italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
'URBAN WITNESS: THE LANGUAGES OF THE MEDIEVAL ITALIAN COMMUNE'
The Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol in conjunction with
the World University Network (WUN) 'Multilingualism' project announces the
forthcoming plenary conference at 'The Institute of Germanic and Romance
Studies', University of London, 7-8 July 2006.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars whose work engages
with the urban communes of late medieval Italy but whose disciplinary
orientation means they often work in isolation from each other. By inviting
a cross-section of scholars studying medieval lyric, legal history and
jurisprudence, communal rhetorical and dictaminal commentary, sermon
studies, medieval Italian linguistics, early communal political thought and
chronicle writing, the aim of the two day plenary event is to investigate
the manner in which shared concerns permeated these different literary
registers and found simultaneous expression in the writings of individuals
who wrote in more than one discourse: lawyers who were also poets, poets
who were also preachers, rhetoricians who were also political thinkers and
diarists, and so on. All these literary forms were produced within the
urban centres of late medieval Italy between 1200-1400 in reaction to, and
as readings of, the urban experience in its multiple guises. By juxtaposing
the loci and styles of communal literary production the hope is to examine
the literary and spatial commonplaces shared by these various forms of
urban narrative and reflect upon what their witness to civic communion
revealed about the tensions and benefits of social aggregation within
self-determining urban communities.
Keynote Speakers:
Carol Lansing (UC Santa Barbara), The Politics of Grief in Communal
Context: Language, Gesture, and Emotion
Francesco Bruni (Venice), Lingua e linguaggi delle fazioni nei Comuni della
Toscana: tra lirica e storiografia
Plenary Speakers include:
Nigel Vincent (Manchester), Language in and between medieval Italian cities
Robert Black (Leeds), Multilingualism in Medieval Italian Schools
Nicola de Blasi (Naples), Variazione linguistica a Napoli: ruolo di
capitale e identità problematica
Alison Cornish (Michigan), Authors, Translators, Readers: the Mobile
Tradition of 'Volgarizzamenti'
Claudio Giunta (Trento), Everyday Language in Dante's Poetry
Joseph Canning (Bangor), Juristic Language and the Fourteenth-century
Commune
Catherine Keen (UCL), Addressing the City: Urban Inclusion / Exclusion in
Medieval Italian Exile Lyrics
Stephen J. Milner (Bristol), The Speech of Parts: Faction and Rhetoric in
the Italian Medieval Commune
Claire Honess (Leeds), 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Snake in the Grass': The
Language(s) of Civic Invective in Dante
Magnus Ryan (Warburg Institute, London), The Feudal Law: An Urban Italian
Invention?
Lawrin Armstrong (Toronto), The Politics of Language in Early Renaissance
Florence
Edward Coleman (Dublin), Clerical campanilismo: The Chronicle of Bishop
Sicard of Cremona
Rapporteur: Alberto Varvaro (Naples)
To register follow the designated link at:
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/reg_commune.htm
Further details concerning the conference are also available at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/italian/news/2005/urban.html
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Dr. Stephen J. Milner,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Italian,
University of Bristol,
19 Woodland Rd.,
Bristol, BS8 1TE
UK
Tel: 0117-928-7589 (direct line)
Fax/Office: 0117-928-8143
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