Southern France and the Latin East in the 13th Century:
Crusade, Networks, and Exchanges
Place: Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Presented by:
- France-Stanford center for Disciplinary Studies
- Center for Medieval and Early Studies at Stanford university
- Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévales at University of Poitiers
Co-sponsored by:
- The Europe center
- The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and languages
- The Departement of History
Thursday 19 april
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
9-9:30 – Coffee Reception (Lobby)
9:30/9:45 – Intro : Amalia Kessler, Director of FSCIS (Stanford)
9:45/11:45 – Session 1
Moderator: Katherine Kong, (Independent Scholar)
Troubadour Crusading Networks in Song and Songbooks
- 9:45/10:15 – Steve Nichols (Hopkins): “’De sai or de lai?’ Spiritual Ecology in Troubadour Crusade Literature”
- 10:15/10:45 – Marisa Galvez (Stanford): “’Testimoni, Cavalier e Jocglar’: Raimbaut de Vaqueiras as Crusader-Poet and Songbook Networks”
- 10:45/11:15 – Christopher Davis (Northwestern): “The Empire of Song: Lyric Mobility and Social Hierarchy in the ‘Chansonnier du Roi’”
11:15/11:45 – Discussion
12/1:45pm – Lunch (Board Room): Graduate Workshop
Moderator: Rowan Dorin (Stanford)
- Nicolyna Enriquez (UCLA), “Medieval Connections: An Examination of a Fatimid Rock Crystal Ewer from the Treasury of Saint-Denis, Paris”
- Richard Ibarra (UCLA): “Property Dispute and Crusaders in the Letters of Ivo of Chartres”
- Padraic Rohan (Stanford): “Emperors No More: the Thirteenth-Century Sea Change from Constantinople to the Latin West”
2/3:30 – Session 2
Moderator: Alexander Key (Stanford)
Social Practices and Intercultural Exchanges
- 2/2:30 – Stefan Vander Elst (UC San Diego):“Crusade as a War of Families in the First Quarter of the Thirteenth Century”
- 2:30/3 – Martin Aurell (U Poitiers): “From historiography to myth: mixed marriage in the Holy Land”
3/3:30 – Discussion
Coffee break
4/5:45 – Session 3
Moderator: Francisco Prado-Vilar (Harvard)
Outremer Courts
- 4/4:30 – Nicholas Paul (Fordham): “Cortezia and the Haute cour: Occitan Culture and the Shaping of Aristocratic Space in the Latin East”
- 4:30/5 – Justine Andrews (U New Mexico): “Lusignan Cyprus: Image and Architecture between France and the Levant”
- 5/5:45 – Discussion and Concluding Response (Rowan Dorin)
7 pm – Dinner at Spalti in Palo Alto for Conference Participants
Friday 20 april
8:30/9 – Coffee
9/10:30 – Session 4
Moderator: Fiona Griffiths (Stanford)
Circulation and Borrowings
- 9/9:30 – Nicolas Prouteau (U Poitiers), “Circulation and Borrowings between East and West in the Thirteenth Century : The case of Military Architecture”
- 9:30/10 – Estelle Ingrand-Varenne (U Poitiers): “Holy Land Epigraphy in Comparison with Thirteenth-Century Inscriptions of Southern France”
10/10:30 – Discussion
- 10:30/11:30 – Special Collections visit
11:30/1pm – Lunch
1/3 pm – Session 5
Moderator: Marisa Galvez (Stanford)
Modes of Transmission: Stories and Song
- 1/1:30 – Rachel Golden (U of Tennessee): “Gendered Grief, Disruptive Motion, and Reinvention in French Crusade Song”
- 1:30/2 – Susan Noakes (U of Minnesota—Twin Cities): “Boccaccio’s Cyprus and Multi-Lingual Aspects of Mediterranean Trade Revealed in Song”
- 2/2:30 – Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt): “Storytelling on Crusade: Modeling Textual Transmission using a Video Game Engine”
2:30/3 – Discussion
3/3:30 – coffee break
3:30/5:30 – Session 6
Board room
Moderator: Marie-Pierre Ulloa (Stanford)
Theories of Translatio and Reception
- 3:30/4 – Francisco Prado-Vilar (Harvard): “The Beauty and Pathos of Crusader Bodies: Art, Antiquity, and Eschatology from Bohemond to the Leper King”
- 4/4:30 – Shirin Khanmohamadi (SFCU): “Saracens, Objects, and Translatio in the Crusade Cycle”
- 4:30/5:30 – Discussion with Concluding Response by Jessica Goldberg (UCLA)
5:30/7pm (Lobby) – Closing reception