International Medieval Congress of the European Middle Ages
9-12 July 2012
Leeds
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/

Session Sponsored by the Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society

Medieval Soundscapes: Orderly and Unruly Sounds and Silences
Session    805
Tuesday 10 July 2012: 16.30-18.00
 Organiser: Pamela M. King, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
Moderator: Philip Butterworth, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
-'The Topping Tooters of the Town': The Civic Soundtrack of the Town Waits
 William Fitzgerald Lyons, Guildhall School of Music & Drama / Royal College of Music, London
-What Did a Medieval Religious Soundscape Look Like?
Beth Williamson, Department of History of Art, University of Bristol
-Tudor Musical Theatre: The Sounds of Religious Change in Ralph Roister Doister
 Katherine Steele Brokaw, School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts, University of California, Merced
Abstract: Musicologists who have formerly had trouble with non-notated sound, are moving into theorising the 'soundscape'. Cultural historians from various disciplinary backgrounds meet them to engage in exchanges which are a theorised thought-experiment; we may know what things looked like but how did they sound? A range of performance possibilities presents itself: for example the early morning liturgy in the monastery, bells, the sound of pipe and tabor played for dancers, the preaching friar's sermon at the market cross, a proclamation, even a play. Soundscape includes everything from the highly stylised and musical to ambient noise,with a number of points between, but also with significant absences and silences. What were and/or were considered loud noises? How did people listen?

Other Sessions of Interest

Liturgical Performance
Session    628
Tuesday 10 July 2012: 11.15-12.45
Moderator: Nils Holger Petersen, Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Københavns Universitet
 -How to Transform a Monk into a Performer: Rubrics as Rules For Shaping the Medieval Music-Liturgical Drama
 Nausica Morandi, Department of Music, Università degli Studi di Padova
-Three Votive Offices of Bishop Pietro Barozzi between Tradition and Innovation
 Cristina Bernardi, Department of Music, Università degli Studi di Padova
-Music and Liturgy in Catalan
 Cristina Menzel Sansó, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona

Adapting and Staging the York Mystery Plays for August 2012: A Round Table Discussion
Session    933
Tuesday 10 July 2012: 19.30-20.30
Sponsor: York Theatre Royal
Moderator: Abbigail Wright, York Theatre Royal
-Participants include Abbigail Wright (York Theatre Royal), Andrew Morrison (York Museums Trust), and Mike Kenny (York Theatre Royal).

Rules and the Unruly in Late Medieval English Drama
Session    1028
Wednesday 11 July 2012: 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: Medieval English Theatre and Records of Early English Drama
Organiser: Philip Butterworth, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator: Cora B. Dietl, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen
 -Biblical versus Contemporary Time Rules and Rulers in Medieval Nativity Plays
 Vicente Chacón Carmona, Departmento de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana, Universidad de Sevilla
-Breaking the Rules Across Genres: The Fall of the Angels in Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Historiale and Thomas Chaundler's Liber Apolgeticus
 Elza C. Tiner, Department of English / Department of Latin, Lynchburg College, Virginia
-Rules of Exchange: Some Thoughts on Dialogicality in the Northern Town Plays
 Pamela M. King, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol

Rules to Follow - But Whose?
Session    1115
Wednesday 11 July 2012: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: Medieval English Theatre and Records of Early English Drama
Organiser: Philip Butterworth, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator: Alexandra Johnston, Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto
-Rules to Follow - But Whose?: Christopher Goodman and His Controversies
 Elizabeth M. S. Baldwin, University of Cape Town
-The Charlton Horn Fair and the Worshipful Society of Cuckolds and Cuckold-Makers
 James M. Gibson, Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto

Performers, Spectators, and Ethics
Session    1228
Wednesday 11 July 2012: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: Medieval English Theatre and Records of Early English Drama
Organiser: Philip Butterworth, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator: Pamela M. King, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol
-Spectatorial Risk, Metatheatre, and Zombies
 Nadia Thérèse van Pelt, Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton
-Spectatorship, Bruce Forsyth, and the Tudor Interlude
 Greg Walker, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh
-The Ethics of Medieval Spectatorship
 John J. McGavin, School of Humanities, University of Southampton

Medieval Drama Studies: Securing the Future - A Round Table Discussion
Session    1428
Wednesday 11 July 2012: 19.30-20.30
Sponsor: Records of Early English Drama / Medieval English Theatre
Organiser & Moderator: Alexandra Johnston, Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto
-Participants include Pamela M. King (University of Bristol), John Sebastian (Loyola University, New Orleans), Charlotte Steenbrugge (Independent Scholar, Oxford), and Greg Walker (University of Edinburgh).

Papers of Interest

Middle English Regions and Their Languages
Session    128
Monday 9 July 2012: 11.15-12.45
East Anglian Representations of the Demonic Other: Linguistics, Scatological Humor, and Drama
Lindsey Simon-Jones, Pennsylvania State University, Fayette