Renaissance News & Notes
Volume 11, Number 1, 1999
Annual Meeting
March 25 - 28, 1999
Los Angeles, CA
Friday, 26 March 1999
3:00 - 4:30PM
Renaissance Demonology
Chair to be announced
UCLA Faculty Center, Sierra Room
Hilaire Kallendorf, Depicting Daemonophanies: Exorcism in Renaissance and Baroque Painting
Armando Maggi, How Satan Speaks: Renaissance Theories on Demonology
George J. Hummel, Exorcism in the Renaissance: Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Spiritual Ailments
Humanism and Politics in Renaissance Florence and Rome
Ronald G. Witt, chair
Elisabeth G. Gleason, commentator
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 190
Kenneth Gouwens, Florentine Perceptions of Pope Clement VII, 1523-1527
Ronald K. Delph, Waterworld Revisited: The Acqua Aspirations of a Curial Humanist
Mark Jurdjevic, Civic Humanism and the Rise of the Medici
Texts and Contexts
Pamela J. Benson, chair
UCLA Faculty Center, Pines Room
Jean E. Feerick, Making "Moor" of the Irish: Humoral-Racial Constructions in Early Modern Europe
Elizabeth A. Dietz, Love for Sale: Crashaw's Commodius Weeper and the Concept of Luxury
Karen Helfand Suben, So in Nothing Bless Them: Economic Interpellations in Timon of Athens (III.vi.83)
Culture and Politics in Ducal Florence III
Sheryl Reiss, chair
UCLA Faculty Center Lounge
Antonio Ricci, Lorenzo Torrentino, His Press, and the Cultural Program of Cosimo I
Philip R. Gavitt, An Experimental Culture: The Art of the Economy and the Economy of Art under Cosimo I and Francesco I
James G. Harper, The High Baroque Tapestry Series of the Life of Cosimo I: The Man and the Myth One Hundred Years Later
Montaigne et le discours academique de son temps
Eva Kushner, chair
Michel Simonin, commentator
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 306
Jean Ceard, Montaigne et les traditions du commentaire
Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, Montaigne et le discours académique: Du discours distingué au discours distinctif
Elaine Limbrick, Montaigne et le faux discours philosophique de son temps
Public Oratory
Luci M. Fortunato-DeLisle, chair
UCLA Faculty Center, Redwood Room
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, "I have preached on the Peace and the War which you have painted": Preachers and Art in Renaissance Italy
Stephen J. Milner, Citing the Balcony: Public Address and the Origins of Civic Republicanism in Trecento Florence
Samuel G. Wong, Reimaging the Republic: Milton, Cicero, and the Romance of Oratory
The experience of religion in Calvin's Geneva: bread, water, fire and brimstone
Robert M. Kingdon, chair
Max Engammare, commentator
FISIER: International Federation of Societies and Institutes for the Study of the Renaissance
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 160
Tom Lambert, Hearing the Word in Jaques Simond's Geneva
Christian Grosse, Bread, Reconciliation and Discipline: A Community Preparing The Eucharistic Rite
Karen Spierling, Water: The Baptismal Role of Parents in Perceval Roguet's Geneva
Renaissance Judaism
Chair to be announced
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 162
Katherine Eggert, Faustus's Alphabet, Prospero's Golem: Romance and the Mastery of the Jews
Antonella Puca, Salome Rossi's Setting of the Psalms: Jewish Identity in Renaissance Italy
Benjamin C. I. Ravid, How Distinquishable Were the Jews in Renaissance Italy? The Evidence from Venice
Renaissance Texts and Electronic Editions
Elizabeth H. Hageman, chair
Renaissance Text Society
UCLA Royce Hall, Room UCLA Royce Hall, Room 362
Margaret J. M. Ezell, Eclectic Circulation: The Functional Dynamics of Manuscript and Electronic Literary Cultures
David Seaman, Renaissance Texts and Electronic Text Encoding
Raymond G. Siemens, "What two crownes shall they be?": "Lower" Criticism, "Higher" Criticism, and the Impact of Scholarly Publication in the Electronic Medium