Renaissance?
Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300 - c.1550
University of Edinburgh 31st of August - 1st September 2007

Friday 31st August

1. The Classical Tradition
   

   Dr. Catherine Keen (University College London): Ovid’s Tristia and Italian lyrics of exile from c.1300
   
   Dr. Robin Sowerby (University of Stirling): Humanitas renata
   Prof. Robin Kirkpatrick (University of Cambridge): Shakespeare and the “Tragedy” of the Renaissance

   Plenary Lecture
   Prof. Robert Black (University of Leeds)
   The Renaissance and the Middle Ages: chronologies, ideologies and geographies

2. Art History
   

   Dr. Rhys W. Roark (Humboldt State University): Panofsky: Linear Perspective and Perspectives of Modernity

   Prof. Jeffrey Chipps Smith (University of Texas at Austin): The ‘invention’ of Dürer as a Renaissance artist

   Miss Erika de Young (Texas State University): A clash of cultures? Images of Hercules and David in Florentine statuary
   
   Dr. Maria Ruvoldt (Fordham University): Michelangelo’s Mythologies

   Plenary Lecture
   Mr. Michael Bury (University of Edinburgh)
   History in Italian Renaissance art

Saturday 1st September 2007

3. The Northern Renaissance
   

   Prof. Michael Lynch (University of Edinburgh): Visual displays of classical rhetoric in Scotland, c.1500-c.1625
   
   Dr. Hanno Wijsman (University of Leiden): Aristocratic manuscript collections in England, France and Burgundy
   
   Prof. Gordon Kipling (University of California Los Angeles): Reforming the Civic Triumph: the Edinburgh Entry of Anne of Denmark (1590).

4. The Wider Renaissance
   

   Dr. Klara Benesovska (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences): Forgotten approaches to a different kind of Renaissance: Prague and Bohemia,c.1400
   
   Dr. Ingrid Ciulisova (Slovak Academy of Sciences): Jacob Burckhardt and Jan Bialoscocki’s The Art of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe.
   
   Prof. Ian Blanchard (University of Edinburgh): Out of the Postan neo-classical strait jacket: a new look at the concept of the Middle Ages.

   Plenary Lecture
   Prof. Andrew Pettegree (University of St. Andrews)
   A new world of the mind? Renaissance self-perception and the invention of printing.

5. Italy
   

   Dr. George Steiris (University of Athens): Machiavelli’s appreciation of Greek antiquity and the ideal of the ‘Renaissance’
   
   Dr. Matteo Burioni (University of Basle): Vasari’s ‘rinascite’
   
   Dr. Monica Azzolini (University of Edinburgh): The transmission of the astrological tradition in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

   Plenary Lecture
   Prof. Rob C. Wegman (Princeton University)
   The State of the Art