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The Twentieth Barnard Medieval & Renaissance Conference




“War and Peace in the Middle Ages & Renaissance”

Saturday, December 2, 2006



Barnard College, New York City



For information, registration and to receive a

conference brochure, please contact

Laurie Postlewate, Conference Organizer

lpostlew@barnard.edu, 212-854-2053



See our website for printable brochure and registration form:

http://www.barnard.edu/medren/





Schedule of Events



Registration and Morning Coffee

9:30-10:00 a.m.



Plenary Speakers:

10:00-12:00 noon



Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh

"Jerusalem and Jihad: 1100-1300"



Samuel Edgerton, Williams College

"The Sacredness of Violence: Why Even Artists in the Middle Ages

Supported the Death Penalty"



Lunch 12:30-2:00 p.m.



First Afternoon Sessions

2:00-3:30 p.m.





I. Memory and Narratives of War



Moderator: Achsah Guibbory, Barnard College



Paul Milliman, Cornell University

“Remembering the Gda sk Massacre: Group Identity

Formation on the Baltic Frontier of Christendom”



Irit Kleiman, Boston University

“Philippe de Commynes as Wartime Correspondent:

Authorship, Diplomacy, and the Mémoires”



Rebecca Boone, Lamar University

“Realism, Morality, and Military Defeat:

Thucydides, Guicciardini, and the Nahua Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico”





II. Making Peace



Moderator: Adam J. Kosto, Columbia University



Tom Head, Hunter College, City University of New York

“Reconsidering the Evidence for the Peace of God, ca. 970-1036”



Jehangir Y. Malegam, Stanford University

“Conversion of Peace in Medieval Flanders”



Erica Jo Gilles, Princeton University

“Making War and Peace through Marriage: Frankish

Greece in the Thirteenth Century”





III. Economy and War



Moderator: Joel Kaye, Barnard College



William Caferro, Vanderbilt University

“Travel, Economy and Identity in

Fourteenth-Century Italy: An Alternate

Interpretation of the ‘Mercenary System’ ”



Alizah Holstein, Boston College

"Cives romanus sum: Testimonials of Tuscan merchants in Rome during the

War of the Eight Saints”



Brendan Cassidy, University of St. Andrews

“Visualizing War and Peace in the Italian City ca.1250-1400”





IV. Remembering the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre



Moderator: Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College



François Rigolot, Princeton University

“An Emblematic Case of Allegorical Indirectness:

Montaigne’s Silent Representation of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre”



Kathleen Long, Cornell University

“The Spectacle of Religious Violence in Les

Tragiques of Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné”



Jan Miernowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“The Poetics of Massacre in Early Modern French Literature”









Break



3:30-4:00 p.m.



Second Session Afternoon Sessions

4:00-5:30 p.m.





V. Military History and Technology



Moderator: Paul Gans, New York University



Kelly DeVries, Loyola College

“What Prompted Change in Late Medieval Military Technology?”



David R. Lawrence, University of Toronto

“Siege Mentalities: Siege Maps and

Representations of Siegecraft in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England”



Ryan Pederson, Binghamton University

“The Lance in Late Renaissance France”





VI. Women and War



Moderator: Phillip Usher, Barnard College



Valerie Eads, School of Visual Arts

“Means, Motive, Opportunity: Medieval Women and the Recourse to Arms”



Colleen Slater, Cornell University

“Women’s Non-Combatant Participation in Warfare in the Anglo-Norman World”



Katrin E. Sjursen, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Peaceweavers’ Sisters: French Noblewomen Commanders during the

Hundred Years War”



Marlene Clark, The City College Center for Worker

Education, City University of New York

“The Woman Warrior: Shakespeare’s Margaret of Anjou”





VII. Soldiers



Moderator: Michael Agnew, Columbia University



Alan Cooper, Colgate University

“Trauma and the Crusades”



Enrique García Santo-Tomás, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“Disenfranchised: Soldiers Returning Home in Early Modern Spanish Literature”



Sarah Covington, Queens College, City University of New York

“The Wounds of War: Soldiers and their Scars in the English Civil War”



VIII. Representations of War, Peace, and Diplomacy



Moderator: Peter Platt, Barnard College



Mary Tiffany Ferer, West Virginia University

“Charles V and Musical Celebrations of War and Peace in the Sixteenth Century”



Barbara Simerka, Queens College, City University of New York

“Popular Uprisings and Civil Warfare in Early Modern Drama”



Lisa N. Leverett, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

“Velázquez’s Las Hilanderas: Art and Diplomacy”



Reception

5:30-7:30