2020 Conference Programme
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DAY 1
16th April 2020
9.45 Coffee/Registration
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
10.45—12.30 Session 1: Situating the Court in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Chair: Emma Cayley, University of Leeds
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The court of Scotland in the Roman de la Manekine: constructing otherness
Laura Bailey, University of Cambridge
‘Un chat qui parloit grijois’: nonsense and the world in the Fatrasies d’Arras
Henry Ravenhall, King’s College London
Lyric Insertion, Courtly Discourse, and Knowledge in the Chastelaine de Vergy
Sophie Marnette, University of Oxford
12.30—13.30 Lunch
Senior Combination Room, St Catharine’s College
13.30—15.00 Session 2: The Medieval Welsh Literary Court
Chair: Richard Dance, University of Cambridge
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
Constructing Powys in twelfth-century court poetry: a question of literary agency
Ben Guy, University of Cambridge
‘Gorssed a oed uch law y llys’: Courts and Prehistoric Landscape in Medieval Welsh Literature
Brigid Ehrmantraut, University of Cambridge
Downhill all the way: the depiction of Arthur's court in Culhwch ac Olwen
Paul Russell, University of Cambridge
15.00—15.30 Tea/Coffee
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
15.30—16.30 Session 3: Early Modern Savoy
Chair: Mary Franklin-Brown, University of Cambridge
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559) and a Marriage between Two Courts: Marguerite de France and Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
Sarah Alyn Stacey, Trinity College Dublin
Writing Virtuous Nobility at the Court of Savoy: Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon’s ‘Ode à Madame Marguerite’
Alexandra Corey, Trinity College Dublin
17.00—18.00 Branch Business Meeting
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
19.00—19.30 Reception (co-hosted by the MML French Section and ASNC Department)
McGrath Lobby, St Catharine’s College
19.30 Conference Dinner
DAY 2
17th April 2020
9.30—11.00 Session 4: The Courtly Worlds and Worldly Courts of Lyric
Chair: Ruth Harvey, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
Troubadour Lyric and the ‘Tyranny of Distance’
Matt Lampitt, University of Cambridge
Title TBC
Emily Kate Price, University of Cambridge
Iberia and the Court in Oswald von Wolkenstein’s Songs
Doriane Zerka, Queen Mary, University of London
11.00—11.30 Tea/Coffee
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
11.30—13.00 Session 5: Situating the Court in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Chair: TBC
Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The Matter of Troy in the Angevin Court in Naples and Ricardian England: Boccaccio's Filostrato and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Marilynn R. Desmond, Binghamton University
The Whole World in her Book: The Significance of the sale merveilleuse in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la mutacion de Fortune
Charlotte E. Cooper, University of Oxford
Spaces, lenses and wormholes: representing Saracens in the universe of Le Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies
Michele Buras-Stubbs, University of Liverpool
13.00—14.00 Lunch
Senior Combination Room, St Catharine’s College
14.30 Conference Trip
St John’s College Library, Special Collections
