Clergy Behaving Badly: Scandal, Reform, Discipline Organizer: Christine Dunn, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington Presider: Christine Dunn. Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA) Organizer: Karen M.
Thursday, May 7 Lunchtime Events
Sessions 55–109
Seeing Illicit Sexuality in Old English Genesis and Manuscript Illustrations June 11. Caesarius of Heisterbach and the Formation of Cistercian Hagiographic Memory in the Diocese of Liège.
Sessions 110–167
Organizer: Martine van Elk, California State Univ.–Long Beach Chair: Linda Shenk, Iowa State Univ. Feces in the Middle Ages: Literary, Historical, and Art Historical Perspectives Organizer: Susan Signe Morrison, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos.
Dissonance, Resistance, and Dissent in Reformation Discourse Sponsor: Society for Reformation Research
Judaei Devocionem Simulantes”: The Changing Representation of Jewish Converts in French Chronicles After the Expulsion of 1306. Pilgrim's Progress: Devotions' Journey Through the Sacred Womb Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois Univ.–Carbondale.
Sessions 168–193
Of Horn Maidens and Hostesses: The Role of Women in Northern Drinking Rituals. Alchemy of the Hunt: Using Anime in Graduate Seminar Candace Gregory-Abbott, California State University-Sacramento Breaking the Waves: Margery Kempe Goes South.
Late Evening Events
Sessions 194–254
The Thraco-Dacian origins of the Romanian language, folk culture and art, as reflected in the medieval religious heritage of Maramures, Romania. Historical and literary references about the Thraco-Geto-Dacians in the Middle Ages Napoleon Savescu, International Dacian Renaissance Society. The Old English Riming Poem: Its Transmission and Editing Douglas Simms, Southern Illinois Univ.–Edwardsville.
Oram, Smith College; Beth Quitslund, Ohio Univ.; and David Scott Wilson-Okamura, East Carolina University. Sponsor: Medica: Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages Organizer: Gerard NeCastro, Univ. Innovations in the Monumental Painting of the Greek Cathedral of Famagusta Maria Paschali, Courtauld Institute of Art.
Ashley Elizabeth Jones, Yale Univ./Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. The widow and the surety in the court of common pleas in the reign of Edward I.
Friday, May 9 Lunchtime Events
Sessions 255–317
Incest on the Border: Byzantine Epic and the Meaning of Brotherly Love in the Romance de don Bueso. Reginald Pecock's Lessons in Visual Literacy Shannon Gayk, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington After Chichele: "John Bury contra Pecock" revisited. Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ., and Yvonne LeBlanc, Hill School L'Ermite et le diable dans le théâtre médiéval français.
Let Them Rot: Avitus of Vienne and the Conversion of the Arian Burgundians Peter Beresford Reed, Yale Univ. Clothing of sewing: clothing images in miracles of the virgin and the feast of the ascension. Organizer: Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico Chair: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Nat he daara goda: Weapons and the Grendelkin's Status as Monsters.
Organizer: Damian Fleming, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne President: Patrick McBrine, John Carroll Univ. Lydgate's The Churl and the Bird and Its Fifteenth-Century Readers William Fahrenbach, DePaul Univ.
Sessions 318–379
Organizers: Nicole Marafioti, Cornell Univ., and Jay Paul Gates, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Los auctores delos gentiles: The Historical Significance of Ovid in the General Story Erik Ekman, Michigan State Univ. Roundtable with Mary Kate Hurley, Columbia University; Karma de Gruy, Emory University; Stuart Kane, Stonehill College; Jeff Massey, Malloy College; Derek Newman-Stille, Trent University; and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington Univ.
Endless Reconquest: Romanticizing Charlemagne during the Hundred Years' War Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington. Rozanne Elder, Institute of Cistercian Studies, Western Michigan University, and Hugh Feiss OSB, Monastery of the Assumption. Cloud State Univ., and Brent Addison Moberly, Indiana Univ. – Bloomington Quest for Glory: Becoming the Knight Errant.
Baker, California Polytechnic State University – Pomona; Mica Dawn Gould, Grambling State University; Emily Rebekah Huber, Duke University; Kimberly Jack, Auburn University; Janet Jesmok, University. Corey Olsen, Washington College; Katie Lyn Peebles, Indiana University – Bloomington; Meredith Reynolds, Francis Marion University, Rebecca L.
Sessions 380–433
Bernardino of Siena and the Heresy of the Free Spirit: The Ethics of Mysticism among the Franciscan Observants. Fear and loathing in the West Country: Responses to Henry IV's usurpation Peter Fleming, Univ. An Analysis of the Fusion of Philosophy and Theology in Book XI of Augustine's Confessions.
Merlinian influences in the margins of animal narratives: the BnF 1446 manuscript and the Roman des fils du roi Constant. Chair: Lesley Jacobs, Indiana University–Bloomington. Limb torn from Limen: Grendel in the space between. The Reflexivity of the Unclaenum Gaste: The West Saxon Gospels and the Vocabulary of Self-Mutilation.
Whirlwinds of time, language clues: Wulf and Eadwacer and the strange time of Old English philology. And she confessed…”: Women's Power and Gender Roles in Inquisitorial Records and Bernard Gui and Jacques Fournier.
Images and Imagination
The Shadow of My Purpose: Gnosticism and the Fates in the Narn i hin Húrin. Veniens in Figura Angeli”: The Questions of Bartholomew and Anglo-Saxon Conceptions of the Devil. Guillaume de Digulleville's Pèlerinage de Jesu Crist: Manuscripts, Readers and Its Place in the Trilogy.
A house to be consecrated is a soul to be sanctified: A case study of the sacramental exegesis of Hugh of Saint-Victor. Entry of the countess: music, love and the bedchamber in (self)-presentation of Adela van Blois (ca. The City within the City: Considering the Relationship between York Minster and the City of York.
Louise Hampson, Dean and Department of York/York Minster The European Middle Ages and the Classical Tradition. No more than hanging and drawing”: Politics and Magic at the Execution of Sir Robert Tresilian, 1388.
Problems in the Inferno Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Performing the liturgy/writing history: the role of the liturgy in the formation of a historical narrative. Susannah Crowder, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Historical Dimensions in the Early Medieval Libri Memoriales. How Nicolo Campana, medieval clockmaker, became Strascino, Renaissance actor/author: the unique case of the Sienese Comici Artigiani.
Herman Joseph of Steinfeld and the Premonstratensian Cult by Virgin Carol Neel, Colorado College.
Saturday, May 9 Lunchtime Events
Sessions 434–490
Schroeder, Capital Univ., Trinity Lutheran Seminary Angela de Foligno and her authority over Brother Arnaldo. Narrative closure and indeterminacy in the marital ending of the Roman de Silence and the Roman de la violette. Graeca sunt, non leguntur”: Medieval Greek in the Stratis Papaionnou classroom, Brown Univ./Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Italian.
Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE) Organizer: Thomas F. The case of the hidden moneylender: banking and the funerary coin in fourteenth-century Flanders. The Mozarab resident and the origins of the Romance languages in León Yasmine Beale-Rivaya.
Bells hanging on the cat: Carivari and the theater of Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho. Indexing the Salzinnes Antiphon Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie Univ., and Judy Dietz, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Medieval Chant Meets Cluster Analysis: Demonstrating Doorscript Affinities Debra Lacoste, Wilfrid Laurier Univ., and Gerard Stafleu, Univ.
Sessions 491–547
Every trace of a woman's meekness removed from her face”: Prison abuse, gender and representation in the case of the Empress Matilda and the Battle of Lincoln, 1141. Performance problem: The misrepresentation of gender anatomy in the Chester cycle's The Slaughter of the Innocents and Sir David Lindsay's Ane Satyre of the Three Estates. Some of the righteous shall be poison”: Gender and Self in the March of Tudor Wales.
Mooney, School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College Untitled Holy Women in the Clare Movement. Tame Werewolves and Banded Hawks: Social and Sexual Order in the Lais of Marie de France. Thou art most / the abbey, thou nece, and come with me”: The Convent in Middle English Romance.
Beyond the Grave: Sarcophagi in Ravenna in the Early Middle Ages Edward McCormick Schoolman, Univ. Congregational Churches on Pilgrimage Routes: Images, History and Memory Susan Signe Morrison, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos.
New Perspectives on the Divine Comedy Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Cross Cultural Contacts II: Ireland and the Anglo-Normans Sponsor: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS). True Confessions: Sin, Penance and Sacrament in Medieval Women's Writing Sponsor: Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History. All their desyr was for to be worshepd of e pepul”: Pride and Reviement in The Book of Margery Kempe.
Sin, Sacrament and Salvation in the Society of Saint Ursula Christine De Vinne, Ursuline College. Organizer: Brendan McGroarty, Cardinal Newman Liberal Arts Project Chair: Ronald Muller, Cardinal Newman Liberal Arts Project 1225.
The Jan van Dorsten Lecture Sponsor: International Sidney Society
Hartt, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music Late Antiquity II: Society and Economy in Late Antiquity. The Sacred and the Social: Medieval Hagiography of the Iberian Peninsula Sponsor: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA) Organizer: Emma Gatland, Univ. Tus palabras son locas e vanas e desigales e ensuzian el ayre”: Corporeality and Rhetoric in the Legend of Saint Agatha.
Weblogs and the Academy: The Scope of the Professional and the Boundaries of the Personal in Open, Pseudo-Anonymous, and Anonymous Blogs. My Blog Is Not Me: Negotiating Identity in the Academic Blogosphere Janice Liedl, Laurentian Univ.
Saturday, May 9 Evening Events
Farrell, Stetson University; Susan Yager, Iowa State University; Howell Chickering, Amherst College; Regula Meyer Evitt, Colorado College; and Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell Univ.
Sunday, May 10 8:30–10:00 a.m
Sessions 548–582
Form and Finism: The Game of Narrative Closure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Thibaud d'Etampes, an anonymous monk, and the debate over clerical manhood in the twelfth century. A New Player in the Game of Art and Legitimacy: Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins and Identity Formation in Late Medieval Paris.
Thesaurus Reliquiarum: Relics and Relic-like Objects in Monastic Contexts I Organizer: Scott Wells, California State University–Los Angeles. Kingship and the Power of Death: Blanche of Castile and the Twin Foundations of Maubuisson and Le Lys. Scientific evidence on the capabilities and limits of early gunpowder weapons, including ranges, and how they changed between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries.
Die heroriëntering van Saint Petronella se siekte na heiligheid in Ælfric's Lives of Saints and the South English Legendary. Tustaveil se The Man in the Panther's Skin and the Origin of Beaumont en Fletcher se A King and No King and Philaster.
Sunday, May 10 10:30 a.m.–12:00 noon
Sessions 583–615
