Scholars of archeology, art history, Egyptology, and Italian Studies are in for a special treat
this month, as CRRS presents a rare chance to hear from the Director of the Italian Archeological
Mission in Luxor speak in Toronto. Professor Francesco Tiradritti has spent years
exploring the tombs of ancient kings and priests in Egypt, and he brings the unique perspective
of a first-hand witness to the remains of the past. Please join us on Monday 18 September in Alumni
Hall, Old Victoria College. Tea is served at 4:15; the lecture begins at 4:30 pm. The lecture is
free and open to the public.
We are grateful to the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Toronto for their partnership in this event.
Please join us on Tuesday 19 September in Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College. Tea is served at 4:00 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 4:15 p.m. Professor Richard Rex (Divinity, Cambridge) is an expert on the Tudor monarchs, the English Reformation, and the Lollards in England.
In May and June 2006, the lucky undergraduate students of three Renaissance courses taught at Victoria College were treated to a series of thematically-related events. Under the coordination of Professor Manuela Scarci, the CRRS organized lectures on a wide range of topics, and workshops on paleography, Shakespeare's theatre, and early dance (pictured below). Students, faculty, members of the public, and performers enjoyed the opportunity to share their interests.
Plans for next year's Festival are already underway. Along with the scheduled lectures and workshops, the 2007 Renaissance Spring Festival will offer additional events, including a series of free lunchtime concerts sponsored by the Canadian Opera Company, in the newly-opened Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, each of which will feature an introduction to its area and a live performance: two concerts by the Toronto Masque Theatre, two by the Musicians in Ordinary, one by the Toronto Consort, and one by the Toronto Chamber Choir. See the enclosed Events Calendar for dates and details.
Emily Winerock, Artistic Director of the Toronto Coranto Dance Ensemble, demonstrates
a courtly lift at the well-attended workshop she taught on early dance on 23 May 2006.
The rejection of the medieval heritage and the reception of classical ideals have traditionally been used to define the Renaissance. This inter- disciplinary conference will examine the Renaissance in terms of the presence of the medieval past in the culture of Renaissance Europe.
Organized by Konrad Eisenbichler, Gianni Cicali, and Jess Paehlke, this will be the largest conference the CRRS has ever mounted. Renaissance Medievalisms will offer three concurrent session venues, fifteen sessions, and fifty-two speakers from at least thirty-one North American institutions as well as Spain, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Ireland, and England, plus plenary talks by Paul Grendler "Continuity and Change in Italian Universities 1400-1600" and Alexander Nagel "When Medieval is not Medieval: Alternative Antiquities in the Renaissance". Registration is $50/$25 students. There will also be a banquet and book sale tables.
This conference is co-sponsored by Victoria University, the School of Graduate Studies, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, the Departments of Fine Art, English, and History, the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Toronto, and was generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Check www.crrs.ca for registration details, or use the form included with this mailing. See you there!
At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and on the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800
This book provides an overall reassessment of recent historiography on Venetian economic history. The essays position Venice in relation to its larger Mediterranean and European context, and engage with recent discussions about "peripheries", the role of craft guilds and rural industries, the impact of fashion and demand-driven markets in the development of production specialization, and the emergence of regional markets and proto-industrial regions.
Edited by Professor Paola Lanaro of the University of Venice, the book brings ten essays by prominent Italian economic historians to the English-reading scholarly community. It is designed to provide an overview of current theoretical issues in the specific context of early modern Venetian trade and manufacturing for students and scholars of economic history.
ISBN: 0-7727-2031-2
Price: $28 CAD / $28 US
(shipping, as always, is free of charge)
crrs.publications@utoronto.ca
tel: (416) 585-4465 / fax (416) 585-4584
As of 5 September 2006, CRRS will require advance notice to retrieve rare books, microfilms, and microfiches from the rare book storage room. Retrievals will be done daily at 10:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 3:00 pm. Your request should reach the CRRS office at least 15 minutes before the retrieval time, and the book will be available by about 15 minutes after the retrieval time.
Please send your requests to the attention of Kim Yates at crrs.vic@utoronto.ca or telephone them in at (416) 585-4484. Be sure to include the full call number with your request.
We will, of course, still fulfill walk-in requests for materials from the rare books room at the next available retrieval time.
CRRS has been a partner of the Iter Project (www.itergateway.org) since its inception in 1994. Each year, 25-30 graduate students participate in various assignments through Iter Fellowships as a component of their University of Toronto graduate funding packages. The language skills, research interests, and technological savvy of these students have built a resource helpful to scholars worldwide. We are pleased to present this year's slate of Iter Graduate Fellows:
| Elizabeth Beattie | Kris Kobold |
| Steffany Campbell | George Lamont |
| Kelli Carr | Tristan Major |
| Lisa Chen | Sergio Melo |
| John Christopoulos | Isabelle Pinard |
| Angela Davis | Thomas Reimer |
| Jenn DeSilva | Janine Rivière |
| Kate D'Ettore | Dimitry Senyshyn |
| Ryan Greenwood | Eleanor Sheahan |
| Eszter Jagica | Philip Slavin |
| Ella Johnson | Clare Snow |
| Maire Johnson | Jenna Sunkenberg |
| Scott Kindred-Barnes | Amy Tanzer |
| Chris Knudsen | Sean Winslow |
Iter has joined forces with the DEEDS project this year, and four Iter Fellows will assist in the scanning and web markup of original documents.
We are pleased to introduce our new Managing Editor, Dr. Pascale Duhamel. By training, Pascale is a specialist in late medieval musicology. She has held post-doctoral research grants sponsored by SSHRC and the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture, among several honours. In 2005-2006 she was a Fellow in the Post-doctoral License in MediFval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of MediFval Studies at the University of Toronto. This year, along with her work with the journal, she will continue as Music Director of the Gregorian Chant Workshop. Pascale brings substantial experience with the editorial process and publishing to the position of Managing Editor.
We are deeply grateful to Dr. Michael O'Connor for his work as Managing Editor since 2004, and we wish him all the best in his new position as Program Administrator and Knowlton Lecturer at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.
September
15 CRRS Welcome back party! 4-6 pm, Burwash Hall Senior Common Room
18 Lecture: Francesco Tiradritti "The Myth of Egypt in Early Modern Italy" 4:30
pm, Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College
19 42nd Annual Erasmus Lecture: Richard Rex "Rhetoric and Reformation" 4 pm, Alumni
Hall, Old Victoria College
20 PIMS Lecture: Richard Rex "Lollardy and Orthodoxy in Late Medieval England"
4 pm Pontifical Institute for Mediæval Studies Common Room
29 Friday Workshop: Jess Paehlke "Vives's Commentary on Augustine's De Civitate
Dei" 3:30 pm, NF205
October
6-7 Conference: "Renaissance Medievalisms" Plenary talks by Alexander Nagel and
Paul Grendler. Registration $50 ($25 for students); Banquet $50. Victoria College.
13 Friday Workshop: David Randall "Epistolary Rhetoric, the newspaper, and the
public sphere in Early Modern England" 3:30 pm, NF205
19 TRRC Lecture: Chris Warley "Specters of Horatio" 4 pm, Burwash Hall Senior Common
Room
November:
3 Friday Workshop: Joëlle Guidini-Raybaud "The Late Medieval Workshops of Stained
Glass Artisans in Provence" 3:30 pm, NF205
4 TRRC mini-conference "Ritual in Renaissance Rome" 9 am-1 pm Burwash Hall Private Dining Room
9 Lecture: Nerida Newbigin "No Imperial Majesty: Frederick III's Visits to Florence
in 1452" 4 pm, Burwash Hall Senior Common Room
10 Friday Workshop: Mark Crane "Unlearned Lutherans: A Paris Doctor's Defence of
Universities Against Luther, 1532" 3:30 pm, NF205
17 Friday Workshop: Sean Armstrong "Witch-Hunting in Stalin's Russia: Comparing
the Renaissance with the 20th Century" 3:30 pm, NF205
24 Friday Workshop: Katie Larson "The Language of Friendship and Conversation:
Conversational Strategies and Female Alliance in the Writing of Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth
Brackley" 3:30 pm, NF205
30 TRRC Lecture: Deanne Williams "Girls Own Shakespeare" 4 pm, Burwash Hall Senior
Common Room
December:
1 Friday Workshop: Philip Slavin "Why it is important to have a friend in Oxford:
Working in Libraries and Archives Containing Medieval Manuscripts" 3:30 pm, NF205
January:
26 Friday Workshop: Caroline Prud'Homme "The Power of the Written Word: Jean Froissart
at the Court of Richard II" 3:30 pm, NF205
February:
8 TRRC Lecture: Matt Kavaler "Renaissance Gothic: The Distinctive Architecture
of Northern Europe ca. 1500" 4:00 pm, Burwash Senior Common Room
9 Friday Workshop: Rob Carson "Digesting the Third in King Lear"
16 Friday Workshop: Scott Schofield "Evidence of Early Book Ownership" 3:30 pm,
NF205
March:
2 Friday Workshop: Laura Prelipcean "Ludovico Domenichi's First Collection of Women's
Poetry in Italian Literature" 3:30 pm, NF205
8-10 Conference: "Alexander the Great in Early Modern Literature and Culture" Sponsored by the Centre
for Medieval Studies and CRRS; see here
15 TRRC Lecture: Megan Armstrong "A Material World: The Holy Land in Franciscan
and Jesuit Correspondence, 1600-1700" 4 p.m., Burwash Hall Senior Common Room.
16 Friday Workshop: Virginia Strain "Between Commission and Execution: The Philosophy
of Action and Practical Reasoning of Measure for Measure" 3:30 pm, NF205
30 Friday Workshop: Michael Ullyot "Biographies in the Seventeenth Century" 3:30
pm, NF205
April:
4 TRRC Lecture: Natalie Rothman "Levantines: Genealogies of an Early Modern Category
of Otherness" 4 pm, Burwash Hall Senior Common Room
20 Friday Workshop: James Thomas "Total Dependence on the Grace of God in Descartes's
Theory of Error" 3:30 pm, NF205
27 Friday Workshop: Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby "Early Humanist Theatre in Central Europe:
The Dramatic Activity of Bartholomeus Frankfordinus Pannonius" 3:30 pm, NF205.
30 Reading Early Modern Italian Hands. Taught by Konrad Eisenbichler. 10 am-12
pm Location TBA
Throughout May and June: Renaissance Spring Festival Events. Check the January newsletter for additional details.
May:
1-3 Reading Early Modern Italian Hands. Taught by Konrad Eisenbichler. 10 am-12
pm Location TBA
5 Conference: The Third Annual Canada Milton Seminar featuring Barbara Lewalski
(Harvard), David Loewenstein (Wisconsin), and John Leonard (Western),
plus a panel on 'Milton and Education' (chaired by Elizabeth Hanson) and an open
panel (chaired by Elizabeth Sauer). 9 am-5pm Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College
7 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture I by John Najemy 4 pm, Location TBA
8 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture II by John Najemy 4 pm, Location TBA
17 Concert: Toronto Consort "Music of Renaissance England" in the Richard Bradshaw
Amphitheatre at the Canadian Opera Company Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 12 noon.
Free and open to the public.
22 Concert: Toronto Masque Theatre "The Masque: An Introduction" in the Richard
Bradshaw Amphitheatre at the Canadian Opera Company Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
12 noon. Free and open to the public.
30 Concert: Toronto Chamber Choir "The Madrigal" in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
at the Canadian Opera Company Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 5:30 pm. Free and open
to the public.
31 Concert: Toronto Masque Theatre "Dido" in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
at the Canadian Opera Company Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 12 noon. Free and open
to the public.
June:
12 Concert: Musicians in Ordinary "Isabella D'Esté" in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
at the Canadian Opera Company Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 12 noon. Free and open
to the public.
19 Concert: Musicians in Ordinary "Birth of Opera" in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
at the Canadian Opera Company Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 12 noon. Free and open
to the public.
CRRS is a partner institution in the McGill-based multi disciplinary research project Making Publics and will help to host the project's third annual summer seminar and annual conference. The seminar and conference, on the theme of "Theatrical Publics", will be integrated into our own 2008 Renaissance Spring Festival.
In this connection, we are pleased to welcome a guest Friday Workshop presentation this year by David Randall, post-doctoral researcher with the MaPs project. David will speak on 13 October, on the topic "Epistolary Rhetoric, the Newspaper, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England" in NF205 at 3:30 pm.
Watch for more details about our participation in 'Making Publics' in 2008.
The CRRS provides an institutional home for a number of scholars of the Early Modern period. You can learn more about their research by attending the Friday Workshop series. We are proud to support the work of our 2006-2007 CRRS Fellows:
| Joseph Black | Erika Rummel |
| Kenneth Borris | Scott Schofield |
| Mark Crane | Alan Shepard |
| Luba Freedman | Philippa Sheppard |
| Joëlle Guidini-Raybaud | Patricia Simmons |
| Irina Guletsky | Ian Sloan |
| Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby | Victor Thiessen |
| Robert Ormsby | James Thomas |
| Jess Paehlke | Michael Ullyot |
| Dylan Reid | Laura Willett |
| Myra Nan Rosenfeld |
We are delighted to announce that Machiavelli expert John Najemy (History, Cornell University) will be next year's Distinguished Visiting Scholar. His visit will take place during the week of 7-11 May 2007, and his public lectures will be on the afternoons of Monday 7 May and Tuesday 8 May. Professor Najemy is the author of Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (Princeton UP, 1993), among many other works.
Many of our long-time student staff members have moved on this year. For all of their hard work and countless contributions in the past few years, our thanks and best wishes go to Jamie Smith, Scott Schofield, Milton Kooistra, Jess Paehlke, Tim Newfield, Rebecca Noone, and Corina Apostol. We miss you already!
We are pleased to welcome several new faces to the CRRS desk in 2006-2007. Virginia Strain (English) and Caroline Prud'Homme (French) join us as CRRS Graduate Fellows this year, along with Rob Carson (English), who returns as our hardworking webmaster. Laura Prelipcean (Italian Studies) and early dance expert Emily Winerock (History) join us as Robson Research Assistants. Iter Fellows Lisa Chen (Medieval Studies) and Ella Johnson (Toronto School of Theology, St. Michael's College) will also be assisting at the front desk. Kelli Carr (Medieval Studies) remains our Publications Manager, and Colin Murray (Fine Art) returns asa Robson Research Assistant.
We will be interviewing candidates for Corbet Undergraduate Research Assistant positions in September.
In recognition of the achievements of Former Director William R. Bowen, the CRRS will sponsor an annual concert. Details about our first concert will appear in the Spring 2007 Newsletter.
By Konrad Eisenbichler, Past Director
Jess Paehlke (CRRS Fellow) recently did dissertation research on the commentary tradition on St. Augustine's City of God aided by a Heckman Stipend at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John's University in Collegeville, MN. The HMML houses a collection of over 90,000 microfilms assembled after WWII to preserve the precarious heritage of manuscript books and has particularly strong holdings from Austria, Germany, Malta and Ethiopia. Having materials from so many far-flung libraries and archives together in one place has helped make his work on such a broad topic possible.
Robert Ormsby (CRRS Fellow) successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in the spring of 2006.
Edwin Bezzina (Iter Fellow 2001-2003) has recently moved to Corner Brook, Newfoundland for a tenure-track position in Early Modern European History at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College of Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Myra Nan Rosenfeld (CRRS Fellow) was one of the chairpersons of the conference, Rome and the Constitution of a European Cultural Heritage in the Early Modern Period: The Impact of Agents and Correspondents in Art and Architecture, held at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the British Academy, and the Académie de France in Rome on 13-16 October 2006. She also gave a research seminar on 16 February 2006 at PIMS on "The Abbot Outside of the Cloister, An Enquiry into the Later History of the Order of Cluny".
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