Medieval Relativism and its Legacy, 1230-1450 - Conference Paris 2008

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Paris, June 5-7, 2008
Sorbonne (Salle Cavaillès & Salle D 641)
Program

Thursday, June 5
2:00 – 5:30
Salle D641

Philosophy and Theology

DOMINIQUE DEMANGE (EPHE)
Pluralité des vérités et architectonique dans la pensée médiévale

DALLAS G. DENERY II (Bowdoin College)
Protagoras and the Fourteenth-Century Invention of Epistemological Relativism

CHRISTOPHE GRELLARD (Université de Paris 1)
Fides infidelis. La relativité des croyances chez Guillaume d’Ockham

EMMANUEL BABEY (Université de Fribourg)
Saint comme un sage (stoïcien)

Friday, June 6
9:30 – 12:30
Salle Cavaillès

Art History

DORIT TANAI (University of Tel Aviv)
As Good as it Gets: The erosion of Perfection and Harmony in Medieval Music.

STEPHEN PERKINSON (Bowdoin College)
Resisting Relativism in Illuminated Historical Romances: The Case of the Master of Wavrin

BARBARA PERUCKA (Université Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan)
La verité ou l’imagination? L’Orient dans les miniatures du ‘Livre des merveilles’ (Paris,BnF, ms. fr. 2810) – quelques remarques nouvelles

CLEMENA ANTONOVA (American University in Bulgaria)
The Role of the Beholder – Relativism in Medieval and Renaissance Art

Lunch

Friday, June 6
3:00 - 5:30
Cavaillès Room

Literature and Culture

RICHARD NEWHAUSER (Arizona State University)
Sir Gawain and the Ambiguity of Judgment

KEVIN GUFSTAFSON (University of Texas, Arlington)
Judgment, Relativism, and Spectral Secularity in Medieval Representations of Sodom

CARINA JOHNSON (Pitzer College)
Homo Cosmographus and the Possibilities of Cultural Relativism

Saturday, June 7
9:30 to 12:30
Salle D641

Ethics

MARCO TOSTE (Université de Fribourg)
Non semper in omni materia querendum quod est melius simpliciter : Le relativisme politique et éthique dans les commentaires médiévaux à la Politique

MARTIN STONE (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Moral Pluralism, Relativism, or Incommensurability? Explaining several troublesome features of medieval ethics

Medicine and Natural Philosophy

JOEL KAYE (Barnard College)
Relativity in Galenic Medical Theory and Medieval Galenism

AURELIEN ROBERT (Ecole Française de Rome)
Relativisme et théorie des climats dans les écrits médicaux de la fin du moyen âge