Latin and vernacular: Texts, transitions and
tensions in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
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’
19–20 September 2012,
Trinity College Dublin
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'
CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES,
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
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
20:00: Dinner, Dunne & Crescenzi
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”’
Sponsored by the
Centre for Medieval Studies,
University of Bergen and Centre for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Trinity College Dublin.
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
18:30: Dinner, The Westbury Hotel
CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL &
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN.