Preaching the Saints: Resources around Harvard Square

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Conference Program

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Welcoming Remarks, Introduction by Carolyn Muessig (9:00-9:30 a.m.)

I. PREACHING ITALIAN SAINTS I (9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)
9:30 a.m.: Carolyn Muessig (University of Bristol), Sermons on the Cross: Ideals of Sanctity and Personal Devotion in Late Medieval Italy, sponsored by the Lauro de Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization

10:15-10:30 a.m.: Morning coffee break

10:30 a.m.: Roberto Rusconi (University of Rome III), The Last Sermon: Antichrist Preaching in Late Medieval and Renaissance Representations, sponsored by Villa I Tatti

11:15 a.m.: George Ferzoco (University of Bristol), Late Medieval and Early Modern Preaching for Unpopular Cults: The Case of Pope Celestine V

Lunch break (12:00-1:00 p.m.)

II. PREACHING ITALIAN SAINTS II (1:00-3:15 p.m.)
1:00 p.m.: Thomas Forrest Kelly (Harvard University), The Cult of St. Donatus at Benevento

1:45 p.m.: Catherine Mooney (Boston College), Reinventing Clare of Assisi in Late Medieval Sermons, Art, and Hagiography

2:30 p.m.: Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), The Cult of St. Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy, sponsored by Villa I Tatti

Afternoon tea break (3:15-3:45 p.m.)

III. POSTER SESSION (3:45-5:00 p.m.)
James Blasina, Musical Evidence and the Earliest Dissemination of the Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria: 1050-1300

Jenny C. Bledsoe, John Mirk's Festial Sermon on St. Margaret: Saintly Intercession and Victory over the 'Fende'

Jennifer De La Guardia, Conversion Sermons Preached to the Jews of Florence in 1585 by Vitale de' Medici, a Convert from Judaism

Craig Tichelkamp, Medieval Sermons and Theological Aesthetics: The Influence of Anselm of Canterbury

Katherine Wrisley Shelby, Francis of Meyronnes and Harvard Houghton Library Ms Lat 276: The Mendicant Preacher's Confessional Handbook

John Zaleski, A Carthusian Sermon on Poverty from Harvard Houghton Library Ms Riant 95

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (5:00-6:30 p.m.)
André Vauchez (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris), St. Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan Saints in Italian Preaching, c. 1240-1340

RECEPTION (6:30-7:30 p.m.)
William King Richardson Room, Houghton Library

Exhibition: A HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN PREACHING AS SEEN IN THE MANUSCRIPTS OF HOUGHTON LIBRARY
Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library, and online at http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/preaching/

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
Coffee and light breakfast (9:00-9:30 a.m.)

IV. PREACHING DOMINICANS (9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)
9:30 a.m.: Nicole Bériou (University of Lyons II; Institut de recherches et d'histoire des textes; École pratique des hautes études), Preaching about the Sanctity of St. Dominic, Founder of the Order of Preachers

10:15 a.m.: Peter Howard (Monash University), 'Adorabo ad templum sanctum tuum': Preaching and the Actualization of the Holy in Renaissance Florence, sponsored by Villa I Tatti

11:00-11:15 a.m.: Morning break

11:15 a.m.: E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania), Lucia Brocadelli: Autobiographical Preacher of the Early Modern Lombard Courts, sponsored by the Lauro de Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization

Lunch break (12:00-1:00 p.m.)

V. PREACHING IN ENGLAND AND NORTHERN EUROPE (1:00-3:30 p.m.)
1:00 p.m.: Leo Carruthers (University of Paris IV, Sorbonne), 'I preach not, Sir, I come in no pulpit': Margery Kempe as Saint and Preacher

1:45 p.m.: Anne Thayer (Lancaster Theological Seminary), Mary in the Margins: Thomas Swalwell's Annotations on the Virgin

2:30-2:45 p.m.: Afternoon tea break

2:45 p.m.: Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago, emeritus), Mary as Model of Mystical Perfection in the Arnhem Mystical Sermons

CONCLUDING REMARKS AND DISCUSSION (3:30-4:30 p.m.)
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University) and conference participants

Monday, April 16, 2012

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