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Encomia 38-39

The International Courtly Literature Society is pleased to announce the publication of Encomia: Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale de littérature courtoise, vols. 38-39. The Editor is Beverly J. Evans.

The bibliographies in this volume cover the years 2014–2015. Several branches of the International Courtly Literature Society have contributed bibliographical data here and we hope that those who did not will be able to submit material in the future. We wish to express our deepest appreciation to all the bibliographers, coordinators, and bibliographical correspondents for their diligence in gathering the information presented here. Since this volume appears later than originally scheduled, some of the bibliographers, members, and officers have changed since the entries were submitted.

This volume also includes an article, “Taming Time: Writing and Motifs of Waiting in Twelfth- through Fourteenth-Century Occitan Albas,” by Guillaume Oriol.

For more information or to order a copy, click here.

Members of the Society automatically receive an electronic copy with payment of dues.

New Volume! Court and Cloister: Studies in the Short Narrative in Honor of Glyn S. Burgess

We are pleased to inform our members that Court and Cloister: Studies in the Short Narrative in Honor of Glyn S. Burgess (ISBN 978-0-86698-573-4) is now available from The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Copies may be purchased directly from the publisher here.

Edited by Jean Blacker and Jane H. M. Taylor, this collection honors former ICLS International President, Glyn S. Burgess, and contains contributions from many current ICLS members. As expected from the title, the essays touch upon courtly themes.

From the publisher’s website:

Contents

Brevity as Emphasis in the Narrative Lay: The Long and the Short of It
—Douglas Kelly, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Looking in the Mirror and Twinning Tales in Milun and Doon
—Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College

Marie de France, Translator of Lais
—Rupert T. Pickens, University of Kentucky

Heritage in the Lais of Marie de France
—Logan E. Whalen, University of Oklahoma

Marie de France’s Chaitivel: A Lesson in rapidità
—Eliza Hoyer-Millar, Oxford University

Marie de France’s Lais in BnF MS. nouv. acq. fr. 1104 (MS. S)
—Leslie C. Brook, University of Birmingham

Où ranger les récits brefs? Petite enquête sur le contexte manuscrit des fabliaux et des lais
—Richard Trachsler, University of Zurich

Textual Clusters in Manuscript Transmission and Reception: The Lai de l’ombre and its Co-Texts
—Karen Pratt, King’s College London

The Teller and the Tale: Meta- and Micro-narratives in the Chanson de Toile
—Karen J. Taylor, Morehead State University

La Voie de Povreté et de Richesse, A Fourteenth-Century Moral Allegory
—Glynnis M. Cropp, Massey University

The Fire Rekindled: Brendan in the Baltics
—Clara Strijbosch, Utrecht University

The Journey of St. Brendan: The Navigatio through Six Centuries of Augmentation and Reduction
—Margaret Burrell, University of Canterbury

Where the Snakes Went: What Happened to St. Patrick’s Serpents?
—Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison

L’histoire d’Hasting: un récit bref dans le long temps des chroniques normandes
—Laurence Mathey-Maille, University of Le Havre

Authorial Voice in Wace’s Assomption and Anonymous Versions
—Jean Blacker, Kenyon College

Envoi: Multum in parvo
—Peter F. Ainsworth, University of Sheffield

With additional contributions by:
Jacqueline Eccles, University of Dundee
Jane H. M. Taylor, Durham University

Call for Papers: “Experiencing the Court”

Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places: Experiencing the Court, 2019

The early modern court adopted and developed exemplary cultural practices where objects and spaces became central to propagating power as well as places for exchange with other powers. This combination of images, objects, and sounds confronted the senses, making a powerful and distinctive impression of the resident family and the region they represented: flickering candlelight on glass and gold vessels adorned credenze (sideboards); musical instruments announced royal entries or provided entertainment; brightly coloured tapestries covered the palace walls along with paintings of biblical or mythological stories; cabinets displayed antiquities or rarities; perfume burners permeated the air; while the smells and tastes of rare delicacies at the centre of dining tables made for a multi-sensory spectacle.

This year the Open University’s Spaces & Places conference will address the theme of ‘Experiencing the Court’ by exploring the senses and the lived experiences of courtly life, whether based in a particular residence or defined by the travels of an itinerant ruler. This annual conference is fundamentally interdisciplinary: literary, musical, architectural, artistic and religious spaces will be the subjects of enquiry, not as discrete or separate entities, but ones which overlapped, came into contact with one another, and at times were in conflict.

The conference will examine life at court and will consider the following questions:

  • How can approaching the court in terms of the senses provide new methodologies for understanding each institution?
  • How were medieval and early modern courtly spaces adapted and transformed through the movement of material and immaterial things?
  • Which particular aspects of political, social and economic infrastructures enabled the exchange of objects and ideas?

Papers that address new methodologies, the digital humanities, object-centred enquiries, cross-cultural comparisons, or new theoretical perspectives are particularly welcome.

Please send a 150 word abstract along with a short biography to Leah Clark (leah.clark@open.ac.uk) and Helen Coffey (Helen.coffey@open.ac.uk) by 15 November 2018.

The conference will take place at the Open University’s partner institution Trinity Laban Conservatoire on 3 and 4 April 2019.  As Trinity Laban’s King Charles Court was once the site of Greenwich Palace, it is a fitting venue for a conference exploring court life.

For updated information visit our website: http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/medieval-and-early-modern-research/spaces-places

Call for Papers – Société Guilhem IX @ ICMS (Kalamazoo)

Call for Papers for Kalamazoo from the Société Guilhem IX

1. Session of Papers: Beyond the Canso
The troubadours are known primarily for their love lyrics, which crystalized in the later twelfth century into the genre of the canso. Yet not only did this crystallization occur late, but the troubadours’ inventiveness in new genres was irrepressible. From the adaptation of such widespread genres as the May song or the dawn song, to the creation of one-offs such as the excuse song or the I-don’t-know-what-it-is, they filled the court air with their playful experiments. The Société Guilhem IX invites contributions to a panel on these other genres of troubadour lyric. Panelists might discuss a lineage of songs in a given genre, songs that cross generic boundaries, songs that seem to belong to a genre apart, the (in)adequacy of definitions of the genres given in the later medieval poetic handbooks, the link between genre and melodic composition, the theory of genres, and so on.

2. Roundtable: Thibaut de Champagne and the Troubadours
Thibaut was the heir not only to the county of Champagne and kingdom of Navarre, but also to the poetic traditions that had come to him through his grandmother Marie and great-grandmother Eleanor, patrons of letters and the arts, and through his great-great-great-grandfather, Guilhem IX, the first named troubadour whose compositions have survived. Like his troubadour ancestor, Thibaut was a lyricist, leaving behind a sophisticated body of erotic and religious songs in his own language, Champenois French. The Société Guilhem IX celebrates the magisterial new edition of Thibaut’s lyric by Christopher Callahan, Marie-Geneviève Grossel, and Daniel O’Sullivan (Éditions Honoré Champion, 2018) with a roundtable exploring links between Thibaut and the troubadours. Participants might consider poetic techniques or topoi, melodic composition, networks of patronage, song exchanges, or any other aspects of this lyric art that may be compared or linked.

Please send abstracts of 200–300 words to Mary Franklin-Brown, brow2085@umn.edu, by September 1, 2017.

Call for Papers – ICLS @ ICMS (Kalamazoo)

CFP for panels sponsored by the North American Branch (NAB)

The International Courtly Literature Society North American Branch (ICLS-NAB) seeks abstracts for the following three panels to take place during the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9-12, 2019:

  • Othering in Courtly Literature
    • Panel style: round table; presentation length: 5-7 minutes (max 10)
    • Othering is a relevant and fascinating topic in many academic fields. The objective of this proposed roundtable is to explore this phenomenon in courtly literature. Othering is not solely manifested in the US (courtly society) and THEM (non-courtly society), but rather it can occur in varying degrees and forms in courtly literature, spanning the Middle Ages to the present. The discussion concerning Othering should offer new insights into the power relations as well as the phenomena of inclusiveness and belonging.
  • Weather at Court
    • Panel style: standard; presentation length: 15 minutes (max 20)
    • Recent research in medieval studies has begun to focus on environment, climate and climate’s daily manifestation: the weather. Weather is one of the primary interfaces between humans and the natural environment around them. The storm that Chretien’s Yvain unleashes is one of the most famous weather occurrences in medieval literature: storm clouds gather from all directions, daylight fades, lightning and thunder fill the air as hail and rain fall.  This session invites papers on diverse weather or climate phenomena in courtly literature. What weather do we encounter in courtly texts? What is, if any, the role or the perception of weather?  Weather, like landscape, can become or reflect a state of mind. How then can weather phenomena and affect correlate in the courtly environment, both the material and the immaterial?  Sun, cloud, thunder, rain, wind— as a weather occurrence or as metaphor or as visual image— are among the topics this session seeks to explore in medieval courtly literature.
  • Belief Systems and the Court
    • Panel style: standard; paper length: 15 minutes (max 20)
    • Courtly society is, by nature, a society intersected by systems of belief ranging from the abstruse to the transpicuous, whether theological, philosophical, social, or political. Consequently, in order more fully to understand courtly society and the culture it produced, it is vital to understand how these intersecting and often vexed (if not explicitly contradictory) beliefs impacted the court and those within it. Abstracts should address the topic of belief systems within or impacting courtly society or culture. For the purpose of this panel, ‘belief systems’ is broadly interpreted to mean organised beliefs which are disseminated and adopted by groups of people, whether those beliefs are theological, philosophical, social, or political in nature.

Submissions should be accompanied by a Participant Information Form (available on the ICMS website). Those who are not currently members of ICLS-NAB are welcome to submit to sessions sponsored by ICLS-NAB but are expected to join or renew ($30 regular, $10 student/independent/retiree) upon acceptance. Proposals that are not accepted for the session will be forwarded to be considered for inclusion in one of the general sessions.

The  ICLS-NAB will provide a stipend equivalent to the early bird registration fee for underfunded presenters. Please send a brief explanation of your financial situation with your abstract, e.g. graduate student, adjunct faculty, or independent scholar status. These stipends will be awarded at our business meeting on Thursday, May 9, at the congress, but you will be informed prior to the congress if you are selected to receive a stipend.

Contact: Susann Samples
Phone: 410-807-0895
Email: samples@msmary.edu
Deadline: September 15, 2018

Call for Papers – ICLS Exeter 2019

XVIth Congress
of the
International Courtly Literature Society
XVIe Congrès
de la
Société Internationale de Littérature Courtoise
 
22-27 July/juillet 2019, University of Exeter/Université d’Exeter, UK
 
Courtly Communities/Communautés courtoises
 
The network as a subject of study has blossomed in Medieval Studies in recent years. The notion of ‘textual community’ coined by Brian Stock has focused critical scrutiny on the ways in which literature calls communities into being. Renewed attention has been paid to the links between different authors and texts, but also to the social dimension of reception – who owned and read literary texts, what motivated owners and audiences’ interest in them, and how literature contributed to binding different communities together. Meanwhile, conceptual tools such as Bruno Latour’s actor-network model are proving to offer productive and increasingly popular ways of thinking about the connectedness of medieval texts, their creators, and audiences.
The International Courtly Literature Society proposes to recognise the vibrancy and timeliness of this topic by making it the central theme for its next International Triennial Congress, which will be held at the University of Exeter (UK) from 22-27th July 2019. We invite proposals of up to 200 words for 20-minute papers in English or French, to be submitted by 1 June 2018. We are also interested to welcome full panel proposals of up to 4 papers.
 
Potential paper/panel topics include (but are not limited to):
–          Courts as communities
–          Textual communities
–          Literary and artistic collaboration
–          The network as a concept
–          Linguistic communities
–          Material communities at court
Alongside the main business of scholarly exchange and debate, the conference will include visits to local medieval landmarks and other places of interest. All these activities will take place in a spirit of collaboration, community, and friendship, which will allow participants to build and renew their own professional and personal networks.
Please send your proposals (in English or French) for papers or full panels to the following address, by 1 June 2018: e.j.cayley@exeter.ac.uk
…..
 
Le réseau est devenu un sujet de prédilection pour les médiévistes au cours des dernières années. La notion de ‘communauté textuelle’ définie par Brian Stock a eu l’effet de focaliser l’attention des chercheurs sur les divers moyens à travers lesquels la littérature donne naissance aux communautés. La critique s’est évertuée à relever les rapports entre différents auteurs ou textes, mais aussi à détailler la dimension sociale de la transmission : la nature de l’intérêt porté aux textes littéraires par leurs publics, l’identité et les motivations de ceux qui commanditaient ou collectionnaient ces textes, et la capacité de la littérature à créer et à nourrir les communautés. En même temps, divers modèles conceptuels tel que la théorie acteur-réseau développée par Bruno Latour se sont révélés utiles pour analyser les liens entres les textes médiévaux, leurs créateurs, et leurs publics.
La Société internationale de littérature courtoise se propose de reconnaître l’importance et l’actualité de ce sujet en l’inscrivant comme thème principal de son prochain Congrès international, du 22 au 27 juillet 2019 à l’université d’Exeter (Royaume-Uni). Nous vous invitons à nous faire part de vos propositions en envoyant un résumé de 200 mots maximum (en anglais ou en français) pour des communications de 20 minutes, avant le 1er juin 2018. Nous lirons aussi avec intérêt les propositions d’ateliers complets (maximum 4 intervenants).
 
Les communications peuvent porter sur les thèmes suivants (entre autres) :
–          Communautés de/à la cour
–          La communauté textuelle
–          Collaboration littéraire et artistique
–          Le réseau comme concept
–          Communautés linguistiques
–          Communautés matérielles
Les échanges intellectuels qui constitueront le fond même de la conférence seront agrémentés de plusieurs visites organisées, comprenant d’importants sites médiévaux de la région. Toutes ces activités se dérouleront dans un esprit de collaboration, de communauté, et de convivialité, qui permettra aux conférenciers de développer et de nourrir leurs propres réseaux personnels et professionnels.
Les résumés de 200 mots maximum (en anglais ou en français) pour des communications de 20 minutes devront être envoyés, avant le 1er juin, à l’adresse suivante: e.j.cayley@exeter.ac.uk

ICLS at Kalamazoo 2018

Branches of the ICLS are sponsoring three panels at the 53rd International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The North American Branch will also hold its annual business meeting at 9:00 p.m., Thursday May 10 in Fetzer 1030.

S111: SCHNEIDER 1145
Translating the Ars amatoria into French and Other Romance Languages in the Middle Ages II
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), Swiss Branch
Organizer: Richard Trachsler, Univ. Zürich
Presider: Frank T. Coulson, Ohio State Univ.
Mesurer le degré d’inculture: Le témoignage des noms propres
Francesco Montorsi, Univ. Zürich
Les personnages mythologiques dans les traductions italiennes
Vito Santoliquido, Univ. Zürich; Marco Veneziale, Univ. de Liège
Le dialogue impossible: Le non usage des commentaires latins par les traducteurs français
Clara Wille, Univ. Zürich

S351:  FETZER 1045
What Is Courtly Love? (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.
Presider: Susanne Hafner
A roundtable discussion with Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William & Mary; Sandra B. Straubhaar, Univ. of Texas–Austin; Barbara Newman, Northwestern Univ.; Holly A. Crocker, Univ. of South Carolina; and C. Stephen Jaeger, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.

S397: VALLEY 3 STINSON LOUNGE
Performing Courtly Love
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Organizer: Christopher Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
Presider: Christopher Callahan
Performing Courtly Love in Pas d’armes: The St. Petersburg Manuscript of the Pas de Saumur
Catherine Blunk, Drury Univ.
“I’ve been through the forest on a horse with bad reins”: Performing the Lay of Trot
Tamara Bentley Caudill, Jacksonville Univ.

Encomia 36-37

The International Courtly Literature Society is pleased to announce the publication of Encomia: Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale de littérature courtoise, vols. 36-37. Editors are Logan E. Whalen and Rupert T. Pickens.

This double-volume of Encomia represents the second volume of the bulletin published in an online format. One of the most significant features of the online format is the ability to conduct electronic searches of keywords, eliminating the need for turning back and forth to indices. This capability should facilitate more efficient and precise research.

The bibliographies in this volume cover the years 2012–2013. Several branches of the International Courtly Literature Society have contributed bibliographical data here and we hope that those who did not will be able to submit material in the future. We wish to express our deepest appreciation to all the bibliographers, coordinators, and bibliographical correspondents for their diligence in gathering the information presented here. Since this volume appears later than originally scheduled, some of the bibliographers, members, and officers have changed since the entries were submitted.

For more information or to order a copy, click here.

Members of the Society automatically receive an electronic copy with payment of dues.