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Contacts: Jamie Kreiner (jkreiner@Princeton.edu) & Chris Kurpiewski (ckurpiew@Princeton.edu)
Image courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (MS M.140, fol. 45r)
5 April 2008, Scheide-Caldwell House
Princeton University
9.00 am - BREAKFAST
9.30 – 11.00 am - KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Unseen Visitors: Inversion and Deception in Carmina Burana”
Margot Fassler, Yale University
- BREAK -
11.15 am – 12.45 pm - APPEALING PERFORMANCES | Chairs: Mary Campbell (German),
Enric Mallorqui-Ruscalleda (Spanish & Portuguese)
“La morenica and the Muwashshah: Comparing Voices across Performative Traditions of al-Andalus”
Isabelle Levy, Harvard University
“Storytelling in Le Chevalier au lion and Its Adaptation to a Swedish Readership”
Sofia Lodén, Stockholm University and the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon
“Preaching to the Converted: The Public Appeal of Female Mystics”
Taryn McMillan, McMaster University
- LUNCH -
2.00 – 3.30 pm - BONDS OF REVELRY| Chairs: Aaron Hostetter (English), Caroline Fowler (Art & Archaeology)
“Leisure, Trade, and Charity: The Fair of the Leper House of Mont-aux-Malades, Rouen, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”
Elma Brenner, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and English Heritage, London
“The English Drinking House: An Analysis of Medieval Drinking Spaces”
Samantha Sagui, Fordham University
“Social Bonds within Civic Elites: The Feasts of the Archers and Crossbow Confraternities of Lille, 1382-1500”
Laura Crombie, University of Glasgow
- BREAK –
3.45 – 5.15 pm - ADVENTURES AROUND THE TABLE | Chairs: Alana King (German), Michelle Garceau (History)
“Jehan Froissart's Notion of ‘ostel’: Outline of a Semantic Analysis”
Xavier Fresquet, University of Paris-Sorbonne, and University of Sheffeld
“Oés comme il fierent grans caus!: Tavern Violence in Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth-Century Paris and Picardy”
Hannah Wheeler, Wadham College, University of Oxford
“Dying with a beaker in the hand: Funerary Feasting in the Early Middle Ages”
Vladimir Kaznakov, University of Glasgow
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION to 6 pm - FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION
Sponsored by the departments of Art & Archaeology,
English, French & Italian, German, History,
Music, Spanish & Portuguese;
the Center for the Study of Religion;
the Council of the Humanities;
the Shelby Collum Davis Center;
the Graduate School;
and the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University