28th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City: March 29-30, 2008
28th Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City: March 29-30, 2008 |
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Saturday, March 29 8:30 Registration and Coffee, 12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 8:55: Welcome, Maryanne Kowaleski, Director of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University 9:00-10:00 Session 1: Plenary 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Concurrent Sessions 2A. Memory, Controversy, and Apologetics: The Fourth Crusade Memory and the Diversion of the Fourth Crusade Constructing an Honourable Hero for a Controversial Crusade: The Case of Baldwin IX of Flanders Paul the Martyr and Venetian Memories of the Fourth Crusade 2B. Las Navas de Tolosa: Memories of One War Berenguela of Castile and Las Navas de Tolosa: A Woman Interprets a Crusade Estote memor: Remembering Las Navas de Tolosa Our Father has Won a Great Victory: Dispatches from the Battlefield of Las Navas de Tolosa 2C. Romancing the Crusading Past Heroes Banned from History in the ‘Chanson de Jérusalem’ ‘Thenne three londes gunne they wynne/ And crystenyd alle that was therinne, In romaunse as men rede’: Reading ‘Sir Isumbras’ as a Crusades Fantasy. Crusading against the Anglo-Saracens: Richard Holland’s ‘Buke of the Howlat’ (c. 1450) 12:00-1:45 Lunch: a list of local restaurants will be provided 1:45-2:45 Session 3: Plenary Sex, Lies, and Paradise: Civilizational Identity in a Shard of Crusading Memory 3:15-4:45 Concurrent Sessions 4A. Apocalyptic Memories of the Early Crusades The Liber Floridus as a Source for Crusade Memory Remembering the Future: Charlemagne, Last Emperor, and the Response to the First Crusade Reform-Crusade-Apocalypse: Crusading Imagined by Gerhoh of Reichershberg and Joachim of Fiore 4B. The Commemorative Image Romancing the (Very Recent) Past: Reality, Fantasy, and Crusade Manuscripts at the Court of Philip VI of Valois Visual Self-Fashioning and the Seals of the Knights Hospitaller in England Memory, Crusades and Alternating Voussoirs 4:45-5:15 Break 5:15-6:15 Concurrent Sessions 5A. Saladin: Memories of One Leader Saladin in the Sunni and Shi’i Memories Now Starring in the Third Crusade: Depictions of Richard I and Saladin in Films and Television Series 5B. Crusading and the Carolingian Past Legitimizing Godfrey: Charlemagne and the Portrayal of Godfrey de Bouillon after the First Crusade Quantum praedecessors: The Memory of Charlemagne's Crusade in the Twelfth Century 5C. Narrative and Memory: Chronicles of the First Crusade Myths of the First Crusade in Baldric of Dol's amendments of the ‘Gesta Francorum’ Enigmas of the ‘Gesta Francorum’ 6:15-7:30 Reception Sunday, March 30 8:30 Registration and Coffee, 12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein 9:00-10:00 Session 6: Plenary Picturing the First Crusade and Commemorating the Fall of Jerusalem 10:15-11:45 Concurrent Sessions 7A. Women as Subjects and Vessels of Memory Melsinde Progenitrix, She-King and Queen The Servile Mother: Jerusalem as Woman in the Era of the Crusades Suffering at Home to Recall Jerusalem: Gender, Cistercian Convents, and Crusader Families in Thirteenth-Century Champagne 7B. Crusade, Community, and Identity Constructing Memories of Martyrdom: Portrayals of Martyrdom in the Hebrew Narratives of the First and Second Crusade Contentious Memories of the Prussian Crusade in the Fourteenth-Century Kingdom of Poland and Teutonic Ordensstaat Stranger than Fiction: Literature and the Crusading Mentality in Medieval Wales 11:45-12:15 Break 12:15-1:15 Concurrent Sessions 8A. Memories of Sacred Lands: Crusade, Pilgrimage and Landscape Jerusalem, the Franciscans, and the Memory of the Crusades Cities of Memory: Ibn Battuta in the Holy Land and Constantinople 8B. Crusade Memory and the Authorial Image Remembering the Crusades, Remembering the Self Sebastian Tinódi's Songs of the Turkish Wars in Hungary 1:15-2:45 Lunch: Plaza Atrium, 4th Floor, Lowenstein
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