CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of Italian
Department of Italian
University of Bristol
19 Woodland Road
Bristol, UK BS8 1TE
| Office Telephone: | 0044 (0)117 9288610 |
| Office Fax: | 0044 (0)117 9288143 |
| Active email: | J.H.Bryce@bristol.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.bris.ac.uk/ |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Gender and culture in later fifteenth-century Florence
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
'The Theatrical Activities of Palla di Lorenzo Strozzi in Lyon in the 1540s', in Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance, ed. by J. R. Mulryne and Margeret Shewring (London: Macmillan, 1991),Warwick Studies in the European Humanities, pp. 55-69
'Gender and Myth in the Orlando furioso', Italian Studies, 47 (1992), 41-50
'The Oral World of the Early Accademia Fiorentina', Renaissance Studies, 9, 1 (1995), 77-103
'Intimations of Patriarchy: Memories of Wartime Japan in Dacia Maraini's Bagheria', in European Memories of the Second World War, ed. by Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett and Claire Gorrara (New York, London: Berghahn Books, 1999), pp. 220-8
'Adjusting the Canon for Later Fifteenth-Century Florence: The Case of Antonia Pulci', in The Renaissance Theatre: Texts, Performance, Design, ed. by Christopher Cairns (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1999), 2 vols, vol. I, pp. 133-45
'The Perfect Crime? Paternal Perpetrators in Dacia Maraini's Voci', in Crime Scenes: Detective Narratives in European Culture Since 1945, ed. by Anne Mullen and Emer O'Beirne (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 207-18
'Creative Writing in the Vernacular in Later Fifteenth-Century Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Pulci', in A History of Women's Writing in Italy, ed. by Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood (Cambridge: CUP, 2000), pp. 31-36
'Performing for Strangers: Women, Dance, and Music in Quattrocento Florence', Renaissance Quarterly, 54 (2001), 1074-1107 (selected as article of the month, February 2002 by the US Medieval Feminist Index)
'Lorenzo de' Medici, Piombino, and Naples: Cultural Politics from the Raccolte aragonesi to the Comento', in Essays in Italian Literature and History in Honour of Doug Thompson, ed. by George Talbot and Pamela Williams (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), pp. 11-27
'"Fa finire uno bello studio et dice volere studiare" Ippolita Sforza and her Books', Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance', 64 (2002), 55-69
Entries on Antonia Pulci, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, Laura Battiferri Ammannati, and Dacia Maraini for Peter Hainsworth and David Robey eds, The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (Oxford: OUP, 2002)
'"Les Livres des Florentines": Reconsidering Women's Literacy in Quattrocento Florence', in At the Margins: Minority Groups in Pre-Modern Italy, ed. by Stephen J. Milner (University of Minnesota Press), forthcoming.
'"Or altra via mi convien cercare": Marriage, Salvation, and Sanctity in Antonia Tanini Pulci's Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma', in Theatre, Opera, and Performance in Italy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present, ed. by Simon Gilson, Catherine Keen, and Brian Richardson (2004), in preparation.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Other Possible Themes:
Issues of gender and culture.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Collaborate with University of Bristol MA in Medieval Studies offering an option unit on Laurentian Florence.
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