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.