Jacques de Vitry: His Career, Writings, and Impact

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Jessalynn Bird

Organizer Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Presider Name

Jessalynn Bird

Paper Title 1

"De Pollanis, Subole a Patribus Degeneri": Jacques de Vitry's Historia orientalis and the Reform Movement of the Fourth Lateran Council

Presenter 1 Name

Jan Vandeburie

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Kent

Paper Title 2

Jacques de Vitry and the Medieval Universal History

Presenter 2 Name

Caroline Wilky

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 3

What Was Jacques de Vitry's Role in Christian-Muslim Relations While Resident in Acre?

Presenter 3 Name

Betty Binysh

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Cardiff Univ.

Paper Title 4

Thieves of Time: The Usurer and the Prostitute in Jacques de Vitry’s Exempla

Presenter 4 Name

Stacie Vos

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Yale Divinity School

Start Date

10-5-2013 1:30 PM

Session Location

Valley I 102

Description

In the run up to the anniversary of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) and the Fifth Crusade (1213-1221), this session seeks to contextualize the career of Jacques de Vitry and examine the influence of his works during the thirteenth century and beyond.

Jessalynn Bird