9:15 Registration & Coffee

9:45 Session 1 Stimulating Rolls, Books, and Bags

Moderator: Andrea Denny-Brown

Shannon Gayk (Indiana University, Bloomington) “By Provocative Means: The Powers of Middle English Prayer Rolls”

Alexandra Gillespie “‘Unbokeled is the male’: Chaucer and the Makeshift Manuscript”

11:45 Lunch and show and tell of late medieval Huntington manuscripts by Vanessa Wilkie, Curator, British Historical Manuscripts

1:00 Session 2 Displaced Bodies, Readers, and Senses

Moderator: Robert Meyer-Lee

Catherine Sanok “Provoking Saints”

Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London) “The Humanist Pilgrim: Fifteenth-Century English Readers, from Venice to Jerusalem”

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8:30 Registration & Coffee

9:30 Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington)

Remarks: Lisa H. Cooper (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Andrea Denny-Brown (University of California, Riverside)

10:00 Session 1 Provoking Patrons and Misbehaving Memorials

Moderator: Lisa H. Cooper

Robert Meyer-Lee (Agnes Scott College/ Indiana University, South Bend) “Troy Book Misbehaving”

Jenni Nuttall (St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) “‘Conveied by resoun’: Verse-Form, Patronage, and Provocation in the Fifteenth Century”

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Session 2 Unexpected and Estranged Aesthetics

Moderator: Catherine Sanok (University of Michigan)

James Simpson (Harvard University) “Performance and Performativity: Anti-Theater around and in Fifteenth-Century Drama”

Jessica Brantley (Yale University) “The Provocations of Orthodoxy”

3:00 Break

3:15 Session 3 Experimentation, Correction, and Wrongdoing

Moderator: Alexandra Gillespie (University of Toronto)

Daniel Wakelin (St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) “Writing and the Risk of Error”

Andrea Denny-Brown “Criminal Form”

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Conference registration fee ............................ $ 25.00 (Students free)

Buffet lunch (October 16) .............................. $ 20.00

Buffet lunch (October 17) .............................. $ 20.00

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Please mail form and check payable to “The Huntington” to: Juan Gomez, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108.

PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: researchconference@huntington.org

Please note: Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library.

This conference is funded by

The Huntington’s Dorothy Collins Brown Endowment andThe Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside

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Bringing together international leaders in the fieldofmedievalstudies,thisconferencefocuses

interdisciplinary attention on the recent resurgence of interestinfifteenth-centurytextsandmanuscriptsandreshapes the dialogue about this decisive moment in English literary history.

LECTURE “Paper Aeroplane and Other Vehicles”October 15 (Thursday) 7:30 p.m.Simon Armitage, poet and recently elected professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, presents a tour of his own work, from dramatizations of ancient texts to urban myths of the modern world, via his acclaimed translations of medieval epics such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Death of King Arthur. A book signing will follow the talk. Free; no reservations required. Rothenberg Hall Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center

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3:00 Break

3:15 Session 3 Inventions, Emotions, and Technical Exhilarations

Moderator: Jenni Nuttall

Anke Bernau (University of Manchester) “Vernacularizing the Aesthetic in the Fifteenth Century”

Lisa H. Cooper “‘Out of this prosis blake’: Farming, Feeling, and Form in On Husbondrie”

Closing Remarks: Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown

CONFERENCE LOCATION: ROTHENBERG HALL