenius of Leon Battista Alberti and the Ironies of Humanist Therapy
Timothy Kircher, Guilford College
Machiavelli and Vettori in 1513: New Light on Their Correspondence
William J. Connell, Seton Hall University
Machiavelli and Tocqueville on Justice
Mikael Hörnqvist, Stanford University
Session 17: Monastic Life
Chair: James D'Emilio, University of South Florida
The Feast of Herod in Gascon Romanesque Sculpture: Consanguineous Noble Marriage and John the Baptist as Monastic Model
Peter Scott Brown, University of North Florida
Punishing the Body for the Sake of the Soul: Shaping Ascetic Habits of Mind and Images of Suffering in the Tapestries of Late Medieval Dominican Nuns
Rachel Gratiy, Pennsylvania State University
Discussing Daily Life in Male Religious Houses in Portugal from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Maria Cristina Osswald, University of Oporto, Portugal
Session 18: Real and Fictive Queens and Coronations in Medieval Britain
Organizer and chair: Jeanne Krochalis, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington
The Coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie
Charlotte Wulf, Villa Julie College
The Coronation of Queen Catherine of Valois and her Feast
Jeanne Krochalis
Queenship in the Middle English Alexander Romance
Mary Hamel, Mount Saint Mary’s University
Session 19: Renaissance Values and Visual Culture
Chair: Alexandra Libby, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
A Marriage of Antiquarianism and Festival Design: The Wedding of Costanzo Sforza and Camilla of Aragon in 1475
Sarah Cartwright, Columbia University
Leonardo as Literary Writer
Filomena Calabrese, University of Toronto
Exporting Culture: Spanish Influence in Sixteenth-Century Rome
Nicole Milano, University of Florida
Session 20: Atheism, Celebrityhood, Sorcery: Marlovian Legacies?
Organizer and chair: Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida
The Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe: Marlowe and The Atheist’s Tragedy
Georgia Brown, Cambridge University
The Origins of the Faust Myth in Legend, Narrative, and Drama
Sara Munson Deats
Measuring Up: Standards of Measurement in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Plays
Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford
Session 21: Florentine Politics
Chair: Judith Brown, Wesleyan University
The Rise of Florence
George Dameron, Saint Michael’s College
Political Conspiracy and the Florentine Guild Government of 1378-1382
Robert Fredona, Cornell University
Buon amici, ma non per sempre: Agnolo Acciaiuoli, Dietisalvi Neroni, Niccolò Soderini and the Medici, 1430-1460
Margery A. Ganz, Spelman College
Session 22: Late Antiquity
Chair: David Rohrbacher, New College of Florida
The Ruler as Princeps: The Introduction of Infant Baptism into the Imperial Household
Robert McEachnie, University of Florida
Alms Beyond Duty: Caesarius of Arles’ Role in the Creation of the Ecclesiastical Tithe
Eric Shuler, University of Notre Dame
The Edictum Theoderici and the Nature of Law and Legal Administration in Ostrogothic Italy, 493-552
Sean Lafferty, University of Toronto
Session 23: Tudor Images
Organizers: Natalie Mears, University of Durham, and John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Chair: Natalie Mears
The Legacy of Henry VIII
Dale Hoak, College of William & Mary
Early Modern Celebrity Culture: Henry VIII in Edward Hall’s Chronicle
Scott Lucas, The Citadel
Reading Royal Robes: Analysing the Wardrobe Books of the Tudor Queens
Maria Hayward, University of Southampton
Session 24: Early Modern France
Chair: François Rigolot, Princeton University
Délie en flagrant délit: Scève the Sensualist
Brooke Donaldson, University of Mary Washington
Protecting the Pauvre peuple: The Importance of the Crowd in Pierre de l’Estoile’s Narration of the French Wars of Religion
Daniel J. Watkins, University of Florida
Writing Martyrdom in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques and Histoire universelle
Katherine Maynard, Washington College
Session 25: Piety in Public: Sacred Patronage in Medieval Italy
Chair: Amy Bloch, State University of New York, Albany
The Giant Bible of Calci (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa): Collective Patronage and Professional Craftsmen in a Twelfth-Century Pisan Neighborhood
Lila Yawn, John Cabot University, Cornell University in Rome, and the American University of Rome
Would You Make Up Your Mind Already? Two Last Testaments of a Fourteenth-Century Florentine Merchant
Amber A. McAlister, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
Burial Chapels, ‘Family’ Basilicas, and the Roman Cardinals of the Avignonese Curia: Faith, Influence, Tradition and the Individual in Fourteenth-Century Italy
Emily Graham, University of Saint Andrews
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Session 26: Space and Society in the Renaissance City
Chair: Edward Muir, Northwestern University
Symbolic Aspects of the Medici Palace and the Crisis of August 1458
Susan McKillop, Sonoma State University
Street Corner Icons and Sacred Space of Italian Cities
F. Thomas Luongo, Tulane University
“The City is a Ship”: Urban Spaces and Popular Politics in Seventeenth-Century Naples
Sean Parrish, University of South Florida
Session 27: Late Antique and Byzantine Art
Organizer and chair: Marice Rose, Fairfield University
Adorning the Byzantine Icon Screen: An Examination of Repoussé Copper Icons
Sarah Brooks, State University of New York, Stonybrook
Portraits of the Apostles in Late Antique Rome
Stephanie Smith, Youngstown State University
Painted Portrait Galleries in Late Antique Tombs and their Precedents
Alison C. Poe, Drew University
The Capitoline Puteal and the Childhood of Heroes in Late Antique Art
Jean Sorabella, Glen Ridge, NJ
Session 28: Sojourns and Connections: England and the Mainland
Organizers: John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida, and Natalie Mears, University of Durham
Chair: John F. McDiarmid
Michael Throckmorton in Italy, 1532 -1558: The Private Life of Cardinal Pole’s Agent
Anne Overell, The Open University
The Impact of the Printed Editions of Jan van der Noot on the Early Modern
English Book Trade
Elizabeth Evenden, Brunel University
Sir Philip Sidney’s Images of Royalty
Roger Kuin, York University
Session 29: Late Medieval and Early Modern France
Chair: Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida
Virginia’s Blood on Reason’s Discourse: Reason’s Use and Misuse of Moral Exempla in Jean de Meun
Elizabeth Lucia, Rhodes College
The Personal Piety and Royal Household of Louis IX
Edward Tabri, University of Texas at Tyler
Carolingian Epic in the Fifteenth Century Through the Lens of the 1489 Valentin et Orson
Shira Schwam-Baird, University of North Florida
The Perception of God as Creator and Protector chez Jean Racine: Continuities of Lyricism across Genres
Christine McCall Probes, University of South Florida
Session 30: Issues in Textual Transmission
Chair: Scott Perry, University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
The Sources of Frutolf of Michelsberg’s Glosa in vetus et novum testamentum and the Library of St Emmeram, Regensburg
Thomas McCarthy, Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies
“Just as when Bees rest upon various flowers”: Homeric Allusions to Bees and Leaves in Vergil and Dante
Angela Gosetti-Murray-John, University of Mary Washington
A Manuscript and Its Misrepresentation
Benjamin Victor, Université de Montréal
The Philosopher-Castaway from Medieval Spain/Andalusia to Modern Europe
Mahmoud Baroud, University of Exeter
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Session 31: Civic Negotiations II
Chair: David Peterson, Washington & Lee University
Aspects of Managing Common Property in Late Trecento Florence: Avoiding and Resolving Conflict in the Alberti Family and their Parenti
Susannah F. Baxendale, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
The Origins of the Signoria in Lombardy: The Family Background of Boso of Dovara
Edward Coleman, University College, Dublin
Whose SPQR? Semiotics and Sovereignty in Medieval Rome
Carrie E. Beneš, New College of Florida
Session 32: Portrayals of the Late Valois
Organizer: John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida
Chair: John F. McDiarmid
The Queen’s Painter: Jooris van der Straeten and Catherine de Medici
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
Brantôme’s Portrait of Catherine de’ Medici Viewing Her Own Portrait
Sheila ffolliott, George Mason University
England’s Henri III: How the English Read the Last of the Valois Kings
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University
Session 33: Marie de France and La Vie de Sainte Audree
Organizer and chair: Mary Jane Schenck, University of Tampa
Spiritual Trials of Knight and Queen in Marie de France’s Espurgatoire St. Patriz and La Vie de Sainte Audree
June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University
Marie de France’s Adaptation of Her Latin Source in La Vie de Sainte Audree
Rupert Pickens, University of Kentucky
Memory and the Rhetoric of Captatio Benevolentiae in La Vie de Sainte Audree
Logan Whalen, University of Oklahoma
Session 34: Music and Manuscript Tradition
Chair: Maribeth Clark, New College of Florida
The Tradition of ‘Inserted’ Refrains at the End of the Thirteenth Century: Jakemart Gielée’s Renart le nouvel at the Crossroads
Matthew Steel, Western Michigan University
Guillaume de Machaut’s Voir Dit and the Transition of Music from Aural to Written Culture
Pascale Duhamel, Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies
Ubi sunt? Hic! The End of Nostalgia and the Appreciation of the Present in Late Medieval Music
Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session 35: Unsettling Hierarchies: New Contexts for Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Chair: Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida
The Dwarf as Chivalric Other in Arthurian Romance
Basil A. Clark, Saginaw Valley State University
Spenser and the Medieval Theme of Christ the Lover-Knight
Liam O. Purdon, Doane College
“There, would this Monster, make a man”: Discursive Scales for Caliban and a “Rare or rather most monstrous fishe”
John Carpenter, University of Central Florida
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Session 36: Renaissance Women and Their World
Chair: Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in Saint Louis
Sienese Women in the Sixteenth Century: Family Ties, Politics, and Culture
Elena Brizio, Medici Archives Project, Florence
The Cultural World of a Sienese Noblewoman: Aurelia Petrucci (1511-42) and Her Admirers
Konrad Eisenbichler, Victoria College, University of Toronto
The Morning After: Collecting the Monte Dowry in Renaissance Florence
Julius Kirshner, University of Chicago
Session 37: Monarchs in Retrospect
Organizer: Natalie Mears, University of Durham
Chair: Dale Hoak, College of William and Mary
“When my grave is broke up againe”: Attitudes towards the Dead Kings and Queens of Medieval Portugal
Iona McCleery, University of Leeds
“Spaines rod; Brittaines blessing”: Memorials to Queen Elizabeth in London, 1603-33
Natalie Mears
How “Bloody Mary” Became Bloody: The Creation of a Historical Myth
Thomas S. Freeman, University of Sheffield
Session 38: Medieval Foundation Legends
Chair: Carrie E. Beneš, New College of Florida
Inventing Apostolic Tradition in Medieval Périgueux
Samantha Kahn Herrick, Syracuse University
A Stubborn Cross: The Creation of a Monastic Identity in the Waltham Chronicle
Frédéric Lardinois, University of Connecticut
From Tongres to Liège: Local Foundation Legend and Universal Chronicle in Late Medieval Belgium
Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida
Session 39: Pope and Emperor
Chair: David Harvey, New College of Florida
Recreation as Counsel: Gervase of Tilbury’s Kaiserspiegel for Otto IV
Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania
J.G.A. Pocock’s Thesis on Metahistorical Views of Empire: Another Dubious Medieval/Modern Turning Point
James Blythe, University of Memphis
Session 40: Reformation England
Chair: Chad Seales, New College of Florida
Man’s Meditations: Christian Meditation and the Building of Community
Randi Marie Smith, University of Florida
When Father Doesn’t Know Best: Purgatorial and Passive Mourning in Donne’s “Faithful Souls”
Robert W. Reeder, Providence College
Harping on Penitence: Recusant Translations of the Seven Psalms in Post-Reformation England
Clare Costley King’oo, University of Connecticut
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Session 41: Roundtable: Notaries and Notarial Culture in Context
Organizer: Shona Kelly Wray, University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Roisin Cossar, University of Manitoba
Chair: Lester Little, Smith College
The Oral Dimension of Notarial Culture in Late Medieval Italy
Shona Kelly Wray
Windows or Frames? Clerics and the Construction of Personal Identity in Notarial Instrumenta in Fourteenth-Century Bergamo
Roisin Cossar
Le notaire, intermédiaire culturel dans les villes italiennes des XIe-XIIIe siècles
François Menant, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Hereditary Laws and City Topography: On the Development of Italian Notarial Archives in the Late Middle Ages
Andreas Meyer, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Session 42: Shaping Devotion: Catholics, Women, the Stuarts and their Court
Organizers: John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida, and Natalie Mears, University of Durham
Chair: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University
King, Poet, but no Prophet: The Metrical Psalms of James I
Beth Quitslund, Ohio University
“The practice of so virtuous a life”: Aristocratic Women and Ecclesiastical Patronage at the Court of Queen Henrietta Maria, 1625-42
Sara Wolfson, University of Durham
Session 43: Europeans Imagine the World
Chair: Uzi Baram, New College of Florida
“The Grand Khan” and “The Great Mogor”: India and Islam from Columbus to Coryat
Bindu Malieckal, Saint Anselm College
Collecting, Cataloging and Transmitting Knowledge: Matteo Ricci and His World Map
Shery Chanis, University of South Florida
The Reality behind Fictional Journeys and Cultures in Renaissance and Reformation Literature
Deanna Wells, University of North Texas
Session 44: Women’s Voices
Chair: Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida
Girl Talk: Women in Poetic Correspondence in the Medieval Italian Lyric
Deborah Contrada, University of Iowa
Putting a Pretty Face On It: Women’s Speech in Elizabethan Prose Romance
Catherine R. Eskin, Florida Southern College
The Storyteller's Gaze in the Salons of Seventeenth-Century France
Martine Landis, University of South Florida
Session 45: Origins and Generation in Milton, Shakespeare, and Jonson
Chair: Nova Myhill, New College of Florida
Milton and Usury
David Hawkes, Arizona State University
The Turn of No End: Antonio and Launcelot as Foils in The Merchant of Venice
Barbara Estrin, Stonehill College
When Not in Rome: Classicism and Dependence in Every Man in His Humour
Suzanne Penuel, University of Mississippi
