Program of the Ninth Congress
NINTH TRIENNIAL CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURTLY LITERATURE SOCIETY

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, VANCOUVER 
and Simon Fraser University - Harbour Centre
JULY 25-31, 1998 


 

SATURDAY, JULY 25

12:00-5:00 Registration
2:00-5:00 Coffee reception

7:00 Opening Remarks: 
Chantal Phan (University of British Columbia) 
Donald Maddox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

7:15 P.M.-8:45 P.M. Sessions A1-A3:

Al. Analyzing Narrative Structure.
Chair: Leslie C. Brook (University of Birmingham)
Frank Brandsma (Universiteit Utrecht), "Gathering the Narrative Threads: The Function of the Court in the Narrative Technique of Interlace"
Peregrine Rand (Pembroke College, Cambridge), "Metaphors of Closure in a Thirteenth-Century Old French Romance Compilation: Chantilly 472"

A2. Marie de France I.
Chair: Judith Rice Rothschild (Appalachian State University) 
Rupert Pickens (University of Kentucky, Lexington): "Marie de France and the Culture of the Anglo-Norman Court"
June Hall McCash (Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro): "La Vie seinte Audree: A Fourth Text of Marie de France?"
Walter Blue (Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota): "Chescuns des nuns bien i afiert: The Ambiguous Title of Marie de France's Chaitivel" (including a performed translation of the lai).

A3. Issues of Courtly Ideology.
Chair: Danielle Régnier-Bohler (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3)
Françoise Le Saux (University of Reading): "Dieus et Amors sont d'un acort -- The Ideology of Love in Le lai de l'oiselet "
Anne Berthelot (University of Connecticut, Storrs): "Eloge de la discourtoisie. La négation de l'idéologie courtoise dans Le Chevalier au lion de Chrétien de Troyes et Ywein d'Hartmann von Aue"

SUNDAY JULY 26

9:00-10:30 A. M. Sessions B1-B6

B1. Modem Translations of Courtly Texts: The Problem of Audience, Past and Present.
Organizer and Chair: Nancy Vine Durling
Patricia Terry (University of California, San Diego): "Perceval in the Year 2000: or, Can We Still Call it Translation?"
Regina Psaki (University of Oregon, Eugene): "The Sounds of Silence: Register and Translation of Courtly Literature"
Joan M. Ferrante (Columbia University): "Do Preconceptions Bias Translations?"

B2. Intertextuality I
Chair: Sara Sturm-Maddox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Amanda Hopkins (University of Bristol): "Bisclavret to Biclarel via Mellon and Bisclaret: the Development of a Misogynist Lai".
Jane H. M. Taylor (St. Hilda's College, Oxford): "Embodying the Roman de la Rose: an Intertextual Reading of Chartier's Belle Dame sans mercy"
Roberta Morosini (McGill University, Montreal): "Per `difetto rintegrare'; ovvero, Il Filocolo di G. Boccaccio" 

B3 Literarv and Socio-historical Contexts I
Chair: Ineke Hardy (University of British Columbia)
Fidel Fajardo-Acosta (Crieghton University), "Guilhem de Peitieus' Companho, farai un vers qu'er covinen: Feudal, Popular, and Bourgeois Discourses in Occitanian Courtly Poetry"
Bryan Gillingham (Carleton University), "The Social Context of 'Goliardic' Song: Highway, Court, and Monastery"
Judith M. Davis (Goshen College), "The Case of the Uppity Virgin: Mary's Court Pleadings in L'Advocacie Nostre Dame"

B4. Courtly Themes and Mysticism.
Chair: Renate Blumenfeld- Kosinski (University of Pittsburgh)
Paola Schulze-Belli (Università di Trieste): "Influence of the Courtly World in the German Medieval Mystics, with particular regard to Mechthild of Magdeburg"
Norman Klassen (Trinity Western University, Langley): "The Virtuous Alexander the Great, the Self, and the Vision of "fine amour" in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls" 
Maureen Boulton (University of Notre Dame): "Guillaume de Digulleville's Mystical Pilgrimages"

B5, Chrétien de Troyes
Chair: Janina Traxler (Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana)
Molly Lynde-Recchia (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo): "Guillaume d'Angleterre and the Legend of Saint Eustace: The Deer, the Merchant, and the Field Hand"
Joan Helm (University of Queensland, Brisbane): "Un vice molt merveilleus: The Round Tower and the Plan of Windsor Castle in the Guiot version of Cliges"
Heather Arden (University of Cincinnati): "Fuzzy Logic and Gender Characteristics in Medieval French Romance"

B6. Courtly Ladies Out of Context.
Organizer: E. Jane Burns, Chair: Evelyn Mullally (Queen's University of Belfast)
Helen Solterer (Duke University), "Insiders and Outsiders: Language Actions of Women in Fifteenth-century Paris"
E. Jane Burns (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): "Women Working to Make Love Work in the Old French chanson de toile"

Sunday 11:00 Plenary Session. 

Welcome Address
Shirley Neuman, Dean of Arts, University of British Columbia
Plenary Lecture
Volker Honemann, University of Münster
"The Figure of the King in Medieval German Literature"

12:15-1:45 Lunch 

Sunday 2:00-3:30 Sessions C1-C7

Cl. Palaeography. Manuscript Studies., Editions I.
Chair: F. R. Akehurst (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
Fabrizio Cigni (Università di Pisa): "Écriture et composition d'un manuscrit de littérature courtoise: le cas du ms. fr. 12599 de la B.N. de Paris"
Carleton Carroll (Oregon State University, Corvallis): "Mésaventures d'un texte: les premières éditions du Chevalier deliberé, 1486-1500"
Raymond Siemens (University of Alberta, Edmonton): "The Critic, the Author, and the Process of Attribution in the Henry VIII MS"

C2. La Fine amor dans la culture médiévale I
Organizers: Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok
Sponsor: Reineke Verlag 
Chair: Wolfgang Spiewok (Greifswald)
Danielle Buschinger (Université de Picardie, Amiens): "Amour courtois et service de la dame dans la littérature allemande du moyen âge tardif"
Guy Borgnet (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon): "La réception de l'amour courtois dans les jeux de la Passion, dans l'Allemagne du moyen âge"

C3. History. Politics and Literature
Philip Bennett (University of Edinburgh): "Edward III and the Countess of Salisbury: The Making of a Courtly Myth"
Penny Eley (University of Sheffield): "History and Romance in the Chronique des ducs de Normandie"

C4, Chaucer I
Chair: John Thompson (Queen's University of Belfast) 
Eugene Green (Boston University): "Attributes of Place and Gendered Words in Troilus and Criseyde"
Michael Hanrahan (Heritage College, Toppenish, Washington): "'O sweete venym queynte': The Merchant's Tale as a Courtly Manual of Advice" 
Masatoshi Kawasaki (Komazawa University, Tokyo): "Chaucer's Idea of Topos: In Quest of Topographical Images" 

C5. Medieval German and Middle Dutch Literature
Chair: Karl Zaenker (University of British Columbia) 
Clara Strijbosch (Universiteit Utrecht): "Heroes on the Move. The Development of Protagonists in Twelfth-Century Travel Romances" 
Sibylle Jefferis (Wayne, Pennsylvania): "The Cronica von der Koenigin von Frankreich" 

C6, Literature in the Court of Alfonso X. I
Organizer and Chair: Martha E. Schaffer (University of San Francisco) 
Connie L. Scarborough (University of Cincinnati): "Local Marian Legends in a Courtly Context" 
Jesús Montoya Martínez (Universidad de Granada): "La caballeria blanca o `celeste': Ejemplos en la literatura de los milagros marianos" 
Horacio Chiong Rivero (Harvard University): "The Celestial Dona: the Sacred and the Profane in the Cantigas de loor of Alfonso X"

C7. Tristan.
Chair: Joan Helm (University of Queensland, Brisbane) 
Evelyn S. Firchow (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): "The Sad Story of the Tristan Editions" 
Nancy Ciccone (University of Colorado, Denver): "To love or not to love" 
Shigemi Sasaki (Meisei University, Tokyo): "Présence et migration de l'image du brachet (braque), du Roman de Tristan en prose au Livre dou tresor et aux bestiaires" 

Sunday 4:00-5:30 Sessions D1-D6

D1. La Fine amor dans la culture médiévale II.
Organizers: Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok 
Sponsor: Reineke Verlag 
Chair: Danielle Buschinger (Université de Picardie) 
Friederich Wolfzettel (Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt): Jean de Meun: 'ancien' ou 'moderne'?" 
Yves Ferroul (Université de Lille III): "Amitié et amour de saint Anselme au Roman de la Rose"
Jean-Jacques Vincensini (Université de Corse): "Désordre de l'abjection et ordre de la courtoisie. Le corps abject dans Paris et Vienne de Pierre de la Cepède" 

D2. The Oral Text.
Chair: Carleton Carroll (Oregon State University, Corvallis) 
Elizabeth Brodovitch (Simon Fraser University) and Ineke Hardy (University of ' British Columbia): "Tracking the Anagram: Preparing a Phonetic Blueprint of the Poetry of the Troubadours" 
Robin Waugh (Memorial University of Newfoundland): "Competitive Orality and Courtly Language in Le livre du cuer d'amours espris"
Linda Marie Zaerr (Boise State University): "A Modern Deletion from a Medieval Text: the `He Said/She Said' Section of The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell"

D3. Courtly Themes, Religious Themes.
Chair: Rupert Pickens (University of Kentucky, Lexington): 
Peter Loewen (University of Southern California, Los.Angeles): "Minnesang' and Goliardic Lyrics in the Service of Franciscan Piety: Mary Magdalene as Joculatrix Dei in the `Ludus Paschalis' from the Carmina Burana
Johann-Christian Klamt (Universiteit Utrecht): "St. Martin derided by youthful scamps of noble origin: The Interpretation of a Unique Set of Two Miniatures Executed about 1200 at Tournai (Flanders)" 
Jeanne A. Nightingale (Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights): "The Conjugal Kiss: An Intimate Encounter between the Sacred and the Profane in Chrétien's Romances and in the Mystical Literature on the Song of Songs" 

D4. Nuances of Love Thematics
Chair: Glynnis Cropp (Massey University, Palmerston N., New Zealand) 
Janina Traxler (Manchester College, Indiana): "Love is a Many Splintered Thing: Love and Narrative Design in the Prose Tristan and Prose Lancelot" 
Donald Maddox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Fictions of the Courtly Tryst" 
Ximberly Keller (Indiana University, Bloomington): "Unidentified Loving Subject: The Self a the Lover's Complaint" 

D5. Literature in the Court of Alfonso X, II
Organizer: Martha E. Schaffer (University of San Francisco), 
Chair: Chantal Phan (University of British Columbia) 
Joseph Snow (Michigan State University, East Lansing): "Cantando e con dança': Alfonso X courts the Heavenly Court" 
Martha E. Schaffer (University of San Francisco): "The Nexus Between cantiga de amor and cantiga de miragres: the cantiga de `change" 

D6 Asian and European Courtly Literature. 
Chair: Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia) 
Whitney C. Dilley (University of Washington): "Courtly Love Poetry of the European Troubadour and Chinese Southern Dynasties Traditions" 
Raymond Cormier (Longwood College, Farmville, Virginia): "Courtly and Warrior Ethos in Medieval Japanese Heroic Epic" 
Yuko Tagaya (Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama): "Nobility in Medieval English Romances and in Classical Japanese Narratives" 
5:45 Meeting of the International Executive Committee 
8:00 The Fair Forest, concert of Medieval English song, by John Fleagle (Boston), (offered in collaboration with the Vancouver Early Music Festival). 

MONDAY, JULY 27

8:00-9:00 Meeting of Bibliographers 

9:00-11:00 Sessions E1-E7

El. Of Mouths and Text,
Organizers: William Calin and Caroline Jewers 
Chair: Carol Harvey (University of Winnipeg) 
Caroline Jewers (University of Kansas, Lawrence): "'A tant vit une aumaire ouvrir': Writing, Seduction, Reading, and Kissing the Book/Worm in the Bel Inconnu"
Kathy M. Krause (University of Missouri, Kansas City): "Male Songs in Female Mouths: Lyric Performance by Women in Old French Narrative" 
William Calin (University of Fhrida, Gainesville): ''Anglo-Normn in a Central French Mouth: A Sociolinguistic Reading of How Reynard the Fox tricks Isengrin the Wolf" 

E2..Courtly Literature Produced in Italy
Organizer: Sara Sturm-Maddox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 
Chair: Regina Psaki (University of Oregon, Eugene) 
Leslie Z. Morgan (Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore): "Female Enfances: at the Intersection of Romance and Epic" 
Sara Sturm-Maddox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "`E fer en cortoisie retorner li villan': Roland in Persia in the Entree d'Espagne"
Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Eleonora d'Este and the Heroines of Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato: Challenging Gender Stereotypes at the Ferrara Court"
Laurie Shepard (Boston College): "The Infelicitous Lovers of Italian Renaissance Comedy" 

E3. Approaches to Melody
Chair: Stephen Rees (Bangor, Wales) 
Ronnie Apter (Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant), "The Seasons of the Knight: Metaphors in Bernart de Ventadorn's La dousa votz ai auzida (P-C 70,23) Noticed When Translating the Song to Its Music" 
Leslie Taylor (Vancouver): "The Musical Art of the Lyric Poets" (lecture demonstration) 
Mary O'Neill (University of Birmingham): "Registers of Expression in the Music of the Cantigas de Santa Maria"

E4. Women as Speaking Subjects in Mtdicval Hispanic Literature.
Organizer: Louise M. Haywood. 
Chair: Joseph Snow (Michigan State University, East Lansing) 
Dorothy Severin (University of Liverpool): "Gradisa the Cruell and Fiometa the Rejected in Juan de Flores' prosimetrum Grimalte y Gradissa"
Diane Wright (Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan): "Constructing the Female Subject through Memory: The Heroines of the Spanish Sentimental Romance" 
Eloisa Palafox (Washington University, St. Louis): "Antes y después: la voz de Melibea en la transición de la Comedia a la Tragicomedia"
Louise M. Haywood (University of St. Andrews): "Secular Female Voice Laments in Old Spanish" 

E5. Definitions and Redefinitions
Chair: Wendy Pfeffer (University of Louisville, Kentucky) 
Veronica Fraser (University of Windsor): "The Occitan Boeci: A Study of the Notion of Genre in the Middle Ages" 
Karen Pratt (King's College, London): "How Valid is the Concept of Genre? The Case of Eracle by Gautier d'Arras" 
Michèle Perret (Université Paris X, Nanterre): "Le sorplus ou l'indicible étreinte"
Margaret Burrell (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand): "Blandin de Cornouailles and the Romance in Transition" . 

E6. Gauvain, Gawain.
Chair: Barry Beardsmore (University of Victoria) 
Lori Walters (Florida State University, Tallahassee): "A True Hero?: Antifeminism and Gauvain's Reputation in L 'Atre perilleux"
Erik Kooper (Universiteit Utrecht): "`Gawain good, Gauvain bad' -- or not quite so?" 
Elizabeth Edwards (University of King's College, Halifax): "Gift of Life or Gift of Death: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

E7. Romance at the End of the Middle Ages: from Script to Print.
Organizer: Elizabeth Archibald 
Chair: Barbara Altmann (University of Oregon, Eugene) 
Danielle Régnier-Bohler (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3): "Mémoire du récit et goût du lecteur: la chevalerie médiévale dans le trajet du manuscrit aux imprimés (fin XVe et début XVIe siècle"
Joanne Charbonneau (James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia): "The Effect on Medieval Romance of the Shift from Script to Print" 
Elizabeth Archibald (University of Victoria): "Apollonius and Pericles: From Script to Print" 

Monday 1:20 Plenary Session
Chair: Douglas Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Plenary Lecture
Peter Ricketts, University of Birmingham
"Knowledge as Therapy: a Comparison between the Confessio Amantis of Gower and the Breviari d'Amor of Matfre Ermengaud" 

12:30 Meeting of the International Executive Committee with. the Presidents and Secretaries of National Branches

Monday 1:45-3:00 Sessions F1-F5

F1. Chaucer II
Chair: Marianne Legaults (University. of British Columbia) 
A.E.Christa Canitz (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton), "Futile Martyrdom: Chaucer's Critique of Courtly Love in The Legend of Good Women"
Karen Arthur (University of Toronto): "Refined Violence and Courtly Desire in Chaucer" 
Carolyn Collette (Mt. Holyoke): "Chaucer and the French Tradition Revisited" 

F2. Representations of Felony 
Chair: Elspeth Kennedy (University of Reading) 
Sylvie Chessat (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) "Les couleurs de la félonie" 
Glynnis M. Cropp (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand):, "Felony and Courtly Love" 

F3. Medieval German Literature.
Chair: Maria Dobozy (Salt Lake City, Utah) 
Jutta Eming (Freie Universität Berlin): "Questions on the Theme of Incest in Courtly Literature" 
Cora B. Died (University of Helsinki) : "Hans Sachsens 'höfische Minne'. Zur Dramatisierung höfischer Liebesromane durch Hans Sachs" 

F4. Marie de France II.
Chair: Françoise Le Saux (University of Reading) 
Evelyne Datta (Rice University, Houston): "Variations sur l'espace dans le lai du Chaitivel" 
Judith Rice Rothschild (Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina): "Marie de France's Three 'Bird Lays'" 

F5. Metamorphoses
Chair: Rupert Pickens (University of Kentucky, Lexington) 
Ana Pairet (Rutgers University): "De la fable à l'exemple: fonctions et modalités de la métamorphose dans le roman courtois" 
Edward Milowicki (Mills College, Oakland, California): "The Indefinite Garden: Ovid's Metaphors and Metamorphoses in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale"

Monday 3.15-4:30 Plenary Session
Chair: Donald Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Address
Sima Godfrey, Acting Director, Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia 
Plenary Lecture
Gérard Brault,  Pennsylvania State University
"Literary Uses of Heraldry in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" 

4:30-6:00 Reception in Cecil Green Park Building. We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the Institute for European Studies to this reception. 

5:15 Departure for Dinner Cruise in Vancouver Harbour 

TUESDAY, JULY 28
Sessions at SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, Harbour Centre Campus (downtown Vancouver) 

10:30 Plenary Session
Address
Guy Poirier (on behalf of the Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University) 
Plenary Lecture
Valeria Bertolucci Pizzarusso, Università di Pisa)
"La réception de la littérature courtoise en Italie aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles" 

Tuesday 1:45-3:15 Sessions G1-G2

G1. Rewards.
Chair: Carol Harvey (University of Winnipeg) 
Leslie C. Brook (University of Birmingham): "Rewards and Punishments in the De Amore and Kindred Texts" 
Charles Heppleston (Queen's University of Belfast): "The Rhetoric of Debt and Reward in Christine de Pizan's Cent Ballades"
Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): "The Rewards of Courtly Love in Text and Image" 

G2.Autour du bestiaire
Organizer and Chair: Donald Maddox (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 
Jeanette Beer (Purdue University, West Lafayette): "Love's Symbolism in the Bestiaire d'Amour: The Lion and the Unicorn" 
Chantal Connochie-Bourgne (Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence): "Les songes animaliers dans la littérature courtoise" 
Giovanna Angeli (Università degli Studi di Firenze): "Les animaux de la fatrasie" 

Tuesday 3:45-5:15 Sessions H1-H2

H1. Malory
Chair: Elizabeth Sklar (Wayne State University) 
Maureen Fries (SUNY: "Guinevere and the Grail" 
Cory Rushton (University of Victoria): "`No Wrongfull Quarell for No Love': Fighting for the Beloved in Malory's Morte Darthur"
Christine M. Rose (Portland State University): "Readers and Writers in the Morte Darthur"

H2. Literature between Town and Court: New Approaches to the Works of the Learned Cleric Johannes Rothe of Eisenach (ca.1360-1434)
Chair: Christa Canitz (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton) 
Annegret Fiebig (Universität Tubingen), "Electronic Publishing from Historical Sources: Between Information Management and Text Editing" 
Christoph Huber (Universität Tubingen): "Der Thüringer Landgrafenhof im Reflex von Texten unterschiedlicher Gattungen" 
Henrike Laehnemann (Universität Tubingen): "Didactic Strategies in Johannes Rothe's Ritterspiegel"

8:00 Concert: The Unicorn (trouvère repertoire, narrative), with Anne Azdma, Boston (voice), Jesse Lepkoff, Boston (early flutes), Shira Kammen, Boston, and Margriet Tindemans, Seattle (vielles). 
Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard Street 
Organized in collaboration with Early Music Vancouver. 
 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 
No sessions
Excursions: Victoria or Whistler 

THURSDAY, JULY 30

9:00-10:30 Sessions I1-I8

I1. La Fine amor dans la culture médiévale III
Organizers: Danielle Buschinger (Université de Picardie) and Wolfgang Spiewok (Greifswald) 
Sponsor: Reineke-Verlag. 
Chair: Friedrich Wolfzettel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt) 
Claire Catalini Fennell (Università di Trieste): "`Chien est loyal à son seigneur et de bonne amour et de vraie... Tous esbatemens sont en Chien': Béroul, Husdent et fin'amors" 
Wolfgang Spiewok (Greifswald): "Wolframs Minne-Damen" 
Jean-Marc Pastré (Université de Rouen): "Le Tristan de Gottfried de Strasbourg est-il une apothéose héroïque des amants?" 

I2. New Voices and their Implications in 13th Century Romance.
Organizer: Karen A. Grossweiner (University of Wisconsin, Madison). 
Chair: Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona) 
Miriam Rheingold Fuller (Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg): "All for Love: Fin 'amor and Social Subversion in Jakeme's Le Castelain de Couci"
Douglas Kelly (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "The Implications of Age and Aging in the Roman de la rose"
Karen A. Grossweiner (University of Wisconsin, Madison): "Implications of the Female Poetic Voice in the Roman de Flamenca"

I3.Incest and Other Forms of Uncourtly Conduct
Organizer: Carol Harvey (University of Winnipeg). 
Chair: Elizabeth Archibald (University of Victoria) 
Joan Brumlik (University of Alberta, Edmonton): "Incest and Death in Marie de France's Deus Amanz"
Carol Harvey (University of Winnipeg): "Incest, Identity and Uncourtly Conduct in La Manekine"
Yin Liu (University of Alberta, Edmonton): "Incest and Identity: Family Relationships in Emaré"

I4.Aspects of the Reception of Courtly Literature I
Chair: Nancy Frelick (University of British Columbia) 
Dorothea Heitsch (University of Washington): "Dialogue as a Paradigm of the Anti-Courtier Trend: Montaigne's Art of Conversation" 
Peter Firchow (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): "The Black and the Motley: Medieval vs. Modern in Alois Brandstetter's The Abbey"
Michelle Sauer-Bures (Washington State University): "Medieval Courtly Love and Modem Mexico: Gender Role Reassessment, Desire and Consummation" 

I5. Chaucer III
Chair: Edward Milowicki (Mills College, Oakland, California) 
Donald L. Hoffman (Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago): "Chaucer's `Unfinished' Criseyde" 
Sheila M. Roberts (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby): "Annexed to Plesaunce: Elizabeth Woodville, Venus, and Chaucer" 
Judith Weise (SUNY Potsdam): "Cecilia v. G. Chaucer: Courtly Poet / Accused Rapist Buys Off Baker's Daughter" 

I6. The Flexibility of Courtly Texts
Organizer: John Thompson 
Thea Summerfield (Universiteit Utrecht): "Edward, Arthur and Simon de Montfort at the Court of the Duke of Brabant" 
John Thompson (Queen's University of Belfast): "Promoting Courtly Verse in Fifteenth-Century England: The Example of Thomas Hoccleve" 

I7. Occitan Lyric
Chair: Deborah Nelson (Rice University, Houston) 
Roy Rosenstein (American University of Paris): "Gaudairenca and the Lost Ladies / Hidden Women of Troubadour / Trobairitz Lyric" 
Michel-André Bossy (Brown University): "The Ins and Outs of Court: Guiraut Riquier's Poetics of Ostracism" 

I8 Translatio - What Is Courtly?
Organizer and Chair: Jeanette Beer (Purdue University) 
Hans Runte (Dalhousie University): "Translatio fabularum: Marie de France's Courtly Fables" 
Emma Dillon (Christchurch, Oxford) : "Musical Genre as Translation in Le Roman de Fauvel"
Meradith McMunn (Rhode Island College, Providence): "The Artist as Translator: Illustrated Manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose for Courtly Audiences" 

Thursday 11:00 Plenary Session
Chair: June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University
Address 
Janet Werker (Associate Vice-President Research, University of British Columbia) 
Plenary Lecture
Linda Paterson, University of Warwick, Coventry
"Occitan Women, Property, and the Rise of Courtly Love" 

1:00-1:45: Concert, Chanterie (Elizabeth Brodovitch, Magali Coustalin, Leslie Taylor, Vancouver) 
2:00-3:00 National Branch Meetings 

Thursday 3:30-5:00 Sessions J1-J8

J1.Approches linguistiques de la littérature courtoise
Chair: Michèle Perret (Université Paris X) 
Sabine Lehmann-Lemhayeb (Université Paris X): "Le problème de la délimitation d'un champ sémantique: les statuts sociaux chez Eustache Deschamps, Alain Chartier et Charles d'Orléans" 
Marielle Lignereux (Université Paris X): "Approches de la notion de contexte en ancien français" 

J2.Fifteenth-Century and Renaissance Works.
Helen Cooney (Trinity College, University of Dublin): "The Flower and the Leaf: A Reappraisal" 
Stephen Rees (Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor): "Compositional Style, Authorial, Voice, and Virtuosic Versification in the Chansons of Caron" 
Cynthia Smurthwaite (University of Ottawa) : "A Courtly Challenge in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida"

J3.The Court of Heaven in Medieval Visionary Literature
Organizer: Rosalynn Voaden (University of York). 
Chair: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Victoria) 
Maidie Hilmo (University of Victoria): "Intimations of the New Jerusalem in the Illustrated Court Scenes of the Pearl-Gawain Manuscript" 
Diane Murphy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "Courts and Class: Images of the Court of Heaven in The Book of Margery Kempe and Christine de Pisan's City of Ladies" 
Rosalynn Voaden (University of York): "Drinking from the golden cup: Courtly Ritual and Order in the Liber specialis gratiae of Mechthild of Hackeborn"

,J4. Female Poets in a Male World.
Chair: Samuel N. Rosenberg (Indiana University, Bloomington) 
Eglal Doss-Quinby (Smith College): "le vous pri, dame Maroie / Ke respondes contre moi': The Feminine Voice in the Old French jeu-parti" 
Wendy Pfeffer (University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky): "Complaints of Women, Complaints by Women: Can One Tell Them Apart?" 
Joan Tasker Grimbert (Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.): "Songs by Women and Women's Songs: How Useful is the Concept of Register?" 

J5.Courtly Literature and "Courtliness" in Japan
Organizer: Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia) 
Robert Omar Khan (University of Washington): "Genealogy, Authorship, and Cross-gendering in Le Roman de Silence and Ariake no Wakare
Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia): "`Courtliness' (Miyabi) and National Cultural Identity in Modern Japan" 

J6.Sons and Lovers: New Perspectives on Chrétien's Perceval.
Organizer: Carol R. Dover (Georgetown University) 
Chair: Barbara Altmann (University of Oregon, Eugene) 
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner (Boston College): "Maidens in Tents, or Wandering Through Erotic Spaces in the Perceval and its Continuations" 
Rose Marie Deist (University of San Francisco): "The Internal Wanderings of Perceval: How Chrétien Shaped his Hero in the Conte du Graal"
Carol R. Dover (Georgetown University): "Reading, Backwards, Forwards, and Inside Out: The Joy and Sorrow of Perceval's Heart" 

J7. Literary and Sociao-Historical Contexts II
Chair: Barry Beardsmore (University of Victoria) 
Stephen Jaeger (University of Washington): "The Distant Love of the Troubadours (and the Clerics and the Monks)" 
Julian Weiss (University of Oregon, Eugene): "Feudal Ideology and the Knight-Clerk Debate: The Social Disorder of Elena y Maria "
Evelyn Mullally (Queen's University of Belfast): "The Biographer of Guillaume le Maréchal and his Public" 
Rosamund Allen (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London): "The Loyal and Disloyal Servants of King John" 

38. Aspects of the Reception of Courtly Literature II.
Chair: Elizabeth Sklar (Wayne State University) 
Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona, Tucson): "What do they mean for us today? Medieval Literature at the End of the 20th Century. Boethius, John of Salisbury, John Mandeville, Christine de Pisan" 
Nancy Frelick (University of British Columbia, Vancouver): "Lacan, Courtly Love and Anamorphosis" 
Kevin Harty (La Salle University, Philadelphia): "Making the Courtly `Reel': Cinematic Interpretations of Courtly Worlds" 
E. Paige Wisotzka (College of Charleston): "Roland is Alive and Living in Paris" 

5:30 General Assembly 

7:30 Banquet (out-of-doors, weather permitting)
 

FRIDAY, JULY 31

9:00-10:30 Sessions K1-K7

K1. Courtly Devotion.
Organizers: Simon Gaunt (St. Catharine's College, Cambridge) and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University of Liverpool). 
Chair: Linda Paterson (University of Warwick) 
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (University of Pittsburgh): "Spiritual Aspects of Fin'Amor in the 13th Century and beyond..." 
Simon Gaunt (St. Catharine's College Cambridge): "Martyrs to Love: The Early Troubadours and Death" 
Sylvia Huot (Pembroke College, Cambridge): "La Castelaine de Vergi at the Intersection of Courtly and Devotional Literature" 

K2.Literary and Socio-Historical Contexts III
Chair: Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona) 
D'A. Jonathan D. Boulton (University of Notre Dame): "Uniformity (Nearly) Achieved: The Standardization of the Hierarchy of Nobiliary Dignities in Latin Christendom, 1385-1506" 
Siegfried Christoph (University of Wisconsin-Parkside): "The Court as a Locus of Power and Authority" 
Gerhard Binkhorst (Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht): "Diego de San Pedro y los méritos de las mujeres" 

K3. Iconographic Studies
Chair: Carol Knicely (University of British Columbia) 
Rouben Cholakian (Hamilton College, Clinton, New York): "Prefigurations of Courtliness in the Bayeux Tapestry" 
Anne Marie Gauthier (Université de Montreal): "L'iconographie dans les manuscrits du Roman de Troie de Benoît de Sainte-Maure et ses rapports au texte" 
Sue Ellen Holbrook (Southern Connecticut State University): "Science for Mercers and Monarchs: Illustrations of Wynkyn de Worde's De Proprietatibus Rerum and Editions and Manuscripts of the French Version" 

K4. Language as Theme in Medieval Literature.
Organizer: Kathleen Blumreich 
Chair: Nancy Ciccone (University of Colorado, Denver) 
Kathleen Blumreich (Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan): "`Sans calenge': Legal Technicalities in the Roman de Silence"
Patricia Ann Quattrin (Grand Valley, State University, Allendale, Michigan): "Verbal Abuse in Chaucer's `Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale'" 
Claudia Maria Kovach (Neuman College): "Tristan and the Rhetoric of Deformity" 

K5. Images of Woman
Chair: Nancy Frelick (University of British Columbia) 
Anne L. Klinck (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton): "Popular or Courtly? Pigeon-Holing Woman's Songs" 
Cynthia J. Brown (University of California, Santa Barbara): "Images of Late Medieval Female Sovereignty" 
Anna Roberts (Miami University, Ohio): "Women's Friendship: Fiction and Theories in 13th-14th-century France" 
Deborah H. Nelson (Rice University): "Coping with Isolation: Strategies of Some Medieval French Noblewomen" 

K6. Palaeography. Manuscript Studies, Editions II
Chair: Michel-André Bossy (Brown University) 
Mary B. Speer (Rutgers): "Cest d'Aucassin et de Nicolette' : F.W. Bo-irdillon and the Professionalization of Philology" 
Samuel Rosenberg (Inuiana University, Bloomington): "Trouvère Songs in Troubadour Sources" 
F. R. Akehurst (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis): "The Complete Electronic Corpus of the Troubadours: First Results" 

K7. Chaucer IV.
Chair: Sheila Roberts (Simon Fraser University) 
Marianne Legault (University of British Columbia): "A Question of Power: Gender Limitations in Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde"
Jean Jost (Bradley University): "Chaucerian Readers: Interpreting Infinite Regressions; or the Narcissus Syndrome" 

Friday 11:00-12:00 Sessions L1-L4

L1. Hispanic Lyric.
Chair: Derek Carr (University of British Columbia) 
Alicia de Colombí-Monguió (SUNY Albany): "La sombra de Petrarca en la poesía cancioneril" 
Elena Carillo (Universiteit Nijmegen): "La enfermedad cortes de amor en la poesía cancioneril" 

L2 .Literary and Socio-Historical Contexts IV
William MacBain (University of Maryland, College Park): "The Court of Prester John --Utopia or Satire?" 
Setsuko Haruta (Shirayuri College): "`What with his wysdom and his chivalrie': Political Theseus in Chaucer's Knight's Tale"
Jean Blacker (Kenyon College): "Why Such a Fishy Tale? Wace's Version of St. Augustine's Conversion of the English in the Roman de Brut"

L3. Intertextuality II
Chair: Erik Kooper (Universiteit Utrecht) 
Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia): "Sir Launfal's Male Trouble" Neil Thomas (University of Durham): "The Celtic Wild Man Tradition and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini; madness or contemptu mundi?"
Barry Beardsmore (University of Victoria): "A Comparison of Two Medieval French Haunted Dwelling Stories" 

L4. Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Chair: Hans Runte (Dalhousie University, Halifax) 
Deborah Schwartz (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo): "From Le bel inconnu to Wigalois: Pedagogical Purpose in Courtly Romance" 
Kathleen Wilson Ruffo (University of Toronto): "Text-Image Interrelations in Trouvère Chansonnier O (B. N. fr. 846) " 
 

Organizing Committee:
Chantal Phan (University of British Columbia), Chair, 
Barbara Altmann (University of Oregon, Eugene), 
Carleton Carroll (Oregon State University), 
Nancy Frelick (University of British Columbia), 
Richard Unger (University of British Columbia), 
Karl Zaenker (University of British Columbia) 
Office Helpers: Shannon McKie, Ineke Hardy, Susan Woodhouse 
Web Site Creator and Manager: Ineke Hardy; Web Site Advisor: William Winder 
Congress Coordinator at the JI3C Conference Centre: Alison Kovacs 
Translation of Abstracts: Anne Scott, Ineke Hardy, Chantal Phan 
Volunteers: Benjamin Albritton, Elizabeth Brodovitch, Ineke Hardy, Diane Holton, Marianne Legault, Shannon McKie, Natalie Operstein, Jackson Palmer-Phan, Laurent Poliquin, Josiane Ruggeri, Sophia Savvas, Nancy Stevens, Leslie Taylor, Susan Woodhouse. 
Catering: UBC Food Services and SFU Food Services 
Transportation: Gray Line Buses, Maverick Buses 
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