Gerhard Mercator and Antoine Lafréry. Double-cordiform world map. c.1550. Novacco 4F 7.
Mapping the Premodern
How is the premodern constructed, what defines it, and where and when is it located? What kinds of identities thrive and subsist during the premodern, and how do we map these out through maps, bodies, spaces, ideas? The Newberry’s 2008 annual graduate student conference addressed broad interpretations of mapping the premodern through literature, geography, art, history, gender, disability, and cultural studies, hoping to push the boundaries of the ways we think about the premodern.
Also see the online Selected Conference Proceedings publication.
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Panel 1: Mapping Places
Chair: Vida Muse, Marquette University
Defining the North: Rimbert and the Vita Anskarii
Nikolas Hoel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Circle and the Horseshoe: Spatial Forms in the Historias of Bartolomé de Las Casas and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
Katherine Thompson, University of Chicago
Panel 2: Mapping Things
Chair: Rob Kilpatrick, University of Indiana
The Dissector Behind the Anatomist: Medical Practices in Renaissance Spain under the Light of Italian Humanism
Silvia Arroyo, University of Colorado Boulder
A Legal Standing for What? Mapping a Brook in Premodern Law and Hamlet
Caryn O’Connell, University of Chicago
The Market of Bawdry: Assembled Characters and Dramatic Space in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass
Justin Barnes Kolb, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 3: Mapping Sexuality
Chair: Philip Grace, University of Minnesota
Mapping the Female Reproductive Body: The Politics of Pre-Modern Virginity in The Changeling and Early Stuart Historiography
Sara Luttfring, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Raising Sodom: Preliminary Notes on a Remapping of Medieval Sexuality
Wiilliam Smith, Indiana University
Geosomatic Women in Premodern Comedy
Maura Giles-Watson, University of Nebraska
Panel 4: Mapping Spirituality
Chair: Laura Kramer, University of Illinois-Chicago
Mapping a Recognizable Anabaptist Past: A Preliminary Examination of Landscapes as Maps in Jan Luyken’s 104 Copper Engravings Commissioned for the 1685 Edition of Thieleman van Braght’s Mennonite Martyrology, Martyrs Mirror
Christopher Tiessen, University of Guelph
Prayerful Perspective: Andrea Pozzo’s Marriage at Cana and the Quarant’Ore
Stephanie Blue, University of Illinois and the National Gallery of Art
Caliphate to Christendom: Trans-Mediterranean Relic Translation in the Eight and Early Ninth Century
Daniel DeSelm, University of Michigan
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