Program of  the Seventh Congress
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
July 26-August 1, 1992

SUNDAY JULY 26 Arrival Registration. BUFFET DINNER SOCIAL/CASH BAR 9:00 PM: Meeting of the International Executive Committee ____________________________________________ MONDAY JULY 27 9:00-10:30 AM: OPENING CONVOCATION WELCOME: Richard D. O'Brien, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst PLENARY ADDRESS I Chair: Glyn S. Burgess, University of Liverpool Joan Ferrante (Columbia University): Whose Voice? Medieval Poets and the Women They Speak For and Through 11AM-12:30 PM: MONDAY SESSION I 1. IMAGES OF WOMEN Chair: Kathryn Gravdal, Columbia University Eve as Adam's Pareil: Equivalence and Subordination in the Jeu d'Adam    Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America) Women, Magic and Learning. Perceptions of the Educated Heroine    Penny Simons (University of Sheffield) Nature's Forge Recast in the Roman de Silence    Suzanne Akbari (Columbia University) 2. MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCE Chair: Sandra Ihle, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Implications of Medieval Literary Theory in the Middle English Athelston    Daniel F. Pigg (University of Tennessee, Martin) Multiple Births and Multiple Disaster. Twins in Medieval Literature    Erik Kooper (University of Utrecht) The Permutations of Love, Chivalry and Envy: Characterization and Structure in Malory's Morte d'Arthur    Edward J. Milowicki (Mills College) 3. LA COUR DES GUELFES: INAUGURAL SESSION  A series of three sessions organized by Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok Le rôle de la cour des Guelfes dans le développement de la culture allemande au Moyen Âge classique    Wolfgang Spiewok (Universität Greifswald) and Danielle Buschinger (Université de Picardie) 4. OLD FRENCH LYRIC Chair: Eglal Doss-Quinby, Smith College Mouvance and Minstrelsy    Andrew Taylor (Trent University) Crusade Love Songs    Cathrynke Dijkstra (University of Groningen) The Malmariée Theme in Old French Lyric or What is a Chanson de Malmariée?    Susan M. Johnson (Memphis State University) 2:00-3:30 PM: MONDAY SESSION II 5. EARLY OLD FRENCH NARRATIVE Chair: David Rollo, Dartmouth College Specular Tales: Canis in the Roman des Sept Sages and Dolopathos    Mary B. Speer (Rutgers University) Taming the Warrior Responding to the Charge of Sexual Deviance in Twelfth-Century Vernacular Romance    Raymond Cormier (Wilson College) The Case of the Unfaithful Author. The Invention of Briseida in Benoit's Troie    Douglas Kelly (University of Wisconsin, Madison) The Ideology of the Roman Antique    Paul Clogan (University of North Texas) 6. MIDDLE ENGLISH: FRENCH CONNECTIONS Chair: Craig Davis, Smith College Courtliness in Two Fourteenth-Century English Pastourelles    John Scattergood (Trinity College, Dublin) "Out of the Frenssh": Lydgate's Source of the Churl and the Bird-- and the cuckoo is the clue    Lenora D. Wolfgang (Lehigh University) English Dream Poems of the Fifteenth Century and their French Connections    Julia Boffey (Queen Mary & Westfield College, London) 7. CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES Chair: Elizabeth Petroff, University of Massachusetts The "Courtliness" of Heaven: Visions of Paradise in Three Old French Accounts of the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine    William MacBain (University of Maryland) Cil dormi et cele veilla: The Latin Song of Songs Commentary Genre as Trope in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes    Jeanne A. Nightingale (Miami University) Is the First Roman de la Rose Christian?    Heather Arden (University of Cincinnati) 8. MEDIEVAL ITALIAN Chair: Charles Ross, Purdue University Frederick II's Magna Curia (1220-50) as a Locus of Courtliness and Humanism     V. Louise Katainen (Auburn University) "A Liar's Autobiography": Ironic Misogyny in Boccaccio's Corbaccio    Dina Consolini (Yale University) The Quest Motif in Medieval Italian Literature    Christopher Kleinhenz (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 4:00-6:00 PM: MONDAY SESSION III 9. ARTHURIAN NARRATIVE Chair: Elspeth Kennedy, Emerita, St. Hilda's College, Oxford The Suggestion of Simultaneity    Frank Brandsma (University of Utrecht) Molding Joseph into Merlin's Past    Sophie Hand (North Central College) Camelot Through the Eyes of Arthur's Nephews: Seeds of Dissention in the Prose Lancelot    Stacey L. Hahn (Oakland University) Rewriting Remembrance in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle    Paul Rockwell (Amherst College) 10. LA COUR DES GUELFES II Die Rolandslied-Adaptation am welfischen Hof    Wolfgang Spiewok (Universität Greifswald) La Sanespruchdichtung (poésie gnomique, religieuse et politique) à la cour du duc Albert Ier de Brunswick (+ 1279)    Danielle Buschinger (Université d'Amiens) Sage and poetische Zersetzung. Uberlegungen zur Funktion von Michel Wyssenherres Eyn buoch von dem edeln hero von Bruneczwigk als er uber mer fuore"    Matthias Meyer (Freie Universität, Berlin) 11. LATER FRENCH COURTLY POETRY Chair: Deborah H. Nelson, Rice University Text and Countertext    Carol J. Harvey (University of Winnipeg) Machaut's Jugements, Text and Commentary: A Genre Specific to Patronage?    Kathleen Mulkern Smail (University of Michigan) Charles d'Orléans and the Authorship of Three Bilingual Caroles    Pierre Monnin (University de Neuchatel) Text and Building: Architectural Fictions in the Work of the Rhétoriqueurs    David Cowling (Magdalen College, Oxford) 12. TEXT AND ICONOGRAPHY Chair: Donald Hoffman, Northeastern Illinois University Arborial Drama in a Most Uncourtly Genesis    Mary Coker Joslin (Raleigh, North Carolina) Reading Illustrations of Tristan    Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden (University of Minnesota) The Meeting Place of Heaven and Earth in MS Paris, BN 794: Evidence of Hebrew Influence in the Guiot Erec et Enide    Joan Helm (University of Queensland, Australia) 6:30-7:45PM: DINNER: A New England Clambake 8:15PM: BOGUS JOAN by Virginia Scott [Curtain Theater] ____________________________________________ TUESDAY JULY 28 9:00-10:30AM: TUESDAY SESSION I 13. MARIE DE FRANCE: FABLES Organizer and Chair: Hans Runte, Dalhousie University "Que pruzdume diva pur veir": Truth and Deception in the Fables of Marie de France    Karen K. Jambeck (Western Connecticut State University) The Fables of Marie de France as Courtly Parody    Harriet Spiegel (California State University, Chico) The Other Isopets    Keith Busby (University of Oklahoma) 14. CHAUCER I Chair: Carol Heffernan, Rutgers University The End of an Adventure: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's Troilus and Crisevde    Setsuko Haruta (Tokyo University) Criseyde's Honor: Interiority and Public Identity in Chaucer's Courtly Romance    Carolyn Collette (Mount Holyoke College) Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess: A Courtly Elegy?    Patrizia Grimaldi Pizzorno (Florence, Italy) 15. LATE COURTLY ROMANCE Chair: Paul Rockwell, Amherst College Courtly and Uncourtly Love in the Prose Tristan    Janina Traxler (Manchester College) The Man on a Horse and the Horse-Man: Constructions of Human and Animal in a Late Courtly Romance    Nathaniel Smith (Franklin and Marshall College) Chivalry and Conversion in the Late Medieval Prose Romance    Jennifer Goodman (Texas A & M University) 11:00 AM-12:50PM: TUESDAY SESSION II 16. LATE ROMANCE: CONTEXTS Chair: Rupert T. Pickens, University of Kentucky Courtly Elegance and Extrapolation in Thomas of Saluzzo's Livre du chevalier errant    Nadia Margolis (Leverett, Massachusetts) Femmes et pas d'armes dans la Bourgogne de Philippe le Bon    Maria Colombo Timelli (Università degli Studi di Milano) Image as Reception: Jehan de Saintré: Tragedy of Betrayal or Comedy of Revenge    Jane H. M. Taylor (St. Hilda's College, Oxford) 17. CANSO, TENSO, DEVINALH Chair: Michel-André Bossy, Brown University Loc Aizi/Anima Mundi: Being, Time, and Desire in the Troubadour Canso     Charlotte Gross (North Carolina State University) Debatable Fictions: the Tensos of the Trobairitz    Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner (Boston College) Intertextuality in the Devinalh    M. C. Corcoran (University of Lethbridge, Canada) 18. DUTCH AND FLEMISH LITERATURE Chair: E. M. Beekman, University of Massachusetts Neutral Angels and Princess-slaughterers: the Development of a Motif in Two Twelfth-Century Adventure Travel Romances    Clara Strijbosch (University of Utrecht) Bock van Zeden: Three Medieval Flemish Courtesy Poems in the Latin Facetus Tradition    T. Meder (University of Leiden) Amor hereos in Middle Dutch Literature: The Case of Lancelot of Denmark    Bart Besamusca (University of Utrecht) 19. SIGNIFYING SILENCE Chair: Karen Pratt, Goldsmiths' College, University of London The Grieving Heloise    Helen C. R. Laurie (University of Glasgow) Silent Women    Deborah H. Nelson (Rice University) Listening to Silence: Secrecy in the Practice of Courtly Love    Peggy McCracken (The Newberry Library, Chicago) AFTERNOON AT AMHERST COLLEGE 2:30 PM: WELCOME: Ronald Rosbottom, Dean of Faculty, Amherst College [Buckley Recital Hall] PLENARY ADDRESS II. Chair: Douglas Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison Michel Zink (Paris IV, Sorbonne): Un paradoxe courtois: le chant et la plainte 4:00-5:30PM: PRESENTATION OF THE MULTIMEDIA VIDEO ROMAN DE FAUVEL, ERATO (Paris) Introduction: Nancy Freeman Regalado (New York University) and Joel Cohen (The Boston Camerata): Multimedia at the Court of Philip the Fair: The Roman de Fauvel of BN MS FR 146 5:30-7:00 PM: RECEPTION Host: Paul Rockwell, Amherst College VIN D'HONNEUR offered by the AMHERST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WELCOME : Richard Howland, President, Amherst Chamber of Commerce and a representative of the Town of Amherst ____________________________________________ WEDNESDAY JULY 29 8:00-9:00 AM: Breakfast Meeting of ICLS Bibliographers Chair: Glyn S. Burgess 9:00-10:30 AM: Wednesday Session 20. MEDIEVAL TEXT AND IMAGE Chair: Jane H. M. Taylor, St. Hilda's College, Oxford Image as/and Commentary: Morgan 32, Jean de Meun's Translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae    Stephen G. Nichols (The Johns Hopkins University) Parades, Politics, and Poetry in the Court of Philip the Fair. The Parisian Pentecost Celebration of 1313 in BN MS Fr. 146    Nancy Freeman Regalado (New York University) 21. SUBVERSION AND CONTAINMENT: WOMEN AND/IN COURTLY LITERATURE Organizers: Felicity Riddy and Arlyn Diamond Chair: Carolyn Collette, Mt. Holyoke College The Case of the Hagiographic Heroine    Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University of Liverpool) Buxom Ladies in English Courtly Romance and Saint's Life    Felicity Riddy (University of York) Female Freedom and Enclosure in the Romance    Arlyn Diamond (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 22. LA COUR DES GUELFES, III Militia Dei, malitia diaboli: l'appreéciation cistercienne de la chevalierie dans le Rolandslied du Pretre Konrad     Jean-Marc Pastre (Université de Haute Normandie, Rouen) Welfisches Selbstverständnis in der Literatur. Gregorius peccator and Lucidarius-Prolog    Volker Mertens (Freie Universität, Berlin) 11:15 DEPARTURE ON EXCURSIONS for Boston, for Williamstown and Hancock Shaker Village, for Old Sturbridge Village ____________________________________________ THURSDAY, JULY 30 9:00-10:30 AM: THURSDAY SESSION I 23. MARIE DE FRANCE: LAIS  Chair: Keith Busby, University of Oklahoma Le lai de Milun: un exemple d'auto-écriture    Chantal Maréchal (Virginia Commonwealth University) The Curse of the White Hind and the Cure of the Weasel: Animal Magic in the Lais of Marie de France    June Hall McCash (Middle Tennessee State University) Marie de France and the Body Poetic    Rupert T. Pickens (University of Kentucky) 24. CHAUCER II Chair: Juliette Dor, Université de Liège A Perfect Marriage on the Rocks: Geoffrey and Philippa Chaucer in The Franklin's Tale    Craig Davis (Smith College) Contraception and the Pear Tree Episode of Chaucer's Merchant's Tale    Carol F. Heffernan (Rutgers University) The Canterbury Tales and the World Beyond Europe J   John Fyler (Tufts University) 25. HISTORY AND CHRONICLE: PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION Chair: Dhira Mahoney, Arizona State University The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland: the Author, Patrons, and Public of an Anonymous Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Chronicle    Evelyn Mullally (Queen's University, Belfast) Genesis and Context of Pierre de Langtoft's Chronicle    Thea Summerfield (University of Utrecht) Monastic History in a Courtly Mode? Author and Audience in Guillaume de Saint-Pair's Roman du Mont-Saint-Michel and the Histoire de I'abbave de Fécamp    Jean Blacker (Kenyon College) 26. GERMAN LYRIC: MINNESANG Chair: Maria Dobozy, University of Utah Mouvance, Mutability, and Androgyny in Minnesang    Hubert Heinen (University of Texas) The Paradox of the Minnesang:ars laudandi or ars vituperandi    Charles G. Nelson (Tufts University) 11:00 AM-12:30 PM: THURSDAY SESSION II 27. LATE FRENCH COURTLY LITERATURE Chair: Mary B. Speer, Rutgers University Le Dit de la Panthère d'Amour, ou la courtoisie menacée    Anne Berthelot (University of Connecticut) Le Court d'amours de Mahieu le Polder    Hans-Erich Keller (Ohio State University) L'espace et la manière: le texte courtois dans le roman tardif    Danielle Régnier-Bohler (Université Paris III) 28. ITALIAN COURTLY TEXTS AND IMAGES Chair: Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco, University of Massachusetts Radix Amoris: Aspects of Love in the Tavola Ritonda    Donald L. Hoffman (Northeastern Illinois University) Exorcising the Castle: from Dolorous Guard to Boiardo's Castle Cruel    Charles Ross (Purdue University) A "Pilgrimage of Life" in the Italian Renaissance: a Reading of the Story of Ruggero and Bradamante in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso    Maria Bendinelli Predelli (McGill University) 29. CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES: LE CHEVALIER AU LION Chair: Joan Tasker Grimbert, Catholic University of America Lunete la courtoise?    Hans R. Runte (Dalhousie University) Yvain as Hero    Joan Brumlik (University of Alberta) Amors and Seignorie in Chrétien de Troyes' Le Chevalier au lion    Margaret Burrell (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 30. GENDER AND COMMUNICATION IN GERMAN COURTLY ROMANCE Chair: Frank Hugus, University of Massachusetts Flames of Love and Seduction. Dido's Love in the Eneasroman by Heinrich von Veldeke as an Example of Female Emotionality    Annegret Fiebig (Freie Universität Berlin) Time of Silence and Time of Talk: The Communicative Gap in German Courtly Romances    Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona) Lunete's Counsel. Women and Men in the Shadow of Heroes    Hans-Jochen Schiewer (Freie Universität Berlin) 2:00-3:00 PM: PLENARY ADDRESS III Chair: Erik Kooper, University of Utrecht Piero Boitani (Università di Roma): "In gentil hertes ay redy to repaire": Dante's Francesca and Chaucer's Troilus 3:30-5:30PM: SPECIAL SESSION: MEDIEVAL LYRIC, TEXT AND MELODY Chair: Miriam Whaples, University of Massachusetts The Role of Formulae in the Melodies of the Troubadours and Trouvères    Donna Mayer-Martin (Southern Methodist University) Once More: Medieval Performance of Medieval Songs    Hendrik van der Werf (University of Rochester) Cansoneta leu a plana; or, Singing the 'Lost' Troubadour Melodies    Joel Cohen (The Boston Camerata) From Metrics to Melody: The ABAB X Form in Troubadour Song    Vincent Pollina (Tufts University) 5:45-6:30: BRANCH MEETINGS 7:00-8:00 PM: DINNER 8:30-9:45: CONCERT VEILLÉE: MUSIC OF THE TROUBADOURS AND TROUVÈRES DUO Anne Azema and Joel Cohen of The Boston Camerata 9:45 PM: RECEPTION  offerte par les SERVICES CULTURELS FRANÇAIS, près le Consul Général de France à Boston Allocution et toast: Noelle de Chambrun, Attachée Culturelle ____________________________________________ FRIDAY, JULY 31 9:00-10:30AM: FRIDAY SESSION I 31. MEDIEVAL HISTORIOGRAPHY Chair: Robert Francis Cook, University of Virginia Alcuin's Search for Patronage in Charlemagne's "New Athens"    Mary Alberi (Pace University) Authorial Self-Presentation in the Prologues and Epilogues of Medieval Historians    Dhira B. Mahoney (Arizona State University) Writing about Britain in Alien Forms: The Examples of Robert Wace and Gerald of Wales    David Rollo (Dartmouth College) 32. THE LITERARY AND ARTISTIC PATRONAGE OF MEDIEVAL WOMEN Organizer and Chair: June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University Female Patronage and Building History: Women in Thirteenth-Century France and Castile    Miriam Shadis (Duke University) The Circle of Diego de San Pedro at the Court of Queen Isabella    Joe Snow (Michigan State University) A Late Medieval Patron: Louise de Crequy    Charity Cannon Willard (Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York) 33. CHAUCER III Chair: Jennifer Goodman, Texas A&M University Chaucer's Valentine Poem: A Fabulous Feast for the Birds     Jean E. Jost (Bradley University) The Chaucerian Sin of Courtly Love    Merle Fifield (Ball State University) Polonius and the Manciple    Elyse Rukkila (Phoeniz, Arizona) 34. WOMAN'S PLACE Chair: Nadia Margolis, Leverett, Massachusetts Analogy or Logic; Authority or Experience? Rhetorical and Dialectical Strategies for and against Women    Karen Pratt (Goldsmiths' College, University of London) A Defamatory Belle Dame    Helen Solterer (Duke University) Rewriting Romance: Courtly Discourse and Auto-Citation in Christine de Pizan    Kevin Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania) 11:00 AM-12:45 PM: FRIDAY SESSION II 35. AMOROUS FICTIONS IN OLD FRENCH COURTLY TEXTS Chair: Raymond J. Cormier, Wilson College The Theme of the Heart in the Lai de l'Ombre and the Chastelaine de Vergi    Glyn S. Burgess (University of Liverpool) La nostalgie du paradis perdu: Laüstic    Evelyne Datta (Rice University) Allegorical Narrative in Philippe de Remi's Salut d'Amour    Leslie C. Brook (University of Birmingham) Cor ne edito    Milad Doueihi (The Johns Hopkins University) 36. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE Chair: Alice Clemente, Smith College The Courtly Authority and Reception of the Iberian Chronicles: Medieval Historiography and Cultural Historicism    Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas (Catholic University of America) Order and Cyclical Composition in King Dials of Portugal's Songbook    Harvey L. Sharrer (University of California, Santa Barbara) Celestina as a Comic Figure    Dorothy Sherman Severin (University of Liverpool) Literal Letters: Segura's Proceso de Cartas    Marina Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania) 37. MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN COURTLY TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Chair: Charles Nelson, Tufts University The Influence of the Alexius Legend on the Sigune-scenes in Wolfram's Parzival and Titurel    Sibylle Jefferis (Wayne, Pennsylvania) Magister Conradus Presbyter. Pfaffe Conrad at the Court of Henry the Lion    Jeffrey Ashcroft (University of St. Andrews) The Contest of Courtly and Heroic Values in the Nibelungenlied    Neil Thomas (University of Durham) 38. OCCITANIA: NEW PERSPECTIVES Chair: Hans-Erich Keller, Ohio State University A Sign of the Times: Proverbs and the Question of Literacy in Medieval Occitania    Wendy Pfeffer (University of Louisville) The Worm Turns: Bernart de Ventadorn's Less Timorous Moments    Ronnie Apter (Central Michigan University) The Economics of Fame and Credit in Guiraut Riquier's Poetry    Michel-André Bossy (Brown University) Des troubadours "italotropes"    Antoine Tavera (Nice) 2:00-3:00 PM: Meeting of ICLS Bibliographers Chairs: Maria Dobozy and Nathan Love Meeting of International Executive Committee Chair: Glyn S. Burgess 3:00-4:30PM: GENERAL ASSEMBLY Presiding: Glyn S. Burgess, International President 5:30-6:30PM: RECEPTION offered by FIVE COLLEGES INC. WELCOME: Lorna Peterson, Director, Five Colleges, Inc. 6:30-8:00 PM: BANQUET 8:00 PM: RENAISSANCE DANCING performed by Nona Monahin, Sharon Arslanian, and Joseph Johnson accompanied by the Ensemble Castellano ____________________________________________ SATURDAY AUGUST 1 DEPARTURE