Names, Dates, and Signatures in Medieval Culture
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton Univ.
Organizer Name
Sara S. Poor
Organizer Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Presider Name
Sara S. Poor
Paper Title 1
King Offa’s Dīnār and Naming: Anglo-Saxon Immortality and the Pseudo-Ăbbāsid Coin
Presenter 1 Name
David Lennington
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Paper Title 2
Mon nom savoir: Machaut’s signature in Le Jugement dou roy de Behaingne
Presenter 2 Name
Lucia Treanor, FSE
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Grand Valley State Univ.
Paper Title 3
"Johannes Ciconia sings for you with pious voice": Compositional Self-Awareness in the Early Fifteenth Century
Presenter 3 Name
Carolann Buff
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Start Date
10-5-2014 1:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 2355
Description
Medieval authors, actors and artists alternately name and refrain from naming themselves and their works. So, too, they sign, forge, and sometimes date them - in terms modern scholars have both accepted and contested. Papers explore what is in question in these various acts. Topics include the giving, withholding, invention and interpretation of names; the attribution, establishment and falsification of historical and imagined dates; and the forms by which medieval works and deeds bear signatures worthy of critical attention today.
Sara S. Poor
Names, Dates, and Signatures in Medieval Culture
Schneider 2355
Medieval authors, actors and artists alternately name and refrain from naming themselves and their works. So, too, they sign, forge, and sometimes date them - in terms modern scholars have both accepted and contested. Papers explore what is in question in these various acts. Topics include the giving, withholding, invention and interpretation of names; the attribution, establishment and falsification of historical and imagined dates; and the forms by which medieval works and deeds bear signatures worthy of critical attention today.
Sara S. Poor