Congrès de la Society for Renaissance Studies.

Le programme est mis en ligne et téléchargeable sur le site de la Society for Renaissance studies.

10 juillet 2008

13H30-14H : Discours d’ouverture par John Law (Chair, Society for Renaissance Studies) (Davis Theatre)

14h-15h30 : Session 1 :

’To die or not, and how ?’ (Swift Theatre)

Chris Black (University of Glasgow) : Attitudes of Inquisitors in Italy to the Death Sentence

Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto) : Making Martyrs : (Self-) Fashioning on the Gallows in Renaissance Italy

Camilla Russell (University of Newcastle) : Dying for Christ : the Theme of Martyrdom in Jesuit Missionary Correspondence

English Renaissance Music (Davis Theatre)

Philip Taylor (University of Lancaster) : ‘The mayden queen admired’ : Music and Identity in the Late Renaissance ‘Englished’ Madrigal
Kerry McCarthy (University of Duke) : Contrafacture and Ideology in the English Renaissance

William Peter Mahrt (University of Stanford) : Byrd’s Text-Setting in the Gradualia

The Politics of Viewing : Italian Renaissance Art (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Président : Alex Nagel (University of Toronto)

Yoni Ascher (University of Haifa) : The Devil in Naples : Two Interpretations of a Painting by Leonardo da Pistoia

Daniel M. Unger (Ben Gurion University) : Beyond the Artistic Realm : Guercino’s Political Paintings

Nirit Ben-Ayeh Debby (Ben Gurion University) : St Antoninus of Florence : Giambologna’s Salviati Reliefs - Saintly Images and Political Manipulation

16H-17h30 : Session 2

Elizabeth I : Foreign Dreams and Fantasies (Swift Theatre)

Président : John Bradley (University of Maynooth)

Carole Levine (University of Nebraska) : Foreign Dreams about Queen Elizabeth

Anna Riehl (University of Auburn) : Political Fantasizing : Ivan the Terrible and Elizabeth I

Thomas Herron (University of East Carolina) : Richard Nugent’s Cynthia (1604) : Recusant Dreams of a Heavenly Queen

Painting the Renaissance (Davis Theatre)

Luba Freedman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) : Leonardo’s Leda, or the First all’antica Depiction of the Classical Myth

Fern Luskin (La Guardia Community College, CUNY) : Titian’s Amori and Andrii according to Moschus

Piers Baker-Bates (Department of Art History, University of Cambridge) : Spain’s only Michelangelo ? The Christ on the Cross at Logroño

Renaissance Cardinals : Conflict, Conspiracy and Corruption (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Présidente : Carol M. Richardson (The Open University)

Philippa Jackson (Warburg Institute, London) : The Petrucci Cardinals : Cooperation and Conflict

Helen Hyde (Independent) : Cardinal Sauli : Patronage and Plots

Miles Pattenden (Magdalen College, University of Oxford) : Nepotism, Corruption and the Renaissance Papacy : Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa

18h30-19h30 (Davis Theatre), conférence plénière : Richard Wistreich (Newcastle)

19h30-20h30 : Réception

11 juillet

9h-11h : Session 3

Responses to Natural Disaster in the Renaissance (Swift Theatre)

Stephen Bowd (University of Edinburgh) : Civic Ritual and Weather in Renaissance Brescia

Elaine Fulton (University of Birmingham) : Acts of God ? Lucerne and the 1601 Earthquake

Trevor Dean (University of Roehampton) : Weather and Gender in Fifteenth-Century Chronicles

Amanda Lillie (University of York) : The Art of Weather : Representations of Meteorological Effects from Donatello to Leonardo

Locus amoenus : Gardens and Horticulture in Renaissance (Davis Theatre)

Présidente : Sarah Alyn Stacey (TCD)

Brent Elliott (Royal Horticultural Society) : The World of the Renaissance Herbal

Anthony Lappin (University of Manchester) : Fray Luis de Leon, the Virtuously Well-Read Gardener

Alexander Samson (University College, University of London) : Outdoor Pursuits in Lope’s Novelas a Marcia Leonarda

Eavan O’Brien (Trinity College Dublin) : (En)gendering Games in the jardín enganoso : a Seventeenth-Century Novella by María de Zayas y Sotomayor

Absolutism Revisited (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Harald Braun (University of Liverpool) : Lawless Sovereignty ? Revisiting Spanish Habsburg Absolutism

Paul Kleber Monod (University of Middlebury) : Was there an Art of Absolutism in Late 17 th-Century Europe ?

Anne McLaren (University of Liverpool) : Inhabiting the Absolute : James VI and the Banqueting House Ceiling

Penny Roberts (University of Warwick) : Royal Authority in Crisis ? France during the Religious Wars ?

11h30-13h : Session 4

Mortality (Swift Theatre)

Alexandra Bamji (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge) : Death in Early Modern Venice : Managing Mortality

Georgios Steiris (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) : George of Trebizond on Death

Jenny Mayhew (University of Oxford Brookes) : Poems and Pocket-Watches : Telling the Renaissance Time

Renaissance Rewritings of the Middle Ages (Davis Theatre)

Président : Gerald Morgan (Trinity College Dublin)

Michael Rodman Jones (University of Leeds) : The Medieval World and the Renaissance Stage : A Knack to Know a Knave (1594)

Shane Collins (University of Durham) : A Comparative Study of Shakespeare’s Two Noble Kinsmen and Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale

Marco Nievergelt (University of Lausanne) : Merchant Adventurers, Wandering Knights and Medieval Pilgrims

Building the Renaissance (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Jeannie J. Labno (University of Sussex) : Power and Patronage in Renaissance Poland : the Tarnowski Family

Katherine McIver (University of Alabama) : Exceptional Women ? Homebuilders in Early Modern Italy

Arnold Witte (University of Amsterdam) : The diaeta : Reviving Pliny’s Architectural Heritage in Sixteenth-Century (Sub)urban Rome

14h-15h30 : Session 5

Politics and Performance (Swift Theatre)

Barbara Grammeniati (Roehampton University) : Filippo d’Aglie’s ballet Il dono dell re dell Alpi (1645)

Judith Bryce (University of Bristol) : Poetry and Politics : Lorenzo de’ Medici’s ‘Sonetto fatto a Cremona’ and the Target Audiences of the Comento de’ suoi sonetti

Rhian Wyn-Williams (University of Liverpool) : The Visual Language of Political Authority, 1640-1653

‘Classical Wine in Renaissance Wineskins’ ? Early Printed Editions in the Library of Trinity College Dublin : Collections, Commentaries and the Publication of Classical Authors (Davis Theatre)

Helen Conrad-O’Briain (Trinity College Dublin) : Vergilian Incunabula and Related Printing in the Old Library, Trinity College Dublin

Clare Guest (University of Kristiansand) : Italian Renaissance Commentaries on Horace

Garrett Fagan (Dublin City University/University College Dublin) : Reading Greek in Dublin, Printing Plato in Trinity : Classical Publishing and Reading Circles in Ireland

Humour in the Renaissance (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Andrew Hiscock (University of Wales, Bangor) : ‘Tragical, Comical, and Morall Discourses, bothe pleasaunt and profitable to the well smellyng noses of learned Readers’ : Gascoigne’s A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) and the Commitment to Comedy

Phillips Salman (Cleveland State University) : Humour in Edmund Spenser : Two Examples

John Parkin (University of Bristol) : Humour in the Joyeux Devis of Bonaventure des Périers

16h-18h : Session 6

Writing the Self and the Other in the Renaissance (Swift Theatre)

Felicity Green (King’s College, University of Cambridge) : ‘Sçavoir estre à soy’ : Selfhood as Freedom in Montaigne’s Essais

Hester Schadee (Somerville College, University of Oxford) : The Reception of Julius Caesar in Milanese Humanism

Alexander Lee (University of Edinburgh) : Petrarch’s Conception of Friendship

Günther Rohr (Universität Koblenz-Landau) : Minne im frühneuhochdeutschen Prosaroman

Magic and Science (Davis Theatre)

Edina Eszenyi (Central University of Europe, Budapest) : Angels and Magicians in Early Modern Europe

Deborah Lea (University of Liverpool) : Confessional Conflict and Possession in Sixteenth-Century Lancashire

Anatole Tchikine (Trinity College Dublin) : Natural Magic and the ‘Science of waters’ : the Unpublished Treatises of a Late Sixteenth-Century Neapolitan fonaniere

Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno (University of Siena) : The magnetic Gesta Grayorum of 1594

Travel Writing (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Nandini Das (University of Liverpool) : The ‘imaginative ground-plot of a profitable invention’ : Travel and Narrative in Renaissance Romance

Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) : Learning of ‘Strange Men’ : Travel and the Individual Reader in Early English Printed Texts

Claire Jowitt (University of Nottingham Trent) : Piracy, Travel and Colonialism in Fletcher and Massinger’s The Sea Voyage (1622)

Liz Oakley-Brown (University of Lancaster) : ‘From Court to Countrey will I goe’ : The Sexual/Textual Politics of Space in the Works of Thomas Churchyard (1523 ?-1604)

18h30-19h30 (Davis Theatre) : conférence plénière : Alex Nagel (University of Toronto)

18h39-19h30 : Réception

12 juillet

9h-11h : Session 7

Representations of Women (Swift Theatre)

Yu-Chun Chiang (University College London) : Typological Readings of Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII

Chimène Bateman (Wadham College, University of Oxford) : Literary Masquerade and the ‘Angoysses’ of Gender in Hélisenne de Crenne’s Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d’amours

Wendy Ring Freeman (University of Arizona) : Culture Wars : Tradition and Innovation in Marie de Gournay’s Self-Fashioning

Katherine Heavey (University of Durham) : ‘Not worth what she doth cost/The holding’ : Representing Helen of Troy in the Renaissance

Reading the Renaissance (Davis Theatre)

Cathy Santore (New York City College of Technology) : In Light of the Text

Ambra Moroncini (University of Sussex) : A Plausible Reading of Michelangelo’s Frescoes of the Pauline Chapel

Trudy Ko (Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge) : Reconstructing Beware the Cat : the Popular Reader’s Early Prose Fiction

Literature of the Reformation (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Barbara Brumbaugh (University of Auburn) : Amphialus and the
Half-Reformed Church of England in Sidney’s Revised Arcadia

Shona McIntosh (University of Glasgow) : Chapman, Marlowe, and the Duke of Guise : the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre on the English Stage

Kathleen O’Leary (Liverpool John Moores University at St Helens’ College) : ‘I my brother know/Yet living in my glass’ : Re-formation and Remembrance in Twelfth Night

Ruth Ahnert (New Hall, University of Cambridge) : The Carriers of John Bradford’s Letters

11h30-13h : Session 8

Perception and Conception of the Self in the Northern Renaissance (Swift Theatre)

Présidents : Jürgen Pieters and Alexander Roose (University of Ghent)

Lukasz Romanowski (University of Lodz) : On John Donne’s Biothanatos

Christophe Angebault (University of Paris III) : On Self-Censorship in the Writings of Jean Bodin

Lise Gosseye and Christophe Van der Vorst (University of Ghent) : On Consolation of the Others as Fashioning of the Self in Texts by Constantijn Huygens

Music and Text (Davis Theatre)

Andrew Johnstone (Trinity College Dublin) : Heaven, Earth and the Ineffable : Text and Music in William Byrd’s Great Service

Susan Anderson (Leeds, Trinity and All Saints University College, Leeds) : ‘A doleful and straunge noyse’ : Music and Signification in the Elizabethan Dumb Show

Katrine K. Wong (University of Leeds) : ‘Much taken/He has bin with thy battell songs’ : Music and Masculinity in John Fletcher’s The Mad Lover

The Sacred and the Profane (Téatar Máirtín Uí Chadhain)

Loretta Vandi (Liceo Artistico A. Serpieri, Rimini) : Eufrasia Burlamacchi and Savonarolan Art in the Lucchese Convent of San Domenico

Iain McClure (Birkbeck, University of London) : John Milton and Renaissance Egyptology

Kevin Killeen (University of Leeds) : Being Jeroboam : Milton’s Political Bible

14h-15h : Session 9

Renaissance Diplomacy (Swift Theatre)

Tracey Sowerby (Pembroke College, University of Oxford) : Material Representation and Tudor Diplomacy

Diego Pirillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) : Obedience and Resistance : Alberico Gentili and George Buchanan

The Italian Academies 1530-1650 : a Themed Collection Database (Davis Theatre)

Presented by Jane Everson (Royal Holloway, University of London), Denis Reidy (British Library), Simone Testa and Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Research Assistants at Royal Holloway and the British Library).

La conférence plénière de clôture reste à définir.