Session Details

Thursday, 30 December

684. Females in Flower: Marguerites, Roses, and the Flower and Leaf as Courtly Cults

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Jefferson, Loews

Program arranged by the International Courtly Literature Society

Presiding: Joyce Kit Coleman, Univ. of North Dakota

1. “The Romance of the Rose: Ambiguity and Secret Meaning in Botanical Imagery,” Barbara A. Szlanic, Columbia Univ.

2. “‘A Gardeyne Ful Godely’: A Feminine Garden of Textuality,” Martha Dana Rust, New York Univ.

3. “Rose-Mary: Superlative Allegory of Beauty and Power,” Abraham Quintanar, Dickinson Coll.

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