Program
The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies took place 3–5 March 2022.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, 3 March 2022
9:00–10:30 am Sessions 1–5
Coffee Break
10:45 am–12:15 pm Sessions 6–10
Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm Sessions 11–15
Coffee Break
3:45–5:15 pm Sessions 16–20
5:30-7:00 pm Conference Reception
Cook Hall Bayfront
Friday, 4 March 2022
9:00–10:30 am Sessions 21–25
Coffee Break
10:45 am–12:30 pm Sessions 26–30
Lunch Session 31 (1:00 pm, Snook)
2:15-3:30 pm Plenary I: Writing the History of Saladin
Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London
4:00-5:30 pm Tours: John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5:00-6:30 pm Ringling Reception
Dwarf Garden, Visitors' Pavilion, Ringling Museum
Saturday, 5 March 2022
9:00–10:30 am Sessions 32–36
Coffee Break
10:45 am–12:00 pm Plenary II: The Habitation of Airy Nothings
Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lunch
2:00–3:30 pm Sessions 37–41
Coffee Break
3:45–5:15 pm Sessions 42–46
5:30–7:00 pm Plenary III: Dante between Dread and Hope
Lorna Goodison, University of Michigan
in conversation with Dennis Looney
Sponsor: The Dante Society of America
7:00–8:00pm Dante Society Reception
Sainer Pavilion Portico
Program
The fish names in parentheses after each session title—Corvina, Grouper, Marlin, Snook, Tarpon—correspond to the five breakout rooms in Sudakoff Center and in our Zoom meeting.
We look forward to seeing you soon, in person or virtually!
1. Relics: Meaning, Narrative, and Social Function (Snook)
Chair: Tanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University Chicago
Linking Charlemagne with Frederick Barbarossa and Beatrice through Images in Aachen
Daphna Bendull, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Girl on Fire: How the Relics of St. Genevieve Manifested Power, Threat, and Identity in Paris
Emily Heimerman, University of New Mexico
Frames Within Frames: Renewing Siena's Arm Relic of Saint John the Baptist
Tim Smith, Birmingham-Southern College
2. Re-Reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Grouper)
Chair: Carla María Thomas, Florida Atlantic University
The (Mis)Reader of the Stars: Abusing the Arcane in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Shannon K. Valenzuela, University of Dallas
Chaucer’s Litel Clergeon in “The Prioress’ Tale”: Establishing an Historicist Frame for Childhood (withdrawn)
Daniel F. Pigg, The University of Tennessee at Martin
Disruptive Empathy in Chaucer’s Fabliaux
Daniel Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic University
3. Working from the Margins: Agency and Dissent in Early Modern Italy (Corvina)
Organizer: Alison Williams Lewin, Saint Joseph's University
Chair: Robin Vose, St Thomas University
Burned But Not Forgotten: Hus Underground in Italy
Alison Williams Lewin
“What’s in a name?” Identifying Clerical Servants and Concubines in Ferrara, 1421
Roisin Cossar, University of Manitoba
Women in the Groves of Academe
Paola Giuli, Saint Joseph's University
4. The Power and Perils of Unsanctioned Healing in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World (Tarpon)
Organizer: Anna Nelson Bennett, Georgia State University
Chair: Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida
The Healer, the Patient, and the Venetian Inquisition: Sick Bodies as Sites of Power in Early Modern Spiritual Healing
Anna Nelson Bennett
Chymical Medicine as Practice: Gershom Bulkeley’s Spiritual Laboratory and Parlor Patients
George Elliott, Brown University
5. New Conversations with the Classical Past in Early Modern Drama (Marlin)
Chair: Nova Myhill, New College of Florida
The Platonic Politics in Hamlet
Erich D. Freiberger, Jacksonville University
Shakespeare's Gonzalo and the Phrygian Pagan Attis Cult Religion in The Tempest
Liam O. Purdon, independent scholar
Imitation and Narcissism in Ben Jonson’s Cynthia’s Revels
Isaac Hui, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
6. Spain and the New World: Identity and Being in the Visual Arts (Snook)
Chair: Katherine Brion, New College of Florida
Why Does Limbo Exist in the New World?
Ana Girard, University of Houston
Jusepe de Ribera’s Otherness: Identity and Representation in Early Modern Iberian and Neapolitan Art
Lisandra Estevez, Winston-Salem State University
The Art of Painting Polychrome Sculpture in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Ilenia Colon Mendoza, University of Central Florida
7. Salvation and Judgment in Middle English Literature (Grouper)
Chair: Cameron Hunt McNabb, Southeastern University
To Dread or Not to Dread: Judgment in The Owl and the Nightingale
Carla María Thomas, Florida Atlantic University
On the Right Path: Reading Pearl as a Transformative Travel Narrative
Mona Abousidou, McGill University
The Possibilities of Post-mortem Marian Mercy in the Later Middle Ages
Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee
8. Law and Legal Documentation in Medieval Italian Society (Corvina)
Chair: Peter Sposato, Indiana University, Kokomo
Presbiter et notarius: The Place of Notaries in the Medieval Commercial Revolution
Elena Shadrina, Harvard University
Who Accused Men of Rape in a Thirteenth-Century Court, and Why? (withdrawn)
Carol Lansing, University of California, Santa Barbara
Inheritance Law in Florence and the Medici, Round Two
Thomas Kuehn, Clemson University
9. Medieval Texts and Their Sources: On the Shoulders of Giants (Tarpon)
Chair: Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London
Free Will and Grace: Method and Model in Anselm’s De concordia
Marcia Colish, Yale University
Critical Thinking: Frutolf of Michelsberg and the Historian's Analytical Craft
T. J. H. McCarthy, New College of Florida
The French William of Tyre and Saint Louis: An Appraisal of Henry Yates Thompson MS 12
Philip Handyside, University of Central Florida
10. The Politics of Kingship in the Jacobean Court (Marlin)
Chair: Tim Turner, University of South Florida, Sarasota–Manatee
Pious Fires in Fletcher’s Bonduca
Kara Rush, Virginia Tech
“Our virtues lie in th’interpretation of the time”: Coriolanus on the Contested Court Stage
Gabriel Lonsberry, Jacksonville State University
Royal Masque, Remarkable Paradox: The Theater of Apollo (BL MS Royal 18 A LXX)
Eliza Fisher Laskowski, William Peace University
11. Image, Matter, and Meaning in Medieval Treasured Objects (Snook)
Organizer: Therese Martin, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
Chair: Sarah Cartwright, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
A Closer Look at Golden Remains on Cross-Cultural Objects in Iberian Ecclesiastical Treasuries
Therese Martin
Judging a Book by Its Cover: A Gendered Approach to Western Medieval Treasure Book Bindings
Marta Redondo de Fuenmayor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Codex as Treasury: Metallic Allusion and Illusion in Manuscript Illumination
Shannon L. Wearing, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
12. Reimagining Female Agency in French Text and Image (Marlin)
Chair: Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida
The Thread Count of Myths: A Material Ecocritical Reading and Genre Exploration of the Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries
Sarah Burt, St Louis University
Feminine Denaturing in the Fourteenth-Century Chanson d’Aventure Lion de Bourges
Ashley Holt, Louisiana State University
Mise-en-page as Non-Diegetic Interplay: The Example of BN MS Fr 2253, Anne de Graville’s Belle Dame Sans Mercy mis en rondeaux
Joan E. McRae, Middle Tennessee State University
13. Sickness, Censorship, and Sumptuous Living: Mendicant Interventions in the Late Medieval Mediterranean (Corvina)
Organizer & Chair: Emily Graham, Oklahoma State University
Una crudele pestilentia: Plague and the Friars in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Italy
Lezlie Knox, Marquette University
Saint Bernardino and the Flesh of the Vain Life
Noah Cole, Florida State University
A Little Censorship Among Friars: The Mendicant (and Related) Targets of Nicholas Eymeric
Robin Vose, St Thomas University
14. Women and Law Courts in the Renaissance: Contested Findings and Future Directions (Tarpon)
Organizer & Chair: Caroline Castiglione, Brown University
The Performative Nature of Law: Generating Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida
Legal Strategies and Politics in the Lawsuits of Noblewomen in Piedmont
Catherine Ferrari, West Virginia University
Vendetta Violence, Inheritance Practices, and Women’s Legal Agency in Early Modern Italy
Amanda G. Madden, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
15. Representing the Other in Early Modern Drama (Grouper)
Chair: Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jewish Corporeal Denigration in English Renaissance Drama
Becky S. Friedman, University of Pennsylvania
Seeing is Believing: Ghosts, Sight, and Fear in Early Modern Theater
Savannah Jensen, University of Georgia
“Bravely this harpy hast thou performed”: Textual Reconstruction of Ariel’s Harpy
Susan Rojas and Rebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf Coast University
16. Baroque Rome: Designing Villas, Collecting Pictures (Snook)
Organizer: Franco Mormando, Boston College
Chair: Debra Murphy, University of North Florida
The Esquiline Villa of Cardinal Nerli
Sarah McPhee, Emory University
Designing Villas with the Roman Vigna: The Hybridic Grand Gardens of Seicento Rome between Local and International
Mirka Beneš, University of Texas at Austin
Bernini's Painting Collection: A Reconstructed Catalogue Raisonné
Franco Mormando, Boston College
17. Teaching Medieval Literature in Translation (Marlin)
Organizer: Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology
Chair: Gale Sigal, Wake Forest University
Courtly Love and the STEM Student: Teaching [the Language of] French Medieval Romances to Techie Students
Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi
Making the Middle Ages Modern: Translation in the Classroom
Julie Human, University of Kentucky
The Gospel of Margery: Editing, Translating, and the Making of a Medieval Woman
Christina M. Carlson, Iona College
Teaching The Romance of the Rose to an English-Speaking Public
Anne-Helene Marie Miller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
18. Negotiating Morality in Medieval & Renaissance Italy (Corvina)
Chair: Elizabeth McCahill, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Usury, Dante, and the Birth of Capitalism: Or, Would Dante Send One to Hell for Making Money?
Alexander Schmid, Louisiana State University
Military Service and Traditional Elite Identity in Late Medieval Florence
Peter Sposato, Indiana University Kokomo
Whether it is Better to Be Loved or Feared: The Statecraft of Borso d’Este in Light of Machiavelli’s Prince
Richard M. Tristano, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
19. The University of Paris and the Wider World (Tarpon)
Chair: T.J.H. McCarthy, New College of Florida
The Use of Law by Mendicant-Theologians at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century: Thinking about the Division of the Faculties
Melodie H. Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University
Conversion, Reform, and Urban Development in Thirteenth-Century Paris
Tanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University, Chicago
The Madness and Beauty of Violent Love: Richard of St Victor’s De quatuor gradibus violentae caritatis
Kenneth John Hoyt, Marquette University
20. “Civilizing” Early Modern Ireland: English History, Policy and Crusade Literature (Grouper)
Organizer: Thomas Herron, East Carolina University
Chair: Joel Davis, Stetson University
Sir Henry Sidney: Chivalric Knight or Natural Born Killer? (withdrawn)
Jean Brink, Huntington Library
Reformed Courtiers: Spenser, Bryskett, and the Dynamics of Civility and Courtesy in Early Modern Ireland
Denna Iammarino, Case Western Reserve University
St George on Irish Crusade: Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book I
Thomas Herron
21. Maternal Connections: Portrayals of Generosity, Mercy, Compassion and Grief Inspired by Medieval and Early Modern European Art and Text (Snook)
Organizer: Elizabeth Alker Lisot-Nelson, University of Texas at Tyler
Chair: Kimberly Dennis, Rollins College
The Virgo Lactans and Christ as a Mother: Suor Plautilla Nelli’s Last Supper
Chrystine L. Keener, Ringling College of Art and Design
Bonaventurian Divine Emanation in Federico Barocci’s Madonna del Popolo (1575-79): Images of Motherly Intercession, Charity and Grace
Elizabeth Alker Lisot-Nelson
Mothers in the Fatherland: The Use of Medieval and Renaissance Maternal Imagery in the Work of Käthe Kollwitz
Kaia Magnusen, University of Texas at Tyler
22. Perspectives on The Globe: Digitizing Text, Imagery, and Maps from Manuscripts of Dati’s La sfera, ca 1425 (Marlin)
Organizer: Carrie Beneš, New College of Florida
Chair: Amanda Madden, George Mason University
Assessing Audience in the Manuscript Tradition of Gregorio Dati’s La sfera
Carrie Beneš
The Digital Transcription of Diagrams in Medieval Manuscripts: Dati’s La sfera as a Case Study
Stephanie Lahey, University of Toronto, & Benjamin Kozlowski, independent scholar
Digital Traveling: Maps in Dati’s La sfera
Caterina Agostini, Princeton University
23. Pushing the Bounds of Respectability in Medieval & Renaissance Italy (Tarpon)
Chair: Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island
Food, Sex, and Sociability in Florentine Taverns
Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto
Half-Pirate, Half-Merchant, Half-Subject? English Seafarers in the Grand Duke's Navy, 1590–1640
Lisa M. Lillie, Maryville University of St. Louis
24. Class Tensions in High and Late Medieval England (Corvina)
Organizer: Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University
Chair: Ben Dodds, Florida State University
The Political Consciousness of the Baronage in the Period of Magna Carta
Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University
Robert de Kelsey: London Politician and Royal Servant
Boyd Breslow
Promotion and Peril in Administrative Service: Northern England, 1300–1500
Peter L. Larson, University of Central Florida
25. Shakespeare & the Conditions of Influence (Grouper)
Organizer: Sara Munson Deats, University of South Florida
Chair: John Wright, independent scholar
Shakespeare and Cultural Influence: Mortality and Death in the Sonnets
Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford
Shaping Othello: Exploring Influence
Ann McCauley Basso, University of South Florida
Shakespeare and the Triangular Influence of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Sara Munson Deats
26. Material Culture: Power, Protection, and Decoration (Snook)
Chair: Malena Carrasco, New College of Florida
Spinning Gender in Medieval Art
Carlee Bradbury, Radford University
Diabolical Devices: The Perception of Gunpowder Weapons in Medieval European Society
Robert Holmes, independent scholar
Accessories to Violence
Jessen Kelly, University of Utah
Early Sixteenth-Century Silver-Stained Glass at The Ringling
Sarah Cartwright, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
27. Sense and Senefiance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy and France (Marlin)
Chair: Laura Morreale, independent scholar
Reflections on Medieval Concepts of Iconography
Peter Scott Brown, University of North Florida
Tristan's Heraldic Device: Intersections of Literature, Decorative Arts and History
Gloria Allaire, University of Kentucky
The Translator's Dilemma: Two Examples in the Franco-Italian Huon d'Auvergne
Shira Schwam-Baird, University of North Florida
28. Performance and the Senses in the Late Middle Ages (Tarpon)
Organizer: Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island
Chair: Melodie Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University
The Soundscape of the Medieval Italian City: Towards a Social History of Sound
Edward Coleman, University College, Dublin
Performing Legitimacy during the Great Western Schism (1378–1417)
Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Performing Piracy in the Middle Ages: Admirals and Pirates
Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota
29. Islam between East and West (Corvina)
Chair: Michael Decker, University of South Florida
Revolting in the Late Medieval Middle East (1200–1500)
Nassima Neggaz, New College of Florida
The Pseudo-Arabic That Wasn't: The Allure and Misfortune of an Arabic Calligraphic Motif in Christian Contexts
Esra Akin-Kivanc, University of South Florida
The Quran in the Defense of the Anglican Church: John Gregory (1607–46)
Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota
30. Beyond Bureaucracy: Notaries as Poets, Storytellers, and Dissidents in Late Medieval Italy (Grouper)
Organizer: Lorenzo Caravaggi, University of East Anglia
Chair: Alison Williams Lewin, Saint Joseph's University
Performing Uncertainty through Literary (Re)Creation: Itinerant Notaries and “Judicial Novellas” in Trecento Italy
Lorenzo Caravaggi
Trustworthy Lovers: Poems and Contracts in the Memoriali Registers of Bologna
Sarina Kuersteiner, University of Haifa
Conflicted Bureaucrats: Notaries of the “Court of Rebels” in Fourteenth-Century Lucca
Eric Nemarich, Harvard University
31. Remembering Phil: A Roundtable Discussion about Charity, Medicine, and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy in Memory of Philip R. Gavitt (Snook)
Organizer: Beth Petitjean, St Louis University
Moderator: George Dameron, St Michael’s College
Beth Petitjean
George Dameron
Thomas Kuehn, Clemson University
Dru Swadener, St Louis University
Konrad Eisenbichler, Victoria College, University of Toronto
32. Artistic Transitions: Visual Considerations and Transformations (Snook)
Sponsor: The Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
Organizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Chair: Chrystine Keener, Ringling College of Art & Design
Interpreting Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna of the Meadow (c. 1505) as Meditation on The Imitation of Christ
Brian D. Steele, Texas Tech University
Revisiting The Holy Family with the Young St. John the Baptist
Debra Murphy, University of North Florida
Giorgio Vasari’s Tomb of Michelangelo: A Spiritual Celebration
Liana De Girolami Cheney
33. Roundtable: Digital Humanities in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean: The #lasferachallenge and Beyond (Marlin)
Organizer & Chair: Carrie Beneš, New College of Florida
La sfera and the Birth of the Transcription Challenge Framework
Laura Morreale, independent scholar
The Globe (The Sphere? The World?): A Communal Translation of La sfera
Monica Keane, independent scholar
Spheres of Influence: Dati's La sfera as Intertext
Laura Ingallinella, Wellesley College
Dati’s La sfera in Context: Florentine and Italian Travel in Textbooks, Manuals, and Memoirs
Elena Brizio, Georgetown University, Fiesole campus
34. Confessors and Confession in the Later Middle Ages (Corvina)
Organizer: Stephen Mossman, University of Manchester
Chair: Lezlie Knox, Marquette University
Confessors, Cura monialium, and the Growth of Observant Reform
Kathryne Beebe, University of North Texas
The Complete Confession in the Fourteenth Century: Difficulties, Dangers, and Anxiety
Nicole Archambeau, Colorado State University
Confession, Discernment, and Anticlericalism: Rulman Merswin (1307-82)
Stephen Mossman, University of Manchester
35. The Long Shadow of the Roman Empire (Grouper)
Chair: David Rohrbacher, New College of Florida
Bishops, Barbarians, and Remembering the Past in Late Antiquity
Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Observations on Materia Medica in the Early Medieval Middle East
Michael Decker, University of South Florida
The Last Byzantine Army in Italy: Aspects of the Hohenstaufen-Laskarid Alliance
Jeff Brubaker, Nazareth College
36. Inscribing Religion in Tudor England (Tarpon)
Chair: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida
University of Victoria McPherson Library’s 1610 Actes and Monuments: A Users’ Guide
Kirsten Schuhmacher, University of California, Davis, and Colin J. Keohane, University of Victoria
Reading Into It: Historic Graffiti in English Parish Churches
Crystal Hollis, University of Exeter
Who Grassed the Cardinal? Identifying the Author of the Denunciation of Cardinal Pole
Raymond A. Powell, Tulsa Community College
37. Depicting the Divine in Italian Church Decoration (Snook)
Chair: Franco Mormando, Boston College
Giotto's Reflections
Alexis Wang, Columbia University
2022 Snyder Prize Winner
Franciscans in the Baptistery: The Case of Parma
Ludovico Geymonat, Louisiana State University
Investigating Alterations: The Morosini Altarpiece in San Francesco della Vigna
Jesse Sullivan, Temple University
38. Dante & the Global Middle Ages (Marlin)
Sponsor: The Dante Society of America
Organizers: Beth Coggeshall, Florida State University, and Mary Watt, University of Florida
Chair: Beth Coggeshall
The Taste of Home: Cookbooks and Culinary Culture in Dante’s Works
Danielle Callegari, Dartmouth University
Charting the World with the Commedia: Dante and Geographical Literature
Laura Ingallinella, Wellesley College
A Mediterranean Dante? Reading the Comedy Against the Tide
Andrea Celli, University of Connecticut
39. Virtues and Vices in Insular Literature (Tarpon)
Chair: Daniel Murtaugh, Florida Atlantic University
Cath Maige Tuired: Justice and Kingship in Medieval Ireland
Kate Broderick, independent scholar
Emotions and Vengeance in Ulster Cycle Death Tales
Jennifer Knight, University of South Florida
Glittering Letters & Sinful Illustrations: The Early Medieval Illustrated Psychomachia in England
Stephenie McGucken, University of Tampa
40. Affective Piety: Representation, Reflection, and Performance (Corvina)
Chair: Kathryne Beebe, University of North Texas
When Pain Becomes Love for God: The Self as Non-Object
Roni Naor-Hofri, University of York and Tel Aviv University
Margery Kempe, Clerical Authority, and the Intricacies of Faith
Katherine Crassons, Lehigh University
Seeing through the Isenheim Crucifixion (ca. 1516) (withdrawn)
Jerry Angelo Marino, independent scholar
41. Roundtable: Renaissance Poetry and the Structures of Emotion (Grouper)
Sponsor: International Sidney Society
Organizer: Roger Kuin, York University
Mercy, Pity, and Grace in Sidney’s Fictive Worlds
Joel Davis, Stetson University
From ‘Drab’ to Romance in Elizabethan Poetics
Steven May, Emory University
Suave and Smooth: Sidney and the Cosmopolitan Voice
Robert Stillman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Affective Ethics in Philip Sidney’s ‘Old’ Arcadia
Andrew Strycharski, Florida International University
Jealousy’s Shakespearean Socialization in The Faerie Queene
Bradley Tuggle, University of Alabama
42. Women Imagined in Italian Art (Tarpon)
Chair: Werner Gundersheimer, Folger Shakespeare Library
The Early Female Audience of Donatello’s Judith and Holofernes
Dana Hogan, Duke University
2020 Snyder Prize Winner
Dancing in Stone: Choreographic Imagination in Giambologna’s Rape of a Sabine Woman (withdrawn)
Kate Hallstead, University of Washington
Narrative and Redemption in Diana Scultori’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1575)
Lacy J. Gillette, Florida State University
43. Roundtable: Dante as World Author? (Marlin)
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizers: Beth Coggeshall, Florida State University, and Mary Watt, University of Florida
Chair: Mary Watt
Universal, Historical, Expressive: Three Levels of the Appropriation of Dante’s Oeuvre in Latin America
Jorge Wiesse Rebagliati, Universidad del Pacifico, Lima
Problematizing Dante as World Author
Jacob Blakesley, University of Leeds
Se quel che s'inizia: Canonizing Dante and Ossifying the Commedia
Catherine Adoyo, George Washington University
Empire or Decolonized World? Approaches to a Global Dante
Akash Kumar, Indiana University
44. Renaissance Humanism: Ideology and Application (Snook)
Chair: Lisa Lillie, Maryville University of St Louis
Symbolic Epigraphy and the New Rome: Humanist Capitals on the Tomb of Leonardo Bruni
Noah Dasinger, University of Georgia
History to Serve the State: A Humanist Defense of Venetian Foreign Policy in 1467
Seth A. Parry, Belhaven University
Reformation and the Res publica Christiana: Images of Unity and the Legacy of Leo X
Elizabeth McCahill, University of Massachusetts, Boston
45. Literature and Law in Medieval and Renaissance Spain (Corvina)
Chair: David Arbesú, University of South Florida
Foundations, Translations, and Authority in Alfonso X’s Estoria de España
Bretton Rodriguez, University of Nevada, Reno
The Fury of God: Fernando de Antequera’s Aggressive Strategy against Granada, 1406–10
Sam Claussen, California Lutheran University
Devils, Lawyers, and Gingers: Representing the Other in Francisco de Quevedo’s “La hora de todos”
Matt Michel, University of Florida
46. The Shape of Belief, Then and Now (Grouper)
Chair: Bradley Tuggle, University of Alabama
Fortune and the Anxious Tudor Humanist: An Assessment of Thomas Starkey (withdrawn)
Robert W. Haynes, Texas A&M International University
The “Meditation”: Lock vs. Norton, Round 3
Steven William May, Emory University
Shakespeare, Papal, Temporal Power, Regicide, and Tyrannicide
Arthur Marotti, Wayne State University