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The Early Medieval~Medieval~Renaissance~Reformation~Early Modern Postgraduate Forum
EMREM Postgraduate Forum Annual Symposium 2011
Friday 18 March, University of Birmingham
Programme:
10:00 Registration opens, Seminar Room 16, 52 Pritchatts Road.
11:15 Welcome from Prof. Wendy Scase.
Panel 1: The Marginal
11:30-12:50, Seminar Room 16, 52 Pritchatts Road
Tim Barnwell, University of Leeds
‘Rehabilitating the Vikings in the ninth century: ‘The other’ in Rimbert’s Vita Anskarii’
Daniel Reynolds, University of Birmingham
“Paradise Lost’: Monasticism and pilgrimage in the early Islamic Holy Land, c. 614 - 900 CE’
Catherine Hunt, University of Bristol
‘Balthasar’s gloves and Renaissance conceptions of the Black Magus’
Panel 2: The Misunderstood
14:00-15:20, Westmere House
Cathleen McKague, University of Birmingham
“What is more than a fool, an hermaphrodite’: The androgynous as grotesque in Jonson’s Volpone’
Claire Williams, University of Sheffield
“Yet sure I am we haue earthed the foxe | That stunke while he liv’d & dy’d of the poxe’. The stench of vice: Olfactory prejudice and exclusion of transgressors in an early seventeenth-century manuscript miscellany’
Rich Scott, University of Sheffield
“Trouble, fear and horror to the soul’: Corrupted flesh and monstrous spirits in seventeenth-century Dream Theory’
Panel 3: The Monstrous
15:40-17:00, Westmere House
Diane Heath, University of Kent
‘Portraying the monstrous, marginal and misunderstood: Blurring monstrous boundaries in BL Harley 3244’
Angelica Groom, University of Sussex
‘Bizzarri, meravigliosi e mostruosi animali: Categories of the ‘other’ in the zoological art of the Medici’
Rachel Davies, University of Birmingham
‘A monstrous mermaid in medieval music’
17:00-19:00 Wine Reception, Westmere House.
Refreshments provided
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