The Group for Early Modern Studies
Lecture Series 2008-2009
Gordon Kipling, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
The Queen, the Reformation, and the Bible Test: Reforming the Royal Entry in England and Scotland
Date: Friday, November 7, 2008 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Location: UA Museum of Art, Retablo Room
In the late sixteenth century, newly-established Reformers in both London and Edinburgh were faced with the task of staging royal entry pageants for the inauguration of three queens: Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, and Anne of Denmark. The traditional royal entry ceremonial, which welcomed the queen as a type of the Virgin Mary ascending to her coronation in heaven, was abhorrent to most reformers. How might such a ceremonial be so reformed as to suit religious tastes formed in Geneva? The solution to this problem featured, as its centerpiece, a closely-scrutinized "bible test."
Gordon Kipling is Professor of English Literature at UCLA. His most recent book, Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) won both the Gründler Prize (Medieval Institute) for the best new book in Medieval Studies and the David Bevington Prize (Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society) for the best new book on medieval drama. His most recent publication examines the curious history of the medieval meneur de jeu, supposedly an "always onstage director": "Le Regisseur Toujours sur les planches: Gustave Cohen and the Modern Construction of the Medieval Meneur de Jeu (Medieval English Theatre, vol. 28). He is presently working on what he calls "a large book on a small painting," a study of Jean Fouquet's illustration of the Martyrdom of St Apollonia as a work that is properly central to understanding the fifteenth-century painter's miniatures and improperly used as "evidence" for understanding the French medieval theatre.
Londa Schiebinger, John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Director, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
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Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: TBA Location: Center for Creative Photography
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Pia Cuneo, Professor of Art History, University of Arizona
'Declaratio' and 'Delectatio': The Functions of Alterpieces in Renaissance Europe
and Therese Martin, Professor of Art History, University of Arizona
Style and Influence: Queen Isabel's Taste and Late Fifteenth-Century Spanish Art.
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Time: TBA Location: UA Museum of Art, Retablo Room
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Sherry Velasco, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
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Date: April 17, Spring 2009 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Location: UA Museum of Art, Retablo Room
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