Our ICLS-NAB business meeting will be Thursday, May 11, at 8:30 p.m. in Fetzer 1035. We will also have a Zoom option if you are not attending the conference in person, at this link. You do not have to be registered for the conference to attend virtually.
The following are ICLS-sponsored sessions and we invite you to attend.
Thursday, 1:30 p.m., Schneider Hall 2345 (hybrid)
Courtly Foundations and Courtly Founders: Honoring Our Recently Departed (A Roundtable)
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Christopher J. Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
Organizer: Christopher J. Callahan
A roundtable discussion with Wendy Pfeffer, Univ. of Pennsylvania / Univ. of Louisville, and Daniel O’Sullivan, Univ. of Mississippi
Thursday, 3:30 p.m., Schneider Hall 1235
Chrétien de Troyes Revisited
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch
Presider: Susanne Hafner, Fordham Univ.
Organizer: Susanne Hafner
Little Figures Concealed in a Gigantic Author’s Work: The Case of Chrétien’s Dwarves
Florent P. Réthoré, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder
Revisiting Chrétien’s Bossy Women
Suzanne C. Hagedorn, College of William & Mary
Yvain’s Guinevere Revisited and Repaired: Ulrich Fuetrer’s Late Fifteenth-Century Sir Iban
Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma
Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Bernhard Center 107
Piety and Religion in the Court
Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American
Branch
Presider: Christopher J. Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
Organizer: Shawn Phillip Cooper, Princeton Univ.
Rex impius contra pium: Representations of Rulership and the Patronage of St. Stanisław in Wincenty of Kielcza’s Vitae
Joseph Paul Barnas, Univ. College London
Piety, Faith, and Kinship in Malory’s “Sir Tristram” and Brunforte’s Fioretti
Claudia Marie Kovach, Neumann Univ.
Religious Literature at the Court of Anjou in the Fifteenth Century
Maureen Boulton, Univ. of Notre Dame / Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Arthurian Impiety? The Round Table in Malory’s Sankgreal
Shawn Phillip Cooper
Saturday, 1:30 p.m. Bernhard Center 107
Clothes Make the (Wo)man: Image, Fashion, and Identification in Old French Texts I: Woman
Sponsors: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), Swiss Branch; Univ. Zürich
Presider: Piero Andrea Martina, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes / Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
Organizer: Piero Andrea Martina, Claudia Tassone, Univ. Zürich
Layered Thirteenth-Century Parisian Women’s Headwear and Surcoat Fashions: Fascination with Fickleness
Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State Univ.
Tasteful Fashion Makes a Good Wife: The Instructions of the Chevalier de la TourLandry as Personal Stylist of His Daughters
Claudia Tassone
Dressing Code in Two French Medieval Arts d’aimer: A Lexical Study
Fanny Maillet, Univ. Zürich
Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Bernhard Center 107
Clothes Make the (Wo)man: Image, Fashion, and Identification in Old French Texts II: Man
Sponsors: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), Swiss Branch; Univ. Zürich
Presider: Claudia Tassone, Univ. Zürich
Organizer: Piero Andrea Martina, Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes / Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Claudia Tassone
How Clothes (Un)Made Hercules: Metamorphoses of an Antique Hero’s Attire in the Middle Ages
Laura Endress, Univ. of Oxford / Univ. Libre de Bruxelles
La fonction sociale de l’habillement : règles et conventions dans un miroir des princes du XIIIe siècle
Gavino Scala, Univ. de Genève
Fashioning Knighthood: The Competition of Consumption in Le Petit Jean de Saintré
Genevieve Rose Berendt, Ohio State Univ.