Programme 2017
MONDAY 10TH APRIL
9:30-10:00 Arrival and welcome
10:00-12:00 (Session 1) Travel, translation and transformation: From the margins to the Centre of the court
Eneas from Margin to Centre: Exile and Foreignness in the Roman d’Eneas
Chimène Bateman
From the Margins to the Centre: The Depiction of Parent-Child Relations in Erex saga Artuskappa and Erec et Enide
Katherine Olley
Wish You Were Here? Travel and Lifestyle Aspiration in the Burgundian mises en prose
Rebecca Dixon
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 (Session 2) Marginalised figures: power, gender and authority in courtly narratives
Marginalised, replaced, or forgotten? The changing role of Melior in Guillaume de Palerne
Eleanor Hodgson
Guile and Gullibility: Politics of Authority and Submission in the Arthurian persecuted maiden archetypes
Chandrica Barua
Messengers in Late Middle English Literature
Jiazhu Hu
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Business Meeting
17:15-19:00: Round table (in conjunction with SAIMS seminar series)
Presenters: Dr Craig Taylor, Dr Sarah Carpenter, Prof. Bettina Bildhauer.
20:00 Conference Dinner (The Dolls House, 3 Church Square)
TUESDAY 11TH APRIL
9:00-11:00 (Session 3) Peripheries, networks and marginal spaces
Thinking with the Mountain: Courtly Margins and Networks in Le Paradis de la reine Sibylle
Miranda Griffin
The Connected Court: Networking Caerleon in Medieval Welsh and French Texts
Matthew Lampitt
Giant killing, law making and the Anglocentric history of Britain: Tristan as Arthur’s symbolic heir in the romances of Thomas and Gottfried von Strassburg
Adrian Stevens
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 (Session 4) Politics and the space of the court
The geography of the court in France and Occitania: spaces, audiences and the question of crusading propaganda
Linda Paterson
The Court of Sicily at the Margins of Revolt: Bertran de Born and King William II of Sicily
Patricia Gilles
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 (Session 5) The marginal and the manuscript: genre, form and playfulness
Invitations to Jousting: Royal Letter Book EUL MS 183
Philip Bennett
The lewd and the moralistic within Ipomedon: the testimony of BL Cotton MS Vespasian A VII’s margins to medieval censorship and reader’s interest
Marco Prost
15:30-16:30 Special Collections Visit
