The following papers at the 36th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, The
Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 3-6 May 2001,
may be of interest:
Session 88: The Home as Ritual Space in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
(Jacqueline Marie Musacchio)
Lynn Laufenburg: Policing the Mating Game: The Regulation of Objects in
Florentine Marriage Rituals, 1350-1450
Caroline P. Murphy: Decor, Decorum and the Ritual of Sociability in the
Palaces of Renaissance Bologna
Marta Ajmar: Open House? Objects, Gender, and Domesticity in Renaissance Italy
Session 148: The Art of Display in Ritual Space: Holy Images, Reliquaries,
Liturgical Vessels, and Books in the High Middle Ages and Renaissance
(Thomas Dale & Maria Saffiotti Dale)
(No further details available in the printed programme)
Session 363: Religion and the Medieval Italian Commune (F. Thomas Luongo &
Carol Lansing)
George Dameron: Becoming Invisible: The Study of Economic History and the
Medieval Italian Church
Session 582: Medieval & Renaissance Venice (Thomas F. Madden & Alan M Stahl)
Diana Wright: "Habitent et hambulent": freeing slaves in Fourteenth-Century
Crete
Of course, given the scale of the Congress, I may well have missed
something. A full programme, and details of how to book, are available
online at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress If you do find something
else which you think would be of interest to members of this list, then
please feel free to e-mail the details to the list.
Best wishes,
Rupert
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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544 Fax +44 (0)1273 678644
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