PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
International conference
Early Modern Medievalisms:
The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production
Thursday, 21 August
9.15–9.30 Opening of the conference
I. Conceptualizations of the Medieval
9.30–11.00 Session 1: Humanist Conceptions of the Middle Ages
Alexander Lee, Univ. of Edinburgh, “Petrarch's Conception of the ‘Dark Ages': A Re-evaluation”
Coen Maas, Univ. of Leiden, “Critic and Man of Letters: Janus Dousa's Reappropriation of the Medieval”
Minou Schraven, Univ. of Leiden, “‘Ambrosius Redivivus.' Carlo Borromeo's Revival of Early Medieval Milan”
11.00–11.30 coffee break
11.30–13.00 Session 2: Between History and Myth
Tiphaine Karsenti, Univ. Paris X-Nanterre, “From Historical Myth to Literary Myth: Ambivalences and Contradictions in the Modern Reception of the Trojan Genealogy of the Franks”
Rachel S. Anderson, Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale, MI, “Justification by Narrative: St. Edward the (Bastard) Martyr in Foxe's Acts and Monuments…”
Marc Court, Paris, “Métamorphoses de Bertrand du Guesclin, de Cuvelier à Le fevre”
13.00–14.30 lunch in the Faculty Club
14.30–15.30 Session 3: The Middle Ages in Legal Thought
Kenneth E. Aldous, New York, “Constructing the Common Law's Past: Medieval Legal Literature in Early Modern Thought”
Robert von Friedeburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, “The Invocation of the Middle Ages in Court Battles”
15.30-16.00 coffee break
II. Continuities and Discontinuities
16.00-17.00 Session 4
Richard Newhauser, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, “Sinful Continuities: The Seven Deadly Sins – Medieval and Early Modern”
Adam Shear, Univ. of Pittsburgh, “The Early Modern Construction of Medieval Jewish Thought”
17.0 drinks
Friday, 22 August
II. Continuities and Discontinuities (cont.)
9.30–10.30 Session 5
Christian Bratu, Baylor Univ., “Denis Sauvage: Editing Medieval Historiography in Sixteenth-Century France”
Mette B. Bruun, Univ. of Copenhagen, “Jean Mabillon's Middle Ages: A Merger of Textual Criticism and Monastic Ideals”
10.30–11.00 coffee break
11.00–12.30 Session 6
Michael Foster, Univ. of Nottingham, “Richard Hill, William Caxton, and the Medieval Rule of Courtesy”
Pieter Mannaerts, Catholic Univ. Leuven, “ St Begga and her Office in Early Modern Beguine Scholarship”
Waldemar Kowalski, Kielce, Poland, “Medieval Tradition in Early Modern Little Poland Epigraphs”
12.30-14.00 lunch in the Faculty Club
14.00–15.00 Session 7
Elena Lombardi, Bristol Univ., “Petrarca between the Medieval and Modern Notion of Desire”
Jacomien Prins, Univ. of Utrecht, “Francesco Patrizi, Cosmic Harmony and the Changing Appraisal of the Renaissance Myth of the Ancient Past”
15.00–15.30 coffee break
15.30–17.30 Session 8: The Legacy of the Novel of Chivalry
Paul Smith, Univ. of Leiden, “Pantagruel and Amadis”
Helwi Blom, Univ. of Utrecht, “La réception des romans chevaleresques médiévaux dans la France du XVIIe siècle”
Vincent Ferré, Univ. Paris XIII, “Don Quixote and Cervantes, or The Dual Medievalism”
Michael Eisenberg, City University of New York, “Carolingian Ascendancy and the Musical Imaginary in Orlando Reception”
17.30 walking tour in Leiden
Saturday, 23 August
II. Continuities and Discontinuities (cont.)
9.30–10.30 Session 9: Architecture
Maarten Delbeke, Ghent Univ., “The Iconography of Religious Architecture after 1520”
Lex Hermans, Univ. of Leiden, “A Mirror of Mentality Change: On the ‘Renascizing'of Architecture in 15th and 16th-Century Italy”
10.30–10.45 coffee break
III. The Interplay of Medieval Studies and Artistic Production
10.45–11.45 Session 9
Matteo Burioni, Univ. of Basel, “Vasari as Medievalist? Dissimulation and Historical Stance in the Corridoio Vasariano”
Joost Keizer, Univ. of Leiden, “On the Loss of Time: Michelangelo and the Temporalities of Medieval Art”
11.45–12.00 coffee break
12.00–13.00 Session 10: Printing the Middle Ages
Stefano Mengozzi, Univ. of Michigan, “Church Authority, the Press, and the Birth of Musical Medievalism: The Dispute over Guido of Arezzo in Italy in the Late 15th Century”
Andrea Worm, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, “Reproducing the Middle Ages. Jean Joseph Rive (1730-1791) and the Study of Medieval Manuscript Illumination in the Eighteenth Century”
13.00–14.30 lunch in the Faculty Club
14.30–15.30 Session 11: Poetical Theory and Practice
Christoph Pieper, Univ. of Leiden, “The Code of Latin Love-Poetry of the Italian Quattrocento – Ancient and Medieval re-écriture?”
Olga van Marion, Univ. of Leiden, “Indigenous Roots of the Dutch Renaissance”
15.30-15.45 coffee break
15.45–16.45 Session 12: Literary medievalism and medievalist scholarship
Peter Damian-Grint, Univ. of Oxford, “Rewriting Old French in the 18th Century: The Case of Aucassin et Nicolette”
Aurélie Basso, Univ. Paris IV / Univ. Québec Montréal, “Fairy tales and the rise of medievalist scholarship”
16.45–17.00 Closing of the conference
19.00 conference dinner