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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 01:25:00 PST
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From: debashish banerji
Subject: NORTHWEST EXPO : ENTERTAINMENT ARTS AND HI-TECH
FROM: CYBERTRADE INTERNATIONAL
public relations & marketing communications...worldwide
27 February 1995
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
The Pacific Northwest & City of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. will be the
focus of an important forum, exposition and networking conference in
Seattle, 20 May and 21 May 1995. Hollywood and New York people should take
particular note.
The purpose: To promote the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Western Canada as an
established creative and production center for the entertainment arts and
sciences. Participants include members (companies and individuals) of the
film, television, music, theatre, the related advanced technology computer,
telecommunications and electronics industries.
This conference and expo may be the first of its kind, and could serve as a
model for other communities, worldwide, who have similar objectives.
National, state and municipal film commissions are welcome to attend. The
networking conference should also be of particular interest to individuals
and groups in the investment community who want to explore profitable
opportunities in the entertainment field.
Keynote speakers will include senior executives from several related
industries (to be announced). Group discussions and forums will be
wide-ranging covering nearly every aspect of the entertainment industry
creative, production and technical environments. Many readers of this
release may find Internet-related topics of special interest.
For further information contact:
Emma L. Jackson
Dark Diva...In Effect, Inc.
213.464.0316 Ext. 849
Leave messages at the same
number. Ref: Alex Finaly
Your call will be returned.
or
alexfinlay@earthlink.net
Tel: 310.908.5939
or
debashish@earthlink.net
9207 pioneer boulevard/santa fe springs, california 90670/310.908.5939
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 01:58:33 -0400
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From: Critical Mass
Subject: Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
---------------
Now inviting submissions for
CRITICAL MASS vol. 5.1
_Critical Mass_ is in its fifth year. We continue to publish the critical
and creative work of graduate students of English: innovative essays on
literature and theory, book reviews, poetry, short fiction, etc. We
also welcome opinion pieces on the job market, pedagogy, graduate programs
and other topics of interest to graduate students of English.
Issue 4.2 contains:
Cynthea Masson, "Desire Waiting for a Response: Fantasizing
Theories of the Lesbian Love Letter"
Sharon Hamilton, "Kissing Clarissa"
Nancy Pearson, "The Edenic Myth in Stephen Friesen's _The
Shunning_"
Fiction by Michael Kohn; poetry by Kathy Mac; and reviews by
Julia Swan and Michael Greene.
Submissions to should follow MLA format. To facilitate our process of
anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript.
Please include a self-addressed, self-stamped return envelope. Send your
submissions to:
Critical Mass
Department of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 3J5
You can also send e-mail inquiries and abstracts (or, if you feel up to it,
the entire document) to CRITMASS@AC.DAL.CA.
*** We welcome submissions at any time, but the deadline for our next issue
*** is May 15, 1995.
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:51:13 GMT
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From: Gerard Lowe
Subject: Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature On-Line
***************************************************************************
*MHRA's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature available *
* for searching on-line *
***************************************************************************
Colleagues may be interested to know that the Modern Humanities Research
Association is making the Annual Bibliography of English Language and
Literature (ABELL) openly available for searching on-line until 30 April
1995 for evaluation purposes.
The database currently contains more than 20,000 records of articles,
doctoral dissertations, books and reviews in the field of English studies
from the report years 1991 and 1992, and is searched by using Cambridge
University Library's CATS software.
To access the database, use Telnet to connect to vaxf.lib.cam.ac.uk,
enter GUEST at the username prompt, and then follow the instructions which
appear on screen.
Alternatively, visit ABELL's Home Page on the World Wide Web at :-
http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/FR_Web/abell.html
Apologies for cross-posting.
Gerard Lowe Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 333058
Editor, ABELL E-mail: abell@ula.cam.ac.uk
University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR
UK
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:21:24 -0500
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From: Steve Wright
Subject: Iconography of the Midwife in Erlau Nativity Play
This query is cross-posted to two lists. Please forgive the redundancy.
The Erlau Nativity Play (Erlau I) contains a rubric in which
the midwife (obstetrix) is described as carrying not only the cradle
but also a platter and spoon (patellam et coclear). The latter two
objects apparently function as iconographic attributes; they have no
further function in the action of the play. Can anyone provide
any further information about sources or analogues for the use of
kitchenware in conjunction with the Obstetrix? Is this a
commonplace or an anomaly? Many thanks in advance for your
suggestions.
--Steve Wright
Catholic University
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 09:53:12 -0500
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From: Joel Cohen
Subject: Camerata Mediterranea concerts
Herewith a program for upcoming March concerts by the Camerata Mediterran=
ea
(March 23, Newburyport Ma; March 24, Cambridge Ma.; March 26, Cloisters
Museum, N.Y.C.).
Trobador
________________________
CAMERATA MEDITERRANEA
Anne Azema, voice
Jean-Luc Madier, voice
Francois Harismendy, voice
Margriet Tindemans, vielle
Cheryl Ann Fulton, harp
Joel Cohen, director, voice, oriental lute
in
Bernartz de Ventadorn:
The Fool on the Bridge
(Le fou sur le pont)
concert program, March, 1995
All texts and melodies are by the troubadour Bernartz de Ventadorn (fl.
1147-1170) unless otherwise noted. The spoken biography (vida) of Ventado=
rn
is attributed to the troubadour Uc de Sant Circ (fl. 1217-1253).
1. Can vei la lauzeta mover (instrumental) =
Tindemans =
2. Non es meravelha s'eu chan
Madier, Fulton, Tindemans
3. Cantarai d'aquest trobadors (text: Peire d'Alvernhe; music: Gautier de=
Coincy) =
Harismendy, Cohen, Fulton, Tindemans
4. Lo gens temps de pascor (text: Ventadorn; music: Guiraut de Riquer)
Azema, Tindemans
5. Can l'herba fresch'e.l folha par =
Madier, Fulton
6. Pois preyatz me, senhor =
Azema
7. Tant ai mo cor ple de joya (text: Ventadorn; music: Anonymous, Chanson=
nier
Cang=E9)
Madier. Fulton, Tindemans
8. Per mels cobrir lo mal pes (text: Ventadorn; music: Uc Brunenc)
Azema, Fulton, Tindemans
9. Lancan vei per mei la landa (text: Ventadorn; music: Anonymous,
Chansonnier Cange)
Harismendy, Cohen
10. En cossirer e en esmai =
Azema, Tindemans
11. Era.m conseillatz, senhor
Harismendy, Fulton, Tindemans
12. Can vei la lauzeta mover
Madier, Tindemans
13. text: Tuit cil que.m preyon qu'eu chan/music: Lancan vei la folha
Madier =
14. Amics Bernart de Ventadorn (Peire d'Alvernhe and Bernartz de Ventador=
n)
Harismendy and Cohen; Madier and Fulton
15. Can vei la lauzeta mover (envoi)
Madier, Fulton, Tindemans
Performing script, musical editions and arrangements: Joel Cohen
Literary and philological consultant: Pierre Bec
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 13:35:21 -0500
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From: "Michael D. Swanson"
Subject: e-mail censorship
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Subj: Network free speech (fwd)
Something we should all be active about...
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Date: 5 Mar 1995 14:32:23 -0000
From: Tom Sherman
Subject: Network free speech
PLEASE WIDELY REDISTRIBUTE THIS DOCUMENT WITH THIS BANNER INTACT
DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE AFTER MAY 1, 1995
Feb. 22, 1995
[updated Mar. 3 to include House version's bill number]
Distributed by the Voters Telecommunications Watch (vtw@vtw.org)
and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (ask@eff.org)
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[In order to use the net more effectively, the following organizations have
joined forces on a single Congressional net campaign to stop the
Communications Decency Act, S. 314 & H.R. 1004 (in alphabetical order):
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT),
the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
the Electronic Frontier Foundation-Austin (EFF-Austin),
(Note that EFF-Austin is not a chapter of the DC-based EFF)
the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC),
the Hands Off! the Net petition drive,
the People for the American Way (PFAW),
the Society for Electronic Access (SEA), and
the Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW)
These organizations are using the Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW)
as a conduit for legislative feedback. When you contact Congress about the
Communications Decency Act and send your feedback to vtw@vtw.org, that
information is being fed back to all participating organizations.
If your organization would like to signon to this campaign and receive
legislative feedback, contact vtw@vtw.org.
-Shabbir]
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CONTENTS
Introduction
What you can do
Contact Information
Background
Current status of S. 314
Where can I learn more about the bill? (URL included)
Where will I learn about updates to this alert?
Current list of participating organizations
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INTRODUCTION
Dear Net Citizens:
Legislation has been introduced before the Senate which would severely
restrict your freedom of speech, halt the free flow of information on
the net, and require all telecommunications carriers to censor your
public and private communications.
The "Communications Decency Act of 1995" (S. 314), introduced in early
February by Senators Exon (D-NE) and Gorton (R-WA), would place
substantial criminal liability on telecommunications carriers (including
traditional telephone networks, Internet service providers, commercial
online services such as America Online and Compuserve, and independent
BBS's) whenever their networks are used to transmit any material
which is deemed indecent or harassing. In order to avoid these penalties,
carriers would be forced to restrict the activities of their subscribers
and censor all public and private communications.
We must act quickly to stop the progress of S. 314. The bill may soon
be incorporated into Senate telecommunications reform legislation, which
is currently being drafted by the Senate Commerce Committee. The
telecommunications reform bill may be introduced as early as mid March,
and is expected to be considered on a fast track. If S. 314 is included
in this bill, it will be extremely difficult to change or remove and
could pass quickly.
We are asking you to join us in urging key members of the Senate to
prevent S. 314 from being included in Senate telecommunications reform
measures and to hold open, public hearings on the issue.
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WHAT YOU CAN DO (IN ONLY FIVE MINUTES)
1. Contact Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD, Commerce Committee Chairman),
Sen. Bob Packwood (R-OR) and Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC, ranking
member) and urge them to keep S.314 from being incorporated into
telecommunications reform legislation. You'll find their addresses,
phone numbers, and fax numbers below.
Also, if you live in:
AK AZ HI KY LA MA ME MO MS MT ND NE NV OR SC SD TX WA WV
you should also contact your own Senator from the Commerce committee.
Remember, the best and most effective means of influencing a member of
Congress is to write a letter in your own words.
2. Write/Fax/Email them a letter or make a phone call. Try to mention
as as many of the points below (marked with a *) as you can fit
politely into communication.
3. DON'T FORGET TO DROP A NOTE TO VTW@VTW.ORG to tell us who you contacted.
We'll tally the results and feed them back to all participating
organizations. It's crucial we have this feedback, even if you just
got a form letter, or a "thank you" to your phone call.
4. Feel good about yourself. You've just participated in democracy
without leaving your seat.
5. (Extra bonus activism) Reproduce this alert with the expiration date
and contact information intact to other non-Usenet places. Fax it
to your friends, post a copy to your local bulletin board. Please don't
spam it to places like rec.pets.cats, but place it in places where people
who don't read a lot of Usenet might see it. Non-net connected BBSs are
great, as are physical bulletin boards. Please don't post it to email
lists or newsgroups not related to politics, as this will annoy people.
Most especially, try to reach people in the larger online services,
such as America OnLine and Compuserve and the large PC networks, such
as Fidonet.
When writing a letter or making a phone call, try to include the following
points in your message:
* S. 314 must not be incorporated into the Senate telecommunications
reform bill.
* The bill would force communications service providers to limit or
remove my access to file archives, discussion forums, and
electronic mail.
* S. 314 would dramatically restrict the free flow of information
through out the online world and limit the free speech and privacy
rights of individual users.
* Placing criminal liability on communications service providers
will force providers to censor the activities of their
subscribers.
* As a user of interactive communications technologies, I am capable
of deciding for myself and for my children what content I wish to
receive. The government should not be involved in deciding what
kinds of content I may access.
* Public hearings must be held to consider possible technological
means and policy alternatives to government content restrictions
in interactive media.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Here are the Commerce committee members. Please contact Sen. Larry
Pressler (the Committee Chairman) and Sen. Ernest Hollings at a minimum.
If you see your state listed below, contact your own senator as well.
All addresses are Washington, D.C. 20510
P ST Name and Address Phone Fax
= == ======================== ============== ==============
R SD Pressler, Larry 1-202-224-5842 1-202-224-1259*
243 RSOB larry_pressler@pressler.senate.gov
*Note this is the Commerce Committee's fax number
D SC Hollings, Ernest F. 1-202-224-6121 1-202-224-4293
125 RSOB
R OR Packwood, Robert 1-202-224-5244 1-202-228-3576
259 RSOB
D HI Inouye, Daniel K. 1-202-224-3934 1-202-224-6747
722 HSOB
R AK Stevens, Ted 1-202-224-3004 1-202-224-1044
522 HSOB
D KY Ford, Wendell H. 1-202-224-4343 1-202-224-0046
173A RSOB wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov
R AZ McCain, John 1-202-224-2235 1-202-228-2862
111 RSOB
D NE Exon, J. J. 1-202-224-4224 1-202-224-5213
528 HSOB
R MT Burns, Conrad R. 1-202-224-2644 1-202-224-8594
183 DSOB
D WV Rockefeller, John D. 1-202-224-6472 1-202-224-1689
109 HSOB
R WA Gorton, Slade 1-202-224-3441 1-202-224-9393
730 HSOB Senator_Gorton@gorton.senate.gov
D MA Kerry, John F. 1-202-224-2742 1-202-224-8525
421 RSOB
R MS Lott, Trent 1-202-224-6253 1-202-224-2262
487 RSOB
D LA Breaux, John B. 1-202-224-4623 1-202-224-2435
516 HSOB
R TX Hutchison, Kay Bailey 1-202-224-5922 1-202-224-0776
703 HSOB senator@hutchison.senate.gov
D NV Bryan, Richard H. 1-202-224-6244 1-202-224-1867
364 RSOB
R ME Snowe, Olympia 1-202-224-5344 1-202-224-6853
176 RSOB
D ND Dorgan, Byron L. 1-202-224-2551 1-202-224-1193
713 HSOB
R MO Ashcroft, John 1-202-224-6154 1-202-224-7615
170 RSOB
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CURRENT STATUS OF S. 314
The bill was introduced on February 1, 1995 by Senators Exon (D-NE) and
Gorton (R-WA). It is currently pending before the Senate Commerce
Committee (chaired by Senator Pressler (R-SD)).
No committee action has been scheduled as of February 21, 1995.
It may be included in the Senate telecommunications reform legislation,
expected to be introduced by mid-March.
A House of Representatives version of the bill has also been introduced
with almost identical text, as H.R. 1004.
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BACKGROUND
S. 314 would expand current law restricting indecency and harassment on
telephone services to all telecommunications providers and expand
criminal liability to all content carried by all forms of
telecommunications networks. The bill would amend Section 223 of the
Communications Act (47 U.S.C. 223), which requires carriers to take
steps to prevent minors from gaining access to indecent audiotext and
criminalizes harassment accomplished over interstate telephone lines.
If enacted, S. 314 would compel service providers to severely restrict
your online activities. Your access to email, discussion lists, usenet,
the world wide web, gopher, and ftp archives would be substantially
reduced or cut off entirely. The bill would also force providers to
closely monitor and pre-screen your electronic mail, and refuse to
transmit any message or other content which may be considered to be
indecent.
This bill poses a significant threat to freedom of speech and the free
flow of information in cyberspace. The bill also raises fundamental
questions about the right of government to control content on
communications networks, as well as the locus of liability for content
carried in these new communications media.
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WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BILL? (URL INCLUDED)
The Voters Telecommunications Watch has set up a gopher page where
you can get a copy of the bill (including analyses by the American
Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the
Electronic Messaging Association, and others). Here's the URL:
WWW URL: gopher://gopher.panix.com/11/vtw/exon
Gopher command : gopher -p 1/vtw/exon gopher.panix.com
If you have difficulty getting to this gopher page, or if you don't
have access to Mosaic/gopher, drop a note to:
vtw@vtw.org
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WHERE WILL I LEARN ABOUT UPDATES TO THIS ALERT?
We will post updates to this alert in three places:
-On the account vtw@panix.com (finger vtw@panix.com)
-On Usenet (comp.org.eff.talk, comp.org.cpsr.talk, and alt.privacy)
-Through our announcements mailing list, vtw-announce@vtw.org.
To subscribe, simply send a message to listproc@vtw.org with the
following in the message body:
subscribe vtw-announce Firstname Lastname
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CURRENT LIST OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
At this time, the following organizations have signed onto this
campaign and are receiving the legislative feedback that VTW is compiling:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), infoaclu@aclu.org
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), ask@cdt.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ask@eff.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation-Austin (EFF-Austin), eff-austin@tic.com
(Note that EFF-Austin is not a chapter of the DC-based EFF)
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), info@epic.org
Hands Off! the Net petition drive, slowdog@wookie.net
People for the American Way (PFAW), jlessern@reach.com
Society for Electronic Access (SEA), sea@sea.org
Voters Telecommunications Watch (VTW), vtw@vtw.org
Note that the Voters Telecommunications Watch does not speak for these
organizations. Any opinions contained herein are those of the author,
and not necessarily endorsed by participating organizations.
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 18:39:56 -0800
Reply-To: Arts Management Discussion Group
Sender: Arts Management Discussion Group
From: Donovan Gray
Subject: Network free speech (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:45:54 -0500
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Steve Wright
Subject: Joseph and Mary on a sled?
I have been working with the plays in the Erlau Playbook and came
across what seems to be an unusual piece of action. As Joseph and
Mary set out for Egypt, Joseph recommends an unusual conveyance:
du solt auch mit gueten wiczen
her auf den sliten siczen
A later rubric reads as follows: "Et sic recedant supra vehiculum sint
Maria et Joseph." My question is simply this: what is the exact nature
of this _vehiculum_? Joseph's speech makes it sound as if Mary is
going to ride to Egypt on some sort of sledge or sleigh. Does anyone
recognize a source/analogue here? Is there any sort of iconographic
convention for Mary sledding to Egypt instead of riding on the donkey?
Would anyone care to speculate about how this scene might have been staged?
Is this a deliberate anachronism which transposes the Flight of the
Holy Family into present time and northern climes? Thanks for any
suggestions.
--Steve Wright
Catholic University
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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 10:54:09 -0500
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Joel Cohen
Subject: Joseph and Mary on a sled?
"Is there any sort of iconographic
convention for Mary sledding to Egypt instead of riding on the donkey?
Would anyone care to speculate about how this scene might have been staged?
Is this a deliberate anachronism which transposes the Flight of the
Holy Family into present time and northern climes? Thanks for any
suggestions.
--Steve Wright
Catholic University"
I have a vague and perhaps inaccurate memory of a French Romanesque capital
featuring the Holy Family on a wagon -- perhaps from Saulieu or Autun...Far
from a library at present, I have no way of checking this.
Joel Cohen
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 12:09:22 -0500
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Joel Cohen
Subject: Camerata Mediterranea concerts
Herewith program notes to the upcoming Camerata Mediterranea concerts in
Newburyport, Ma. (March 23), Cambidge, Ma. (March 24), and New York City
(March 26).
Trobador
_________________________
The Fool on the Bridge
program notes
The fool on the bridge, to whom Bernatz de Ventadorn compares himself in =
one
of his song texts, was most likely the subject of a lost medieval proverb=
=2E
With a little imagination we can reconstruct the gist of the original say=
ing:
while "normal" folk cross a bridge lengthways, from one riverbank to the
next, the madman tries to get across sideways -- and he takes a plunge!
Bernatz had good reasons for feeling and describing himself to be differe=
nt.
Prolonged contact with his extraordinary poetry and music serves to empha=
size
the schism between this (or many another) troubadour's inner world and =
the
much harsher realities of medieval society. While the masses of medieval =
men
and women struggled for subsistence, and while most men of higher station=
strove for power and riches, Bernatz created, for himself and a tiny circ=
le
of connoisseurs, an exquisite dream-world of subtle feeling,
self-contemplation, and diffused erotic yearning. The life- path of a
"normal" man was often pillage, plunder, marriage as a form of real estat=
e,
and brutal sexual conquest. Bernatz chooses instead the evanscent pleasu=
res
of sound and rhyme, bachelorhood, and the pursuit of idealized, romantic=
love with already-married women... at the end, he retires to a monastery,=
presumably with his memories as his principal riches. No wonder, given th=
e
dominant values of his century (and ours) he often refers to himself as
crazy -- and no wonder that some contemporary scholars have surmised that=
the
emotional "sensitivity" of many troubadours, and their preference for wom=
ens'
chambers to the battlefield, is an indication that a number of them were
homosexual...
Whatever the sexual preferences of the troubadour/minstrel milieu in gene=
ral,
it seems clear to this observer that Bernatz's enthusiasm for womens' eye=
s,
mouths, and bodies is genuine, heartfelt, and anything but platonic. It i=
s
also evident that the poetic persona (and, possibly, the real man) depict=
ed
in these works is charming, highstrung, self-involved, melancholic, and g=
iven
to dramatic mood-swings. Last but not least, Bernatz emerges as a creati=
ve
genius whose songs can provide endless pleasure nearly eight centuries af=
ter
their original creation.
The selective, affectionate "portait of the artist" we provide in the pre=
sent
program has involved close scrutiny of all Bernatz's surviving poems and
melodies. And, like any project involving medieval music, it has also
involved a large degree of creative re-imagination as we attempt to flesh=
out
the limited "scientific" information supplied by the surviving sources.
Whenever a poem has been transmitted with a melody ascribed to Bernatz, w=
e
have used that tune; in other cases, when a beautiful poem has survived
without musical notation, we have adapted another troubadour melody to it=
, in
accordance with a well-documented practice of the troubadours themselves.=
Our performances of Bernatz's songs continue to follow the goals and
guidelines evolved during Camerata Mediterranea's first production, Lo G=
ai
Saber (1991). The vocalists -- Anne Azema, Jean-Luc Madier, and Fran=E7o=
is
Harismendy -- are diverse in their current areas of specialization (medie=
val
music, "folk" music, and opera, respectively). What unites them, besides
their shared enthusiasm for troubadour song, is a common heritage. They a=
ll
have family roots in Southern France and heard the Occitan language at ho=
me
during childhood. Their relationship to this magnificent language and its=
civilisation is therefore antecedent to our work together, in the company=
of
the great medieval scholar Pierre Bec. Instrumentalists Cheryl Ann Fulton=
and
Margriet Tindemans, reknowned specialists in their field, have worked clo=
sely
with the singers, myself, and Professor Bec to achieve an organic "fit"
between the words and the music. Their contributions are (as they should =
be)
personal responses to Bernatz's texts, and to the artistic personalities =
of
their singer colleagues. All of us -- singers, players, scholars in vary=
ing
combinations and capacities -- attempt to place our various faculties -- =
cor
e cors e saber e sen -- in the service of the "joyful wisdom," treated a=
s
historical memory (of course), but most importantly as living art. Bernat=
z de
Ventadorn's funny-sad, selfish-generous, dominant-passive, simple-elusive=
,
crazy-sane love songs deserve no less! We invite you to take the plunge w=
ith
us.
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:45:12 -0700
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
Sender: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
From: Jesse Hurlbut
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: Pregnant Abbesses
I have a student doing a comparative look at the Pregnant Abbess
plays from the Lille Procession and from the Paris goldsmith guild
collection. Are there other plays depicting this story or are there
other places where this story is told?
thanks,
Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 00:54:28 -0400
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From: BOURASSA ANDRE G
Subject: Re: Pregnant Abbesses
I guess one has to read _L'Abesse de Castro_, by Stendhal, a novel
situated in the xvth century. I think it is drawn from an old story.
Andre G. Bourassa
bourassa.andre_g@uqam.ca
On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Jesse Hurlbut wrote:
> I have a student doing a comparative look at the Pregnant Abbess
> plays from the Lille Procession and from the Paris goldsmith guild
> collection. Are there other plays depicting this story or are there
> other places where this story is told?
>
> thanks,
>
> Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
>
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 10:10:58 CST
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From: Jeremiah Reese
Subject: Re: Pregnant Abbesses
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Jeremiah Reese
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 13:27:00 CST
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From: Robert Clark
Subject: pregnant abbess
Jesse,
Refer your student to the discussion of several different versions of
this legend (including the Cange miracle play) in Dyan Elliott's
_Spiritual Marriage_, pp. 181-183. I have further refs. to versions of
the legend if your student needs (or wants) them.
Cheers,
Bob
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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 19:51:00 EST
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From: "Alan E. Knight"
Subject: Re: Pregnant Abbesses
In-Reply-To: HURLBUTJ AT JKHBHRC.BYU.EDU -- Wed, 22 Mar 1995 16:45:12 -0700
Jesse,
I know of no other dramatic versions of the pregnant abbess story,
but there are many other narrative versions in both Latin and
French. As you know, the Lille playwright's source was Vincent of
Beauvais's _Speculum Historiale_ (Bk. 7, Ch. 86). A French prose
translation of Vincent was made in the mid 15th c. by Jean Mielot,
who lived in Lille. As far as I know, this is available only in
the facsimile edition of Bodley MS. Douce 374 that was made for
the Roxburghe Club in 1885.
My colleague, Robert W. Frank, Jr., who is editor of _The Chaucer
Review_ and who has worked a lot on miracles, provides the
following information:
The place to start is A. Poncelet's index of miracles in _Analecta
Bollandia_, 21 (1902), 241-360. The pregnant abbess is miracle
number 4, where 20 additional examples are listed. A bibliography
of French versions is provided in Adgar, _Le Gracial_, ed. Pierre
Kunstmann (Ottowa: Editions de l'Universite d'Ottowa, 1982). There
the pregnant abbess is number 49. This presumably includes Gautier
de Coinci's version, which is found in vol. 2 of Koenig's edition.
Your student should find sufficient versions to make a meaningful
comparison.
Best wishes,
Alan
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:53:00 -0700
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From: Jesse Hurlbut
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject: DScriptorium Update
Some of you have wondered what ever happened to DScriptorium. Here
is a brand new announcement (you heard it on PERFORM first!):
Formerly an FTP site, DScriptorium is now a World Wide Web site.
Point your Web Browser to the following address:
http://acs1.byu.edu/~hurlbutj/dscriptorium/dscriptorium.html
DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing
digital images of Medieval manuscripts
All materials contained in DScriptorium may be freely distributed for
the personal use of students, scholars and the public. Any commercial
use or publication of them is strictly prohibited. Images may not be
resold or redistributed for compensation of any kind.
So far the collection includes miniatures from the unique manuscript
of the Mystere dou Jour dou Jugement (from the Bibliotheque
Municipale de Besancon--71 of the 89 miniatures scanned in so far), a
Book of Hours from Spalding University and various manuscripts
(mostly Books of Hours) from the Special Collections Library at the
University of Kentucky. The collection will continue to grow, so
keep an eye on the "What's new" file for updates.
Send all questions or comments to:
Jesse_Hurlbut@byu.edu
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 11:22:01 -0400
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From: DAVIDSON@WMICH.EDU
Subject: Reprints of _Comparative Drama_
In-Reply-To: Your message dated "Wed,
29 Mar 1995 09:53:00 -0700" <199503292318.SAA02395@gw.wmich.edu>
Several special issues of _Comparative Drama_ have been reprinted for
individuals and non-subscribers by Medieval Institute Publications. These
are:
_Iconographic and Comparative Studies in Medieval Drama_, which contains
essays originally presented at the Lancaster SITM Colloquium (Introduciton
by Meg Twycross).
_Medieval Drama on the Continent of Europe_ -- Nine scholarly studies,
including Hansjurgen Linke's fine piece surveying medieval German liturgical
drama and recent research in it, Steve Wright's article on an early
Scandinavian play, Nat Brockett's discovery of a previously unknown _Ordo
Prophetarum_ at Zagreb, Bob Potter's piece on "Illegal Immigration of
Medieval Drama to California," etc., etc.
_Early and Traditional Drama: Africa, Asia, and the New World_ contains Max
Harris' paper on folk dramatizations in New Mexico of the
Conquest/Conversion, Milla Riggio's paper on the Iranian Passion Play,
Mikkiko Ishii's discussion of Noh drama, and studies of African traditional
drama, Kathakali dance drama, Indonesian puppet theater, and Peking Opera. It
is aimed at everyone interested in early drama.
And, coming soon, _Emblem, Iconography, and Drama_, containing articles by
Chris Wortham on _Antony and Cleopatra_, Judith Dundas on Cupid and Death,
Peggy Munoz Simonds on music in _The Tempest_, Frederick Kiefer on _LLL_,
Robert C. Evans on Ben Jonson, Lisa Hopkins on John Ford, Elizabeth Truax on
emblematic pictures, and Elizabeth K. Hill on Quarles as a dramatist.
Each of the above are available for $12 except _Iconogr Publications, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008. Add $3 for the first book, and $.50
for each subsequent book, for postage and handling. Visa and Mastercard are
accepted.
These books have been issued in response to the encouragement of many persons
in early drama, and we are not sure how widely they are known out in the
field; hence we would be grateful if recipients of the PERFORM list would
help to spread the word about them.
Many thanks.
Clifford Davidson
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 09:21:13 -0600
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