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DAVID
IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE
Barnard Hosts the Eighteenth Biennial Barnard Medieval
and Renaissance Conference, Dec. 7
 New
York, NY, October 25, 2002 — The Eighteenth Biennial
Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, titled David
in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, will be held at
Barnard College on Saturday, December 7, 2002. Registration
starts at 9:30 a.m. in Barnard Hall (Broadway and 117th
Street).
The conference this year focuses on the many incarnations
of the legendary King David. The day-long event will feature
nearly thirty experts in literature, theology, and art of
the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Among the featured speakers
are Carol V. Kaske, Cornell English professor and author
of Spenser’s Biblical Poetics; Dr. Colum Hourihane,
Director of Princeton University’s Index of Christian
Art and editor of Virtue and Vice: The Personifications
in the Index of Christian Art; Dr. Margaret Hannay,
head of the English Department at Siena College; Dr. Maryrica
Lottman, Spanish Professor at University of North Carolina
at Charlotte; and Jason P. Rosenblatt, Georgetown University
English professor and author of Torah and Law in Paradise
Lost.
David’s varied life is a source of fascination to many
academics. He appeared as everything from shepherd to lion-slayer,
king to father, singer of psalms to penitent adulterer.
Throughout the Medieval and Renaissance periods of history,
the psalms of David were the object of divine study. Today,
too, the study of David as legend and icon serves as an
illuminating viewpoint from which to understand the culture
of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
In the morning plenary speakers will include William Noel,
author of King David: A Mirror for the Medieval Mind;
Linda Austern, author of Women and the Psalms of David
in Early Modern England; and Dr. Margaret Hannay, author
of The ‘Joy and Art’ of David’s Meters:
Mary Sidney and the Psalms. The afternoon will offer
discussions of such topics as Epic Matter, Psalms and Song,
The Sidneys and the Psalms, Visualizing David, Sin and Sorrow,
The Literary David, Politics, and Poetics.
Click
here for more information and a schedule of events.
For more information about the conference, please contact
Laurie Postlewate, 212-854-2053.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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