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Keynote Speaker:  Professor Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Brooklyn College and The Graduate School, The City University of New York.

Day 1 - 30 June
9:00-10:00 Plenary Address
Springes to Catch Scholars: Patrons, Authors, and Artists in late medieval and early modern France
Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Brooklyn College and The Graduate School, The City University of New York

10:00-10:15 Pause Café/Coffee Break

10:15-11:30 Session 1/ Séance 1 - Patronage and the Court
Reflecting the Royal Soul: Blanche of Castile and the Speculum anime
Sean L. Field, University of Vermont (abstract)

Music for Louis d’Anjou
Alice V. Clark, Loyola University New Orleans (abstract)

Elite Charitable Patronage in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Rouen
Elma Brenner, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (abstract)


12:30-2:00 Déjeuner/Lunch


2:00-3:30 Séance 2/Session 2 - Court Culture: Agency, Representation, Reception
The Crown for the Kingdom of Heaven: Relics, Rituals, and Propaganda at the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris
Meredith Cohen, Columbia University - Reid Hall, University of Leeds - Institute for Medieval Studies

The Past Perfect of Saint Louis in the Future Imperfect of Philip the Bold
Donna L. Sadler, Agnes Scott College (abstract)

The Architecture of the Court and the Lord’s Authority
Danielle Gurevitch, Bar-Ilan University (abstract)


3:30-4:00  Pause Café/Coffee Break


4:00-5:30 Séance 3/Session 3 - Courtly Life Beyond Paris
Art and Court Identity in Papal Avignon
Cathleen A. Fleck, Washington University St. Louis (abstract)

The Political and Cultural Role of the Armagnac Household during the late Middle Ages
Timur Pollack-Lagushenko, Wright State University (abstract)

Les Leys d’amors de Toulouse, dépaysement de la poésie courtoise
Mary Brown, University of California, Berkeley (abstract)

5:30-6:00  Concluding Remarks

Day 2 - 1 July
10:00-12:00 Assemblée Générale

12:00-2:00 Déjeuner/Lunch

2:00-5:00 Séance 4/Session 4 - Special Session - Medieval Paris
2:00-3:00
Royne celestre: Gautier de Coinci, Ministrel at His Lady’s Court
Donna Mayer-Martin, Southern Methodist University (abstract)

La reine de Saba du portail de Sainte-Anne, quelques remarques sur la sculpture parisienne au XIIe siècle
Xavier Dectot, Musée national du Moyen Âge

L'évêque et la topographie liturgique à paris
Agnès Bos, Musée national de la Renaissance

3:30-4:00Pause café/Coffee break

4:00-5:00
The Court as Physical Setting: the Genealogical Cycle of Philip IV in the Palace at Paris
Joan A. Holladay, University of Texas, Austin (abstract)

La Royne de France est a Paris venue: Queen and City as Created by Marie de Brabant and Adenet le Roi
Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Sweet Briar College (abstract)

Day 3 - 2 July
10:00-12:00 Séance 5/Session 5 - The University and Intellectual Life in Medieval Paris
Old Theology, New Theology, and the Cosmos in Hugh of Saint Victor's The Mystic Ark
Conrad Rudolph, University of California, Riverside (abstract)

Solere Divum Thomam amare divisiones; Scotum contra, uniones diligere: John Duns Scotus in Paris
Diego Fasolini, Tulane University (abstract)

L'activité intellectuelle universitaire à Paris: l'exemple de la musique
Pascale Duhamel, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes

Concluding Remarks

12:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-5:00 Visit: The University of Paris: Spaces and Structures
Pascale Duhamel, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, and Agnès Bos, Musée national de la Renaissance

5:00-6:00 IMS-Paris Symposium 2005 closing apéritif