Gautier de Coincy, Miracles de la Vierge. Texts and Manuscripts, 20-21 March, 2004, 202 Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh

St Petersburg, NLR, MS Fr.F.v.XIV.9 , f. 138 (reproduced by permission)

Sous les auspices de l'Université de Pittsburgh (Honors College, West Euopean Studies Program, University Center for International Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Departments of English, French and Italian, History, History of Art and Architecture, Music, Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Visual Information Systems Center) et l'Université de Missouri, Kansas City (Graduate School, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures) 

Saturday 20 March

9h  Welcome and Introduction, Alison Stones (University of Pittsburgh) and Kathy Krause (University of Missouri, Kansas City) 

9h 10 - 10h30: Les Miracles dans les Manuscrits

Moderator: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Karen Duys: "Book Design and the Figure of the Author"

Olivier Collet: "La tradition manuscrite des Miracles et le genre de l'oeuvre" 

10h45 - 12h15: Miracle et Religion

Moderator: Kathy Krause

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski: "Gautier and the Typologie of Childbirth Miracles"

Laurel Broughton: "Incarnational Piety in Gautier's Miracles of the Virgin"

Yasmina Foehr-Janssens: "Histoire poétique du péché: de quelques figures littéraires de la faute dans les Miracles"

1h45-3h15: Femmes et Images

Moderator: Bruce Venarde

Nancy Black: "Images of the Virgin Mary in the Soissons Manuscript (B.N. n. a. fr. 24541)"

Kathy Krause: "Imagining Women in the Miracles"

Alison Stones: "The Artistic Context of Some Miracles Manuscripts"

3h30-4h30: Gautier et les mots

Moderator: Barbara Sargent-Baur

Pierre Kunstmann: "L'annominatio chez Gautier: vocabulaire et syntaxe"

Robert Clark: "Gautier's Wordplay as Devotional Ecstasy"

Sunday 21 March

9h15-11h: Gautier et les autres

Moderator: Mary Lewis

Adrian Tudor: "Telling the Same Tale? The Miracles de Nostre Dame and the Vie des Pères"

Frédéric Billiet: "L'adaptation musicale dans l'oeuvre de Gautier de Coincy"

Brian J. Levy: "Or escoutez une merveille!' Parallel Paths: Gautier's Miracles and the Fabliaux" 

11h15-12h15: Table Ronde

Discussion by all participants, led by Ardis Butterfield 

These events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Alison Stones (mastones@hotmail.com or 412 648 2420).