Programme 2015
University of Warwick
Tuesday 14th April
9.00-10.00 Registration and welcome
10.00-12.00 Session 1: Courtliness, shape-shifting, and the merveilleux
1. Amanda Hopkins, ‘Shifting bodies, shifting courts: exploring ideas of the court and courtliness through medieval tales of lycanthropy’
2. Eleanor Hodgson, ‘“Franche beste, com me faites grant cortoisie”: the representation of animal courtliness in Guillaume de Palerne and its intertexts’
3. Victoria Turner, ‘Courtliness and/as marvel: the quick and the dead in the fourteenth-century Bérinus’
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-16.00 Session 2: Courtliness and intertextuality
1. Liam Lewis, ‘Rethinking chivalry through the horse in Philippe de Thaon’s Bestiaire’
2. Sophie Marnette, ‘“Courtly” fabliaux and “uncourtly” lais: what to do with them’
3. Lewis Beer, ‘“Thought is free”: resentful lovers and the limits of courtly speech’
4. Lucas Wood, ‘Courtliness assayed: infidelity, community, and the magical chastity test’
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.30 Business meeting
17.30-19.30 Roundtable
Presenters: Professor Ad Putter, Dr Jane Gilbert, and Professor Emma Dillon.
19.30-20.00 Wine reception
20.00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 15th April
9.00-10.30 Session 3: Reassessing courtliness in later medieval literature
1. Anne Baden-Daintree, ‘Courtly discourse and the expectation of loss’
2. Lawrie Dower, ‘Court Literature in Henryson’s Scotland’
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-13.00 Session 4: Courtliness in translation
1. Penny Simons, ‘Translating uncourtliness? Joufroi de Poitiers and Flamenca’
2. Michelle Bolduc, ‘Translating virtue for the court: Jean Courtecuisse’s livre Senecque des quatre vertus cardinalz (1403)’
3. Adrian Stevens, ‘Between Latin, French, and German: Gottfried von Strassburg on the writing of romance and the creation of courtly vernaculars’
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Session 5: Putting the court back into courtliness: courtly literature and law
1. Helen J. Swift, ‘Stretch and challenge: controlling courtliness through the court’
2. Rosalind Brown-Grant, ‘Lessons in law, lessons in chivalry: the Roman de Gérard de Nevers illuminated by the Wavrin Master and Loyset Liédet’
3. Ruth Harvey, ‘“Troubadours et juristes” revisited’
16.30-17.00 Conclusion
