Mary Edwards Conference and Symposium Papers

  • “Levitation in Three Panels Duccio’s Maestà (1308-1311),” at the Annual Meeting of the SECAC Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 27, 2022
  • “Real and Symbolic Crosses in Altichiero’s Oratory of Saint George in Padua (1379-1384),” at the Forty-seventh Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 22, 2022
  • “Saint Anne as Symbol, Birth Mother, Teacher of Mary, Metterza, Allegorical Figure and Patron of Florence in Some Late Medieval Italian Works of Art,” at the Forty-sixth Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 16, 2021
  • “The Duchess and her Paramour: : A Medieval (?) Poem (?)” at the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 15, 2021 [via Zoom]
  • “Reflections on Salvador Dalí’s The Metamorphosis of Narcissus,” at the Annual Meeting of the SECAC Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, December 8, 2020 [via ZOOM]
  • “The Doubled Image in Medieval and Renaissance Culture,” at the Forty-fifth Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2020 [via ZOOM]
  • “The Frescoed Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria in the 14th-century Oratory in Bagno a Ripoli near Florence,” at the Forty-fourth Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2019
  • “The Vitruvian Man as Christ,” at the Annual Meeting of the SECAC Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 18, 2019
  • “The Cerne Abbas Giant: A Feminist Reading” at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 2019
  • “Frida Kahlo’s Paintings of Women in Bed,” at the Annual Meeting of the SECAC Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, October 20, 2018
  • “A Beautiful Resting Place: Parallels between the Life of Bonifazio Lupo and the Lives of the Disciples of James the Great as Portrayed in the Paduan Frescoes by Avanzo (1372-79),” at the Forty-third Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 6, 2018
  • “The Fourteenth-Century Frescoed Cycle of James the Great by Altichiero and Jacopo Avanzo in Padua: An Example of “Holy Marketing?” at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  • Kalamazoo, May 12, 2018
  • “How the Corpse of James the Greater Established Santiago de Compostela, as Told in the 14th century Frescoes by Altichiero and Avanzo,” at the Forty-third annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, South Carolina, November 17, 2017
  • “The Miracles Pertaining to James the Greater as Portrayed in the 14th-century Frescoes by Altichiero and Avanzo in the Chapel of San Giacomo in Padua,” at the Annual Meeting of the SECAC Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 27, 2017
  • “How were the Frescoes by Altichiero and Avanzo in the Cappella di San Giacomo in Padua Experienced during Liturgy, Prayer or Meditation in the Fourteenth Century?” at the Forty-second Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 13, 2017
  • “A New Medieval Source for Shakespeare’s Greatest Tragedy,” at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13, 2017.
  • “The Legenda Plastica: or the Lost Books of Jacopo da Voragine [Yes,  Dustin Hoffman, There Is Indeed a Future in Plastics!],” at the Forty-second annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 7, 2016.
  • “The St. Lucy Altarpiece by Domenico Veneziano Reconsidered,” at the Forty-first Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 14, 2016.
  • “The Legenda Plastica: or the Lost Books of Jacopo da Voragine [Yes, Dustin Hoffman, There Is Indeed a Future in Plastics!],” at the Annual Meeting of the SECAC Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2015.
  • “Raphael’s Madonna of the Goldfinch Reconsidered,” at the Fortieth Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, October 16, 2015.