NATIO SCOTA
The Thirteenth International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature
Padova 22-26 July 2011
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Parallel sessions will take place in:
- Aula Calfura 2, ground floor, Palazzo Maldura, via Beato Pellegrino 1 (sessions A)
see map
-Aula Caminetto, first floor, Palazzo Borgherini, via Beato Pellegrino 26 (sessions B)
see map
Registration will take place in Sala delle Edicole (Palazzo Liviano) (see map) on the first day and in Palazzo Borgherini (the main conference venue) the other days.
Coffee breaks and lunch breaks will take place in Palazzo Borgherini (the main conference venue) throughout the conference, with the only exception of Tuesday, when they will take place in Palazzo del Bo (see map).
View the list of abstracts
FRIDAY 22 JULY
(Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo Liviano, Piazza Capitaniato 7)
10.30 WELCOME
Magnifico Rettore Prof. Giuseppe Zaccaria
Director of the Department of English Prof. Giuseppe Brunetti
11.00 PLENARY SPEAKER
Prof. R.S.D. Jack, University of Edinburgh
"Striking a 'comparatively' positive note"
Chair: Alessandra Petrina
12.30 LUNCH
(Palazzo Borgherini)
14.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A) NATIO SCOTA: ISSUES OF IDENTITY
Chair: Sally Mapstone
Rebecca Marsland, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Laments for the Dead in Older Scots Literature
Nicola Royan, University of Nottingham
The Poet, the Prince and the Magnate: Fortune, Knowledge
and Government in The House of Fame, The Kingis Quair and The Palice of
Honoure
Theo van Heijnsbergen, University of Glasgow
Scripting the National Past: A Textual Community of the Realm
B) CELEBRATING LANDSCAPE, USING NATURE
Chair: Michael Bath
Alan M. Swanson, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
A Hound, a Parrot, and Maybe a Maid: David Lyndsay's Other Voices
Luuk Houwen, Ruhr-Universitaet
A Cacophony of Sounds: The Complaynt of Scotland and the "Monologue Recreative"
Anne Kelly, University of Saskatchewan
Neo-Stoicism, Garden Culture and Recusant Identity in Early Modern Scotland
Karen Jillings, Massey University
Scotland's early literature on healing waters, c.1580-c.1640
16.00 COFFEE BREAK
(Palazzo Borgherini)
16.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A) WILLIAM DUNBAR, IN AND OUT OF FLYTING
Chair:Elizabeth Elliott
Chelsea Honeyman, McGill University
"Our rois riale most reuerent vnder crovne": Margaret Tudor and Scotland's Floricultural Future in William Dunbar's Poetry
Jacquelyn Murdock, Northwestern University
A battle of "trechor tongs" : Gaelic, Middle Scots, and the question of Scottish ethnicity in The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy
Katherine Hikes Terrell, Hamilton College
"Lat newir sik ane be callit a Scot": National Identity in Dunbar and Kennedy's Flyting
B) HIGH CULTURE, VERNACULAR LANGUAGE
Chair: Derrick McClure
Sìm Innes, Harvard University
Giolla-Críost Táilléar and the use of exempla in later medieval Gaelic poetry
Steven Reid, University of Glasgow
'High culture' and the uses of neo-Latin in post-reformation Scotland, c.1560-c.1638
19.00 VISIT TO THE SCROVEGNI CHAPEL
SATURDAY 23 JULY
9.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A) THE SOUTHERN NEIGHBOUR
Chair:Morna R. Fleming
Priscilla Bawcutt
'Intercommouning': Cultural Relationships between Scotland and England in the Late Middle Ages.
Iain Macleod Higgins, University of Victoria
Homage as Critique: Henryson's Use of Chaucer
Murat Ogutcu, Hacettepe University
A Tale of Two Nations: Scotland and England: Chaucer, Henryson, Shakespeare, Troilus and Criseyde
Dan Embree, Mississippi State University
The Scottis Originale and the Ynglis Chronicle: An Overlooked Connection
B) EDITING SCOTTISH TEXTS
Chair: Nicola Royan
Tricia A. McElroy, University of Alabama
A 'quarrell sett out in metre': Reformation Satirical Literature
Janet Hadley Williams, The Australian National University
Editing 'Comic and Parodic Poems in Older Scots': context, witnesses, and text
Katherine McClune, Merton College, Oxford
Editing Edinburgh, NLS, 19.2.6 (Poems of John Stewart of Baldynneis)
11.30 COFFEE BREAK
(Palazzo Borgherini)
12.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
***PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGES***
A) WRITING IDENTITY IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SCOTLAND
Chair: Theo van Heijnsbergen
(Aula Caminetto, Palazzo Borgherini)
Kate Ash, University of Manchester
'For to correk this king: Memory and Allegory in The Buke of the Chess'
Elizabeth Elliott, University of Edinburgh
Compilation and Cultural Authority in the Bannatyne Manuscript
B) THE ITALIAN CONNECTION
Chair: William Calin
(Aula Audiovisivi, Palazzo Borgherini)
Alessandra Petrina
A view from afar: Petruccio Ubaldini's Descrittione del Regno di Scotia
Nick Havely, University of York
A Scots Scholar, Galileo and a Dante Manuscript at the end of the 16th Century
13.30 LUNCH
(Palazzo Borgherini)
(Sala Paladini, Palazzo Moroni, via del Municipio 1) map
15.30 PLENARY SPEAKER
Prof. Alasdair A. MacDonald, University of Groningen
"William Dunbar, Public Poet"
Chair: David Parkinson
17.00 COFFEE BREAK (sponsored by the Scottish Text Society)
(Cortile Pensile, Palazzo Moroni)
18.15 CONCERT OF MUSIC for Voice and Instruments from Renaissance Scotland and Italy, with the Ensemble SAN FELICE
(sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan)
SUNDAY 24 JULY
CONFERENCE TRIP
Meeting Point: 9am, Railway Station (Cycle park side)
MONDAY 25 JULY
9.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A) WRITING THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
Chair: Roger Mason
Tommaso Leso, Università Ca' Foscari – Venezia
Defining "Scottish" Identity in the Early Middle Ages: Bede and the Picts
John Leeds, Florida Atlantic University
Universals and Particulars in John Mair's Historia Maioris Britanniae
Frauke Reitemeier, University of Göttingen
"False, traiterous Scot": Robert Greene's The Scottish History of James IV
John Cramsie, Union College
Topography, Ethnography, and the Catholic Scots of John Leslie's Historie of Scotland in the 1570s
B) ROBERT HENRYSON
Chair: Iain Macleod Higgings
Morna R. Fleming
'Abject odious'? The translation of Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid
Beatrice Mameli, Università degli Studi di Padova
"Quhar art thou gane my luf erudices?": Robert Henryson and his Orpheus
Ian Johnson, University of St Andrews
The Poetic Heights of Moralising and Pedantry in Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice
Anne McKim, University of Waikato
Some recurrent language patterns, and variations, in Older Scots
11.30 COFFEE BREAK
(Palazzo Borgherini)
12.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A) THE UNION OF THE CROWNS
Chair: Janet Hadley Williams
Sajed Chowdhury, University of Sussex
'[T]wo nations, being both […] one Ile of Britaine': The Union of Crowns and the Metaphysics of a Female Tradition
Astrid Stilma, Canterbury Christ Church University
"By the Lion led": William Alexander's Advice to the Stuarts
Roger Mason, University of St Andrews
John Monipennie and the chronicling of Scotland at the time of the union of 1603
B) HAGIOGRAPHY AND DEVOTION: WRITING RELIGION
Chair: Ian Johnson
Eva von Contzen, Ruhr-University Bochum
How Scottish is the Scottish Legendary?
Donna Heddle, Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI Millennium Institute
"Pithie purpois prudent and perfyt": the influence of
Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur du Bartas, on the poetry of John Stewart
of Baldynneis
R. James Goldstein, Auburn University
"Betuix pyne and faith": The Poetics of Compassion in Walter Kennedy's Passioun of Crist
13.30 LUNCH
(Palazzo Borgherini)
15.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A) OLD MANUSCRIPTS, NEW SCHOLARSHIP
Chair: Jonathan A. Glenn
Kylie Murray, Lincoln College, Oxford
New Light on the Scottish Reception of The Consolation of Philosophy.
Sebastiaan Verweij, University of Oxford
The Chronicle of Aberdeen
Emily Wingfield, Churchill College, Cambridge
The Scottish Troy Book: An Appraisal
B) COURTLY AND DEVOTIONAL SONNETS
Chair: Alan M. Swanson
William Calin, University of Florida
Mary Queen of Scots: Her Poetry in Its French Context
Sarah C. E. Ross, Massey University
Elizabeth Melville, James Melville, and the devotional sonnet sequence in the 1590s
Jamie Reid Baxter
A Scottish Sonnet-corona: Francis Hamilton (1585-1645)
16.30 COFFEE BREAK
(Palazzo Borgherini)
17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
A) SCOTTISH ROMANCE
Chair: Tricia A. McElroy
Rhiannon Purdie, University of St Andrews
Genres and Periods in Older Scots literature: the case of Roswall and Lillian
Jessica L. Malay, University of Huddersfield
Thomas of Erceldoune's Lady: The Scottish Sibyl
Louise Hutcheson, University of Glasgow
Patrick Gordon of Ruthven (fl. 1606-1649): medieval manners in seventeenth-century romance
B) HUMANIST POETICS AND COURT CULTURE
Chair: John Leeds
Lucy Hinnie, University of Glasgow
'Dido Enflambyt' : The Tragic Queen of Carthage in Douglas' Eneados
Gillian Sargent
Sir William Alexander's Anacrises: A 'Naked Narration' of
Scotland 's Christian-Humanist Literary Tradition in the Jacobean
Period.
William Hepburn, University of Glasgow
William Dunbar's poetry as a source for court society in James IV's Scotland
18.30 BUSINESS MEETING
(Palazzo Borgherini, Aula Caminetto)
20.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Ristorante Zaramella - Largo Europa, 9 (next to the Hotel Europa)
TUESDAY 26 JULY
9.30 SESSION
(Archivio Antico, Palazzo del Bo, via VIII Febbraio, 2)
PRINTING SCOTLAND, EARLY TO LATE MODERN
Chair: Alasdair A. MacDonald
Jonathan A. Glenn, University of Central Arkansas
The Scottish Text Society, Electronic Publication, and the Semantic Web
Clausdirk Pollner, University of Leipzig
Old Scots Words in New Books for Young Scottish Readers
Sally Mapstone, University of Oxford
The Origins of Andrew Myllar's Printing Device
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
(Palazzo del Bo, Sala della Basilica)
11.30 PLENARY SPEAKER
Prof. Michael Bath
"The Baptism of Prince Henry (1594): William Fowler's Emblems"
Chair: R.S.D. Jack
13.00 FAREWELL LUNCH
(Palazzo del Bo, Sala della Basilica)