Faith and Fantasy

Faith and Fantasy
Preliminary program
Friday, October 19, 2007
9 a.m.
N.B. Time will be allotted for questions and discussion at the end of each session
Welcome
Plenary Session
Paul Vandenbroeck (Antwerp Royal Museum of
High Arts) “Beauty and Madness: Hieronymus
Bosch and His Contemporaries”
10:30
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Visions and Dreams
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The Power of Painting
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Civic Saints
Sean Armstrong (U of Toronto) “How the Fairies left
England”
(Bernice Iarocci (U of Toronto) “Fantastical
Disorder and Spiritual Meaning in SixteenthCentury Italian Painting”
Paola Modesti (U of Venice) “A Builder Patron
for Venice: The Fifteenth-century Rediscovery of
Saint Magnus”
Giancarlo Fiorenza (Georgia Museum of Art)
“Ludovico Mazzolino and the Art of
Disputation”
Joy Kearney (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
“Transgressing the Sacred and Profane: The
Portrayal of Mary Magdalen in Paintings”
Filip Wolański (Wroclaw U, Poland) “The
Intercession of the Saints in Old Polish Sermons in
the First Half of the Seventeenth Century”
LUNCH
The Hebrew Tradition
Grazyna Jurkowlaniec (Warsaw U, Poland)
“The Might of Grace and the Power of Art:
Renaissance Reinterpretations of Christian
Legends about Miraculous Images”
LUNCH
Catholic Images and Devotion
Jeremy Glatstein (J. Paul Getty Museum) “Exodus
and Exile: Messianic Imagery in Early Modern
Jewish Printed Books”
Barbara Haeger (Ohio State U) “Images,
Meditational Prayer, and the Experience of
Divine Presence”
Philippa Sheppard (U Toronto) “Jewish-Christian
Encounters Depicted by Shakespeare and Michael
Radford in The Merchant of Venice”
Sara Powrie (U of Notre Dame) “Interpreting the
Heavens: Medieval Dream Visions and the Opening
of Experimental Horizons”
Damon Lazzara (York U) “Dreaming in the Late
Middle Ages as the Therapeutic Reinformcement of
Religious Ideology”
12:20
2 p.m.
The Rhetoric of Heart and Mind in England
James Nelson Novoa (U of Lisbon, Portugal)
“Blessed Amadeu de Silva’s Apocalypsis nova”
Joost Keizer (Universiteit Leiden, The
Netherlands) “Michelangelo’s Absence”
Alain Ekorong (Depauw U) “Rabelais mystique:
Dérive kabbalistique dans l’oeuvre rabelaisienne”
Ellen Konowitz (SUNY, New Paltz) “Geertgen
tot Sint Jans and the Imagination of Devotion)
3:30
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Donald Beecher (Carleton U) “Spiritual Joy,
Spiritual Suffering in the Poetry of George
Herbert”
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4 p.m.
Divine Poetry
Protestant Images and Devotion
Narrative
Diana Andrasi (U de Montréal) “L’image de la
pensée par les yeux de Béatrice”
Christine Petra Sellin (California Lutheran U)
“Abraham and Sarah Among the
Polygamophiles: Artistic, Theological and
Literary Developments in the 16th- and 17th century Northern Netherlands”
John Geck (U of Toronto) “Lancelot's Bloody
Sark: An Anti-type of the Christ-knight in the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries”
Pina Palma (Southern Connecticut State U) “Faith
and Fantasy, God and Man: Purgatorio XXV and
Inferno XXV”
Yolanda Cristina Viñas del Palacio (U de Salamanca,
Spain) “A la manière divine ou la poésie comme
imitation dans les Théorèmes de Jean de La
Ceppède”
Lidia Radi (U of Richmond) “Rhétorique de la foi:
L’effacement de la parole de David dans les actions
de François 1er”
Saturday, October 20, 2007
9 a.m
Plenary Session
Elizabeth Harvey (U of Toronto) “Samson Agonistes
and Milton’s Sensible Ethics”
Barbara Uppenkamp (Ind. scholar, Hamburg,
Germany) “The Column of Predestination:
Some Remarks on Invention in Protestant
Reformed Theology”
Michelle Lang (U of Nebraska at Kearney)
“Nature, Faith, and Identity in the Work of
Adam Elsheimer”
Joel Konrad (McMaster U) “‘The Book of
Nature’: Science, Method and Inquiry in TudorStuart England”
Lorenzo Bartoli (U Autónoma de Madrid)
“Ciappelletto, Abraham, Melchisedec: The
Decameron and its Fantastic Ambiguity”
Melissa Lapointe (U du Québec à Chicoutimi)
“Enjeux rhétoriques de l’exemplum marial chez
Marguerite de Navarre”
10:30
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Theatre
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Spatial Relations
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Sex and Gender
Louise Frappier (Simon Fraser U) “Théâtre et
guerres de religion: La tragédie en France au XVIe
siècle”
Charles Carman (SUNY Buffalo) “The Reality
and the Rhetoric of Spatial Constructs in
Fifteenth-century Italian Painting”
James S. Saslow (CUNY) “The Paintings of
Sodoma: A ‘Gay Gaze’ in Italian Religious Art”
Alan Corrigan (U of Toronto) “Faith and Emotional
Extremes in Early Modern Tragicomedies”
Christy Anderson (U of Toronto) “Devotional
Practice and Architectural Fantasy in Sixteenthcentury England”
Gianni Cicali (Georgetown U) “Variations on
Legends: Faith and Fantasy on the Stage in
Renaissance Florence”
David Karmon (Newberry Library)
“Transcendent Visions and Archeological
Protection in Early Modern Rome"
Justine Semmens (U of Calgary) “In the Light of
the Virgin and the Shadow of Eve: Inversion of
Sacred Space and Exploration of Imaginative
Power in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Divine
Love and Mere Jeanne de Lestonnac of Les FillesMarie Notre Dame”
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers (Macquarie U.,
Australia) “Strong Offence’s Cross: The Bible and
Frustrated Desire in the Petrarchan Sonnet
Sequence”
12:30
LUNCH
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LUNCH
2 p.m.
Humanism and Reform
Art and Faith in the Dutch Republic:
Rembrandt and his Circle
Devils
3:30
4 p.m.
Wim François (Katholikeke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium) “The Louvain Theologian John Driedo vs.
the German Reformer Martin Luther. And who could
impose their truth …”
Shelley Karen Perlove (U of Michigan,
Dearborn) “Rembrandt and the Jerusalem
Temple”
Luce Marchal Albert (U de Paris IV) “‘Double de
cuer et de langue’: Calvin et les libertins spirituels,
polémique, hétérodoxie et dissimulation”
Stephanie Dickey (Queen’s U) “Rembrandt’s
Mennonite Legacy: Jan Luyken, The Martyrs
Mirror, and Religious Narrative”
Hui-Chu Yu (Southern Taiwan University of
Technology) “A Dialogue between Erasmus’s
Enchiridion militis christiani and Tyndale’s The
Obedience of a Christian Man”
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Orthodoxy and Subversion
Mia Mochizuki (Jesuit School of Theology at
Berkeley) “Rembrandt, Iconoclasm, and the
Religious Imagination”
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Saints and Travellers
Machteld Löwensteyn (Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands) “The Body
Betrayed. The Representation of Demonic
Deception in the Visual Arts of the Northern and
Southern Netherlands during the Early Modern
Period”
Thomasz Wislicz (Polish Academy of Science)
“Talking to the Devil in the Early Modern Popular
Imagination”
Francesca Leoni (Princeton U) “Demonic Imagery
in Early Modern Iran”
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Counter-Reformation
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale U) “Early Modern
Creationisms: Milton, Lucretius and the Problem
with Genesis”
James Fujitani (U California, Santa Barbara)
“Hierarchy and Humility: The Orthodoxy of
Montaigne’s Animal Praise”
Max Vernet (Queen’s U, Kingston) “‘Ces narrés
vains et creux’: Jean-Pierre Camus, évêque et
romancier”
Olga Zorzi Pugliese (U of Toronto) “Machiavelli’s
Imaginative Use of Parody in his Treatment of
Religion”
7:30
Closing dinner
(reservation required)
Joëlle Guidini-Raybaud (CRRS) “L’Immaculée
Conception de sainte Anne, ou le vitrail de
l’Arbre de Jessé de l’ancienne cathédrale d’Apt
(Vaucluse, France), 1501”
Abel Lamauvinière (U de Reims, France)
“Sainte Hélène ou la mise en pratique du culte
d’une sainte à Troyes en Champagne au XIIIe
siècle”
Bouissif Ouasti (U de Tétouan, Morocco)
“Spiritualité et imaginaire chez le globe-trotter
marocain Ibn Mattûta”
Gabrielle Sugar (York U) “Christianity on the
Moon: The Fantastical World of Francis
Godwin”
Alexandra Bamji (Cambridge U) “Flights of
Fantasy and the Venetian Inquisition”
Vincenzo Caputo (U di Napoli) “Gli ‘abusi’ dei
pittori e la ‘norma’ dei trattatisti: Gilio (1562) e
Paleotti (1582)”
Francesco Divenuto (U di Napoli) “La chiesa della
Controrifoma: Regole e deroghe negli scritti di
Carlo Borromeo e di altri autori”
Jens Baumgarten (Federal University of São
Paulo) “From post-Tridentine Italy to Colonial
Brazil: Images and Imagination in the Missions
Politics”