CENTRE EVENTS

FORTHCOMING IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR

2012-2013

Michaelmas Term 2012

1. LATIN AND VERNACULAR: TEXTS, TRANSITIONS AND TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE

19-20 September 2012

A two-day workshop held in Trinity College Dublin and organized jointly with the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen. Scholars from both Centres will meet to present their research and explore avenues for collaboration. Participation by invitation only. For further details, contact Sarah Alyn Stacey salynsta@tcd.ie or Susan Foran Susan.Foran@cms.uib.no

Day 1, Wednesday 19 September:
12:00: Lunch, Seminar Room, The Long Room Hub
13:00 – 13:10: Welcome, Sarah Alyn Stacey, Director, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin
SESSION 1: Chair, Susan Foran (CMS, Bergen)
13:10 – 13:30: Sverre Bagge (CMS, Bergen), ‘Vernacular and Latin historiography in Scandinavia’
13:30 – 13:50: Stephen Hanaphy (CMRS, TCD), ‘What is the Passio Reginaldi?’
13:50 – 14:10: Helen Leslie (CMS, Bergen), ‘Latin and the Light Literature in Old Norse’
14:10 – 14.30: Discussion
14:30 – 15:00: Tea and coffee
SESSION 2: Chair, Sarah Alyn Stacey (Department of French, TCD and CMRS, TCD)
15:00 – 15:20: Alice Jorgensen (School of English, TCD), ‘Learning about emotion from the prose psalms of the Paris Psalter’
15:20 – 15:40: Biörn Tjällén (CMS, Bergen and CMS, Stockholm), ‘Giles of Rome goes to Sweden: On translating politics'
15:40 – 16:00: Leidulf Melve (CMS, Bergen), ‘Public debate, communication and languages’
16:00 – 16:20: Discussion
16:20 – 16:50: Tea and coffee
SESSION 3: Chair, Alan Fletcher (UCD and CMRS, TCD)
16:50 – 17:10: Susan Foran (CMS, Bergen), ‘How to write about chivalry in late medieval historical writing: Latin or vernacular?’
17:10 – 17:30: Michael Staunton (School of History & Archives, UCD), ‘The historians of Angevin England'
17:30 – 17:50: Gerald Morgan and Brendan O'Connell (School of English, TCD and CMRS, TCD), ‘Chaucer in context’/ ‘Contesting violence in the legends of Constance’
17:50 –18:10: Discussion
18:30: Reception, Neill Hoey Theatre, The Long Room Hub

Day 2, Thursday 20 September:
SESSION 4: Chair, Michael Staunton (School of History & Archives, UCD)
9:30 – 9:50: Else Mundal (CMS, Bergen), ‘Tension between different norms in Old Norse society’
9:50 – 10:10: Jürgen Uhlich (Department of Irish, TCD), ‘(1) The Cambrai Homily and other fragments of Early Old Irish (c.700 AD)’; (2) ‘"Optical" rhymes in the transmission of Early Irish poetry’; (3) ‘The literary use of linguistic register in Early Irish prose'
10:10 – 10:30: Eavan O'Brien (CMRS, TCD), ‘When the Old World meets the New: An (un)conventional play by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’
10:30 – 10:50: Discussion
10:50 – 11:20: Coffee
SESSION 5: Chair, Biörn Tjällén (CMS, Bergen and CMS, Stockholm)
11:20 – 11:40: Sarah Alyn Stacey (Department of French, TCD and CMRS, TCD), ‘Texts, transitions and tensions: The French Occupation of Savoy in 1536 and its aftermath’
11:40 – 12:00: Savvas Neocleous (CMRS, TCD), ‘From West to East and back to the West: The Greeks in William of Tyre, his sources, and his Old French translation’
12:00 – 12:20: Lena Younes (Department of French, TCD), ‘Confronting the imagined: Welcoming the Turk in Early Modern France’
12:20 – 12:50: Andrew Johnstone (School of Drama, Film and Music, TCD), ‘A prayer politicized: The subtext of William Byrd’s anthem “O Lord, make thy servant”’
12:50 – 13:10: Discussion
13:10 – 14:00: Lunch
14:00: Marsh’s Library (14:30 – 16:00)
SESSION 6: Chair, Martine Cypers (Department of Classics, TCD)
16:30 – 16:50: Aidan Conti (CMS, Bergen), ‘The corpus, production and limits of medieval Latin in Norway’
16:50 – 17:10 Gavin Hughes (CMRS, TCD) ‘Conflict and contexts: Military historical and archaeological practice in the Renaissance and Early Modern fortifications of the British Isles’
17:10 – 17:30: Przemek Urbanczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), ‘Latinization of the name of the first Polish ruler, Mieszko’
17:30 – 17:50: Discussion

Sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

2. SATURDAY MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SEMINAR 2012-2013

SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2012

VENUE: SEMINAR ROOM, THE LONG ROOM HUB, FELLOWS’ GARDEN, TRINITY COLLEGE
TIME: 11a.m.-1.00 p.m.

Dr Martine Cuypers (TCD): ‘Georgius Benedecti, The Exploits of William the Silent (De rebus gestis Guillielmi comitis Nassovii, 1586): Neolatin Epic and Anglo-Dutch Diplomacy in the late 16th Century’

SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER 2012

VENUE: SEMINAR ROOM, THE LONG ROOM HUB, FELLOWS’ GARDEN, TRINITY COLLEGE
TIME: 11a.m.-1.00 p.m.

 ‘Dr Savvas Neocleous (CMRS,TCD): 'Andronikos I Komnenos (1183-1185): Tyrannus of Twelfth-Century Europe'

ALL WELCOME

3. THE CHAUCER SEMINAR

The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in conjunction with The Chaucer Hub, is delighted to announce its second series of The Chaucer Seminar. This Seminar will be led, as previously, by Dr Gerald Morgan, Director of the Centre's Research Network Chaucer in Context and Director of the Chaucer Hub. Although it is aimed primarily at post-graduates, undergraduates* and members of the public with a good knowledge of Chaucer are most welcome to attend. The Seminar will focus on close textual analysis, sources and recent criticism. The Seminar will run on a weekly basis in Michaelmas Term and Hilary Term. It will examine firstly The Man of Law's Tale and The Clerk's Tale.
NB*Trinity undergraduates should note that this programme is not a substitute for courses run by the School of English.

Text: the required text is The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford, OUP 2008); a bibliography will be distributed in the seminar.
Venue: The Seminar Room, The Long Room Hub
Time: 2-4 p.m.
Starting date: Tuesday 18 September

To enrol, please contact Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, French Department/Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; salynsta@tcd.ie; tel. 896 2686

Hilary Term 2013

Borderlines XVII, Trinity College Dublin, Long Room Hub, 19-21 April 2013