HomeTruth and fiction
Published on Thursday, June 21, 2018
Abstract
The 15th annual conference of the International Medieval Society (IMS-Paris) is organised in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP) and the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Antiques et Médiévales (CERAM). This year on the theme of “Truth and Fiction.”
Announcement
Programme
Thursday June 28
9:00-9:45 Registration
9:45-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:30 Keynote: Patrick Boucheron (College de France) “Vérité, véridicité et effets de vérité : la leçon des fables”
11:30-12:00 Break
12 :00-13 :30 Session 1: Discourses on Truth (history, law, literature)
Chair: Catherine Croizy-Naquet (CERAM)
- Henry Ravenhall “Discours rapporté et la ‘vérité’ de l'histoire dans la Chronique du Pseudo-Turpin”
- Claire Aracil-Donnat “Ja fable n’i metrai en pris, ançois m’en irai per le voir. Fiction et vérité dans les contes de la première Vie des Pères”
- Jolanta N. Komornicka “Ie suis morte et perdüe se vous ne m’aydez: Suborning Perjury in the Trial of Robert d’Artois”
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30 Session 2: Geographical Truth & Fictions
Chair: Emmanuelle Vagnon (LAMOP)
- Peter Leonid Checkin“Truth at the Margins of the Known World: La navigation de saint Brendan”
- Levante Selaf “La Sicambrie – une ville flottante sur la mappemonde des historiens et des romanciers médiévaux”
- Margaretha Nordquist “Conflicting Mythscapes ? Truth and Fiction in Scandinavian Fifteenth-Century Chronicles as Regnal Narratives”
16:30-17:00 Break / Pause café
17:00-18:30 Session 3: Hagiographical Truth & Fiction
Chair: Bénédicte Milland-Bove (CERAM)
- Karen Casbier “Truth, Fiction and (Un)Authorized Speech in the Marian Miracle Tales”
- Christelle Fairise “La place et le rôle des sagas hagiographiques dans la prédication de l’Église en Islande: l’exemple de la Maríu saga (XIIIe-XIVe siècles)”
- Raphaël Guérin “Fiction et croyance: l’usage de l’hagiographie apostolique dans le royaume de France (VIIIe-XIIe s.)”
19:30 Dinner : Award ceremony ; remise du prix de l’IMS-Paris 2018
Friday June 29
9:30-11:00 Keynote: Maureen Boulton (University of Notre-Dame) “Truth and Fiction in the Vernacular Lives of Christ and the Virgin (1150-1500)”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Session 4: Pregregorian Truths
Chair: Christiane Veyrard-Cosme (CERAM)
- Simon Thomson“A cynocephalic cannibal from Canaan? Searching for ‘truth’ in the early medieval saint Christopher”
- Michael Edward Moore “Truth and Violence in the Carolingian World”
- Amelie Claire Sagasser “La législation carolingienne vis-à-vis les Juifs – entre discours politique et réalité”
13:00-14:30 Lunch board meeting
14:30-15:30 Session 5: Philosophical Truth & Fictions
Chair: Lindsey Hansen (IMS-Paris)
- Dinah Wouters“Hildegard of Bingen’s Textual Truth: Autoreferentiality and non-integumental Allegory in the Visions”
- Lawrence S. Wang“Is Truth Higher than God?: Antinomic Ontology in Meister Eckhart and Marguerite Porete”
16:00-18:30 Symposium visit (Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal)
Saturday June 30
10:00-11:30 Session 6: Revealing Truth
Chair: Dominique Demartini (CERAM)
- Francesca Canadé Sautman“Vérité, voile, Véronique: Véronique et la Sainte Face de Robert Campin (ca. 1378-1444)”
- Alexia Guzman “Le triomphe de la vérité dans l’exemplum 26 du Comte Lucanor de don Juan Manuel”
- Luke Giraudet “Between Rumour and Reality: Writing Truth in Fifteenth-Century Parisian Journals”
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Assemblée Générale
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Session 7: Truth and the Senses
Chair: Valerie M. Wilhite (IMS-Paris)
- Dafna Nissim“Converting the Fictive into Real: Pleasure Experience as Consolidating Component in Laval’s Book of Hours”
- Anne Ibos-Augé “L’intertexte lyrique est-il garant de vérité ? L’exemple des ‘romans à insertions’ au XIIIe siècle”
16:00-16:30: Closing Comments Fanny Madeline & Marie Dejoux
19:00 Closing Event
Organisation
in conjunction with the
- Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP)
- Université Paris I—Panthéon-Sorbonne
- le Centre d'étude et de recherches antiques et médiévales (CERAM)
- Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne-Nouvelle
Scientific Committee
- Catherine Croizy-Naquet,
- Marie Dejoux,
- Lindsey Hansen,
- Fanny Madeline
- Valerie M. Wilhite
Registration
Registration is now open: http://eepurl.com/dtRxmP (English version) or http://eepurl.com/dwyUL9 (French version).
Subjects
- Middle Ages (Main category)
- Society > Law > Legal history
- Society > Science studies > History of science
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
- Society > Political studies > Political history
- Mind and language > Representation > History of art
- Zones and regions > Europe > France
- Society > History > Social history
Places
- Centre Malher, Amphithéâtre Dupuis - 9 rue Malher
Paris, France (75004)
Date(s)
- Thursday, June 28, 2018
- Friday, June 29, 2018
- Saturday, June 30, 2018
Keywords
- Truth, fiction, medieval, Paris, France, geography, hagiography, philosophy
Contact(s)
- Lindsey Hansen
courriel : lindsey [dot] hansen [at] gmail [dot] com
Reference Urls
Information source
- Lindsey Hansen
courriel : lindsey [dot] hansen [at] gmail [dot] com
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Truth and fiction », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Thursday, June 21, 2018, https://calenda.org/445565