Binghamton UniversityCenter for Medieval and Renaissance

Studies

Theater and the Visual Arts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Aspects of Representation

October 20-21, 2006

Conference Coordinator: Sandro Sticca

Conference CommitteeSandro Sticca, Coordinator, Romance LanguagesKaren Barzman, Director, CEMERS, Art History

Dora Polachek, Romance LanguagesAlbert Tricomi, English

Dana Stewart, Romance Languages and Woman’s StudiesAndrew Scholtz, Classical and Near Eastern Studies

Mira Kofkin, History

SponsorsProvost’s Inter/Multidisciplinary Symposia

Harpur College Dean’s OfficeBinghamton University Convocations Committee

History DepartmentRomance Languages Department

Art History DepartmentEnglish Department

Comparative Literature DepartmentGerman, Russian, and East Asian Languages Department

Classical and Near Eastern Studies Department

Special thanks to Anna DiStefano

Also of InterestA selection of manuscripts, early printed books, and early modern maps will be on display in the Glenn G. Bartle Library Special Collections area for the Duration of the conference.

A display of scholarly books related to the conference topic and Medieval Studies will be presented in the registration area by The Scholar’s Choice.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006

8:30-9:00 am Registration and CoffeePublic Service Programs Center Lounge

9:00-10:30 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Friday 9:00 amSession 1a: MEDIEVAL FRENCH THEATERPublic Service Programs Center, Room CChair: Edward Shephard (Binghamton University)

Andreea Marculescu (Johns Hopkins University)“Between Church and Stage: Various Uses of the Septenary in Late Medieval France”

Michael Tinkler (Hobart & William Smith Colleges)“Teaching the Theophilus Legend”

Beatrice Kitzinger (Harvard University)“‘La me monstroit’: MS Besançon 579, its Reader, and the Middle French Jour du Jugement.”

Friday 9:00 amSession 1b: SACRI MONTI, SERMONS AND SACRE RAPPRESENTAZIONIPublic Service Programs Center, Room E

Chair: Dana Stewart (Binghamton University)

Lyn A Blanchfield (Le Moyne College)“Between the ‘Written Word’ and the ‘Performed Word’: Roberto Caracciolo’s (OFM) 1448 Perugian Sermon and Sacred Representation”

Stefano Zuffi (Casa Editrice Mondadori, Milano)“I Sacri Monti: azione e visione tra Rinascimento e Controriforma”

Friday 9:00 amSession 1c: MUSIC, THEATER, & COMMEDIA DELL’ ARTE Public Service Programs Center, Room FChair: Richard MacKenney (Binghamton University)

Anne MacNeil (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)“Arianna’s fate”

Paul Schleuse (Binghamton University)“Orazio Vecchi’s L’Amfiparnaso in Print and Performance”

10:30-10:45 am RefreshmentsPublic Service Programs Center Lounge

10:45 am Welcoming remarks:Public Service Programs Center, Room CPeter Mileur, Dean of Harpur College

11:00am-noon PLENARY TALKPublic Service Programs Center,

Room C

Eckehard Simon (Harvard University)

“The Lord Embraces Synagoga. A Unique Moment in Religious Drama (ca. 1300) and the Mary Portal of Strasbourg Cathedral”

12:15-1:15 pm LunchPublic Service Programs Center Dining Room

1:30 -3:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Friday 1:30 pmSession 2a: REVISITING MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE: FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUSPublic Service Programs Center, Room FChair: Kathleen Long (Cornell University)

Jacob Vance (Emory University )“The Soul and The Figurative: Christian Anthropology in Early Modern French Renaissance Literary and Visual Art”

Cynthia Skenazi (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Communication and Visual Representation in Marguerite de Navarre’s Theater”

Dora E. Polachek, (Binghamton University)“Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron: The Farce Within the Novella”

Friday 1:30 pmSession 2b: MEDIEVAL LATIN DRAMAPublic Service Programs Center, Room CChair: Rosmarie Morewedge (Binghamton University)

James H. Forse (Bowling Green State University)“Hroswitha and Ecclesiastical Reform in the Tenth Century”

Robert Brophy (Syracuse University)“Out-Herod Herod: The Raging Tyrant in Drama and Illustration from the Greeks to Hroswitha to the Wakefield Cycle”

Ferruccio Bertini (Università di Genova)“Il punto sulle commedie elegiache”

Friday 1:30 pmSession 2c: SHAKESPEARE ET ALIIPublic Service Programs Center, Room EChair: Helene Scheck (SUNY – Albany)

Joel Benabu (University of Toronto)“Shakespeare’s Macbeth: the Challenge of Reading a Theatrical Opening”

Gregory Dodds (New York City Board of Education)“Let Benvolio Die”

Iclal Vanwesenbeeck (SUNY – Fredonia) “Seneca and Early Modern Roman Plays”

3:00-3:15 pm Refreshments

3:15-4:45 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Friday 3:15 pm

Session 3a: SPECTACLE OF RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN RENAISSANCE FRANCEPublic Service Programs Center, Room EChair: Dora E. Polachek (Binghamton University)

Kelly D. Cook (Cornell University)“Histoires diverses and the Spectacle of Death: the Prints of Perrissin and Tortorel”

Kathleen Long (Cornell University)“Massacre as Spectacle: D’Aubigné’s Debt to Perrissin and Tortorel’s Histoires diverses”

Hervé-Thomas Campangne (University of Maryland, College Park)“Representing the Tragic in Renaissance France”

Friday 3:15 pmSession 3b: BYZANTINE AND MEDIEVAL LATIN THEATERReinhardt Conference Room, Library North Ground, Room 332Chair: Andrew Scholtz (Binghamton University)

Marco Giovini (Università di Genova)“A nugace in castum: l’itinerario salvifico di Callimaco, adulescens innamorato di Rosvita”

Saul Levin (Binghamton University)“The Crucifixion in a Byzantine Cento”

Friday 3:15 pm

Session 3c: CITY OF YORKPublic Service Programs Center, Room CChair: Mira Kofkin (Binghamton University)

James W. Riddle (College of Wooster)“‘Give Me Five Blows and Let Me Go My Way’: The Playing of the Passion and the Execution of Archbishop Scrope”

Brian Gatten (University of Texas at Austin)“Brecht vs. Affective Piety: Epic Theater in the York Crucifixion Plays”

Karen Williams (University at Albany)“Representing Civic Identity Through Visual Performance: Later Medieval York, Its Visual and Performance Arts”

Friday 3:15 pmSession 3d: DREAM VISIONS: THEATER AND MEMORYPublic Service Programs Center, Room FChair: Terry McDonald (Roberson Museum)

Erin Labbie (Bowling Green State University)“Staging Theatrical Vision: Personification in The Dream of the Rood”

Elina Gertsman (Southern Illinois University)“The Loci of Performance: Art, Theater, Memory”

4:45-5:00 pm Refreshments

5:15-6:15 pm PLENARY TALK

Public Service Programs Center, Room C

Véronique Plesch (Colby College)

“Words and Images in Late Medieval Drama and Art”

6:30-7:30 pm Reception sponsored by the Glenn G. Bartle LibrarySpecial Collections

7:30 pm Banquet, Chenango Room

At the conclusion of the banquet Les Enfans Sans Abri

will present :

“Martin de Cambrai: A 15th-century French Farce in

Performance”

Directed by Sharon King (UCLA Center for Medieval

and Renaissance Studies)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21

8:30 – 9:00 am Registration and CoffeePublic Service Programs Center Lounge

9:00-10:30 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Saturday 9:00 amSession 4a: RELIGIOUS CONFLICT: REPRESENTATION OF SELF KNOWLEDGEPublic Service Programs Center, Room EChair: Alvin Vos (Binghamton University)

Patricia Gravatt (Ithaca College)“The Spectacle of Violence in the Old and the New World”

Pamela King (University of Bristol)“Rupturing the Semiotics of Material Transformation: Protestantism and Theater”

Richard Regosin (University of California, Irvine)“Montaigne and the Theater of the Self: Self-representation and Self-exposure in the Essais”

Saturday 9:00 amSession 4b: ARTE E SACRE RAPPRESENTAZIONIReinhardt Conference Room, Library North Ground, Room 332Chair: Angelo De Michele (Centro Studi “Il Melograno” and Union Endicott High School)

Arch. Marco Pellegri (Presidente, Deputazione Storia Patria per le Prov. Parmensi)“Drammatica e sacra rappresentazione a Parma dal 1200 al 1400"Maria Cristina Chiusa, (Associazione Francesco Mazzola, Parma)“Le Sacre rappresentazioni medievali e i dipinti tardo-gotici nell’Emilia quattrocentesca: relazioni e lasciti”

Saturday 9:00 amSession 4c: COURT, PALACE, AND VILLA AS THEATRICAL SPACEPublic Service Programs Center, Room CChair: Andrew Walkling (Binghamton University)

G. B. Bertini (Università di Parma))“The Theater in the Vignola Project for the Palace of Margherita d’Austria in Piacenza”

Consuelo Gómez López (Spanish National Distance University)“The Palace as Theater: the World of the Court and Theatrical Space in the Renaissance”

Mari Yoko Hara (The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)“Domus Regia / Scenae Frons: The Villa Farnesina and the Renaissance of Theater Architecture”

Saturday 9:00 amSession 4d: SAINTS, TYRANTS, POLITICS AND SOCIAL CRITICISMPublic Service Programs Center, Room F

Chair: Teresa Pac (Binghamton University)

Rosemary LaValva (Binghamton University)“Tyrants on Stage”

Brian Cohen (Ithaca College)“Religion, Politics, and Popular Drama in Lucas van Leyden’s Dance of Mary Magdalen”

Laurence Erussard (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)“Late Medieval Old French Farce: A Mirror of Society”

10:30-10:45 am RefreshmentsPublic Service Programs Center Lounge

10:45-11:45 am PLENARY TALK

Public Service Programs Center, Room C

Barbara De Marco (University of California,

Berkeley)“The Franciscan Convento as

Locus of Performance: Theater and Catechesis in Early Colonial Mexico”

12:00-1:00 pm LunchPublic Service Programs Center Dining Room

1:15-2:45 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Saturday 1:15 pmSession 5a: THEATER, ICONOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL TASTESPublic Service Programs Center, Room CChair: Peter Cocozzella (Binghamton University)

Mark Trowbridge (Marymount University)“Dramatized Procession in Flanders, Viewed from the Archives of Aalst”

David Ekserdjian (University of Leicester) “Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Theater”

Ken Fullam, (Blue Ridge Community College)“A Taste for Theater and a Theater of Tastes: Philip the Good’s ‘Feast of the Pheasant’ as Visual Art and Mechanism of Sociogenesis”

Saturday 1:15 pmSession 5b: THEATER OF PROPAGANDA

Public Service Programs Center, Room EChair: Ken Havenstein (Binghamton University)

Elsa Streitman (University of Cambridge)“Horrible Histories: the Story of the Maccabees as Propaganda Material on the Rhetoricians Stage”

Michael Vargas (SUNY – New Paltz)“Public Relations Performances in the Fourteenth-Century Dominican Order”

Giovanna Damiani (Soprintendente, Beni Artistico-Storici e Etnoantropologici di Parma e Piacenza)“Rappresentazione teatrale e propaganda politica: qualche esempio nella produzione artistica a Firenze tra Cinque e Seicento”

Saturday 1:15 pmSession 5c: TUDOR-STUART DRAMAPublic Service Programs Center, Room FChair: Al Tricomi (Binghamton University)

Michael W. Twomey (Ithaca College)“Encyclopedia as Theater in England: The Case of Bartholomaeus Anglicus”

Kristen Deiter (Marywood University)

“Stage vs. State: The Struggle for the Renaissance Tower of London”

Miles Taylor (Le Moyne College)“‘A Martyrdom of Majesty’: The Missing Confession of Perkin Warbeck”

2:45-3:00 pm RefreshmentsPublic Service Programs Center Lounge

3:00-4:30 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Saturday 3:00 pmSession 6a: SPANISH THEATER AND THE ARTSPublic Service Programs Center, Room EChair: Antonio Sobejano-Moran (Binghamton University)

Encarna Montero (University of Valencia)“Theater and Visual Arts in Valencia, 1370-1450: the Construction of a Helpful Mirage”

Lisa N. Leverett (Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design )

“Zarzuela in Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas”

Peter Cocozzella (Binghamton University)“The Auto de Amores and the Multiple Stage for the Spanish Theater of the Early Renaissance”

Saturday 3:00 pmSession 6b: SAINTS AND THEATERPublic Service Programs Center, Room CChair: James Larrabee (Binghamton University)

Kathryn M. Rudy (The Warburg Institute)“A Play Built for a Tertiary: The Passion of St. Barbara”

Martin Walsh (University of Michigan)“A Shared Mantle: The ‘Charity of St. Martin’ Icon as Represented in the Visual Arts and as Staged in Continental St. Martin Dramas”

Allie Terry (Bowling Green State University)“Decapitation at the Gates: The Medici and the Performance of Beheading”

Saturday 3:00 pmSession 6c: Between STAGE AND PAGE: IMAGES, HUMANISM, AND RENAISSANCE DRAMAPublic Service Programs Center, Room FChair: Lisa Loveless (Binghamton University)

David Rodriguez-Solas (The Graduate Center, CUNY)“Staging the Book at the Dawn of Printing Revolution: Terence’s Comedies (Lyon, 1493) and La Celestina (Burgos, 1499)”

Loretta Vandi (Liceo Artistico “A. Serpieri” Rimini)“The Classical Bizarrerie. Filarete’s Contribution to Renaissance Theatrical Scene”

John Mulryan (St. Bonaventure University)“Jonson’s Fascination With the Commonplace: Erasmian Truths in the Epigrams and Sejanus”

4:30-4:45 pm Refreshments

4:45-5:45 pm PLENARY TALK

Public Service Programs Center, Room C

Nerida Newbigin (University of Sydney)

“‘L’occhio si dice ch’è la prima porta’: Seeing with

Words in the Florentine sacra rappresentazione”

6:30-8:30 pm Cocktail Reception Public Service Programs Center Lobby

NOTES