French in Italy: Itinerant Texts (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Jason Jacobs

Organizer Affiliation

Roger Williams Univ.

Presider Name

Jason Jacobs

Paper Title 1

A Rose from Italy and a Fiore from France

Presenter 1 Name

Alison Cornish

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Paper Title 2

Debating Love, Mocking Genoa: Reading Venetian Rivalry in Franco-Italian Gui de Nanteuil

Presenter 2 Name

Rachel D. Gibson

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Paper Title 3

Italian Epic and the Cartographic Renaissance

Presenter 3 Name

Stephen Patrick McCormick

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of South Carolina-Columbia

Paper Title 4

Chronicle, Prophesy, and Florentine Traveling Texts

Presenter 4 Name

Laura Morreale

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Fordham Univ.

Start Date

10-5-2014 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1345

Description

The roundtable "Itinerant Texts" will examine movement, communication, and exchange in Franco-Italian cultural artifacts (including but not limited to literary texts). In part this emphasis emerges from the Italian peninsula's history as a site of frequent and rapid cultural, political, and commercial transformations, as a result of invasions, colonizations, population shifts, trade networks, economic innovations, and new technologies. This session will place Franco-Italian cultural traditions within the dynamic historical and economic context of 12th-15th century Italy and elucidate how cultural products can both reflect and enable a multi-lingual proto-capitalist culture on the move.

Jason Jacobs