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Dreaming of Venice and research
Cross posted to my Dreamwidth account, as I plan to use that especially for all my Venice related research.
So, I've still got visions of attending that April Renaissance Society of America conference, and the mancreature has been saying things like "well, would you regret not going", and "if you can do it...", which makes it hard to be responsible and tell myself I shouldn't put another trip on my credit card while I'm not yet done paying off the last one.
So, I just happened to stumble across some flight prices online and they seem to range from $1198 to $1441, round trip. Strangely enough the cheeper ones seem to be the flights with less layovers, but they are in Germany and maybe they assume no one want to fly through Frankfurt? The hotel options seem to vary widely and it's hard to tell from their little blurb which ones might be a good choice. Prices for Air & hotel packages range from $1186 (yes, actually cheeper than the lowest price for flight alone!) to $1656. If price was the absolute bottom line the package for $1186 looks astoundingly good as it's actually below the lowest price for flights alone.
$1186 Piave Hotel 3.2 of 5 rating
$1193 Hotel Ariston 3.3 of 5 rating
$1204 Hotel Alla Salute 301 of 5 ratings
If this actually looks like it may possibly happen I'll need to verify where the lectures I want to attend will be located and if we want to have that weigh on where we stay (if I can talk a friend into going with me.
Some of the classes I'm particularly interested in:
CAROLINE CASTIGLIONE, BROWN UNIVERSITY
Unauthorized Editions: Women Writing on the Household in Late Renaissance Rome Few women authored printed works on the management of households and the raising of children in Renaissance Italy. Although women of all classes were heavily involved in such labor, the authorities in print on such subjects were largely male. This paper will examine manuscript writings by Roman women who considered the travails of family life from a woman’s point of view. While such writings remained unpublished and were largely epistolary in form, they suggest that female reticence on such subjects in print belied the loquacity of female interlocutors on matters medical, familial, social, and psychological. This paper will investigate the extent to which women used their writing on such themes to “talk back” to male authorities about contested issues. How did these unpublished authors resolve the concomitant dilemma created by their claims to authority and knowledge, since even the best run households were beset by illnesses and childhood death?
Università Ca’ Foscari - San Basilio - Aula 2C
REWRITING CONVENTIONS IN LATE RENAISSANCE ITALY
Organizer: GIOVANNA BENADUSI, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Chair: JOHN JEFFRIES MARTIN, DUKE UNIVERSITY
GIOVANNA BENADUSI, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
The Law and the Fabric of Everyday Life in Tuscany
This paper addresses the significance of notarial documents, in particular last wills, for women in late Renaissance Italy. Recent scholarship has suggested that in their last wills upper-class women devised different forms of agency in order to circumvent the structures of patriarchy. But many of the women who drafted last wills had no wealth to speak of, yet they dictated last wills in great numbers. By shifting the focus from patrician women to ordinary women, my paper questions the conventional assumption that all last wills were naturally embedded in the same legal and familial logic of upper-class families. A close reading of the relationships that crystallized between notaries and their lower-class clients demonstrates how last wills became an accessible public outlet where notaries combined the prescribed law of statutes with the concerns and needs of their clients, who used the destiny of their possessions to weave together the law and their everyday life.
Archivio di Stato - Aula della Scuola di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica
THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE PAST II
Organizer: DAVID KARMON, COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS Chair: REBECCA ZORACH, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Respondent: CAMMY BROTHERS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA KARLA MALLETTE, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR
Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean
During the early modern period, travelers in the Mediterranean attested the existence of a new language specially adapted to the needs of Mediterranean merchants and travelers: the lingua franca. The term franca — a Romance borrowing of an Arabic borrowing of a Greek borrowing of a Latin word — referred to Western Christians, or “Franks.” And the language, a pidgin Italian, allowed members of distinct linguistic, ethnic, and confessional communities to communicate throughout the Mediterranean. In this talk, I will address the emergence and the development of the language between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, arguing that the evolution of the
new tongue must be understood against the backdrop of economic, social, and military history. And, like the dragomans, renegades, and corsairs who used the tongue, the lingua franca attests to the uneasy yet fascinating transition from medieval to modern, and the accommodations — both private and social — that this process demanded.
So, I've still got visions of attending that April Renaissance Society of America conference, and the mancreature has been saying things like "well, would you regret not going", and "if you can do it...", which makes it hard to be responsible and tell myself I shouldn't put another trip on my credit card while I'm not yet done paying off the last one.
So, I just happened to stumble across some flight prices online and they seem to range from $1198 to $1441, round trip. Strangely enough the cheeper ones seem to be the flights with less layovers, but they are in Germany and maybe they assume no one want to fly through Frankfurt? The hotel options seem to vary widely and it's hard to tell from their little blurb which ones might be a good choice. Prices for Air & hotel packages range from $1186 (yes, actually cheeper than the lowest price for flight alone!) to $1656. If price was the absolute bottom line the package for $1186 looks astoundingly good as it's actually below the lowest price for flights alone.
$1186 Piave Hotel 3.2 of 5 rating
$1193 Hotel Ariston 3.3 of 5 rating
$1204 Hotel Alla Salute 301 of 5 ratings
If this actually looks like it may possibly happen I'll need to verify where the lectures I want to attend will be located and if we want to have that weigh on where we stay (if I can talk a friend into going with me.
Some of the classes I'm particularly interested in:
CAROLINE CASTIGLIONE, BROWN UNIVERSITY
Unauthorized Editions: Women Writing on the Household in Late Renaissance Rome Few women authored printed works on the management of households and the raising of children in Renaissance Italy. Although women of all classes were heavily involved in such labor, the authorities in print on such subjects were largely male. This paper will examine manuscript writings by Roman women who considered the travails of family life from a woman’s point of view. While such writings remained unpublished and were largely epistolary in form, they suggest that female reticence on such subjects in print belied the loquacity of female interlocutors on matters medical, familial, social, and psychological. This paper will investigate the extent to which women used their writing on such themes to “talk back” to male authorities about contested issues. How did these unpublished authors resolve the concomitant dilemma created by their claims to authority and knowledge, since even the best run households were beset by illnesses and childhood death?
Università Ca’ Foscari - San Basilio - Aula 2C
REWRITING CONVENTIONS IN LATE RENAISSANCE ITALY
Organizer: GIOVANNA BENADUSI, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Chair: JOHN JEFFRIES MARTIN, DUKE UNIVERSITY
GIOVANNA BENADUSI, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
The Law and the Fabric of Everyday Life in Tuscany
This paper addresses the significance of notarial documents, in particular last wills, for women in late Renaissance Italy. Recent scholarship has suggested that in their last wills upper-class women devised different forms of agency in order to circumvent the structures of patriarchy. But many of the women who drafted last wills had no wealth to speak of, yet they dictated last wills in great numbers. By shifting the focus from patrician women to ordinary women, my paper questions the conventional assumption that all last wills were naturally embedded in the same legal and familial logic of upper-class families. A close reading of the relationships that crystallized between notaries and their lower-class clients demonstrates how last wills became an accessible public outlet where notaries combined the prescribed law of statutes with the concerns and needs of their clients, who used the destiny of their possessions to weave together the law and their everyday life.
Archivio di Stato - Aula della Scuola di Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica
THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE PAST II
Organizer: DAVID KARMON, COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS Chair: REBECCA ZORACH, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Respondent: CAMMY BROTHERS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA KARLA MALLETTE, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR
Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean
During the early modern period, travelers in the Mediterranean attested the existence of a new language specially adapted to the needs of Mediterranean merchants and travelers: the lingua franca. The term franca — a Romance borrowing of an Arabic borrowing of a Greek borrowing of a Latin word — referred to Western Christians, or “Franks.” And the language, a pidgin Italian, allowed members of distinct linguistic, ethnic, and confessional communities to communicate throughout the Mediterranean. In this talk, I will address the emergence and the development of the language between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, arguing that the evolution of the
new tongue must be understood against the backdrop of economic, social, and military history. And, like the dragomans, renegades, and corsairs who used the tongue, the lingua franca attests to the uneasy yet fascinating transition from medieval to modern, and the accommodations — both private and social — that this process demanded.
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I am considering a new fun project though- cooking my way through the entire Anon. Venetian cookbook as it's written and blogging it. :)
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http://www.hotpaella.com/Departments/Ceramics/Clay-Cookware/Soup-Pots-and-Dutch-Ovens.aspx
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Oooh, if we both start blogging working through both of the Anon. late medieval Italian manuscripts that would be the coolest!
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WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, another Heather (Melissa)
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Re: WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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However, we have couches!
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I'll definately try to track down contact for the authors and see if there's any way to access their research in addition to the conference! I just have to get over my shyness and realize that they'd probably appreciate interest in their work. :)
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Just make sure if you end up looking seriously at some of those flight/hotel deals that the hotel is in venice proper & not Venice-Mestre!
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I'm still debating all the pros and cons.
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I'm definately going to Venice again. I'm just not sure if now, for this, would be better than going to one of the future research conferences put on by this society, and being under less of a time crunch.
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In case travel plans don't work out... the RSA meets every year, and usually within the US or Canada (http://www.rsa.org/meetings/future.php). So while the destination might not be as exotic, the scholarly goodness is just as awesome every year. :-) (And I am applying to next year's conference for sure.)
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However, if the research opportunities will still be there I think it might be better to take the time to make the next trip to Venice at least a week (I don't think I could this time) and make arrangements in advance with various curators.
Can I pick your brain as to whether there might be more focus on Italian, or specifically Venetian research this year than other years? That's what's really driving me to push for this year, but looking at last year there seems to still be lots of related presentations.
I'm definately going to be joining the society and looking into whether they publish proceedings like other scientific conferences, Oxford, etc.
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The RSA doesn't publish all the conference papers -- there are just too many -- but they do put out a journal, Renaissance Quarterly, which is well regarded. Subscription is included with membership.
Hope that helps! :-)
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I'll always be drawn to Venice and this really sounded like the perfect storm of research opportunities, but I've realized that combining the two just means less time to actually explore the museums and other local resources.
You were extremely helpful, THANK YOU!!
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Venezia is very beautiful, a magical place to me. Therefore I understand the temptation very very well.
The only thing I dare to advise is: Take the desicion you are going to be comfortable with. It doesn't help if you're having a great time in Venezia, and end up eating Spaghetti & fried egg for the rest of the year. On the other hand, if you could manage to snip of little things here and there, you could in a way afford it. But the decision is entirely yours, and all us who are so tempting about speeches, very beautiful Venezia, and no-problem-Frankfurt (it's an easy airport to change planes, altough it's rather big), we don't have to live on a limited budget for the rest of the year (well, I have to, but that's another story)
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If you ever decide to come to the US for one of these let me know if you'd like to come for a visit!