Bad Behaviour in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Colloquium on Thursday 3rd December, 2009 at Woolf College,
University of Kent
9.15am
Registration with coffee & croissants
9.50am
Welcome
10am – 12
Opening Plenary Session:
Jeronimo Mendez – University of Valencia:
Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan Short Narrative: Some Points of Contact with
Chaucer?
Kati Ihnat – Queen Mary College, University of London:
Jews behaving badly - Depictions of Jews and Judaism in early twelfth century Marian miracle stories
Marianna Orsi – University of Pisa:
Virginity: virtue or transgression?
Short break and move to Woolf Lecture Theatre
James Smith – University of Manchester:
Prefacing Transgression in Measure for Measure
Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone – University of Kent, School of Arts:
Blindness and Illusion in Richard III
12noon
Lunch at Gulbenkian Restaurant followed by CARTOON ARCHIVE EXHIBITION Private
Viewing with introduction by Dr. N. P. Hiley
1.30 - 2. 45pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Malcolm Jones – University of Sheffield
Images of Infamy -- bad behaviour (and worse punishments) in the late medieval and early modern eras
2.45 - 3pm
Coffee/Tea Break
3.00 - 4.10pm Parallel Session 1 – Medieval:
Malte Ringer – University of Nottingham:
Oath-breaking and heathenism: anti-social behaviour in three homilies of Wulfstan
Ben Pohl – University of Bamberg:
Born to be Wild: the furor normannorum and Cultural Memory in the 11th and 12th Centuries
Beth Anderson – University of Huddersfield:
Robbing Churches and Pulling Beards: The Rebellious sons of Henry II
Parallel Session 2 - Early Modern
Christopher Nicholson – School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College,
London
Between Menace and Utility: Firearms in Sixteenth Century Bohemia
Joel Swann – University of Keele and Chetham’s Library, Manchester:
Bad behaviour and politics in manuscript verse libels
Stephen Cummins – Christ’s College, Cambridge:
Friendship and Enmity in the Trials of the Calabrian Conspirators
4.10 – 4.30pm Coffee/Tea Break
4.30 – 5.35pm Final Plenary Session:
Eduardo Carrero Santamaria - Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma:
A private room in the church? Canons' bad behaviour in the choir of the Spanish cathedrals (14th -16th centuries)
Toby Huitson – University of Kent, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies:
Bad behaviour in Medieval Galleries and Upper Spaces
Professor Evelyn Welch, Queen Mary College, University of London and Head of AHRC
Beyond Text Project
Closing Address
Evaluation and Wine Reception followed by coach to:
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL ARCHIVES EXHIBITION with an introduction by Dr. Mark Bateson at 6.30pm
CATHEDRAL CRYPT TOUR with Canon Christopher Irvine and Dr. Gerald Colson and
Spoken Performances by Emma Rose Barber and Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone
Colloquium Dinner at 8pm at Manolis Greek Taverna, Guildhall Street, Canterbury
For more details contact the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent:
www.kent.ac.uk/mems/
Event supported by AHRC Beyond Text Student-Led Initiatives: www.beyondtext.ac.uk/ and costs underwritten
by KIASH