Program of the Eighth Congress
Queen's University of Belfast

WEDNESDAY 26 JULY For the first day of the Conference all events will take place at Queen's Elms. Registration Afternoon tea Reception Dinner 8.00 Official welcome, followed by Plenary Address 1    Felicity Riddy, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York The City of Gold and Jewels: Cross-cultural Exchange in Late-medieval England 9.30 Meeting of the International Executive Committee (Ante-Room next to Upper Dining Hall) ------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY 27 JULY 9.30-10.30 Plenary Address 2    Michel Zink, College de France La Fin des Chroniques de Froissart et le tragique de la cour Session 1 (Thursday 11.00-12.30) 1A ILLUSTRATED FRENCH COURTLY TEXTS Images of Romance: The Miniatures of Chretien de Troyes' Erec et Enide and Le Roman de Silence       Michelle Bolduc, University of Oregon Courtly Readers, Uncourtly Readers: Evidence from Illustrated Manuscripts of the French Prose Lancelot       Carol R. Dover, Georgetown University Auteur et peintres: l'illustration du Chevalier délibéré d'Olivier de la Marche       Carleton W. Carroll, Oregon State University 1B LANGUAGE AND GENDER IN EARLY FRENCH, ENGLISH AND SPANISH COURTLY LITERATURE The Lady Speaks Out: the Disruptive Women's Voice in French Courtly Literature       Anne Caillaud, Grand Valley State University Language and the Lady: Words as Transgression in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight       Patricia Ann Quattrin, Grand Valley State University Readers, Writers and Lovers: Rhetorical Play in Grimalte y Gradissa       Diane M. Wright, Grand Valley State University Rhetorical/Political Considerations in the Cantigas de Santa Maria       Connie L. Scarborough, University of Cincinnati 1C COURTS AND POLITICS Cours méditerranéennés et politique d'empire dans le chansonnier de Guiraut Riquier       Michel-André Bossy, Brown University, Providence From Diversity to (Virtual) Uniformity: the First stages in the Standardization of the hierarchy of Nobiliary Dignities in the Courts of Latin Christendom, 1290-1395       D'Arcy J. D. Boulton, University of Notre Dame The Continuation of Politics by Other Means: Courtly Display as Diplomatic Posturing in Secular Middle High German Narratives of the 12th Century       Peter Hasler, University of Glasgow 1D ACCULTURATION IN THE 12TH CENTURY "Erec recréant": Logical Questions, Implicit Debate in Academe and Courts of Twelfth-Century France       Nancy Bradley-Cromey, University of Richmond The Dialectic of Desire in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide and Bernard de Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs       Jeanne A. Nightingale, University of Miami Marie de France's Bestiary: Acculturation in the Anglo-Norman Court       Rupert T. Pickens, University of Kentucky Session 2 (Thursday 2.00-3.30) 2A MARIE DE FRANCE "Amor" in Marie de France's Equitan and Fresne: The Failure of the Courtly Ideal       June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University Secondary Characters in Marie's Eliduc and Equitan       Joan Brumlik, University of Alberta Nature and Culture in the Fables of Marie de France and the Isopes Fabules of John Lydgate       Karen K. Jambeck, Western Connecticut State University 2B PERCEPTIONS OF LOVE IN THE TRISTAN LEGEND "The boke," "1'escrit," "sagen": The Court of Tristan and the Challenge of Diversity       Claudia M. Kovach, Neumann College, Aston The Ordeal in Gottfried's Tristan: A Reinterpretation       John H Newell, College of Charleston, South Carolina Le lai du Chievrefoil: l'unité-totalité, l'espace d'un instant       Evelyne Datta, Rice University, Houston, Texas 2C ENGLISH COURTS AND COMMUNITIES Courts and Communities in Some Fifteenth-Century English Love Visions       Julia Boffey, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London The Art of Court Satire       Ad Putter, University of Bristol Courts and Courtliness in Spenser       John Manning, Queen's University, Belfast 2D SPANISH SENTIMENTAL ROMANCE On the Frontier of Sentimental Romance: Storia de l'amat Frondino et de Brisona       Alan Deyermond, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Towards a Definition of the Concept of Poverty in the Libro del Cauallero Cifar: The Cifar Family in Las Indias       Marilyn A. Olsen, Ohio Court[ly] Games in Fifteenth-Century Spanish Poetry       Joseph T. Snow, Michigan State University Afternoon tea in Great Hall Session 3 (Thursday 4.00-5.00) 3A LANCASTRIAN PATRONAGE Lydgate and Literary Patronage at the Lancastrian Courts       Derek Pearsall, Harvard University Artists and Writers at the Lancastrian Court       Silvia Wright, London 3B CHRONICLES Forging/Fraying the French Connection: Scandinavian Kinship and Cultural Clash in Wace's Roman de Rou       Dolores Buttry, University of Kentucky The Political Songs in the Chronicles of Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng       Thea Summerfield, University of Utrecht 3C A WOMAN IS LIKE ... A Woman is Like ...       Deborah H. Nelson, Rice University, Texas Abstraction and Misogyny in the Roman de la rose and Christine de Pizan       Heather Arden, University of Cincinnati 3D CROSS-CULTURAL "COURTLY" THEMES (7 University Square, Room G05) Une recluse fort (peu) courtoise       Yasmina Foehr-Janssens, Geneva Euphérnisme et réalisme chez Chrétien de Troyes et Wolfram von Eschenbach à propos de la laide demoiselle       Isolde Crahay, Paris 3E EPIC AND ROMANCE 'Pseudo'-Courtly Elements in a Canonical Epic       Sara I. James, University of Virginia Matter, Manner and Meaning: On Distinguishing Between Epic and Romance       Edward J. Milowicki, Mills College, California 5.00-5.45 ICLS Branch meetings in University Square Irish Dinner in Great Hall ------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY 28 JULY 9.30-10.30 Plenary Address 3    Gearóid Mac Eoin, University College, Galway Poets and Princes in Early Irish Literature Session 4 (Friday, 11.0-12.30) 4A [RE]LOCATING COURT AND HERO The Diabolic Hero in Medieval French Narrative: Trubert and Wistasse le Moine       Keith Busby, University of Oklahoma The Name of the Ruse: Occitan Romance and the Case for Cultural Resistance       Caroline Jewers, University of Kansas Locating the Court: Socio-Cultural Exchange in Jean Renart's L'Escoufle       Françoise Le Saux, University of Durham 4B ENGLISH ROMANCE AND ROYAL POWER Romance after Bosworth       Helen Cooper, University College, Oxford Passing the Time: Stories of Love and Example at the Yorkist Court       Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, The Mercers' Company, London 4C TROUBADOUR POETRY Negative Self-Promotion: the Troubadour sirventesioglarese       Catherine Leglu, Pembroke College, Cambridge The Troubadour's Lady Reconsidered Again       Don A. Monson, College of William and Mary, Virginia Court, Cult and Culture: Troubadour Poetry in the Wake of the Albigensian Crusade       Judith M. Davis, Goshen College, Indiana 4D ALEXANDER D'Alexandre au monde arthurien dans le Conte du Graal       Michèle Vauthier, Université d'Angers Lyrical Motifs and the Medieval Alexander Legend       Louise M. Haywood, University of St Andrews Mothers, Amazons and Others in the Medieval Alexander Romance       Mary Hamel, Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg Session 5 (Friday, 2.00-3.30) 5A IMAGE, WORD, CONCEPT "Pitié" et "Merci" -- pour une possible définition de la pitié a l'âge courtois       Mihaela Voicu, University of Bucharest Le Symbolisme de deux animaux, le lion et la licorne, dans le roman courtois en vers du XIVe siècle: Le Rommans de la Dame a la licorne et le Biau Chevalier au Lyon       Manuel Garcia Fernandez, University of Santiago de Compostela Dans la Plaine du Tournoi       Sylvie Chossat, Bagneux 5B LANCELOT AND THE COURTLY IDEAL Adultery in La Mort le roi Artu       Sarah Kay, Girton College, Cambridge Minor Characters and the Love Theme in the Lancelot en prose       Bernadette Smelik, University of Utrecht Passelion, Marc L'Essilié et l'Idéal Courtois       Michelle Szkilnik, Greensboro, North Carolina 5C WOMEN, BOOKS AND COURTLY READING "Dame Custance la gentil": Gaimar's Portrait of a Lady and Her Books       Jean Blacker, Kenyon College, Ohio Gendered Piety at the Court of Henry VII: Lady Margaret Beaufort       Sue Powell, University of Salford Courtly Romances of the Privy Wardrobe       Carter Revard, Washington University in St Louis 5D "PROBLEM" TEXTS The Politics and Rhetorics of Gender in Andreas Capellanus's De Amore       Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University, Dallas The Pricke of Conscience and Its Audiences       Jean E. Jost, Bradley University Elegant Abjection on the American Frontier (An Irish Girl's Personal Narrative of Abduction by Seneca Indians: Mary Jemison, Deh-ge-wa-nus," 1743-1833)       Raymond Cormier Afternoon tea in Great Hall Session 6 (Friday 4:00-5:00) 6A MALORY "Honour",  "Grace", and Contradicition in Malory's Le Morte Darthur       Derek Brewer, Emmanuel College, Cambridge Same Difference: or, Cultural Diversity at the Court of Malory's Arthur       Donald L. Hoffman, Northeastern Illinois University 6B VILLON Odd Man Out: Villon at Court       Barbara Sargent-Bauer, University of Pittsburgh Courtly Platitude, Courtly Challenge: Villon's Ballade pour Robert d'Estouteville       Jane H. M. Taylor, St Hilda's College, Oxford 6C MORAL AND SOCIAL AGENDAS The Faithful Greyhound, the Feckless Knight, and the Good Mother: Mirrors and Marvels in the Dolopathos       Mary B. Speer, State University of New Jersey Jewels and Court Life in the Work of Philippe de Mézières       Joan B. Williamson, Long Island University 6D PHILIPPE DE RÉMI The Optimistic Love-Poet: Philippe de Beaumanoir (or Philippe de Rémi)       Leslie C. Brook, University of Birmingham Courtly Discourse and Folklore in La Manekine       Carol J. Harvey, University of Winnipeg 6E FIRST PERSON VOICES Medieval Equivalents of "Quote-Unquote": the Presentation of Spoken Words in Courtly Romance       Frank Brandsma, University of Utrecht The First-Person Narrator in Middle Dutch Fabliaux       Bart Besamusca, University of Utrecht 5.00-6.00 General Meeting of the ICLS The following events take place in the Upper Dining Hall of the Elms Cash Bar  Buffet dinner  Music from Trasna --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY 29 JULY 9.30-10.30 Plenary Address 4    John Scattergood, Trinity College, Dublin Courtliness in 14th-century English pastourelles Excursions. Buses for Armagh depart from the main site at 10.45. Bus for Giant's Causeway departs from the main site at 11.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY 30 JULY 9.00-10.30 Multimedia Presentations: Vancover Promotional Video The Medieval Woman Multimedia Project       Martha Driver, Pace University, New York Session 7 (Sunday, 11.00-12.30) 7A LITERATURE AND ART Preaching Obscenities: Marcabru and Twelfth-Century Sculpture       Linda M. Paterson, University of Warwick The Tournai Rose (MS Tou) as a Secular and a Sacred Epithalamium       Lori Walters, Florida State University Tristan Recycled: An Ecological Approach       Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, University of Minnesota 7B ENGLISH BOOKS, TEXTS AND READERS OUT OF COURT Of Arms and Beasts: Fifteenth-Century Treatises on the Art of Blasoning       Erik Kooper, University of Utrecht John Shirley and the Emulation of Courtly Culture       A. S. G. Edwards, University of Victoria, BC Richard Hill -- A London Compiler       Heather Collier, Queen's University of Belfast 7C RECYCLING THE COURTLY IDEAL Domesticating Diversity: Female Founders in Medieval Genealogical Literature       Donald Maddox, University of Massachusetts Court Poets and Historians in Late Medieval Connacht       Nollaig 0 Muraíle, Queen's University, Belfast Cultural Diversity In Cross-Cultural Perspectives       Andrew Butcher, University of Kent 7D COURTLY LYRICS IN PERFORMANCE Re-membering the . Present: Historical Events Filtered Through Courtly Performance       Maria Dobozy, University of Utah Criticizing Bernart de Ventadorn in Free-Verse Translations       Ronnie Apter, Central Michigan University Musical Notation and Performance Rhythm in the Courtly Music of Adam de la Halle       Dorothy Keyser, University of North Texas 7E OUTSIDERS, FRIENDS AND STRANGERS Multiculturalism in a Crusading Context       Neil Thomas, University of Durham The Outsider at Court, or What is So Strange About the Stranger?       William MacBain, University of Maryland Black Africans At the Scottish Court of James IV       Mary Robbins, Georgia State University Session 8 (Sunday, 2:00-3:00) 8A REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY Alterity and Subjectivity in the Roman de Melusine       Sara Sturm-Maddox, University of Massachusetts Le Roman de ,laufre and the Process of Individuation       Nikki L. Markey, Connecticut The Vanishing of the "I" and the Birth of Subjectivity: Observations on German Minnelieder of the Late Thirteenth Century       Matthias Meyer, University of Bielefeld 8B GENDER, VOICE AND COURTLY TRANSFORMATIONS (9 University Square, Room G01) The Lady Speaks: The Transformation of Courtly Poetry in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries       Maureen Boulton, University of Notre Dame The Exemplary Narrative and Its Moral       Karen Pratt, King's College, University of London The Troubadour, the Shaman and the Palace Lady: The Crosscurrents of Desire       Patrick Michael Thomas, New York 8C CROSS-CULTURAL CONNECTIONS The Ethos of Chivalry in Italian Romance       Regina Psaki, University of Oregon Traditionality and Cultural Identity in the Cycle of the Wager Tale       Maria Predelli, McGill University, Montreal A Translator's Deference to the Royal Family: Analysis and Speculations       Frank P. Norris, University of Miami 8D LATIN, ARABIC, GEORGIAN Peduncular Courtliness in Pre-Frankish Gaul: The Case of Sidonius Apollinaris       Jeremy de Quesnay Adams, Southern Methodist University, Dallas The Intention and Influence of Khara'iti's Malady of Hearts [I'tilal al-Qulub], (9th-10th century Syria)       Lois A. Giffen, University of Utah Shota Rustaveli and the Structures of Courtly Love       Bert Beynen, Des Moines, Iowa 8E FOOD AND COMMUNITY Our Food, Foreign Food: Food as a Cultural Delimiter in the Middle Ages       Terence Scully, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario Hall and feasting in Beowulf: Fracture and Contradiction in the Treatment of Ideas of Community       Hugh Magennis, Queen's University of Belfast Courtly Cooking all'italiana: Gastronomical Approaches to Medieval Italian Literature       Christopher Kleinhenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison Afternoon tea in the Great Hall Session 9 (Sunday, 4.00-5.00) 9A CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES L'Expression de la rapidité dans les romans de Chrétien de Troyes       Catherine Blons-Pierre, Annecy Laudine: Lady of the Fountain       Donna Prescott, Green Mountain College, Vermont 9B: WOMEN AND LANDSCAPES: CHAUCERIAN SETTINGS Old Husbands and Young Wives in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Love and the Ages of Man in Medieval England       Jessica Cooke, Queen's University of Belfast Landscape, Consciousness and Good Women in the Floure and the Leafe       Sue Ellen Holbrook, Southern Connecticut State University 9C IRISH VOICES The Finding of Arthur's Grave: A Glastonbury Legend from Clonmacnoise       John Carey, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies The Poet's Graveside Vigil: A Theme of Irish Bardic Elegy In the Fifteenth Century       Padraig Breatnach, University College, Dublin 9D COMEDY AND HORROR IN MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCES Comedy and Cultural Elitism in the Middle English Romances       Elizabeth Berlings, St John's University, New York Gawain as Final Girl: Gender and Horror in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight       Jane Gilbert, New Hall, Cambridge 7.00 Banquet in Malone House --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY 31 JULY Excursions Bus for Dublin departs from main site at 8.30 for St Patrick's Purgatory departs from main site at 9.45 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY 1 AUGUST Departure