Fiesole 2020 Programme

Thursday, May 7th

7-8.30am PST/10-11.30am EST/3-4.30pm GMT: Manuscript Parts and Wholes:

  • Dave Wilton, ‘Magic, Manuscripts, and Folklore: Dame Sirith and Names of a Hare’

  • James Galvin, ‘A Happy Medium? Scribal Practice and Literary Form in a Fifteenth-Century English Vernacular Miscellany’

  • Sophie Thorup, ‘The CGI of the Middle Ages': The Role and Effect of Decorative Manuscript Borders’

9-10.30am PST/12-1.30pm EST/5-6.30pm GMT: New Materials, New Directions:

  • Jack Wiegand, ‘Medievalizing Native America: Pre-Columbian Contact in the Popular Imagination’

  • Anastasija Ropa, ‘Perceval and the gift of natural horsemanship in medieval and post-medieval literature’

  • Hannah Bower, ‘Forming and Performing Man-Made Marvels: Stasis, Belatedness and Re-writing’

11am-12.30pm PST/2.00-3.30pm EST/7.00-8.30pm GMT: Academia in the time of COVID-19: A Brown bag Roundtable Discussion 

  • Alyssa Falcone, ‘Teaching the plague in times of worry’

  • J. D. Sargan, ‘Big Grant Funding in Isolation’

  • Julia King, ‘Due to the present circumstances: Conferences and COVID-19’

  • David Bowe, ‘#lockdownPetrarch’

  • Jacqueline Clements, ‘Confronting the Screen: Creating Community in Online Learning Environments’

Friday, May 8th

7-8.30am PST/10-11.30am EST/3-4.30pm GMT: Translations:

  • Amy Brown, ‘Grammar and Body in translation: Grisandolus as genderqueer figure in the Suite Merlin and Middle English Prose Merlin’

  • Charles Tolkien-Gillett, ‘Depicting Grendel: Gavin Bone’s Illustrations of Beowulf’ 

  • Emma Barlow, ‘“color che son sospesi”: Liminality and Poetry in Dante’s Inferno 4’

9-10.30am PST/12-1.30pm EST/5-6.30pm GMT: Gendered Forms:

  • Becky King, ‘A Mirror for Princesses: the Role of Identification in the Writings of Christine de Pizan’

  • Stacie Vos, ‘Clause and Cloister: Devotional Arts in Chapter 30 of the Book of Margery Kempe’

  • Caitlin Branum Thrash, ‘“Yif thou desire to praye…seye thus”: the Transmission of Some Prayers of Mechtild of Hackeborn in Women’s English Manuscripts’


11am-12pm PST/2.00-3.00pm EST/7.00-8.00pm GMT: Social Events