Colour Aspects and Approaches The Eleventh Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 17th -‐ 18th April 2015 Friday 17th April Provisional Programme 9-‐9:15am Registra0on 9:15-‐9:30am Welcome 9:30-‐11am Colours of Devo7on – Chair: Professor Henrike Lähnemann •  Alexandra Kaczenski (UCLA), ‘Redesigning Prayer: The Second Decora0ve Program of BL Harley 1892’ •  Alexandra Lee (UCL), ‘”Si ves0no di panno lino bianco”: The importance of the colour white to the Bianchi of 1399’ •  Sophie Kelly (University of Kent), ‘The Role of Colour in the Forma0on of a Pictorial Narra0ve: The St John’s Psalter’ 11-‐11:30am Coﬀee 11:30am-‐1pm Colour in the Codex – Chair: Kate Ailsa Sargan •  David Bowe (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), ‘The red and the black: ink and poe0cs in medieval Italian poetry’ •  Emma Hardiman (University of York), ‘The Lindisfarne Gospels and Modern Graphic Design: An ideological dichotomy or revealing comparison into objec0ve aesthe0cs’ •  Julia MaDson (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘The Colour Recipes of MS Harley 2253’ 1-‐2pm Lunch (provided) 2-‐3:30pm Materiality – Chair: Charlobe Cooper •  Beth MaDson (Yale), ‘Colouring the Past: The Colour Blue in Late Medieval Amiens’ •  Mel Berrill (Cambridge University), ‘Dressing up with Alexander -‐ disguise, perspec0ve, and visual propaganda in two manuscripts of the Anglo-‐Norman Roman de toute chevalerie’ •  Nadia Marx (Harvard University), ‘The Blushing Statue: Colour, Lifelikeness and Enlivenment in Thirteenth-‐ Century Sculpture’ 3:30-‐4pm Coﬀee 4-‐5:30pm Colour and Iden7ty in Literature – Chair: Dr Helen Swie •  KaHe Robison (University of Minnesota), ‘“Blak, bloo, grenyssh, swar0sh red”: The Color of Speech in Chaucer’s House of Fame’ •  Wenyi Qian (UCL), ‘Signs of Red: Sensorium and Biopoli0cs in Gaston Phébus’ Livre de Chasse’ •  MaO Gillis (Pembroke College, Oxford), ‘Blackness as Spiritual Priva0on: Reinterpre0ng Saracen Alterity as a Proto-‐Chris0an Community’ 5:30-‐6:30pm Keynote Address by Professor Paul Binski (Caius College, Cambridge) 6:30-‐7:30pm Drinks Recep0on at St Edmund Hall (included) 7:30pm Conference Dinner at St Hilda’s College (op0onal) Colour Aspects and Approaches The Eleventh Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 17th -‐ 18th April 2015 Saturday 18th April Provisional Programme 9:30-‐10:30am Colourlessness – Chair: Dr Jenni Nuball •  Anya Burgon (Cambridge University), ‘French Cistercian Grisaille Glass c. 1175-‐1250: Colourlessness, Transparency and White’ •  Jennifer Rushworth (St John’s College, Oxford), ‘Burial and the Black Death, Or, Petrarch and ‘the Dark Ages’ 10:30-‐11am Coﬀee 11-‐1pm Gold – Chair: Dr Julia Walworth •  Alexandra Bauer (University of Toronto), ‘Golden Idols and Golden Saints: Ælfric's use of gold as a metaphor for conversion in the Life of Saint Eugenia’ •  Shan Morgain (University of Swansea), ‘The Golden Thread: an example of Mabinogi subtlety’ •  Claire Harrill (University of Birmingham), ‘A Study in Gold: St Margaret's Gospel-‐Book Reconsidered’ •  Sophia Rochmes (University of California-‐Santa Barbara), ‘D'or, d'argent, de blanc et de noir: Material references in Flemish grisaille manuscripts’ 1-‐2pm Lunch 2-‐3:30pm Colour Theory – Chair: Dr Emily Guerry •  Anselm Oelze (University of Berlin), ‘Colours and Philosophers: Roger Bacon on the Psychology of Seeing and the Judgments of Sense’ •  Arthur Hénaﬀ (EPHE, Paris), ‘Colours, cosmology and the making of scien0ﬁc manuscripts: the Tübinger Hausbuch (Würbemberg, XVth century)’ •  Sheri Chriqui (Royal Holloway) -‐ TBC 3:30-‐4pm Coﬀee 4-‐5pm Architectural Colours – Chair: Karl Kinsella •  Harry SHrrup (University of York), ‘The Four Colours of the Tabernacle: Symbolism in the Vulgate and its Role in Tweleh-‐Century English Illumina0on’ •  Lydia Hansell (Courtauld Ins0tute), ‘Colours for a Cardinal: Ar0s0c Provisions for Religious Founda0ons in Avignon and Beaune’ 5-‐6pm Closing remarks by Prof Eric Stanley We are grateful for the sponsorship of St Edmund Hall, and of the Oxford Medieval Studies Network