| Paper 328-b | Performative Piety: Gender, Class, and a Book of Hours
(Language: English)
Lisa Templin, Department of English, University of Ottawa
Index terms: Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Women's Studies |
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| Paper 328-c | A Poem and Its Manuscript in the 16th Century: Alexander the Great and Italian Epic in the Renaissance
(Language: English)
Michele Campopiano, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York / Capaciteitsgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
In bestiaries the descriptions of animals, trees, and stones are usually followed by a moralisation or exegesis. Most of the chapters also contain images, which makes bestiaries lavishly illustrated books. However, the miniatures rarely feature any reference to the moralisations and allegories found in the text. A striking exception is the 'fire stones' (sometimes called terrebolem, piroboli and other names), which are depicted in a highly exegetical manner, to the point that sometimes the rocks themselves are completely absent from the image. The aim of this paper is to analyze the exegetical elements in the fire stones miniatures, their relationship with the text and other images found in bestiaries.
Paper -b:
Likely produced in Paris between 1495 and 1500 with twenty-nine miniatures and full borders attributed to the Master of Jean d'Albret, the Book of Hours located at the University of Ottawa is a beautifully illuminated manuscript most likely owned by a member of the elite in order to engage in acts of religious devotion. Although the original owner of this Book of Hours cannot be definitively identified, this paper examines this Book of Hours as a signifier of the type of performative piety that was characteristic of aristocratic femininity in the late 15th century.
Paper -c:
A manuscript of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Rome has transmitted to us a 16th-century anonymous poem in ottava rima on Alexander the Great. This work has been little studied, but it represents an interesting case to understand the evolution of Italian epic in the period between Ariosto and Tasso. This paper will investigate the nature of the only manuscript which transmitted the poem, in order to understand aspects of the readership of this work and formulate some hypothesis on its authorship. It will analyze the poem as a case study for understanding differences in Medieval and Renaissance representations of Alexander. It will explain the characteristics of my edition of the work.
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