Annual Meeting of the RSA Montreal, Quebec Canada 24-26 March, 2011
Title of panel: The image of good military commander and his education
in the late sixteenth century: political, artistic and literary paths.
We are looking for paper abstracts that address topics regarding the
image of good military commander and, more in general, the iconography
of the military power in Europe during the late Renaissance. We are
planning a panel through an interdisciplinary approach. In the late
sixteenth century the way of conducting the war changed new kinds of
forces, professional soldiers, longer wars and, at the same time, the
image of military power changed. We are carrying out the analysis of the
collections of political precepts and of the Italian epic literature
focusing on both the representation and education of the ideal captain.
We would like to complete our point of view on this theme through a
contribution concerning visual arts.
150-word abstract and a short CV should be sent to Valentina Lepri to
[log in to unmask] by 18 May 2010. Valentina Lepri, scholar of
The Institute for Renaissance Studies of Florence, Italy
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The Renaissance banquet : images and codes
(Renaissance Society of America Montreal Conference 24-26 march 2011)
Organizers :
Diane Bodart (Université de Poitiers)
Valérie Boudier (Paris, EHESS)
Chair :
Allen Grieco (Firenze, Villa I Tatti)
An influential occasion of sociability, the banquet consolidated the
cohesion of the family group, allowed integration of new family members
and aided political and amicable reconciliations. A fulcrum of the
community, the banquet sealed matrimonial alliances, political
coalitions and other important connections. Gathered at the same table,
diners had to become not only eating companions, but also fellow guests.
If eating the same food together was the foundation of community,
conviviality was even more essential in the act of dining. During the
Renaissance, codified behavioural norms were established, particularly
for the table. The reaffirmation of court etiquette, the widespread
diffusion of treatises on conduct and the fashion for establishing a
compendium of table manners participated in this phenomenon. To what
extent were images also involved?
This panel will be dedicated to the study of the banquet and its visual
representations in the Renaissance. It will explore a variety of themes
- political, religious or mythological, symbolic or comic - from the
moment that the arrangement of the banquet made reference to a greater
or lesser extent to contemporary table arrangements. Whatever the
records of banquets considered may be, we will strive to read the table
and its surrounding activities, taking account of iconographic material
and conduct literature : the kind of food eaten or simply presented, the
way the table was set, the rules regarding servants, the presence of
musicians or musical instruments, the gestures of those eating or the
sexual play between diners. In bringing together a vast material and
immaterial corpus of sources for reading the table, dialogue between
disciplines will provide a point of exchange for different, but
complementary, approaches.
Encompassing knowledge of the different constituent elements of the
banquet, the aim of this panel will be to decipher the visual forms of
conviviality, the vocabulary of the banquet and the artistic stakes in
this theme of representation.
Please email an abstract (max. 150 words) and a short CV by May 21, 2010
to:
Diane Bodart ([log in to unmask]) and Valérie Boudier
([log in to unmask]).
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