The International Machaut Society will sponsor three sessions and a business meeting with buffet luncheon (at noon in Fetzer 1045) at the 2008 meeting of the International Congress on Medieval Studies, all on Saturday 10 May; session and paper titles follow.

• Session 359: Machaut's Legacy In and Outside of France (Saturday 10:00, Valley II, Community Building Lounge)
  
  • A. C. Spearing (University of Virginia), “English Autography”
  • Lucas Antoine (Johns Hopkins University), "Poetic Residue:  Machaut's Legacy in Late Medieval Spain"
  • Burt Kimmelman (New Jersey Institute of Technology), “Patron Saints and Sinners:  The Trope of Patronage and its Subversion in Guillaume de Machaut, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan”

     

• Session 426: Teaching Machaut Across Disciplines (Saturday 1:30, Fetzer 1060)
  
  • A roundtable discussion with Deborah McGrady (University of Virginia), Barbara Altmann (University of Oregon), Matthew Steel (Western Michigan University), and Elizabeth L. Keathley (University of North Carolina--Greensboro)

     

• Session 478:  Sacred and Secular:  What Machaut Can Teach Us About These Divisions (Saturday 3:30, Fetzer 1060)
  

  • Ivan Jimenez (University of Pittsburgh), “Harmony in Two of Machaut's Motets:  The Phenomenon of Intermittence and its Role in the Unconscious Aesthetic Validation of Machaut's Style”

  • Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University) and Jamie Blasina (Dalhousie University), “Marianism in the Secular Songs of Guillaume de Machaut”
  • Jared C. Hartt (Oberlin College-Conservatory of Music), "Guillaume de Machaut's Secular Motets:  An Anomalous Subgenre?"

     

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