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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Festive Cultures Seminar 3, Nov. 2 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:32:52 -0500 From: Molly Schultz <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] *CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN FESTIVE CULTURE* Seminar 3, Friday, November 2, 2007, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois *Religion and Festive Culture * *I: How was Collective Memory of Medieval Cluny Shaped, 1897-1949?* *II: The Depiction of Violence in Renaissance Florence * Graduate Students, Faculty, and the General Public are Cordially Invited to Attend Refreshments will be Served. At the third and final session of the fall 2007 Research Seminar in Festive Culture the following two papers will be discussed. Papers are now available. (See below). *Correspondents of the CRFC are reminded that the deadline to submit to me ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) the seminar proposals for 2008 Fall Seminars is November 11, 2007.* Janet Marquardt, Professor of Art History, Eastern Illinois University, discusses three ways in which the reputation of an abbey destroyed in the French Revolution was revived between the 1890s and 1940s. Cluny in central France was the site of a tenth-century monastic reform movement which brought riches and aesthetic grandeur to its Benedictine abbey. On three separate occasions its vanished glory was revived. Professor Marquardt explores the very different contexts and partially different motives for the three revivals. Christina Neilson, affiliated with the Frick Museum, New York City, discusses a famous sculptural group made between 1477 and 1480 in Florence by Andrea Verocchio. It depicts in high relief the beheading of John the Baptist together with the reactions of bystanders. Neilson investigates the parallels of this depiction to similar scenes in the processions and “sacred representations” in the city streets during a violent era. (The brother, Giuliano, of Florence’s “political boss,” Lorenzo de’Medici, was murdered in the cathedral during the making of the sculpture.) How indeed was sacrilegious violence sacredly depicted, and why so theatrically? * * * * * The seminar will devote 90-minute round-table discussions to each of these papers, with a brief break between them. The papers will be briefly introduced, not read, by Professor Marquardt and Christina Neilson. Please send your request for a copy of the papers to Molly Schultz, secretary of the seminar, at the Newberry Library ([log in to unmask]). Requested papers will be sent to your email address. If you do not have an email address, send your mailing address to Molly Schultz, Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-7324. -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page