Borderlines XXIII: Sound and Silence in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Borderlines XXIII Organising Committee: Alexandra Corey, Daria Drazkowiak, Daryl Hendley Rooney & Julia O'Connell

Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin

A three-day conference on the theme of ‘Sound and Silence in the Medieval and Early Modern World’ at Trinity College, Dublin. See our website for further details: <a href="https://borderlinesxxiii.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://borderlinesxxiii.wordpress.com/</a> Borderlines XXIII is held in conjunction with Trinity Week 2019. Details of Trinity Week events can be found here: <a href="https://www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/</a><a href="https://www.tcd.ie/trinityweek/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Programme: Friday, 26 April 2019 13:00–13:30 		REGISTRATION13:30–13:45	 	OPENING REMARKS13:45–14:30 		SESSION 1 NEUROHUMANITIESChair			 TBCDeborah Thorpe, Caroline Jagoe and Margaret Leahy, Trinity College Dublin: The Silences of Communication Disability: Portrayals in Pre-Modern Medical and Literary Texts14:30–14:40 		BREAK14:40–16:10 		SESSION 2 LAW, JUSTICE AND CENSORSHIPChair			 Stephen Hewer, Trinity College DublinSamuel Storey, Independent: Hue and Hush: Towards a Soundscape of Thirteenth-Century English Law EnforcementEleanor Hedger, University of Birmingham: 'Tinging kettles and fry-pan Musicke': Rough Music and Popular Justice in Early Modern EnglandIdoia Areizaga Llorente, University of the Basque Country: Breaking the Rules: A Case of Bigamy in the Kingdom of Navarre (Fifteenth Century)16:10–16:20 		BREAK16:20–17:50 		SESSION 3 LANGUAGE, RHETORIC AND POLITICSChair			 Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College DublinGrace Hoffman, Trinity College Dublin: The Sounds of Violence: Insults and Name-calling in the 1641 DepositionsEimear Farrell, University College Dublin: Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, and Corporation Reform in the 1670s in IrelandDavid Briscoe, Trinity College Dublin: 'One need only speak the truth': Representing Poverty in Revolutionary Bordeaux, 1791–179417:50–18:00 		BREAK18:00–19:00		KEYNOTE Catherine Lawless, Trinity College Dublin: TBCSaturday, 27 April 20199:30–11:00		SESSION 4a COMMEMORATION, MEMORY AND CEREMONY Chair			 Joseph Clarke, Trinity College DublinMegan Henvey, University of York: Silencing the Evidence: Northern Ireland’s Early Medieval Sculptural HeritageMaura Valenti, Trinity College, Oxford: Sonic Manifestations of Ascendancy: Protestant Commemoration and the Irish Soundscape in the Long Eighteenth CenturyOleksii Rudenko, University of Glasgow/University of Tartu: Sound and Silence in Funeral Ceremonies of the Last Jagiellonians: Sigismund the Old and Sigismund Augustus SESSION 4b MIMESIS, DISSONANCE, LAUGHTER AND SMILESChair			 Julia O'Connell, Trinity College DublinRobert E. Cutrer, University of Sydney: Sounds of the Serpent: Mimetic Expression in Skaldic PoetryJean David Eynard, Pembroke College, Cambridge: Surprised by Dissonance: Spenser’s Pastoral Soundscape and the Hermeneutics of Discord in The Faerie QueeneGiulia Bonaldi, Trinity College Dublin: The Sound of Laughter and the Silence of Smile in Dante Alighieri's Works11:00–11:10 		BREAK11:10–12:40 		SESSION 5a ANGLO-SAXON LITERATUREChair			 TBCTom Revell, Independent: The Sound of Martyrdom: Traditional Referentiality and the Heroic Idiom in the Old English JulianaAndrew Hanson, University College London: The Voice of the Vikings in The Battle of Maldon and the Narrative Development of the Anglo-SaxonsRachel Hanks, University of Notre Dame: Shrieks and Silence: Absent Language, Monstrosity, and Medieval Sound Theory in Beowulf SESSION 5b VITAEChair			 Niamh Wycherley, NUI GalwayJoshua A. Spotts, Maynooth University: The Sound and Silence of Fasting in Vita Prima Sanctae BrigitaeJesse Harrington, Independent: Magic, Music, and Miracle: Sound and Meaning in the Lives of St. Dunstan of Canterbury, 997–1130Shachar Francesca Orlinski, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Hagiography, Rhetorical Silence and the Slave Between the Lines: The Case of St. Balthild12:40–13:30 		LUNCH13:30–15:00 		SESSION 6 SOUND AND SILENCE IN THE HOLY LANDChair		 	 Edward Coleman, University College DublinJehangir Yezdi Malegam, Duke University: Silence in JerusalemAnn E. Zimo, University of New Hampshire: Cultural Encounters in the Soundscape: Bells and the Adhan in the Latin EastDavide Esposito, Independent: Voice and Noise in the Chanson de Jérusalem15:00–15:15 		BREAK15:15–16:45		SESSION 7a STRATEGIC SILENCESChair			 Roy Flechner, University College DublinDavid O’Mahony, University College Cork: A Discreet Silence: What Bede Does and Doesn’t Say About Crisis in Eighth-Century NorthumbriaJoseph McCarthy, University College Cork: The Irish Voice in the Old English Sunday LettersVictoria Krivoshchekova, Maynooth University: The Sounds of Science: Language and Cognition in the Early Irish Tradition SESSION 7b MANUSCRIPTS &amp; ART Chair			 Laura Cleaver, Trinity College DublinNadia Mariana Consiglieri, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)/École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE): Voices and Silences on the Edges: Visual Polyphony and Materiality of Marginal Beasts in Beatus Manuscripts (11th–13th Centuries)José Manuel Simões, University of Évora: Silent Geographies, Loud Meanings? A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Manuscript L of the Portuguese Crónica de 1344.Samantha Chang, University of Toronto/University of Sheffield: The Presence of Absence: Music Inside the Painter’s Studio16:45–17:00 		BREAK17:00–18:00 		KEYNOTE Richard Wistreich, Royal College of Music, London: Filling the Silence: Recovering the Early Modern Voice18:00–20:00 		RECEPTIONSunday, 28 April 201910:00–11:30 		SESSION 8 RECLAIMING THE SILENCEDChair			 Ruth Mazo KarrasAoife Cranny Walsh, University College Dublin: Historical Truth or Literary Embellishment? Uncovering the Voices of Historical Queens in Medieval Irish SourcesDawn Seymour Klos, Trinity College Dublin: The Black Veil of Freedom: Widow’s rights and English Common Law in the Thirteenth CenturyRory Clifford, Queen's University Belfast: ‘For I have no wyll to juste’: Contesting Chivalry in Le Morte Darthur11:30–11:45 		BREAK11:45–13:15 		SESSION 9 MUSICChair			 Stuart Kinsella, Christ Church Cathedral DublinBenjamin Errington, Trinity College Dublin: Sounds Have Natures: Timbral Imagination in the Late Eighteenth CenturyLauren O’Neill, Ulster University: “The Barde and Harper Mellodie”: Re-Imagining Harp Accompaniments to Early Irish PoetryHervé Baudry, CHAM (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Silencing Songs: The Early Modern Censorship of Music13:15–13:30 		BREAK13:30–14:10 		TRINITY WEEK PAPER Katherine Zieman, Trinity Long Room Hub: Attention, Revelation, and the Sensorium14:10–14:15 		CONCLUDING REMARKS

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