Cambridge conference programme
Conference Programme
Thursday, 10 April
9.00-9.05 Welcome and Introduction
9.05-10.30
Are cultural identities mobile, produced by movement as much as by place?
Adrian Stevens (University College London)
‘Angevin affiliations and the politics of literary appropriation: the Grail and Tristan romances and the court of Otto IV (1198-1218)’
Marjolein Hogenbirk (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
‘Reworking La Mort le Roi Artu; European Perspectives’
Anna Alberni (Universitat de Barcelona)
‘Machaut and the Crown of Aragon (chansonnier VeAg)’
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Plenary lecture
Charmaine Lee (Università di Salerno)
12.30-2.00 Lunch
(by choice) Dining hall or Coffee shop or at venue nearby
2.00-3.30
Do the focus and form of francophone literary texts change as they migrate?
Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University)
‘Magna Graecia and the Matter of Troy’
Victoria Turner (University of Leeds)
‘A Personal touch to the Transnational : Adenet le Roi as Remanieur’
Paola Scarpini (University of Sheffield)
‘Normanitas entre Angleterre et Sicile dans les romans de Hue de Rotelande’
3.30-4.00 Coffee break
4.00-5.30
Is there a transnational francophone literary culture?
How does it vary from place to place?
Anna Maria Babbi (Università di Verona)
‘Pierre de Paris, translator of the Psalter’
Chiara Concina (Università di Verona)
‘Boethius in Cyprus: Pierre de Paris’s translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae’
Alvise Andreose (Università Telematica E-campus)
‘Marco Polo’s Devisement dou monde and Franco-Italian literature’
6.30 Drinks in Saltmarsh Room
7.30 Dinner in Saltmarsh Room
Friday, 11 April
9:00-10.30
What is the cultural freight of non-standard and hybrid forms of French, for writers and readers?
How do non-standard forms of French influence our understanding of what ‘French’ means?
Andrea Beretta (Scuola di dottorato europea in Filologia Romanza. Università di Siena)
‘The cultural background to Venice Marciano V4’
John DuVal (University of Arkansas)
‘The Franco-Italian alternate conclusion to the Chanson de Roland’
11.00-12.30
Plenary lecture
Fabio Zinelli (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
12.30-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30
Does literary French imply a cultural identity and is this necessarily associated with France?
Catherine Léglu (University of Reading)
‘Charlemagne, King of France in Occitania: an apparent paradox’
Patricia Harris Gillies (University of Essex)
‘Staging Francophone Identities: Latin First Crusade Narratives and the Epic Conflict of French and Occitan’
Lourdes Soriano Robles (Universitat de Barcelona)
‘French manuscripts preserved in Spain and Portugal: the case of the Lancelot en prose and Brunetto Latini’s Livres du Trésor and a Genoese scriptorium’
3.30-4.00 Coffee break
4.00-6.00
In what social and cultural milieus were francophone texts composed and disseminated outside ‘France’?
Emma Campbell (University of Warwick)
‘The Changing Forms of Wauchier de Denain’s Histoire des moines d’Egypte’
Victor Jante (Université de Strasbourg)
‘Reading the Chroniques d’Angleterre by Jean de Wavrin outside France : the case of ms. BNF fr. 87’
Tania M. Colwell (Australian National University)
‘The Migration of the Prose Roman de Mélusine: Transmission and Translation in Fifteenth-Century England’
Irène Fabry-Tehranchi (University of Reading)
‘La circulation des imprimés sur vélin d’Antoine Vérard en Angleterre : le cas du Merlin enluminé de la bibliothèque d’Edouard VII (1498)’
Dinner in town
(Restaurant recommendations provided)
Saturday, 12 April
9.00-10.30
Databases and Literary Studies
Francesca Gambino (Università di Padova)
Il Repertorio informatizzato Antica Letteratura Franco-Italiana – RIALFrI/ Old Franco-Italian Literature Informational Catalog) : ‘Medieval Franco-Italian Literary Texts’
David Wrisley (American University of Beirut)
‘Modeling Literary Geographies: A Medium-Data Approach to Medieval French Literary History’
Paul Vetch (King’s College London)
‘The Medieval Francophone Literary Culture outside France database’
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30
Plenary speaker
Regina Psaki (University of Oregon)
12.30-2.00 Lunch break
2.00-3.30
‘The Moving Word : Medieval French manuscripts in Cambridge’.
Tessa Webber (Trinity College, Cambridge)
‘The French Element in the Medieval Manuscripts of Trinity College’
Maria Teresa Rachetta (Università ‘La Sapienza’ di Roma)
‘The Manuscript Tradition of French Prose Historiography (Gg.1.15 and Ii.6.24)’
Natalia Petrovskaia (British School at Rome – Università degli studi Roma Tre)
‘The Lumiere as lais and Code-Switching in Cambridge University Library MS. Gg.1.1’
3.30-4.00 Coffee break
4.00-4.45
Do sites of production and transmission outside ‘France’ influence traditions within ‘France’? What are the implications of all of these questions for literary history?’
Round table discussion
4.45-5.00
Closing remarks
Simon Gaunt (King’s College London)
5.00-6.45
Visit to the exhibition.