International Medieval Congress '98, Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of Leeds, 13-16 July 1998, Homepage (including the full program
from which the following extracts were compiled):
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/imi/imc/imc98/imc98.htm
Papers and Session on topics of interest for Italian Studies:
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Session 107 Migration and Integration: Romans and Barbarians
in Early Medieval Europe
Organiser & Moderator: Verena Epp (Univ. Duesseldorf)
Paper: Claudia Zey (Univ. Muenchen), Migration and Integration:
The Lombard Settlement in Early-Medieval Italy
Session 124 Women, Courts and Power, I
Sponsor: IMC Programming Committee
Organiser & Moderator: Leslie Brubaker (Univ. of Birmingham)
Paper: Brigitte Pohl-Resl (Univ. Wien), Beneventanae: Courts,
Cloisters and Codices in the Lombard South
Session 125 The Friars, Natural Philosophy and Heresy
Sponsor: Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds
Organiser: R. James Long (Fairfield Univ., Connecticut)
Moderator: J. Goering (Univ. of Toronto)
Paper: Anne Davenport (Harvard Univ.), In the Shadow of Montse'gur:
Peter Olivi, Friar, Natural Philosopher and 'amic de dieu'
Session 204 The Image of Law and Order
Sponsor: Department of History, Kobenhavns Universitet
Organiser & Moderator: Axel Bolvig (Kobenhavns Univ.)
Paper: Norbert Schnitzler (TU Chemnitz), Judas' Death in Representations
of the Last Judgement [of interest for Giotto's
Last Judgement in the Scrovegni Chapell at Padova, O.L.]
Session 212 Cluny - Traditions of Historiography, II
Organiser: Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola Univ. Chicago)
Moderator: Constance Bouchard (Univ. of Akron, Ohio)
Paper: Giancarlo Andenna (Univ. Cattolica di Milano), La storiagrafia
su Cluny in Italia nel ventesimo secolo
Session 214 Remembering Buildings
Organisers: Albert Michael de Leeuw (Univ. Utrecht) & Deborah
Mauskopf Deliyannis (Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo)
Moderator: Bonnie Effros (Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville)
Paper: John Burnett Mitchell (Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich),
The Memory of Old St. Peter in Rome in the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries
Session 218 Regional Traditions of Chant and Liturgy
Organiser: Susan Boynton (Univ. of Oregon, Eugene)
Moderator: Susan Boynton
Paper: Marica Tacconi (Yale Univ.), The Early Liturgical
Manuscripts of the Cathedral of Florence
Session 219 The Uses of Usury - The Role of Petty Money Lending in
Medieval Lucca (1250-1500)
Organiser: Thomas W. Blomquist (Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb)
Moderator: Duane J. Osheim (Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville)
Paper: Michael E. Bratchel (Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg),
Usury in the Fifteenth-Century Lucchesia: Images of the Petty
Money-Lender
Paper: Christine Meek (Trinity College, Dublin): Proceedings against
Usury in the Court of Bishop Nicolao Guinigi (1394-1435)
Paper: Thomas W. Blomquist, The Uses of Usury in the Countryside:
Petty Money-Lending in Thirteenth-Century Lucchesia
Session 310 Medieval Jewish Women as Viewed by Men
Organiser: Goldin Simha (Tel-Aviv Univ.)
Moderator: Willis Johnson (Univ. of Chicago)
Paper: Howard Tzvi Adelman (Kaye College, Beersheva),
Image as Polemic: The Depiction of Women in Italian Jewish
Literature as a Reaction against Their Social and Religious
Activities
Session 312 Reconstructing the Calabrian Past - The Heritage of Vivarium
Sponsor: Societas Internationalis pro Vivario
Organiser: Luciana Cuppo Csaki (City Univ. of New York)
Moderator: Fabio Troncarelli (Univ. della Tuscia, Viterbo)
Paper: Agnes Bencze (Univ. of Budapest), An Archaeologist's View:
A Late-Antique Sarcophagus and Glass Artefacts from
Scolacium/Squillace
Paper: Luciana Cuppo Csaki, A Work of Petrus Tripolitanus Known
at Vivarium
Paper: Pietro de Leo (Univ. della Calabria, Cosenza), A Manuscript
Vivarium?: The Evidence of Voss. Lat. Q. 9, Respondent:
Fabio Troncarelli (Univ. della Tuscia, Viterbo)
Session 314 The Normans in Italy - New Apporaches to Historiographical
and Social Problems
Sponsor: School of History, University of Leeds
Organiser & Moderator: Graham A. Loud (Univ. of Leeds)
Paper: Enrico Czuozzo (Univ. Federico II, Napoli), Reading Amatus of
Montecassino
Paper: Edoardo D'Angelo (Univ. Federico II, Napoli), For a New Stemma
of the Annales of Lupus Protospatharius
Paper: Joanna H. Drell (Colgate Univ., Hamilton, N.Y.), Knighthood and
Nobility in Norman Southern Italy
Session 407 Shepherds of the Lord - Bishops and Politics, II
Organisers: Elina Screen (Univ. of Cambridge) & Laurent Terrade
(Univ. of Cambridge / Univ. de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Moderator: Huguette Taviani-Carozzi (Univ. de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Paper: Thomas S. Brown (Univ. of Edinburgh), An Ecclesiastical
Lordship on a Political and Ecclesiastical Frontier: The
Archbishops of Ravenna (c. 666-962)
Paper: Thomas Granier (Univ. de Provence, Aix-en-Provence),
Holiness, Legitimacy and Continuity: Bishops and Dukes in
Conflict in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Naples
Session 408 Virtues and Vices - Moral Precepts or Secular Propaganda
Organiser: Carol M. Chattaway (Univ. College, London)
Moderator: David L. d'Avray (ibd.)
Paper: Hilary Siddons (ibd.), The Treatise on Virtues and Vices:
A Mirror of Venetian Citizens
Session 409 Constructing Female Spirituality - Rules and Identities
for Religious Women
Sponsor: Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Organiser & Moderator: Andrew P. Roach (Univ. of Glasgow)
Paper: Lily Mo (Univ. of Glasgow), 'Cloistered' Community: Monastic
Settlement of the Female Religious in Thirteenth-Century Italy
Session 410 Jewish Settlements in Medieval Europe - Archaeology,
Monuments and Material Culture, II
Sponsor: Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Organiser & Moderator: Eva Frojmovic (Univ. of Leeds)
Paper: Alessandra Veronese (Univ. di Pisa), Old and New Jewish
Settlement in Central and North Italy from the Thirteenth to
the Fifteenth Centuries: Archival Sources and Archaeological
Evidence
Session 524 Women - Careers and Weddings, Signs and Clothes in
Italian Communal Society
Sponsor: Department of History, Univ. degli Studi di Perugia
Organiser & Moderator: Maria Grazia Nico (Univ. degli Studi di Perugia)
Paper: Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli (Univ. di Bologna),
Etica e politica delle apparenze: Concessioni, divieti ed
esercizio del potere
Paper: Julius Kirshner (Univ. of Chicago), Dressed for Love in
Late-Medieval Florence
Paper: Maria Grazia Nico & Claudio Regni (Univ. degli Studi di Perugia),
'De vanitate mulierum': Donne, lusso e stile di vita nel tardo
medioevo
Paper: Giovanni Casagrande & Federica Rosi (Univ. degli Studi di Perugia),
Women Who Work and Women Who Are Proprietresses in Documentary
and Statutory Sources
Session 607 Shepherds of the Lord - Bishops and Patronage, IV
Organisers: Elina Screen (Univ. of Cambridge) & and Laurent Terrade
(Univ. of Cambridge / Univ. de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Moderator: Janet L. Nelson (King's College, London)
Paper: Cristina La Rocca & Carlo Tedeschi (Univ. di Padova),
Episcopal Patronage in Ninth-Century Verona
Session 704 Artistic Patronage in Medieval Europe, II
Organiser: Marielle Hageman (Univ. Utrecht)
Moderator: Leslie Brubaker (Univ. of of Birmingham)
Paper: Charlot Smid (Univ. van Amsterdam), Canossa Revisited:
The Incorporation of Countess Matilda (1046-1115) in
Baroque Rome (Language: English)
Session 707 Shepherds of the Lord - Bishops and Hagiography, V
Organisers: Elina Screen (Univ. of Cambridge) & and Laurent Terrade
(Univ. of Cambridge / Univ. de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Moderator: Julia M. H. Smith (Univ. of St. Andrews)
Paper: Clare Pilsworth (Univ. of Cambridge), Ambrose, Saint and Maker
of Saints: The 'Milanese' Martyr Narratives and the Two Versions
of the Vita Ambrosii
Session 708 Tradition and Memory in Byzantine and Lombard
South Italy (c. 774-1081)
Sponsor: Early Medieval Europe Research Group
Organiser & Moderator: Thomas S. Brown (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Paper: Walter Pohl (Univ. Wien), Organising Memory: Montecassino and
the Lombard Princes in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Paper: Patricia E. Skinner (Univ. of Southampton), Memory or Tradition?:
Writing the Saint's Life in the Byzantine South
Paper: Thomas S. Brown, The Invention of Tradition in the Byzantine
Cities of Southern Italy
Session 712 Lay Piety in Context
Sponsor: Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Organiser & Moderator: Andrew P. Roach (Univ. of Glasgow)
Paper: Samuel K. Cohn, The Spirituality of Renaissance Hillbillies:
Piety in the Mountains and the Plains in Renaissance Florence
Session 1006 The Crusade in the Mediterranean - Eastern
and Western Perspectives
Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Crusades and Latin East
Organiser: IMC Programming Committee
Moderator: Alan V. Murray (Univ. of Leeds)
Paper: Dimitu"r Mollow (Sofia Univ.), Martino da Canal - What is 'to
be a Venetian': 'The Venetian Crusade' - Mythology or Historical
Reality?
Session 1008 What Made Lombard Law Work?
Organiser & Moderator: Walter Pohl (Univ. Wien)
Moderator: Walter Pohl
Paper: Walter Pohl, The Code and the Calamus: How Writing Shaped
Lombard Law
Paper: Charles Radding (Michigan State Univ.), Lombard Law in
Eleventh-Century Schools: Commentaries and Manuscripts
Paper: Chris Wickham (Univ. of Birmingham), Lombard Law Outside
the Schools in the Twelfth Century
Session 1021 Metals and Metallurgy in the Middle Ages
Organiser & Moderator: Kelly DeVries (Loyola College, Maryland)
Paper: Alan Williams, Metallurgy of Italian Armour
Session 1103 Personalities of the Pontificate, Innocent III
Sponsor: Institut fuer Oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung,
Universitaet Wien
Organiser: Christoph Egger (Univ. Wien)
Moderator: Brenda M. Bolton (Univ. of London)
Paper: Christoph Egger, Is it Possible to Write a Biography
of Innocent III?
Paper: Simon White (Univ. of Oxford), The Career of Cencius
Camerarius during the Pontificate of Innocent III
Session 1104 Image and Text in Late Medieval and Early
Renaissance Italy
Sponsor: Department of Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin
Organiser & Moderator: Christine Meek (Trinity College)
Paper: Catherine Lawless (Trinity College), Remembering the Text:
Images of St. Anne in Florentine Piety
Paper: Marian McHugh (Trinity College), Rhetoric and the Image:
Savonarola and Fra Bartolommeo Della Porta
Paper: Angela Clarke (Trinity College), Petrarch's Influence on
Deruta Pottery: The Ideal Woman in Poetry and Cinquecento
Italian Maiolica
Session 1124 Chaucer and Christine de Pizan
Sponsor: 1997 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute
on "The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women" / Rice Univ.
Organiser & Moderator: Jane Chance (Rice Univ., Texas)
Paper: Florence Newman (Towson State Univ., Maryland), Love's Labours
Lost: Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Christine de Pizan's Livre du
Duc des Vrais Amants
Paper: Deanna Delmar Evans (Bemidji State University, Minnesota),
Chaucer and Christine de Pizan Retelling Griseldis: Ludic
Subversions of Clerical Misogyny
Session 1125 Studies in Late Medieval Christianity
Organiser & Moderator: James R. Ginther (Univ. of Leeds)
Paper: Timothy Kircher (Guilford College, North Carolina),
From Exemplum to History: The Plague-Accounts of Matteo
Villani and Giovanni Boccaccio
Session 1203 Problems of the Pontificate, Innocent III
Sponsor: Historisches Institut beim Oesterreichischen Kulturinstitut
in Rom
Organiser: Andrea Sommerlechner (Historisches Institut)
Moderator: Frances Andrews (Univ. of St. Andrews)
Paper: Andrea Sommerlechner, Innocent III and the Italian Communes
Paper: Guido Cariboni (Univ. Cattolica di Milano), Innocenzo III
e la crisi della struttura instituzionale dell'ordine
cisterciense all'inizio dell tredicesimo secolo
Session 1205 Iconography and Architecture
Organiser: IMC Programming Committee
Moderator: Ellen M. Shortell (Massachusetts College of Art, Boston)
Paper: Thomas Hensel (Univ. Hamburg), Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel
and the 'Artes Mechanicae' in the Basilica of San Marco in Venice
Session 1208 Humour in the Early Middle Ages - Making a Difference
with Humour
Sponsor: Early Medieval Europe
Organiser & Moderator: Guy Halsall (University of London)
Paper: Ross Balzaretti (Univ. of Nottingham), Humour and Gender
in Liutprand of Cremona
Session 1210 Patronage, Matronage or MAEZENAT/MECENAT?, I:
The Early Middle Ages
Organiser: Felice Lifshitz (Univ. Frankfurt / Florida International
Univ., Miami)
Moderator: Ellen Kittell (Univ. of Idaho, Moscow)
Paper: Valerie Eads (City Univ. New York), 'Never grieve that you
bear arms': Matilda of Tuscany and Just War
Respondent: Ellen Kittell
Session 1220 Peter Damian's Letters in Thirteenth-Century Culture
Organiser & Moderator: Stefano Mula (Univ. di Cagliari)
Paper: Stefano Mula, The Manuscript Tradition of Some Letters
of Peter Damian and Their Utilisation as Exempla
Paper: Marinus M. Woesthuis (Rijksuniv. Groningen), Peter Damian
in the Cistercian Traditon: Helinand of Froidmont and One
Aspect of the Manuscript Tradition of Damian's Letters
Session 1223 Urban Growth and Planning
Organiser: IMC Programming Committee
Moderator: Jozsef Laszlovszky (Central European Univ., Budapest)
Paper: Wim Boerefijn (Rijksuniv. Leiden), The Florentine New
Towns: Medieval Urbanistic Design in Relation to the
Ideal Society
Session 1504 Quantitative Use of Images
Sponsor: Department of History, Kobenhavns Universitet
Organiser & Moderator: Axel Bolvig (Kobenhavns Univ.)
Paper: Tamas Sajo (Central European Univ., Budapest), Imagines
Idearum: Quantative Analyses of the Structure and Sources
of the Images in Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (Rome 1593)
Session 1506 Tristan - Konzeption und Rezeption, II (In memoriam
Peter Stein)
Sponsor: Universitaeten St. Gallen und Salzburg
Organiser: Margarete Springeth (Univ. Salzburg)
Moderator: Cora B. Dietl (German Institute, Helsingin Yliopisto)
Paper: Margarete Springeth, Tristan in Italien (Laura Mancinelli)
Session 1507 From Cassiodorus to Eriugena - Pioneers of Christianity
Early Medieval Regna
Organiser: IMC Programming Committee
Moderator: Nora Berend (Univ. of Cambridge)
Paper: S. J. B. Barnish (Univ. of London), Country and the
Christianisation of Italy in Cassiodorus' Variae
Session 1512 Expressions of Piety - Devotion and Decorations
in Convents and Church
Organiser: IMC Programming Committee
Moderator: Ilse E. Friesen (Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Waterloo, Ontario)
Paper: Cynthia Troup (Monash Univ., Clayton), Francesca Romana at the
Tor' de Specchi: Discourses of Memory and Communal Identity in
a Frescoed Altarpiece (c. 1468)
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