Exploring the Renaissance:
An International Conference
Kansas City, MO 6-8 March 2008
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THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
REGISTRATION: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
SESSION I: 1:30 – 3:15 p.m.
1. Early Modern English Poetry and Prose
Chair: Greg Bentley (Mississippi State University)
Josh Thompson (Mississippi State University): “ ‘Poet, here’s a work beseeming thee’: The Narrator’s Perceptions of Love and Poetry in Christopher Marlowe’s Ovid’s Elegies”
Kimball Smith (Kansas State University): “Losing Control of the Language: A Struggle for Disorder in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”
Brent Newsom (Texas Tech University): “King Arthur in Michael Drayton’s Poly-Olbion”
Margaret Oakes (Furman University): “The Rhetoric of Place in War and Commonwealth Literature”
2. Art-Critical Art
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Welcoming Remarks and Chair: Jill Carrington (Stephen F. Austin State University)
Elizabeth Gilly (Independent Scholar): “Raphael’s Unione and the Influence of Leonardo”
Kimberly Ivancovich (Pennsylvania State University): “Titian’s Caricature of the Laocoön: The Multiplicity of Play”
3. Shakespearean Tragedy: Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra
Chair: Martha Oberle (Frederick Commuity College)
Landis Duffett (Missouri State University): “In the Battle for Hamlet’s Soul, Everyone is a Loser: The Futility of Doctrinal Attributions in Recent Theological Debate over Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
Ashley Combest (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): “Retelling Through Revenge: Origin, Reproduction, and the Transmission of History in Hamlet”
Abigail Scherer (Nicholls State University): “Celebrating Idleness: A Reading of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra”
Louis Charles Stagg (University of Memphis, emeritus): “Joy of the Worm Travel: Offices In Egypt and Eden”
4. Progress Entertainments for Elizabeth I
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Organizer: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University) and Carole Levin (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Chair: Michael Hewitt (University of Nebraska at Kearney)
Steven May (Georgetown College), Master of the Revels: Opening Remarks
Elizabeth Martin (University of Maryland at College Park): “Sidney’s Sovereign Ladies of May”
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “Genre and Courtly Critique in Mary Sidney’s Entertainment for the Queen”
Rachel Kapelle (Brandeis University): “Predicting Elizabeth: Prophecy on Progress”
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
THE WILLIAM B. HUNTER LECTURE
4:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks: Maurice Hunt, Baylor University
Introduction of Speaker: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Speaker: William B. Wallace, Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, Washington University, St. Louis
“The Greatest Ass in the World: Michelangelo as Writer”
RECEPTION: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
DINNER (on one’s own): 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING AND DINNER: 7:00
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008
REGISTRATION: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SESSION II: 8:15 – 10:15 a.m.
5. Donne
Chair: Benjamin Myers (Oklahoma Baptist University)
Jacqueline Whipple Walker (University of Florida): “Exemplum in John Donne’s Sermons: Education by the Living Voice, the Word in Flesh, and Speaking Texts”
Joyce L. S. Beck (Texas Christian University): “Mystic Discourses of Hagia Sophia: Donne’s Verse Epistles as Wisdom Literature”
Sara Morrison (William Jewell College): “If th' unborn/Must learn, by my being cut up, and torn:/Kill, and dissect me, Love’: Donne’s Active Relics and Static Icons”
Christopher Baker (Armstrong Atlantic State University): “Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV and Jeremiah”
6. Rethinking The Garden
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Timothy Raylor (Carleton College)
Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University): “Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Garden’: Seedbed of Art”
George Klawitter (St. Edward’s University): “Andrew Marvell’s ‘The Garden’: Tone and Meaning”
Sean McDowell (Seattle University): “The ‘Verged Shade' Versus the ‘Expense of Mind' in Marvell’s Garden”
Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University): “Marvell’s Two Gardens: Re-Writing the Roman Hortus”
7. Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare and Langbaine
Chair: Maurice Hunt (Baylor University)
Daryl W. Palmer (Regis University) and Fred Terry (Independent Scholar): “Renaissance Drama and the Problem of Data: A Reconsideration of Gerard Langbaine’s New Cataloque of English Plays”
Zsolt Mohi (University of Kansas): “Perception in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Raychel Reiff (University of Wisconsin-Superior): “Pens and Swords: A Study of Two Shakespearean Plays”
Clifford Ronan (Texas State University): “Shakespeare’s Apogee in Mid-Career”
8. Women Fictional and Real
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Brian Steele (Texas Tech University)
Brian Steele (Texas Tech University): “The Tears of the Magdalen: Titian’s Saintly Sinner in the Pitti Museum”
Michelle Moseley-Christian (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University): “Naked Woman Seated on a Mound: Rembrandt’s Revision of a Northern Renaissance Topos”
Linda Gottlieb (Independent Scholar): “Flemish Women and the State of the Art; How the Female Touch Molded the Brueghel Legacy”
9. Elizabeth I and Foreign Powers
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Thomas Herron (East Carolina University)
B. R. Siegfried (Brigham Young University): “The ‘Song on Queen Elizabeth’: Coins, Clocks, and the Stuff of Political Satire in Dublin, 1560”
Nathan Martin (University of Nebraska, Lincoln): “The Visitation of Princess Cecilia of Sweden to England, 1565-6”
Nathan Probasco (The University of Nebraska-Lincoln): “Disgust, Lamentation and Reconciliation: Queen Elizabeth’s Mixed Reaction to the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre”
Anna Riehl (Auburn University): “The Tsar and the Queen: ‘You speak a language that I understand not’ ”
10. Devotion in Music
Chair: Arlen Nydam (University of Texas at Austin)
Timothy McKinney (Baylor University): “Sacred and Secular in Zarlino’s Setting of I' vo piangendo”
Katherine Powers (California State University, Fullerton): “Florentine Lauda and Contemplazione”
BREAK: 10:15 –10:30 a.m.
SESSION III: 10:30 – 12 Noon
11. Religion and Politics in France
Chair: Megan Conway (Louisiana State University - Shreveport)
Justine Semmens (University of Calgary (Dept. of Religious Studies)): “La Ligue infernalle: Urban space, gender, and propaganda in the French Wars of Religion ”
Christie Wilson (St. Edward’s University): “Escaping ‘that Brutish Babylon’: Conversion among Huguenots in Seventeenth Century France”
Mitylenm Myhr (St. Edward’s University): “The Abbesses and the Archbishop: Two Models of Religious Leadership in Counter-Reformation Bordeaux, France”
12. Marvell and the Country
Sponsored by: The Andrew Marvell Society
Chair: Sean McDowell (Seattle University)
Vitaliy Eyber (University of California, Berkeley): “Marvell’s Monument to Wit: How to Read ‘Upon Appleton House’ ”
Huey-ling Lee (National Chi Nan University, Department of Foreign Languages & Literature): “Getting Lost in the Wood: The Pursuit of Privacy in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House' and Aemilia Lanyer’s ‘The Description of Cookham’ ”
Nicholas von Maltzahn (University of Ottawa): “Provincializing Marvell”
13. Artistic Tradition in Florence and Lombardy
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Yael Even (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Yael Even (University of Missouri-St. Louis): “In the Eye of the Florentine Beholder (Part II)”
Ellen Longsworth (Merrimack College): “The Baltimore ‘Saint John, Virgin, and Mary Magdalene’: Probable Relationships of Style and Content ”
Liana Cheney (UMASS Lowell): “Giorgio Vasari’s ‘Madonna of the Rosary’ ”
14. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Chair: Louis Charles Stagg (University of Memphis, emeritus)
Sarah Lockhart (Independent Scholar): “The Hypocrisy of Christians in The Merchant of Venice”
Bethany Getz (Baylor University): “Touches of sweet harmony’: Music and Social Harmony in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice”
Jonathan P. Lamb (The University of Texas at Austin): “The Merchant of Venice and Francis Bacon’s New Science”
15. Elizabeth and Religion
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Catherine Howey (Eastern Kentucky University)
Helen Qiu (Harvard University): “Coronation as Ordination: The Crown of Supreme Governor of the Church of England for Elizabeth I”
Jill Raitt (University of Missouri, Columbia): “How Catholic Was Queen Elizabeth I?”
Linda Shenk (Iowa State University): “Elizabeth I’s Pauline Wisdom and John Lyly’s Endymion”
16. Milton I
Chair: Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University)
William C. Ferleman (Oklahoma State University): “Seduction Through Simulation: Milton’s Excoriation of Effeminate Popery”
David Cormier (Saint Louis University): “The Rhetoric of “the Reader” and “the Self” in John Milton’s ‘An Apology Against a Pamphlet.’ ”
Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University-San Marcos): “Literary Theory for Changing Times: Milton’s Art of Logic”
LUNCH: 12 noon – 1:30 p.m. (on one’s own)
SESSION IV: 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
17. Middleton, Webster and Ford
Chair: Nancy Bunker (Macon State College)
Geraldo Sousa (University of Kansas): “The Changeling and Representation of Place”
Eric De Barros (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): “ ‘Yet are they but our schools of lunatics’: Madness, Education, and Bodily Discretion in The Changeling”
Greg Bentley (Mississippi State Univeristy): “ ‘What fury rais'd thee up?’: Justice, Gender, and the Ideology of Revenge in John Webster’s The White Devil”
Susan Kendrick (Emporia State University): “. . . in like causes are effects alike: Incest, Justice, and Gender in Ford’s 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore”
18. Assertions of Catholicism
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Allison Palmer (University of Oklahoma)
Doot Bokelman (Nazareth College): “Franciscan Virtues and Islamic Vices in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Martyrdom”
Marlene Kerrigan (Portland State University): “Religious iconography and comments on art in Bruegel’s prints”
Allison Palmer (University of Oklahoma): “The Last Supper: A Meal of Bread, Fish, Lamb, and Guinea Pig”
19. Shakespeare
Chair: Jonathan P. Lamb (The University of Texas at Austin)
Melissa Azar (The University of Texas at El Paso): “Ethics and Femininity: Emmanuel Levinas, William Shakespeare, and the Other”
Michael L. Hays (Independent Scholar): “Is Renaissance Shakespeare Modern or Medieval?”
Mark Jones (Trinity Christian College): “Green indeed is the colour of lovers’: Love and Landscape in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost”
William O. Scott (University of Kansas): “Bargains Broken and Kept in 1 Henry IV: Politics and Personal Commitment”
20. Elizabeth I and the Uses of Dead Queens
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Shannon Meyer (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Tim Moylan (Saint Louis University): “Norwich, Elizabeth and the Rhetoric of Welcome”
Nancy Hayes (St. Ambrose University): “The Relative Rhetorical Power of Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part Three and Richard III”
Grant Moss (Utah Valley State College): “ ‘Who are you, and what have you done with the Queen?' Elizabeth Through the Lens of Shekhar Kapur”
21. English Books and Sermons
Chair: Joan Faust (Southeastern Louisiana University)
Martha Oberle (Frederick Commuity College): “Books of three Colonies—Continued”
Jacob Tootalian (Texas A&M University): “Friar Bacon’s Books: The Scientific Agency of a Renaissance Romance Magus”
Lisa Schuelke (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): “Meg Goodwin Dances: Aging and Otherness in Stuart England”
Kirilka Stavreva (Cornell College): “ ‘The Tongue Is a Fire’: Contentious Speech and the Problem of Gender in Early Modern Sermons”
22. Spenser
Chair: Evan Getz (Baylor University)
Denna Iammarino (Marquette University): “Spenser’s Poetic Evolution: Interpreting the World of Colin Clout”
Benjamin Myers (Oklahoma Baptist University): “Courtesy, Colony, and the Pattern of Holiness in Book 6 of the Faerie Queene”
Gary Bouchard (Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire): “Known To Him At Last’: A Reconsideration of Serena’s Silent Surrender in Book VI of Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
AFTERNOON BREAK: 3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
SECOND PLENARY SESSION: 3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
THE LOUIS MARTZ LECTURE
Sponsored by The Society for Renaissance Art History
Introduction of speaker: Jill Carrington, Stephen F. Austin State University
Speaker: Sarah Blake McHam, Professor of Art History, Rutgers University
“Inscriptions in Renaissance Art: Pliny Creates Cultural Capital”
DINNER: 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. (on one’s own)
MUSEUM TOUR: 7:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Renaissance galleries of the Nelson-Atkins Museum
Tour will be guided by Ian Kennedy, Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Curator of European Painting and Sculpture. The Museum is open until 9:00 p.m. Arrive by 7:20 at the Lobby of the new Bloch Building. Mr. Kennedy will meet us there. Admission is free, except to special exhibitions.
Special Session: 9:00 – 10:30 p.m.
The Queen's Revels and Queen's Attic Auction
Sponsored by the Queen Elizabeth I Society
Poetry about Queen Elizabeth I, featuring work by Amber Harris Leichner, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, followed by limericks, japes, jingles, and barbs by members of the Society and by our traditional auction—as mirthful as it is astounding.
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2008
REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 12:00 p.m.
Continental Breakfast: 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
South Central Renaissance Conference
BUSINESS MEETINGS: 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Queen Elizabeth I Society
Society for Renaissance Art History
The Andrew Marvell Society
SESSION V: 9:00 – 10: 30 a.m.
23. Warrior Heroes in England, Wales and Spain
Chair: John Ford (Delta State University)
Mark Reuter (University of Nebraska at Lincoln): “Robin Hood: Sixteenth Century Ideas of Masculinity”
Julia Logan-Bourbois (Autry National Center): “Creating A Spotless Reputation: The chivalric hero as artistic and military ideal”
Steven Matthews and Bryn Johnson (The University of Minnesota, Duluth): “The Transformation of St. David: Forging the Myth of the Welsh Nation.”
24. Reflections on Rulership
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Carlton Hughes (Univ. of South Carolina)
Carlton Hughes (Univ. of South Carolina): “A Serpent in the Garden: Leonardo’s Stage Set for the Festa del Paradiso”
JoAnna Walton (Southern Methodist University): “Philip IV: Spain’s Rey de Planeta”
25. Celebrating Women in Early Modern English Writing
Chair: Margaret Oakes (Furman University)
Evan Getz (Baylor University): “Lucy Hutchinson and Margaret Cavendish: Poetics of the Sublime and the Beautiful”
Wendi Wilkerson (University of Louisiana, Lafayette): “Lady Mary Wroth and the Tradition of Female Authorship”
Michele Osherow (University of Maryland, Baltimore County): “And she saw that he was good: Early Modern Reckonings of the Women of Exodus”
26. First Keynote Session on Elizabeth I
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Donald Stump (Saint Louis University)
Charles Beem (University of North Carolina at Pembroke): “The Pastimes of George Ferrers: Reconstructing the Life and Career of a Tudor Renaissance Gentleman”
Mary Ellen Lamb (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale): “Moonlit Queens in Jonson’s Oberon, The Fairy Prince and the Perils of Nostalgia for Queen Elizabeth”
27. Sidney and Shirley
Chair: Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (Texas State University-San Marcos)
Brian Harries (University of Kansas): “The Problematic Permeability of Poetry and History in Sidney’s Defence”
Arlen Nydam (University of Texas at Austin): “Externalized Piety in Sidney’s Old Arcadia”
David Bergeron (University of Kansas): “A Murdered Playwright, a Presumptuous Actor, and The Martyred Soldier ”
28. Milton II: Paradise Lost
Chair: Christopher Baker (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
Erin Breaux (Louisiana State University): “Lovers and Liars in Eden: The Influence of Song of Songs on Paradise Lost”
Jesse Russell (Louisiana State University): “The Satanic Epic Revisited”
Phillip J. Donnelly (Baylor University): “The Unity of Book 7 in the 1667 Paradise Lost”
BREAK: 10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
SESSION VI: 10:45 – 12:15 p.m.
29. Interfaces of Art and Literature
Chair: Susan Silver (University of Memphis)
Lillyrose Veneziano Broccia (Columbia University): “The Elements of Gaspara Stampa’s Rime: Water”
Marina Della Putta Johnston (University of Pennsylvania): “Gaspara Stampa’s Poetic Double Portrait”
Megan Conway (Louisiana State University - Shreveport): “Interpretations of the Nastagio tale: Boccaccio, Botticelli and Jeanne Flore”
30. Architecture, Ideals, and Identity
Sponsored by: The Society for Renaissance Art History
Chair: Madeline Rislow (The University of Kansas)
Madeline Rislow (The University of Kansas): “Renaissance Palatial Power: Genoese Soprapporte in Context”
Caroline Hillard (Washington University in St. Louis): “Antique Guises: Monuments and Method in Florentine Historiography”
31. English Shows and Stages
Chair: David Bergeron (University of Kansas)
Kara Northway (Xavier University): “ ‘The players rvnne of[f] the Staige with there Swordes in there handes’: Audience Reactions to Violence in the 1583 Norwich Affray”
Richard Hardin (University of Kansas): “The Pleasures of Amphitruo on the English Stage”
John Ford (Delta State University): “Recounting Our Dreams: Re-imagining Shakespeare in Christine Edzard’s The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream”
32. Second Keynote Session on Elizabeth I
Sponsored by: The Queen Elizabeth I Society
Chair: Carole Levin (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Robert Bucholz (Loyola University, Chicago): “The Stomach of a Queen or Size Matters: Gender, Body Image and the Historical Reputation of Queen Anne”
Panel Discussion: Charles Beem, Mary Ellen Lamb, Robert Bucholz
Closing Remarks: Steven May, Master of the Revels
33. The New English in Ireland
Chair: Anna Riehl (Auburn University)
Maryclaire Moroney (John Carroll University): “John Derricke’s Artegall: Sidney and the New English ‘Image of Ireland’ ”
Thomas Herron (East Carolina University): “The New English ‘Lycidas’: Milton’s Irish Sources and Inspiration”
J. B. Lethbridge (East Carolina University -- Tuebingen University): “Ireland and New English in The Faerie Queene”
34. Of Religion and Angels: Miltonic Restructuring and Influence
Chair: Ann Martinez (University of Kansas)
Kinda Skea (University of Kansas): “Mr. Browne, Meet Mr. Milton”
Ann Martinez (University of Kansas): “Differing but in Degree, of Kind the Same: Anthropomorphism in the Angels of John Milton’s Paradise Lost”
Shelley Stonebrook (University of Kansas): “The Angel Writing from Hell: Miltonic Allusions in Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ ”
CLOSING LUNCHEON
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Presiding: Maurice Hunt, Baylor University
THE KEYNOTE LECTURE
Introduction of speaker: Lester Brothers, University of Central Missouri
Speaker: Dr. William Prizer, Professor of Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Courts and Courtesans: Women and Music in Early Modern Italy”
After the Closing Luncheon:
Optional trip to the Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, MO for those who marked the registration form. A fee will be charged and transportation arranged.
8:00 p.m.Optional Tallis Scholars Iberian Renaissance concert at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for those who marked the registration form. Tickets are $35.