Saturday, March 7 HHB 105
12:45-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 Last journeys
Chair: Fran Cudlipp
Nicholas Healey, UVic, Anthropology
Dying a Christian, Dying Like my Ancestors: the Archaeology of
Death in the Early Medieval Irish Sea Region
Bailey Arnholz, UVic, History in Art
Dancing with Skeletons: Moving between Life and Death in the
Middle Ages
Deryck Harry, UVic, History
Travels in Treason and Persecution: An Analysis of the English
Judiciary Use of the Treason Act to Punish Catholics
3:00-3:15 Refreshment Break
3:15 Intimate epics
Chair: Bailey Arnholz
Warren Olmstead, UVic, Medieval Studies
Dante's iPod: The Sounds of the Divina Commedia
Dawn Williamson, UVic, French
One Woman’s Journey along the Long Road of Learning
Richard Bergen, UBC, English
The “Ins” and “Outs” of the Allegorical Epic: The Soul’s
Warfaring and Wayfaring
4:45 Conclusions and cake
Thanks to:
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The Beck Fund for Icelandic Studies
The Faculty of Humanities
The Graduate Students Society
The University of Victoria Student Society
The Program of Medieval Studies
Deryck Harry
An event organized by Mardinalia, The Medieval Studies Course Union,
The Program of Medieval Studies. http://mardinalia.wordpress.com/
Contact: journeys@uvic.ca
2015
Journeys through the
Medieval and Renaissance
Worlds
University of Victoria
Friday March 6th- Saturday March 7th
Friday March 6th Cor A 120
11:00-12:00 Conquests and legacies
Chair: Warren Olmstead
Aimee Shold, UVic, Medieval Studies
Relics in the Black Sea: The Relics of Pope Clement I and the
Success of the Missions of Cyril and Methodius
Chris Nicol, UVic, Political Science/History
Crosses to Crescents: The Journey of the Hagia Sophia through
Time
12:00-1:00 Break Cornett B 107
Friday 1-6 DSB C 116
1:00 Encountering the diversity of the world
Chair: Alex Gunn
Brian Pollick, UVic, History in Art
Home Away From Home: The Late-Medieval Venetian Illuminated
Zibaldone As An Object of Protection and Social Agency for
Travelling Merchants
Jesse Kern, Independent Researcher, Victoria
Toledo and the Shaping of Western Knowledge
2:00-2:15 Refreshment Break
2:15 pm Pilgrimages and exiles
Chair: Dawn Williamson
Roxanne Pleshak, UVic, Medieval Studies
Two Journeys, Two Faiths: Examining Similar Themes found in the
Leiðarvísir of Nikulás of Þverá, and in the Risala of Ibn Fadlan
Anna Qinlyiu, Sophie Belanger, UVic, French
The Spiritual Journey of The Path of Long Study
3:45-4:00 Refreshment Break
4:00 Journeys in Reading
Chair: Sophie Belanger
Katherine Dixon, University of Edinburgh/McGill, English
From Eye to We: Reading the Revelatory Process in The Writings of
Julian of Norwich
Aimee Hawker, UVic, History in Art
The Journey of Art: How the Life History of a Work of Art Affects its
Conservation
5:00 Keynote Address: Friday DSB C 116
Prof. Richard
Unger, UBC
Sailing
the High
Pellentesque
Seas: Vikings and
Other Travellers in
the Middle Ages
and Renaissance
A Lecture sponsored by the Beck Fund for Icelandic Studies
Vivamus diam
Saturday,
March 7 HHB 105
Saturday, March 7 Harry Hickman Building 105
9:30 am Voyages and transformations through ages
Chair: Josef Methot
Nicole Boycott, UVic, Medieval Studies
From Gods to Supernatural Miscreants: the Evolution of Faeries
Scott Stewart, François Heuillard, UVic, French
Travels in Genders and Genres: Louise Labé, Sapho and the
Amazones
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:15 am Changing contexts and media
Chair: Brian Pollick
Fran Cudlipp, UVic, Medieval Studies/Anthropology
From Hippocrates' Favourite to the Devil’s Associate – The Puzzling
Descent of Hellebore
Françoise Keating, UVic, History in Art
From Codex to Tapestries: Medieval to Renaissance Love
Iconography in France
Elsie Mountford, UVic, Medieval Studies/History in Art
Everything in its Place: Comparing the Microcosms of Early Modern
Cabinets of Curiosity and Frontispieces