French Royal Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text
Program:
October 22-23, 2004
Graham Hall - Brown Fine Arts Center ~ Smith College, Northampton Massachusetts
Friday 22 October
5-6:30pm
Craig Felton (Smith College).......................................................................................................................................................Introduction
Keynote Speaker: Margaret McGowan (University of Sussex)...................................................................................."The French Royal Entry
in the Renaissance: The Status of the Printed Text"
6:30pm Reception
Saturday 23 October
9-11:30am
Nicholas Russell......................................................................................................................................................................................Welcome
Chair: Ann Jones (Smith College)
Helene Visentin (Smith College)........................................................................................"French Royal Entries: Recent Research and Publications"
Daniel Russell (University of Pittsburgh)........................................................"Emblematic Discourse in the Royal Entries of the French Renaissance"
Elizabeth McCartney (UCLA)..................................................................................."Recasting the Ceremonial Paradigm: Texts and Contexts of
Royal Entry Ceremonies in Renaissance France 1504-1610"
11:30am-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:30pm
Chair John Moore (Smith College)
Richard Cooper (Oxford University)................................................."Legate's luxury: Alessandro Farnese's entries into Avignon and Carpentras, 1553"
Ann W. Ramsey (Independent Scholar)........................................................................."Character, Conjuncture, and Epistemology: Henry IV's X
Parisan Entry and the Decline of Ritual"
Benoit Bolduc (University of Toronto)...............................................................Hypnerotomachia Medicensis: "Les Triomphes faictz a l'entrée du
Roy a Chenonceau" (1560)
4-6pm
Chair: Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt (University of Ottawa)
William Kemp and Lyse Roy (Université á Montréal)....................................................."The Corpus of Entry Ceremonies during the Reign of Francis I"
Joachim Stieber (Smith College)......................................................................................The "Joyous Entry" of the Duke of Anjou into Antwerp
(1582) and the Tradition of Urban Liberties in the Low Countries
Free and Open to the Public
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