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9:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions C (click titles to expand):
Thomas Freeman (Cambridge), Chair
Genelle Gertz (Washington and Lee)
The Prison Cell as Anchorhold: Vestiges of medieval spirituality in Post-Reformation England
Ruth Ahnert (Cambridge/Society for Renaissance Studies)
Foxe's Forebears: The Editors of Henrician Prison Writings
Thomas Freeman (Cambridge)
Comment
Richard Rowland (York), ChairCyrus Mulready (SUNY-New Paltz)
Staging an Arthurian Empire in Early Modern England
Laurence Publicover (Bristol)
Kyd's Soliman and Perseda, Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West and the Persistence of Medieval Romance Motifs
Paul Quinn (Chichester/Sussex)
Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda: Re-establishing the medieval in Caroline England
Stewart Mottram (Aberystwyth)
Wales and Ruins in William Browne's Britannia's Pastorals (1616)
Stephen Bowd (Edinburgh), ChairAlison Findlay (Lancaster)
'What art thou, thou idol Ceremony?': Ritual Performances in Henry IV
Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster)
Writing Royal Progress: Textuality and theatricality in the works of Thomas Churchyard
Helen Ostovich (McMaster)
Hostages to Fortune in the Queen's Men's True Tragedy of Richard the Third (1590)
Judith Bryce (Bristol), ChairHarald Braun (Liverpool)
Lipsius, the Ghost of Machiavelli, and the Crossing of Confessional Boundaries
Marco Versiero (Napoli)
'Li ordini et forma espressa di ogni loy': Leonardo da Vinci, Gerolamo Savonarola and a Note on the State of Florence
Maria Elena Severini (Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in Florence)
The Ricordi and the Storia d'Italia in England: the early fortune of Guicciardini's maxims
Susan Anderson (Leeds Trinity University College), ChairAdam Hansen (Northumbria)
The Sounds of the City: Everard Guilpin's London in Skialetheia (1598)
Helen Green (Open University)
City Life and the Musical Community of Elizabethan London
Katherine Butler (Royal Holloway)
A Harmonious Encounter: Music for Court and City on Elizabeth's Civic Entries
Timothy Duguid (Edinburgh)
Reconsidering the Demise of Scottish Music
Carol Richardson (Open University), Chair
Clare Robertson (Reading)
Cardinals Alessandro and Odoardo Farnese and their Non-titular Churches
Arnold Witte (Amsterdam)
Investing in New Ideals: Titular cardinals in the San Martino ai Monti (1550-1600) Tom True (Cambridge)
Marchigian Cardinals of Sixtus V and their Tituli
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions D (click titles to expand):
Mark Jenner (York), ChairCharis Charalampous (Cambridge)
The Renaissance of the Body
Peter Mitchell (University of Wales, Lampeter)
Phineas Fletcher's Literary Anatomy: the health and disease of the bodies of souls
Christina Welch/Rohan Brown (Winchester)
Rotting Corpses and Renaissance Religiosity: Investigating the links between the spiritual and material in Northern European images of Transi DeathPeter Gulyas (Eötvös Loránd University)
Corporeal Innatism in Descartes' Physiology
Liz Oakley-Brown (Lancaster), ChairLauren Shohet (Villanova)
What era is it in my text? Allusion, adaptation, periodization
Matthew Woodcock (UEA)
Thomas Churchyard and the Medieval Complaint Tradition
Harriet Archer (Oxford)
The medieval in John Higgins's Mirrors for Magistrates
John Law (Swansea), ChairAlexander Murray (University College, Oxford)
Long and Short Time in Dante's Comedy
Serena Ferente (KCL)
Passions and Discord from Dante to Bartolus
Julian Gardner (Warwick)
Cimabue and Giotto in San Francesco at Pisa
Stephen Bowd (Edinburgh), ChairStephen Bowd (Edinburgh)
Siege and Sacrifice:
Episcopal entries and civic representation in Renaissance Brescia
Laura Fernandez-Gonzalez (Edinburgh)
The Chronicler's Tale: Propaganda and celebration in the Union of the Lusitanian-Hispanic Empire,
1580-1583
Emily Peppers (Edinburgh)
‘C'estoit Chose Fort Delectable’: The Representation of music in French Renaissance Triumphal Entries
Barbara Grammeniati (Roehampton)
Filippo d'Agliè's ballet La Fenice Rinovata (1644) Power, Spirituality and the Re-birth of the Sun-God
Christiane Esche-Ramshorn (Cambridge), ChairSara Kuehn (Vienna)
Towards the Devouring and Issuing Aspect of the Dragon Iconography in Eastern Iran, the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia/Jazira: Some preliminary reflections
Christiane Esche-Ramshorn (Cambridge)
The Christian Orient and the West (1400-1500): Dilemmas of intolerance and cultural transfer with the Middle East
Amy Landau (Walters Art Gallery)
On Armenian painting in New Julfa/Isfahan and its western links [to be read by Prof Theo van Lint]
Helen Ostovich (McMaster), ChairSuzanne Trill (Edinburgh)
Critical Categories: Towards an 'Archaeology' of Anne, Lady Halkett's 'Archive' Helen Hackett (UCL)
A 'Coterie' with International Connections: the Aston-Thimelby Circle Wendy Freeman (Rice)
From Social Intercourse to Cultural Encounters: Marie de Gournay and the (mis)uses of literary power
12:30-1:45 Lunch
- Workshop on Getting Published With Prof Andrew Hadfield (Editor, Renaissance Studies) and Sarah Stanton (Literature Editor, CUP) [Huntingdon Rm]
- A Conversation with Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich (editors of the new Cambridge History of 16th Century Music) about the current state of music historiography [K/133]
1:45-3:00 Parallel Sessions E (click titles to expand):
Bill Sherman (York), Chair Fred Schurink (Newcastle)
Translated for Action? How Harvey read Cope's Livy Blaire Zeiders (Wisconsin)
John Dee: Redeeming 'The Great Conjurer' of English History Andrew Hadfield (Sussex)
Thomas Nashe's Attack on Travel Writing
Erica Sheen (York), ChairHannah Crawforth (KCL)
The Two Noble Kinsmen and Speght's Chaucer
Andrew King (University College Cork)
Performing Geoffrey of Monmouth: The value of narrative in King Lear
Margaret Kean (Oxford)
'Item i Hell mouth': Preventing the fiend in Shakespeare's King Lear
John Law, chair
Piers Baker-Bates (Open University)
Between Venice and Rome: Instances of artistic exchange before 1548
Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)
Marketing State Secrets in Venice during the Plague
Rosa Salzberg (SRS)
Street Sellers and Pedlars in Venice and Beyond
Adam Hansen (Northumbria), ChairBrian Schneider (Manchester)
Sit, See and Hear: The visual and the aural in Early Modern prologues and epilogues
Katie Nelson (Warwick)
Printers and Musicians: Music publication and social climbing in Early Modern England Susan Anderson (Leeds Trinity University College)
Music and Magnificence in Thomas Middleton's London Lord Mayors' Shows
Catherine Richardson (Kent), ChairNicky Hallett (Sheffield)
'The eyes of the body, the eyes of the soul': Mystic bodies in Carmelite convents
Caroline Bowden (Queen Mary)
'The English weare all 8 most bravely appareled and adorned with rich jewelles like brides': material representations of spirituality in the English convents in exile
Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Aix-Marseille)
'Procuring the good of souls by all means possible...':
Mary Ward (1585-1645) and the adaptation of the material to spiritual ends
Jennifer Richards (Newcastle), ChairElaine Leong (Warwick)
Tweaking as Creating: Recipes and knowledge production in Early Modern England
Carol Pal (Bennington)
Doctors Like Ourselves: The elusive meaning of 'Us' in 17th Century medical writing
Samuel S. Thomas (Alabama, Huntsville)
Private Knowledge, Public Authority and English Midwifery
3:15-4:45 Parallel Sessions F (click titles to expand):
Jon Parkin (York), ChairBrian Cummings (Sussex)
Suicide and Freedom in John Donne
Freya Sierhuis (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität)
Selfhood and Liberty in the Work of Fulke Greville
Emma Gilby (Cambridge)
Narratives of Determinism in Descartes
Matthew Woodcock (UEA), Chair
Susan Doran (Oxford)
English Chroniclers and the Tudor Court
Carole Levin (Nebraska)
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent at the Court of James I: The case of the Lake Family and the Countess of Exeter
Kevin Killeen (York), ChairGeorgina Hedesan (Exeter)
The Spirituality of Woman versus the Materiality of Man: The inversion of traditional biblical exegesis in the work of Agrippa and Van Helmont Jenny Sager (Oxford)
'tie the power of heauen to their conceits': Staging scripture in Greene and Lodge's A Looking Glasse for London and England (c. 1590) Graham Williams (Glasgow)
'Gods powerfull workeinge': Spiritual-sounding language and the rhetoric of sincerity as means to material ends in Early Modern letters Borbála Lovas (ELTE, Budapest)
Matrimonial Sermons in Hungary of the 16th Century
Jeanne Nuechterlein (York), ChairCatriona Murray (Edinburgh)
Speaking from Beyond the Grave: The commemoration of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales in a portrait of his father, King James I
Sandra Hindricks (Bonn)
Jan van Eyck's early fame and the revision of a Netherlandish 'Renaissance': Insights in the painter's 16th-century literary and artistic reception
Elizabeth Moore (Birmingham)
Roger van der Weyden: Between Spirituality and Materiality
Ruth Ahnert (Cambridge/SRS), ChairJoel Swann (Keele/Chetham's)
Psalms as Possessions and Collections: Some uses of the Davison Psalter
Tracy Sowerby (Oxford)
Reflections on the Nation: Tudor diplomacy and political writing
Nick Moon (York)
"I counsayle thee, lady": Rewriting Elizabeth's Religious Settlement in Early Modern Ballads
Iain Fenlon (Cambridge), ChairRichard Wistreich (RNCM)
Taking Part: Musical Materials and Musical Sociability in the Later Renaissance
Kirsten Gibson (Newcastle)
The Order of the Book: Materiality, narrative and meaning in John Dowland's First Booke of Songes of Ayres
Magnus Williamson (Newcastle)
Dynastic politics, liturgical renewal and print in early Tudor England: the case of Antiphonale Sarisburiense
Allison Deutermann (Amherst)
Ben Jonson's Polyphonic Printing
5:00-6:30 National Centre For Early Music
5:00-5:30 Tea/Coffee
5:30-6:30 Plenary Lecture: Iain Fenlon (Cambridge), '"Life and Death: Music, Space and Ritual in Renaissance Venice"
7:30 York Early Music Festival: Blow's 'Venus And Adonis' Etc at St. Michael Le Belfrey
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