Information provided by the British Branch of the International Courtly Literature Society:
The Court in the World; the World in the Court
12–13th April 2021
University of Cambridge (online)
Building on the success of the 2019 international congress in Exeter, which explored notions of courtly communities and networks, the 2021 meeting of the ICLS British Branch focusses on the theme of the court in its global contexts, asking: what can medieval literary texts tell us about the place of the court in the world and, concomitantly, the place of the world in the court? What is the relationship between the local and the global in the courtly world? What are the court’s connections to the wider world? How are we to conceptualise them? What are the roles played by narratives, texts, manuscripts, and other cultural artefacts in making and maintaining those networks?
Program
DAY 1 : 12th April 2021
9.55–10.00 : Welcome
10.00–11.30 : Session 1: Geographies In and Of Courtly Literature
Chair: Simon Gaunt, King’s College London
The Construction of Scotland in the Roman de la Manekine: Visions of Geography and the Court
Laura Bailey, University of Cambridge
Benoît in the Veneto: The Roman de Troie of Vatican, BAV, Reg. Lat. 1505
Henry Ravenhall, Freie Universität Berlin
Epic in and out of Flanders
David Murray, Universiteit Utrecht
12.30–13.30 : Break
13.00–14.30 : Session 2: The Medieval Welsh Literary Court
Chair: Richard Dance, University of Cambridge
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
14.30–17.00 : Break
17.00–18.00 : Poster Session
Chair: Matt Lampitt, University of Cambridge
Cultural Reversals in Aucassin et Nicolette and Floire et Blanchefleur
Rebecca Courtier, University of Cambridge
Trans and genderqueer temporalities in medieval French texts
Rachel Hayes, University of Warwick
DAY 2 : 13th April 2020
10.00–11.30 : Session 3: Time, Space, and Courtly Identities
Chair: Miranda Griffin, University of Cambridge
Queer Ecologies in Troubadour Song
Emily Kate Price, University of Cambridge
‘Immigrants! (We get the job done)’: Rereading Lancelot Against Whiteness
Cat Watts, University of Cambridge
To Infinity and Beyond: Layering Time in the Universe of Le Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies
Michele Buras-Stubbs, University of Liverpool
11.30–13.00 : Break
13.00–14.00 : Session 4: The Sixteenth-Century Court of Savoy
Chair: Mary Franklin-Brown, University of Cambridge
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
14.00–15.00 : Break
15.00–17.00 : Branch Business Meeting