Workshop
Text-Image Relations in Late Medieval French Culture (14 c. – 16 c.)
Symposium 2: Saturday 9th July 2011, Leeds Humanities Research Institute
9.00 Welcome
9.15-10.45 Session I: “Ways of Seeing Text/Image Relations”
= 5-minute lead-offs on the following readings to initiate group discussion:
- Lara Eggleton on Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, New York: Harper & Row, 1972, “Introductory chapter”, pp. 3-32, especially pp. 3-17.
- Jonathan Morton on Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen, The Grammar of Visual Design, London/New York: Routledge, 2006, chapter 6: “The meaning of composition”, pp. 175-214.
- Rebecca Dixon on Michael Camille, “The book of signs: writing and visual difference in Gothic manuscript illumination”, in A History of Book Illustration: 29 Points of View, ed. Bill Katz,Metuchen,NJ/London: The Scarecrow Press, 1994, pp. 160-201.
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Session II: “Ways of Doing Text/Image Relations”
= 5-minute lead-offs on the following readings to initiate group discussion:
- Ros Brown-Grant on Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn, Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othéa, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006, chapter 3: “Envisioning desire”, pp. 99-155, notes pp. 280-289, especially pp. 99-131.
- Kathleen Wilson Chevalier on Michael W. Cothren, “Why did Louis de Roncherolles commission a stained-glass window for Beauvaisin 1522?”, Art Bulletin, 83,1 (March 2001), pp. 7-31.
- Helen Swift on Jane H. M. Taylor, “Le Chevalier des Dames du Dolent Fortuné: image and text, manuscript and print”, in Word and Image: studies in the French illustrated book from the Middle Ages to the present day, ed. Adrian Armstrong and David Adams (=Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 81 (1999)), pp. 153-76.
12.45-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session III: “Doing Text/Image Relations in Religious/Allegorical Works”
- Elizabeth L’Estrange to lead and chair discussion on opening images of Guillaume de Deguileville’s Pelerinage de vie humaine in Paris, Ste Geneviève ms. 1130 (fol. 1) and in Vérard’s early printed edition in Paris, BnF Rés. Y4380 A (electronic pp. 9-11).
3.30-4.00 Tea
4.00-5.30 Session IV: “Doing Text/Image Relations in Scabrous/Secular Works”
- Dominique Lagorgette and Hanno Wijsman to lead and chair discussion on Tales 13 and 30 from the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles in Glasgow, Hunter ms. 252 (fols. 27 and 70) and Vérard’s early printed edition in Paris, BnF Rés. Y2 174 (electronic pp. 53-7 and 110-13).
5.30-6.30 Round-table strategy meeting/Vin d’honneur
7.00 Dinner at Veritas Ale and Wine Bar, 43 Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3BB.
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