Situer la voix : expressions de l'identité au Moyen Âge
Locating the Voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages

Colloque interdiscipliaire, Université de Sheffield, 14-15 juin 2008

University of Sheffield, Humanities Research Institute
14th – 15th June 2008

"Locating the voice: Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages" is an interdisciplinary conference designed to foster and promote cross-disciplinary discussion and exchange in Medieval Studies. It will provide a forum for methodological debate, case-studies and interpretation of expression of identity in medieval culture.

Saturday 14th June

9.00 – 10.15 Registration and coffee at the HRI

10.15 – 10.30 Welcome address: Professor Peter Ainsworth

10.30 – 12.00 Session I – Between Heaven and Hell: Interpreting Medieval Imagery
Chair: Professor Peter Ainsworth, Department of French, University of Sheffield

• Pam Walker (University of Manchester): Wives, Widows and Women:
  Voicing Identity in Death through Clothing on Medieval Funeral Monuments
• Sue Andrew (University of Plymouth): Facing Sin: Image and Identity in Medieval Devon
• Katariina Närä (University of Sheffield): ‘I make þe als master and merour of my mighte’: Medieval Representations of the devil

12.00 – 12.45 Lunch and coffee at the HRI

13.00 – 14.30 Session II – Chronicles and Prophecies: Interpreting Medieval Texts
Chair: Dr Geoff Little, Department of History, University of Sheffield

• Pekka Tolonen (University of Turku, Finland): The Secret Identity of a Silent Recluse in the Thirteenth century Northern France and Flanders
• Xavier Fresquet (University of Sheffield): Prophetic Utterances in the works of Jean Froissart
• Julien Abed (University of Paris IV Sorbonne): Placing and Rubricating a Prophecy: the malleable Voice of the French Tiburtine Sibyl

14.30 – 15.00 Coffee and biscuits

15.00 – 16.30 Session III – From Insular Identity to Continental Communications: Social Networks in the Middle Ages
Chair: Dr Philip Shaw, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield

• Martin Findell (University of Nottingham): Saying it with Runes: Affection and Intimacy in Early Medieval Germania
• Kirsten Jarrett (University of Sheffield): Cives and Saxones: the Expression of Ethnicity in Western Britain in the Early Middle Ages
• Neil Allies (University of Birmingham): Dialect and Language Diversity in the Monastic Rule of Isidore of Seville

17.00 – 18.00 Plenary Lecture by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (University of York):

• What language is that voice? Multilingualism and Multivocalism in a Medieval Text

18.00 – 19.00 Wine reception at the HRI

19.30 – Dinner (The Runaway Girl)

Sunday 15th June

9.30 – 10.30 Session I – Vocalising Identity: the Musical Milieu of the Middle Ages
Chair: Dr William Flynn, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds

• Eduardo Henrik Aubert (EHESS – Paris): Locating the ‘Liturgical Recitative’: Musicology and Performance
• Margaret Dobby (CESCM – Poitiers): Motets: the Expression of a Learned Environment

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee and biscuits

11.00 – 13.00 Session II – Locating the Voice: Author, Audience and Intertext
Chair: Dr Penny Simons, Department of French, University of Sheffield

• Paola Scarpini (University of Sheffield): Locating the audience(s) in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon
• Abbey C. von Gohren (University of Minnesota): The Voice of Love, the Voice of Reason:
  Transitions of Textual Authority in Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d'Amor
  (5-10mins break)
• Joanne Young (University of Sheffield): One Voice Above the Clamour: A Chorus of Texts in Aimon de Varennes’ Florimont
• Stephanie Downes (University of Sydney): English Identity and French Authority in Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and coffee at the HRI