Colloque La vie secrète des textes/The Secret Life of Texts

International Colloquium
November 8-10, 20
Princeton University

The Secret Life of Texts

Wednesday, November 7

7 pm – Dinner Palmer House

Thursday – November 8

Palmer House

9:30 – Breakfast

9:50 – Introduction – Marina Brownlee
Welcome Remarks—Gideon Rosen

Session 1 – chair: Marina Brownlee

10:00 – Leonard Barkan, Princeton

“Text as Ruin”

10:30 – Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania

“René d’Anjou and his Textual Progenitors”

11:00 – Sylvie Lefèvre, Columbia University

“La figure de Lucrèce dans la nouvelle, de la fin du
Moyen Age à la Renaissance”

11:30 – Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Université de Paris IV

“Le rhizome Villon. Dissémination et amplification
du nom et des textes”

12:00 – Discussion

12:30 – 2:30 – Lunch – Palmer House

Session 2 – chair: Stephen Nichols

2:30 – Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan

“Text Networks and the Agency of Objects”

3:00 – Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia

“Philosophie ne puet estre mesuree a pecunes »: Late
Medieval Patronage and Oresme’s Translation of
Aristotle”

3:30 – Gerhard Regn, Ludwig Maxmilians Universität, München

“Strategic Secrets: Dantean Intertextuality in
Petrarch”

4:00 – Andreas Kablitz, Albertus Magnus Universität zur Köln

“The Secret Dialogue of Boccaccio’s Decameron with
Scholasticism”

4:30 – Coffee Break

5:00 – François Rigolot, Princeton University

“Per augusta ad augusta: Reversing the Path to
Virtue from Hesiod to Montaigne”

5:30 – Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University

“What was ‘Historical Difference’ for Medieval
Culture? The Roman d’Antiquité as Example”

6:00 – Discussion

6:30 – Reception – Mediterra

7:30 – Dinner – Mediterra

Friday – November 9

East Pyne 010

9:30 – Breakfast

Session 3 – chair: Andreas Kablitz

10:00 – Sally Poor, Princeton University

“Making Legends Work: Anna Eybin’s Revision of Saints Lives
In Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 2261”

10:30 – Jan-Dirk Müller, Ludwig Maxmilians Universität, München

“The Ovidian Subtext of Gottfried’s Tristan.”

11:00 – Glenn Most, Scuola Normale, Pisa & University of Chicago

“The Life of Secret Texts”

11:30 – Joachim Küpper, Freie Universität, Berlin

“The Secret Life of Classical and Arabic Medical
Texts in Vernacular Poetry”

12:00 – Discussion

12:30 – 2:30 – Lunch – Witherspoon Grill

Session 4 – chair: Gabrielle Spiegel

2:30 – Marina Brownlee, Princeton University

“Prequels, Sequels, and Contingency”

3:00 – David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania

“European Textual Networks, 1348-1418.”

3:30 – Howard Bloch, Yale University

“Mallarmé médiéval”

4:00 – Discussion

4:30 – Coffee East Pyne 010

5:00 – Stephen Nichols, Johns Hopkins University

“Fourth Dimension: Text Networks and/as Medieval
Manuscript”

5:30 – Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University

“Signs and Secrets in Medieval Poetry”

6:00 – Discussion

6:30 – Reception – Prospect House

7:30 – Dinner – Prospect House

Saturday – November 10

Palmer House

9:30 – Breakfast

Session 5 – chair: Joachim Küpper

10:00 – Sonia Velázquez, University of Pennsylvania

“Secrets and Revelations in the Legend of Saint
Mary of Egypt”

10:30 – Catherine Brown, University of Michigan

“The Articulate Codex in Early Modern Iberia”

11:00 – Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam

“Textual latency: Libraries, limbo”

11:30 – Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania

“The Lives of Philosophers and the Mystery of
Mistakes”

12 – Discussion



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