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The Banquet Tapestry (Tournai, 1510).
Jan Mandijn, Burlesque Feast (c.1550). Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao.
Vincenzo Campi, The Ricotta Eaters (1580). Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon.
2012
Hieronymus Francken the Younger, Belshazzar’s Feast (prior to 1628)
UNL Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Program
End of Year Celebration
Snacks and
drinks for
everyone to
enjoy!
Jan Mandijn, Burlesque Feast (c.1550). Museo de Bellas Artes de
Bilbao.
Snacks and
drinks for
everyone to
enjoy!
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, The First Thanksgiving 1621 (1899).
This shows common misconceptions of Native Americans and Pilgrims
Dirck Hals, Merry Company (1635). Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague.
News from the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Faculty
Andrea Bolland
Department of Art and Art History
Dr. Bolland gave a paper at the 2011 Renaissance Society of America annual conference
(Mar. 2011) in Montreal, entitled "Artifice and Stability in Late Mantegna." This paper
will be published in 2013 in the Journal of Art History.
Ian Borden
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film
Dr. Borden presented “Roman Actors: Meta-Theatre as Moral Compass in Phillip
Massinger's The Roman Actor and Lope de Vega's Lo fingido verdadero (Acting is
Believing),” at the Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center in
Staunton, VA (October 25-30, 2011).
Amy Burnett
Department of History
Dr. Burnett was named Paula and D.B. Varner University Professor of History. Dr.
Burnett also named a Fulbright Scholar, Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz,
Germany. She was also awarded by the UNL Parents Association a Certificate of
Recognition for Teaching. Dr. Burnett published several book chapters and journal
articles this year: “Ausbildung im Dienst der Kirche und Stadt: Die Universität Basel im
Zeitalter der Renaissance und Reformation,” in Gelehrte zwischen Humanismus und
Reformation. Kontexte der Universitätsgründung in Basel 1460, edited by Martin
Wallraff (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011), 47–68; “Preaching and Printing in Germany on the
Eve of the Thirty Years’ War,” in The Book Triumphant: Print in Transition in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Malcolm Walsby, Library of the Written
Word 15, The Handpress World 9 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 132-57; “The Social History of
Communion and the Reformation of the Eucharist,” Past and Present 211 (2011): 77-
119; and “Basel, Beza and the Development of Calvinist Orthodoxy in the Swiss
Confederation,” in Calvin und Calvinismus—Europäische Perspektiven, edited by Irene
Dingel and Herman Selderhuis, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts fur europäische
Geschichte Mainz 84 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011), 69–83.
Stephen G. Burnett
Department of Classics and Religious Studies
This year Dr. Burnett published his book Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era
(1500-1660): Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning. Library of the
Written Word, The Handpress World, Vol. 19 (Leiden: Brill, 2012). He also published
three book chapters: “Lutheran Christian Hebraism in the Time of Solomon Glassius
(1593-1656),” in Hebraistik - Hermeneutik - Homiletik. Die 'Philologia Sacra'im
frühneuzeitlichen Bibelstudium, ed. Christoph Bultmann and Lutz Danneberg. Historia
Hermeneutica, Series Studia, 10 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011), 441-467; “Christian
Hebraism” and “Reformation and European Jews,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of
Judaism and Jewish Culture, ed. Judith Baskin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2011), 103 and 516-517. Additionally, Dr. Burnett attended a number of conferences in
both US and abroad: “Martin Luther and the Brescia 1494 Hebrew Bible” at the Institute
for European History, University of Mainz, Germany, February 17-18, 2012 (invited
paper); “Christian Hebraism in Eastern Europe in a time of Confessional Change (1520-
1660)” at the Inaugural Lecture for the conference “Christian Hebraism in Eastern
Central Europe, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,” March 18, 2012 (Keynote address,
invited paper); “Luther and Hebrew,” to be presented at the conference “Hebrew
Between Jews and Christians,” University of Greifswald (Germany), July 2-4, 2012;
“Luther and Christian Hebraism,” at the Twelfth International Congress for Luther
Research, Helsinki, Finland, August 5-11, 2012; and “Paying the Piper: Christian Hebrew
Authors and their Patrons in the Sixteenth Century,” at the Sixteenth Century Studies
Conference, Fort Worth, TX, October 27-30, 2011. Dr. Burnett has also given public
lectures this year: “The Roman Index and Christian Hebrew Scholarship during the
Sixteenth Century,” Medieval Renaissance Program Public Lecture, UNL, January 19,
2012; and “The Men Behind the King James Bible: or a triumph of committee work,” a
panel presentation for the UNL Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program’s
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible: Creation and Legacy,
September 26, 2011.
Jessica Coope
Department of History
Dr. Coope has just completed a book manuscript called The Most Noble of
People: Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Identity in Muslim Spain and is currently shopping
it around to publishers.
Mark Hinchman
College of Architecture
Dr. Hinchman published “The Ritz Paris: Looking to 18th
century France through the lens
of 19th
century historicism for a 20th
century Hotel Lobby,” in Hotel Lobbies and
Lounges, ed. Anne Massey (Routledge, 2012). "The Grid of Saint-Louis du Sénégal,"
from African Urbanism, ed. Fassil Demissie (Ashgate, 2012). “Gone: Memory and
Visuality in Early Modern West Africa,” in eds. Leibsohn and Peterson’s Seeing Across
Cultures: Visuality in the Early Modern Period (Ashgate, 2012).
Peter Lefferts
Department of Music
Dr. Lefferts published two chapters in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music,
ed. Mark Everist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011): “England” (107-120);
and “Compositional Trajectories” (241-262).
Carole Levin
Department of History
Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
This year while on sabbatical, Dr. Levin published Elizabeth I and the “Sovereign Arts”:
Essays in Literature, History, and Culture co-edited with Donald Stump and Linda Shenk
(Tempe: The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011), and all three
coauthored the introduction for the book on xvi-xxiii, 15-27, and 85-103; Explorations in
Renaissance Culture Special Issue: “Scholarship on Elizabeth I,” guest editor, 37:1
(2011), “Elizabeth I and the Meanings of Motherhood,” revised essay, originally
published 2004 in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, “Elizabeth Tudor: Maidenhood
in Crisis,” (co-authored with Janel Mueller and Linda Shenk); “Parents, Children, and
Responses to Death in Dream Structures in Early Modern England,” Gender and Early
Modern Constructions of Childhood, edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi
Yavneh (Ashgate, 2011), 39-50; “’Mere English’: Why Elizabeth Never Left
England,” (co-authored with Charles Beem) The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I, edited
by Charles Beem (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), 3-26; “Queen Elizabeth I Society: the
First Ten Years,” Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 37 (2011), 5-8; “Alice
Thornton,” Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, edited by Garrett Sullivan
and Alan Stewart (Blackwell, 2011), 954-55; “A Turning Point in History,” “The End of
an Era,” Calliope (March, 2011), 14-17, 40-41; “The Renaissance Resonates in
Nebraska,” Prairie Fire 5, 1 (2011), 1, 22; and “T-shirt Day, Utopia, and Henry VIII’s
Dating Service: Using Creative Projects to Teach Early Modern History” Teaching the
Early Modern Period, Danielle Clarke and Derval Conroy, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan,
2011), 218-21. In addition to the tremendous amount of publications, Dr. Levin also won
a short-term fellowship to the Folger Shakespeare Library, December 2011-January,
2012. Lastly, Dr. Levin gave lectures several lectures: “The Witches of Macbeth:
Dreams and Reality” South Central Renaissance Conference, March, 2012;
"Representations of British Queens in Nationalist and Religious Discourse and Fantasy,"
Royal Body Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, April, 2012; “Elizabeth
I: The Virgin Queen,” Extraordinary Women Leaders Series, 92Y Tribeca, New York,
October, 2011; “Sleep, Dream, Die,” Shakespeare Group, The Cosmos Club, June, 2011;
and Pre-Performance Talk, Look About You, American Shakespeare Center, March, 2011.
Julia Schleck
Department of English
Acting Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)
Dr. Schleck has had an eventful year with the release of her book, Telling True Tales of
Islamic Lands: Forms of Mediation in English Travel Writing, 1575-1630, Apple-
Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University
Press, 2011). This past spring she also had an article published, “Forming Knowledge:
Natural Philosophy and English Travel Writing,” in Travel Narratives, the New Science
and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750, ed. Judy Hayden (Ashgate Press, March 2012). Dr.
Schleck presented at two conferences: “Was there a time before race? Resistance and the
Temptation of the Pre-Modern” at Seminar: “Teaching Medieval and Early Modern
Cross-Cultural Encounters” at American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Meeting, Brown University, March 2012. Her second conference paper was “Sectarian
strife and state power: comparative perspectives on the Ottoman-Safavid conflict,” in a
panel she organized “European/Islamicate Exchange: Text & Image” at Renaissance
Society of America Annual Conference, Washington DC, March 2012. Dr. Schleck was
also awarded two fellowships/grants this year: a Folger Shakespeare Library Short Term
Fellowship ($7,500); and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant ($6,000).
Pamela Starr
Department of Music
Dr. Starr published a chapter for the Cambridge History of Fifteenth Century Music on
"The Beneficial System". Dr. Starr delivered a paper titled, "The Final Frontier: James
Horner and Apollo 13," at two different conferences: "Music and the Moving Image"
(NYU) and "Forum on Music in Christian Scholarship" (Wheaton College). Additionally
she published a chapter based on the above paper for the book Film Music during the
Cold War (Oxford Univ. Press).
Alison Stewart
Department of Art and Art History
Dr. Stewart published “Sebald Beham” in Gottlosen Maler (Godless Painters), an essay
volume accompanying the exhibition of same name at Dürer Haus, Nuremberg,
Germany, editors Jürgen Müller, Technische Universität, Dresden, and Thomas
Schauerte, Dürer Haus, March 31-July 3, 2011, 13-19 (invited); A revised and updated
version of the above, in English, will be published this summer as "Sebald Beham:
Entrepreneur, Printmaker, Painter," in the Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art,
an on-line, peer reviewed journal, Summer 2012. Additionally, Dr. Stewart worked on
“The Multiple Image called Print,” a book chapter in The Blackwell Companion to
Renaissance and Baroque Art, ed. Babette Bohn and James Saslow, to be published Fall
2012 (invited). Also, Dr. Stewart worked on Media Revolution, exhibition catalogue
(ebook and print on demand), edited by Gregory Nosan and Alison Stewart, Sheldon
Museum of Art, March 2012, which arose from her students’ work in the AHIS 476/876:
History of Prints class (Fall 2011), and the exhibition was at the Sheldon Museum of Art
on campus from Dec. 2011 through Feb. 2012.
Graduate Students
Megan Benson
Department of History
Megan is graduating this May with a M.A in History and a minor in Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. Her thesis is titled, “’So Stirring a Woman Was She’: Early
Modern Representations of Matilda, Lady of the English.”
Anastasia S. Bierman
Department of English
Anastasia was a participant in the Newberry Pslater Workshop, February 2012. Attended
a selective (capped at 12) research skills and Book of Psalms workshop at the Newberry
library in Chicago through The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry. Seminar
led by Dr. Michael Kuczynski from Tulane University. Annie also presented “Manifesto
Meets Reality: Confessions of the New Kid in Academia” at the Midwest/ Modern
Language Association Conference in St. Louis, MO in November 2011. She also
presented “Adding Alice's Agency: Identity and Independence in Alice in Wonderland
(2010)” at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in San
Antonio, TX in April 2011. She also presented ““Sweet Compliance”: Eve’s Submission
in Paradise Lost”; Sigma Tau Delta International Convention; Pittsburgh, PA; March
2011
Eder Jaramillo Department of English
Eder attended and was a participant in the Newberry Pslater Workshop, February
2012. Attended a selective (capped at 12) research skills and Book of Psalms workshop at
the Newberry library in Chicago through The Center for Renaissance Studies at the
Newberry.
Maura Giles-Watson Department of English
Maura finished her PhD under Paul Olson and Stephen Buhler this year. Her was
dissertation was titled "Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and
Drama". Graduating from UNL in May, she has accepted the tenure-track position of
Assistant Professor of English (Renaissance Literature and Drama) at the University of
San Diego.
Catherine Medici-Thiemann Department of History
Catherine has published in 2012 Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate
Student Conference Proceedings with her work “To Persuade and Connect: Mary
Sidney’s Essential Role in Henry Sidney’s Irish Rule.” Catherine also attended and
presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Additionally, she attended and
presented at the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student
Conference and the Queen Elizabeth I Society session, South Central Renaissance
Conference, where she received a travel award form the Queen Elizabeth I Society.
Andrea Nichols Department of History
Andrea has been accepted into the UVA Rare Book School summer course "The Printed
Book in the West to 1800" in June 2012. She has also won the UNL History
Department's 2012 Albin T. and Pauline Anderson Memorial Award for excellence in
research in European history.
Nate Probasco Department of History
Nate won the Presidential Fellowship, University of Nebraska; Marguerite C. and Clare
McPhee Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska Department of History; Charles H.
Watts Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library; Mayers Fellowship, Huntington
Library; Mellon Summer Institute in English Paleography, Huntington Library, July 23 -
August 17, 2012; and Warren F. and Edith R. Day Dissertation Travel Award, University
of Nebraska. Nate also has two different publications this year: “Virgin America for
Barren England: English Colonization Objectives, 1575-1635,” Literature Compass,
forthcoming, 2012 and “The Role of Commoners and Print in Elizabethan England’s
Acceptance of Firearms,” Journal of Military History 76 (April 2012): 343-372.
Paul Strauss Department of History
Paul has been accepted to attend a Latin Paleography workshop at Calvin College in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. A grant was provided through the support of the Sixteenth
Century Society and Conference.
Esther Ward Department of Art & Art History
Esther was awarded $3,000 from the Trabold Travel Fund in the Dept. of Art & Art
History to travel this summer 2012 to Ireland for research for her master's thesis on
Medieval Irish Metalwork.