medieval-institute@wmich.edu

Medieval institute 

Fifty-Second 

International Congress 

on Medieval Studies 

May 11–14, 2017 

Wednesday, May 10 

Wednesday 

Noon Registration Valley III 

(begins and continues daily) 

Eldridge-Fox Lobby 

Pre-registered Congress attendees may pick up their registration 

packets and check into pre-booked on-campus housing at any time 

until the end of the Congress. 

On-site registration 

Valley III 

(for those not pre-registered) Eldridge 308 

Wednesday, noon–midnight 

Thursday, 8:00 a.m.–midnight 

Friday, 8:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. 

Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 

2:00 p.m. TEAMS (Teaching Association Bernhard 

for Medieval Studies) 

Faculty Lounge 

Board of Directors Meeting 

5:00–6:00 p.m. Director’s Reception for Early Arrivals Valley III 

Reception with hosted bar Eldridge 310 

6:00–7:30 p.m. DINNER Valley Dining Center 

7:30 p.m. Motown the Musical Miller Auditorium 

Discounted tickets through 

online Congress registration 

Shuttles leave Valley III (Eldridge- 

Fox) beginning at 6:45 p.m. 

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8:00 p.m. Cosmic Dance Gilmore Theatre 

Early Music Michigan 

Complex 

$15.00 General Admission 

$10.00 presale through online Congress registration 

Shuttles leave Valley III (Eldridge-Fox) beginning at 7:15 p.m. 

A music and dance performance based on the life and music of the 

twelfth-century mystic and visionary Hildegard of Bingen. 

Combines ancient music with contemporary dance interpreting 

Hildegard’s vision for a new age. Ann Marie Boyle of Early Music 

Michigan and choreographer Becky Straple join forces for this 

innovative and engaging theatrical event. 

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Thursday 10:00 a.m. 

Thursday, May 11 

Morning Events 

7:00–9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST Valley Dining Center 

8:30 a.m. Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture Valley III 

(SASLC) 

Stinson Lounge 

Business Meeting 

9:00–10:30 a.m. COFFEE SERVICE Fetzer Center 

Bernhard Center 


10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 

Sessions 1–47 

1 VALLEY III STINSON 306 

Hermeneutics through a Glass Darkly: Occlusion and Interpretation in the Age 

of Gerson 

Sponsor: Jean Gerson Society 

Organizer: Matthew Vanderpoel, Univ. of Chicago 

Presider: Wendy Love Anderson, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

Monica’s Visionary Hermeneutics: Augustine and Gerson on the Uncertainty of 

Dreams 

Sean Hannan, MacEwan Univ. 

The Hermeneutics of Desire: Denis the Carthusian on 1 Corinthians 13:12 and 

the Elicited Love for God 

Daniel W. Houck, Southern Methodist Univ. 

“Super Hanc Petram”: Pierre d’Ailly’s Reading of Matthew 16:18 

Daniel Owings, Univ. of Chicago 

2 VALLEY III STINSON LOUNGE 

Hope and Despair in Malory’s Morte Darthur 

Organizer: Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Brown Univ. 

Presider: Louis J. Boyle, Carlow Univ. 

The Knight-Prisoner, Denying Despair through Hopeful Narration 

Kevin T. Grimm, Oakland Univ. 

“Than may a presonere say all welth ys hym berauffte”: Cycles of Hope and Despair 

in Malory’s World 

Felicia Nimue Ackerman 

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Finding Hope in Despair: A Possible Source for Malory’s Boethian Consolation 

Leigh Smith, East Stroudsburg Univ. 

Post-Grail Stress Disorder: Lancelot’s Response to Trauma 

Sarah B. Rude, Baylor Univ. 

Hope from Despair: Malory’s Political Optimism in Le Morte Darthur 

Lisa Robeson, Ohio Northern Univ. 

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3 VALLEY III ELDRIDGE 309 

The Griselda Story: Feminist Perspectives 

Organizer: Stephanie Amsel, Southern Methodist Univ. 

Presider: Amy Goodwin, Randolph-Macon College 

Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale, Dux Moraud, and Domestic Tyranny 

KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Georgia Institute of Technology 

In werk ne thought: Griselde’s Ethics 

Daniel T. Kline, Univ. of Alaska–Anchorage 

Griselda-2, Walter-0: Marital Jealousy and Role Reversal in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale 

Carol Pulham, Cedar Crest College 


4 VALLEY II HARVEY 204 

Building (Draw)bridges: How to Keep Medieval Studies Alive in the K-8 Classroom: 

A Hands-On Workshop (A Poster Session) 

Sponsor: TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) 

Organizer: Sarah Layman, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Thomas Goodmann, Univ. of Miami 

“Oh, the (medieval) places you’ll go”: Children’s Literature as a Gateway Course 

Moira Fitzgibbons, Marist College 

For Young Ladies and Lords: Medieval Matters for Third Graders 

Victoria Holtz Wodzak, Viterbo Univ.; Michael Wodzak, Viterbo Univ. 

Medieval Board Games: Bringing the Entertainment of Medieval Children to the 

Modern Classroom 

Sarah Layman 

How the Imperial Knights of Norco Charge into the Classroom 

Danielle Trynoski, Medievalists.net; Tom Montgomery, Imperial Knights Production 

Company; Andrea Montgomery, Imperial Knights Production Company 

5 VALLEY II LEFEVRE LOUNGE 

How Global Were the Middle Ages? (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Interdisciplinary Graduate Medieval Colloquium, Univ. of Virginia 

Organizer: DeVan Ard, Univ. of Virginia 

Presider: Zachary E. Stone, Univ. of Virginia 

A roundtabel discussion with Christina Normore, Northwestern Univ.; Erica Machulak, 

Univ. of Notre Dame (“Arabic’s Gutenberg: Cultural Difference through the Lens 

of Print’); Dorothy Wong, Univ. of Virginia; Aman Nadhiri, Johnson C. Smith Univ. 

(“The Role of Political Memory in the Assessment of Historical Periods”); and Raihan 

Ahmed, Univ. of Virginia. 

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6 VALLEY II GARNEAU LOUNGE 

Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas I: Philosophy, Logic, and Consolation 

Sponsor: Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston 

Organizer: Steven J. Jensen, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston 

Presider: Steven J. Jensen 

Do Causal Actions Inhere in Their Agents? Aquinas’s Reception of Aristotle’s 

“Actio est in passo” Doctrine 

Francis E. Feingold, Ave Maria Univ. 

One or Many Rationes: Interpreting Summa theologiae 1.13.5–6 

Domenic D’Ettore, Marian Univ. 

Aquinas and the Consolation of Philosophy 

Kevin White, Catholic Univ. of America 

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7 VALLEY I SHILLING LOUNGE 

Natura in the Twelfth Century 

Sponsor: Divinity School, Univ. of Chicago 

Organizer: Robert J. Porwoll, Univ. of Chicago 

Presider: Bernard McGinn, Univ. of Chicago 

Rupert of Deutz on Nature, Sin, and the Mutability of Creation in Genesis 1 to 3 

Wanda Zemler-Cizewski, Marquette Univ. 

Where Nature Indulges Herself in Secret and Distant Freaks: Creation Viewed 

from the Edges of the Twelfth-Century Cosmos 

Daniel Yingst, Univ. of Chicago 

The Invention of Natura: Poetry, Ecology, and Ecolinguistics in Bernard Silvestris, 

Alan of Lille, and Johannes de Hauvilla 

David Allison Orsbon, Univ. of Chicago 

Respondent: Willemien Otten, Univ. of Chicago 

8 FETZER 1005 

Introduction to vHMML Reading Room: Manuscript Cataloging and Images in 

One Online Resource (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) 

Organizer: Matthew Z. Heintzelman, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library 

Presider: Eileen Smith, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library 

This workshop—led by Matthew Z. Heintzelman and Anton Pritula, Hill Museum 

& Manuscript Library—provides an overview of the theory behind vHMML Reading 

Room, which replaces HMML’s previous on-line manuscript catalog and image server; 

an introduction to its use and search functions; and a discussion of plans for the 

future development of this completely new resource. 

9 FETZER 1010 

Elite Identities and the Birth of Europe: Germanic Coins and Barbarian Medallions 

and Bracteates 

Sponsor: Imagines Maiestatis (IMAGMA) 

Organizer: David Wigg-Wolf, Römisch-Germanische Kommission des 

Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 

Presider: Alan Stahl, Princeton Univ. 

The Technology of Early Barbarian Imitations 

Aleksander Bursche, Univ. Warszawski; Kiril Myzgin, Univ. Warszawski 

Barbaric versus Barbarous: Some Methodological Remarks on Imitations of 

Ancient Coins 

Tomasz Wiecek, Univ. Warszawski 

Barbarian Imitations, Networks, and the Formation of Germanic Elites 

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David Wigg-Wolf and Holger Komnick, Römisch-Germansiche Kommission des 

Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 

Imitation and Transformation: From Roman Medallions to Scandinavian Bracteate 

Nancy L. Wicker, Univ. of Mississippi 

10 FETZER 1040 

Medicine and Medieval Italian Lyric 

Organizer: Matteo Pace, Columbia Univ. 

Presider: Akash Kumar, Univ. of California–Santa Cruz 

On Fluid Memory: Aristotle’s Heart in the Scuola Siciliana 

Matteo Pace 

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Medieval Medical Thought and Dante’s Poetry 

Paola Ureni, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY 

Formando Filosofiche Ragioni: Cecco d’Ascoli, Dante, and the Medical Foundation 

of Ethics 

Seth Fabian, Holy Family High School 

Health Beliefs and Doctor-Patient Communication in Francesco Petrarca’s Rerum 

vulgarium fragmenta 

Caterina Agostini, Rutgers Univ. 


The Government of England and the Continent in the Later Middle Ages 

Sponsor: Society of the White Hart 

Organizer: Mark Arvanigian, California State Univ.–Fresno 

Presider: Joel T. Rosenthal, Stony Brook Univ. 

Parliament’s Secret Members in Fourteenth-Century England 

Alison McHardy, Univ. of Nottingham 

Venetian Water Entries: Diplomacy at the Dockside 

Kathleen Kennedy, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Brandywine 

A Bastion of Lancastrian Power in Europe? Yorkshire and Henry IV 

Douglas L. Biggs, Univ. of Nebraska–Kearney 


Church, Mission, Enculturation, and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early 

Middle Ages 

Organizer: Darius O. Makuja, Le Moyne College 

Presider: James H. Dahlinger, SJ, Le Moyne College 

The Roman, Germanic, and Celtic (Irish) Sources and the Conversion of the West 

to Catholic Christianity. 

Darius O. Makuja 

The Pagan-Christian Iconography of Yggdrasil and the Magi on the Baptismal 

Font of the Aakirke 

Ronald G. Murphy, SJ, Georgetown Univ. 

The Use of Oral Information in Preparing for Missions, 596–1176 

William Schmidt, Independent Scholar 

Ad Aedificatione Plebis: Lay Piety and Pastoral Care in Venantius Fortunatus’s 

Prose Hagiography 

Kent E. Navalesi, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

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Language Anxiety in the Iberian Peninsula 

Sponsor: Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 

Organizer: Gregory S. Hutcheson, Univ. of Louisville 

Presider: Gregory S. Hutcheson 

“Nor Have I Thought to Learn More from the Jews by Any Means. . .”: Anxiety 

about Hebrew Language and Learning in the Religious and Medical Writings of 

Arnau de Vilanova 

John August Bollweg, College of DuPage 

Speaking “en Algaravia”: Anxiety over Arabic in the Conde Lucanor and the Libro 

de buen amor 

Anita Savo, Colby College 

Language’s Exiles: Language Anxiety in Ramon Vidal’s Razos de trobar and the 

Disinheriting of the Occitan Troubadours 

Courtney Joseph Wells, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 

Limousine or Catalan? A Glottopolitical Reading of Ausiàs March’s Poems for the 

Construction of the Spanish Empire 

Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Hofstra Univ. 


Exploring Power: Saint Cuthbert, Durham Cathedral, and the Prince Bishops 

Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Univ. of York 

Organizer: Dee Dyas, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, 

Univ. of York 

Presider: Dee Dyas 

Power in the Palatinate: The Competing Roles of Saint Cuthbert, the Prince Bishops, 

and the Prior away from Durham Cathedral 

Christopher Ferguson, Auckland Castle Trust 

The Misogyny of Saint Cuthbert? Bishops, Monks, and Women at Durham’s 

Shrine 

Lauren L. Whitnah, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

“A Man of Such Strange Composition”: Bishop Richard Neile and the Durham 

House Group 

Louise Hampson, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Univ. of York 


Archaeology of the Countryside 

Sponsor: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS) 

Organizer: Adam Franklin-Lyons, Marlboro College 

Presider: Michelle Ziegler, Independent Scholar 

Peasant Settlement and Agricultural Activities at Late Medieval Irish Tower 

House Castles 

Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State Univ. 

Archaeological, Palaeo-Pathological, and Palaeo-Environmental Reflections of 

Food Crisis in the Early Fourteenth-Century British Isles 

Philip Slavin, Univ. of Kent 

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Medievalism and Don Quixote 

Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM) 

Organizer: Carlos Hawley, North Dakota State Univ. 

Presider: Paul E. Larson, Baylor Univ. 

Between Babieca and Rocinante: Equine Performativity in the Spanish Chivalric Tradition 

Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State Univ. 

Modernism versus Medievalism in Interpretation of Don Quijote 

Wendell P. Smith, Wilson College 

Reflections on Knights and Mirrors: El Caballero del Verde Gabán 

Robert S. Stone, United States Naval Academy 

Medievalism: Mio Cid’s Golden Age as the Cradle for Cervantes’s Decrepit Present 

Jaime Leaños, Univ. of Nevada–Reno 

17 SCHNEIDER 1120 

Medieval Mediterranean Cities 

Sponsor: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of New Mexico 

Organizer: Michael A. Ryan, Univ. of New Mexico 

Presider: Sarah Davis-Secord, Univ. of New Mexico 

The Image of Venice-Gulansharo in Shota Rustaveli’s The Man in the Panther Skin 

Bert Beynen, Temple Univ. 

Rocking Gibraltar: Chivalry, Violence, and Tuna in the Fifteenth Century 

Samuel A. Claussen, California Lutheran Univ. 

A Tale of Two (Magical) Cities: Barcelona and Venice 

Michael A. Ryan 


Authoring the Self: Autobiography and Auctoritas 

Sponsor: Medieval Studies Association, Florida State Univ. 

Organizer: Christopher Jensen, Florida State Univ. 

Presider: Kimberly Tate Anderson, Florida State Univ. 

Exercising Paratextual Authority: Autobiographical Acts in Ælfric of Eynsham’s 

Latin and Old English Prefaces 

Meg Gregory, Illinois State Univ. 

Gower’s Self-Establishment as a Vernacular Author in the Confessio amantis 

Paulo Eduardo Castilho Ribeiro Santos, Univ. of Ottawa 

Autobiographical Notes in Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria 

Joseph T. Snow, Michigan State Univ. 

“Eythyr thu art a Ryth Good Woman er ellys a Ryth Wikked Woman”: Problems 

of Authority in the Book of Margery Kempe 

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Katherine Ridgway, Notre Dame of Maryland Univ. 


Textual Scholarship of Medieval Iberian Literature (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Albert Lloret, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst; Nancy F. Marino, 

Michigan State Univ. 

Presider: Albert Lloret and Nancy F. Marino 

A roundtable discussion with Charles B. Faulhaber, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Heather 

Bamford, George Washington Univ.; Susanna Allés, Univ. of Miami; Aengus Ward, Univ. 

of Birmingham; Francisco Gago-Jover, College of the Holy Cross; and Jesús R. Velasco, 

Columbia Univ. 


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The Winter’s Tale: Pretexts, Texts, and Aftertexts 

Sponsor: Shakespeare at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: Nora L. Corrigan, Mississippi Univ. for Women 

Presider: Liberty S. Stanavage, SUNY–Potsdam 

“It is required you do awake your faith”: Redemptive Gender in the Digby Mary 

Magdalene and The Winter’s Tale 

Christina Hildebrandt, St. Louis Univ. 

“A Gallimaufry of Gambols”: The Winter’s Tale at the 1613 Palatine Wedding 

Rachel Horrocks, Univ. of St. Andrews 

Artistry, Artifice, and the Environment in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest 

Jan Stirm, Univ. of Wisconsin–Eau Claire 

Dreams, Sleeplessness, and Nightmares in The Winter’s Tale 

Carole Levin, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln 


“Liturgical Drama” and Representational Liturgy 

Sponsor: Musicology at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: Anna Kathryn Grau, DePaul Univ.; Cathy Ann Elias, DePaul 

Univ.; Daniel J. DiCenso, College of the Holy Cross 

Presider: Margot E. Fassler, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Reflections on a Spectral Genre: Liturgical Drama in the Cabinet of Curiosities 

Michael L. Norton, James Madison Univ. 

Local Practice and the German Visitatio Sepulchri 

Melanie Batoff, Luther College 

The Type II Visitatio Sepulchri in the View of a Medieval Aesthetic of Order 

Irene Holzer, Univ. Basel 


New Models of Presentation of Medieval Texts 

Sponsor: Canterbury Tales Project 

Organizer: Peter Robinson, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

Presider: Adam Alberto Vázquez Cruz, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

Digital Tools for Manuscript Study: Collation and The Canterbury Tales 

Alexandra Gillespie, Univ. of Toronto 

Adapting Chaucer for Modern Media 

Kyle Dase, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

New Media, New Editions, New Readers 

Barbara Bordalejo, KU Leuven 

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Archaeology of Medieval Europe I: History and Politics in Medieval Archaeology 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida 

Organizer: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida 

Presider: Andrew Holt, Florida State College at Jacksonville 

Byzantine Archaeology at a Crossroads 

Michael Decker, Univ. of South Florida 

Politics, Identity, and Archaeology in the Border Region: (Re-)imagining the 

Early Medieval Past in the Southeastern Alps 

K. Patrick Fazioli, Mercy College 

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Medieval Slavs in Moldavian Soviet Archaeology 

Iurie Stamati, Univ. of Florida 

Strongholds of the Rus’ 

Matthew Smith, Univ. of Florida 


Medieval Architecture 

Presider: Susan Solway, DePaul Univ. 

Layers of Time: The Architectural Evolution of Santi Quattro Coronati in Rome 

Franchesca Fee, Rutgers Univ. 

“Bastions of the Cross”: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, 

Ethiopia 

Mikael Muehlbauer, Columbia Univ. 

Tironensian Houses: A GIS Approach to the Architectural Domain of a Reformed 

Benedictine Order 

Clark Maines, Wesleyan Univ.; Sheila Bonde, Brown Univ. 

Reflecting the Light of God: Citation and the Twelfth-Century Integrated Chevet 

Kristin Barry, Ball State Univ. 


Localism, Regionalism, and Centralism in Early Medieval Iberia 

Organizer: Molly Lester, Princeton Univ. 

Presider: Scott de Brestian, Central Michigan Univ. 

Monasteries and the Exploitation of Territory in Late Antique Iberia 

Jamie Wood, Univ. of Lincoln 

Competing Networks and Alliances and the Emergence of Episcopal Authority in 

the Early Suevic Kingdom 

Rebecca Devlin, Univ. of Louisville 

Diversity Statements: Local Liturgies and Religious Reform in Early Medieval Iberia 

Molly Lester 

Embedded Law: State Administration and Landholding in the Visigothic Kingdom 

of Toledo 

Damián Fernández, Northern Illinois Univ. 


Medieval Lives and Afterlives of the Classical Poets 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities; 

Societas Ovidiana 

Organizer: Mary Franklin-Brown, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities; Morris 

Tichenor, Univ. of Toronto 

Presider: Morris Tichenor 

Renaissance Reconsidered: Ovid’s Fasti in the Hands of Arnulf of Orléans and 

Poliziano 

Mary Franklin-Brown 

Corinna Who? (Ps.-)Arnulf of Orléans’s Accessus to Ovid’s Tristia 

David T. Gura, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Horace’s Satires II and a Previously Unattributed Latin Floscule in Piers Plowman 

Justin Hastings, Loyola Univ. Chicago 

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Middle English Devotional Literature 

Presider: Amber Dunai, Texas A&M Univ.–Central Texas 

The Atomic Rubrication of Cambridge, University Library, Kk.6.26 

Bernardo S. Hinojosa, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

“Wrastlyng wiþ þat blynde nou3t”: Binding and Blinding in The Cloud of Unknowing 

Amanda Wetmore, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 

“Cleanness” as Response and Transformation 

Gianmarco E. Saretto, Columbia Univ. 

A Coincidence of Form: Manuscript Formalisms and the Tyranny of the Text 

Thomas Sawyer, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 


Deep Mapping and the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Joey McMullen, Centenary Univ.; Helen Davies, Univ. of Rochester 

Presider: Brian Cook, Univ. of Mississippi 

Medieval Overlay Landscapes, Deep Mapping, and the Spatial Humanities 

Joey McMullen 

Conduits of Faith: Deep Mapping Spiritual Interactions with Water in England’s 

Northeast 

James L. Smith, Univ. of York 

Mappa Mundi: Deep Maps of the Middle Ages 

Helen Davies 

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Nature versus Ecology (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 

Organizer: Shannon Gayk, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Shannon Gayk 

Why Not Nature? 

Kellie Robertson, Univ. of Maryland 

Playing Nature of the Early English Stage 

Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

“Thus seyth the Bok of Kendys”: Ecological Thinking in the Castle of Perseverance 

Rebecca Davis, Univ. of California–Irvine 

“Dwell” . . . “Magyk Natureel”: The Possibilities of Middle English Terminologies 

Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Rice Univ. 

Spirited Ecology in the Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle 

Myra E. Wright, Bates College 

Unnatural 

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington Univ. 


Ihesu Dulcis: Devotion to the Holy Name in Medieval Europe 

Organizer: B. S. W. Barootes, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 

Presider: Robert Rouse, Univ. of British Columbia 

Chivalry, Piety, and Devotion to the Name of Christ in Marie de France’s Saint 

Patrick’s Purgatory 

Stephen G. Moore, Univ. of Regina 

“Et in Calculo Nomen Novum Scriptum”: Pearl and the Holy Name of Jesus 

B. S. W. Barootes 

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Action and Interpretation in the Late Medieval English Cult of the Holy Name of 

Jesus 

Rob Lutton, Univ. of Nottingham 


Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography (A Panel 

Discussion) 

Sponsor: Academy of Jewish-Christian Studies 

Organizer: Lawrence Frizzell, Seton Hall Univ. 

Presider: Lawrence Frizzell 

Sara Lipton’s Dark Mirror: Reflections 

Deeana Copeland Klepper, Boston Univ. 

Sara Lipton’s Dark Mirror: An Art History Perspective 

Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Emory Univ. 

Respondent: Sara Lipton, Stony Brook Univ. 


Medieval Sermon Studies I: Preaching to Women 

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society 

Organizer: Holly Johnson, Mississippi State Univ. 

Presider: Alberto Ferreiro, Seattle Pacific Univ. 

“Let fearless Susanna speak for you . . .”: Peter Abelard’s Sermon Celebrating 

Susanna 

Eileen F. Kearney, St. Xavier Univ. 

Images of Women, Men, and Marriage in Islamic Nuptial Orations 

Linda G. Jones, Univ. Pompeu Fabra 

Question and Answer “Sessions” in Medieval Preaching to Women 

Laura Gaffuri, Univ. degli Studi di Torino 


Matters of Literary Genre 

Presider: Christopher Flavin, Northeastern State Univ.–Tahlequah 

Duce Materia: Gilo’s Peculiar Narrative through the First Crusade 

Joseph Rudolph, Fordham Univ. 

Laughing at the Peasant in the Old French Fabliaux: On the Genesis and Signification 

of the Derisive Laugh 

Jeff Fuller, New York Univ. 

Behavior Unbecoming a Monk: Difference, Identity, and Humor in the Moniage 

Guillaume 

Geneviève Young, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

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A Soothing Song: Truth and Comfort in “Lullay lullay little child” 

Margo Kolenda, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 


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Medieval Race and the Modern Scholar: Fear, Theory, and the Way Forward (A 

Roundtable) 

Organizer: Sierra Lomuto, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, 

Univ. of California–Berkeley; Cord Whitaker, Wellesley College 

Presider: Cord Whitaker 

Fear of an Anti-Black Planet, or, Medieval Studies’ Post Racial/Pre-Racial Problem 

Jared Rodríguez, Northwestern Univ. 

Acts of Imagination: The Anatomy of Race and Racial Thinking 

Thomas Franke, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara 

Race and Conversion in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament 

Susan Nakley, St. Joseph’s College, New York 

“Being” Anglo-Saxonist: Signifier, Profession, Ontology 

Donna Beth Ellard, Univ. of Denver 

ISAS Should Probably Change Its Name 

Daniel Remein, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston 


Mind the Gaps: Spaces in Manuscripts and Printed Books 

Sponsor: Early Book Society 

Organizer: Martha W. Driver, Pace Univ. 

Presider: Derek A. Pearsall, Harvard Univ. 

Re-minding the Gaps in Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales 

Stephen Partridge, Univ. of British Columbia 

Further Reading: Supplementing England’s Past in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century 

Manuscripts 

Neil Weijer, Johns Hopkins Univ. 

Filling in the Blanks: Matthew Parker’s Manipulations and Their Afterlives 

Siân Echard, Univ. of British Columbia 

Empty Spaces and Filled-In Spaces: Cast-Off Copy in Early Sixteenth-Century 

English Printing 

Joseph J. Gwara, United States Naval Academy 


Inside the Collector’s Mind: Exploring Carolingian Cultures of Collecting 

Sponsor: Network for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval 

Monasticism 

Organizer: Matthieu van der Meer, Syracuse Univ.; Albrecht Diem, Syracuse 

Univ. 

Presider: Rutger Kramer, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische 

Akademie der Wissenschaften 

Benedictine Dissections: Textual Triage in the Carolingian Age 

Scott G. Bruce, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Serial Hagiographies: MS Montpellier H.55 

Gordon Blennemann, Univ. de Montréal 

Carolingian Collectors of Texts and Their Classical Predecessors: Continuities, 

Innovations, and Omissions 

Matthieu van der Meer 

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Medieval Franciscan Theology and the Implications of the Trinitarian Mission 

Organizer: Richard A. Nicholas, Univ. of St. Francis, Joliet 

Presider: Gilbert Stockson, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Victorine Influence on Bonaventure’s Reductione artium ad theologiam 

Andrew Benjamin Salzmann, Benedictine College 

John Duns Scotus on the Divine Missions: Why God Isn’t a Nestorian or a Pelagian 

Mitchell Kennard, Southern Methodist Univ. 

Saint Francis of Assisi’s Trinitarian View of Authority 

Richard A. Nicholas 



Anglo-Saxon Affect and Spirituality 

Organizer: Erik A. Carlson, Univ. of Arkansas–Fort Smith 

Presider: Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, Univ. of Northern Iowa 

Glory and Gore: Affective Literacy in Prudentius’s Psychomachia 

Kaylin O’Dell, Cornell Univ. 

Better than Saints: Affective Models in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography 

Kate Norcross, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

The Functionality and Independence of Sleep and Affect in The Wanderer, Bede’s 

Account of Caedmon’s Hymn, and Andreas 

Nicole Songstad, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

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A Century without Chaucer 

Sponsor: Lydgate Society 

Organizer: Alaina Bupp, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder; Timothy R. Jordan, 

Ohio Univ.–Zanesville 

Presider: Alaina Bupp 

Counterfactual Poetics and Prosodic Gamesmanship in the Works of Lydgate and 

Hoccleve 

Nicholas Myklebust, Regis Univ. 

“Litel Enfaunt That Were but Late Borne”: Lancastrian Anxiety and John Lydgate’s 

Representation of the Child in The Dance of Death 

Amy C. Nelson, St. Louis Univ. 

John Capgrave’s Textual Images in The Life of Saint Katherine 

Valerie Voight, Univ. of Virginia 

Would the Real John Lydgate Please Sit Down? Victory over Chaucer via The Life 

and Death of Hector (1614) 

Betsy Bowden, Rutgers Univ.–Camden 

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40 SANGREN 1320 

Bastard Heroes in Medieval Romance Epic 

Sponsor: Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch 

Organizer: Rebeca Castellanos, Grand Valley State Univ. 

Presider: Mercedes Vaquero, Brown Univ. 

A Tale of Two Bastards: Franco-Italian Epic and Orlandino 

Stephen P. McCormick, Washington and Lee Univ. 

“Fijo de Ninguno”: Bastardy in Spanish Epic Material 

Peter Mahoney, Stonehill College 

Rodrigo y Mudarra: Bastardía y renovación dinástica 

Julio Hernando, Indiana Univ.–South Bend 

El sentido de la bastardía en las leyendas de Mudarra y Antara 

Rebeca Castellanos 


Medieval Tools (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the 

Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art; 

DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile Arts, 

Fabrics, and Fashion); EXARC; Medica: The Society for the 

Study of Healing in the Middle Ages; Research Group on 

Manuscript Evidence; Societas Magica 

Organizer: Sarah Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology 

Presider: Sean M. Winslow, Univ. of Toronto 

A roundtable discussion with Constance H. Berman, Univ. of Iowa; Carla Tilghman, 

Washburn Univ.; Frank Klaassen, Univ. of Saskatchewan; Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Univ. 

of Missouri–Kansas City; and Darrell Markewitz, Wareham Forge. 


Kinship, Families, and Genealogy in the Various Disciplines of Celtic Studies 

Sponsor: Celtic Studies Association of North America 

Organizer: Frederick Suppe, Ball State Univ. 

Presider: Frederick Suppe 

Dangerous Foster-Brothers: Problems with Fictive Kinship in Tain Bo Cuailnge, 

Pwll Pendevic Dyfed, and Branwen uerch Lyr 

Lesley Jacobs, Brown Univ. 

The Marriage of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: A Look at the Plantagenet Genealogy 

Alexis Robertson, Ball State Univ. 

Respondent: Frederick Suppe 

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Dwelling in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape I 

Sponsor: Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and 

Manuscript Research 

Organizer: Catherine E. Karkov, Univ. of Leeds 

Presider: Donald G. Scragg, Univ. of Manchester 

Creating Kingdoms: Landscapes of the Living and the Dead in Anglo-Saxon England 

Sarah J. Semple, Durham Univ. 

Richard Rawlinson Center Congress Speaker 

Last Writes: Death and Landscapes of Memory in Anglo-Saxon England 

Jill Hamilton Clements, Univ. of Alabama–Birmingham 

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Networks of Transmission: Histories and Practices of Collecting Medieval Manuscripts 

and Documents 

Sponsor: Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Project, Schoenberg Institute 

for Manuscript Studies 

Organizer: Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 

Presider: Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America 

The Buffalo Agency: A Manuscript Network in Northern Africa (Sixteenth–Twentieth 

Century) 

Paul Love, Al Akhawayn Univ. 

Visualizing the Global Movement of Manuscripts: Phillipps Manuscripts in Australian 

Collections 

Toby Burrows, Univ. of Western Australia 

Invisible Manuscripts: The Vast and Undiscovered Continent of Medieval Italian 

Manuscript Sources 

Justine Walden, Univ. of Toronto 

The Production and Ownership of Chetham’s Library MS 6711: A “Mandeville” 

Manuscript in Late Medieval England 

Collin Chadwick, Univ. of Arizona 


Relics and Reliquaries: Forms, Functions, Meanings (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Beth Williamson, Univ. of Bristol 

Presider: Beth Williamson 

A roundtable discussion with Karen Eileen Overbey, Tufts Univ./Material Collective; 

Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Barnard College; Eliza Garrison, Middlebury College; Anne 

E. Lester, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder; William J. Purkis, Univ. of Birmingham; and 

Scott B. Montgomery, Univ. of Denver. 


Penguin Medieval Editions: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and the “Academic Book” 

Sponsor: Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Bristol; Centre for Publishing, 

Univ. College London 

Organizer: Leah Tether, Univ. of Bristol 

Presider: Benjamin Pohl, Univ. of Bristol 

Penguin’s “Arthurian Romances”: Repackaging Chrétien’s Masterpieces for the 

British Paperback Market 

Leah Tether 

Editing Female Voices: Penguin Classics and Medieval Women Writers 

Rebecca Lyons, Univ. of Bristol 

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Roger Lancelyn Green’s King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: Peritext 

and Pedagogy in the Digital Age 

Adele Cook, Univ. of Bedfordshire 

The Ship-Wrecked Malory: Penguin and Le Morte Darthur 

Samantha Rayner, Univ. College London 


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Thursday lunchtime 


Central European Medieval Networks 

Sponsor: Medieval Central Europe Research Network (MECERN) 

Organizer: Nada Zecevic, Central European Univ. 

Presider: Gerhard Jaritz, Central European Univ. 

Comparative Political Development in the Arc of Medieval Europe 

Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg Univ. 

Urban Networks in Medieval East Central Europe 

Katalin Szende, Central European Univ. 

Complex Networks of Legal Traditions and Social Structures: Cases from 

Croatia-Dalmatia and Slavonia-Hungary 

Damir Karbic, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti; Suzana Miljan, Hrvatska 

akademija znanosti i umjetnosti 

—End of 10:00 a.m. Sessions— 


Lunchtime Events 

11:30 a.m.– LUNCH Valley Dining Center 

1:30 p.m. 

Noon Research Group on Manuscript Fetzer 1030 

Evidence 


Noon Medieval Association of the Midwest Bernhard 107 

(MAM) 

Executive Council Meeting 

Noon Society for the Study of the Bible in Bernhard 212 

the Middle Ages (SSBMA) 


Noon Medica: The Society for the Study of Bernhard 213 

Healing in the Middle Ages 


Sneak Preview 



Noon Société Guilhem IX Bernhard 215 


Noon Richard Rawlinson Center for Bernhard 

Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript President’s 

Research 

Dining Room 

Lunch (by invitation) 

Noon Société Rencesvals, American Sangren 1320 

Canadian Branch 


12:30 p.m. Lone Medievalist Valley III 



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1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. 



Middle English Literature 

Presider: Megan Cook, Colby College 

The Steward Shall Inherit the Earth: The End of Sir Orfeo in Theological Context 

Nathan Shuey, Duquesne Univ. 

Calming Arthur’s “Brayn Wylde”: Learning to Rule in Sir Gawain and the Green 

Knight 

Kelly Evans, Southern Methodist Univ. 

Repainting the Lion in Middle English Romance 

Bonnie J. Erwin, Wilmington College 

“Worthy unthur wede”: Totemic Identity, Marital Labor, and Active Patience in 

Emaré 

David Sweeten, Eastern New Mexico Univ. 


When Medievalists Fictionalize the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Rebecca Barnhouse, Youngstown State Univ. 

Presider: Sharan Newman, Independent Scholar 

The Mean Streets of Medieval York: The Murder Mystery as Cultural Lens 

Candace Robb, Independent Scholar 

The Fantasy Space of Medieval History: The Case of Chaucer, Gower, and Bruce 

Holsinger’s A Burnable Book 

Debra E. Best, California State Univ.–Dominguez Hills 

Worldbuilding in Rebecca Barnhouse’s The Coming of the Dragon and Peaceweaver 

Patricia H. Ward, College of Charleston 

Armored Knights and Winged Faeries: The English Middle Ages and the Medieval 

Fantasy Novel 

Emily Lavin Leverett, Methodist Univ. 


Late Medieval Perspectives on Tolerance 

Sponsor: Dept. of Philosophy, Maynooth Univ. 

Organizer: Simon F. Nolan, Maynooth Univ. 

Presider: Stephen E. Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln 

Getting the Message to the People? FitzRalph on Toleration in His Dundalk 

Sermons 

Michael W. Dunne, Maynooth Univ. 

“Unrepeatable Singularity”: Cusa’s Concept of Singularity as a Foundation for 

Toleration? 

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Susan Gottloeber, Maynooth Univ. 

Tolerance and the Other in Early Carmelite Scholasticism 

Simon F. Nolan 

“[M]artyris Al to Manye in þis Lond”: Tolerance of Heretics in Dives and Pauper 

Erin K. Wagner, Urbana Univ. 

Thursday 1:30 p.m. 

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A Place at the Table: Material and Spatial Aspects of the Medieval Meal 

Sponsor: Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: John August Bollweg, College of DuPage 

Presider: Alberto Ferreiro, Seattle Pacific Univ. 

The Sexual Politics of Food in Early French Comedy 

Deborah Hovland, Buffalo State, SUNY 

Medieval Tablescapes: Status, Space, and Settings 

Austin C. Baker, Univ. of Indianapolis 

Multisensory Experience Design in the Medieval Meal 

Samantha A. Meigs, Univ. of Indianapolis 


C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages I: Lewis and Mysticism 

Sponsor: Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends, Taylor Univ. 

Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ. 

Presider: Joe Stephenson, Abilene Christian Univ. 

As Above, So Below: Medieval Echoes in the Underworlds of C. S. Lewis’s Fiction 

Nathan E. H. Fayard, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville 

Lewis’s Turn Toward Contemplative Prayer 

Robert Moore-Jumonville, Spring Arbor Univ. 

Ransom’s Mystical Vision on Perelandra 

Marsha Daigle-Williamson, Spring Arbor Univ. 

Yearning and Disciplining Joy: Toward a “New Asceticism” in Lewis 

Matthew A. Roberts, Abilene Christian Univ. 


Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas II: Deliberation and Choice 



Presider: Jordan Olver, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston 

“Omitting to Think” and Sins against Prudence in Aquinas 

Maureen Bielinski, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston 

Aquinas, Passions, and Deliberation 

Christopher Bobier, Univ. of California–Irvine 

Why Does Aquinas Think an Undetermined Divine Choice Is Coherent? 

Jamie Anne Spiering, Benedictine College 

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Reading Aloud Old French and Middle French (A Workshop) 

Organizer: Tamara Bentley Caudill, Tulane Univ. 

Presider: Tamara Bentley Caudill 

A workshop led by Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ.; Darrell Estes, Ohio State 

Univ.; and Yvonne LeBlanc, Independent Scholar. 


The Deaf Everyman and Deaf Snow White Theatre Projects (Documentary Film) 

Sponsor: UNICORN Virtual Museum of Medieval Studies and Medievalism 

Organizer: Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull 

Presider: Pamela J. Clements, Siena College 

A premier viewing of the final revision of two short films, which are episodes (chapters) 

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of a longer feature film that documents the generation of two performances by both 

deaf and hearing actors and stage crew: For Every Man, Woman and Child, a modern 

morality inspired by Everyman (written by world-renowned playwright Willy Conley) 

and Deaf Snow White (directed by Broadway actor, Iosif Schneiderman). 


Sessions in Honor of Maureen Boulton I: Vernacular Religious Literature 

Sponsor: Medieval Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen, Univ. of Notre Dame; Sarah Baechle, 

Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: Sarah Baechle 

The Two French Vies of Saint Colette of Corbie: Male and Female Perspectives? 

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Univ. of Pittsburgh 

What Did Medieval Christian Laywomen Know about the Hebrew Bible? 

Thelma Fenster, Fordham Univ. 

Narrating Confession in the Miroir de sainte egylse 

Anna Siebach-Larsen 


Arthurian Books and Readers 

Sponsor: Arthurian Literature 

Organizer: David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ. 

Presider: Elizabeth Archibald, Durham Univ. 

Reading Arthur Upside-Down: Purnell’s The Modern Arthur and the Politics of 

Colonial Medievalism 

Robert Rouse, Univ. of British Columbia 

Reading Walter Map into the Lancelot-Grail Cycle 

Joshua Byron Smith, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville 

Cultivating Courtesy (Redux): Reading Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle in 

NLW MS Brogyntyn II.1 

Kelsey Moskal, Univ. of British Columbia 

Reading with Fingers in the Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory’s “Hoole Book of 

Kyng Arthur” 

Kevin S. Whetter, Acadia Univ. 


Peril and Possibility: Political Writing in Late Medieval England 



Presider: Linda E. Mitchell, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City 

I Laughed, I Cried, I Made Fun of the Aristocracy: The Wakefield Master and the 

Secunda pastorum 

Paul Frisch, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Worthington-Scranton 

Chronicle Writing in the Yorkist Age: The Chronicle from Rollo to Edward IV and 

The History of the Arrival of King Edward IV 

Noah Peterson, Texas A&M Univ. 

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Philosophical Themes and Issues in Malory’s Morte Darthur 

Organizer: Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Brown Univ. 

Presider: Felicia Nimue Ackerman 

“La me dale”: Establishing Control in Malory’s Morte Darthur 

Meredith Reynolds, Francis Marion Univ. 

Friends and Frenemies: Aristotle, Cicero, and the Rhetoric of Anti-friendship in 

Malory 

Richard Sévère, Valparaiso Univ. 

“Everyone Makes Divine Mistakes!”: Malory’s Guinevere on Film 

Amy S. Kaufman, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 

Thinking Space in Malory’s Morte Darthur 

Molly Martin, Univ. of Indianapolis 


Repudiated (Hi)Stories I: Literary Studies 


Organizer: Linde M. Brocato, Univ. of Memphis 

Presider: Linde M. Brocato 

Displaced Faith: Translation and Textual Dystopia in the Mester de Clerecía 

Robin M. Bower, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Beaver 

“Inorganic . . . and Infinitesimal” Dante: Revisiting Dante’s Role in C. R. Post’s 

Mediaeval Spanish Allegory 

Daniel Hartnett, Kenyon College 

Sleazy Narrative: Gender Roles in the Carajicomedia 

Ana Isabel Montero, Willamette Univ. 


The Music of the Beneventan Rite I (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Society for Beneventan Studies 

Organizer: Andrew J. M. Irving, Rijksuniv. Groningen 

Presider: Andrew J. M. Irving 

A roundtable discussion with Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard Univ.; Luisa Nardini, 

Univ. of Texas–Austin; Matthew Peattie, College-Conservatory of Music, Univ. of 

Cincinnati; Alejandro Planchart, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara; and Matthew 

Swanson, College-Conservatory of Music, Univ. of Cincinnati. 

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Ovid’s Medieval Metamorphoses I: Shaping Pygmalion, Reflecting Narcissus 

Organizer: Lucas Wood, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Peggy McCracken, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Narcisus’s Singular Desires 

Lucas Wood 

Pygmalion’s Phantasmic Craft in Machaut’s Fonteinne amoureuse 

Sarah Powrie, St. Thomas More College 

Narcissus and Pygmalion: Christine de Pizan’s Transformations of Ovid in L’Epistre 

Othea 

Kevin Brownlee, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

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Women in the Age of Bede I 

Sponsor: 

BedeNet; Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Christopher Newport 

Univ. 

Organizer: Sharon M. Rowley, Christopher Newport Univ.; Paul Hilliard, 

Univ. of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary; Máirín 

MacCarron, Univ. of Sheffield 

Presider: Virginia Blanton, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City 

Bede’s First Wives Club 

Lindy Brady, Univ. of Mississippi 

Transgression, Transgender, or Female Power? Women with Weapons in Early 

Anglo-Saxon Graves 

Andrew Welton, Univ. of Florida 

Bede, Bertha, and Early Christian Kent 

Richard Shaw, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom 


Dead Poet Flyting Karaoke (Performances) 


Organizer: Doaa Omran, Univ. of New Mexico; Sally Abed, Univ. of Utah 

Presider: Nicholas Schwartz, Univ. of New Mexico 

The Old High German St. Galler Spottverse 

Adam Oberlin, Atlanta International School 

Short Latin Flytings from Waltharius 

Thomas R. Leek, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point 

Flyting in the Hárbarðsljóð 

David Carlton, Western Univ. 

Selections from Medieval Flyting Poetry 

Doaa Omran and Sally Abed 

Hrothgar, Wealhtheow, and the Future of Heorot 

Heide Estes, Monmouth Univ.; Hilary E. Fox, Wayne State Univ. 


Cusanus’s Legacy in Number, Image, Text, and Sound 

Sponsor: American Cusanus Society 

Organizer: Adam Knight Gilbert, Univ. of Southern California 

Presider: Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate Univ. 

Cusan Thought in Musical Symbolism and Theory, ca. 1430–1620 

Adam Knight Gilbert 

Performance of the Visual and Participation of the Divine: Sacred Representation 

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in Cordier’s Tout par compas 

Rachel McNellis, Case Western Reserve Univ. 

Charles de Bovelles’s Duodecimal System: The Creation of Renaissance Symbolic 

Number Theory 

Tamara Albertini, Univ. of Hawaii–Manoa 


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Gender and Species: Ecofeminist Intersections (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Carolynn Van Dyke, Lafayette College 

Presider: Lesley Kordecki, DePaul Univ. 

Does It Have to Be about Women? Feminism Goes to the Dogs 

Carolynn Van Dyke 

Compassion and Benignytee: A Reassessment of the Relationship between Canacee 

and the Falcon in Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale 

Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood Univ. 

La Femme Bisclavret: Gender, Species, and Language 

Alison Langdon, Western Kentucky Univ. 

The Owl and the Nightingale: Belligerent Mothers and the Power of Feminine 

Speech 

Wendy A. Matlock, Kansas State Univ. 

Flying, Hunting, Reading: Feminism and Falconry 

Sara Petrosillo, Univ. of California–Davis 

Questioning Gynocentric Utopia: Nature as Addict in “Farewell to Cookeham” 

Liberty S. Stanavage, SUNY–Potsdam 


Shakespeare and Transmedia 



Presider: Elizabeth J. Nielsen, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Bologna’s Bridegroom: Meat and Murder in Scotland, PA 

Dianne Berg, Tufts Univ. 

“Your Queen and I Are Devils”: The Winter’s Tale and the Aftertext of Stuart 

Topicality 

Jason Gildow, Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. 

“That is the Question”: What Does Transmedia Reveal about “To Be, or Not To Be?” 

Parker Gordon, Abilene Christian Univ. 

If I Hadn’t Died in This Battle: “Fixing” King John as Transmedia 

Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy, Northern Arizona Univ. 


Papers by Undergraduates I 

Organizer: Marcia Smith Marzec, Univ. of St. Francis, Joliet 

Presider: Richard A. Nicholas, Univ. of St. Francis, Joliet 

Christ, Creation, and Humanity: An Eco-Theological Reading of John Scottus 

Eriugena 

Matthew A. Stanley, Wheaton College 

“De Ris Ecrire”: Play and Subversion in a French Gothic Manuscript 

Philippe Depairon, Univ. de Montréal 

Coding and Programming for a Digital Edition of Huon d’Auvergne, a Pre-Modern 

Franco-Italian Epic 

Abdurrafey Khan, Washington and Lee Univ. 

Ordering Myths and Men: Snorri Sturluson, Sir Thomas Malory, and Political Bias 

Mary Gilbert, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

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Gower’s Afterlives 

Sponsor: John Gower Society 

Organizer: Brian Gastle, Western Carolina Univ. 

Presider: Steele Nowlin, Hampden-Sydney College 

Textual Revenants: The Emperor, the Masons, and Gower’s Tomb 

Kara L. McShane, Ursinus College 

Chitre, Jargoune, or Seie? Gower’s Birds and Twenty-First Century Biotranslation 

Theory 

Andrea Schutz, St. Thomas Univ. 

Gower and Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture 

R. F. Yeager, Univ. of West Florida 



Archaeology of Medieval Europe II: Bioarchaeological Research on Eastern Europe 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida 

Organizer: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida 

Presider: Cristina Tica, Univ. of Nevada–Las Vegas 

Health, Diet, and Lifestyles of Early Medieval Populations in the Eastern Adriatic 

Region (Sixth–Twelfth Centuries) 

Mario Novak, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb 

Congress Travel Award Winner 

Urbanization and the Bioarchaeology of Neoplastic Disease: Examining Social 

Processes and Disease in the Past, in Reference to Medieval Poland 

Thomas Siek, Univ. College London 

Karrer Travel Award Winner 

Life and Death in the Tenth to Thirteenth Century: Comparative Paleodemographic 

Analysis of Skeletal Populations Excavated in the Eastern Part of the Great Hungarian 

Plain 

István János, Nyíregyházi Egyetem 

New Lines of Evidence: Using Human Skeletal Remains to Understand Late 

Medieval History and Population Dynamics in Eastern Europe 

Kathryn Grow Allen, Univ. at Buffalo 


Medieval Boundaries and Borders I: Intersecting Identities 

Sponsor: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Organizer: Axel E. W. Müller, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Presider: Axel E. W. Müller 

The Trickster Wife: Transgressing Boundaries and Challenging Binaries in Old 

French Fabliaux 

Vanessa Wright, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Fixed or Fluid Boundaries? Portuguese Attitudes toward African Cultures, Spaces, and 

Places in the Four Fifteenth-Century Chronicles of Gomes Eanes de Zurara (d. ca. 1474) 

Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Opportunism and (Dis)Honor: Apostasy and Infamy in the Thirteenth-Century 

Conquest of Majorca 

Ariana Myers, Princeton Univ. 

Who’s In Charge Here? Border Lords and Central Control in North-Eastern Iberia 

around the Year 1000 

Jonathan Jarrett, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

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New Directions in Medieval Rural History 

Sponsor: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS) 

Organizer: Adam Franklin-Lyons, Marlboro College 

Presider: Adam Franklin-Lyons 

Corrupt Officials and Deprived Peasants: Governmental Malfeasance in Pre-Black 

Death Lincolnshire Countryside 

Jack Newman, Univ. of Kent 

New Directions from Venetian Dalmatia: Pastoral Lifeworlds between Village 

Communities and Venetian Jurisdiction on Korčula in the Fifteenth Century 

Fabian Benedikt Kümmeler, Univ. Wien 

The Anchorite Next Door: Medieval English Anchorites in Local Historical Context 

Joshua Britt, Univ. of South Florida 


Manuscript Studies 

Presider: Judy Ann Ford, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce 

Garnish, Appetizer, or Main Course: The Paratext in Vincent of Beauvais’s 

Speculum maius 

Maura Lafferty, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

Medieval Bestiaries of the H Family 

Ilya Dines, Library of Congress 

Christine de Pizan’s Livre du corps de policie in the Order of Texts of New York 

Public Library, Spencer MS 17 

Karen Fresco, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

Simple Image as Text, Simple Text as Image 

Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik, John Paul II Catholic Univ. of Lublin 


The Theology of Catherine of Siena 

Organizer: Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv., Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota 

Presider: Jennifer N. Brown, Marymount Manhattan College 

Pauline Themes in Catherine of Siena’s Letters 

Karen Scott, DePaul Univ. 

Echoes of Dante: Catherine of Siena and Poetic Theology 

Lisa Vitale, Southern Connecticut State Univ. 

Catherine of Siena’s Eucharistic Imagery: Blood, Bridge, and Banquet in The 

Dialogue 

Catherine Annette Grisé, McMaster Univ. 

The Theology of Resurrection in the Works of Catherine of Siena 

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Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv. 


Medieval(ist) Bodies and Boundaries (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Karra Shimabukuro, Univ. of New Mexico 

Presider: Maggie M. Williams, William Paterson Univ./Material Collective 

“A Forest on the Flat Earth”: Forms, Reformations, and a Forest of Roods 

Richard Ford Burley, Boston College 

Crossing Boundaries to Reclaim the Female Body: An Autobiographical Engagement 

with a Medieval Saint’s Torture Marks 

Nicole Nyffenegger, Univ. Bern 

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Torture and Tattoos: The Duality of Narratives 

Karra Shimabukuro 

Communal Bodies and Permeable Boundaries 

Karen Eileen Overbey, Tufts Univ. 


The Future of the Profession: The Adjunctification of the Academy and the Fate 

of Medieval Studies (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Societas Johannis Higginsis 

Organizer: Kenneth Mondschein, Westfield State Univ./American 

International College 

Presider: Michael A. Cramer, Borough of Manhattan Community 

College, CUNY 

A roundtable discussion with Philip Ademola Olayoku, Univ. of Ibadan; Kenneth 

Mondschein; John A. Dempsey, Westfield State Univ.; Clifford J. Rogers, United 

States Military Academy, West Point; and Larry J. Swain, Bemidji State Univ. 


Buildings, Planning, and Networks of Medieval Cities I 


Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art 


Presider: Mickey Abel, Univ. of North Texas 

The Congregation of Tiron: Urban Development in Medieval France and Britain 

Ruth Cline, Georgetown Univ. 

Resident and Absentee Planners in New Town Development of Thirteenth-Century 

Languedoc 

Catherine Barrett, Univ. of Oklahoma 

Angevin Manfredonia and the Development of a New Adriatic Port 

Alexander Harper, Princeton Univ. 

Orsanmichele: A Florentine Civic, Commercial, and Religious Space, and Its 

Loggias, to 1337 

Marie D’Aguanno Ito, American Univ. 


New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies I 

Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 

Organizer: Mary Kate Hurley, Ohio Univ. 

Presider: Jill Hamilton Clements, Univ. of Alabama–Birmingham 

A New Anglo-Saxon Priest’s Book? The Warsaw Lectionary and the Liturgy 

Gerald Dyson, Kentucky Christian Univ. 

Drawing Dead Anglo-Saxon Bodies 

Sian Mui, Durham Univ. 

Tashjian Travel Award Winner 

As Though “Wit” Never Were: A Grammar of Reunification within The Wife’s 

Lament 

Amy W. Clark, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Univ. of California, Berkeley Graduate Student Prize Winner 

Response: Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico 

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Medieval Sermon Studies II: Educating the Laity 



Presider: Carolyn Muessig, Univ. of Bristol 

Date Eleemosyna: Pope Innocent III’s Rhetorical and Spiritual Approach to 

Almsgiving 

Thomas Maurer, Western Michigan Univ. 

An Education from the Pulpit: The Transmission of University Philosophy and 

Theology to Laypeople 

Andrew Reeves, Middle Georgia State Univ. 

Preaching the Imago Dei in the Sermons of Robert Rypon 

Holly Johnson 

Composing Sermons on Mary: Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram 

(d. 1450) 

Kimberly Rivers, Univ. of Wisconsin–Oshkosh 


Bede and Alfred 

Presider: G. Matthew Adkins, Columbus State Community College 

Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica as Advice Literature 

Toby R. Beeny, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

Time, Narrative, and Vision: Physical and Spiritual Healing in Bede’s Ecclesiastical 

History 

Brian McFadden, Texas Tech Univ. 

The Meaning of Latinity in Alfredian Translation 

Ryan Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 


Aesthetics of Form 

Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

Organizer: Lee Manion, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

Presider: Lee Manion 

Aesthetics against Form, Reference against Form 

Julie Orlemanski, Univ. of Chicago 

Aesthetics of Metrical Form: The Case of Middle English Lyric 

Ian Cornelius, Loyola Univ. Chicago 

Lyric Voices and the Politics of Aesthetics 

Ingrid Nelson, Amherst College 

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Constructing the Wycliffite Bible 

Sponsor: Lollard Society 

Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ. 

Presider: Kathleen Kennedy, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Brandywine 

Finding Aids and the Construction of Literacy in Wycliffite Biblical Manuscripts 

David Lavinsky, Yeshiva Univ. 

Towards a New Edition of the Wycliffite Bible 

Elizabeth Solopova, Univ. of Oxford 

Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Bodl.554 and William Thorpe’s Psalter 

Michael P. Kuczynski, Tulane Univ. 

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Early Medieval Monasticisms, New Questions, New Approaches I: Monastic 

Landscapes 

Sponsor: 

Network for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval 

Monasticism 


Univ. 

Presider: Albrecht Diem 

Like a Fish Out of Water: Antony the Great and the Ascetic Landscape 

Daniel Lemeni, West Univ. of Timişoara 

Consider the Cook, the Baker, and the Server: The Archaeology of Monastic 

Kitchens from Early Byzantine Monasteries in the Near East 

Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, Wittenberg Univ. 

Monastic Landscapes of the Mind: Pope Gregory’s Negotiation of Greek and 

Latin Psychology and Demonology 

Benjamin E. Heidgerken, St. Olaf College 


Academic Publishing in Crisis? Routes to Survival 

Sponsor: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University 

Organizer: Simon Forde, Medieval Institute Publications 

Presider: Anne Nolan, Arc Humanities Press 

The Successful Boydell & Brewer Model and Employee Buyout 

Caroline Palmer, Boydell & Brewer, Ltd. 

The Commercial Environment and Successful New Entrants and Trends 

Ian Stevens, ISD Distribution 

Innovation at the University of Michigan Press 

Rebecca A. Welzenbach, Michigan Publishing, Univ. of Michigan Library 

MIP at Kalamazoo: Finding the Best of the American University Press and the 

European Publishing Worlds 

Simon Forde 


Franciscan Women and Material Culture 

Sponsor: Women in the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition (WIFIT) 

Organizer: Diane V. Tomkinson, OSF, Neumann Univ. 

Presider: Darleen Pryds, Franciscan School of Theology 

Sancia and the Holy Places: Conflicts between Politics and Personal Spirituality 

in the Late Medieval Mediterranean 

Jon Paul Heyne, Catholic Univ. of America 

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Lay Women in Franciscan Churches: Outcasts or Equals? 

Erik Gustafson, George Mason Univ. 

Donning Penance: The Authority of the Franciscan Habit in the Lives of Rose of 

Viterbo, Margaret of Cortona, and Robert of Naples 

Asher Marron, Independent Scholar 


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In Honor of Richard K. Emmerson: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval 

Literature, Drama, and Art I 

Sponsor: Dept. of Art History, Florida State Univ. 

Organizer: Karlyn Griffith, California State Polytechnic Univ.–Pomona; 

Deirdre Carter, Florida State Univ. 

Presider: Paula L. Gerson, Florida State Univ. 

Staging the Tegernsee Antichrist 

David Bevington, Univ. of Chicago 

The Endurance of the Name in Manuscript Books, 700–1400 

Elaine M. Treharne, Stanford Univ. 

Found in Translation? Artist and Patron, Audience and Message in a Fourteenth- 

Century Anglo-Norman Bible 

Kathryn Smith, New York Univ. 

God’s Palimpsest: Omne bonum and the Medieval “Artists’ Book” 

Penn Szittya, Georgetown Univ. 


Hiding in the Chanson de Geste 

Sponsor: Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch 

Organizer: Hillary Engelhart, Univ. of Wisconsin–Fox Valley; Ana Grinberg, 

East Tennessee State Univ. 

Presider: Mercedes Vaquero, Brown Univ. 

Un jeu de cache-cache, Hiding in a Chanson de Geste from the Fifteenth Century: 

The Croniques et conquestes de Charlemaine from David Aubert 

Valérie Guyen-Croquez, Independent Scholar 

“Au chevauchier samble mal barbarin”: Disguise and Hiding in Chansons de 

Geste 

Ana Grinberg 


Trobar! (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Société Guilhem IX 

Organizer: Mary Franklin-Brown, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Presider: Mary Franklin-Brown 

The Etymology of Trobar 

William D. Paden, Northwestern Univ. 

www.trobar.info: The Care and Feeding of a Middle Aged Database 

Kathryn Klingebiel, Univ. of Hawaii–Manoa 

Traces of Medieval Trobar in the Caribbean 

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Valerie M. Wilhite, Univ. of the Virgin Islands 

“It don’t matter how it all went wrong”: Finding the Emotional Moment 

Mark Taylor, Berry College 


New Work by Young Celtic Studies Scholars 

Sponsor: Celtic Studies Association of North America 

Organizer: Frederick Suppe, Ball State Univ. 

Presider: Frederick Suppe 

Cut to the Quick: Horse-Maiming in Medieval England and Wales 

Shirley Kinney, Univ. of Toronto 

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Celtiberian Bear Cult(s) in Roman Spain: A Reappraisal of the Epigraphic Evidence 

David Wallace-Hare, Univ. of Toronto 

Respondent: Frederick Suppe 


Material (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Material Collective 

Organizer: Joy Partridge, Graduate Center, CUNY; Alexa Sand, Utah State Univ. 

Presider: Joy Partridge 

Eating Medieval Art 

Marian Bleeke, Cleveland State Univ. 

“And the light thereof was like to a precious stone”: The Heavenly Jerusalem and 

the Erbach Panels 

Lora Webb, Stanford Univ. 

Motifs as Immateriality in Cappadocian Painting 

Alice Lynn McMichael, Michigan State Univ. 

The Sculptors of Souillac and the (Im)material Virgin 

Jennifer Lyons, Ithaca College 

Plaster Casts and the Culture of the Copy 

Julia Finch, Morehead State Univ. 


New Voices in Medieval History I 

Sponsor: Haskins Society 

Organizer: Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Charles Insley, Univ. of Manchester 

Translating Bede’s “Golden Age” of Monasticism into Old English in the Tenth 

Century 

Christopher Riedel, Boston College 

Money Men: Placement Pattern Recognition in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century 

English Mints 

Jeremy Piercy, Univ. of Edinburgh 

Tashjian Travel Award Winner 

Solid Foundations for Strong Structures: The Form and Siting of Anglo-Norman 

Castles in the Irish Sea Region 

Rachel E. Swallow, Independent Scholar 

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Inscriptions 



Presider: Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College 

Spaces, Signs, and Original Charters in the Cartulary of the Cathedral Church of 

Angoulême 

Michael F. Webb, Univ. of Toronto 

Other People’s Names: Multivalent Marginalia in Agnès de Bourgogne’s Books 

S. C. Kaplan, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara 

British Library Sloane MS 3011 and an Inscription to a False Queen 

Valerie Schutte, independent Scholar 


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Theorizing Orientalism in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Sierra Lomuto, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, 

Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Presider: Sierra Lomuto 

Introductory Remarks: What Is Orientalism? 

Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh 

Charlemagne, Chris Kyle, and Cross-Temporal Orientalism 

Leila K. Norako, Univ. of Washington–Seattle 

The Cloth as Skin: Reading the Two Women in Emaré 

Lydia Yaitsky Kertz, Fordham Univ. 

Criticism through Deviation: Examining Richard of Devizes’s Chronicon, Chaucer’s 

Prioress’s Tale and the Jewish Ritual Murder Plot 

Dylan Thompson, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 

East Teaches West: Orientalism and Its Alternatives in the Polychronicon 

Stephanie Pentz, Northwestern Univ. 

Respondent: Tamar M. Boyadjian, Michigan State Univ. 


Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland I: Definitions and Categories 

Organizer: Ármann Jakobsson, Háskóli Íslands 

Presider: Miriam Mayburd, Háskóli Íslands 

Doomsday in Medieval Iceland 

Kolfinna Jónatansdóttir, Háskóli Íslands 

Sacramental Showdowns: Catholic Priests versus Icelandic Undead 

Kent Pettit, St. Louis Univ. 

“Cherchez (Pas) la Femme”: Defining Fylgjur in Old Icelandic Literature 

Zuzana Stankovitsová, Háskóli Íslands 

The Grey Area of Humanness 

Arngrímur Vídalin, Háskóli Íslands 

Trolling Guðmundr: Paranormal Defamation in Ljósvetninga saga 

Yoav Tirosh, Háskóli Íslands 

95 WALDO LIBRARY CLASSROOM A 

Using Open Manuscript Data I: Introduction (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 

Organizer: Dorothy Carr Porter, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Presider: Jessie Dummer, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

This workshop—led by Dorothy Carr Porter, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and the presider— 

uses the Univ. of Pennsylvania’s OPenn collections and The Digital Walters as resources, 

walking attendees through the process of bulk downloading digital images and metadata 

and introducing a few methods for processing the data. No programming experience 

is required or expected. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptop computers 

enabled with WMU WiFi. 

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3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. 



Studies on the Hêliand 

Organizer: David Eugene Clark, Suffolk County Community College; 

Perry Neil Harrison, Baylor Univ. 

Presider: David Eugene Clark 

The Hêliand and Theories of Germanic Intertextuality 

Paul Battles, Hanover College 

Christ, Commitatus, and Christology 

Larry J. Swain, Bemidji State Univ. 

Healing Power and the Disabled Body in the Hêliand 

Perry Neil Harrison 

The One and the Other: Parables of Difference in the Old Saxon Hêliand 

Kenneth C. Hawley, Lubbock Christian Univ. 


Would You Write More, or What? The Quest to Publish Historically-Based Creative 

Writing in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Curtis VanDonkelaar, Michigan State Univ. 

Presider: Curtis VanDonkelaar 

A roundtable discussion with Grace Tiffany, Western Michigan Univ.; Amanda 

Sikarskie, Univ. of Michigan–Dearborn; Merrie Haskell, Library, Univ. of Michigan 

Library; and Edward L. Risden, St. Norbert College. 


Medievalists Writing Provocative and Edgy Short-Form Publications: The Past 

Imperfect Series (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University 

Organizer: Simon Forde, Medieval Institute Publications 

Presider: Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg Univ. 

Aroundtable discussion with Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology; M. Jane 

Toswell, Western Univ.; Katalin Szende, Central European Univ.; Jamie Wood, Univ. 

of Lincoln; Ema Miljkovic, Univ. of Belgrade; Scott G. Bruce, Univ. of Colorado– 

Boulder; and Christine D. Baker, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania. 

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C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages II: Lewis and Eros (In Memory of Joy Davidman) 

Sponsor: Center for the Study of C. S. Lewis and Friends, Taylor Univ. 

Organizer: Joe Ricke, Taylor Univ. 

Presider: Robert Moore-Jumonville, Spring Arbor Univ. 

Eros in the Chronicles of Narnia 

Crystal Kirgiss, Purdue Univ. 

Divine Eros: Julian’s Revelations of Divine Love and The Great Divorce 

Corey Latta, Christ United Methodist Church 

Eros in Lewis’s Till We Have Faces 

Laura Smit, Calvin College 


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Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III: Natural Law and Natural Love 



Presider: Domenic D’Ettore, Marian Univ. 

Participation and the Thomistic Definition of Natural Law 

Catherine Peters, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston 

Natural Law Teaching on the Properties of Marriage: A Comparison of the 

Doctrines of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the New Natural Law Theorists in Light 

of the Catholic Magisterial and Canonical Tradition 

Joseph Arias, Christendom Graduate School 

Likeness as a Cause of Love 

Jordan Olver, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston 


Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Ireland: Papers in Honor of the 1500th 

Anniversary of Saint Darerca’s Death 

Organizer: Maeve Callan, Simpson College 

Presider: Maeve Callan 

Coming into the Country: Saints, Gender, and Land in Early Christian Ireland 

Dorothy Africa, Harvard Univ. 

Conchubranus’s Saint Monenna 

Dorothy Ann Bray, McGill Univ. 

It’s Not Easy to Keep a Good Holy Woman Down: The Manipulation of Female 

Sanctity and Gender Roles in the Lives of Saint Darerca (aka Moninna and 

Modwenna), from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century 

Diane P. Auslander, Lehman College, CUNY 

102 FETZER 1005 

Repudiated (Hi)Stories II: History and Literature 


Organizer: Linde M. Brocato, Univ. of Memphis 

Presider: Jessica A. Boon, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 

Hero or Villain? Ibn Ḥabīb’s Memories of the Conqueror Mūsā b. Nuṣayr 

Denise K. Filios, Univ. of Iowa 

Streams of Law, Poetry, and Doctrine: Conversion and Repudiation in Medieval Iberia 

Isabel Orozco-Vela, Loyola Univ. Chicago 

La producción literaria de un infante injuriado 

Ana Adams, Gustavus Adolphus College 

“ . . . And he was sent out of the king’s house”: Defending and Denouncing the 

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Privados of Alfonso XI of Castile 

David Cantor-Echols, Univ. of Chicago 

103 FETZER 1010 

Sessions in Honor of Maureen Boulton II: Anglo-Norman Literatures 

Sponsor: Medieval Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Organizer: Anna Siebach-Larsen, Univ. of Notre Dame; Sarah Baechle, 

Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: Anna Siebach-Larsen 

Beholding Mary in Anglo-French Poetry 

Claire M. Waters, Univ. of California–Davis 

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Constructing an Anglo-French Hermeneutic 

Sarah Baechle 

Anglo-French in the Twenty-First Century 

Ardis Butterfield, Yale Univ. 

“En celle maison . . . n’avra que ung languaige”: French Chaste-Matron Books in 

Late Medieval England 

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham Univ. 

104 FETZER 1040 

Despair in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Medievalists@Penn 

Organizer: Mariah Junglan Min, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Samantha Pious, 

Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Presider: Mariah Junglan Min 

Despair and Confession in Robert the Deuyll 

Gina Marie Hurley, Yale Univ. 

When “Hope Has Flown”: Despair and Decrepitude in the Medieval Love-Lyrics 

of Baudri de Bourgeuil, Arnaut Daniel, and Francesco Petrarch 

Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

“I get knocked down, but I get up again . . .”: Elements of Despair in Late Medieval 

Religious Literature 

Hetta Howes, Queen Mary, Univ. of London 

Despair and False Hope in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur 

Christopher Jensen, Florida State Univ. 

Mediating Affect: Linguistic Enclosures of Despair in Julian of Norwich’s A 

Revelation of Love and The Book of Margery Kempe 

Jessica Zisa, New York Univ. 

105 FETZER 1045 

Feminism with/out Gender (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: BABEL Working Group 

Organizer: Robin Norris, Carleton Univ. 

Presider: Damian Fleming, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne 

“Ic ane geseah idese sittan”: Old English Verse and the Bechdel-Wallace Test 

Alexandra Reider, Yale Univ. 

“Þus oððe bet”: Writing, Gender, and Anglo-Saxon Textual Practice 

Thomas A. Bredehoft, Chancery Hill Books and Antiques 

Feminist Scholarship and Embodied Experience 

Irina A. Dumitrescu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn 

Why Do I Bake for Department Meetings? 

Marian Bleeke, Cleveland State Univ. 

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Working as (if) a Man: Relative Genders in the Academic Workplace 

Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Univ. of Toronto 

A Voice of One’s Own: In Our Own Skin at Work 

Alexa Huang, George Washington Univ. 


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106 FETZER 1060 

Place, Space, and/or Travel in Courtly Context 

Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American 

Branch 

Organizer: Patricia Price, California State Univ.–San Marcos 

Presider: Kenneth Salzberg, Hamline Univ. 

Spatiality and the Rendering of Order in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight’s Tale 

Matthew Smith, Univ. of Alabama 

Welsh Bardic Travel and Cultural Interchange in the Late Middle Ages 

Patricia Price 

Regional Identity between Courts in the Romance Mediterranean 

Valerie M. Wilhite, Univ. of the Virgin Islands 

107 FETZER 2016 

Flyting Poetry across Medieval Cultures (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Sally Abed, Univ. of Utah; Doaa Omran, Univ. of New Mexico 

Presider: Maha Baddar, Pima Community College 

Top Flyte: Masculine Panic and Verbal Confrontation 

Robert Stanton, Boston College 

Bríatharcath na m-ban of Fled Bricrenn: Female Flyting in Medieval Ireland 

Dylan Cooper, National University of Ireland–Galway 

Recipient of the NUI, Galway’s Sieg & Dunlop Travel Bursary 

The “Other” Germanic Flyting 

Adam Oberlin, Atlanta International School 

Female Flyters in Medieval Arabic Poetry 

Doaa Omran 

Self Flyters in Medieval Arabic Poetry 

Sally Abed 

108 FETZER 2020 

The Music of the Beneventan Rite II (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Society for Beneventan Studies 

Organizer: Andrew J. M. Irving, Rijksuniv. Groningen 

Presider: Andrew J. M. Irving 

A workshop led by Matthew Peattie, College-Conservatory of Music, Univ. of Cincinnati, 

and Matthew Swanson, College-Conservatory of Music, Univ. of Cincinnati. 

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109 FETZER 2030 

Ovid’s Medieval Metamorphoses II: Touching the Ovide moralisé 

Organizer: Lucas Wood, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Lucas Wood 

Acteon and His Dogs 

Peggy McCracken, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Fortune’s Touch: Christine de Pizan’s Encounters with the Ovide moralisé 

Miranda Griffin, St. Catharine’s College, Univ. of Cambridge 

Ovid Moralized Twice: On Three Glossed Manuscripts of the Ovide moralisé 

Mattia Cavagna, KU Leuven; Thibaut Radomme, Univ. catholique de Louvain/ 

Univ. de Lausanne 

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110 FETZER 2040 

Women in the Age of Bede II 

Sponsor: BedeNet; Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Christopher 

Newport Univ. 

Organizer: Sharon M. Rowley, Christopher Newport Univ.; Paul Hilliard, 

Univ. of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary; Máirín 

MacCarron, Univ. of Sheffield 

Presider: Sharon M. Rowley 

Translating Women in the Age of Bede 

Helene Scheck, Univ. at Albany 

Holy Women, the Community of Memory, and the Memory of Communities in 

Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica 

Sachi Shimomura, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. 

Bede and the Virgin Mother 

Stephen J. Harris, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 


The Craft (Beer) of Medievalism: Popular Culture, the Middle Ages, and Contemporary 

Brewing (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Megan Cook, Colby College 

Presider: Megan Cook 

Brewing in Hell: Infernal Imagery in Contemporary Belgian Beer Marketing and 

Its Medieval Antecedents 

Rosemary O’Neill, Kenyon College 

Codex Cervisarius: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Medievalism of Craft Beer in Québec 

and Ontario 

John A. Geck, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland 

Brewing Goes Berserk: Viking Medievalisms in Modern Craft Brewing 

Stephen C. Law, Univ. of Central Oklahoma/Medieval Brewers Guild 

This Must Be Belgium: Medieval Heritage Seeks Match with Craft Beer 

Etienne Boumans, Independent Scholar 

Drinking Like a Monk: Monastic Mystification and Modern Marketing 

Nöelle Phillips, Douglas College 


Church Reform on the Eve of Luther 

Sponsor: American Cusanus Society 

Organizer: Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean Univ. 

Presider: Wendy Love Anderson, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

Matěj of Janov’s Vision of Reform 

Stephen E. Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln 

Personal Reform from the Pulpit: Pierre d’Ailly’s Sermons 

Christopher M. Bellitto 

The Cardinal Grants Indulgences: Cusanus in the Jubilee Year 1450 

Thomas M. Izbicki, Rutgers Univ. 

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To “Gladly Teche”: Becoming Great Teachers in Graduate School (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Center for Teaching Excellence, Rice Univ.; Medieval Academy 

Graduate Student Committee 

Organizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ.; Caitlin Hutchison, Univ. of Delaware; 

Tamara Bentley Caudill, Tulane Univ.; Frank Napolitano, 

Radford Univ.; Shyama Rajendran, George Washington Univ. 

Presider: Joshua Eyler and Caitlin Hutchison 

A roundtable dicussion with Kalani Craig, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Christine 

Evans, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Beth Fischer, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel 

Hill; Meg Gregory, Illinois State Univ.; Shyama Rajendran; Frank Napolitano; and 

Gregory Roper, Univ. of Dallas. 


Stages of Power: Shakespeare and Marlowe, 1592: A Reacting to the Past Game 

and Teaching Workshop 



Presider: Eric S. Mallin, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

This teaching workshop—led by Anna Riehl Bertolet, Auburn Univ. and Nora L. 

Corrigan—provides an introduction to the Reacting to the Past series of pedagogical 

role-playing games. We will be playing the game “Stages of Power: Shakespeare and 

Marlowe, 1592.” One of the game authors and two faculty members who have used 

the game in their classrooms will preside and discuss their experiences. Registration 

(to nlcorrigan@gmail.com) is encouraged but not required. 


Papers by Undergraduates II 

Organizer: Marcia Smith Marzec, Univ. of St. Francis, Joliet 

Presider: Richard A. Nicholas, Univ. of St. Francis, Joliet 

The Spectrum of Existence and the Organization of the Beowulf-Manuscript 

Jan Blaschak, Wayne State Univ. 

Discovering Beowulf’s God: A Cognitive and Computational Linguistic Approach 

Traver Scott Carlson, Wheaton College 

The Empowerment of the Formel Eagle: The Feminist Reading of Nature and Venus 

Aubrey Connors, Furman Univ. 

Just the Tip: Holy Phalluses and Queer Beheadings in Medieval Romance 

Zac Clifton, Univ. of Montevallo 

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Gower’s Animals 

Sponsor: John Gower Society 

Organizer: Brian Gastle, Western Carolina Univ. 

Presider: Gabrielle Parkin, Case Western Reserve Univ. 

Fowl Play: Birds and Social Bonds in “Tereus, Procne, and Philomela” 

Jeffery G. Stoyanoff, Spring Hill College 

Animal Bodies, Social Critique, and Equine Medicine in John Gower’s “Tale of 

Rosiphelee” 

Francine McGregor, Arizona State Univ. 

Animal Life and Men of Law in John Gower’s Mirour de l’omme and Vox clamantis 

Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College 

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The Kinde Creatures: Fair Trade in the Tale of Adrian and Bardus 

Roger Ladd, Univ. of North Carolina–Pembroke 


Malory’s Morte Darthur I 

Presider: Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College 

Malory and Authorship: The Production of Material Form in Le Morte Darthur 

Christy McCarter, Purdue Univ. 

Winner of the Thomas Ohlgren Award for Best Graduate Student Essay in Medieval 

and Renaissance Studies 

Holy Grail, Holy Empire: Typological Significance in Malory’s Roman War and 

Grail Quest 

Kathryn Mogk, Harvard Univ. 

Malory’s Shape-Shifting Christ Child 

Theresa Kenney, Univ. of Dallas 


Medieval Boundaries and Borders II: Thresholds of Agency 

Sponsor: Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Organizer: Axel E. W. Müller, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Presider: Emilia Jamroziak, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Scottish Identity and the Ethics of War in English Chronicles, 1327–77 

Trevor Russell Smith, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

Crossing Lines? Border Lordship, Communication, and Aristocratic Sociability in 

Eleventh- and Early Twelfth-Century Northeastern Brittany 

Regan Eby, Boston College 

Imagining Bureaucratic Identity and Agency in Twelfth-Century British Court 

Criticism 

Danielle Bradley, Rutgers Univ. 

The (In)Articulate Sufferer: Lameness, Pain, and the Non-Human Patient in Later 

Medieval Horse-Medicine Treatises 

Sunny Harrison, Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Leeds 


Personal Politics? Character, Personalities, and Relationships in Late Medieval 

England 

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Presider: Jeffrey S. Hamilton, Baylor Univ. 

Anne of Bohemia: A Political Post-Mortem 

Anna Duch, Univ. of North Texas 

Personal Politics and the Turmoil of Henry VI’s Minority Council 

Jon-Mark Grussenmeyer, Univ. of Kent 

Constitutionalism or Regional Anomaly? Richard II and Elite Political Culture in 

the North 

Mark Arvanigian 


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Fresh Perspectives on Medieval Pilgrimage: Canterbury Cathedral, Durham 

Cathedral, and York Minster 

Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Univ. of York 

Organizer: Dee Dyas, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, 

Univ. of York 

Presider: Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, Univ. of London 

“Surely this is no other than the gate of Heaven?”: Analyzing and Replicating 

Medieval Pilgrim Experience 

Dee Dyas 

Sharing Sacred Space: Pilgrims, Priests and the Liturgy in English Cathedrals 

John Jenkins, Univ. of York 

Presenting and Interpreting Medieval Saints Today: Pilgrims and Other Visitors 

to Canterbury, Durham, and York 

Tiina Sepp, Univ. of York 


Medieval Framed Narratives and the Single-Author Collection 

Sponsor: Mediaevalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies 

Worldwide 

Organizer: Olivia Holmes, Binghamton Univ. 

Presider: Olivia Holmes 

Class Limits on Heroic Clerkly Misogyny in the Dolopathos 

Randy Schiff, Univ. at Buffalo 

A Framed/Unframed Anthology between Novellino and Decameron 

Irene Cappelletti, Univ. della Svizzera italiana 

The Decameron: How Important Was the Frame? 

Laurie Shepard, Boston College 

Frames of Mind: Boccaccio’s Alatiel, Chaucer’s Constance, and the Uses of Tales 

in Tales 

Warren Ginsberg, Univ. of Oregon 


Saintly Bodies: Materiality, Manuscripts, Movement (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Jenny C. Bledsoe, Emory Univ.; Lynneth J. Miller, Baylor Univ. 

Presider: Jenny C. Bledsoe 

Translated Bodies and Traveling Souls: Movement in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography 

Rebecca E. Straple, Western Michigan Univ. 

Sacrilegious “Relics”: Female Bodies in the Tale of the Cursed Dancing Carolers 

Lynneth J. Miller 

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Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame: Delightful Play, Engaged Bodily Performance 

Rachel Watson, New York Univ. 

Reworking Relics: Painting the Teodolinda Chapel in Monza 

Laura Maria Somenzi, Emory Univ. 

The Reliquary Codex: Saints’ Lives, Books, and Bones in Thirteenth-Century Liège 

Sara Ritchey, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

Finding Women Saints in the Body of the Text 

Courtney E. Rydel, Washington College 

The Lives and Afterlives of Holy Women: Medieval Spirituality and Seventeenth- 

Century Printing in the Low Countries 

Barbara Zimbalist, Univ. of Texas–El Paso 

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Richard Coeur de Lion: Then and Now 


Organizer: Russell A. Peck, Univ. of Rochester 

Presider: Christopher Guyol, SUNY–Geneseo 

Rethinking the METS Richard Coer de Lyon: Romance Accretions and Historiography 

Peter Larkin, Univ. of North Carolina–Charlotte 

Lion-Hearted and Demon-Spawned: Comprehending the King’s Cannibalism 

Michael Livingston, The Citadel 

Which Richard? Bidder’s Choice 

Russell A. Peck 

Respondent: Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland 



Augustine’s Correspondence: Networking from North Africa 

Organizer: Marianne Djuth, Canisius College 

Presider: Marianne Djuth 

From “Your Letters Overflowing with Milk and Honey” (Augustine to Paulinus, 

Ep. 27) to “Unhappy I That Have Absorbed the Poisonous Taste of that Hateful 

Tree” (Augustine quoting Paulinus back to Paulinus, Ep. 186) 

Nancy Weatherwax, Albion College 

Equality in Desolation and the Church: Women, Men, and Three of Augustine’s 

Letters 

Robert N. Parks, Univ. of Dayton 

Precursors to “Just War Theory” in the Letters of Augustine (ca. 400–425 AD) 

Joseph Grabau, KU Leuven 

Augustine’s Epistolary Doctrine of Grace: The Role of Letters in the Pelagian 

Controversy 

Anthony Dupont, KU Leuven 


Soundscapes in Medieval Occitania 

Sponsor: Société Guilhem IX 

Organizer: Mary Franklin-Brown, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Presider: Mary Franklin-Brown 

What Do Troubadour Dreams Sound Like? 

María Sánchez-Reyes, New York Univ. 

Meter and Melody in Troubadour X (Paris, BnF, fr. 20050) 

Elizabeth K. Hebbard, Univ. of New Hampshire 

The Sounds of Medieval Occitan Theatre 

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Wendy Pfeffer, Univ. of Louisville 

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Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching in England 



Presider: Ralf Lützelschwab, Freie Univ. Berlin 

The Last Judgment in the Prick of Conscience and the Sermons of Shrewsbury 

School MS 3 

Christine Cooper-Rompato, Utah State Univ. 

Preaching the Word to Women: The Woman of Canaan in Late Medieval English 

Sermons 

Beth Allison Barr, Baylor Univ. 

“Leve Frend”: Gender Inclusive Language and Imagined Audiences in MS Longleat 4 

Elizabeth Harper, Mercer Univ. 

Downside Abbey Manuscripts: The Collection and Its Manuscripts of Sermon 

Literature 

George Ferzoco, Univ. of Bristol 


Affective Politics: Kinship in Medieval Communities (East and West) 

Sponsor: Politicas: The Society for the Study of Political Thought in the 

Middle Ages 

Organizer: Elizabeth McCartney, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Elizabeth McCartney 

The Headless Hierarchy: Affective Kinship in Pseudo-Dionysius 

Benjamin Frazer-Simser, Roosevelt Univ. 

Affective Insignia: Jouvenel des Ursins and Family Politics in Fifteenth-Century 

France 

Jennifer Courts, Univ. of Southern Mississippi 

The Idea of the Translation of Empire in Late Medieal French and German 

Humanism 

Thomas J. Renna, Saginaw Valley State Univ. 


Constructing Race in Arthurian Romances 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis Univ. 

Organizer: Evelyn Meyer, St. Louis Univ. 

Presider: Deva F. Kemmis, Goethe-Institut Washington 

Is He “a Vylayne Born”? Redefining Otherness in Malory’s “Gareth” 

Vanessa Jaeger, Binghamton Univ. 

Race and the Reconciliation of the Other in Middle English Arthurian Romance 

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Chera A. Cole, Texas Woman’s Univ. 

Constructing the Racial and Oriental Other in Text and Illumination in Wolfram 

von Eschenbach’s Parzival 

Evelyn Meyer 

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Presider: 


“Can These Bones Come To Life?”: Politics and Diversity in Re-construction, 

Re-enactment, and Re-creation 

Sponsor: Societas Johannis Higginsis 

Organizer: Kenneth Mondschein, Westfield State Univ./American International 

College 

Michael A. Cramer, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 

CUNY 

Reenactment, Recreation, and the Historiography of Imagined Whiteness 

Kenneth Mondschein 

(Re)Animating the Star-Spangled Golem: The Medieval Roots and Modern Controversies 

Surrounding a Comic Book Legend 

Lisa Evans, Independent Scholar 

Civilizational Discourse and the Politics of Embodiment in Contemporary Historical 

European Martial Arts 

Nathan L. Clough, Univ. of Minnesota–Duluth; Brandon Foat, Nova Classical 

Academy 


Early Medieval Monasticisms, New Questions, New Approaches II: Monasticisms 

before and after Benedict of Nursia 

Sponsor: Network for the Study of Late Antique and Early Medieval 

Monasticism 


Univ. 

Presider: Matthieu van der Meer 

Pre-Benedictine Monasticism in Sixth-Century Rome 

Andrea Antonio Verardi, Univ. degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”/Pontificia 

Univ. Gregoriana 

Beyond the Cloister: Wandering Monks and Nuns in Early Ireland 

Westley Follett, Univ. of Southern Mississippi–Gulf Coast 

Irish Monasticism prior to the Arrival of the New Orders 

Elaine Pereira Farrell, Univ. College Dublin 

A Cell of One’s Own: Recluses, Hermits, and Anchorites in the Carolingian World 

Ingrid Rembold, Hertford College, Univ. of Oxford 

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Sex Magic: Past and Present, Imagined and Real 

Sponsor: Societas Magica 

Organizer: Marla Segol, Univ. at Buffalo 

Presider: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence 

Erectile Dys-monk-tion: Monastic Uses for the Old Irish Magical Anti-Viagra 

Phillip Bernhardt-House, Skagit Valley College–Whidbey Island 

Roots and Shoots: Late Antique and Medieval Models for Contemporary Sex Magic 

Marla Segol 

Response: Liana Saif, Oriental Institute, Univ. of Oxford 


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“Renewed in Each Sex”: Women and Men in the Rediscovered Life of Saint Francis 

of Assisi 

Sponsor: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.; Women in the 

Franciscan Intellectual Tradition (WIFIT) 

Organizer: Diane V. Tomkinson, OSF, Neumann Univ. 

Presider: Diane V. Tomkinson, OSF 

Thomas of Celano’s Rediscovered Life of St. Francis: Where Have Clare and the 

Sisters Gone? 

Jean-François Godet-Calogeras, Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ. 

The Lost First Companion of Saint Francis 

Kevin Elphick, Franciscan Brothers of the Resurrection 

“Invoked by the Bystanders”: Francis of Assisi and the Faithful Laity in the Vita 

brevior 

Darleen Pryds, Franciscan School of Theology 


In Honor of Richard K. Emmerson: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medieval 

Literature, Drama, and Art II (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: 

Organizer: 

Dept. of Art History, Florida State Univ. 

Deirdre Carter, Florida State Univ.; Karlyn Griffith, California 

State Polytechnic Univ.–Pomona 

Deirdre Carter 

Presider: 

How I Learned to Love the Apocalypse 

Ronald Herzman, SUNY–Geneseo 

Medieval Drama/Rick Emmerson: Before and After 

Theresa Coletti, Univ. of Maryland 

Text and Image: Crossing Disciplinary and Departmental Lines 

Joan A. Holladay, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Rick Emmerson as Mr. Apocalypse 

Bernard McGinn, Univ. of Chicago 

Illustrated Apocalypse Manuscripts as Spectacle: A Student’s Perspective 

Karlyn Griffith 

This Is the End 

Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve Univ. 

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New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies II 

Sponsor: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 

Organizer: Mary Kate Hurley, Ohio Univ. 

Presider: Mary Kate Hurley 

What Happened to the Cup That Runneth Over? King Alfred’s Translation of the 

Twenty-Third Psalm 

Bradley D. Tepper, Univ. of New Mexico 

Infernal Logic: Conceptual Metaphor, Dissonance, and Play in the Old English 

Vision of Saint Paul and The Descent into Hell 

Stephen Hopkins, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Solomon and Saturn: A Framework for Transgressive Wisdom 

Jeanie Abbott, Stanford Univ. 

Response: Johanna Kramer, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

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Medieval Ecocriticisms: Intersections (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Medieval Ecocriticisms 

Organizer: Heide Estes, Monmouth Univ. 

Presider: Heide Estes 

Material Subjects, Vulnerable Bodies 

Richard H. Godden, Loyola Univ. New Orleans 

Queer Waste in Wynnere and Wastoure 

Micah Goodrich, Univ. of Connecticut 

Environmental Diversity and the Cultural Terrain of a Temporal Monolith: 

Eosturmonath, Nisan, and the Paschal Table 

Miriamne Ara Krummel, Univ. of Dayton 

Reverberations from the Sibyl’s Cave: Tracking the Ecology, Materiality, and 

Authority of the Female Prophet across Medieval Europe 

Alan S. Montroso, George Washington Univ. 


Ælfrician Texts and Contexts 

Organizer: Rachel Elizabeth Grabowski, Cornell Univ. 

Presider: Rachel Elizabeth Grabowski 

Ælfric and Anglo-Saxon Translation Theory 

David Wilton, Texas A&M Univ. 

Ælfric and the Efficacy of Infant Baptism 

Miranda Wilcox, Brigham Young Univ. 

Punctuating the Letter of the Law in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies 

Max Stevenson, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Ælfric, Oswald, and Beyond: The Reception of the Oswald Narrative in Late 

Anglo-Saxon England 

M. Breann Leake, Univ. of Connecticut 


Collective (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Material Collective 

Organizer: Joy Partridge, Graduate Center, CUNY; Alexa Sand, Utah 

State Univ. 

Presider: Alexa Sand 

We Are the Union 

Maggie M. Williams, William Paterson Univ./Material Collective 

Bad “We’s” 


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With and against Objects, and Ourselves 

Benjamin C. Tilghman, Lawrence Univ./Material Collective 

From Collaboration to Community: Art History That 

Amy K. Hamlin, St. Catherine Univ.; Karen J. Leader, Florida Atlantic Univ. 

Do We Only Preserve What We Enjoy? Sustaining Images of Medieval Art and 

Architecture 

Alison Langmead, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Aisling Quigley, Univ. of Pittsburgh 


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New Voices in Medieval History II 

Sponsor: Haskins Society 

Organizer: Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Laura L. Gathagan, SUNY–Cortland 

Photios the Document Tamperer: Lies, Genre, and Shared Standards of Truth and 

Legitimacy between Italy and Byzantium 

Shane Bobrycki, Harvard Univ./Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Talking about Tyrants in Anglo-Norman England and Norman Sicily 

Philippa Byrne, Univ. of Oxford 

The Defense of Jerusalem and the Critique of Royal Power in Angevin England 

Katherine L. Hodges-Kluck, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 


Manuscripts and Books Unbound: Identification and Recovery of Fragments 



Presider: Michael Johnston, Purdue Univ. 

Unbound Early Medieval Drawings in an Eleventh-Century Palimpsest 

Ludovico V. Geymonat, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Almost at a Loss: Saving Peniarth 20’s Poetical Triads 

Brian Cook, Univ. of Mississippi 

Middle English Verse in Unlikely Places: Discovering a Chanson d’Aventure at 

Saint Mary’s College 

Sarah Noonan, Saint Mary’s College 

Elias Bouhéreau’s Books Unbound: A Study of Fragments Found in Bouhéreau’s 

Books in Marsh’s Library, Dublin 

Niamh Pattwell, Univ. College Dublin 


Buildings, Planning, and Networks of Medieval Cities II 


Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art 


Presider: Virginia Jansen, Univ. of California–Santa Cruz 

Sacred Places: Rethinking the Limits between Urban and Rural Space: the Example 

of the “Cubas” from Southern Portugal 

Luis Ferro, Univ. do Porto 

Building a Brand: Abbot Desiderius’s Development of a Monastic Identity 

Rachel Hiser, Univ. of North Texas 

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Water as the Philosophical and Organizational Basis for an “Urban” Community 

Plan: The Case of Maillezais Abbey 

Mickey Abel, Univ. of North Texas 

“Any Place I Hang My Hat”: Peripatetic Ymagiers and the Emergence of Urbs 

Janet Snyder, Univ. of West Virginia 

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Encounters with the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland II: Social Concerns 

Organizer: Ármann Jakobsson, Háskóli Íslands 

Presider: Kolfinna Jónatansdóttir, Háskóli Íslands 

“Who is Selkolla, what is she?”: Disentangling Traditions in the Sagas of Guðmundur 

Arason and Elsewhere 

Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue Univ. 

Geocentric Topographies in Barðar Saga Snæfellsáss: Locating the Paranormal from 

Snæfellsness to Hellalund 

Daniel Remein, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston 

Cognitive Contingencies: Íslendingasögur’s Speculative Realism and the Value of 

Uncertainty 

Miriam Mayburd, Háskóli Íslands 

Glámr and the Uncanny Valley: A Cognitive-Semiotic Reading of Grettis saga 

Sarah Bienko Eriksen, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Talking to Death in Alvíssmál 

Andrew McGillivray, Univ. of Winnipeg 


Using Open Manuscript Data II: Advanced (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 

Organizer: Dorothy Carr Porter, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Presider: Dorothy Carr Porter 

This workshop—led by Jessie Dummer, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and the presider— 

builds on skills learned in Workshop I (Session 95) and introduces additional ways to 

access complex open collections, including e-codices and The Getty. Participants are 

encouraged to bring their laptop computers enabled with WMU WiFi. 



Early Evening Events 

5:00 p.m. WINE HOUR Valley III 

Reception with hosted bar Harrison 301 

Eldridge 310 

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5:00 p.m. TEAMS: Teaching Association for Valley III 

Medieval Studies Stinson 306 

Editorial Board Meeting 

5:00 p.m. BABEL Working Group Fetzer 1045 


Thursday early evening 

5:00 p.m. Reception in Honor of Richard K. Bernhard 

Emmerson 

Brown & Gold 

with cash bar 

Room 

sponsored by the Dept. of Art History 

and Medieval Studies Association, 

Florida State Univ. 

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Thursday early evening 

5:15 p.m. International Anchoritic Valley III 

Society Eldridge 309 


5:15 p.m. Musicology at Kalamazoo Fetzer 2020 


5:15 p.m. American Cusanus Society Schneider 1225 


5:15 p.m. Société Guilhem IX Bernhard 204 


5:15 p.m. International Arthurian Society, Bernhard 213 

North American Branch (IAS/NAB) 

Executive Advisory Committee 

Meeting 

5:30 p.m. Medieval Association for Rural Valley II 

Studies (MARS) 

LeFevre Lounge 


5:30 p.m. Medieval Academy Graduate Fetzer 1055 

Student Committee 

Reception with cash bar 

5:30 p.m. Goliardic Society, Western Bernhard G10 

Michigan Univ. 

Reception with hosted bar 

5:30 p.m. Medieval Association of the Bernhard 107 

Midwest (MAM) 

Business Meeting and Reception 

with hosted bar 

6:00–7:30 p.m. DINNER Valley Dining Center 

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6:00 p.m. TEAMS: Teaching Association for Valley III 

Medieval Studies Harrison 302 


6:00 p.m. Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Fetzer 1035 

Studies and Digital Medievalist 


6:00 p.m. Remembering Claire Sponsler Bernhard 

Reception with cash bar, hosted by Faculty Lounge 

Mary Hayes, Jonathan Wilcox, Robert 

Clark, and Theresa Coletti 

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7:30-9:00 p.m. 

Sessions 143-165 


Medievalist Poets’ Reading (Performances) 

Organizer: A. J. Odasso, Univ. of New Mexico 

Presider: A. J. Odasso 

After the Labyrinth: Dreams of Ariadne 

Jane Beal, Univ. of California–Davis 

Poetry Reading 

Eirik Westcoat, Independent Scholar 

Poetry Reading 

Kathryn Hinds, Univ. of North Georgia 

If there is time remaining at the end, we welcome readings from the audience, so 

bring a few poems or translations along! 


Gaylord Workshop on Reading Chaucer Aloud 

Sponsor: Chaucer MetaPage 

Organizer: Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ. 

Presider: Susan Yager 

This workshop is led by Regula M. Evitt, Colorado College, and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, 

Tougaloo College. 


The Kind Leading the Blind: Best Practices in Graduate Advising (A Panel Discussion) 

Sponsor: Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) 

Organizer: Alan Baragona, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ. 

A panel discussion with Larry J. Swain, Bemidji State Univ.; Amy N. Vines, Univ. of 

North Carolina–Greensboro; Britt Mize, Texas A&M Univ.; Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson 

Univ.; Larissa Tracy, Longwood Univ.; and D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor Univ. 

146 FETZER 1005 

The White Hart Lecture 



Presider: Mark Arvanigian 

Edward II and the Vicissitudes of Kingship 

Jeffrey S. Hamilton, Baylor Univ. 

147 FETZER 1010 

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Digital Humanities and Medieval Italy (A Panel Discussion) 

Sponsor: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: Akash Kumar, Univ. of California–Santa Cruz 

Presider: Akash Kumar 

Visualizing Dante’s World: Geography, History, and Mapping 

Allison DeWitt, Columbia Univ. 

Medieval Textuality in the Digital Domain: The Petrarchive Project 

Isabella Magni, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Maestro Martino: From Manuscript to the Digital World 

Lino Mioni, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Reading Medieval Epic Digitally 

Stephen P. McCormick, Washington and Lee Univ. 

148 FETZER 1040 

Reflecting on Gender and Medieval Studies 

Sponsor: Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York 

Organizer: Craig Taylor, Univ. of York 

Presider: Craig Taylor 

From Women to Men, and Back Again 

Katherine J. Lewis, Univ. of Huddersfield 

From Romances to Bromances: Studies in Masculinity at York and Beyond 

Rachel E. Moss, Corpus Christi College, Univ. of Oxford 

From Romance to Administrative History: New Perspectives on Queenship in 

Late Medieval England 

Lisa Benz, Univ. of York 

149 FETZER 1045 

(Dis)Played and (Dis)Covered: Constructing Gender in Persianate Literature 

Sponsor: Great Lakes Adiban Society 

Organizer: Cameron Cross, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Presider: Franklin Lewis, Univ. of Chicago 

Mammoth Bodies, Chests, Arms and Thighs: On Masculinity in Firdawsi’s 

Shahnameh 

Alexandra Hoffmann, Univ. of Chicago 

Rebellious Princesses: The Ghazals of Jahān Malik Khātun and Zīb un-Nisā Makhfī 

Maryam Sabbaghi, Univ. of Chicago 

Poetry and Paragons of Masculine Eroticism in Late Medieval India and Iran 

Nathan L. M. Tabor, Western Michigan Univ. 

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150 FETZER 1060 

Performance in and of Courtly Literature 

Sponsor: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American 

Branch 


Presider: Tamara Bentley Caudill 

A chantar in Performance 

Laura Zoll, Independent Scholar 

The Performance of Awe in Courtly Romance 

Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York Univ. 

Shifting Our Horizons of Expectation: Love Service in the Devotional Contrafacta 

of Jacques de Cambrai 

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Christopher Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan Univ. 

“Þe forme to be fynisment foldez ful selden”: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

and the Dynamics of Performance 

Gerard Lavin, Univ. of New Mexico 

Univ. of New Mexico Graduate Student Prize Winner 

151 FETZER 2016 

Post-Medieval Anchorites (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: International Anchoritic Society 

Organizer: Michelle M. Sauer, Univ. of North Dakota 

Presider: Christopher M. Roman, Kent State Univ.–Tuscarawas 

Seclusion and Devotion: A Woman’s Escape 

Jillian Marie Allbritton, Independent Scholar 

Anchoritic Themes in Post-Medieval Literature 

Susannah Chewning, Union County College 

The Contemporary Presence of “Medieval” Women in Enclosed Spaces 

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea Univ. 

Living Medieval: Real Anchoresses of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 

Michelle M. Sauer 

152 FETZER 2020 

Medieval Art and Failure (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Gerry Guest, John Carroll Univ. 

Presider: Gerry Guest 

The Failures of Perceiving Failures in Medieval Art 

Roland Betancourt, Institute for Advanced Study/Univ. of California–Irvine 

“Shapelessness” in the Middle English Romance 

Hannah M. Christensen, Univ. of Chicago 

Erased Faces: Vandalizing Images in Hagiographic Manuscripts 

Kyunghee Pyun, Fashion Institute of Technology 

Failure to Transmit 

Alexa Sand, Utah State Univ. 

153 FETZER 2030 

New Books Roundtable 

Sponsor: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS) 

Organizer: Tina Boyer, Wake Forest Univ.; Adam Oberlin, Atlanta International 

School 

Presider: Ernst Ralf Hintz, Truman State Univ. 

Intrigen: Die Macht der Möglichkeiten in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik 

Katharina Hanuschkin, Univ. Trier 

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154 FETZER 2040 

The Virgin as Bridge: Cultural Exchange and Connection through Images of the 


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Virgin Mary 

Organizer: Diliana Angelova, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Amanda 

Luyster, College of the Holy Cross 

Presider: Amanda Luyster 

The Virgin: Bridging Flesh, Matter, and Spirit 

Diliana Angelova 

The Earliest Icons of the Virgin in Rome: East or West? 

Maria Lidova, British Museum 


Saint Bridget’s Vision of the Nativity: Cultural Exchange through Mental Images 

of the Virgin Mary 

Fabian Wolf, Städel Museum 

Karrer Travel Award Winner 

“En la forma y suerte que esta en su sanctuario”: Hybridity, Materiality, and 

Nuestra Señora de Guadeloupe in Extremadura 

Nicole Corrigan, Emory Univ. 


Archaeology and Experiment: Moving beyond the Artifacts 

Sponsor: EXARC 

Organizer: Neil Peterson, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. 

Presider: Neil Peterson 

Symmetry and Asymmetry in Viking Age Dress 

V. M. Roberts, Independent Scholar 

The Growth of Yeast and Mold on Viking Age Flat Bread versus Modern Sliced Bread 

Marci Lyn Waleff, Independent Scholar 

Minimalist Survival Gear: Three Points in Time 

Stevan E. Waleff, Independent Scholar 


Gawain at Play: Ambiguous Reading and Performance in the Pearl Manuscript (A 

Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Research Seminar, Baylor Univ. 

Organizer: Sarah B. Rude, Baylor Univ. 

Presider: Sarah B. Rude 

Sight Alliteration in Cotton Nero A.x? 

Matthew Brumit, Univ. of Dallas 

Sound, Silence, and Ways of Reading Patience 

Ingrid Pierce, Purdue Univ. 

Bobs and Games in British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x 

Kimberly Bell, Sam Houston State Univ.; Julie Nelson Couch, Texas Tech Univ. 

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Readers: Clint Morrison, Texas Tech Univ.; Mackenzie Peck, Texas Tech Univ.; and 

Sarah Jane Sprouse, Texas Tech Univ. 

Respondent: Tison Pugh, Univ. of Central Florida 


Performing Medievalisms (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: International Society for the Study of Medievalism 

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Organizer: Amy S. Kaufman, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 

Presider: Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull 

The One True Hero: Performing Medievalism in ABC’s The Quest 

Susan Aronstein, Univ. of Wyoming 

Negotiating the Future: Subversive Southern Medievalism in The House behind 

the Cedars 

Alexandra Cook, Univ. of Alabama 

“An Indifferent Nebula”: Fantasy Role-Playing Games, Leisure Culture, and the 

Simulated Middle Ages 

Gerald Nachtwey, Eastern Kentucky Univ. 

Playing Chaucer: Performance, Adaptation, and Its Importance in Fandom in 

Medieval Studies 

Hillary Yeager, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 

Habits and Habitus: The Western Martial Arts Revival and Embodied Hermeneutics 

Robert Rouse, Univ. of British Columbia 


Community Outreach: Medieval Studies outside of the Academy 

Organizer: Julie Polcrack, Western Michigan Univ.; Eric Gobel, Western 


Presider: Julie Polcrack 

Marching with Medieval Penguins: Teaching Medieval Texts while Working in 

Antarctica 

Kelly E. Hall, Program for Afloat College Education (PACE), U.S. Navy 

Translating Medievalisms on the Regional Stage: Beowulf: A Thousand Years of 

Baggage at Trinity Repertory Theatre 

Daniel Ruppel, Brown Univ. 


Fanfiction in Medieval Studies: What Do We Mean When We Say “Fanfiction”? 

Organizer: Anna Wilson, Univ. of Toronto 

Presider: Anna Wilson 

Fanfic: The Impossible Gift? 

Kristin Noone, Irvine Valley College 

Republics of Games: Literary Culture and Game Structures before and after Print 

Elyse Graham, Stony Brook Univ. 

A Gawain of Our Own: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Canonicity, and Audience 

Participation 

Angela Florschuetz, Cheyney Univ. 

Writing Her Own Deliverance: Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies 

as Reclamatory Fan Work 

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Elizabeth J. Nielsen, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 


Why We Read (Medieval) Fiction (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History 


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of Emotions 

Organizer: Stephanie Trigg, Univ. of Melbourne 

Presider: Stephanie Trigg 

Mental Spaciousness 

Maura Nolan, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Chaucerian Affectivity 

Sarah Baechle, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Why We (Still) Watch Passion Plays 

Paul Megna, Univ. of Western Australia 

Veridical Perception 

Elizabeth Robertson, Univ. of Glasgow 

Reading in Bed with Troilus and Criseyde 

Clare Davidson, Univ. of Western Australia 

Emotion, Cognition, and the Psychoanalytic Subject 

Ruth Evans, St. Louis Univ. 


The Teaching of Old English (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Old English Forum, Modern Language Association 

Organizer: Matthew T. Hussey, Simon Fraser Univ. 

Presider: Robin Norris, Carleton Univ. 

A Course in Beowulf and Tolkien 

Paul Acker, St. Louis Univ. 

Teaching Old English in History of the English Language 

Heide Estes, Monmouth Univ. 

Assignments to Enliven a Dead Language 

Jacqueline A. Fay, Univ. of Texas–Arlington 

An Anglo-Saxon Sampler 

Damian Fleming, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne 

Material Culture and Old English Pedagogy 

M. Breann Leake, Univ. of Connecticut 

Reading Like Anglo-Saxons 

Erica Weaver, Harvard Univ. 


Romance Friends and (Fr)Enemies 

Organizer: Usha Vishnuvajjala, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Usha Vishnuvajjala 

Near and Sometimes Dear: Fr(Enemies) in Le Chevalier aux deux épées 

Kristin L. Burr, St. Joseph’s Univ. 

Hagiography and Dorigen’s Discontent in The Franklin’s Tale 

John Fry, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Amis and Amiloun: More than Blood Brothers 

Rachel Levinson-Emley, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara 

Between Frenemies: Violence as Friendship in Codex Ashmole 61 

Ilan Mitchell-Smith, California State Univ.–Long Beach 

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Legitimacy, Imagery, and Imagination: Creating and Sustaining Identities in the 

High Middle Ages 

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Sponsor: Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham Univ. 

Organizer: Ana Oliveira Dias, Durham Univ. 

Presider: Jay Diehl, Long Island Univ.–C. W. Post Campus 

The Textual Made Visual: The Illustrations of the Leonese Beatus Manuscripts 

and Their Meaning 

Ana Oliveira Dias 

Alchemy, Moral Exemplum, and John Lydgate’s The Churl and the Bird in MS 

Harley 2407 

Curtis Runstedler, Durham Univ. 

Illegitimacy and Power: Anglo-Norman and Angevin Illegitimate Royal Children 

within Twelfth-Century Aristocratic Society 

James Turner, Durham Univ. 



Hiberno-Latin Studies 

Organizer: Shannon O. Ambrose, St. Xavier Univ. 

Presider: Kristen Carella, Assumption College 

Some Observations on Easter Reckoning in Early Medieval Ireland 

Marina Smyth, Univ. of Notre Dame 

The Redactor, Organization, and Source Collections of Vat. Reg. lat. 49, a Late 

Tenth-Century Breton Compilation of Latin Texts 

Jean Rittmueller, Univ. of Memphis 

Reassessing the Transmission Patterns of Hiberno-Latin Texts in German and 

Austrian Manuscripts: The Evidence of the High Middle Ages 

Shannon O. Ambrose 


Wolves Outside, Inside, and at the Medieval Door 

Organizer: Laura D. Gelfand, Utah State Univ. 

Presider: Kathleen Ashley, Univ. of Southern Maine 

Hagiography and Historical Encounters with Canis Lupus Lupus 

Laura D. Gelfand 

Saint Norbert and the Wolves of Prémontré 

Ellen M. Shortell, Massachusetts College of Art and Design 

Wolf versus Lion: The Princely Avatars of Orleans and Burgundy 

Elizabeth J. Moodey, Vanderbilt Univ. 

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Late Evening Events 

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Thursday late evening 

8:00 p.m. Leaf-by-Niggle Gilmore Theatre 

Univ. of Maryland 

Complex 

It’s a Miracle! 

The Harlotry Players, Univ. of 

Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Cooch E. Whippet 

(Farce of Martin of Cambray) 

Radford Univ. 




A triple bill featuring a Tolkien fairy tale staged in a medieval 

style, a florilegium of fakery from the Harlotry Players, and a 

filthy French farce, courtesy of Radford’s ensemble and translator 

Jody Enders. 

9:00 p.m. Univ. of Toronto Press; Centre for Valley III 

Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto Harrison 302 


9:00 p.m. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Valley III 

Studies; Institute of Medieval and Eldridge 310 

Early Modern Studies, Durham Univ. 


9:00 p.m. International Courtly Literature Fetzer 1030 

Society (ICLS), North American Branch 

Business Meeting and Reception with 

hosted bar 

9:00 p.m. Institute for Medieval Studies, Univ. Fetzer 1040 

of Leeds; Centre for Medieval Studies, 

Univ. of York 


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9:00 p.m. John Gower Society Fetzer 1060 

Business Meeting with cash bar 

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Friday, May 12 



8:00–10:30 a.m. COFFEE SERVICE Bernhard Center 

8:30 a.m. Plenary Lecture I Bernhard 

Sponsored by the Medieval Academy East Ballroom 

of America 

Presider: Jana K. Schulman, 

Western Michigan Univ. 

University Welcome 

Presentation of the twenty-first Otto Gründler Book Prize 

Artifacts of the Infidel: Medieval and Modern Interpretations 

of the Sacred Law of Islam 

Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt Univ. 



10:00–11:30 a.m. 



Power and Society in Late Antique Italy I: Conflict and Resolution 

Sponsor: Summer Program “The Birth of Medieval Europe,” Central 

European Univ. (CEU) 

Organizer: Samuel Cohen, Sonoma State Univ. 

Presider: Samuel Cohen 

Rome–Quierzy–Paderborn: Charlemagne’s Italian Politics and the Conquest of Saxony 

Christopher Landon, Univ. of Toronto 

Ravenna’s Saturnalia: Private Ceremonies and Pagan Practices in the Fifth-Century 

Imperial Capital 

Edward M. Schoolman, Univ. of Nevada–Reno 

The Oath at Ravenna 

Nicholas Wheeler, Univ. of Toronto 

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Ranging across Time, Space, and Topic: Papers in Honor of Dr. Tom Renna 

Sponsor: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ. 

Organizer: Michael F. Cusato, OFM, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv., Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota 

The Ordering of Love in the Twelfth Century 

Bernard McGinn, Divinity School, Univ. of Chicago 

The Opposition of the Franciscan Joachites to the Seventh Crusade (1246–1254) 

Michael F. Cusato, OFM 

John Wyclif as Reader of Canon Law 

Ian Christopher Levy, Providence College 

Friday 10:00 a.m. 

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Continuity and Change in Arthurian Literature (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB) 

Organizer: Kevin S. Whetter, Acadia Univ. 

Presider: Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Brown Univ. 

Changing Continuity: Some Thoughts about Heinrich von dem Tuerlin’s diu Crone 

Susann Therese Samples, Mount St. Mary’s Univ. 

“Rather I would say: Here in this world he changed his life” 

Louis J. Boyle, Carlow Univ. 

Continuity and Discontinuity: Reading Malory’s Tristram 

Stephen Atkinson, Park Univ. 

Arthur Northward 

Sarah M. Anderson, Princeton Univ. 

“The Frenssche and Their Book”: Shaping (or Not) the Arthurian Legend 

Janina P. Traxler, Manchester Univ. 


La corónica International Book Award: Laura Ackerman Smoller, The Saint and 

the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern 

Europe (A Panel Discussion) 

Sponsor: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, 

Literatures, and Cultures 

Organizer: Jonathan Burgoyne, Ohio State Univ. 

Presider: Mark D. Johnston, DePaul Univ. 

A panel discussion with Laura Ackerman Smoller, Univ. of Rochester; Alison K. 

Frazier, Univ. of Texas–Austin; Philip Daileader, College of William & Mary; and 

Katherine Lindeman, McMaster Univ. 


Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group 

Organizer: Nicholas A. Oschman, Marquette Univ. 

Presider: Nicholas A. Oschman 

Three Scotist Arguments against Averroes: Antonius Andreas on the Subject-Matter 

of Metaphysics 

Anna-Katharina Strohschneider, Univ. Würzburg 

Arabic Sources in James of Viterbo’s Theory of Causality 

Mark D. Gossiaux, Loyola Univ. New Orleans 

Al-Ghazālī, the Anachronistic Analytic Philosopher of Religion 

Brett Yardley, Marquette Univ. 

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171 VALLEY I HADLEY 102 

Movement and Meaning in Early Medieval Literature 

Organizer: Rebecca E. Straple, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Rebecca E. Straple 

The Movement of Christian Experience in The Dream of the Rood 

Mary Leech, Univ. of Cincinnati 

Travel, Escape, and Amplificatio in Reginald’s Malchus 

Monika Otter, Dartmouth College 

Movement, Space, and Gender in the Mercian Register of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 

Kelly Williams, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

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Piers Plowman and Langland Studies: Where Are We Now? (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; Society for Early English 

and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET) 

Organizer: James Knowles, North Carolina State Univ. 

Presider: James Knowles 

A roundtable discussion with Michael Calabrese, California State Univ.–Los Angeles; Andrew 

Cole, Princeton Univ.; Ian Cornelius, Loyola Univ. Chicago; Thomas Goodmann, 

Univ. of Miami; Ellen Rentz, Claremont McKenna College; Elizabeth Robertson, Univ. 

of Glasgow; and Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State Univ. 

173 FETZER 1005 

The Second Shepherds’ Play: An Adaptation (A Film Screening) 

Organizer: Douglas Morse, New School 

Presider: Martin Walsh, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

A screening and discussion of a new film adaptation of the Wakefield Master’s Second 

Shepherds’ Play. This pivotal medieval drama (also known as the Second Shepherds’ 

Pageant), rarely performed in the modern theater, has been adapted for the screen for 

the first time and shot on a working sheep farm outside of Cambridge, England. 

Respondents: Maura Giles-Watson, Univ. of San Diego; Liam Purdon, Doane Univ. 

(“The Second Shepherds’ Play and the ‘Inventive’ Empirical Creaturely Triune Mind”) 

174 FETZER 1010 

Conflict and Liturgy: Bridging Divides 

Organizer: Pieter Byttebier, Univ. Gent 

Presider: Margot E. Fassler, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Liturgical Leadership: Bruno of Toul (1026–1051) and Episcopal Liturgy for the 

Abbey of Moyenmoutier 

Pieter Byttebier 

Liturgy Bridging the Different Iberias: A Case Study from the Old Hispanic Rite 

Raquel Rojo Carrillo, Univ. of Bristol 

Conflict over Prayers for the Rulers in the Roman Canon of the Mass during the 

so-called Gregorian Reform 

Paweł Figurski, Univ. Warszawski/Univ. of Notre Dame 

175 FETZER 1040 

Dress and Textiles I: Details from Documents 

Sponsor: DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, and Study of Textile 

Arts, Fabrics, and Fashion) 

Organizer: Robin Netherton, DISTAFF 

Presider: Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Univ. of Manchester 

Saints Subverting Early Medieval Fashion 

Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State Univ. 

Hemp and Hemp Cloth in the Medieval Rus Lands 

Heidi Sherman, Univ. of Wisconsin–Green Bay 

“Luflych Greuez” and “Wedes Enker-Grene”: Clothing and Its Social Implications 

in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Kara Larson Maloney, Binghamton Univ. 

“At Hir Mariage”: Wedding Clothes in Sixteenth-Century England and Scotland 

Melanie Schuessler Bond, Eastern Michigan Univ. 

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176 FETZER 1045 

Workshop on Ibero-Romance Paleography 

Sponsor: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS) 

Organizer: Francisco Gago-Jover, College of the Holy Cross; Pablo Pastrana- 

Pérez, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Lis Torres, Western Michigan Univ. 

Paleografía en lengua castellana hasta el siglo XV 

Francisco Gago-Jover 

Paleografía en lengua española siglos XV y XVI 

Pablo Pastrana-Pérez 

Transcribir y editar hoy textos medievales iberorromances. Algunos aspectos 

paleográficos y de edición digital 

Ricardo Pichel Gotérrez, Univ. de Alcalá/Univ. de Santiago de Compostela 

177 FETZER 1060 

Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late Medieval Political Literature I 

Sponsor: Canadian Society of Medievalists/La Société canadienne des 

médiévistes; Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Univ. 

and Univ. of York 

Organizer: Kristin Bourassa, Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk 

Univ.; Justin Sturgeon, Univ. of West Florida 

Presider: Kristin Bourassa 

Political Literature without a Political Nation? An Assessment of the Takkanot 

ha-Kahal Texts and Other Legislative Literature in Jewish Communities at the 

End of the Middle Ages 

Martin Borýsek, Centre for Medieval Literature, Univ. of York 

The Invention of a New Language of Politics in between Medicine, Economics, 

and Science: The Singular Contribution of Nicole Oresme 

Nicole Hochner, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem 

Late Medieval Princely Hagiography in Rus’ and the Balkans as Political Literature 

Alexandra Vukovich, Newnham College, Univ. of Cambridge 

178 FETZER 2016 

Hoards 



Organizer: Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Maggie M. Williams, William Paterson Univ./Material Collective 

A New Type of Hoard: Europe’s Northernmost Pre-Viking Hacksilver 

Alice Blackwell, National Museums Scotland 

The Private Lives of Hoards 

Rory Naismith, King’s College London 

Respondent: Catherine E. Karkov, Univ. of Leeds 

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179 FETZER 2020 

A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies I 

Organizer: Rebecca Stephenson; Univ. College Dublin; Robin Norris, 

Carleton Univ.; Renée R. Trilling, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana- 

Champaign 

Presider: Renée R. Trilling 

Beyond Peace-Weaving: Revisiting the Women in Beowulf 

Eduardo Ramos, Pennsylvania State Univ. 

A Wit-Locker of Sense Full: Intellect in Judith 

Cristal Guzman, Independent Scholar 

Sighting Gender in the Old English Verse Genesis 

Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers Univ. 

180 FETZER 2030 

Unfinished/Infini: Incomplete, Ongoing, and Never-Ending Works of Art 

Sponsor: Medieval Studies Program, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Organizer: Joan A. Holladay, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Presider: Joan A. Holladay 

The Crusader Church of the Resurrection at Abu Ghosh, in and out of Time 

Megan Boomer, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Illusory and Abandoned Ends in Chretien de Troyes’s Arthurian Romances 

Rebecca Newby, Cardiff Univ. 

The Tickhill Psalter: Unfinished but Unforgotten at Worksop Abbey 

Anne Rudloff Stanton, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

181 FETZER 2040 

Early Medieval Europe I: Monasticism and Memory 

Sponsor: Early Medieval Europe 

Organizer: Deborah M. Deliyannis, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Deborah M. Deliyannis 

The Monastery of Acoemetae in Constantinople and Its Contribution to the Latin 

West 

Sukanya Raisharma, Univ. of Oxford 

Gregory the Great and Monasticism: The Hagiographic Evidence 

Nikolas O. Hoel, Northeastern Illinois Univ. 

Remembering the Monastic Past at Early Aniane 

Martin A. Claussen, Univ. of San Francisco 

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Teaching a Diverse and Inclusive Middle Ages (A Panel Discussion) 

Sponsor: CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, 

Medieval Academy of America) 

Organizer: Sarah Davis-Secord, Univ. of New Mexico 

Presider: Sarah Davis-Secord 

Teaching Intersections of LGBT and Medieval History 

Michael A. Ryan, Univ. of New Mexico 

Engaging with Diversity in the Medieval Music Classroom 

Karen M. Cook, Hartt School, Univ. of Hartford 

Connecting Diverse Students to a Diverse Middle Ages: Teaching the “Greater 

West” in an Urban Community College 

Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Queensborough Community College, CUNY 

Teaching Rumi in a Time of Revolution 

Matthew B. Lynch, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 

Teaching a Diverse and Inclusive Middle Ages: Masculinities Reconsidered 

Michael Martin, Fort Lewis College 


Musical Sources 




Presider: Adam Knight Gilbert, Univ. of Southern California 

The Contents of the Music Theory Booklet Balliol 173A ff. 74r–81v and Its 

Dissemination in Later English Codices 

C. Matthew Balensuela, DePauw Univ. 

The Music of the León Antiphoner 

Elsa De Luca, Univ. Nova de Lisboa 

Music, Manuscripts, and Materiality: The Origins of Quaestiones in musica 

T. J. H. McCarthy, New College of Florida 


Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Lyric 

Organizer: Rachel May Golden, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville; Katherine 

Kong, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Daisy Delogu, Univ. of Chicago 

“I will suffer just as I am”: Gendered Expression and Self-Awareness in Crusade 

Laments 

Rachel May Golden 

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What Is “Self Representation” in Female-Voiced Troubadour Poetry? 

Gale Sigal, Wake Forest Univ. 

“Mon Chans, Ma Chansso”: Language, Gender, and Performance in the Troubadour 

Tornada 

Anne Levitsky, Columbia Univ. 

Lancelot in Prison: Fictions of Power in Le chevalier de la charrette 

Katherine Kong 

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Medieval Art of Germany and Austria 

Presider: Maile S. Hutterer, Univ. of Oregon 

Racial Identity and Portraiture: Reinserting the African Maurice into the Art 

History of Thirteenth-Century German Sculpture 

Jacqueline M. Lombard, Univ. of Pittsburgh 

Portioning Continuity: Making the Virgin at the Halberstadt Liebfrauenkirche, 

ca. 1225 

Luke Fidler, Univ. of Chicago 

Reformulating Images in Response to a New Text 

Cheryl Goggin, Univ. of Southern Mississippi 


Tricksters in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Organizer: Isaac S. Schendel, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Presider: Jennifer Schmitt Carnell, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

The Success and Failure of Welsh Trickster Couples 

Lisa LeBlanc, Anna Maria College 

The Menippean Poet as Trickster: Author and Hero in Johann Fischart’s Eulenspiegel 

Reimenweiß (1572) 

Frank Jasper Noll, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie 

Trickster in the Tavern: Elucidating the “Griesche” in Rutebeuf’s Poems of Misfortune 

Ashley Powers, Ohio Wesleyan Univ. 

To What Extent Are Tricksters and Fools Related? 

Isaac S. Schendel 


Acquired Cardinal Virtues in the Christian? Revisiting the Question 

Sponsor: Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics 

Organizer: Alexander W. Hall, Clayton State Univ. 

Presider: Alexander W. Hall 

The Virtual Presence of the Cardinal Virtues 

Lloyd Newton, Univ. of the Incarnate Word 

A Problem with Several Solutions: Aquinas and the Relation between Infused and 

Acquired Virtue 

Angela Knobel, Catholic Univ. of America 

A Question Revisited: Can Christians Possess the Acquired Cardinal Virtues? 

William C. Mattison, III, Univ. of Notre Dame 

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eManuscripts: Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies (A Roundtable) 


Organizer: Abigail G. Robertson, Univ. of New Mexico 

Presider: Abigail G. Robertson 

A roundtable discussion with William F. Endres, Univ. of Oklahoma; Dorothy Carr 

Porter, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania; and Elaine 

M. Treharne, Stanford Univ. 


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Chaucer’s Voices I: Frame versus Core 

Sponsor: Chaucer Review 

Organizer: Susanna Fein, Kent State Univ.; David Raybin, Eastern Illinois Univ. 

Presider: David Raybin 

Challenging Authority in The House of Fame 

Jacob Couturiaux, Univ. of Connecticut 

“By My Soun”: Voice, Sound, and the Material of Poetry 

Steele Nowlin, Hampden-Sydney College 

Who Tells The Merchant’s Tale? 

Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Agnes Scott College 

Framing the Core: The Traumatic Center of The Canterbury Tales 

William Rogers, Univ. of Louisiana–Monroe 


Growing Up Medieval: The Middle Ages in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 

Sponsor: Tales after Tolkien Society 

Organizer: Helen Young, Univ. of Sydney 

Presider: Geoffrey B. Elliott, Independent Scholar 

The Dream Frame of Baum’s Wizard of Oz 

William Racicot, Independent Scholar 

Women Piercing through the Medieval Fantasy Genre: A Look at Tamora Pierce’s 

Influence on Women in Medieval Fantasy 

Rachel Cooper, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

Heralds of the Queen: Upholding and Subverting the Medieval Ideal through 

Girl Power, Sexuality, and le Merveilleux in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar Series 

Carrie Pagels, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame 


The Liber Nemrod, an Arabic Library, and the First French Royal Psalters 

Sponsor: Early Book Society; Institut de recherche et d’histoire des 

textes (IRHT) 

Organizer: Martha W. Driver, Pace Univ.; Patricia Stirnemann, IRHT–Paris 

Presider: Martha W. Driver 

The Liber Nemrod de astronomia: A Very Rare Transcultural Witness to the Syriac 

Measurement of the Cosmos 

Isabelle Draelants, IRHT–Paris 

The Pilot Project for the Library of Mohamed Tahar in Timbuktu 

Muriel Roiland, IRHT–Paris 

A Family Affair: The Ingeborg Psalter and the Psalter of Blanche de Castile 

Patricia Stirnemann 

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Peace, Piety, and Vendetta in Medieval Italy 

Sponsor: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: Jennifer Stiles, Univ. of Akron; Kyler Williamsen, Western 


Presider: Jennifer Stiles 

“Siena could not stop them”: Vendetta as a Political Tool in Late Medieval Siena 

(Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries) 

Kyler Williamsen 

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Establishing an Honorable Peace: The Role of Forgiveness, Penance, and Mercy in 

Forgoing Vendettas in Trecento Italy 

Glenn Kumhera, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Erie, The Behrend College 

Peace Is the Word: Peacemaking during the Bianchi Processions of 1399 in Tuscany 

Alexandra Lee, Univ. College London 


Rolandslied, Willehalm, Stricker’s Karl, Karlmeinet, and Other Medieval German 

Chansons de Geste: Interpretations, Reception, Adaptations, Sources 

Sponsor: Oswald-von-Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft 

Organizer: Sibylle Jefferis, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Presider: Sibylle Jefferis 

Karl der Große als Wahrer des Rechts? Zum Gerichtsverfahren in “Morant und Galie” 

Claudia Händl, Univ. degli Studi di Genova 

“Sein vart riht er zehant gein dem land Ytaliam daz gehaizzen ist Lompardiam”: 

Charlemagne’s campaign in Italy in the Medieval German Tradition 

Chiara Benati, Univ. degli Studi di Genova 

Death to the King, Long Live the King: Charlemagne in Late Medieval German 

Literature, with an Emphasis on Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken 

Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona 


Animating the Medieval: Research on Animated Representations of the Middle 

Ages in Memory of Michael N. Salda 

Sponsor: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching 

of the Medieval in Popular Culture 

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Association for the Advancement of 

Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture 

Presider: Jennie Friedrich, Univ. of California–Riverside 

Reading, Writing, and Sorcery: Education in the Animated Middle Ages 

Valentina S. Grub, Univ. of St. Andrews 

History and Stories: The Middle Ages in European Animated Cartoons 

Marie-Anne Smith, Independent Scholar 

Teaching the History of the English Language with Comics 

Patrick J. Murphy, Miami Univ. of Ohio 

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Staging the Undead 

Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) 

Organizer: Cameron Hunt McNabb, Southeastern Univ. 

Presider: Cameron Hunt McNabb 

When the End Is Only the Beginning: Justice for the Undead on the Global 

Medieval Stage 

Jesse Njus, Univ. of Pittsburgh 

And Jesus Wept (or at Least He Pretended to) in N-Town’s “Raising of Lazarus” 

Mary Hayes, Univ. of Mississippi 

Waking Dreams, Walking Statues, and Posthuman Affect in The Winter’s Tale 

Jasmine Lellock, Newton South High School 


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The Child in Medieval Romance I: The Theorized Child 

Sponsor: Medieval Romance Society 

Organizer: Robert Grout, Univ. of York 

Presider: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ. 

Theories of Childhood 

Robert Grout 

The Culture-Straddling Child 

Ivana Djordjević, Concordia Univ. Montréal 

Sanctuary and Genealogy 

Elizabeth Allen, Univ. of California–Irvine 

Response: Theorizing the Medieval Child: Textuality and Subjectivity/Violence 

and Ethics 



Manuscripts in Motion 

Sponsor: Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 

Organizer: Jeanette Patterson, Binghamton Univ.; Albert Lloret, Univ. of 

Massachusetts–Amherst 

Presider: Jeanette Patterson 

Christine de Pizan’s Queen’s Manuscript (London, BL, Harley 4431) Goes to 

England 

Lori Walters, Florida State Univ. 

Materiality and Mobility: Pilgrim Badges in a Manuscript Context 

Elizabeth Voss, Syracuse Univ. 

Traveling Manuscripts and the Dominican Reform Movement: The Fifteenth- 

Century Book Transfer between Sankt Katharina (Nuremberg) and Heilig Kreuz 

(Regensburg) 

Björn Klaus Buschbeck, Stanford Univ. 

The Reluctant Old English Corpus 

Alexandra Bolintineanu, Univ. of Toronto 


Service Learning, Civic Engagement, and the Medieval Studies Classroom 

Organizer: Elizabeth Harper, Mercer Univ. 

Presider: Elizabeth Harper 

Learning in Lock-up: Teaching the Honors Medieval World Class in a Men’s Prison 

Karen Taylor, Morehead State Univ. 

Service Learning, Social Justice, and the Wife of Bath 

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Alexandra Verini, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

Going Viking as Service-Learning 

F. Tyler Sergent, Berea College 


Reformation Discourse I: Crossing Cultural Boundaries 

Sponsor: Society for Reformation Research 

Organizer: Maureen Thum, Univ. of Michigan–Flint 

Presider: Maureen Thum 

Cultural Responses to Reformational Change in Central and Eastern Europe, 1500–1570 

Benjamin Esswein, Liberty Univ. 

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English Romans and French Wars: Anthony Munday, Religious Conflict, and the 

English Reformation Abroad 

Kristin Bezio, Univ. of Richmond 

Lollardy, the End of Culture, and the Creation of “Traditional Religion” 

Daniel Stokes, Hunter College, CUNY 

Gerson in Martin Luther’s Thought: New Findings 

Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Univ. of Alaska–Fairbanks 

Discussion Leader: Rudolph P. Almasy, West Virginia Univ. 


Lydgate and Literary Technologies (A Roundtable) 




Presider: Christopher M. Roman, Kent State Univ.–Tuscarawas 

A roundtable discussion with Anna Wilson, Univ. of Toronto (“Digital Reading Practices 

and Lydgate’s Chaucerian Fanfiction”); Timothy R. Jordan (“Recording Lydgate’s 

Siege of Thebes”); Alaina Bupp (“Transitioning Lydgate from Manuscript to Print”); 

Matthew Evan Davis, McMaster Univ.; and Bridget Whearty, Binghamton Univ. 


Cultural and Literary Transmission in the Global Middle Ages 

Sponsor: Program in Medieval Studies, Rutgers Univ. 

Organizer: Isabel Stern, Rutgers Univ. 

Presider: Erik Wade, Rutgers Univ. 

The Literary “Auld Alliance”: Roman Antiques and Scottish Nationalism within 

John Barbour’s The Brus 

Ruth M. E. Oldman, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania 

I Just Can’t Wait to Be King: Ethics, Aristotle, and the Example of Alexander in 

Medieval Norse Kingship Literature 

Roderick McDonald, Univ. of Nottingham 

Muslim “Inconstancy” or Charlemagne’s Imperial Error? The Problem of “Fides” 

in Einhard, Notker, and the French, Italian and Spanish Epic Traditions 

Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Univ. of California–Berkeley 


The Textual Foundations of Late Medieval History 

Presider: Alison Langdon, Western Kentucky Univ. 

“Que vous n’oubliez le françois”: Political Undertones and Literary Manuscripts 

in the France of Henry VI (1422–1453) 

David Cormier, Univ. de Montréal 

Sisters and Sororal Bonds in Late Medieval London Wills 

Taylor A. Sims, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

The Corpus of Middle English Local Documents: A New Digital Language 

Resource, 1399–1525 

Kjetil V. Thengs, Univ. of Stavanger 

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The Truthful Lie: Fiction and Fictionality in Medieval Persian Literature 

Sponsor: Great Lakes Adiban Society 

Organizer: Cameron Cross, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Presider: Nathan L. M. Tabor, Western Michigan Univ. 

Allusion and Anachronism: “Memorizing” the Noble Self in the Ayadgar-i Zareran 

Samuel Lasman, Univ. of Chicago 

New Meanings in Old Stories: The Rise of the Persian Romance 

Cameron Cross 

Justifying the Allegorical Fantastic 

Austin O’Malley, Univ. of Chicago 

Conventions of Truth: Sincerity and Hypocrisy, Fantasy versus Historicity, and 

Other Continua 

Franklin Lewis, Univ. of Chicago 


Fancy Pincushions Part Two (A Demonstration) 

Organizer: Cameron Christian-Weir, Grey Goose Bows/Augsburg College 

Presider: Andrew Barwis, Grey Goose Bows 

A demonstration of the findings from an ongoing experimental archeology study 

on the ballistics complicity of warbows and arrows of the Hundred Years war. 

Featured are a warbow (unbraced) from the study, as well as two war arrows also 

from the study (a MR livery arrow and a west minster style shaft) to illustrate the 

weight and design on the shafts. 


Topics in Medieval Numismatics 

Sponsor: Numismatists at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: David Sorenson, Allen G. Berman, Numismatist 

Presider: Eleanor A. Congdon, Youngstown State Univ. 

From Byzantine to Lusignan in the Excavation Coins from Polis, Cyprus 

Alan Stahl, Princeton Univ. 

Saxons under a Norman King: Revealing and Disseminating New Narratives of 

the Norman Conquest of England through the Coinages of William I and II 

Anja Rohde, Univ. of Nottingham 

Changing Emissions and Transitional Dies in Paris under Charles VI 

David Sorenson 

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New Research on the Disticha Catonis I 

Organizer: W. Martin Bloomer, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: Justin Hastings, Loyola Univ. Chicago 

Catonian Authority in the Carolingian Curriculum 

Elizabeth Archibald, Univ. of Pittsburgh 

Pater ad filium: The Disticha Catonis in the Context of Other Didactic Texts of 

the Type “Advice of a Father to His Son” 

Nikolaus Henkel, Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. Freiburg 

First Look at the Commentary Summi deus largitor 

Julia A. Schneider, Univ. of Notre Dame 

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The Materiality of Scholasticism: Urban Life and Forms of Learning 

Organizer: Martin Schwarz, Univ. of Chicago 

Presider: Martin Schwarz 

The Architecture of Scholasticism in Medieval Paris 

Michael T. Davis, Mount Holyoke College 

Psalms and the Active Life: Urban Context of Medieval Scholastic Psalms Commentaries 

Theresa Gross-Diaz, Loyola Univ. Chicago 

Ars Disputandi and the “Art” of Debate 

Alex J. Novikoff, Fordham Univ. 


Anglo-Norman Texts and Manuscripts 

Sponsor: Anglo-Norman Text Society 

Organizer: Maureen B. M. Boulton, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: Nicole Clifton, Northern Illinois Univ. 

Beyond Oxford: The Locations of French Teaching and Learning in Medieval 

England 

Rory G. Critten, Univ. Bern 

What Language Is This? Anglo-Norman Recipes for Paints and Dyes 

Heather Pagan, Anglo-Norman Dictionary Project, Aberystwyth Univ. 

Early Modern Reception of Anglo-Norman Texts: The Evidence of Manuscript 

Use and Ownership 

Julia Marvin, Univ. of Notre Dame 


The Stones Cry Out: Modes of Citation in Medieval Architecture 

Organizer: Lindsay S. Cook, Columbia Univ.; Zachary Stewart, Fordham 

Univ. 

Presider: Lindsay S. Cook and Zachary Stewart 

Repeated Citations of the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris during the Thirteenth Century 

and the Late Middle Ages: The Sainte-Croix Collegiate Church in Liège 

Mathieu Piavaux, Univ. de Namur 

A “Bible in Stone”? The Sculptures of the West Facade of Amiens and Contemporary 

Modes of Citation 

Jennifer M. Feltman, Univ. of Alabama 

Nicolaus Cusanus’s Sankt Nikolaus Hospital (1458) in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany: 

Appropriations of/Deviations from the Mediterranean Contemporary Canons 

Il Kim, Auburn Univ. 

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Remembering the Crusades: A Representation of Otherness 

Sponsor: Dept. d’histoire , Univ. de Montréal 

Organizer: Cornel Bontea, Univ. de Montréal 

Presider: Cornel Bontea 

Otherness in Crusading, or, Others in Crusade? 

Vincent Tremblay, Univ. de Montréal 

The Representation of the Knights Templars and Knights Hospitallers as Seen 

through the Lens of Eastern Chroniclers 

Rodrigue Buffet, Univ. de Montréal 

Audita Tremendi and Western Understanding of the Crusader States in the Itinerarium 

peregrinorum 

Stefan Vander Elst, Univ. of San Diego 

Venetians through the Eyes of the Fourth Crusade 

Éric Hupin, Univ. de Montréal 


Saints and Slavery in the Early Middle Ages 

Sponsor: Hagiography Society 

Organizer: Lois L. Huneycutt, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

Presider: Lois L. Huneycutt 

Beyond Novelistic Heroism: The Rhetorics of Eugenia, Slavery, and Chastity in 

the Ancient Greek Novel and Early Christian Narrative 

Koen De Temmerman, Univ. Gent 

Servi et Servi Dei: Slaves and Saints in Early Medieval Hagiography 

Christopher Paolella, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

The Virginal Slave? Honor, Slavery, and Sanctity in the Early Medieval World 

Thomas J. MacMaster, Morehouse College 

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Secular Clergy and the Laity I: Clerical and Lay Initiative 

Sponsor: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy 

in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Michael Burger, Auburn Univ.–Montgomery 

Presider: Michael Burger 

Elite Laywomen as Leaders of the Early Church 

Aneilya Barnes, Coastal Carolina Univ. 

The Making and Unmaking of a Bishop: Bonizo of Sutri and the Laity of Piacenza 

John A. Dempsey, Westfield State Univ. 

Parish Clergy, Friars, and the Question of Light Penances in Thirteenth-Century 

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England 

William H. Campbell, Univ. of Pittsburgh–Greensburg 


Pedagogical Approaches to Medieval Irish Studies (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) 

Organizer: James Lyttleton, Independent Scholar 

Presider: James G. Schryver, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris 

Experiential Learning and the Middle Ages 

Mary A. Valante, Appalachian State Univ. 

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Using Social Media and 3-D Printing in Teaching the Irish Middle Ages 

Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State Univ. 

Castles, Bones, and Battle-Axes: Creating Medieval Material Culture 

Bridgette Slavin, Medaille College 

Interactive Approaches to Teaching the Viking Era in Ireland 

Lahney Preston-Matto, Adelphi Univ. 

Bringing Irish Medieval Buildings to Life 

James Lyttleton 


Landscape Approaches to the Plague 

Sponsor: Contagions: Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies 

Organizer: Michelle Ziegler, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Philip Slavin, Univ. of Kent 

Plague in the Sixth-Century Bavarian Landscape 

Michelle Ziegler 

44.7%: New archaeological Evidence for the Impact of the Black Death in 

England and Its Implications for Future Research 

Carenza Lewis, Univ. of Lincoln 

Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague 

Fabian Crespo, Univ. of Louisville 


Monastic Ethics in the Long Twelfth Century 

Sponsor: Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham Univ. 

Organizer: Jay Diehl, Long Island Univ.–C. W. Post Campus 

Presider: Diane Reilly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

“Ueraciter in carne experietur”:The Ethics of Knowing in Isaac of Stella 

Sigbjorn Sonnesyn, Durham Univ. 

The Writing Dead: Letters, the Rule, and the Ethics of Lay Spiritual Instruction, 

ca. 1000–1200 

Christopher D. Fletcher, Newberry Library 

When Charisma Fails: Negotiating Ethics in Twelfth-Century Monastic Culture 

Jay Diehl 


Green Spenser 

Sponsor: Spenser at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: Sean Henry, Univ. of Victoria; Rachel E. Hile, Indiana 

Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne; Susannah B. Monta, Univ. of 

Notre Dame 

Presider: Thomas Herron, East Carolina Univ. 

Opening Remarks 

David Lee Miller, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia 

“And straight they saw the raging surges reard”: Watery Wildernesses and Narratives 

of National Self in Spenser’s Book II of The Faerie Queene 

Amber N. Slaven, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

Moving Metaphors: Spenser’s Clouds 

Archie Cornish, Univ. of Oxford 

“Seeking for Daunger and Aduentures” in Spenser’s Gardens 

Christine Coch, College of the Holy Cross 

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Navigating Seas of Faith: Authority and Religious Identity in the Mediterranean 

Sponsor: Dept. of History, Western Michigan Univ. 

Organizer: David D. Terry, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Larry J. Simon, Western Michigan Univ. 

The Canon and the Mosque: A Case of Christian-Muslim Relations in 

Twelfth-Century Toledo 

Patrick Harris, Western Michigan Univ. 

“We don’t need no stinkin’ pope (except to call crusades)”: The Crusader Kingdom 

and Canon Law in the Twelfth Century 

Phyllis G. Jestice, College of Charleston 

United by Fear: Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Merchants Facing a Pirate Attack 

in 1301 

David D. Terry 

Ransoming Captives in Late Medieval Sicily 

Jack Goodman, Western Michigan Univ. 


The United States of Medievalism 


Organizer: Susan Aronstein, Univ. of Wyoming 

Presider: Susan Aronstein 

Philadelphia’s Medievalist Jewels: Bryn Athyn Cathedral and Glencairn 

Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ. 

The Vikings are Due on Main Street: Norse Incursion into Minnesota’s Literary 

Imagination 

Glenn Davis, St. Cloud State Univ. 

Robin Hood’s Greenwood in Texas: Sherwood Forest Faire 

Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston 

Orlando: Theme Park Medievalisms 

Tison Pugh, Univ. of Central Florida 

Las Vegas: Getting Medieval in Sin City 

Laurie A. Finke, Kenyon College; Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan Univ. 


Cognition and Emotion in Medieval Literature 

Sponsor: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History 

of Emotions 

Organizer: Stephanie Trigg, Univ. of Melbourne 

Presider: Stephanie Downes, Univ. of Melbourne 

Three’s Company: Olivi, Alisoun, and Affective Cognition 

Mark Amsler, Univ. of Auckland 

The Grammar of Joy in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 

Lucie Kaempfer, Lincoln College, Univ. of Oxford 

Game on? Play and Knowingness in Jack and His Stepdame 

Melissa Raine, Independent Scholar 

The Rationality of Emotion: The Cases of Love and Envy 

Jessica Rosenfeld, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

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Law as Culture: Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Parliamentary Procedure 

Sponsor: Selden Society 

Organizer: Alexander Volokh, Emory Law School 

Presider: Alexander Volokh 

Lawless Order and Functional Feuding: Bloodfeud and Lawmaking in Anglo-Saxon 

England and Ottonian Germany 

Laura Wangerin, Seton Hall Univ. 

Aquinas and the Theory of Statutory Interpretation 

Stefanus Hendrianto, SJ, St. Peter Faber Jesuit Community 

Legislative Procedure and the Balance of Power in the Late Medieval English 

Parliament 

Antonios Kouroutakis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki 


Mappings I: Maps as/and Narratives 

Organizer: Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, Fernuniv. in Hagen 

Presider: Oren Falk, Cornell Univ. 

Epic Mapping in Medieval Europe 

Amanda Gerber, St. Louis Univ. 

Medieval Maps and the Bayeux Tapestry 

Rachel Dressler, Univ. at Albany 

Spatial Awareness and Historia in Northern England 

Dan Terkla, Illinois Wesleyan Univ. 


Scandinavian Studies 

Sponsor: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies 

Organizer: Shaun F. D. Hughes, Purdue Univ. 

Presider: Shaun F. D. Hughes 

Style Shifting in the Eddic Praise Poems 

Megan E. Hartman, Univ. of Nebraska–Kearney 

Old Norse Skaldic Authority: Tracing Its Development 

Eirik Westcoat, Independent Scholar 

The Mythological Lore in the Hauksbók version of Trójumanna saga: A Study of 

Literary Transfer 

Sabine Heidi Walther, Københavns Univ./Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn 

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Sustaining Vivid Medieval Studies Programs in a Time of Diminished Fiscal and 

Faculty Resources (A Roundtable) 


Organizer: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ. 

Presider: Benjamin Joy Ambler, Dwight-Englewood School 

A roundtable discussion with M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State Univ.; Danielle 

B. Joyner, Southern Methodist Univ.; Anne E. Lester, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder; 

and Bonnie Wheeler. 


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Casting an International Congress on Medieval Studies Pilgrim’s Badge (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Dark Ages Recreation Company 

Organizer: Neil Peterson, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. 

Presider: Neil Peterson 

A hands-on workshop led by Darrell Markewitz, Wareham Forge, allows attendees 

to learn the process of casting pewter tokens in a soapstone mold as was done in the 

Middle Ages, allowing attendees the opportunity to cast a pilgrim’s badge they can 

take away for a cost of $5.00. 

Friday lunchtime 




11:30 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. LUNCH Valley Dining Center 

11:30 a.m. Society for Medieval Feminist Fetzer 1035 

Scholarship (SMFS) 

Advisory Board Meeting 

11:30 a.m. Hagiography Society Bernhard G10 


11:45 a.m. Medieval and Renaissance Fetzer 1030 

Drama Society (MRDS) 


Noon Women in the Franciscan Valley III 

Intellectual Tradition (WIFIT) Stinson Lounge 


Noon DARC Fibre Stitch and Bitch Team Valley I 

Gathering 

Shilling Lounge 

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Noon International Arthurian Society, Fetzer 1005 



Noon Material Collective Fetzer 1060 


Noon Game Cultures Society Schneider 1220 


Noon Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bernhard 107 

Bishops and the Secular Clergy in the 

Middle Ages 


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Noon Society for the Study of Homosexuality Bernhard 204 

in the Middle Ages (SSHMA) 


Noon American Society of Irish Medieval Bernhard 209 

Studies (ASIMS) 


Noon Contagions: Society for Historic Bernhard 210 

Infectious Disease Studies 


Noon CARA (Committee on Centers and Bernhard 

Regional Associations, Medieval President’s 

Academy of America) 

Dining Room 


(pre-registration required) 

12:30 p.m. New England Saga Society (NESS) Valley III 

Business Meeting Stinson 306 


1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. 



Passionate and Penitential Instruction 


Organizer: Jennifer Vaught, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette; David Scott Wilson- 

Okamura, East Carolina Univ.; Sean Henry, Univ. of Victoria 

Presider: Lauren Silberman, Baruch College 

Counseling Endings in The Faerie Queene 

John Walters, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Exemplary Feeling: Guyon’s Encounter with Amavia 

Judith Owens, Univ. of Manitoba 

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Authorities: Bible, Rule, Customary, and Tradition in Medieval Benedictine 

Monasteries 

Sponsor: American Benedictine Academy 

Organizer: Hugh Bernard Feiss, OSB, Monastery of the Ascension 

Presider: Hugh Bernard Feiss, OSB 

Monks as Champions: Sources of “Spiritual Warfare” in the Benedictine Practice 

Joseph Morrel, Univ. of Dallas/Cassata Catholic High School 

Benedict of Aniane and the Authorities 

Colleen Maura McGrane, OSB, Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration 

Saint Aethelwold and Authority: A Rhetoric of Absence 

Jacob Riyeff, Marquette Univ. 

Instruction in Monastic Customs: Aelfric’s Letter to the Monks of Eynsham and 

Liturgical Authority 

Nathan John Haydon, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville 

Friday 1:30 p.m. 

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Medieval Theories of the Atonement 

Sponsor: Christendom Graduate School 

Organizer: Robert Joseph Matava, Christendom Graduate School 

Presider: Robert Joseph Matava 

Julian of Norwich, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the Doctrine of Deification 

Justin A. Jackson, Hillsdale College 

Satisfaction and Merit: The Dynamics of Atonement in Anselm, Bonaventure, 

and Aquinas 

Junius C. Johnson, Baylor Univ. 



Medieval Translation Theory and Practice I 

Organizer: Jeanette Beer, Univ. of Oxford 

Presider: Jeanette Beer 

Against a Domesticating Model for the Alfredian Translations 

Ben Garceau, Univ. of California–Irvine 

Ennobling the Vernacular: Alchemical Translations in the Fifteenth Century 

Eoin Bentick, Univ. College London 

Soothing Listeners’ Ears: Confronting Reader Resistance in the Bible historiale 

Jeanette Patterson, Binghamton Univ. 

The Old French Bible in Context 

Clive R. Sneddon, Univ. of St. Andrews 


The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I 

Organizer: Harvey Brown, Western Univ. 

Presider: Harvey Brown 

What Was Natural Law 

Richard B. Friedman, Independent Scholar 

Francisco Suarez and the Unity of Natural Law 

Toy-Fung Tung, John Jay Collage of Criminal Justice, CUNY 

Natural Law, Personalism, and Human Rights 

Paul J. Cornish, Grand Valley State Univ. 


The Mirror of Simple Souls: Read Aloud, in Manuscripts, and in Printed Books 

Sponsor: International Marguerite Porete Society 

Organizer: Robert Stauffer, Dominican College 

Presider: Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean Univ. 

New Trends in Marguerite Porete Studies 

Wendy Terry, Univ. of California–Davis 

Orthodox Readings of the Condemned Mirror 

Robert Stauffer 

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231 FETZER 1005 

Justice 

Sponsor: International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB) 

Organizer: Kevin S. Whetter, Acadia Univ. 

Presider: Nicole Clifton, Northern Illinois Univ. 

Ruled by Counsel: Arthur, Justice, and the Influence of Merlin in Malory’s Morte 

Darthur 

Russell L. Keck, Harding Univ. 

Besieged Ladies: Thomas Malory’s Lyonesse and the Paston Letters 

Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Univ. of Northern Colorado 

Northern Justice: Morgause’s Sons, Arthur’s Nephews 

Katharine Mudd, Northern Illinois Univ. 

Environmental Justice in Arthurian Romance 

Michael W. Twomey, Ithaca College 

232 FETZER 1010 

Catastrophe and Periodization (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (MEMSI), 

George Washington Univ. 

Organizer: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington Univ. 

Presider: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 

Learning to Die 

Shannon Gayk, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Roman Ruins in the Renaissance, or, Was the Fall of Rome a Catastrophe? 

Katherine C. Little, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Time as Catastrophe in Old English 

Mary Kate Hurley, Ohio Univ. 

Dancing toward Death (and the Reformation) at Saint Paul’s 

Megan Cook, Colby College 

Ruins, Stately Churches, and Climate Change in Lyly’s Gallathea 

Patricia L. Badir, Univ. of British Columbia 

The N-Town Noah, Mary Mattingly, and Who’s Responsible for the Waves 

Rob Wakeman, Univ. of South Florida 

233 FETZER 1040 

Dress and Textiles II: Real and Unreal 




Presider: Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Univ. of Manchester 

A Change of Face, or, A Man in an Otter Suit 

M. A. Nordtorp-Madson, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota 

The Real Unreal: Chrétien de Troyes’s Fashioning of Erec and Enide 

Monica L. Wright, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

“Monstrous Men of Fashion”: Striped Costume in a Danish Church Wall Painting 

John Block Friedman, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio 

State Univ. 

Tall Hats, Scrolling Brims, and the Byzantine Scholar in Late Medieval European 

Painting 

Joyce Kubiski, Western Michigan Univ. 

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234 FETZER 1045 

The Transformative Pearl-Poet: Translation and Adaptation 

Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society 

Organizer: Kara Larson Maloney, Binghamton Univ. 

Presider: Kara Larson Maloney 

Translation Squared: Translating the Pearl-Poet’s Translations 

Matthew Brumit, Univ. of Dallas 

“As Holy Wryt Telles”: Translation and Conversion in the Pearl-Poet’s Patience 

Kathryn P. Goldstein, Rutgers Univ. 

Puzzling Pearl: The Untranslatability of the Divine 

Derek Shank, Independent Scholar 

Chivalric Sensibilities: Transformative Neurocognitive Rhetoric in Sir Gawain 

and the Green Knight 

Scott Troyan, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

Respondent: Jane Beal, Univ. of California–Davis 

235 FETZER 1060 

Who Made That? Misattribution and Anonymity 

Sponsor: Fifteenth-Century French Studies 

Organizer: Daisy Delogu, Univ. of Chicago 

Presider: Daisy Delogu 

Oblique Authorship: Identity and Ascription in Late Medieval Epitaph Fictions 

Helen J. Swift, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford 

The Slippery Attribution of the Spanish Quarto of Columbus’s Barcelona Letter 

Elizabeth Willingham, Baylor Univ. 

“Who made that, and who sung that?”: Traces of Performance in Early Fifteenth- 

Century Musical Attributions 

Lucia Marchi, DePaul Univ. 

Early Printed Editions and Misattribution: The Case of Alain Chartier 

Joan E. McRae, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 

236 FETZER 2016 

In Honor of Caroline Palmer I: Publishing the Medieval Now: Open Access and 

Other Futures (A Panel Discussion) 

Organizer: Elizabeth Archibald, Durham Univ.; Christopher Baswell, 

Barnard College; Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham Univ. 

Presider: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne 

A panel discussion with Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist Univ.; Jerome E. Singerman, 

Univ. of Pennsylvania Press; and Sarah Spence, Speculum, Medieval Academy of America. 

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237 FETZER 2020 

Chaucer’s Voices II: Truth versus Trumpery 



Presider: David Raybin 

Political and Linguistic Order in Chaucer’s Lak of Stedfastnesse 

Chad Crosson, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

The Chaucer-Gower Quarrel 

Frederick M. Biggs, Univ. of Connecticut 

The Friar, the Summoner, and “Al This Compaignye” 

David K. Coley, Simon Fraser Univ. 

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The Scent of the Text: Entente, Emotion, and Narrative in the Summoner’s Tale 

Gregory Roper, Univ. of Dallas 

238 FETZER 2030 

The Crusades at Home: Roots, Impact, and Cultural Significance of the Crusades 

in France and Occitania 

Sponsor: Crusades in France and Occitania 

Organizer: Thomas Lecaque, SUNY–Orange 

Presider: Thomas Lecaque 

“We were hawks, and they were herons”: Troubadour Lyrics and the Legacy of 1204 

Jordan Amspacher, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

Vicarious Crusading in Medieval Champagne 

Michael Peixoto, Robert D. Clark Honors College, Univ. of Oregon 

The Crusades in the Twelfth-Century Library of Saint-Amand 

Bradley Phillis, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

The Hagiography of Crusading Captivity as Homefront Literature 

Katherine Allen Smith, Univ. of Puget Sound 

239 FETZER 2040 

New Research in Parish Church Art and Architecture in England and on the 

Continent, 1100–1600 I 

Organizer: Sarah Blick, Kenyon College 

Presider: Louise Hampson, Centre for the Study of Christianity and 

Culture, Univ. of York 

The Font Canopy at Saint Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Toward a Reconstruction 

with New Finds from the Philadelphia Museum of Art 

Amy Gillette, Temple Univ.; Zachary Stewart, Fordham Univ. 

“High and Lifted Up”: The Elevation of the Host and the Reservation of the Sacrament 

in Late Medieval England 

Allan Barton, Univ. of Wales Trinity St. David 

Mercantile Ambitions and Angelic Representations in Late Medieval Norwich 

Sarah Cassell, Univ. of East Anglia 

The Early Sixteenth-Century Stained-Glass Program of Saint Michael-le-Belfrey, 

York: Intersections between Lay Piety and Imaging the Community of Saints 

Lisa Reilly, Univ. of Virginia; Mary B. Shepard, Univ. of Arkansas–Fort Smith 

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Materiality and Place in the Northern World I 




Presider: Carolyn Twomey, Boston College 

“The Gates of Paradise”: (Be)jeweled Borders, Precious Stones, and the Presentation 

of Paradise in the Early Church 

Meg Boulton, Univ. of York 

Water, Parchment, Place in Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Illumination 

Tina Bawden, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Univ. Berlin 

The Wolf of Winchester 

Catherine E. Karkov 


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Sounding Sentiment: Emotion in Late Medieval Song (A Workshop) 




Presider: Cathy Ann Elias 

In this workshop—led by Graeme Boone, Ohio State Univ.—is intended for musicologists 

and non-musicologists alike. We engage questions about the emotive dimensions of late 

medieval song, with attention to the ways in which musical settings situate and instrumentalize 

the emotive powers of text and also to the ways in which music in general, and song 

in particular, were fundamentally understood to be expressive 



Negativity and Emptiness in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages 

Sponsor: Claremont Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 

Organizer: Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate Univ. 

Presider: Nancy van Deusen 

Negativity in Eckhart and Cusanus 

Peter J. Casarella, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Sacrament as Kenosis: Hadewijch on the Eucharist and Its Implications for Late 

Medieval Negative Theology 

Willemien Otten, Univ. of Chicago 

Vernacular Negativity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s A Treatise on the Astrolabe 

Michelle Brooks, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Original Sin and the Vacuum: Blind Synagoga and Deaf Ecclesia in Medieval 

Representations 

Karen Webb, Univ. of Pittsburgh 


Reconsidering the Boundaries of Late Medieval Political Literature II 

Sponsor: Canadian Society of Medievalists/La Société canadienne des 

médiévistes; Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Univ. 

and Univ. of York 

Organizer: Kristin Bourassa, Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk 

Univ.; Justin Sturgeon, Univ. of West Florida 

Presider: Justin Sturgeon 

Political Tyranny, Women, and Love in Fifteenth-Century Castilian Letters 

Ana M. Montero, St. Louis Univ. 

Le livre des fais du bon messire Jehan Le Maingre, dit Bouciquat: A Mirror for 

Princes? 

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Craig Taylor, Univ. of York 

Mirror-for-Magistrates: Reflections on a European Urban Corpus of Political 

Manuals 

David P. H. Napolitano, Univ. of Cambridge 


Alfredian Texts and Contexts 

Organizer: Nicole Guenther Discenza, Univ. of South Florida 

Presider: Nicole Guenther Discenza 

Construction of West-Saxon and English Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles 

Courtnay Konshuh, St. Thomas More College, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

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Book Ontology and Ptolemaic Learning in the Old English *Boethius* 

Jesse McDowell, North Carolina State Univ. 

Alfred’s Cottage and Solomon’s Temple: A Reconsideration of the Preface to the 

Old English Soliloquies 

Francis Leneghan, St. Cross College, Univ. of Oxford 


Sense and Sensibility in Anglo-Saxon England 

Organizer: Hilary E. Fox, Wayne State Univ. 

Presider: Hilary E. Fox 

The Blossoms’ Sweet Stench: The Sense of Smell in Old English Texts 

Maren Clegg Hyer, Valdosta State Univ. 

Sense and the Senses in Constructions of Personhood in Narratives of Impairment 

Marit Ronen, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem 

Terrifying Sounds in Beowulf: Toward a Theory of Anglo-Saxon Fear and Horror 

Brian O’Camb, Indiana Univ. Northwest 


Material Histories of Exchange I: Representations of Cross-Cultural Dress in 

Byzantium and Beyond 

Sponsor: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture 

Organizer: Annie Montgomery Labatt, Univ. of Texas–San Antonio; 

Heather Badamo, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara 

Presider: Heather Badamo 

Monastic Dress Codes and the Secular World 

Jennifer Ball, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY 

Dressing the Magi: Visualizing the Persian East in Early Medieval Italy 

Annie Montgomery Labatt 

Dress Ornamentation in the Late Byzantine Period 

Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz 


Medieval Games and Gender 

Sponsor: Game Cultures Society 

Organizer: Betsy McCormick, Mount San Antonio College 

Presider: Betsy McCormick 

Playing at the Margins: Gender and Jesting in Early Print Editions of Chaucer 

Hope Johnston, Baylor Univ. 

King or Queen? Who Holds the Power? 

Stavros Stavroulias, Univ. of Waterloo 

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Huntsman or Daughter: Subverted Gaming Roles in Pearl 

Clint Morrison, Texas Tech Univ. 

Playing at Manhood: Perkyn Revelour, Sir Topaz, and Gendered Games in Chaucer’s 

Canterbury Tales 

Christopher Flavin, Northeastern State Univ.–Tahlequah 


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Early Medieval Europe II: Strategies of Power 



Presider: Kalani Craig, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Conquest or Assumption? The Territorial Implementation Mechanisms of Visigothic 

and Merovingian Monarchies 

Pablo Poveda Arias, Univ. de Salamanca 

Familial Strategies in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Italy: Nuancing Political 

History 

Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Queensborough Community College, CUNY 

Theology and Warfare in Lombard Italy: A Review of the Evidence 

Eduardo Fabbro, Trent Univ. 

Between David and Christ: Narratives of Imposed Penance and Self-Humiliation 

of Kings in Ottonian Historiography (919–1024) 

Iliana Kandzha, Central European Univ. 


The Western Iberian Kingdoms after 1143 I 

Sponsor: Instituto de Estudios Medievales, Univ. de León; Instituto de 

Estudos Medievais, Univ. Nova de Lisboa 

Organizer: Alicia Miguélez Cavero, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Univ. 

Nova de Lisboa; María Dolores Teijeira Pablos, Instituto de 

Estudios Medievales, Univ. de León 

Presider: Alicia Miguélez Cavero 

The Circulation of Regular and Secular Canons between the Kingdoms of León 

and Portugal during the Twelfth Century: The Cases of Braga, Coimbra, León, 

and Zamora 

Maria João Branco, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Univ. Nova de Lisboa 

In the Middle of Two Kingdoms: Romanesque Workshops, Patterns, and Artistic 

Patronage in the Borders between Galicia and Portugal 

Margarita Vázquez Corbal, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela 

Portugal in the Chronicles of Twelfth-Century Castile and Leon 

Israel San Martín, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela 


Medieval Women 

Presider: Nichola Harris, SUNY–Ulster 

Wisdom/Modor/Patria in Alfred’s Old English Boethius 

Elan Justice Pavlinich, Univ. of South Florida 

Independent Women: Female Actors in the Registers of Teobaldo II of Navarre 

Jillian M. Bjerke, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Strategies of Female Power in Thirteenth-Century Little Poland: The Case of 

Duchess Kunegund 

Sebastian P. Bartos, Valdosta State Univ. 

Burning Down the House: Status, Ethnicity, and Punishment of Female Arsonists 

in Anglo-Norman Ireland 

Bridgette Slavin, Medaille College 

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Medieval Arabic Scholarship I: Transmission of Knowledge and Translation 

Organizer: Maha Baddar, Pima Community College; Sally Abed, Univ. of Utah 

Presider: Maha Baddar 

Translating Sufism in Medieval England: Chaucer and The Conference of Birds 

Jonathan Fruoco, Univ. Grenoble Alpes 

Medieval Arabic Scholarship: Gateway to the European Renaissance 

Norma H. Richardson, Central Michigan Univ. 

Jewish-Karaite Medieval Bible Translation and Commentary in Arabic 

Ilana Sasson, Sacred Heart Univ. 


Secular Clergy and the Laity II: Becoming a Bishop 




Presider: Evan A. Gatti, Elon Univ. 

The Making of Saintly Bishops in Iceland: A Family Business 

Tiffany White, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Exploiting Early Academic and Pastoral Networks: Richard Gravesend’s Journey 

to the Bishopric of Lincoln 

Sam Howden, Univ. of Lincoln 

Career Paths to the Episcopacy? The Pre-episcopal Careers of Late Medieval Scottish 

and Norwegian Bishops 

Sarah Thomas, Univ. of Hull 

The Path to the Episcopate in the Norwegian “Skattland” Dioceses, ca. 1250–ca. 1450 

Michael Frost, Univ. of Aberdeen 


New Voices in Early Drama Studies 


Organizer: Christina M. Fitzgerald, Univ. of Toledo 

Presider: Christina M. Fitzgerald 

“If a Wheel Be in the Midst of a Wheel”: A Proposal for a Twelve-Station, Fifty- 

Play, One-Day York Cycle 

Arlynda Boyer, Univ. of Toronto 

Modeling the Magdalene: Staging Practice and the Question of Orthodoxy in the 

Digby Mary Magdalene 

Matthew Evan Davis, McMaster Univ. 

Appendix’s Paradox: Metatheatricality and Antitheatricality in The Resurrection of 

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Our Lorde 

Jay Zysk, Univ. of Massachusetts–Dartmouth 

Bourgeois Virtue, Elite Vice, and Censorship: Cornelis Everaert’s Play about War 

and Greed 

Mandy L. Albert, Cornell Univ. 


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The Child in Medieval Romance II: The Curious Child 



Presider: Robert Grout 

The Networked Child and Romance Character 

Paul A. Broyles, North Carolina State Univ. 

The Questioning Child in Middle English Romance 

Nicola McDonald, Univ. of York 

“Curiouser and Less Curious”: Some Contrasting Examples of the Education Plot 

in Old French Verse Romances 

Phyllis Gaffney, Univ. College Dublin 



Early Middle English, the Idea of the Vernacular, and Multilingual Manuscripts 

(1100–1350) 

Sponsor: Early Middle English Society 

Organizer: Dorothy Kim, Vassar College 

Presider: Carla María Thomas, New York Univ. 

Old Woods, New Forests: Deorfrið in Old and Middle English 

Marian Homans-Turnbul, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

“On englissch this is youre Pater noster”: English Latin in the Auchinleck Manuscript 

Marjorie Harrington, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Music, Multilingual Manuscripts, and the Medieval Lyric 

Dorothy Kim 


Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book in the Global Middle Ages I 

Sponsor: Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), Univ. of 

Birmingham; Program in Medieval Studies, Univ. of Illinois– 

Urbana-Champaign 

Organizer: Eleonora Stoppino, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

Presider: Daniel Reynolds, Univ. of Birmingham 

Back and Forth from Manuscript to Edited Format: The Story of a West African 

Chronicle 

Mauro Nobili, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

The Ethiopian Book between Christendom and Islam 

Sean M. Winslow, Univ. of Toronto 

Books to Bankroll Buildings: Roman Books in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria 

Tom Rochester, Univ. of Birmingham 

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Reformation Discourse II: Reformation(s) across the Disciplines 



Presider: Benjamin Esswein, Liberty Univ. 

Plague Treatises and the German Reformation: The Reform of Healing in Print 

Erik Heinrichs, Winona State Univ. 

Anatomy of the Reformation: Intersections of Medicine and Religious Change in 

Early Sixteenth-Century Germany 

S. Michael Malone, St. Louis Univ. 

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Polemic, Rhetoric, and the Boundaries of Propriety in Early Elizabethan England 

Alex Ayris, Vanderbilt Univ. 

Discussion Leader: Kristin Bezio, Univ. of Richmond 


Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages I: Gilson 

Sponsor: Program in Medieval Studies, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Organizer: Fred Dulson, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Maureen C. Miller, 

Univ. of California–Berkeley; R. D. Perry, Univ. of California– 

Berkeley 

Presider: Jasmin Miller, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Medieval Theology and the Ghosts of Gilson 

Jack H. Bell, Duke Univ. 

Gilson at the End of the Middle (Ages) 

Fred Dulson 

The Aesthetics of Gilsonianism 

Francesca Murphy, Univ. of Notre Dame 


Games and Visual Culture I 

Sponsor: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris; Univ. of Wisconsin– 

Madison 

Organizer: Elizabeth Lapina, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Vanina Kopp, 

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris 

Presider: Elizabeth Lapina 

Playthings: Bodies, Chessmen, and Tusk 

Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve Univ. 

The Playing Eye: Game Miniatures as Mimetic Instructions 

Michael Allman Conrad, Humboldt-Univ. Berlin 

“Turne over the leef ”: Games and Interpretation on Misericords 

Paul Hardwick, Leeds Trinity Univ. 


Women and/as Objects: Foreign Brides and Cultural Transmission I 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ. 

Organizer: Fiona J. Griffiths, Stanford Univ.; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford Univ. 

Presider: Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg Univ. 

Rus-Born Brides of Polish Rulers and Their Objects in the Twelfth and Thirteenth 

Centuries: Three Case Studies of Cultural Transfer 

Talia Zajac, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 

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Anne of Bohemia and Her Contributions to the Court of Richard II 

Kristen Geaman, Univ. of Toledo 


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Context of the Codex 


Organizer: Sara Ritchey, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

Presider: Sara Ritchey 

(Re-)framing Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica as Hagiography in Twelfth-Century Germany: 

The Codex and Context of Manchester, John Rylands Library, MS Latin 182 

Benjamin Pohl, Univ. of Bristol 

Reading between the Binds: Scottish Legendary Manuscript 

Melissa Coll-Smith, Aquinas College 

The Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu saga in Its Manuscript Contexts 

Daniel C. Najork, Arizona State Univ. 

Signum, Res et Memoriam: Illustrating the Virtues of Saints in Boulogne MS 107 

David Defries, Kansas State Univ. 


Rulership in Medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland): Ideal 

and Practice 

Sponsor: 

Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Center for Medieval 

and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida 

Organizer: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; 

Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida 

Presider: Dušan Zupka, Univ. of Oxford 

Rulership in Early Medieval Bohemia: Between Ideals and Everyday Reality 

Martin Whoda, Masarykova Univ. 

Theory and Practice of Legitimizing Royal Power in Early Medieval Hungary: 

The Arpadian Dynasty 

Vincent Múcska, Comenius Univ. 

The Piast Rulership: The Process of Building Dynastic Power 

Zbigniew Dalewski, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of 

Sciences 

Royal Exercise of Political, Cultural, and Legal Leadership in Fourteenth-Century 

East Central Europe 

Paul W. Knoll, Univ. of Southern California 


Changing Representations of the Different Forms of Lordship over Noble Persons 

in All Contemporary Media, ca. 1270–ca. 1520 

Sponsor: Seigneurie: The International Society for the Study of the 

Nobility, Lordship, and Knighthood 

Organizer: D’Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: D’Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton 

Edward I of England and the Creation of the Image of Royal Lordship on a New, 

Arthurian Model (1272–1307) 

Brooke Bartosh, Texas Tech Univ. 

Resisting the New Solomon: Knightly Kingship and Lordship in the Teseida and 

Regia carmina of Fourteenth-Century Naples (1335 –1341) 

Tucker Million, Univ. of Rochester 

The Look of Magnificence: Clothing a Monarch in Skelton’s Courtly Allegory 

(1485–1519) 

John Slefinger, Ohio State Univ. 

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Medieval Literature as Children’s Literature: Studies in Adaptation I 

Organizer: Bruce Gilchrist, Concordia Univ. Montréal 

Presider: Renée Ward, Univ. of Lincoln 

The Monsters and the Animals: Theriocentric “Beowulfs” 

Robert Stanton, Boston College 

Landscape and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Themed Novels for Young Adults 

Bruce Gilchrist 

Poetry and Feminism in Susan Signe Morrison’s Grendel’s Mother 

Melissa Filbeck, Texas A&M Univ. 


Loneliness and Solitude in Medieval England 

Organizer: Travis Neel, Ohio State Univ.; Spencer Strub, Univ. of California– 

Berkeley 

Presider: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut 

The Silence of the Lay Brother: Investigating the Invisible in Carthusian Communities 

Francesca Breeden, Univ. of Sheffield 

“This is youre owen hous, parde”: Imposition, Interruption, and Imprudence in 

Troilus and Criseyde 

Sarah-Nelle Jackson, Univ. of British Columbia 

Style and Loneliness in Thomas Hoccleve 

Andres Millan, Univ. of Chicago 

Mapping Eremitic Loneliness 

Christopher M. Roman, Kent State Univ.–Tuscarawas 


The Cultures of Georgia and Armenia 

Sponsor: Rare Book Dept., The Free Library of Philadelphia 

Organizer: Bert Beynen, Temple Univ. 

Presider: Bert Beynen 

The Year 1000 in the Armenian Imagination 

Sergio La Porta, California State Univ.–Fresno 

Previously Unknown Georgian Manuscript Books in Samarkand 

Irine Chachanidze, Akaki Tsereteli State Univ. 

MS Cairo Syriac 11: The Tri-Lingual Garshuni Manuscript Dictionary 

Ester Petrosyan, Central European Univ. 

Forms of Address as Sociolinguistic Markers in the Old Georgian Vita of Grigol 

Khandzteli 

Tamar Guchua, Akaki Tsereteli State Univ. 

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The Apostle Andrew in Georgia: A Comparative Study of Literary Sources and 

Archaeological Discoveries 

Vakhtang Licheli, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State Univ. 


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Mappings II: Medieval Maps, Their Makers and Users 

Organizer: Dan Terkla, Illinois Wesleyan Univ. 

Presider: Rachel Dressler, Univ. at Albany 

Seabirds to Starboard: Notes on Norse Navigational Technique 

Gaetan Dupont, Cornell Univ.; Oren Falk, Cornell Univ. 

The Geography of Devotion in the London Psalter Maps 

LauraLee Brott, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

Russian “Old Drawing”: The Problem of Attribution 

Alexey Frolov, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences 



Queer Temporalities 

Sponsor: 

Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages 

(SSHMA) 

Organizer: Lisa M. C. Weston, California State Univ.–Fresno; Graham N. 

Drake, SUNY–Geneseo 

Presider: Lisa M. C. Weston 

Hanging and Lolling as Queer Temporal Pause in Piers Plowman 

Micah Goodrich, Univ. of Connecticut 

Asynchronous Anchoritic Love, Medieval/Modern/Modalities 

Michelle M. Sauer, Univ. of North Dakota 


Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean I: Books 

Sponsor: CU Mediterranean Studies Group 

Organizer: Núria Silleras-Fernández, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Presider: Núria Silleras-Fernández 

Illuminating the Scriptorium: A Network of Books from the Monastery of Saint 

Michael in Medieval Egypt 

Andrea Myers Achi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ. 

Fantasy Kings and Favorite Sons: Arthurian Influence in the Writing of Count 

Pedro de Barcelós 

Taiko M. Haessler, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Syriac Literary Circle at the Mongol Court (Late Thirteenth Century) 

Anton Pritula, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library 

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Medievalism and Immigration I 



Presider: Pamela J. Clements, Siena College 

Images of Immigration and Notions of Nation in Early Modern Medievalism 

Sarah A. Kelen, Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. 

Medieval Religion in New France: Marie de l’Incarnation and the Ursuline Nuns 

of Québec 

Nancy Bradley Warren, Texas A&M Univ. 

Arthur Hugh Clough’s Mari Mango, or, How to “Victorianize” The Canterbury Tales 

William C. Calin, Univ. of Florida 

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The Life Course in Medieval Ireland 



Presider: James Lyttleton 

The Life Course in Early Medieval Ireland: A Bioarchaeological Approach 

Rachel E. Scott, DePaul Univ. 

Between Saints and Sinners: Some Early Medieval Perceptions of Childhood and 

Adolescence 

Erin Abraham, Univ. of Wyoming 


The Great Transition: Climate, Disease, and Society in the Late Medieval World 

(A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Contagions: Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies 

Organizer: Michelle Ziegler, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Michelle Ziegler 

A roundtable discussion with Philip Slavin, Univ. of Kent; Wendy J. Turner, Augusta 

Univ. ; Carenza Lewis, Univ. of Lincoln; Boris Valentijn Schmid, Univ. i Oslo; Christopher 

P. Atwood, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Timur Khaydarov, Kazan National Research 

Univ.; and Hendrik Poinar, Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster Univ. 


Power and Society in Late Antique Italy II: Transformation of Leadership 

Sponsor: Summer Program “The Birth of Medieval Europe,” Central 

European Univ. (CEU) 

Organizer: Samuel Cohen, Sonoma State Univ.; Edward M. Schoolman, 

Univ. of Nevada–Reno; Laurent J. Cases, Pennsylvania State Univ. 

Presider: Samuel Cohen 

The Amali in Rome 

Jonathan J. Arnold, Univ. of Tulsa 

The Italian Vicarii in the Fourth Century 

Laurent J. Cases 

The Regionalization of Society in Late Antique Southern Italy 

Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College 

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Julian, Margery, and Their Reception 

Presider: Jessica Barr, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Fragmentation and Fellowship in Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Love 

Mahlika Hopwood, Fordham Univ. 

Beholding Broken Bodies: Pain as a Theological Framework in Julian of Norwich’s 

Vision and Revelation 

Katherine Briant, Fordham Univ. 

“Alle my childeryn, gostly & bodily”: Maternity, Exemplarity, and Lay Clericalism 

in The Book of Margery Kempe 

Sara Fredman, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

Readings in the Margins: Carthusian Reader Annotations in The Book of Margery 

Kempe (London, British Library, Add. MS. 61823) and Julian of Norwich’s A 

Vision Showed to a Devout Woman (London, British Library, Add. MS. 37790) 

Simone Kuegeler–Race, St. John’s College, Univ. of Cambridge 


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The Pilgrim’s Library: Books and Reading on the Medieval Routes to Jerusalem 

and Rome 

Sponsor: Pilgrim Libraries (Leverhulme International Research Network, 

Birkbeck, Univ. of London) 

Organizer: 

Presider: 

Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, Univ. of London 

Dee Dyas, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, 

Univ. of York 

The Vercelli Book, the Via Francigena, and Medieval Pilgrimage 

Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William & Mary 

Three Pilgrims’ Itineraries from Late Medieval England: Problems of Evidence 

and Interpretation 

Anthony Bale 


Cross-Cultural Images and Crafts: Transcultural Objects and Artisanal Migration 

Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America 

Organizer: Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt Univ.; Sara Lipton, Stony Brook Univ. 

Presider: Leor Halevi 

Mediterranean Stylistic Influences in the Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells: 

Mimesis and Metamorphosis in Irish Manuscript Illumination, 700-1000 CE 

Laura McCloskey, Trinity College Dublin, Univ. of Dublin 

Christian/Jewish Interaction in Parisian Luxury Workshops of the Thirteenth 

Century 

Sharon Farmer, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara 

Cross-Cultural Animal Fables: Comparative Iconography in Three Kalila wa 

Dimna Manuscripts 

Anna D. Russakoff, American Univ. of Paris 


Othering Texts in Medieval Literature and Historiography 

Sponsor: Kaiserchronik Project, Dept. of German and Dutch, Univ. of 

Cambridge (AHRC Grant) 

Organizer: Christoph Pretzer, Univ. of Cambridge 

Presider: Thomas Foerster, Univ. of Cambridge 

Does Evil Break Forth from Out of North? Identity and Alterity in the Idea of the 

North in Twelfth-Century Universal Histories 

Eric Wolever, Univ. of York 

Between Artifice and Manifestation: Poetological Invention and Composition in 

Early Vernacular Prologues 

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Christoph Pretzer 

Developing Ethnic Consciousness in Vernacular Chronicles 

Thomas R. Leek, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point 

Inscribing Oneself in the Christian Universe: Strategies of Self-Characterization 

in Religious Texts from the Late Middle Ages 

Verena Linder-Spohn, Albert-Ludwigs-Univ. Freiburg 

Gründler Travel Award Winner 

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Stigmata: Bloody Wounds That Matter I 


Organizer: Catherine Mooney, Boston College 

Presider: Lezlie Knox, Marquette Univ. 

The Particularity of Francis, according to Bonaventure: The Stigmata, the Sign of 

the Living God, and the Franciscan Order 

Holly J. Grieco, Siena College 

Angela of Foligno, Lovesick for the Crucified Christ 

Travis Stevens, Harvard Univ. 

Queering the Wounds of Christ in Late Medieval Books of Hours 

Sophie Sexon, Univ. of Glasgow 

Respondent: Catherine Mooney 


Honoring Joel Rosenthal I: Those Who Fight 

Sponsor: Medieval Prosopography 

Organizer: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg Univ.; Caroline Barron, Royal 

Holloway, Univ. of London 

Presider: Linda E. Mitchell, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City 

The Old English Boethius, Chapter 17 and the Theory of Estates 

Paul E. Szarmach, Univ. of California–Berkeley/Western Michigan Univ. 

Those Who Fight: Traditions of Military Service and Chivalric Identity in Late 

Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Florence 

Peter W. Sposato, Indiana Univ.–Kokomo 

London’s Militia in the Thirteenth Century 

John McEwan, St. Louis Univ. 

Pardons for Self-Defense under Richard II 

John Lowell Leland, Salem International Univ. 


In Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens I: Text-Image Dynamics in Medieval 

Manuscripts 

Sponsor: Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ. 

Organizer: Jessica Savage, Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ.; Judith 

Golden, Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ. 

Presider: Judith H. Oliver, Colgate Univ. 

Artists and Autonomy: Written Instructions and Preliminary Drawings for the 

Illuminator in the Huntington Library Legenda aurea (HM 3027) 

Martha Easton, Seton Hall Univ. 

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Bodies of Words: Text and Image in an Illustrated Anatomical Codex (Bodleian 

Library, MS Ashmole 399) 

Taylor McCall, Univ. of Cambridge 

Sealed with a Kiss: A Votive “Closing” in the Claricia Psalter (Walters MS W.26) 

Benjamin C. Tilghman, Lawrence Univ./Material Collective 


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Emblem Studies 

Sponsor: Society for Emblem Studies 

Organizer: Sabine Moedersheim, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

Presider: Pedro F. Campa, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga 

The Emblematum liber: From Poetic Collection to Common-Place Book 

Javiera Barrientos Guajardo, Univ. de Chile 

Alciato and Religion 

Peter M. Daly, McGill Univ. 

Threatened Mice: The Image of the Mouse in Kafka and Spiegelman 

Bernard Deschamps, McGill Univ. 



Cantus Hackathon: Create an Inventory with the Cantus Database in Real Time 

(A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant 

Organizer: Debra Lacoste, Univ. of Waterloo; Kate Helsen, Western Univ. 

Presider: Debra Lacoste 

Participants in this workshop—led by Kate Helsen—receive guest logins to Cantus 

and basic instructions for indexing a medieval musical source online. Manuscript 

images will be provided, and by the end of the session, the successful contributions of 

participants might even become the start of a new Cantus inventory! Participants are 






3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. 



Sex Makes a Difference: A Panel Discussion on the Work of Joan Cadden 

Sponsor: Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages 

(SSHMA) 

Organizer: Graham N. Drake, SUNY–Geneseo 

Presider: Graham N. Drake 

A panel discussion with Karma Lochrie, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Sarah Star, 

Univ. of Toronto; and Christopher T. Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont. 

Respondent: Joan Cadden, Univ. of California–Davis 

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Law, Loopholes, and Justice in Medieval Contexts and Beyond 


Organizer: Toy-Fung Tung, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 

Presider: Toy-Fung Tung 

From Dante’s Inferno to Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: Usury, the Law, and Loopholes 

Lucas J. McCarthy, Western Michigan Univ. 

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“Tenuto buono e male adoperando”: From Trickery to Criminality in Decameron 

3.6 and 4.2 

Margaret Escher, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 

Nature, the Ultimate Loophole: Francis Bacon, John Bulwer, and the Psychophysiology 

of the English Courtroom 

Jeffrey Wollock, Texas A&M Univ. 


Intellect and Cognition in Medieval Philosophy 

Sponsor: Christendom Graduate School 

Organizer: Robert Joseph Matava, Christendom Graduate School 

Presider: Robert Joseph Matava 

Pieces of an Early Scholastic Self-Knowledge Puzzle: Roger Bacon and Pseudo- 

Henry of Ghent’s Commentaries on the Liber de causis 

Therese Scarpelli Cory, Univ. of Notre Dame 

A Parisian Theory of the Soul: The Intellect as a Part of the Soul in the Thirteenth 

Century 

Stephen Metzger, Medieval Institute, Univ. of Notre Dame 

The Human Soul as “Hoc Aliquid” in Aquinas 

Raphael Mary Salzillo, OP, Univ. of Notre Dame 


Medieval Translation Theory and Practice II (A Practicum) 

Organizer: Jeanette Beer, Univ. of Oxford 

Presider: Jeanette Beer 

Stanford Medieval Sourcebook: Translation for a Digital World 

Mae Lyons-Penner, Stanford Univ. 

Medieval Convent Drama: Translating and Transforming the Liturgy 

Elisabeth Dutton, Univ. de Fribourg 

Medieval Convent Drama: Translating and Transforming the Liturgy 

Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Univ. of Oxford 

Respondent: Carol Sweetenham, Univ. of Warwick 


The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II 

Organizer: Harvey Brown, Western Univ. 

Presider: Harvey Brown 

Stoic Influences on Medieval Natural Law Thinking 

David Conter, Huron Univ. College 

A Juridical Debate: Scotisitic and Thomistic Meta-Ethical Strategies for the Political 

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Discussion 

Matteo Scozia, St. Michael’s College, Univ. of Toronto 

Natural Law in Islam 

Bernie Koenig, Fanshawe College 


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Celtic Arthurian Literature 

Organizer: Lindy Brady, Univ. of Mississippi 

Presider: Lindy Brady 

Expedient Complicity in “The Dream of Rhonabwy”: A Historical Analysis 

Coral Lumbley, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

Peredur and the Empress of Constantinople: Resistance and Othering in Peredur 

fab Efrog 

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Parodic Narrative Structure of Breuddwyd Rhonabwy in Context 

Irena Kurzová, Independent Scholar 



Criminals, Kings, and Colors: The Study and Reception of Medieval Scandinavian 

Culture (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of Aberdeen 

Organizer: Blake Middleton, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of 

Aberdeen 

Presider: Irene García Losquiño, Univ. of Aberdeen/Stockholms Univ. 

The Semantic Puzzle of Red Gold in the Mythological and Heroic Eddic Poems 

Claire Organ, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of Aberdeen 

Jötnar within the Eddic Narratives 

Blake Middleton 

The Scandinavian Mirrors for Princes 

Heidi Synnove Djuve, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of Aberdeen 

Political and Military Change in High Medieval Scandinavia 

Beñat Elortza, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of Aberdeen 

The Early Careers of Bishops in Late Medieval Scandinavia 

Michael Frost, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of Aberdeen 

Normativity and Deviancy in Early Medieval Scandinavia 

Keith Ruiter, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of Aberdeen 

Geomythogenesis 

Sarah Hofrichter, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Univ. of Aberdeen 

290 FETZER 1005 

Medieval Games and Pedagogy (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Game Cultures Society 

Organizer: Betsy McCormick, Mount San Antonio College 

Presider: Teresa Reed, Jacksonville State Univ. 

Using Analog Games to Explore the Ludic Arthur 

James Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology 

>GET EXCALIBUR: Teaching Medieval Adventure with Text Adventures Games 

Paul A. Broyles, North Carolina State Univ. 

“Like Medieval Cards against Humanity”: Adapting Le roi qui ne ment for the 

British Literature Survey 

Nora L. Corrigan, Mississippi Univ. for Women 

Serious Play with Serious Medieval Studies: An Approach for Teaching and Therapy 

Carol L. Robinson, Kent State Univ.–Trumbull 

Playing for Keeps: Understanding Early English Literature through Interactive 

Gaming 

Lauryn S. Mayer, Washington & Jefferson College 

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Gamifying Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrims as RPG Avatars 


291 FETZER 1010 

Fragmentology: The Life and Afterlives of Otto F. Ege 

Sponsor: Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript: Rolls and Fragments 

(DEMMR/F) 

Organizer: Elizabeth K. Hebbard, Univ. of New Hampshire 

Presider: Elizabeth K. Hebbard 

Being Incomplete Outweighed Quality and Rarity in the Creation of the Ege 

Portfolios: A Case Study 

Judith H. Oliver, Colgate Univ. 

Ege’s Problematic Altruism and the Fragmentation of Scholarly Labor in DH 

Projects: The Harry Ransom Center’s Foliophiles and Defunct Medieval Fragments 

Project 

Elon Lang, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

“Fifty Original Leaves” Example No. 8: Otto Ege and the Transmission of the 

Wilton Processional 

Alison Altstatt, Univ. of Northern Iowa 

Ege in the Classroom: The Pedagogical Possibilities 

Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America 

292 FETZER 1040 

Dress and Textiles III: Interpreting Artifacts 




Presider: Robin Netherton 

Beginnings and Endings: An Investigation of the Structure and Production of the 

Birka Posaments 

Jean Kveberg, Independent Scholar 

The Canosa Gloves 

Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Univ. of Manchester 

Finding the Thread: The Mystery of the Wellesley Theseus Tapestry 

Meredith Fluke, Wellesley College 

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293 FETZER 1045 

Good for What Ales You: Alcohol in Medieval Medical Texts 

Sponsor: Medieval Brewers Guild 

Organizer: Stephen C. Law, Medieval Brewers Guild/Univ. of Central 

Oklahoma 

Presider: Stephen C. Law 

The Rise of Beer in Mainstream Western Medicine in the Early Middle Ages 

Max Nelson, Univ. of Windsor 

Let’s Drink to Her: Alcohol and Women’s Health in the Trotula and the Works of 

Hildegard of Bingen 

Theresa A. Vaughan, Univ. of Central Oklahoma 

“Ale-Runes You Must Know”: Runic “Alu” Inscriptions 

Stephen Pollington, Independent Scholar 


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294 FETZER 1060 

Writing Trouble: Emotional French Literary Reaction to the Reigns of Charles VI 

and Charles VII 

Organizer: Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, Univ. of Vermont 

Presider: Charles-Louis Morand Métivier 

Poetic Expiration: Jean Gerson’s Deploratio studii parisiensis 

Matthew Vanderpoel, Univ. of Chicago 

Grieving in the Court of Charles the VI: Philippe de Mézières’s Livre de la vertu 

du sacrement de mariage 

Rachel Geer, Univ. of Virginia 

Sturm und Drang. Weather Phenomena as Emotional Expressions and Propaganda 

Tools in Michel Pintoin’s Chronicle 

Christine Eckholst, Independent Scholar 

295 FETZER 2016 

In Honor of Caroline Palmer II: Romancing Material Culture: Falling in Love 

with and in Medieval Manuscripts 

Organizer: Elizabeth Archibald, Durham Univ.; Christopher Baswell, 

Barnard College; Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham Univ. 

Presider: Elizabeth Archibald 

Touching the Past/Being Touched by the Past 

Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico 

English Trilingual Manuscripts: Still Waiting to Be Heard 

Susanna Fein, Kent State Univ. 

Pierced, Layered, Bent: Temporalities and the Manuscript Encounter 

Christopher Baswell 

296 FETZER 2020 

New Research in Parish Church Art and Architecture in England and on the 

Continent, 1100–1600 II 

Organizer: Sarah Blick, Kenyon College 

Presider: Louise Hampson, Centre for the Study of Christianity and 

Culture, Univ. of York 

Much More Than the Storage Room of a Church: The Function, Symbolism, and 

Prestige of the Treasury Room in the Late Middle Ages 

Claire LaBrecque, Univ. of Winnipeg 

License and Conformity in the Parish Churches of the Parisian Cathedral Chapter 

Lindsay S. Cook, Columbia Univ. 

Totternhoe Clunch, Greensand, Oolitic Limestone: Using Local Materials in the 

Medieval Churches of Bedfordshire 

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David H. Kennett, Independent Scholar 

Thomas Loveday and Thomas Gooch: Two Suffolk Late Medieval Carpenters and 

Their Surviving Works 

Lucy Wrapson, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Univ. of Cambridge 

297 FETZER 2030 

“Ungelic is us”: Queer Old English Elegies 

Organizer: Elan Justice Pavlinich, Univ. of South Florida 

Presider: Elan Justice Pavlinich 

Inhuman Intimacies in Wulf and Eadwacer 

Eliot Rosch-Eifert, Independent Scholar 

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Our Islands: Queering the Non-human in Anglo-Saxon Elegies 

Jes Battis, Univ. of Regina 

“Heofen Rece Swealg”: Pagan Tradition and the Ambiguous Afterlife in Beowulf 

Harley Joyce Campbell, Univ. of South Florida 

The Queer Art of Anger: Failure, Rage, and Relationships in Old English Elegies 

Marjorie A. Housley, Univ. of Notre Dame 

298 FETZER 2040 

Beowulf 

Presider: Melissa Mayus, Western Michigan Univ. 

Fear and Free-Will in the Monsters of Beowulf 

Alex Ukropen, Univ. of New Mexico 

Gender and the Dragon 

Seth Hunter Koproski, Cornell Univ. 

Beauty, Terror, and Shiny Objects in Beowulf 

Peter Ramey, Northern State Univ. 


Materiality and Place in the Northern World II 




Presider: Catherine E. Karkov 

King of the Island(s): Arthur and Glastonbury Abbey 

Geneviève Pigeon, Univ. du Québec–Montréal 

Sanctus Locus, Sanctus Corpus: Saints, Relics, and Religious Devotion in Tenth- 

Century England 

Abigail G. Robertson, Univ. of New Mexico 

Magic-Making and Place-Taking: Celtic Women in the Old Norse Sagas 

Brianna McElrath Panasenco, Univ. of California–Berkeley 


Medieval Song 




Presider: Anna Kathryn Grau 

“O si michi rethorica”: The Tradition and Transformation of a Latin Leich 

Charles E. Brewer, Florida State Univ. 

The Resonance of Borrowed Melody in Troubadour Song 

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Katie Chapman, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Oublie Tes Dolours: A New Garland Helps to Dispel Old Myths 

Jane Alden, Wesleyan Univ. 


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Revisiting and Redefining Rome and Its Influences: A Session in Honor of Judson 

Emerick 

Sponsor: Claremont Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 

Organizer: Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate Univ. 

Presider: Ellen Rentz, Claremont McKenna College 

Emerick’s Early Medieval Rome 

Erik Thunø, Rutgers Univ. 

The Pontifical of the Roman Curia and “Old” Roman Chant 

James Borders, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Rome Has Fallen: Considering the Middle Ages between the Falls of Rome 

Justin Ahlgren, Univ. of Dallas 



Geoinformatics: Challenges of Medieval Geodata and Digital Maps 

Sponsor: Medieval Association of Place and Space (MAPS) 

Organizer: Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider Univ. 

Presider: Matthew Boyd Goldie 

Geodatabases Design for Medieval Islamic Maps: Azimuth, Altitude 

Karen Pinto, Boise State Univ.; Kathleen M. Baker, Western Michigan Univ. 

The Oxford Outremer Map and the Challenge of Translating Space 

Tobias Hrynick, Fordham Univ. 

Virtual Pilgrims, Virtual Maps: Using GIS to Understand Late Medieval “Representational 

Space” 

Kathryne Beebe, Univ. of Texas–Arlington 

Spatializing Information and Informatizing Space 

Angela R. Bennett, Univ. of Nevada–Reno 


French Romance 

Presider: Susan Hopkirk, Univ. of Toronto 

Undercover Operations: The Cose Couverte of Amadas et Ydoine 

Jenny Tan, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

“Aprenez fille a coudre et afiler”: Lyrical Embroidery in Guillaume de Dole 

Morgan Boharski, Univ. of Edinburgh 

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Death and Rebirth in the Pearl-Poet 

Sponsor: Pearl-Poet Society 

Organizer: Kara Larson Maloney, Binghamton Univ. 

Presider: B. S. W. Barootes, Univ. of Toronto 

Physical Origins, Spiritual Gifts: Virtue and the Threefold Boundary in the 

Pearl-Poet 

Michelle E. Parsons-Powell, Purdue Univ. 

The Jeweler’s Rebirth: Non-Transformative Narrative in Pearl 

William M. Storm, Eastern Univ. 

Symbolic Death and Rebirth in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Mickey Sweeney, Dominican Univ. 

Disfigurement and the Dead: A Case for Common Authorship of the Cotton 

Nero A.x Poems and Saint Erkenwald 

Jessica Troy, Univ. of New Mexico 

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Material Histories of Exchange II: Transmission of Dress and Ornament in 

Byzantium and Beyond 

Sponsor: Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture 

Organizer: Annie Montgomery Labatt, Univ. of Texas–San Antonio; 

Heather Badamo, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara 

Presider: Annie Montgomery Labatt 

Appealing to the Senses: Experiencing Adornment in the Early Medieval Mediterranean 

Elizabeth Dospel Williams, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection/ 

George Washington Univ. 

Ceremonial Arms and Armor: Fashioning Visual Charisma at the Mediterranean 

Court 

Heather Badamo 

English Visions of the East in Textile and Floor Tile: Multicultural Imagery under 

Henry III and Eleanor of Provence (ca. 1250) 

Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross 


Beyond the Portraits: Chaucer and the Visual 

Sponsor: Chaucer MetaPage 

Organizer: Susan Yager, Iowa State Univ. 

Presider: Elise E. Morse-Gagné, Tougaloo College 

Dramatizing The Nun’s Priest’s Tale 

Bernard Lewis, Murray State Univ. 

Images of a Modern Chaucer 

Susan Yager 

Revisualizing the Chaucer MetaPage 

Vaughn Stewart, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 


Early Medieval Europe III: Intellectuals and the Wider World 



Presider: Deborah M. Deliyannis 

The Pentateuch Diagram in the Codex Amiatinus 

Peter Darby, Univ. of Nottingham 

Writings for “Alypius” in the Circle of Alcuin 

Christopher A. Jones, Ohio State Univ. 

The Pilgrim’s Reward: Early Medieval Conceptions of the Benefits of the Jerusalem 

Pilgrimage 

John Howe, Texas Tech Univ. 

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The Western Iberian Kingdoms after 1143 II 

Sponsor: Instituto de Estudios Medievales, Univ. de León; Instituto de 

Estudos Medievais, Univ. Nova de Lisboa 

Organizer: María Dolores Teijeira Pablos, Instituto de Estudios Medievales, 

Univ. de León; Alicia Miguélez Cavero, Instituto de Estudos 

Medievais, Univ. Nova de Lisboa 

Presider: María Dolores Teijeira Pablos 

Circulation of Musical Models in Central and Western Iberia: From Liturgical 

Voice to the Troubadours (ca. 1100–1300) 

Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical; Diogo 

Alte da Veiga, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical 

Blas Fernández de Toledo (1372): A Bishop Promoter of the Arts in the Kingdoms 

of Castile and Portugal 

María Victoria Herráez Ortega, Univ. de León 

Refugee Crisis? The Sephardic Diaspora in Portugal (1492–1506) 

Pedro Martínez, Independent Scholar 


Order out of Chaos: Conflict and Resolution in Medieval Culture 

Sponsor: Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance 

Studies (TACMRS) 

Organizer: Carolyn F. Scott, National Cheng Kung Univ. 

Presider: Brent Addison Moberly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

The Contention and Resolution in Love in The Parliament of Fowls 

Hasting G. Chen, National Taiwan Univ. 

“With His Warcus Wylde”: Order out of Chaos in Sir Gowther and The King of Tars 

Carolyn F. Scott 

East-West Conflict Revisited: Kyng Alisaunder 

Francis K. H. So, Kaohsiung Medical Univ. 


Medieval Arabic Scholarship II: Medieval Arab(ic) Feminisms 

Organizer: Maha Baddar, Pima Community College; Sally Abed, Univ. of 

Utah 

Presider: Norma H. Richardson, Central Michigan Univ. 

Female Agency within the Confines of the Medieval Harem 

Maha Baddar 

The Other Woman in the Arabian Nights: A Different Interpretation 

Sally Abed 

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Alkhansaa and the Tradition of Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Female Poets in the 

Arabian Peninsula 

Doaa Omran, Univ. of New Mexico 

Female Intellectual Spaces in al-Andalus 

Jessica Zeitler, Pima Community College 

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Secular Clergy and the Laity III: Episcopal Roles 




Presider: Kalani Craig, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Friendship, Queenship, and Investiture: The Function of Friendship between 

Saint Anselm, Queen Matilda, and Countess Matilda of Tuscany 

Hollie Devaney, Univ. of Hull 

Conjuratio Concordiam? Intentionality and Sorcery in the Conflict between the 

Bishop of Mende and the Lord Apcher 

Jan K. Bulman, Auburn Univ.–Montgomery 

“In my lands I will be pope, archbishop, bishop, archdeacon, and dean”: Secular 

Princes and Prince-Bishops in Pre-Reformation Germany 

Brian A. Pavlac, King’s College, Pennsylvania 


New Approaches to Drama Records: East Anglian Play Texts and Nearby Archives 


Organizer: Matthew Sergi, Univ. of Toronto 

Presider: Matthew Sergi 

The Conversion of Saint Paul: Can the Play Text and the Archival Records Have a 

Mutually Illuminating Conversation? 

James Stokes, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point 

East Anglian Staging(s) of The Conversion of Saint Paul 

Gordon Kipling, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

Mayoral Entries in Late Sixteenth-Century Norwich: Shillings, Staging, and Civic 

Pride 

Colin Rowley, Univ. of Toronto 

Kingmaking and Playmaking in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia: Records of Drama 

and Performance during the War of the Roses 

John A. Geck, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland 


The Child in Medieval Romance III: The Abused Child 



Presider: Rachel E. Moss, Corpus Christi College, Univ. of Oxford 

Where the Wild Things Are: Rethinking Childhood Anger and Romance 

Yu-Ching Wu, Univ. at Buffalo 

Havelok’s Sisters: Vulnerability and the Child Body 

Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ. 

Medieval Children: Not a Very “Fair Game”? 

Jean E. Jost, Bradley Univ. 

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Teaching Early Middle English (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Early Middle English Society 


Presider: Scott Kleinman, California State Univ.–Northridge 

A roundtable discussion with Carla María Thomas, New York Univ.; Leslie Carpenter, 

Fordham Univ.; Elizabeth Canon, Missouri Western State Univ.; and Meg Worley, 

Colgate Univ. 



Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book in the Global Middle Ages II 

Sponsor: 

Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), Univ. of 

Birmingham; Program in Medieval Studies, Univ. of Illinois– 

Urbana-Champaign 

Organizer: Eleonora Stoppino, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

Presider: Eleonora Stoppino 

Before and beyond the King’s Book: Reading the Material Remains of the Domesday 

Survey 

Carol Symes, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 

English Books at a Scottish Court: The Books of Saint Margaret of Scotland (d. 1093) 

Claire Harrill, Univ. of Birmingham 

The Library of Anne de Graville (ca. 1490–1540): (A)Typical Collection? 

Elizabeth L’Estrange, Univ. of Birmingham 

Margaret Tudor (Wife of James IV) and Her Books 

Emily Wingfield, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 


Reformation Discourse III: Recording and Strategizing the Reformation: History, 

Biography, Polemic 



Presider: S. Michael Malone, St. Louis Univ. 

The Early John Knox and the Body of Christ 

Rudolph P. Almasy, West Virginia Univ. 

Monster or Reformer? Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and the Historical Anne Boleyn 

Maureen Thum 

A 1513 Plea to Pope Leo X to Reform the Church 

James Kroemer, Concordia Univ. Wisconsin 

Discussion Leader: Erik Heinrichs, Winona State Univ. 

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Post-War Scholarship and the Study of the Middle Ages II: Zumthor 

Sponsor: Program in Medieval Studies, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Organizer: Fred Dulson, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Maureen C. Miller, 

Univ. of California–Berkeley; R. D. Perry, Univ. of California– 

Berkeley 

Presider: 

Mouvance, Motion, and the Experience of Poetic Form 

Seeta Chaganti, Univ. of California–Davis 

Paul Zumthor between Lyric and Narrative 

David F. Hult, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Michelle Ripplinger, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

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The Place of the Medieval in Modern Hermeneutics: Zumthor, Jauss, and Gadamer 

Benjamin A. Saltzman, California Institute of Technology 


Games and Visual Culture II 

Sponsor: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris; Univ. of Wisconsin– 

Madison 

Organizer: Vanina Kopp, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris; Elizabeth 

Lapina, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

Presider: Vanina Kopp 

Games and Artistic Intimations in Dante’s Commedia 

Aniello Di Iorio, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

The Nobility of Losing: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Boccaccio 

Akash Kumar, Univ. of California–Santa Cruz 

Perpetual Play: Games, Storytelling, and Dissent in Sixteenth-Century Siena 

Karina F. Attar, Queens College, CUNY 

Medieval Play Studies: Early English Drama, Ludi, and Games 

Nathan Kelber, Univ. of Maryland 


Women and/as Objects: Foreign Brides and Cultural Transmission II 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ. 

Organizer: Fiona J. Griffiths, Stanford Univ.; Kathryn Starkey, Stanford Univ. 

Presider: Fiona J. Griffiths 

Blanche: From Castilian Infanta to Queen of France 

Lucy K. Pick, Univ. of Chicago 

Banners for New Ideas: Textiles as Ideal Medium for Cultural Transfer by Women 

Stefanie Seeberg, Univ. zu Köln 

Mother, Daughter, Brides and Psalters: Anglo-French-Norwegian Connections in 

the Early Thirteenth Century 

Ragnhild M. Bø, Univ. i Oslo 


Thirty Years of Feasting and Fasting: A Roundtable on Caroline Bynum’s Holy 

Feast and Holy Fast, 1987–2017 (A Roundtable) 

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Organizer: Sara Ritchey, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

Presider: Neslihan Senocak, Columbia Univ. 

A roundtable discussion with Barbara Newman, Northwestern Univ.; Sara S. Poor, 

Princeton Univ.; Dyan Elliott, Northwestern Univ.; and Steven P. Marrone, Tufts Univ. 


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Military Orders and Crusades in Comparative Perspective: The Levant, Spain, 

and the Baltic Region 

Sponsor: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Center for Medieval 

and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida 

Organizer: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence 

Presider: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida 

The Templars and the Confraternity of Belchite: A Comparison of Origins 

Andrew Holt, Florida State College at Jacksonville 

An Archaeology of the Military Orders in the Holy Land? 

James G. Schryver, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris 

Intraverunt terram horroris et vaste solitudinis: The Teutonic Order and Landscape 

Sacralization in the Crusade to Prussia 

Gregory Leighton, Cardiff Univ. 


Knights, Squires, and (Mere) Gentlemen: Changing Relationships between 

Knighthood and Nobility in Western Europe, ca. 1100–ca. 1400 

Sponsor: Seigneurie: The International Society for the Study of the 

Nobility, Lordship, and Knighthood 

Organizer: D’Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: Peter W. Sposato, Indiana Univ.–Kokomo 

The Emergence and Decline of Knightly Status as the Focus of Vernacular Didactic 

Discourse on the Ideal Qualities and Behaviors of a Nobleman, ca. 1170–ca. 1380 

D’Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton 

“Pryvee and Apert”: The Evolution of a Consciousness of Gentility in The Wife of 

Bath’s Tale, ca. 1385 

Nicholas Dalbey, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 


Medieval Literature as Children’s Literature: Studies in Adaptation II 


Presider: Bruce Gilchrist 

The Pleasure and Pain of Queen Vashti: A Medieval Judeo-Provençal Adaptation 

of the “Book of Esther” for a Public Audience 

Lisa Bevevino, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris 

“Valentine and Orson” from Medieval French Romance to Chapbook to Picture Book 

Johanna Denzin, Columbia College 

Children’s Literature and Canonical Adaptation as Resistance Literature: The 

Case of Spenser’s Faerie Queene 

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Charlotte Speilman, York Univ. 

Diana Wynne Jones, the “Kingis Quair,” and Fantasy as Adaptation 

Lotte Reinbold, Univ. of Cambridge 


The Legacy of The Cult of Saint Swithun: In Honor of Michael Lapidge 

Organizer: Jennifer Lorden, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Justin G. Park, 

Yale Univ.; Erica Weaver, Harvard Univ. 

Presider: Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Saint Swithun’s Healing Miracles and Medical Practice in Winchester 

Rebecca Stephenson, Univ. College Dublin 

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Uncertain Judgment: Rethinking the Ordeal in Lantfred’s Translatio et miracula 

s. Swithuni 

Andrew Rabin, Univ. of Louisville 

The Life of Saint Swithun in William Caxton’s Golden Legend 

Judy Ann Ford, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce 


In Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens II: Signs of Patronage in Medieval Manuscripts 

Sponsor: Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ. 

Organizer: Jessica Savage, Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ.; Judith 

Golden, Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ. 

Presider: M. Alison Stones, Univ. of Pittsburgh 

How Owner Portraits Work 

Maeve Doyle, Bryn Mawr College 

The Patroness Portrait of the Fécamp Psalter (ca. 1180): An Unknown Example of 

Royal Artistic Commission in Angevin Normandy 

Jesús Rodríguez Viejo, Univ. of Edinburgh 

Patron Portrait as Creation Myth: On “Production Scenes” in Illuminated Manuscripts 

Shannon L. Wearing, Univ. of California–Irvine 


Honoring Joel Rosenthal II: Those Who Work 

Sponsor: Medieval Prosopography 

Organizer: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg Univ.; Caroline Barron, Royal 

Holloway, Univ. of London 

Presider: Charlotte Newman Goldy, Miami Univ. of Ohio 

Laboratores as Serfs in Anglo-Saxon England 

Paul R. Hyams, Cornell Univ./Univ. of Oxford 

Why Did the Knight, the Prioress, and the Ploughman Stay at the Tabard? The 

Rise of Inns in Chaucer’s England 

Martha Carlin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee 

The 1450 Purge of the English Royal Household 

A. Compton Reeves, Ohio Univ. 

Respondent: Joel T. Rosenthal, Stony Brook Univ. 

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Posthuman Piers 

Sponsor: International Piers Plowman Society; Medieval Ecocriticisms 

Organizer: William Rhodes, Univ. of Pittsburgh 

Presider: William Rhodes 

How Should a Personification Be 

Alexis Kellner Becker, Univ. of Chicago 

Edible Characters in Piers Plowman 

Sarah Wood, Univ. of Warwick; Michael Calabrese, California State Univ.–Los 

Angeles 

The Will, The Flesh, and Langland’s Biopolitics 

Matthew Brown, Texas Woman’s Univ. 


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Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean II: Readers 

Sponsor: CU Mediterranean Studies Group 

Organizer: Núria Silleras-Fernández, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Presider: Núria Silleras-Fernández 

Reading Petrarch’s Triumphs across the Medieval Mediterranean 

Leonardo Francalanci, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Corbaccio’s Ambiguity and Parody in Bernat Metge’s Lo somni 

Pau Cañigueral Batllosera, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Reading, Copying, and Translating the Hebrew Sefer Josippon in Renaissance Italy 

Nadia Zeldes, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev 



Medievalism and Immigration II 



Presider: Elizabeth Wawrzyniak, Marquette Univ. 

Medievalism, Brexit, and the Myth of Nations 

Andrew B. R. Elliott, Univ. of Lincoln 

“I’m 20% Viking”: Englishness, Immigration, and the Public Reception of Historical 

DNA 

Michael Evans, Delta College 


Asceticism and Philosophy in Medieval Asia Minor and Central and South Eastern 

Europe 

Sponsor: Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality of 

New York 

Organizer: Theodor Damian, Metropolitan College of New York 

Presider: Daniela Anghel, Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology 

and Spirituality of New York 

Interdisciplinary Endeavors in Gregory of Nazianzus’s Poetry 

Theodor Damian 

The Ascetic Agenda of Nilus of Ancyra 

Clair McPherson, General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church 

Radical Incarnation: The Body in the Hesychast Tradition 

Alina N. Feld, General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church 

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Older Scots: Texts and Transmission 

Sponsor: Scottish Text Society 

Organizer: Nicola Royan, Univ. of Nottingham 

Presider: Tim Machan, Univ. of Notre Dame 

“Quhat awnteris þat thare befell”: Printing Sir Eglamour in Scotland 

Mimi Ensley, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presenting Older Scots in the Twenty-First Century 

Nicola Royan 

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Stigmata: Bloody Wounds That Matter II 


Organizer: Catherine Mooney, Boston College 

Presider: Catherine Mooney 

Who Could Bear the Stigmata? Some Late Medieval Views 

Carolyn Muessig, Univ. of Bristol 

The Stigmata of Blessed Helen of Hungary (d. ca. 1241): A Late Medieval Invention? 

Gabor Klaniczay, Central European Univ. 

Imitation and Feeling: Sorrow and Compassion in the Stigmata of Elizabeth of 

Spalbeek 

Mary Anne Gonzales, Univ. of Guelph 

Respondent: Lezlie Knox, Marquette Univ. 


Interpersonal Affairs 


Organizer: Rachel E. Hile, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne; 

Susannah B. Monta, Univ. of Notre Dame; Jennifer Vaught, 

Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

Presider: William A. Oram, Smith College 

“That lothly uncouth sight / Of men disguiz’d in womanishe attire”: The Gender, 

Politics, and Justice of Spenser’s Loathly Ladies 

Megan Herrold, Univ. of Southern California 

On Not Plucking Out the Heart of Amoret’s Mystery: Epistemological Graciousness 

and Interpersonal Knowledge in the House of Busirane 

Brad Tuggle, Univ. of Alabama 

Five Familiar Letters: The Harvey-Spenser Correspondence 

Joseph Loewenstein, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

Closing Remarks 

David Lee Miller, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia 


The Faith in One’s Food: Food as an Aspect of Religious Proselytization and Polemic 

Sponsor: Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle 

Ages 


Presider: Natalie E. Latteri, Univ. of New Mexico 

The Meals and Manipulation of Margery Kempe 

Katherine Gubbels, Memphis College of Art 

The Problem with Pork: Anxiety and Consumption in Medieval Spain 

Martha M. Daas, Old Dominion Univ. 

Food and Religious Identity in Early Yiddish Epic 

Margot B. Valles, Michigan State Univ. 

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Trading with Infidels: Legal Approaches to Interfaith Commerce 

Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America 

Organizer: Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt Univ.; Sara Lipton, Stony Brook Univ. 

Presider: Leor Halevi 

Trading on Identity: Geniza Merchants and the Law 

Jessica Goldberg, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

Beyond Trade and Crusade: Venetian and Genoese Perspectives toward Trade with 

the Infidel 

Stefan Stantchev, Arizona State Univ. 

The Iberian Paradox: Trade with Muslims and Legal Fluctuations from the Mediterranean 

to the Atlantic (Fourteenth–Fifteenth Century) 

Giuseppe Marcocci, Univ. degli Studi di Tuscia 


For the Love of Linguistics and Literature: Papers on the Medieval Period 

Sponsor: Society for Medieval Languages and Linguistics 

Organizer: Andrew C. Troup, California State Univ.–Bakersfield 

Presider: Paul A. Johnston, Jr., Western Michigan Univ. 

Beowulf and Judith: Utilization of Umlaut among Translations and Folios 

Jeanette Jacobsen, Leupp Schools 

The Old English Digraph and Its Sound Correspondences: Using Early Middle 

English Texts as Evidence 

Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden, Univ. i Oslo 

“My lover: do I dare call you so?”: Narrative Implicatures in An Orison of Our Lord 

Margaret Hostetler, Univ. of Wisconsin–Oshkosh 

Word-Foot Iambic Meter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Geoffrey Richard Russom, Brown Univ. 


Hell Studies: Hellish Remixes 

Sponsor: Societas Daemonetica 

Organizer: Richard Ford Burley, Boston College 

Presider: Nicole Ford Burley, Boston Univ. 

Sympathetic Satan Before Milton Remix: The Characterization of Satan and the 

Harrowing of Hell in Christ and Satan and York Corpus Christi Plays 

Alexis M. Milmine, Texas Tech Univ. 

Upon the Wicked Stage: The Devil in English Drama From the Medieval Period 

to Modernity 

Laura Elizabeth Rice, HIDden Theatre 

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The Undead Shoemaker: Confessional Conflict and the Afterlife in Breslau, 1591 

Donald Fleming, Kent State Univ. 


Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity 

Sponsor: International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies 

Organizer: Pozzi Escot, New England Conservatory 

Presider: Conrad Herold, Hofstra Univ. 

Possible Compositional Processes in the Works of Hildegard von Bingen 

Charles Tarver, Independent Scholar 

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The Untempered Voice: Structural Functions in the Music of Hildegard von Bingen 

Revealed by Unequal Temperaments 

Matthew McConnell, First Baptist Church of North Adams 

Hildegard in the Twenty-First Century: A Musical Essay Honoring Hildegard 

Amy Hendrikson, Independent Scholar 

“God has arranged all things in the world in consideration of everything else,” 

Hildegard von Bingen 

Shanon Sterringer, St. Anthony of Padua Church 


Topics in the Economic History of the Late Middle Ages 

Presider: David Sorenson, Allen G. Berman, Numismatist 

Pepo degli Albizzi and the Wool Market in Fourteenth-Century Florence: Registers 

of An Original Unedited and Unpublished Secret Diary 

Lorenzo Schiavetta, Illinois State Univ. 

Tuccio di Gennaio’s Wool Accounts: Double-Entry Book-Keeping and Triple-Entry 

Commodity Accounting for Wool Acquisition in San Matteo, 1397–1399 

Eleanor A. Congdon, Youngstown State Univ. 

Mysticeti Mysteries Uncovered: The Use of Whale Baleen in Paris at the Turn of 

the Sixteenth Century 

Katherine Baker, Arkansas State Univ. 


Access and the Academy (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: BABEL Working Group 

Organizer: Robin Norris, Carleton Univ. 

Presider: Richard H. Godden, Loyola Univ. New Orleans 

The “Diagnosis” of Pregnancy and Academic Anxiety 

Mary Rambaran-Olm, Univ. of Glasgow 

Re-visualizing Medieval Studies 

Anessa Kemna, St. Louis Univ. 

Teaching and Access 

Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ. 

How to Use Content Warnings 

Kaitlin Heller, Syracuse Univ. 

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Teaching Monasticism (A Panel Discussion) 

Sponsor: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan 

Univ. 

Organizer: Susan M. B. Steuer, Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, 


Presider: Stefano Mula, Middlebury College 

A panel discussion with Virginia Blanton, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City; Rabia 

Gregory, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia; Colleen Maura McGrane, OSB, Benedictine 

Sisters of Perpetual Adoration; Alcuin Schachenmayr, Pontifical Athenaeum Benedict 

XVI. Heiligenkreuz; and Judith Sutera, OSB, Mount St. Scholastica. 


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Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA): A Hands-On Workshop 

Sponsor: Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) 

Organizer: Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State Univ. 

Presider: Dorothy Carr Porter, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

This workshop demonstrates basic MESA functionalities, discusses how to federate 

projects within MESA, and practices using MESA for research and pedagogical 

purposes. No previous experience or technical expertise is required. Participants are 



Friday evening 


Evening Events 

5:00 p.m. WINE HOUR Valley III 

Reception with hosted bar in honor of Harrison 301 

the winner of the twenty-first Otto Eldridge 310 

Gründler Book Prize 

5:00 p.m. Univ. of Aberdeen Valley I 

Reception 

Shilling Lounge 

5:00 p.m. BABEL Working Group; Material Bernhard 

Collective 

President’s 


Dining Room 

5:15 p.m. Society for the Study of Valley II 

Disability in the Middle Ages LeFevre Lounge 


5:15 p.m. Medieval Ireland Reception Fetzer 1005 

Sponsored by the American Society 

of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) 

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5:15 p.m. Medieval Association of Place and Fetzer 1030 

Space (MAPS) 


5:15 p.m. Medieval and Renaissance Drama Fetzer 1060 

Society (MRDS) 


5:15 p.m. Medica: The Society for the Study Fetzer 2030 

of Healing in the Middle Ages 


5:15 p.m. Research Group on Manuscript Bernhard G10 

Evidence; Index of Christian Art, 

Princeton Univ. 


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5:15 p.m. International Arthurian Society, Bernhard 210 



5:15 p.m. Franciscan Gathering Bernhard 211 

sponsored by the Franciscan Institute, 

St. Bonaventure Univ. 

5:15 p.m. 14th Century Society Bernhard 212 


5:15 p.m. Italian Art Society Bernhard 213 

Business Meeting and Reception with cash bar 

5:15 p.m. Vagantes Graduate Student Bernhard 215 

Conference 


5:30 p.m. Coptic Stitch Binding (A Hands-On Valley I 

Workshop) Ackley 104 

Sponsor: Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KBAC) 

Organizer: Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Katie Platte, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center 

This two-hour hands-on workshop, taught by the Kalamazoo 

Book Arts Center’s Studio Manager, Katie Platte, introduces 

participants to the traditional sewing technique known as Coptic 

stitch binding, which they use in creating a bound book. Space is 

limited, advance registration (to e.teviotdale@att.net) is required, 

and each participant pays a $10.00 materials fee. 

5:30 p.m. DISTAFF (Discussion, Interpretation, Fetzer 1035 

and Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics, and 

Fashion) 

Exhibition 

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A display of reproduction textile and dress items, handmade using 

medieval methods and materials. Items will include textiles, decorative 

treatments, garments, dress accessories, and more. Exhibitors 

will demonstrate techniques and be available to discuss the use of 

historic evidence in reproducing artifacts of material culture. 

5:30 p.m. AVISTA: The Association Villard de Fetzer 2020 

Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary 

Study of Medieval Technology, Science, 

and Art 



5:30 p.m. UNICORN Virtual Museum of Bernhard 107 

Medieval Studies and Medievalism 


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5:30 p.m. International Alain Chartier Society; Bernhard 209 

Fifteenth-Century French Studies 


6:00 p.m. Center for Medieval Studies, Fetzer 2016 

Fordham Univ. 


6:30 p.m. Ibero-Medieval Association of North Fetzer lobby 

America (IMANA) 



6:30 p.m. Manuscripts to Materials Bernhard 208 

Sponsor: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; 

Societas Magica 

Organizer: David Porreca, Univ. of Waterloo 

Presider: Jason Roberts, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Practical Magic: Making Magical Artifacts and Using Them 

Frank Klaassen, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

Responses: Claire Fanger, Rice Univ.; David Porreca; Marla 

Segol, Univ. at Buffalo 

6:30 p.m. International Center of Medieval Bernhard 

Art (ICMA) Student Committee Brown & Gold 


Room 

7:30 p.m. Performing Malory: Palomydes the Valley III 

Sarasyn 


Organizer: Alison Harper, Univ. of Rochester 

Presider: Steffi Delcourt, Univ. of Rochester 

A readers’ theater performance with Kara Larson Maloney, Binghamton 

Univ.; Carolyn F. Scott, National Cheng Kung Univ.; 

Kimberly Jack, Athens State Univ.; Patricia V. Lehman, Siena 

Heights Univ.; John Lowell Leland, Salem International Univ.; 

Bernard Lewis, Murray State Univ.; Derek Shank, Independent 

Scholar; Paul R. Thomas, Brigham Young Univ.; Kyle Huskin, 

Univ. of Rochester; Rebecca D. Fox, Western Michigan Univ.; 

Anna E. Goodling, Independent Scholar; Emily Lowman, Univ. 

of Rochester; Marjorie Harrington, Univ. of Notre Dame. 

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7:30 p.m. Ibero-Medieval Association of North Fetzer 1055 

America (IMANA) 

Dinner (by invitation) 

8:00 p.m. Esmoreit & Lippijn Gilmore Theatre 


Complex 


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In new translations by Mandy L. Albert, and directed by Festival 

founder Lofty Durham, this double bill features a contemporary 

reimagining of a pair of plays from the fifteenth-century Middle 

Dutch Van Hulthem manuscript. In Esmoreit, an evil villain and a 

dreadful prophecy lead to a baby’s kidnap and a happy ending . . . in 

Lippijn, someone gets a happy ending, but it’s not the husband . . . 

8:00 p.m. International Sidney Society Fetzer 1060 


8:00 p.m. Societas Magica Bernhard 208 


8:00 p.m. International Center of Medieval Bernhard 

Art (ICMA) 

Brown & Gold 


Room 

8:00 p.m. Early Medieval Europe Bernhard 


President’s 

Dining Room 

8:30 p.m. Early Book Society Fetzer 2030 


9:00 p.m. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press Valley III 


9:00 p.m. Brill Academic Publishers Valley III 

Reception with hosted bar Eldridge 310 

9:00 p.m. Centre for Medieval and Early Fetzer 2016 

Modern Studies, Univ. of Kent 


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9:00 p.m. Hill Museum & Manuscript Fetzer 2020 

Library (HMML) 


9:30 p.m. A Hands-On Introduction to Astrolabes: Valley III 

Calculating Traditional Prayer Times in Eldridge 309 

the Christian Monastery (A Workshop) 


Organizer: Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ. 

Presider: Kristine Larsen 

A hands-on workshop on the use of a medieval astrolabe to 

calculate the Christian monastery’s traditional times of prayer. 

The first 50 participants will receive a cardboard astrolabe that 

can be taken home. 

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Saturday, May 13 



8:00–10:30 a.m. COFFEE SERVICE Bernhard Center 

8:30 a.m. Plenary Lecture II Bernhard 

Sponsored by the Medieval Institute, East Ballroom 


Presider: Jana K. Schulman, Western 


Saturday 10:00 a.m. 

College of Arts and Sciences Welcome 

Presentation of the 2017 La corónica Book Award 

Acknowledgement of the 2017 Congress, Edwards, 

Gründler, Karrer, and Tashjian Travel Award Winners 

The Donkey and the Boat: Rethinking Mediterrannean 

Economic Expansion in the Eleventh Century 

Chris Wickham, Univ. of Oxford 



10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 



The Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric 

Sponsor: Medieval-Renaissance Faculty Workshop, Univ. of Louisville 

Organizer: Joseph Turner, Univ. of Louisville 

Presider: Andrew Rabin, Univ. Of Louisville 

Cicero’s De oratore and Orator in Medieval England 

Morris Tichenor, Univ. of Toronto 

Personification and Purgation in Skelton’s The Bowge of the Court 

Evan Cheney, Univ. of Virginia 

“Augustine, tace!”: Quieting Augustine in Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Poetria nova 

Joseph Turner 

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In Honor of Constance H. Berman I: Old Sources, New Histories (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Medieval Foremothers Society 

Organizer: Erin L. Jordan, Old Dominion Univ. 

Presider: Erin L. Jordan 

Women, Wealth, and Marriage 

Barbara A. Hanawalt, Ohio State Univ. 

Foremothers Obscured: When Chronicle and Charter Diverge 

Jeffrey A. Bowman, Kenyon College 

Women, Men, and Medieval Monasticism 

Sherri Franks Johnson, Louisiana State Univ. 

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Connie Berman’s Cistercian Contribution 

Brian Patrick McGuire, Independent Scholar 

The Use of Episcopal Visitation Records for the Study of Gender, Sexuality, and 

Social History 

Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Univ. of Texas–El Paso 


Piers Plowman and Disability 

Sponsor: International Piers Plowman Society 

Organizer: Curtis Gruenler, Hope College 

Presider: Curtis Gruenler 

Intersections of Disability and Sin in Piers Plowman 

Dana Roders, Purdue Univ. 

Must I Here-Wel to Do-Wel? Sensory Impairments in Piers Plowman 

Laura Godfrey, Univ. of Connecticut 

Dismodern Will 

Richard H. Godden, Loyola Univ. New Orleans 


The Syndergaard Sessions I: Ballads: Borders and Border-Crossings 

Sponsor: Kommission für Volksdichtung 

Organizer: Richard Firth Green, Ohio State Univ. 

Presider: Richard Firth Green 

Bounded by Speech: The Definition of Topography in Ballad Romance 

Andrew Richmond, Ohio State Univ. 

Tristel-tree and Bracken-bush: Imaginary Greenwoods in Border Ballads 

Marybeth Ruether-Wu, Cornell Univ. 

A Game of Crows: Poe, Plagiarism, and the Ballad Tradition 

Jennifer Wollock, Texas A&M Univ. 


Thomas Aquinas I 

Sponsor: Thomas Aquinas Society 

Organizer: John F. Boyle, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota 

Presider: Paul Jerome Keller, OP, Athenaeum of Ohio 

On the Separated Soul according to Saint Thomas Aquinas 

Melissa Eitenmiller, Dominican House of Studies 

The Purpose and Meaning of “Objections” in the Summa theologiae 

Eric M. Johnston, Seton Hall Univ. 

τό τί ήν είναι in Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics 

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Edward M. Macierowski, Benedictine College 


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“Eald enta geweorc”: Tolkien and the Classical Tradition 

Sponsor: Dept. of Religious Studies and Philosophy, The Hill School 

Organizer: John Wm. Houghton, Hill School 

Presider: John Wm. Houghton 

The “Other” Classicism: Tolkien, Homer, and the Greek Novel 

John R. Holmes, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville 

The Winnowing Oar: Odysseus, Frodo, and the Search for Peace 

Victoria Holtz Wodzak, Viterbo Univ. 

The Politics of Tragedy: Plato’s Athenian Atlantis, Tolkien’s Númenorian Atalantë, 

and the Nazi Reich 

Joshua Hren, George Fox Univ. 

J. R. R. Tolkien and Plato’s Timaeus 

Christopher T. Vaccaro, Univ. of Vermont 


Exile and Arcadia: Space and Sovereignty 

Organizer: Will Eggers, Loomis Chaffee School 

Presider: John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ. 

Woods Free from Peril: Exile and Utopia in Shakespeare’s As You Like It 

John Morrell, Loomis Chaffee School 

Devil Dogs and Hobby Horses: Ritual and Community in The Witch of Edmonton 

Jane Wanninger, Bard College at Simon’s Rock 

Early English Exclusion, Exile, and the Other 

Will Eggers 

350 FETZER 1005 

The Poetics of Rage: Gender, Anger, Form (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Dept. of English, Temple Univ. 

Organizer: Carissa M. Harris, Temple Univ.; Sarah Baechle, Univ. of 

Notre Dame 

Presider: Marjorie A. Housley, Univ. of Notre Dame 

“Ides Aglaecwif ”: A New Perspective on Gender Relations through the Reading of 

Women’s Anger in Anglo-Saxon Texts 

Natalie M. Whitaker, St. Louis Univ. 

Affective Anatomies: The Angry Womb in Late Medieval Thought 

Samantha Katz Seal, Univ. of New Hampshire 

Prudence’s “Semblant of Wratthe” and the Limits of Chaucer’s Feminism 

Paul Megna, Univ. of Western Australia 

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Anger in the Alehouse: Gendered Community, Genre, and Protest in the “Good 

Gossips” Carols 

Carissa M. Harris 

The Letters of Margherita Datini and the Use of Anger as an Expression of Power 

Nicole McLean, Univ. of Maryland 

That’s (Not) Funny: Medieval Laughter, Modern Rage 

Tara Mendola, Independent Scholar 

What Does It Mean to Be an Angry Activist Scholar? 

Dorothy Kim, Vassar College 

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351 FETZER 1010 

Warfare in the Middle Ages 

Sponsor: De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History 

Organizer: Valerie Eads, School of Visual Arts 

Presider: Peter Konieczny, Medievalists.net/Medieval Warfare 

Papal War and Diplomacy on the Eve of the Council of Constance 

Sharon Dale, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Erie, The Behrend College 

The Woman Warrior Revisited: A Bechdel Test for Medieval Military History 

Valerie Eads 

The Italian Wars and the Military Revolutio 

Jay Roberts, Accelerated Schools of Overland Park 

Tactics and Topography at the Battle of Poitiers, 1356 

Clifford J. Rogers, United States Military Academy, West Point 

352 FETZER 1040 

Memory and Memory Aids in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Writing 


Univ. 

Organizer: Marvin Döbler, Ev. -luth. Landeskirche Hannovers 

Presider: Elias Dietz, OCSO, Abbey of Gethsemani 

Memory and Mnemonic Devices in Bernard of Clairvaux’s and Aelred of Rievaulx’s 

Sermons 

Marvin Döbler 

The Formation of Historical Memory in the Works of Aelred of Rievaulx 

Marsha L. Dutton, Ohio Univ.; Marjory Lange, Western Oregon Univ. 

Multiformi Disponens Distinctione: Rhetorical Structure and Mnemonic Devices 

in Thomas the Cistercian’s Commentary on the Canticle 

Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Georg-August-Univ. Göttingen 

353 FETZER 1045 

Monsters I: Material Monsters 

Sponsor: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of 

Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application 

(MEARCSTAPA); Societas Daemonetica 

Organizer: Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood Univ.; Ana Grinberg, East 

Tennessee State Univ.; Asa Simon Mittman, California State 

Univ.–Chico 

Presider: Ana Grinberg 

Saint Margaret and the Dragon: Representation and Ritual at Chartres Cathedral 

Ashley Laverock, Savannah College of Art and Design 

Framing an English King: The Function of Ambiguity and Monstrosity in the 

Treatise of Walter de Milemete (Christ Church MS 92) 

Caitlin DiMartino, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Material Monsters: Hides, Li Hisdeus, and Humans in Guillaume de Palerne 

Cassidy Thompson, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

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354 FETZER 1060 

Beyond Machaut: Other Fourteenth-Century French Literary and Musical Voices 

Sponsor: International Machaut Society 

Organizer: Jared C. Hartt, Oberlin Conservatory of Music 

Presider: Benjamin Albritton, Stanford Univ. 

What to Do with Philippe de Vitry’s Chapel de trois fleurs de lis 

Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale Univ. 

Talking Statues, from Deguileville to Machaut 

Julie Singer, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

Machaut in Theory: A (Somewhat) New Witness to the Libellus cantus mensurabilis 

Karen M. Cook, Hartt School, Univ. of Hartford 


355 FETZER 2016 

Reading Magic West to East 


Organizer: Jason Roberts, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Presider: Claire Fanger, Rice Univ. 

Eastern Magic in a Western Home: The Influence of Iberian Translated Ghāyat 

al-Hakīm on a Fictional Necromancer 

Veronica Menaldi, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

East to West to East: Reading the Arabic Alchemical Tradition in Late Medieval 

Cracow 

Agnieszka Rec, Chemical Heritage Foundation 

“Let Them Desiste from Hellenic Devilries”: The Specter of Greek Paganism in 

the Anti-Magic Theology of the Russian Orthodox Stoglav 

Jason Roberts 

356 FETZER 2020 

A Feminist Renaissance in Anglo-Saxon Studies II 

Organizer: Rebecca Stephenson; Univ. College Dublin; Robin Norris, 

Carleton Univ.; Renée R. Trilling, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana- 

Champaign 

Presider: Rebecca Stephenson 

The Birds and the Bedes: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Bede’s De cantica canticorum 

and Historia ecclesiastica 

Erik Wade, Rutgers Univ. 

Rewriting Virginity in Aldhelm and the Old English Judith 

Jill M. Fitzgerald, United States Naval Academy 

Chaste Bodies and Virgin History: Bede, Æthelthryth, and the Implications of 

Anglo-Saxon Virginity 

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Lisa M. C. Weston, California State Univ.–Fresno 

357 FETZER 2030 

Texts of the Exeter and Vercelli Books 

Presider: Megan Arnott, Western Michigan Univ. 

Silences that Speak: The Effect of Manuscript Damage on Editions and Translations 

of Old English Poetry 

Rachel Hanks, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Abandonment and Promises: The Progression of Female Lyric Agency from 

Heroides X to The Wife’s Lament 

Graham O’Toole, Univ. of Connecticut 

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Teaching Women?: Two Case Studies from the Vercelli Book 

Rebecca Hardie, Georg-August-Univ.-Göttingen 

Grace as Divinely Given Wisdom in the Old English Elene 

Melissa Mayus, Western Michigan Univ. 

358 FETZER 2040 

Malory’s Morte Darthur II 

Presider: Gania Barlow, Oakland Univ. 

Fate, Justice, and Agency in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur 

Karen Hynes, Acadia Univ. 

Sir Thomas Malory, Theologian? Theology of the Eucharist in the Grail Quest 

Paul R. Rovang, Edinboro Univ. 

“Ought he of right to be so good a knyght?”: Genealogy and Epistemology in 

“The Tale of the Sankgreal” 

David Smigen-Rothkopf, Fordham Univ. 


Chaucer’s Voices III: Anglocentric versus Eurocentric 



Presider: Susanna Fein 

The Pardoner’s Trip to Rome, City of Relics, Indulgences, and Powerful Images 

Mary Dzon, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

How to Die like a Saint: Modeling Holy Death for Wives in The Clerk’s Tale 

Heidi Frame, Kent State Univ. 

Harry Bailey and the Fantasy of the Foreign Wife 

Lynn Shutters, Colorado State Univ. 

The Wife of Bath and Boethius 

Charles Wuest, Averett Univ. 


Medieval Drama: Beyond Genres: Alan Knight in Memoriam 


Organizer: Robert Clark, Kansas State Univ. 

Presider: Robert Clark 

Openness to Comedy 

Jody Enders, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara 

Genre Trouble: “Medieval Genres” in the Later Renaissance 

Mario B. Longtin, Western Univ. 

Un Spectacle à Risque: The Mystère de saint Martin and Its Farce 

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Noah D. Guynn, Univ. of California–Davis 


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In Memory of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams I: Community Building in the Middle Ages 

Sponsor: Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) 

Organizer: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M Univ.; Lane J. Sobehrad, 

Texas Tech Univ. 

Presider: Lane J. Sobehrad 

Muhammad’s Catechism and the Monk Bahira in William of Tripoli’s Notita de 

Machometo and De statu Sarrecenorum: A Dominican in the Latin East’s Peculiar 

Life of the Prophet 

Jeremy D. Pearson, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

Tropes That Last: Giraldus Cambrensis and Literary Constructions of Wales 

Sarah Jane Sprouse, Texas Tech Univ. 

Communities in Learning: Augustine, the Bishop, and Early Augustinian Houses 

Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate Univ. 


Painting in Dugento and Trecento Italy 

Presider: Gilbert Jones, Italian Art Society 

The Painted Panel Crucifixes of the Early Franciscans as a Response to the Cathar 

Heresy 

Rebecca Hertling Ruppar, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

Augustinians as Patrons and Saint Augustine as Their Patron in Their Early Manuscript 

Art 

Krisztina Ilko, Univ. of Cambridge 

Rothko’s Giotto 

Stephen Watson, Univ. of Notre Dame 


Twelve Angry Carolingians I: Anger Management 

Sponsor: SFB Visions of Community (VISCOM), FWF F42 

Organizer: Rutger Kramer, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische 

Akademie der Wissenschaften; Cullen Chandler, Lycoming College 

Presider: Cullen Chandler 

With Enemies Like These . . .: Benedict of Aniane, Adalhard of Corbie and the 

Perils of Contentio 

Rutger Kramer 

Sticks and Stones and Undertones: Florus of Lyon’s Strategic Abuse of Amalarius 

of Metz 

Irene van Renswoude, Huygens ING 

Haimo of Auxerre: The Anger of an Exegete 

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Thomas A. Greene, Texas A&M Univ.–San Antonio 


Gender at the Borders of Christendom 

Sponsor: Center for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Organizer: Devon R. Bealke, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Presider: Oren Falk, Cornell Univ. 

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the King: Synthesis, Paradox, and 

Cultural Integration in Late Viking Age Kingship, ca. 990–1050 

Devon R. Bealke 

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Christian Women as Occupying Forces in the Thirteenth-Century Book of Deeds 

of James I of Aragon 

Emma Snowden, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Not Transvestite, But Transgender: Early Byzantine Narratives of Transmen 

Catherine Burris, Univ. of Central Missouri 

Morphia’s Daughters: Matrilineal Social Ties in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem and 

Antioch 

K. A. Tuley, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 


Ibero-Romance Languages before the Eleventh Century 

Sponsor: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS) 

Organizer: Pablo Pastrana-Pérez, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Hofstra Univ. 

Historia verdadera de los orígenes del español: Desenfoque y mitos 

Francisco A. Marcos-Marín, Univ. of Texas–San Antonio 

El problema de la interpretación de las grafías medievales en el estudio de la 

lenición consonántica en castellano 

César Gutiérez, Univ. of Arkansas–Little Rock 

Los patrones sintácticos objeto + verbo y verbo + objeto en mil años de historia: 

De Plauto a la Iberia del siglo VIII 

Omar Velázquez-Mendoza, Univ. of Virginia 


Monumental Failures 

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student 

Committee 

Organizer: Dustin Aaron, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ. 

Presider: Katherine Werwie, Yale Univ. 

“What a nullity!”: Rejection, Decorum, and Historical Explanations in the Construction 

of San Juan de los Reyes (Toledo, Spain) in the Late Fifteenth, Seventeenth, 

and Twentieth Centuries 

Costanza Beltrami, Courtauld Institute of Art 

Representational Failure in the Cosmological Diagrams of the Breviari d’amor 

Joy Partridge, Graduate Center, CUNY 

Adoration and Erasure: The Cantigas de Santa Maria beyond Patronage 

Christopher T. Richards, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ. 

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The Medieval Past 

Presider: Geoffrey B. Elliott, Independent Scholar 

Thomas Jefferson and the Continuity of the Anglo-Saxon Past 

Michael Modarelli, Walsh Univ. 

The Compromised Chronotope of Christminster: Hardy and Hopkins’s Incarnate 

Past 

Christopher Adamson, Emory Univ. 

Fiction Turned Real: Edward William Lane’s Translations of The Thousand and 

One Nights 

Haythem Bastawy, Leeds Trinity Univ. 


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Royal Ritual and Representation 

Sponsor: Royal Studies Journal 

Organizer: Valerie Schutte, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Valerie Schutte 

La Belle Inconnue: Tomb Effigies, Mistaken Identities, and the Afterlives of the 

Medieval Dead 

Kavita Mudan Finn, Independent Scholar 

Princely Penance: Royal Art, Agency, and Appropriation in Fourteenth-Century 

Cyprus 

Stephen J. Lucey, Keene State College 



Christine and the Body 

Sponsor: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch 

Organizer: Benjamin M. Semple, Gonzaga Univ. 

Presider: Julia A. Nephew, Independent Scholar 

The Material Landscape of Knowledge in the Chemin de long estude 

Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Univ. of Toronto 

From Her Safekeeping, from Her Mind, from Her Heart, from Her Womb: Birthing 

Metaphors in Christine de Pizan’s Oeuvre 

Berkeley Becker, Univ. of Toledo 

Castrating Ovid: Christine de Pizan and the Reversal of Reproductive Violence 

Caitlin Rose Brenner, Texas A&M Univ. 


Urban Economies in the Fourteenth Century 

Sponsor: 14th Century Society 

Organizer: Debra A. Salata, Lincoln Memorial Univ. 

Presider: Marie D’Aguanno Ito, American Univ. 

Credit and Crisis: Catalan Jewish Women Moneylenders before and after the 

Black Death 

Sarah Ifft Decker, Yale Univ. 

The Seasonal Economic Patterns of a Mountain Town: Puigcerdà 1321–1322 

Elizabeth Comuzzi, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

Montpeller: A Mercantile Center in the Fourteenth Century 

Debra A. Salata 

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Dante in History 

Sponsor: Dante Society of America 

Organizer: Alison Cornish, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Presider: Catherine Adoyo, Independent Scholar 

Dante’s Exiles: Figures of Injustice or Figures of Hope? 

Laurence E. Hooper, Dartmouth College 

“The Whole Catastrophe”: Kinship and Tragic Transformation in the Commedia 

Philip F. O’Mara, Bridgewater College 

The Pope in Hell: Nicholas III 

Dabney Park, Univ. of Miami 

“A Mare Magnum for Adventure”: The Dante Studies of George Ticknor 

Kathleen Verduin, Hope College 

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Teaching Marie de France (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: International Marie de France Society 


Presider: Monica L. Wright, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

A roundtable discussion with Dorothy Gilbert, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Julie 

Human, Univ. of Kentucky; Ann McCullough, Middle Tennessee State Univ.; Tamara 

Bentley Caudill; Robin Hermann, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette; and Evelyn Birge 

Vitz, New York Univ. 


Making the English Book 

Sponsor: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ. 

Organizer: Raymond Clemens, Yale Univ.; Gina Marie Hurley, Yale Univ.; 

Alexandra Reider, Yale Univ. 

Presider: James Eric Ensley, Yale Univ. 

Making Chaucer in the “Un-English” Book 

Megan Behrend, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Making “Hebrew” in English Books 

Damian Fleming, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne 

Medical Books: The Case of Takamiya 46 and BL Additional 17866 

Jessica Henderson, Univ. of Toronto 

Twelfth-Century Form and the Autograph Manuscript of Richard of Devises 

Marisa Libbon, Bard College 


Late Medieval Anticlericalism as the Staging Ground of the Protestant Reformation 

Organizer: Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona 

Presider: Albrecht Classen 

Sola Fide in the Piers Plowman Tradition 

Martin Laidlaw, Univ. of Dundee 

The “Opus Arduum Valde”: An Anti-Clerical Commentary of the Apocalypse 

from the Late Fourteenth Century 

Christoph Galle, Phillips-Univ. Marburg 

A Heathen Martyr and Regrets about Dead Saracens: Description of and Reflections 

on Killing and Corpses in Wolfram’s Willehalm 

Magdalena Butz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München 

“Reddite ergo Quae Sunt Caesaris Caesari”: A Quotation from Matthew and Its 

Fate in Medieval Anticlerical Discourse 

Romedio Schmitz-Esser, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani 

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Art and Liturgical Performance in Medieval and Early Modern Nunneries 

Sponsor: Société d’Études Interdisciplinaires sur les Femmes au 

Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (SEIFMAR) 

Organizer: Mercedes Pérez Vidal, Univ. degli Studi di Padova 


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Presider: Fiona J. Griffiths, Stanford Univ. 

Praying in Catalan Clarissan Monasteries: Books and Regulations on Liturgy and 

Devotion (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Century) 

Araceli Rosillo-Luque, Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya 

The “Coro delle Monache” at Santa Maria di Monteluce in Perugia 

Julie Beckers, KU Leuven 

Recovering the Liturgical Books and Disjecta Membra from the Dominican Nunneries 

Northern Italy 

Mercedes Pérez Vidal 



Hagiography East and West 

Presider: Hope D. Williard, Univ. of Leeds/Univ. of Lincoln 

Experience-Taking in Medieval and Byzantine Saints’ Lives: A Prerogative of the 

Hagiographer 

Peter Schadler, College of Charleston 

Can the Basileus Be a Saint? The Ruler-Saint in Byzantium 

Jeff Brubaker, Univ. of Birmingham 

The Structure of Embedded Argumentation in Medieval Ethiopian Hagiography 

Felege-Selam Yirga, Ohio State Univ. 


The Eastern Mediterranean: History and Historical Texts 

Presider: Donald W. Wood, Independent Scholar 

Translating the Holy Land: Interpreters and Pilgrimage during the Crusader Period 

William S. Murrell, Vanderbilt Univ. 

Memory and Forgetting, Loss and Commemoration: The “Templar of Tyre” and 

the Fall of Acre, 1291 

Jesse W. Izzo, Independent Scholar 

Islamic Medieval Historiography: Al-Masudi’s Cultural History and Ibn Khaldun’s 

Social History 

Lillian Farhat, Independent Scholar 

A Medieval Islamic Model of Statecraft: Ibn Khaldun’s Image of Leadership and 

Authority in Classical Islam 

Mustafa Banister, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn 

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Material Religion in the Crusading World I: Communities of Devotion 

Organizer: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Carleton Univ.; William J. Purkis, Univ. 

of Birmingham 

Presider: Siobhain Bly Calkin 

Holy Episcopal Footwear(!), or, A Study of the (Lost) Sandal Reliquary of San 

Arderico di Palacio of Palencia (ca. 1125–1208) 

Kyle C. Lincoln, Kalamazoo College 

A Transforming Civic Landscape: Social Cohesion, Municipal Authority, and 

Urban Change in Frankish Jerusalem 

Anna Gutgarts, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem 

Material Devotion to the Cross in the Latin East, 1099–1187 

William J. Purkis 

Jerusalem Relics and the Feast of Relics in Late Medieval England 

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Julia Tomlinson, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 


New Research on the Disticha Catonis II 

Organizer: W. Martin Bloomer, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: Julia A. Schneider, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Misquoting Cato 

Serena Connolly, Rutgers Univ. 

The Distichs in Deventer 

Andrew J. M. Irving, Rijksuniv. Groningen 

The Disticha Catonis in the English Tradition 

Nicole Eddy, Medieval Institute Publications/Arc Humanities Press/Univ. of 

Notre Dame 

Erasmus and the Last Medieval Cato 

W. Martin Bloomer 


Women and the Bible in the Middle Ages 

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSB- 

MA) 

Organizer: James M. Matenaer, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville 

Presider: Franz van Liere, Calvin College 

Allegorical Matriarchs: Synagoga, Ecclesia, and Their Unusual Children in the 

Toledo Bible moralisée 

Sarah Andyshak, Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor 

Understanding the Book of Ruth in Medieval Christian Commentaries and Middle 

English Literature 

Jane Beal, Univ. of California–Davis 

Bravery and the Bible: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe’s Contributions to 

Evangelism 

Gail Blick, Independent Scholar 

Israel, Delilah, Jezebel, and Solomon’s Wives in Medieval Exegesis and Experience 

Natalie E. Latteri, Univ. of New Mexico 


Archaeology of the Medieval Iberian Peninsula: Another Way of Approaching 

Sponsor: Univ. Autónoma de Madrid 

Organizer: Fernando Valdés Fernández, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid 

Presider: Fernando Valdés Fernández 

Landscapes of Change in Toledo’s Region in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle 

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Ages (Sixth–Ninth Century): The Architecture Ensemble of “Los Hitos” 

Jorge Morín de Pablos, Audema, Archaeology Division, Univ. de Castilla–La 

Mancha; Jose Ramón González de la Cal, Escuela de Arquitectura de Toledo 

Pla de Nadal (Valencia, Spain): A New Architectonical Representation of Power in 

the Early Medieval Iberian Peninsula (Eighth Century) 

Isabel Sánchez Ramos, Institut d’études avancées de Paris 

Secondary Mosques in al-Andalus: The Case of Córdoba 

Carmen González Gutiérrez, Univ. de Córdoba 

The Islamic Influence in América: Hernán Cortés and His Capital 

Rodrigo O. Tirado Salazar, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid 



Devotional Luxury, Literary Necessity 

Sponsor: Harvard English Dept. Medieval Colloquium 

Organizer: Helen Cushman, Harvard Univ.; Erica Weaver, Harvard Univ. 

Presider: Anna Kelner, Harvard Univ. 

Un-Break My Heart: Metaphoric Luxury, Affect, and Performance in Devotional 

Lyrics 

Annika Pattenaude, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Gawain’s Social Piety and Green Garbage 

Casey Ireland, Univ. of Virginia 

Devotional Content and Manuscript Form: Material Metaphors and Aesthetic 

Status in the Katherine Group 

Jenny C. Bledsoe, Emory Univ. 

Forms of Luxury: Devotional Necessity in the Late Medieval Book of Hours 

Jessica Brantley, Yale Univ. 


Creating and Transforming the Image of Saints 

Sponsor: Dept. of Medieval Studies, Central European Univ. 

Organizer: Gerhard Jaritz, Central European Univ. 

Presider: Gerhard Jaritz 

Evolving Identities: The Connections between Royal Patronage of Dynastic 

Saints’ Cults and Secular Literature in the Twelfth Century 

Stephen Pow, Central European Univ. 


Transformations of a Saint: Saint Foy and Her Cults 

Kathleen Ashley, Univ. of Southern Maine 

Danish Saints as a Visual Weapon against the Lutherans: Wall Paintings from the 

Eve of the Reform 

Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen, Nationalmuseet 

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Material Lydgate 




Presider: Timothy R. Jordan 

“Wiche . . . I Fownde Depicte Ones on a Walle”: Translation in Lydgate’s Dance 

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of Death 

Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette Univ. 

Presentation Materials: Presentation Images and Readerly Authority in Lydgate’s 

Books 

Alaina Bupp 

What’s the Matter with Writing? Late Medieval Necromancy, Lydgate, and Digital 

Manuscripts 

Bridget Whearty, Binghamton Univ. 

Respondents: Lisa H. Cooper, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, and Andrea Denny- 

Brown, Univ. of California–Riverside 


1402: A Roundtable 

Organizer: 

R. D. Perry, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Lucas Wood, Indiana 

Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Fred Dulson, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Videmus nunc per speculum in enigmate: Jean Gerson’s Three Mirrors 

Daisy Delogu, Univ. of Chicago 

In Praise of Peace and the Limits of the Peaceable Kingdom 

Matthew W. Irvin, Sewanee: The Univ. of the South 

Hoccleve’s English Christine 

R. D. Perry 

Oaths, Plots, and the Memory of 1402 in England 

Spencer Strub, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Literary Debate and a Debate about Literature: The “Querelle du Roman de la rose” 

Helen J. Swift, St. Hilda’s College, Univ. of Oxford 

(Un)fortunate Isles: French Chivalry’s Canary Gamble 

Lucas Wood 


Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms I: Defining Barbarians 

Organizer: Jonathan J. Arnold, Univ. of Tulsa 

Presider: Jonathan J. Arnold 

Barbarians or Bandits? Ethnography and Empire in Rome’s Later Danubian 

Borderland 

Timothy C. Hart, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

The “Gothic Question”: Exploring a Sixth-Century Debate on the Legitimacy and 

Barbarity of Ostrogothic Italy 

Brian Swain, Kennesaw State Univ. 

Digging Up Barbarians in Nineteenth-Century France 

Bonnie Effros, Univ. of Florida 

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In a Word, Philology: Etymology, Lexicography, Semantics, and More in Germanic 

Organizer: Adam Oberlin, Atlanta International School 

Presider: Tina Boyer, Wake Forest Univ. 

A Medieval Gutnish Text? Language in the “Statues of St. Catherine’s Guild” 1443 

Seán D. Vrieland, Københavns Univ. 

Promiscuous Preverbal Ge-: The Old English Prefix as a Lexicographical and 

Semantic Problem 


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Thomas P. Klein, Idaho State Univ. 

Alliterative Anarchy, or, The (Un)fettered Formula 

Adam Oberlin 

Gersum: Old Norse Influence on Middle English Lexis 

Brittany Schorn, Univ. of Cambridge 



The Robert T. Farrell Lecture 



Presider: Brian Ó Broin, William Paterson Univ. 

Living on the Frontiers: Reassessing Fourth- and Fifth-Century Ireland 

Elva Johnston, Univ. College Dublin 

Creating the Irish and the English: Identity Formation in Early Medieval Ireland 

and Britain 

Patrick Wadden, Belmont Abbey College 

Respondent: James G. Schryver, Univ. of Minnesota–Morris 


Atmospheric Medievalisms/Medieval Atmospheres (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 

Organizer: Myra Seaman, College of Charleston 

Presider: Myra Seaman 

Anglo-Saxon Atmospheres 

Edward J. Christie, Georgia State Univ. 

The Water Subtext of The Book of the Duchess 

Brantley L. Bryant, Sonoma State Univ. 

An Atmosphere of Anxiety in Late Medieval English Drama 

Christina M. Fitzgerald, Univ. of Toledo 

The Air of Fiction 


Racialized Sound 

Molly Lewis, George Washington Univ. 

Airing Out the Senses 

Richard Newhauser, Arizona State Univ. 

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Medieval Bridesmaids: Wedding, Bedding, and Bad Behavior in Romance 


Organizer: Matthew O’Donnell, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Alison Langdon, Western Kentucky Univ. 

Love on the Battlefield: Interfaith Attraction and Conversion in Three Middle 

English Romances 

Elizabeth Melick, Kent State Univ. 

Marriage, Mimicry, and Murder: Unwilling Wives and Feminine Feigning in 

126

Bevis of Hampton 

Elizabeth A. Williamsen, Minnesota State Univ.–Mankato 

Lady Guinevere’s Lover: Bloody Sheets and Bloody Bedchambers in Malory’s 

Morte Darthur 

Matthew O’Donnell 


Sidneian Endings and Reinventions 

Sponsor: International Sidney Society 

Organizer: Nandra Perry, Texas A&M Univ. 

Presider: Brad Tuggle, Univ. of Alabama 

“Love Is Not Love”: A Lyric Exchange among Pembroke, Wroth, and Shakespeare 

Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois Univ.–Carbondale 

Endings and Reinventions in Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 

Ilona Bell, Williams College 

The Defense of Astrophil and Stella 

Roger Kuin, York Univ. 


Millennials and Medieval Studies (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Goliardic Society, Western Michigan Univ. 

Organizer: Maggie Myers, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Maggie Myers 

A roundtable discussion with Eric Gobel, Western Michigan Univ.; Caleb Molstad, Western 

Michigan Univ.; Karen Soto, Western Michigan Univ.; Jillian Patch, Western Michigan Univ. 


Fair Unknowns (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Arthuriana 

Organizer: Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue Univ./Arthuriana 

Presider: Dorsey Armstrong, 

What’s So Interesting About Fair Unknown Romances in Germanic Arthurian Literatures? 

Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma 

Rescued from the Archives: The Fair Unknown on CBS TV in 1951: Mr. I. Magination’s 

“Sir Gareth, Knight of the Round Table” 

Kevin J. Harty, La Salle Univ. 

Jay Gatsby as the Fair Unknown: Arthurian Resonances in Fitzgerald 

Christopher A. Snyder, Mississippi State Univ. 

(Dis)abling the Fair Unknown: Disability and Gender in Malory’s “Alexander the Orphan” 

Tory V. Pearman, Miami Univ. Hamilton 

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Natural Nobility and Fair Unknowns 

Ryan Naughton, Arizona State Univ. 




11:30 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. LUNCH Valley Dining Center 

11:30 a.m. UNICORN Virtual Museum of Bernhard 107 

Medieval Studies and Medievalism 


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11:45 a.m. Societas Magica Fetzer 1055 


Noon SALVI (Septentrionale Americanum Fetzer 1010 

Latinitatis Vivae Institutum): North 

American Institute for Living Latin 

Studies 


Noon International Marie de France Society Fetzer 1030 


Saturday lunchtime 

Noon International Machaut Society Fetzer 1035 


Noon Pearl-Poet Society Fetzer 1060 


Noon AVISTA: The Association Villard de Schneider 1125 

Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary 

Study of Medieval Technology, Science, 

and Art 


Noon Tolkien at Kalamazoo Bernhard 106 


Noon De Re Militari: The Society for Bernhard 210 

Medieval Military History 


Noon International Medieval Sermon Bernhard 

Studies Society 

Faculty Lounge 


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1:30 p.m. –3:00 p.m. 



The Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo I 

Organizer: Thomas Clemmons, Catholic Univ. of America 

Presider: Thomas Clemmons 

The Winding Road of Political Augustinism: Saint Augustine in the Carolingian 

128

Councils 

Michael Edward Moore, Univ. of Iowa 

Augustine’s De doctrina and Theological Method in Hugh of Saint-Victor 

Reginald M. Lynch, OP, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Lady Wisdom and Christology in Augustine and Peter Lombard 

Allison Zbicz Michael, Catholic Univ. of America 


Performances of Marie de France: Yonec 



Presider: Ed Ouellette, Air Univ. 

Performances with Simonetta Cochis, Transylvania Univ.; Yvonne LeBlanc, Independent 

Scholar; Walter A. Blue, Hamline Univ.; and Dorothy Gilbert, Univ. of California– 

Berkeley. 


Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms II: Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Matters 


Presider: Bonnie Effros, Univ. of Florida 

Barbarians and the Problem of Exile in Late Antiquity 

Samuel Cohen, Sonoma State Univ. 

Sacred Flesh and Christian Understanding of Christ in Merovingian Gaul 

A. E. T. McLaughlin, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Gregory of Tours and Augustinian Influence in Gaul 

Allen E. Jones, Troy Univ. 


Central Europe before Luther 

Sponsor: Center for Austrian Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Organizer: Jan Volek, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Presider: Jan Volek 

Seasons of Discontent: Moravia as a Battleground for Central European Supremacy 

Lisa Scott, Univ. of Chicago 

The Discipline of Thieves: Disputing the Observant Legacy before Luther 

Jamie McCandless, Kennesaw State Univ. 

Luther’s Relationship with Medieval Theology: The Case of Gabriel Biel 

Candace L. Kohli, Northwestern Univ. 

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Thomas Aquinas II 



Presider: Robert Barry, Providence College 

The Lost Meaning of “Inclinatio” in Aquinas’s Account of Natural Law 

Sean B. Cunningham, Catholic Univ. of America 

The Historicity of the Human Person in the Thomistic Treatises De statibus 

Mark K. Spencer, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota 

Teleology and the Good in Inanimate Nature 

Saturday 1:30 p.m. 

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Susan Waldstein, Ave Maria Univ. 



Reading Aloud the French of England (A Workshop) 

Organizer: Laurie Postlewate, Barnard College 

Presider: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham Univ. 

Le Voyage de saint Brandan by Benedeit 

Alice M. Colby-Hall, Cornell Univ. 

Estoire des Engleis by Gaimar 

Nicole Clifton, Northern Illinois Univ. 

La Lumere as Lais by Pierre d’Abernon of Fetcham 

Maureen B. M. Boulton, Univ. of Notre Dame 

La Vie du prince Noir by Chandos Herald 

D’Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton, Univ. of Notre Dame/Univ. of Toronto 


Conversions: Transformations in the Vices and Virtues in Late Medieval England 

Sponsor: Conversions: Medieval and Modern Working Group, Duke 

Univ. 

Organizer: Jessica Hines, Duke Univ. 

Presider: Amy N. Vines, Univ. of North Carolina–Greensboro 

Humility in The Showings of Julian of Norwich 

Grace Hamman, Duke Univ. 

Identifying Suffering: Changing Models of Compassion and Identification in 

Fifteenth-Century England 

Jessica Hines 

The Multi-Dialogic Grammar of Avarice in Book V of Gower’s Confessio amantis 

Jessica D. Ward, Univ. of North Carolina–Greensboro 

401 FETZER 1005 

Teaching Hoccleve (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: International Hoccleve Society 

Organizer: Danielle Bradley, Rutgers Univ. 

Presider: David Watt, Univ. of Manitoba 

A Pedagogical Gambit: Framing Hoccleve as the Anti-Chaucer 

Nicholas Myklebust, Regis Univ. 

Hoccleve and the Rehearsal of Emotion 

Stephanie Trigg, Univ. of Melbourne 

Hoccleve’s Hand 

William A. Quinn, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville 

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Teaching Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes in the Great Books Curriculum 

Elon Lang, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Teaching the Regiment in Various Contexts 

Siobhain Bly Calkin, Carleton Univ. 

402 FETZER 1010 

Tolkien and Language 

Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: Brad Eden, Valparaiso Univ. 

Presider: Brad Eden 

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“O’er the Moon, Below the Daylight”: Tolkien’s Blue Bee, Pliny, and the Kalevala 

Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ. 

Music: The One Language in Which the Noldor Were Not Fluent 

Eileen Marie Moore, Cleveland State Univ. 

Elvish Practitioners of the “Secret Vice” 

Andrew Higgins, Independent Scholar 

Tolkien and Constructed Languages 

Dean Easton, Independent Scholar 

403 FETZER 1040 

Pseudo-Bernard: The Writers, Works, and Readers 


Univ. 

Organizer: Ann W. Astell, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Presider: Ann W. Astell 

Major Questions in the Study of Pseudo-Bernard Works as Exemplified by the 

Instructio sacerdotalis and the Tractatus de statu virtutum 

Elias Dietz, OCSO, Abbey of Gethsemani 

On Pseudo-Bernard’s Tractatus de praecipuis mysteriis nostrae religionis 

Joshua Lim, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Pseudo-Bernard’s Tractatus de statu virtutum in Translation: Composition, Content, 

and “Bernardine” Themes 

Breanna J. Nickel, Univ. of Notre Dame 

404 FETZER 1045 

Career Diversity for Medievalists: Insights from outside the Academy (A Panel 

Discussion) 

Sponsor: 

CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, 

Medieval Academy of America) 

Organizer: Sarah Davis-Secord, Univ. of New Mexico 

Presider: Michael A. Ryan, Univ. of New Mexico 

A panel discussion with Suzann K. Gallagher, Naval Criminal Investigative Service; 

Kate Mertes, Mertes Editorial Services; Alyssa Nayyar, Independent Scholar; and 

Dayanna Knight, Viking Coloring Book Project. 

405 FETZER 1060 

Emerging Approaches: New Research in Machaut Studies 



Presider: Jared C. Hartt 

Queering Machaut: Sexual Poetics in the Voir Dit 

Charlie Samuelson, King’s College London 

The Dit dou Lyon Landscape Miniature in Ms. C: More Than Meets the Eye 

Margaret Goehring, New Mexico State Univ.–Las Cruces 

Machaut’s Poetic Destour as Theory 

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Anne-Hélène Miller, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 


406 FETZER 2016 

International Gower 

Sponsor: Gower Project 

Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Kim Zarins, California State Univ.–Sacramento 

Lyrical Gower: The Confessio amantis and the Dits amoureux 

Ricardo Matthews, Univ. of California–Irvine 

From Constance to M.I.A.: Linguistic Subjectivity and Cultural Identity 

Shyama Rajendran, George Washington Univ. 

Avoiding the False Profit: Gower and the International Business of Salvation 

Craig E. Bertolet, Auburn Univ. 

407 FETZER 2020 

In Memory of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams II: History Itself (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: International Joan of Arc Society/Société Internationale de 

l’étude de Jeanne d’Arc 

Organizer: Gail Orgelfinger, Univ. of Maryland–Baltimore County 

Presider: Gail Orgelfinger 

A roundtable discussion with Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland; Lane J. Sobehrad, 

Texas Tech Univ.; and Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue Univ./Arthuriana (“Dinner Parties in 

Latin: A Short Tribute to Jeremy duQuesnay Adams”). 

408 FETZER 2030 

Merovingians and Their Neighbors 

Sponsor: Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 

Organizer: Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College 

Presider: Heather M. Flowers, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

From the Desert Fathers to Columban Monasticism: Early Medieval Notions of 

Work, Sustenance, and Subsistence in Ireland and Merovingian Gaul 

Claire Adams, Harvard Univ. 

Saints’ Lives in Seventh-Century France and Ireland 

John Higgins, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Respondent: Deanna Forsman 

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409 FETZER 2040 

Literary, Artistic, and Cultural Approaches to Friendship in Late Medieval Iberia 

Sponsor: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA) 

Organizer: Sol Miguel Prendes, Wake Forest Univ. 

Presider: Sol Miguel Prendes 

Four Hispanic Examples of Friendship and Its European Correlatives: Libro de 

Alexandre, Libro de caballero Zifar, El Conde Lucanor, Celestina 

Adam Alberto Vázquez Cruz, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

Social Networks in Late Medieval Iberia: What Letters Tell Us about Writers and 

Their Readers 

Gemma Pellissa Prades, Independent Scholar 

132

Friends in Life and Death: Sociopolitical Status and Funerary Constructions in 

Fifteenth-Century Castile 

Holly Sims, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 


Maternity and Paternity: Theories of Authorship 

Sponsor: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) 

Organizer: Sarah Wilma Watson, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Elizaveta Strakhov, 

Marquette Univ. 

Presider: Elizaveta Strakhov 

Familial Reproduction in the Auchinleck: Maternity’s Response to Paternal Influence 

Kimberly Tate Anderson, Florida State Univ. 

Critical Mothers: Christine versus Margery 

Stephanie Downes, Univ. of Melbourne 

Father Chaucer’s Wise Children: Fifteenth-Century Poets and the Fictions of 

Patrilineal Descent 

Samantha Katz Seal, Univ. of New Hampshire 

“In thy wombe it wyll be swete”: Queer Production in Capgrave’s Life of Saint 

Katherine 

Caitlyn McLoughlin, Ohio State Univ. 


Records of Early English Drama, North-East 

Sponsor: Dept. of English Studies, Durham Univ. 

Organizer: Mark C. Chambers, Durham Univ. 

Presider: Alexandra Johnston, Records of Early English Drama 

“Lo, he merys; Lo, he laghys”: Humor and the Shepherds in the York and Towneley 

Plays 

Jamie Beckett, Durham Univ. 

Men of the Cloth and Men in Drag: Ecclesiastical Patronage of the “Other” in 

Late Medieval Durham 

Mark C. Chambers 

The Distinctiveness of Yorkshire West Riding Rushbearings 

Ted McGee, Univ. of Waterloo 

“I will speak as liberal as the North”: Performances in Northumberland 

Suzanne Westfall, Lafayette College 

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Medieval Sidekicks I 


Organizer: Melissa Filbeck, Texas A&M Univ. 

Presider: Melissa Filbeck 

Patronio: Paradigm of the Medieval Sidekick 

Paul E. Larson, Baylor Univ. 

Historicizing the “Magical Negro” Sidekick in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 

(1991) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) 

Samantha Chesters, Univ. of Houston 

Saintly Sidekicks in the South English Legendary 

Scott Kleinman, California State Univ.–Northridge 


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Latinitas Viva I: Poetria et Paedagogia: Medieval Latin Teaching and Teaching 

Medieval Latin 

Sponsor: 

Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study; SALVI (Septentrionale 

Americanum Latinitatis Vivae Institutum): North American 

Institute for Living Latin Studies 

Diane Warne Anderson, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston 

Organizer: 

Presider: Justin Slocum Bailey, Indwelling Language 

Mens sola loco non exulat: de exiliis ab Ovidio et Petrarca ad nostrae aetatis 

poetas argumentum 

Matthew M. McGowan, Fordham Univ. 

Tu lux, tu veritas, tu es . . . Palinurus? Doctrina Christiana, Inspiratio Classica et 

Virgilius in Phillipide Gulielmi Britonis 

Gregory P. Stringer, Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study/Burlington High 

School 

Carmina Paedagogica: Latin Poetry as “Comprehensible Input” in the Medieval 

and Modern Classroom 

Diane Warne Anderson 

O Tempora! O Mores! Challenges facing Medievalists in Understanding Latin 

Mark Pearsall, Glastonbury High School/Univ. of Connecticut 


Twelve Angry Carolingians II: Not Angry, Just Disappointed 




Presider: Martin A. Claussen, Univ. of San Francisco 

“Not Just Stultitia, but Outright Nequitia!”: Theodulf of Orléans and His Contemporaries 

on Stupidity 

Carine van Rhijn, Univ. Utrecht 

Debating Vanity: Alcuin’s Chastisements concerning Clothing 

Valerie L. Garver, Northern Illinois Univ. 

“For Priests Are Found to Be Insipid”: Hildemar of Corbie and the Corporal 

Punishment of Monastic Priests 

Maximilian McComb, Cornell Univ. 

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Monsters II: Immaterial Monsters 

Sponsor: Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of 


(MEARCSTAPA) 

Organizer: Richard Ford Burley, Boston College; Nicole Ford Burley, Boston 

Univ.; Asa Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico 

Presider: Richard Ford Burley 

Dead Poet’s Society: Didactic Hauntings in the Old French Dits of Watriquet de 

Couvin 

Stefanie Goyette, New York Univ. 

Taci, Maladetto Lupo! Quieting the Cursed Wolf of Pagan History in Dante’s Inferno 

Jim Miranda, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

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The Presence of the Immaterial: Intentional and Unintentional Cultural Resonances 

in the Ghost Stories of Caesarius of Heisterbach 

Stephanie Victoria Violette, Univ. of New Mexico 


Space and Limits in Aljamiado Literature 

Sponsor: Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, Univ. of Texas– 

El Paso 

Organizer: Matthew V. Desing, Univ. of Texas–El Paso 

Presider: Matthew V. Desing 

Imagined Space and Social Networks in Aljamiado Literature 

Robert Hultgren, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

From the Tormes Tanneries to the Puerta de Elvira: Celestina’s Morisca Daughters 

Andrea Nate, Truman State Univ. 

Art and Authority in the Poema de Yuçuf 

Andrea Pauw, Univ. of Virginia 

Endless Space and Infinite Darkness: Alexander the Great’s Quest for Immortality 

in the Rekontamiento del rey Alisandre 

Priya Ananth, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 


Dwelling in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape II: Life, Death, and Wellbeing 

Sponsor: Dept. of Archaeology, Durham Univ. 

Organizer: Sarah J. Semple, Durham Univ. 

Presider: Helen Foxhall Forbes, Durham Univ. 

Mortuary Topography and Landscape Perception in Early Medieval Southern 

England and the near Continent: A Multi-scalar Approach 

Kate Mees, Durham Univ. 

The Past and the Construction of Identity in the Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England 

Adam Goodfellow, Durham Univ. 

“Her Own Place . . . Still Remembered”: Goscelin’s Saintly Architects and the 

Anglo-Saxon Landscape 

Sarah Sutor, Univ. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign 


Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England I 


Organizer: Andrew Rabin, Univ. of Louisville 

Presider: Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Univ. Leiden 

The Literary Art of the Legal Preface from Æthelberht to Cnut 

Anya Adair, Yale Univ. 

Narratives of Resistance: Principled Dissent and the Political Subjects of the Old 

English Boethius 

Hilary E. Fox, Wayne State Univ. 

The Decalogue in Anglo-Saxon England: Alfred’s Laws and After 

Stefan Jurasinski, College at Brockport 

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Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives 

Sponsor: Anglo-Saxon Hagiography Society (ASHS) 

Organizer: Johanna Kramer, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia; Robin Norris, 

Carleton Univ. 

Presider: Johanna Kramer 

The Education of Andreas 

Megan Gilge, Independent Scholar 

Barley Loaves and the Beholders of the Lord: Preaching Apostolic Witness in 

Blickling XV and Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies I.26 

Kevin R. Kritsch, McNeese State Univ. 

Hagiography in Encyclopedic Notes 

Kees Dekker, Rijksuniv. Groningen 



Historiographical Perspectives on Christine de Pizan Scholarship 

Sponsor: International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch 

Organizer: Benjamin M. Semple, Gonzaga Univ. 

Presider: Benjamin M. Semple 

Christine Reads Women’s History: “Antiphrasis” in the Lamentations of “Math/eolus” 

Linda Burke, Elmhurst College 

Christine de Pizan and “Théologie Française” 

Margaret M. Gower, Loyola Marymount Univ. 

Historicization of Literature, or Literarization of History? Christine de Pizan in 

the Light of Contemporary Emotions Theory 

Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, Univ. of Vermont 


Space-Time Continuum and Medieval Manuscripts 

Sponsor: Manuscript Technologies Forum Interest Group, The English 

Association 

Organizer: Elaine M. Treharne, Stanford Univ. 

Presider: Benjamin Albritton, Stanford Univ. 

Medieval Manuscripts and Microfiche: The Ethics of Residual Media 

Matthew T. Hussey, Simon Fraser Univ. 

Interpreting the British History across Time: Trojan Genealogies in Welsh Manuscripts 

Georgia Henley, Harvard Univ. 

Conceptual Dimensions and Physical Realities as Structural Elements of Texts 

Thomas A. Bredehoft, Chancery Hill Books and Antiques 

Response: Dorothy Kim, Vassar College 

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Theology and Philosophy 



Presider: Laurence E. Hooper, Dartmouth College 

“And that bending is love”: Dante’s Exposition of Aristotle’s Desire 

Leonardo Chiarantini, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

“The Face That Most Resembles Christ”: The Matter Of Motherhood for Dante’s 

Holy Family 

Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Yale Univ. 

The Geometer’s Trinitary Ontology of Dante’s Terza Rima 

136

Catherine Adoyo, Independent Scholar 

Spherical Radiation, Astral Determinism, and Philosophical Happiness in Dante’s 

Convivium 

Roberto Casazza, Univ. de Buenos Aires 


Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and Their Decorations 

Sponsor: Italian Art Society 

Organizer: Amy Gillette, St. Joseph’s Univ.; Kaelin Jewell, Temple Univ. 

Presider: Amy Gillette and Kaelin Jewell 

Geographic Data from the Inscriptions of the Late Antique Roman Forum 

Gregor Kalas, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

A Digital Model and Virtual Reconstruction of the Norman Palace in Palermo: 

New Tools for New Understandings of Medieval Spaces 

Ruggero Longo, Independent Scholar 

Historic Architecture and Digital Modeling: A Reconstruction of the Choir 

Screen at Santa Chiara, Naples 

Lucas Giles, Duke Univ. 

Splendors of Collaboration: Late Medieval Italian Choir Books and Google’s 

Digital Materialism 

Bryan Keene, J. Paul Getty Museum 


New Research in Medieval Germanic Studies I: Love and Gender 


Organizer: Tina Boyer, Wake Forest Univ. 

Presider: Claire Taylor Jones, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Iwein’s Sexless Marriage: Competition between Homosocial? and Heterosexual 

Relationships in Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein 

Jonathan Seelye Martin, Princeton Univ. 

Food, Wine, Love, and Power in Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar 

Joshua Davis, Wake Forest Univ.–Vienna 

Living in Shame? Courtly Masculinity and Foolishness in Die halbe Birne 

Olga V. Trokhimenko, Univ. of North Carolina–Wilmington 

The Second Cross-Dresser in Ulrich’s Frauendienst: A New English Translation 

and Interpretation of the Otto von Buochowe Episode 

James Frankki, Cerritos College 

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The Syndergaard Sessions II: Ballads: Sources and Analogues 

Sponsor: Kommission für Volksdichtung 

Organizer: Richard Firth Green, Ohio State Univ. 

Presider: Sandra B. Straubhaar, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

The (Pregnant) Mouse Freed from the Gallows: The Mabinogi, Branch Three, 

“Manawydan uab Llyr” 

Thomas D. Hill, Cornell Univ. 

Blinded by the Fairy Queen: Punishment in “Tam Lin” and Helga þáttr Þórissonar 

Kristen Mills, Haverford College 

“The Widow of Westmoreland’s Daughter” and Poggio Bracciolini’s Facetiae 

Richard Firth Green 



Persecution, Punishment, and Purgatory 

137 

I: Historical Explorations

Sponsor: Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY 

Organizer: Steven Kruger, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY 

Presider: Esther Bernstein, Graduate Center, CUNY 

Punishing the Blasphemous in the Time of Dante: In Canto and in the Courtroom 

Melissa E. Vise, New York Univ. 

“Motherworldly” Memento Mori: Lessons from the Grave in The Awntyrs off 

Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne 

Kara M. Stone, Fordham Univ. 

The Cant/Can’t of Simulated Pilgrimage: Bodily Damage, Separation, and Weakness 

in the York Plays 

Jennie Friedrich, Univ. of California–Riverside 



Shifting Shape and Changing Form I 

Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Purdue Univ. 

Organizer: Jessica L. Auz, Purdue Univ.; Aidan M. Holtan, Purdue Univ. 

Presider: Jessica L. Auz 

The Translation of Transformation: Body Schema in the Anglo-Norman Bisclavret 

and Old Norse Bisclarets ljóð 

Andrea Whitacre, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Transformation in Twelfth-Century Terms: Succubi, Shape-Shifters, and Sacramental 

Encounters in Clerical Latin Narratives 

Lindsey Zachary Panxhi, Oklahoma Baptist Univ. 

Physical Transformations in William of Palerne: Shape-Shifting as Social Mobility 

Gretchen Geer, Univ. of Connecticut 


Signs of Identity, Marks of Otherness: New Approaches to Visual Culture I 

Sponsor: Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale 

(CESCM); International Medieval Society, Paris 

Organizer: Vincent Debiais, Centre d’études supérieures de 

civilisation médiévale 

Presider: Vincent Debiais 

A Bishop of War: Remembering Crusading Identity in the Cathedral of Le Puy 

Thomas Lecaque, SUNY–Orange 

William Marshal and Usama ibn Munqidh: Cross-Cultural Status Markers 

Steven Isaac, Longwood Univ. 

War on Fashion: The Use of Images and Marginalization against Fashion Phenomena 

in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century 

Tina Anderlini, Independent Scholar 

Image, Sequence, Narrative: The Marks and Signs of Identity in the Illuminated 

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Manuscripts of the Theophilus Legend 

Jerry Root, Univ. of Utah 


Jewish Identity in Medieval Passion Plays 

Presider: 

Kelly E. Hall, Program for Afloat College Education (PACE), 

U.S. Navy 

Text as Image: A Consideration of Bonaventure’s Meditations on the Life of Christ as a 

Source for Performances of Jewish Identity in the Late Medieval French Passion Plays 

Denise O’Malley, Independent Scholar 

138

Religious Instruction through Theatres in Medieval French and German Cities: 

The Depiction of Redemption and Jewish Deviance in Passion Plays 

Carlotta Lea Posth, Univ. of Tübingen 


Women and Manuscripts 

Sponsor: Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 

Organizer: Judith Sutera, OSB, Magistra Publications 

Presider: Judith Sutera, OSB 

Textual Ingestions: Eating and Imitation in the “Affective Literacies” of the Ancrene 

Wisse 

Maybelle Leung, York Univ. 

The Clothilde Missal: A Medieval Reverie in War-Torn France 

Lynley Anne Herbert, Walters Art Museum 

Read Her Like a Book 

Catherine Keene, Southern Methodist Univ. 


The Transmission and Reception of Medieval Commentaries and Sermons: In 

Memory of Steven Cartwright 

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA) 


Presider: Eileen F. Kearney, St. Xavier Univ. 

Richard FitzRalph’s Sermon Defensio curatorum 

Bridget Riley, Univ. of Reading 

Job as Divine Bachelor: Scholastic Disputatio in the Scriptum super Iob ad litteram 

of Thomas Aquinas 

Evan R. Williams, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston 

The Suffering of Job and the End of the Lord: Christ and Salvation in the Super 

Iob of Albertus Magnus 

Franklin T. Harkins, School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College 


Light and Darkness in Medieval Art, 1200–1450 I 

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) 

Organizer: Stefania Gerevini, Bocconi Univ.; Tom Nickson, Courtauld 

Institute of Art 

Presider: Nancy Thompson, St. Olaf College 

Darkened by the Light: Black Madonnas Illuminated 

Elisa A. Foster, Henry Moore Institute 

“Sculpture Subtiles”: Light, Optics, and the Aesthetics of Relief 

Christopher R. Lakey, Johns Hopkins Univ. 

The Thomas Aquinas Panel in Pisa and the Light of Truth 

Martin Schwarz, Univ. of Chicago 

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Affective Transformations 

Sponsor: Harvard English Dept. Medieval Colloquium 

139

Organizer: Erica Weaver, Harvard Univ. 

Presider: Erica Weaver 

Elegiac Bubbles: Ecstatic Memory in Alcuin’s Poetry 

Peter Buchanan, New Mexico Highlands Univ. 

Not a Wonder, Not Yet a Sign: Stones and Bones in the Old English Seven Sleepers 

Danielle Ruether-Wu, Cornell Univ. 

Afraid for That Fair Sight: Sympathetic Vision in The Dream of the Rood 

Jennifer Lorden, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

On the Hegelian Spirit of Anglo-Saxon Literature: Why Becoming Matters 

Patricia Dailey, Columbia Univ. 



Teaching the Edda and Sagas in the Undergraduate Classroom: Strategies and 

Approaches (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar, Grand Valley State Univ. 

Presider: Rachel S. Anderson, Grand Valley State Univ. 

Using Tolkien as a Gateway to the Edda and Sagas in the Undergraduate Classroom 

Lee Templeton, North Carolina Wesleyan College 

“I advise you, Loddfafnir, to take this council”: Teaching College Writing and 

Research Using the Eddas 

Gregory L. Laing, Harding Univ. 

Teaching Germanic Mythology 101 

Johanna Denzin, Columbia College 

Material Culture and Norse Mythology 

Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar 


In Honor of Constance H. Berman II: Medieval Women’s History: Past, Present, 

and Future 

Sponsor: Medieval Foremothers Society 

Organizer: Erin L. Jordan, Old Dominion Univ. 

Presider: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg Univ. 

Challenging the Received Wisdom on Medieval Nuns 

Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

Men’s Houses, Women’s Houses: Rethinking Sex Segregation in Monastic Life 

Fiona J. Griffiths, Stanford Univ. 

Digitizing the Medieval Woman: Towards a Feminist Edition of the Cartulary of 

Prémontré 

Yvonne Seale, SUNY–Geneseo; Heather Wacha, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

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Space, Place, and Disability (A Panel Discussion) 

Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ. 

Presider: Tory V. Pearman, Miami Univ. Hamilton 

“Fooles that Goon in Goddis Weys”: Mental Disability and Moral Personhood in 

Late Medieval Literature 

Julie Paulson, San Francisco State Univ. 

“Mobile as Wishes”: Disability, Intersubjectivity, and Community in the Liber 

confortatorius 

Danielle Allor, Rutgers Univ. 

140

The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place: Death and the Embodied Anglo-Saxon Subject 

Leah Pope, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

Disability in the Village: Household Care in Late Medieval France 

Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College 


Occult Capitals of Islam 


Organizer: Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia 

Presider: Nicholas G. Harris, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Baghdad, the City of Jupiter 

Liana Saif, Univ. catholique de Louvain 

What Did it Mean to Be a Magician in al-Baqillani’s Baghdad? The Social Implications 

of the Discourse on Magic 

Mushegh Asatryan, Univ. of Calgary 

Lettrism at Sultan Barquq’s Court and Beyond: Cairo as Occult Capital at the 

Turn of the Fifteenth Century 

Noah D. Gardiner, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia 

“Here Art-Magick Was First Hatched”: Shiraz as Occult-Scientific Capital of the 

Persian Cosmopolis 

Matthew Melvin-Koushki 


Exercising Authority and Exerting Influence I: “Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre” (Alone 

am I, and alone I wish to remain): The Perils and Promise of Medieval Widowhood 

Sponsor: Royal Studies Network 

Organizer: Zita Eva Rohr, Macquarie Univ. 

Presider: Zita Eva Rohr 

Widows Unite! Multigenerational Widowhood in Elite Families 

Linda E. Mitchell, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City 

Navigating (Treacherous) Transitions: Joan of Navarre as a Case Study for the 

Opportunities and Challenges of Royal Widowhood 

Elena Woodacre, Univ. of Winchester 

A Dowager Gone Rogue: Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Castile (r. 1447– 1454) 

Núria Silleras-Fernández, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

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Customary Law in the Fourteenth Century 


Organizer: Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School 

Presider: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta Univ. 

From Custom to Law and Back Again in Medieval Spain: Exploring the Emergence 

of the Observancias in Aragon 

Jennifer Speed, Univ. of Dayton 

Between Customs and Royal Law: Forest Administration in Fourteenth-Century 

Normandy 

Danny Lake-Giguère, Univ. de Montréal 

Mapping Customary Law in the Fourteenth Century 

Ada Maria Kuskowski, Univ. of Pennsylvania 



Medievalism and Pedagogy 

Sponsor: Medieval Association 

141 

of the Midwest (MAM)


Organizer: Audrey Becker, Marygrove College 

Presider: Audrey Becker 

Play, Games, and the Medieval World: Teaching Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The 

White Company 

Robert Sirabian, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point 

Teaching Westeros: Medieval Studies, Medievalism, and George R. R. Martin 

Carol Jamison, Armstrong State Univ. 

“Medieval” Rhetoric, ISIS, and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Lesson for Teaching 

Political Medievalisms in the Undergraduate Classroom 

Erin S. Lynch, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ. 

“Have you ever heard of Robin Longstride?”: Anachronism, Authenticity, and 

Teaching Robin Hood 

Christian Sheridan, Bridgewater College 


The Annual Journal of Medieval Military History Lecture 



Presider: L. J. Andrew Villalon, Independent Scholar 

Holy Warriors, Worldly War: Military Religious Orders and Secular Conflict 

Helen J. Nicholson, Cardiff Univ. 

Respondent: Theresa M. Vann, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 


Digital Medieval and Medieval Studies: How to Write for the Web (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: Applied Research Centre in the Humanities 

Organizer: Simon Forde, Medieval Institute Publications/Arc Humanities Press 

Presider: Anne Nolan, Medieval Institute Publications/Arc Humanities Press 

A workshop led by Peter Konieczny, Medievalists.net/Medieval Warfare. 


The Sidneys and the Sister Arts 



Presider: Timothy D. Crowley, Northern Illinois Univ. 

Familiar Sonnets? Astrophil and Stella and the Ars Dictaminis 

Andrew Strycharski, Florida International Univ. 

Mary Wroth and the Female Baroque 

Gary Waller, Purchase College 

Desire, Artistic Representation, and the Limits of Agency in Sidney’s Astrophil 

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and Stella 

Kathleen Hines, Southern Methodist Univ. 


Reconsidering The Second Nun’s Tale 

Organizer: Emily McLemore, Oregon State Univ. 

Presider: Tara Williams, Oregon State Univ. 

142

Transforming Space in Chaucer’s Hagiographies 

Gina Marie Hurley, Yale Univ. 

A Marian Cecilia in Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale 

Mary Beth Long, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville 

Woman as Weapon: Wielding Cecilia in Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale 

Emily McLemore 

The Second Nun’s Tale: The Serious Capability and “Bisynesse” of Comedy 

John Zedolik, Duquesne Univ./Chatham Univ. 


Know(en), Biknow(en), Knowelich(en): Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Epistemology 

Sponsor: International Piers Plowman Society 

Organizer: Tekla Bude, Oregon State Univ. 

Presider: Tekla Bude 

Infinity and the Infinite: Temporality and the Measure of Faith in Piers Plowman 

Stephanie L. Batkie, Sewanee: The Univ. of the South 

Piers Plowman and the End of Knowing 

Jennifer Sisk, Univ. of Vermont 

Lifetimes of Learning in Piers Plowman 

Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London 





3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. 



The Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo II 

Organizer: Thomas Clemmons, Catholic Univ. of America 

Presider: Allison Zbicz Michael, Catholic Univ. of America 

From Principium to Primitas: Bonaventure’s Reception of Augustine’s Trinitarian 

Doctrine 

James Paul Krueger, Trinity School at Meadow View 

Augustine and Aquinas on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit 

Gregory M. Cruess, Univ. of Notre Dame 

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Exemplum and Sacramentum: Theology of the Word in Saints Augustine and 

Bonaventure 

Shane M. Owens, Catholic Univ. of America 


143


The Versatile Marie de France 



Presider: Ann McCullough, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 

Misconceptions and Issues of Deception in Marie de France’s Lanval? 

Anne Caillaud, Grand Valley State Univ. 

The Birds and the Bees: Animals and Gender in Marie de France 

Susan Hopkirk, Univ. of Toronto 

Marie in English Verse: Challenges and Opportunities 

Ron Cook, Independent Scholar 



Embedding Professional Skills in Medieval Graduate Programs (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Applied Research Centre in the Humanities 

Organizer: Simon Forde, Medieval Institute Publications/Arc Humanities Press 

Presider: Simon Forde 

A roundtable discussion with Sarah Davis-Secord, Univ. of New Mexico; Kristina Markman, 

Univ. of California–Los Angeles; Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript 

Studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania Libraries; and Laura Morreale, Fordham Univ. 


The Gospels 

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA) 


Presider: Bridget Riley, Univ. of Reading 

Gospel Miracles in the Ethopoeiae of Nikephoros Basilakes 

Craig A. Gibson, Univ. of Iowa 

The Venerable Bede and the Gospel Writers 

Paul Hilliard, Univ. of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary 

The Resurrection of Jesus in Bonaventure’s Commentary on Luke 

Aaron Canty, St. Xavier Univ. 


Thomas Aquinas III 



Presider: Paul Gondreau, Providence College 

The Rationality of Faith: Aquinas and Bonaventure 

Carl N. Still, St. Thomas More College, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

Spiritual Beauty and Ugliness in Aquinas’s Ethics 

Michael J. Rubin, Univ. of Mary Washington 

Aquinas on the Episcopacy as a State of Perfection 

Michael G. Sirilla, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville 

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Mediterraneanizing the North Atlantic: Transmission, Translation, and Textuality 

(A Panel Discussion) 

Organizer: Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Presider: Samantha Pious, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

144

A panel discussion with Daniel Armenti, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst (“‘Mes or 

laissons lor loi ester’: Conflicting Legal Institutions in Chrétien de Troyes’s Philomena”); 

Georgia Henley, Harvard Univ.; and Nahir I. Otaño Gracia. 


The Idea of the Garden in Medieval Literature 

Sponsor: Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Organizer: Shannon Gayk, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Shannon Gayk 

Paradise Not Lost or Longed-For: The Phoenix’s Garden as Heaven’s Earth 

Evelyn Reynolds, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

An Apology for Medicine in Walahfrid Strabo’s De cultura hortorum 

Jared Johnson, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 

On the Prettiness of Flowers, or, Ornamentation in the Medieval Garden 

Isabel Stern, Rutgers Univ. 

Response: Lynn Staley, Colgate Univ. 

453 FETZER 1005 

Academic Theft (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Lindy Brady, Univ. of Mississippi; Damian Fleming, Indiana 

Univ.-Purdue Univ.–Fort Wayne; Erica Weaver, Harvard Univ. 

Presider: M. Breann Leake, Univ. of Connecticut 

A roundtable discussion with Marjorie Harrington, Univ. of Notre Dame; Joey 

McMullen, Centenary Univ.; David F. Johnson, Florida State Univ.; M. Jane Toswell, 

Western Univ.; and Alexandra Reider, Yale Univ. 

454 FETZER 1010 

Asterisk Tolkien 

Sponsor: Tolkien at Kalamazoo 

Organizer: Brad Eden, Valparaiso Univ. 

Presider: Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State Univ. 

The “Third Spring”: New Discoveries and Connections 

Brad Eden 

“He came alone, and in bear’s shape”: Tolkien’s Attempt at Correcting the Thwarting 

of Bodvar Bjarki 

Michael David Elam, Regent Univ. 

Landscape as Character in The Lord of the Rings 

Robert Dobie, La Salle Univ. 

Tolkien’s Monsters: An Asterisk in His Translation of Beowulf 

Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College 

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455 FETZER 1040 

The Cistercian and Monastic Inspiration for the Reformation: On the Occasion 

of the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Luther’s Theses 


145

Sponsor: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ. 

Organizer: Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen, Kalaallit Nunaata Univ. 

Presider: Marvin Döbler, Ev. -luth. Landeskirche Hannovers 

“Bernhardus ist uber alle Doctores in Ecclesia, wenn er predigt . . .” (Martin Luther) 

Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen 

The Two Monasteries of Grimma and Their Impact on the Lutheran Reformation 

Rose Marie Tillisch, Strandmarkskirken 

“I here but follow the holy Bernard of Clairvaux in his book On Consideration” 

Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, Aarhus Univ. 

The “Case” Fuerstenfeld (Campus Principum) and Luther’s Theses 

Klaus Wollenberg, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München 


456 FETZER 1045 

Monsters III: Monstrous Acts of Heroism (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe; 

Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of 


(MEARCSTAPA) 

Organizer: Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College; Asa 

Simon Mittman, California State Univ.–Chico 

Presider: Deanna Forsman 

A roundtable discussion with Ilan Mitchell-Smith, California State Univ.–Long 

Beach; David Michael Hennessy, San Francisco State Univ. ; Tina Boyer, Wake Forest 

Univ.; Ana Grinberg, East Tennessee State Univ.; and Larissa Tracy, Longwood Univ. 

457 FETZER 1060 

Perspectives on Machaut’s First Book (A Roundtable) 



Presider: Anne-Hélène Miller, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

A roundtable discussion with Lawrence M. Earp, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Tamsyn 

Rose-Steel, Johns Hopkins Univ.; and Jared C. Hartt. 

Respondent: Domenic Leo, Duquesne Univ. 

458 FETZER 2016 

Gower and Games (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Gower Project 

Organizer: Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ. 

Presider: Eve Salisbury 

Gower’s Games: Making Play Serious Since 1381 

William Rogers, Univ. of Louisiana–Monroe 

Love Games: Somnolence and Sex 

Jeffery G. Stoyanoff, Spring Hill College 

Playing with the Text: Gower’s Games through Computer-Assisted Analysis 

Kara L. McShane, Ursinus College 

Grammar, Game, and How to Read Gower’s Latin: A Modest Proposal 

Stephanie L. Batkie, Sewanee: The Univ. of the South 

Morality Games in John Gower’s Confessio amantis 

Kim Zarins, California State Univ.–Sacramento 

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459 FETZER 2020 

Medieval Form and Medieval Knowledge 

146

Sponsor: Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley 

Organizer: Evan Wilson, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Presider: Evan Wilson 

Formal Iconicity and Rupture in the Late Medieval Stanza 

Jack Dragu, Univ. of Chicago 

Multicursal Reading: Old English Poetry as Ergodic Literature 

Michael Matto, Adelphi Univ. 

Language Hybridity and Mirabilia in the Middle English Letter of Alexander to 

Aristotle 

Verity Walsh, Stanford Univ. 

460 FETZER 2030 

Illuminated Manuscripts 

Presider: Caroline D. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania State Univ. 

Theories of Language and the Visual Presentation of the Text in Insular Manuscripts 

Eleanor Jackson, Univ. of York 

Romance Made Holy: Integrating UCB 106 into the Codicological History of the 

Lancelot-Grail Cycles 

Louisa Kirk, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

A Man of His Time: A Temporal Reading of the Zodiac Man in Two Surgical 

Manuscripts 

Sara Öberg Strådal, Univ. of Glasgow 

461 FETZER 2040 

Borders of Learning: Frontiers of Clerical Poetry in Medieval Iberia 

Sponsor: Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, Univ. of Texas– 

El Paso 

Organizer: Matthew V. Desing, Univ. of Texas–El Paso 

Presider: Matthew V. Desing 

Entre clerecía y juglaría: la comicidad en algunos poemas de Gonzalo de Berceo 

Rocío Rubio Moirón, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

El Poema de Fernán González: ¿en los márgenes del mester de clerecía? 

Pablo Ancos, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

The Frontiers of the Body: A Method for Learning 

Álvaro Garrote Pascual, Cornell Univ. 

“Al cielo sin escalera”: anticlericalismo y sátira social en el cancionero cuatrocentista 

Yoel Castillo Botello, Georgetown Univ. 

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Everybody’s (Gender) Hurts: Gendered Experiences of Pain 


Organizer: Alicia Spencer-Hall, Univ. College London 


147

Presider: Alicia Spencer-Hall 

“Siker ich”: Narrative Dominance as Assault in Sir Degaré 

Hannah M. Christensen, Univ. of Chicago 

Punishing Amazon Transgressions: Slander, Dismemberment, and Death in the 

Romans Antiques 

Elizabeth S. Leet, Washington Univ. in St. Louis 

Human and Trans-human Experiences of Pain in the Late Middle Ages 

Jonah Coman, Univ. of St. Andrews 



Memories of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare’s Plays 

Organizer: Rosemary O’Neill, Kenyon College; Kurt Schreyer, Univ. of 

Missouri–St. Louis 

Presider: Rosemary O’Neill 

“At Feastiuals / On Ember Eues, and Holydayes”: Pericles and the Medieval Saint Play 

Gina M. Di Salvo, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

Shakespeare’s Stage Commentators and Choric Devices: How Medieval, How Early 

Modern? 

Michael Anthony Ingham, Lingnan Univ. 

Horses and Harries: Medieval Depictions of Virtue and Vice in 1 Henry IV 

Ann Hubert, St. Lawrence Univ. 

“Spirits of peace, where are ye?”: Theatrical Recusancy in All Is True 

Kurt Schreyer 


Medieval Sidekicks II: Sidekicks in Medieval Romance 


Organizer: Melissa Filbeck, Texas A&M Univ. 

Presider: Melissa Filbeck 

Rereading Lunete: The Sidekick as Alternative Text 

Kaitlin L. Browne, Eastern Michigan Univ. 

Ideological Sh(r)ift in The Tale of Gamelyn: Adam as Sidekick, Confessor, and 

Enabler 

Robert Shane Farris, Northeastern State Univ.–Tahlequah 

Valorizing the “Fals” Steward in Amis and Amiloun 

Maia Farrar, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

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Latinitas Viva II: Ars Docendi Viva: Live Teaching Demonstrations of an Alive 

Medieval Latin (Performances) 

Sponsor: Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study; SALVI (Septentrionale 

Americanum Latinitatis Vivae Institutum): North American 

Institute for Living Latin Studies 

Organizer: Diane Warne Anderson, Univ. of Massachusetts–Boston 

Presider: Diane Warne Anderson 

Elementa per Elementa: An Embodied Pedagogy Performance of Hildegard of 

Bingen’s Causae et Curae 

Justin Slocum Bailey, Indwelling Language 

Old Testament, New Tricks: Teaching Latin with the Vulgate 

Nancy Llewellyn, Wyoming Catholic College 

148

Respondent: Gregory P. Stringer, Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study/Burlington 

High School 


Twelve Angry Carolingians III: Being Angry 




Presider: Julie A. Hofmann, Shenandoah Univ. 

Heretical and Orthodox Emotions according to Claudius of Turin and Jonas of 

Orléans 

Kelly Gibson, Univ. of Dallas 

Upsetting Agobard’s Apple-Cart: Motivations for Writing the Adversum dogma Felicis 

Cullen Chandler 

False Hope and Real Fear in Nithard’s Libri historiarum 

Courtney M. Booker, Univ. of British Columbia 


Exploring the Early Medieval Economy: From Macro to Micro 

Sponsor: Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy 

(FLAME) 

Organizer: Lee Mordechai, Princeton Univ. 

Presider: Alan Stahl, Princeton Univ. 

The FLAME Project: Visualizing Transnational Medieval Economic Networks 

Lee Mordechai 

Fraternal Enemies Reconciled: History, Numismatics, and Archaeology 

Andrei Gandila, Univ. of Alabama–Huntsville 

The Monetary Economy of Early Medieval Syria in Its Mediterranean Context 

Jane Sancinito, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

The Monetary Economy of the Byzantine Islands between Late Antiquity and the 

Early Middle Ages 

Luca Zavagno, Bilkent Univ. 


A Text by Any Other Name: Rewritings, Reworkings, and Manipulations of Medieval 

Iberian Texts 

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Sponsor: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA) 

Organizer: David Arbesú, Univ. of South Florida 

Presider: David Arbesú 

From Great Muslim Warriors to Good Christian Subjects: Converting the Legend 

of the Infantes of Lara between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 

Marcelo E. Fuentes, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Libro de Troya, Estoria de Troya y General estoria: (Re)escrituras y recepción de 

la materia troyana alfonsí en los siglos XIII y XIV 

Ricardo Pichel Gotérrez, Univ. de Alcalá/Univ. de Santiago de Compostela 

Textual Alteration and Philosophical Appropriation: The Peculiar Case of 

Dominicus Gundissalinus in Toledo 

Nicola Polloni, Durham Univ. 



Persecution, Punishment, and Purgatory II: Methodological Considerations 

149

Sponsor: 

Organizer: 

Presider: 

Towards an Understanding of the Medieval Surveillant Imaginary 

Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter College, CUNY 

Confessionals and Punishment Rituals in the Swiss Confederacy 

Noah Shuster, New School 

Ritual Violence/Theatrical Terminus 

Christopher Swift, New York City College of Technology, CUNY 

Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY 

Steven Kruger, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY 

Alexander Baldassano, Graduate Center, CUNY 



Law and Legal Culture in Anglo-Saxon England II 


Organizer: Andrew Rabin, Univ. of Louisville 

Presider: Jay Gates, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 

Considering the Dialogue of Ecgberht as an Early Witness to Anglo-Saxon Legal 

History 

Kristen Carella, Assumption College 

Law and Lawlessness in the Case of the “Peterborough Witch” 

Alexandra Bauer, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 

Sir Roger Twysden and the Editio Princeps of the Leges Henrici primi 

Rebecca Brackmann, Lincoln Memorial Univ. 


Gender in Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives 

Sponsor: Anglo-Saxon Hagiography Society (ASHS) 

Organizer: Johanna Kramer, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia; Robin Norris, 

Carleton Univ. 

Presider: Matthew T. Hussey, Simon Fraser Univ. 

Undermining Masculine Authority: Reading Saint Christopher in the Beowulf 

Manuscript 

S. C. Thomson, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum 

Ambivalent Asceticism: Mary of Egypt and the Desert 

Irina A. Dumitrescu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn 

Freudian Confessions: The History of Gender, Power, and Sex in the Old English 

Life of Mary of Egypt 

April Graham, Rutgers Univ. 

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Barbarians and Barbarian Kingdoms III: Byzantines Perspectives 


Presider: Edward M. Schoolman, Univ. of Nevada–Reno 

Novella 11: Memory and Imperial Propaganda in the Build Up to the Gothic War 

Alexander Sarantis, Aberystwyth Univ. 

The Fine Line between Fear and Courage in Book III of Procopius’s Vandalic Wars 

Michael E. Stewart, Univ. of Queensland 

Procopius’s Vandal Wars and the Limits of Autocracy 

Danielle Reid, Cornell Univ. 


Hoccleve at Play 

150

Sponsor: International Hoccleve Society 

Organizer: Danielle Bradley, Rutgers Univ. 

Presider: Elon Lang, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Does This Stress Make Me Look Fat? Awkwardness in Thomas Hoccleve’s Verse 

David Watt, Univ. of Manitoba 

Funny Money in Hoccleve’s Begging Poems 

Taylor Cowdery, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 

Play Wor(l)ds: Form, Style, Play at Work in the Ballades of Good Company 

Travis Neel, Ohio State Univ. 

Hoccleve Ludens: Playing with De ludo scaccorum in the Regiment of Princes 

Amanda Walling, Univ. of Hartford 


Style, Tragedy, Irony, and Death 



Presider: Kathleen Verduin, Hope College 

Dante’s Three Styles Revisited: Constructio 

Wuming Chang, Brown Univ. 

Dante’s Retrospective Illumination of Irony: The Inferno 

James T. Chiampi, Univ. of California–Irvine 

Dantean Contradictions: “Cangrande” on Tragedy, and Satan as Both Active and 

Inactive 

Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

Studying Death with Dante: The Vita nuova and Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess 

Aparna Chaudhuri, Harvard Univ. 


Obscured by the Alps: Medieval Italian Architecture and the European Canon 

Sponsor: Italian Art Society 

Organizer: Erik Gustafson, George Mason Univ. 

Presider: Erik Gustafson 

The Church of San Lorenzo in Verona: A “Hapax” in the Romanesque Architectural 

Context in Europe 

Angelo Passuello, Univ. Ca’ Foscari Venezia 

Italian Octagonal Piers and Late Medieval Anti-Classical Modernism 

Evan W. Grey, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ. 

Enlightened by the Alps: Reconsidering the Role of Northern Tradition on Frederick 

II’s Architecture in Southern Italy 

Francesco Gangemi, Bibliotheca Hertziana 

Beyond the Gilded Frame: Connectivity of Sacred Space in Medieval Rome 

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Catherine R. Carver, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 


New Research in Medieval Germanic Studies II: Philology and Text 


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Organizer: Adam Oberlin, Atlanta International School 

Presider: Adam Oberlin 

Steganography, or, How to Hide the Act of Hiding 

Erik Born, Cornell Univ. 

Reveling in Bodily Inabilities: The Beguine Mystics, the Cycle of Imitatio Christi, 

and the Imperfect Body 

Adrienne Noelle Merritt, Occidental College 

Old Norse Ekphrasis and the Classical Tradition 

Jonas Wellendorf, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Evaluating English Translations of the Old Saxon Hêliand 

Marc Pierce, Univ. of Texas–Austin; Collin Brown, Univ. of Texas–Austin 



Medieval Medicine 

Presider: Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona 

Women’s Medicine in the Late Eleventh-Century MS Bodley 130 

Bethany Christiansen, Ohio State Univ. 

Stones, Saints, and Friars: The Popular Transmission of Classical Pharmacology 

via Mendicant Texts 

Nichola Harris, SUNY–Ulster 

Complex Cases: Mixed Diagnoses of Loss of Mind in Medieval Miracles 

Leigh Ann Craig, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. 

Charms and Medicine in Medieval Wales: Their Social and Intellectual Context 

Katherine Leach, Harvard Univ. 


Dwelling in the Anglo-Saxon Landscape III: Materiality and Image 

Sponsor: Dept. of Archaeology, Durham Univ. 

Organizer: Sarah J. Semple, Durham Univ. 

Presider: David Petts, Durham Univ. 

Hidden Gems: Boxes and Their Contents in Seventh-Century Anglo-Saxon England 

Katie Haworth, Durham Univ. 

Deus ex Machina: Anglo-Saxon Male Beauty, Divine Bodies, and Machine Aesthetics 

Tristan Lake, Durham Univ. 

The Image of the Past: Reassembling Identities through Roman Objects in Early 

Anglo-Saxon Society 

Indra Werthmann, Durham Univ. 

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Shifting Shape and Changing Form II 

Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Purdue Univ. 

Organizer: Jessica L. Auz, Purdue Univ.; Aidan M. Holtan, Purdue Univ. 

Presider: Adrianna Radosti, Purdue Univ./Arthuriana 

Metamorphosis and Difference in the Prose Merlin 

Rachel Kapelle, Willamette Univ. 

The Sorcerer in the Binary: A Bi-Gendered Merlin in Le Morte Darthur 

Margaret Sheble, Purdue Univ. 

Long, Cool Woman (with a Snake Tail): Jean d’Arras’s Manipulation of the Serpentine 

in the Roman de Melusine 

Kirsten Lopez, Univ. of Edinburgh 

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Signs of Identity, Marks of Otherness: New Approaches to Visual Culture II 

Sponsor: Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale 

(CESCM); International Medieval Society, Paris 

Organizer: Vincent Debiais, Centre d’études supérieures de 

civilisation médiévale 

Presider: Steven Isaac, Longwood Univ. 

Inscribed Capitals in French Romanesque Cloisters: Monastic Identity and 

Bounding Space 

Kristine Tanton, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

Mitre, Crozier, and Ring: Representations of Benedictine Abbots in the Late 

Middle Ages 

Anne Heath, Hope College 

Think the Other through the Image: Anti-Jewish Discourse in the Medieval Manuscript 

Pamela Nourrigeon, Univ. de Poitiers 

Edwards Memorial Travel Award Winner 

The Construction of the Identity of Islamic Societies throughout the Arts: Encounters 

and Confrontations in Late Medieval Mediterranean (Twelfth–Fifteenth 

Centuries) 

María Marcos Cobaleda, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Univ. Nova de Lisboa 


Greater than the Sum of Our Arts: The Multitasking Life of the Lone Medievalist 

(A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Lone Medievalist 

Organizer: John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ. 

Presider: John P. Sexton 

A roundtable discussion with Geoffrey B. Elliott, Independent Scholar; Megan E. 

Hartman, Univ. of Nebraska–Kearney ; Leah Haught, Univ. of West Georgia; Andrew 

M. Pfrenger, Kent State Univ.–Salem; and Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State Univ. 


Speaking of Holy Women: Narratives, Interpretations, Traditions 

Sponsor: Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 

Organizer: Judith Sutera, OSB, Magistra Publications 

Presider: Judith Sutera, OSB 

“Clamor Validus” versus “Feminae Fragilitas”: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim on the 

Agency of Women 

Caroline Jansen, Western Michigan Univ. 

“As Others and Sparkling”: The Transmission of Pain, Desire, and Futurity in 

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Medieval and Early Modern Christian Mysticism 

Stephanie Camacho-Van Dyke, California State Univ.–Fullerton 

“Þe speche of God”: A Re-Assessment of the Double-Voicedness of Mystic Speech 

in The Book of Margery Kempe 

Jasmin Miller, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Univ. of California, Berkeley Graduate Student Prize Winner 

Her Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost: Why Margery Kempe is a Better “Virgin” 

Katharine Beaulieu, Lakehead Univ. 



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Imitatio Mariae in the Meditationes vitae Christi Traditions across Europe 

Sponsor: Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group 

Organizer: Leah Buturain Schneider, Univ. of Southern California; Laura 

Saetveit Miles, Univ. i Bergen 

Presider: Laura Saetveit Miles 

Responsive Imitation: Mary’s Suffering in Renaissance Castile 

Jessica A. Boon, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 

“Take Ensaumple of Marye”: A Consideration of Nicholas Love’s Ave Maria Meditation 

Joseph Morgan, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Imitatio Mariae in the Book of Margery Kempe 

James Noble, Univ. of New Brunswick 

Enacting the “Devout Imagination” in Imitatio Mariae 

Leah Buturain Schneider 


Light and Darkness in Medieval Art, 1200–1450 II 

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) 

Organizer: Stefania Gerevini, Bocconi Univ.; Tom Nickson, Courtauld 

Institute of Art 

Presider: Nancy Thompson, St. Olaf College 

“Swords Shining in the Ears of Virgins”: Light and Lighting in Muslim and 

Christian Iberia 

Tom Nickson 

Deciphering the Axis Mundi: Light, Water, and Their Reflection on Pre- and 

Early Ottoman Anatolia 

Federica Broilo, Univ. degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo” 

Light Matters: The Cappella Portinari in Sant’ Eustorgio, Milan 

Stefania Gerevini 


Material Religion in the Crusading World II: Creating the Sacred 

Organizer: Siobhain Bly Calkin, Carleton Univ.; William J. Purkis, Univ. 

of Birmingham 

Presider: William J. Purkis 

Possession: Symbolic Objects, Sacred Treasure, and the Material Foundations of 

Chivalric Knighthood 

Nicholas L. Paul, Fordham Univ. 

Becoming One? Passion Relics, Human Bodies, and Christian Negotiations of Loss 

Siobhain Bly Calkin 

Bodying Forth: Relics and the (Re)creation of the Absent Body in the Old French 

Miracles de Nostre Dame 

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Jane Sinnett-Smith, Univ. of Warwick 

Intimacy and Abundance: Textile Relics and Eastern Fabrications in European 

Collections after 1204 

Anne E. Lester, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 


Interoperable Manuscripts for Research and Teaching (A Workshop) 

Sponsor: International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) 

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Organizer: Benjamin Albritton, Stanford Univ. 

Presider: Benjamin Albritton 

This workshop—led by Laney McGlohon, Stanford Univ., and Alexandra Bolintineanu, 

Univ. of Toronto—focuses on discovery of interoperable resources, building collections 

of resources for teaching and research, and the use of tools that support these activities. 

No programming experience is expected or required. 


Topographies and Geographies of Anchoritism 

Sponsor: International Anchoritic Society 

Organizer: Michelle M. Sauer, Univ. of North Dakota 

Presider: Michelle M. Sauer 

The Anchoritic Topography of Pearl: How the Poem’s Spaces Reveal the Dreamer 

as a Failed Anchoress 

Brittany Claytor, Purdue Univ. 

From Prison and Exile to Anchorhold: Liminality in the Lives of the Anchoress 

Sisters Loretta and Annora de Briouze 

Hilary Pearson, Univ. of Oxford 

Topographical Reflections in The Book of Margery Kempe 

Fumiko Yoshikawa, Hiroshima Shudo Univ. 


Male Virginity 

Sponsor: 

Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages 

(SSHMA) 

Organizer: Graham N. Drake, SUNY–Geneseo 

Presider: Graham N. Drake 

Celibacy and Chastity: Exploring Male Virginity in Middle English Texts 

Kelly Kennedy, Univ. of North Dakota 

Heroic Male Virginity 

Susannah Chewning, Union County College 

Spanish Virgins: Saint Pelagius and His Brethren 

Felipe Rojas, Univ. of Chicago 


Magic Circles: Material, Ritual, Social 


Organizer: David Porreca, Univ. of Waterloo 

Presider: Frank Klaassen, Univ. of Saskatchewan 

“Walk Like an Egyptian”: Magic Circles in Ancient Egypt from Mehen to Ouroboros 

Mark Roblee, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Magic Circles: What’s Inside? What’s Outside? (PGM, Picatrix, Munich Handbook) 

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David Porreca 

John of Morigny and His Circle 

Claire Fanger, Rice Univ. 



Exercising Authority and Exerting Influence II: Unleashing the Power Within: 

Reassessing Royal and Elite Domestic Spaces 

Sponsor: Royal Studies Network 

Organizer: Zita Eva Rohr, Macquarie Univ. 

Presider: Elena Woodacre, Univ. of Winchester 

The Truth Is Rarely Pure and Never Simple: “Discreet Dissimulation” in Late 

Medieval Female Households and Courts 

Zita Eva Rohr 

Mary Stuart: Poor Princess, or Rock of Convictions? 

James H. Dahlinger, SJ, Le Moyne College 

Respondent: Lisa Benz, Independent Scholar 


Before and after 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death 


Organizer: Monica H. Green, Arizona State Univ. 

Presider: Monica H. Green 

Mongolian Deportation Practices and the Demographic Impact of the Conquest 

of North China 

Christopher P. Atwood, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Symptom-Addition as Theoretical Strategy: Evidences of Plague in Thirteenth- 

Century Chinese Medical Sources 

Robert P. W. Hymes, Columbia Univ. 

The Black Death in the Territory of the Ulus of Jochi and the Russian Principalities 

Timur Khaydarov, Kazan National Research Univ. 


Medieval Military Technology 



Presider: Jay Roberts, Accelerated Schools of Overland Park 

The Implications of Thom Richardson’s The Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth 

Century for the Study of Military Technology 

Kelly DeVries, Loyola Univ. Maryland 

War Rides a Red Horse: Changes in the Scale of Western European Warfare in the 

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Late Medieval Period 

John Lovett, Texas Christian Univ. 

Full Iron Horses: The First Fifteenth-Century Metal Bards 

Marina Viallon, Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Spain’s Thirteenth-Century Law Code and (Incidental) Military Treatise, the Siete 

Partidas 

L. J. Andrew Villalon, Independent Scholar 


Translation and Comparative Literature 

Presider: Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, Univ. of Vermont 

Trickstan, Some Marginal Tristan Texts as Catalysts for the Transgressive Traits of 

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the Hero 

María Cristina Azuela Bernal, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México 

Courtly Anger, Beastly Violence, and the Animal-Affective Prosthetic 

Curtis Thomas, Hillcrest High School 

Chaucer’s “Fetis” Rose and de Lorris’s French Inadequacy 

Maude Vachon-Roy, Simon Fraser Univ. 

Fortune’s Scars: Jean de Meun and Dante’s Manfred(i) 

Molly Bronstein, Univ. of California–Berkeley 


The Van Dorsten Lecture 



Presider: Donald Stump, St. Louis Univ. 

Playing, Singing, Speaking Things 

Gavin Alexander, Univ. of Cambridge 


Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae: Reception, Translations, and Influence 

Sponsor: International Boethius Society 

Organizer: Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 

Presider: Philip Edward Phillips 

Chancing Analogic Thought in Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae 

Lucia Treanor, FSE, Grand Valley State Univ. 

Chaucer’s Boethian Humility: Escaping Celebrity in Boece and The House of Fame 

Gillian Adler, Saint Peter’s Univ. 

“Jewels in a Crown of Lead”: The Consolatory Structure of Coleridge’s Boethian 

Biographia literaria 

Anthony G. Cirilla, Niagara Univ. 

Respondent: Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., Troy Univ. 


Langland’s Women 

Sponsor: 

Gender and Medieval Studies Group; International Piers Plowman 

Society 

Sarah Wilma Watson, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea Univ. 

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Organizer: 

Presider: 

Lady Mede’s Reading Lesson 

Michelle Ripplinger, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

“Yet hadde I levere wedde no wyf to-yeere”: Dame Studie as Shrew 

Matthew W. Irvin, Sewanee: The Univ. of the South 

Langland’s Working Women: The Disappearance of Women’s Labor from the 

A-Text 

Katelyn Jaynes, Univ. of Connecticut 

Respondent: Elizabeth Robertson, Univ. of Glasgow 



Evening Events 

5:00 p.m. ALE AND MEAD TASTING Valley III 


Eldridge 310 

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Sponsored by the Medieval Brewers Guild; AVISTA: The Association 

Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study 

of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art; and the Medieval 

Institute, Western Michigan Univ. 

5:00 p.m. International Boethius Society Bernhard 213 



5:15 p.m. Lydgate Society Valley III 



Saturday evening 

5:15 p.m. Society for Medieval Feminist Fetzer 1045 

Scholarship (SMFS) 



5:15 p.m. A Feminist Renaissance in Fetzer 1060 

Anglo-Saxon Studies 


5:30 p.m. Society for Beneventan Studies Valley III 

Business Meeting Stinson 306 

5:30 p.m. Society for Medieval Languages Fetzer 2030 

and Linguistics 


5:30 p.m. Monsters: The Experimental Bernhard 211 

Association for the Research of 

Cryptozoology through Scholarly 

Theory and Practical Application 

(MEARCSTAPA) 


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5:30 p.m. International Christine de Pizan Bernhard 212 

Society, North American Branch 


5:30 p.m. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Bernhard G10 

Library, Yale Univ. 


6:00 p.m. Italians and Italianists at Valley III 

Kalamazoo Eldridge 309 


6:30 p.m. International Center of Medieval Bernhard 159 

Art (ICMA) 

Board Meeting 

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7:00 p.m. Center for Cistercian and Monastic Bernhard 

Studies, Western Michigan Univ. President’s 

Dinner with cash bar 

Dining Room 

(by invitation) 

8:00 p.m. Floris and Blancheflour Gilmore Theatre 

Pneuma Ensemble 

Complex 

Dulcitius, or Sex in the Kitchen 

Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS) 




It’s “Toronto night” at the festival! Toronto’s Pneuma Ensemble 

shares a period musical presentation of the first extant romance 

in English, before the venerable PLS performs Colleen Butler’s 

new translation of Hrosvit’s tenth-century tragicomedy about 

the Roman emperor lured into carnal embrace with cookware. 

8:00 p.m. Annus Mirabilis Fetzer 1005 

Sponsor: Societas Fontibus Historiae Medii Aevi Inveniendis, 

vulgo dicta, “The Pseudo Society” 

Organizer: Kavita Mudan Finn, Independent Scholar 

Presider: Elizabeth J. Nielsen, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Anchor-kitties: New Origins of Ancrene Wisse 

Emily R. Huber, Franklin & Marshall College 

From Gongan to Gungan: The Surprising Medieval Roots 

of Star Wars 

Nathan E. H. Fayard, Univ. of Arkansas–Fayetteville 

A New Medieval Source for Shakespeare’s Greatest Tragedy 

Mary Douglas Edwards, Pratt Institute 

Remote broadcast in Fetzer 1010 

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8:00 p.m. International Porlock Society Fetzer 2016 


10:00 p.m. DANCE Bernhard 

with cash bar 

East Ballroom 

Saturday evening 

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Congress badge required 

Sunday 8:30 a.m. 

Sunday, May 14 






8:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. 


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New Approaches to the Helfta Nuns and Their Contemporaries 

Sponsor: Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group 

Organizer: Catherine Annette Grisé, McMaster Univ. 

Presider: Barbara Zimbalist, Univ. of Texas–El Paso 

God in the Book: Rethinking Corporeality in the Helfta Mystics 

Jessica Barr, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Anselmian Atonement Theory and Bridal Mysticism: The Purgatorial Piety of the 

Nuns of Helfta 

Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount Univ. 

“Ir Heimlich Freunde”: Friendship among Women in Medieval German Convents 

Robin K. Pokorski, Northwestern Univ. 

Respondent: Barbara Newman, Northwestern Univ. 

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Medieval Polytemporality: Pasts in the Present 

Organizer: Chris Africa, Univ. of Iowa Libraries 

Presider: Chris Africa 

“For the ay-lastande life that lethe shalle neuer”: Allegories of Time in Saint 

Erkenwald 

Richard Bergen, Univ. of British Columbia 

Malory’s Proto-Medievalism and Its Afterlives 

Gania Barlow, Oakland Univ. 

From Tars to Targaryen: Re-Coding Medieval Race 

Thomas Blake, Austin College 

Polytemporalities in Machiavelli’s Prince (1513–15) 

Alison K. Frazier, Univ. of Texas–Austin 


The Manly Priest: A Discussion of Jennifer Thibodeaux’s Society for Medieval 

Feminist Scholarship Prize Winning Book (A Roundtable) 



Presider: Liz Herbert McAvoy, Swansea Univ. 

A roundtable discussion with Hugh M. Thomas, Univ. of Miami; Marita von Weissenberg, 

Xavier Univ.; and Derek Neal, Nipissing Univ. 

500 FETZER 1005 

Old English Religious Texts after the Norman Conquest 

Sponsor: Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 

Organizer: Dylan M. Wilkerson, Univ. of Toronto 

Presider: Roy M. Liuzza, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville 

The Afterlife of the Old English Homily: A Poema Morale for a New Audience 

Leslie Carpenter, Fordham Univ. 

Twelfth-Century Glosses and Revisions in a Manuscript of Ælfric’s Homilies 

Stephen Pelle, Univ. of Toronto 

Contemplating Connections: Old English in Twelfth-Century English Verse 

Carla María Thomas, New York Univ. 

501 FETZER 1010 

The Practical Medicine of Medieval Surgeons and Physicians 

Sponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: William H. York, Portland State Univ. 

Presider: William H. York 

Mineral Water Treatments in Late Medieval Italy 

Beth Petitjean, St. Louis Univ. 

The Propriety of Practical Medicine 

Kira L. Robison, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga 

Hildegard’s Healing Landscape 

Helga Ruppe, Western Univ. 

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502 FETZER 1040 

The Intersection of Material and Spiritual Culture in Medieval Monasticism 

Sponsor: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ. 

Organizer: Daniel Marcel La Corte, St. Ambrose Univ. 

Presider: Paul E. Lockey, St. Mary’s School of Theology, Univ. of St. 

Thomas, Houston 

Lessons from the Cloister? The Location of the Monastic School in Early Benedictine 

Monasticism 

Matthew Ponesse, Ohio Dominican Univ. 

Aquatic Spirituality: The Aqua-culture and Spirituality in the Thought of the 

Early Cistercians. 

Daniel Marcel La Corte 

Reading Aelred of Rievaulx’s Architectural Metaphors by the Letter 

Jason Crow, Louisiana State Univ. 

503 FETZER 1045 

Alfonso al-Hakīm: Significance and Impact of Alfonso X of Castile’s Exchanges 

with the Islamic World 

Sponsor: 

Organizer: 

Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA) 

Marcelo E. Fuentes, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities; Veronica 

Menaldi, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities 

Veronica Menaldi 

Presider: 

Arabic Authority in Biblical History in the General estoria 

Erik Ekman, Oklahoma State Univ. 

Reading the Siete Partidas Transconfessionally 

Gregory S. Hutcheson, Univ. of Louisville 

Alfonso X’s Geographical Ideas: Arabic Sources and Castilian Legacy 

Luis Miguel dos Santos, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Caliphs and Kingship: Calila e Dimna and the Transmission of Islamic Political 

Theory to Christian Kingdoms under Alfonso X 

Robey Clark Patrick, Ohio Wesleyan Univ. 

504 FETZER 1060 

Layered Meanings, Layered Functions: Metalwork and Gems in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Laura J. Whatley, Auburn Univ.–Montgomery 

Presider: Laura J. Whatley 

Elite Jewelry in Central Europe around the Millennium and the Impact of Fatimid 

Egypt: The Montieri Brooch 

John Mitchell, Univ. of East Anglia 

Dressed to the Nines: Pearls and Spiritual Morality in Pearl, Cleanness, and Sir 

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Gawain and the Green Knight 

Dalicia K. Raymond, Univ. of New Mexico 

Jeweled Objects and the Transference of Sovereign Power 

Jennifer A. Ailles, Palm Beach State College 

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505 FETZER 2016 

Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture I 

Organizer: Judith Soria, “Orient et Méditerranée”, CNRS; Jennifer Lyons, 

Ithaca College 

Presider: Judith Soria 

Jesus and Lunatics in Early Christianity: Healing the Body and Soul 

Bertrand Billot, Univ. de Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne 

In Vasis Fictilibus: Gold and Clay in San Vittore Ciel d’Oro in Milan 

Rachel Danford, Loyola Univ. Maryland 

Depictions of Body and Soul as Mirror in the Visio Philiberti 

Christine Kralik, OCAD University 

506 FETZER 2020 

Transformations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages I: Restructuring the 

World 

Sponsor: Dept. of History, Durham Univ. 

Organizer: Helen Foxhall Forbes, Durham Univ. 

Presider: Sarah J. Semple, Durham Univ. 

Restructuring Early Christianity: Chains of Succession and Epistolary Networks 

in Eusebius of Caesarea 

James Corke-Webster, Durham Univ. 

Creating Kingdoms: Burials and Landscape in Northeast England AD 300–800 

Brian Buchanan, Durham Univ. 

Riding the Currents of Power: The Patriarchate of Jerusalem from Antiquity to 

the Crusades 

Daniel Reynolds, Univ. of Birmingham 

507 FETZER 2030 

Hagiography 

Sponsor: Platinum Latin 

Organizer: B. Gregory Hays, Univ. of Virginia; Danuta Shanzer, Univ. Wien 

Presider: David T. Gura, Univ. of Notre Dame 

The Silence of Saint Cassian 

B. Gregory Hays 

Eutropius of Orange at the Heavenly Bar 

Graham Barrett, St. John’s College, Univ. of Oxford/Univ. of Lincoln 

Female Friendship and the Rule of Caesarius of Arles 

Hope D. Williard, Univ. of Leeds/Univ. of Lincoln 

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508 FETZER 2040 

Scottish History: New Approaches, New Questions 

Sponsor: Centre for Scottish Studies, Univ. of Guelph 

Organizer: Marian Toledo Candelaria, Centre for Scottish Studies, Univ. 

of Guelph 

Presider: Marian Toledo Candelaria 

New Approaches to Early Medieval Scotland 

Martin Goldberg, National Museums Scotland 

All the Duke’s Daughters: Women and Marriage in the First Duke of Albany’s 

Political Agenda 

Shayna Devlin, Univ. of Guelph 

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Sunday 8:30 a.m.


The Schematization of Time 

Organizer: Arthur Hénaff, École Pratique des Hautes Études 

Presider: Sarah Griffin, Kellogg College, Univ. of Oxford 

Aging beyond Death: Reconciling Ages of Man and Ages of the World 

Anna Fore Waymack, Cornell Univ. 

Visualizing Time and Space in the Chronologia magna of Paolino Veneto: Use and 

Development of Tabular and Synoptic Forms in Medieval World Historiography 

Nadine Holzmeier, FernUniv. in Hagen 

The Visualization of Time in Fifteenth-Century Illustrated, Printed World Chronicles 

Stephan Boll, Univ. Stuttgart 



Medievalists in the Midwest: Promoting Resources, Collaboration, and Intercollegiality 

across Universities (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Indiana Medieval Consortium 

Organizer: Andrea Whitacre, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Presider: Arielle McKee, Purdue Univ. 

Medieval Resources at the Lilly Library 

Kristin Browning Leaman, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Ricketts Fragments at the Lilly Library 

Emerson Storm Fillman Richards, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

The Sublime and the Scruffy: Medieval Resources at the Newberry Library 

Christopher D. Fletcher, Newberry Library 

Virtually Local: Connecting Regional Scholars through the Digital Humanities 

Amanda Visconti, Purdue Univ. Libraries 

Programming and Resources at the Notre Dame Medieval Institute 

Megan J. Hall, Univ. of Notre Dame 


Settlement and Landscape I: Technological Approaches to the Medieval in the 

Modern 

Organizer: Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State Univ.; Jennifer L. 

Immich, Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver 

Presider: Terry Barry, Trinity College Dublin, Univ. of Dublin 

Socio-economic Changes in the Landscape of Early Medieval Ireland ca. 300–1000 

John Tighe, Trinity College Dublin, Univ. of Dublin 

Lordly Landscapes: Exploring Castle Siting in the Midlands of Ireland with GIS 

and Archaeological Survey 

Jennifer L. Immich 

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Lines in the Landscape? The Expansion and Contraction of the Mac Carthaigh 

Riabhach 

Margaret Smith, St. Louis Univ. 

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Purity: Early Medieval Perspectives I 

Sponsor: Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der 

Wissenschaften 

Organizer: Veronika Wieser, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische 

Akademie der Wissenschaften; Albrecht Diem, Syracuse Univ. 

Presider: Rutger Kramer, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische 

Akademie der Wissenschaften 

Resistance to Desire and Its Paradoxical Effect 

Inbar Graiver, Tel Aviv Univ. 

Hildemar’s Queer Anxieties 

Albrecht Diem 

The Double Lock within Monasteries, Tenth–Eleventh Centuries 

Isabelle Cochelin, Univ. of Toronto 

513 SCHNIEDER 1255 

Alfred and His Circle 

Sponsor: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture 

Organizer: Benjamin Weber, Princeton Univ.; Jill M. Fitzgerald, United 

States Naval Academy 

Presider: Jill M. Fitzgerald 

The Alfredian Exemplar of Beowulf 

Craig Davis, Smith College 

Interacting with Alfred’s Soliloquies 

Michael Treschow, Univ. of British Columbia–Okanagan 

Alfred and the Liberal Arts 

Benjamin Weber 


Manuscript Context for Early Anglo-Saxon, Caroline, and Germanic Verse 


Presider: Bruce Gilchrist 

What’s Hrabanus Got to Do with the Exeter Book Christ? 

Carolin Esser, Univ. of Winchester 

The Wisdom Tradition 

Tiffany Beechy, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Healing Verse: Anglo-Saxon Metrical Remedies and Manuscript Evidence of Use 

Richard Scott Nokes, Troy Univ. 

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Islamic Magic: Texts and/as Objects 

Sponsor: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Societas Magica 

Organizer: Liana Saif, Univ. catholique de Louvain 

Presider: Liana Saif 

Books as Robots: Authorship and Agency in Islamicate Alchemical Manuscripts 

Nicholas G. Harris, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Approaching Shams al-maʿārif al-kubrá through Early Manuscripts: MSS Arabe 

2650–51 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France 

Edgar Francis, IV, Univ. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point 

Legible Signs? Cyphers, Talismans, and the Theologies of Early Islamic Sacred Writing 

Travis Zadeh, Yale Univ. 

Respondent: Noah D. Gardiner, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia 


Music and Liturgy I 




Presider: Daniel J. DiCenso 

Clerics Sing up to Exaudi nos, and the Women to the End (with Cauda): Performance 

Practice at Nivelles in the Later Middle Ages 

Margot E. Fassler, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Exile, Preaching, and Prophecy in the ‘s-Hertogenbosch Liturgy for John the 

Evangelist 

Catherine Saucier, Arizona State Univ. 

Song and Death: Late Medieval Rituals to Accompany Death and the Dying 

Miriam Wendling, KU Leuven 


Resplendent Pain 

Sponsor: International Medieval Society, Paris 

Organizer: Valerie M. Wilhite, Univ. of the Virgin Islands 

Presider: Valerie M. Wilhite 

Pain, Rapture, and Community in the Life of Saint Douceline 

Meghan Nestel, Arizona State Univ. 

Painful Demons: Performance and Embodiment in Medieval Drama 

Andreea Marculescu, Univ. of Oklahoma 

“Jo sui tols desnaturés!”: Pain and the Medicalization of Lovesickness in the 

Thirteenth-Century Roman de silence 

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Sarah Gillette, Western Michigan Univ. 


Spectatorship and Observation in the Medieval Arts 

Sponsor: Medieval Studies Workshop, Univ. of Chicago 

Organizer: Carly B. Boxer, Univ. of Chicago; Samuel Lasman, Univ. of 

Chicago 

Presider: Carly B. Boxer and Samuel Lasman 

Spies Like Us: Tristan and Isolde’s Hidden Observers 

Beth Woodward, Univ. of Chicago 

166

Ceremony and the Beholders at Reims Cathedral (ca. 1230): Seeing and Participating 

in the Coronation of the King 

Gili Shalom, Tel-Aviv Univ. 

To Be Seen: The Politics of Gaze and Observation 

Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Ad Orientem: Seeing Christ’s Back in the Early Medieval Ascension 

Nancy Thebaut, Univ. of Chicago/Institut national d’histoire de l’art 


Lucan and Medieval England: Writing War, ca. 1100–ca. 1500 

Organizer: Daniel Davies, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Presider: Daniel Davies 

War Worse than Civil? William the Conqueror’s Sons in Twelfth-Century Latin 

Historiography 

Jacqueline M. Burek, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Decapitation, Self-Reflection: The View from the Spheres in Lucan, Boccaccio, 

and Chaucer 

Kara Gaston, Univ. of Toronto 

A Traitorous Lucan: Representing Dissent in Later Medieval Chronicles 

Leah Klement, California Institute of Technology/Huntington Library 

Lucan, Lydgate, and Division: Rome, Thebes, and England 

R. D. Perry, Univ. of California–Berkeley 


Oathtaking and Oathbreaking in Middle and Early Modern English Literature 

Organizer: Laura Clark, Baylor Univ. 

Presider: Laura Clark 

Camelot, Cornwall, and the Pentecostal Oath: Regenerating and Degenerating 

Words and Deeds in Malory’s Morte Darthur 

Elizabeth Fredericks, Valparaiso Univ. 

“Here is my glove”: Introductory Speech Acts and Trial By Combat in Le Morte 

Darthur 

Aubrey Morris, Baylor Univ. 

Murderous Brigands and Cannibal Jokes: Swearing and Equivocal Oaths in the 

Second Shepherds’ Play 

Mark Burde, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Under the Grene Wode Tre: The Trystell Tree, the Truth Test, and Yeomen Profit in 

A Gest of Robin Hode 

Megan Woosley-Goodman, Francis Marion Univ. 

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Rex timore perterritus: The Early Irish Saints with and against the Secular Authorities 

Organizer: Brian Ó Broin, William Paterson Univ. 

Presider: Bridgette Slavin, Medaille College 

Marcher Saints: Territorial Claims across Medieval Borders 

Brian Ó Broin 

Saint Adomnán, Iona, and the Political Nature of Cáin Adomnáin 

Courtney Selvage, Univ. of Toronto 

Monastic Sites of Irish Saints in the Isle of Man: Suppressed and Revered 

Valerie Dawn Hampton, Western Michigan Univ. 

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The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object 

Organizer: Andrew Sears, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Laura R. Tillery, 

Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Presider: Andrew Sears 

Economies of Luxury in the Mabinogi 

Audrey Becker, Marygrove College 

The Functional Role of Luxury: Considering Utility in the Grandes Heures of 

Philip the Bold 

Maggie S. Crosland, Courtauld Institute of Art 

Material Anxiety: Pendants and Sumptuary Law in the Late Middle Ages 

Sophie Ong, Rutgers Univ. 



Approaching Methods on How to Read Science in Medieval Literature 

Organizer: Antje Wittstock, Univ. Siegen 

Presider: Michaela Wiesinger, Univ. Wien 

Historical Linguistics and the Digital Humanities: Digitally Reading Early New 

High German Medical Incunabula 

Jenny Robins, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München 

The Macer Floridus and Its German Adaptations 

Beatrice von Lüpke, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen 

Reading Alchemical Knowledge in Medieval Literature 

Antje Wittstock 


Through a Medieval Looking Glass: Reading Eustache Deschamps’s Miroir de 

mariage 

Organizer: Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology 

Presider: Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi 

The Miroir de mariage and the Vernacular Debate between the Vita Contemplativa 

and Vita Activa 

Margriet Hoogvliet, Rijksuniv. Groningen 

Reconstructing Female Voices to Speak about Women: A Comparison Between 

Eustache Deschamps’s Miroir de mariage and Geoffroy de la Tour Landry’s Livre 

pour l’enseignement de ses filles 

Delphine Mercuzot, Bibliothèque nationale de France 

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The Five Senses in Premodern English Literature 

Organizer: Angela Heetderks, Oberlin College 

Presider: Julianne Sandberg, Wheaton College 

Ocular Proof and Auricular Assurance: What Leads to the Failure of the Senses in 

Othello and King Lear? 

Amrita Dhar, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Conscience, Rhetoric, Act: Donne and Aural Richness 

Joshua Held, Trinity International Univ. 

Seeing Saint Lucy: Eyesight and the Memory of the Sacred Virgin in William 

Shakespeare and John Donne 

Susan Dunn-Hensley, Wheaton College 

168


The Medieval History of Attention (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Michael J. Raby, McGill Univ. 

Presider: Michael J. Raby 

Theaters of Distraction: (Lapsed) Attention in Late Anglo-Saxon England 

Erica Weaver, Harvard Univ. 

What Is Meant by “Hir Entente”? 

Sarah Powrie, St. Thomas More College 

“Vox in choro, mens in foro”: Attention, Distraction, and Prayer 

Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London 

“Reade this agayne”: British Library, Harley MS 2251 and Evidence of Systematized 

Attention 

Alison Harper, Univ. of Rochester 


Medievalism and Disability (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ. 

Presider: John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ. 

Urs Graf ’s Daughter Courage: Violence and Disability in Late Medieval Europe 

Jess Genevieve Bailey, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

A Visual Database for Medieval Disability 

Christopher Baswell, Barnard College 

Impaired in Camelot: An Analysis of Ableism in Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant 

Tirumular Narayanan, California State Univ.–Chico 

Trope or Truth? Medievalism and the Ubiquity of Disability 

Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State Univ. 

Life Was Like That: The Grotesque Medieval in the Modern Imagination 

Elizabeth Wawrzyniak, Marquette Univ. 


Murder, Translation, and Translator: Elisha Kent Kane and the Libro de buen amor 


Organizer: Paul E. Larson, Baylor Univ. 

Presider: Donald J. Kagay, Univ. of Dallas 

Meaning, Music, and Mirth in Elisha Kent Kane’s Rendering of the Libro de buen 

amor 

Carlos Hawley, North Dakota State Univ. 

Between Translatio and Betrayal: Meditations on Translating Medieval Literature 

Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown Univ. 

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“Love’s truest troth’s fictitious”: On Value in the Libro de buen amor 

Simone Pinet, Cornell Univ. 

169 

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Beguines and the Transformations of Urban Piety on the Eastern Periphery of 

Late Medieval Christendom 



Presider: Julia Verkholantsev, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Henry Harrer’s Tractatus contra beghardos: The Polish and Czech Dominican 

Response to Early Fourteenth-Century Heresies 

Tomasz Gałuszka, Univ. Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie 

The Bohemian Beguines Lost in Oblivion 

Pavlína Cermanová, Centrum medievistických studií 

The Inquisitor at Work: John of Schwenkenfeld, O.P., and His Inquiry into the 

Beguines in Świdnica 

Paweł Kras, Katolicki Univ. Lubelski Jana Pawła II 


The Knightly Lifecycle 

Sponsor: Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff Univ. 

Organizer: Helen J. Nicholson, Cardiff Univ. 

Presider: Helen J. Nicholson 

Exercises in Arms: The Physical and Mental Combat Training of Knights in the 

Late Middle Ages 

Pierre Gaite, Cardiff Univ. 

The Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes and Malta: The Pious Knight’s Slave 

Nicholas McDermott, Cardiff Univ. 

William Marshal and Don Pedro de Granada Venegas Compared: The “Flower” 

of English Chivalry and a Morisco Knight of Alcántara (d. 1643) 

Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, Austin College 


Voice, Song, and Silence in Medieval England (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Taylor Cowdery, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Spencer 

Strub, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Presider: Spencer Strub 

Verging on Voice: Late Medieval Manuscripts and the Aural Horizon 

Andrew Albin, Fordham Univ. 

The Inner Touch: Medieval Music, Synaesthesis, and Interoception 

Tekla Bude, Oregon State Univ. 

Quantum Silence and Transvestite Metaphysics 

M. W. Bychowski, George Washington Univ. 

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Rhetorical Virtue 

Anna Kelner, Harvard Univ. 

Speaking in Person 

Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut 

The Voice of the Sluggard: Impersonated Interiorities in Pastoral Literature 

Claire M. Waters, Univ. of California–Davis 

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Female Friendship in Medieval Literature I 



Presider: Usha Vishnuvajjala 

Female Friendship and Female Audiences in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women 

Cynthia Turner Camp, Univ. of Georgia 

Female Friendship in Middle English Romance 

Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood Univ. 

Female Friendships in the Medieval Alehouse: Obscenity, Peer Education, and 

Gendered Community in Alewife Poems 

Carissa M. Harris, Temple Univ. 

Response: Karma Lochrie, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 


Medieval Philosophy I: Scholastic Metaphysics and Epistemology 

Sponsor: Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy 

Organizer: Jason Aleksander, National Univ. 

Presider: Milo Crimi, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

The Debates on the Primacy of the Principle of Non-Contradiction in the Question- 

Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, ca. 1273–ca. 1330 

Danila Maslov, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ. 

Pierre d’Ailly on Sine Quibus Non and Genuine Efficient Causes 

Zita Toth, Fordham Univ. 

Adam of Wodeham on the Introspective Cognition of One’s Mental States 

Lydia Deni Gamboa, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México 


Gendering Wisdom: Sex, Gender, and the Play of Proverbs in Early Wisdom 

Traditions (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Early Proverb Society (EPS) 

Organizer: Karl Arthur Erik Persson, Signum Univ. 

Presider: Karl Arthur Erik Persson 

A roundtable discussion with Ilana Sasson, Sacred Heart Univ.; Nancy Mason 

Bradbury, Smith College; Brian O’Camb, Indiana Univ. Northwest; Stacy S. Klein, 

Rutgers Univ.; and Chase Padusniak, Princeton Univ. 

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Boundaries and Borderlands 

Sponsor: Brepols 

Organizer: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Durham Univ. 

Presider: Elizabeth Archibald, Durham Univ. 

“Hálogaland, Whose Inhabitants Often Live Together with the Finnar”: Norse- 

Sámi Relations in the Arctic Borderlands 

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough 

Bishops, Revenants, and Walrus Skulls: Christianity on the Margins in Norse Greenland 

Rosalind Bonté, Brepols Publishers 

Borders and Boundaries in the Conversion of Germany under the Carolingians 

John-Henry Clay, Durham Univ. 

A Reassessment of the “Exile” Theme in Old English Poetry 

Harriet Soper, Univ. of Cambridge 

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Assembling Arthur (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Leah Haught, Univ. of West Georgia,; Leila K. Norako, Univ. 

of Washington–Seattle 

Presider: Leah Haught and Leila K. Norako 

The Effect of Caxton’s Modifications to the Morte Darthur on Listening Audiences 

David Eugene Clark, Suffolk County Community College 

Beginning and Ending with Arthur: Compilation Practices of Arthurian Romance 

in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts 

Rebecca Pope, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Kent 

Gawain’s Mythic Penis: Castration Anxiety and the Problems of Mastery in Sir 

Gawain and the Green Knight 

James C. Staples, New York Univ. 

Assembling Malory’s Arthur: How Was/Is the “Text” of the Morte Darthur 

Assembled? 

D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor Univ. 

Response: “Constellations” and Arthurian Assemblages 

Sarah M. Anderson, Princeton Univ. 

Discussant: Arthur Bahr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


10:30 a.m.–noon 



Female Friendship in Medieval Literature II 



Presider: Karma Lochrie, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 

Models of Female Friendship in the Lives of Saints 

Andrea Boffa, York College, CUNY 

Love and Friendship in the Twelfth Century 

Stella Wang, Harvard Univ. 

Sisters, Eroticism, and the Red Cat: Homosocial Female Bonds in Troubadour 

Poetry 

Leslie Anderson, Tulane Univ. 

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Thinking with Medieval Thought 

Sponsor: Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton Univ. 

Organizer: Sara S. Poor, Princeton Univ. 

Presider: Sara S. Poor 

Paganism, the Orient, and the West: Wolfram von Eschenbach against the Clash 

of Civilizations 

Patric Di Dio Di Marco, Stanford Univ. 

Medieval Personifications as Engines of Thought 

Katharine Breen, Northwestern Univ. 

Baptizing History: Fluid Historicity Medieval and Modern 

Chase Padusniak, Princeton Univ. 

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539 FETZER 1005 

Archaeology of Production and Power in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Pam J. Crabtree, New York Univ. 

Presider: Pam J. Crabtree 

How Are Economic Resources Transformed into Power? 

David Yoon, American Numismatic Society 

Rural Production and City-State Formation in Medieval Lucca 

Taylor Zaneri, New York Univ. 

Clay Pans and Pita Bread in Early Medieval Europe (Sixth to Seventh Century), 

from Spain to Eastern Europe 

Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida 

Cows versus Cod: Contextualizing a Medieval Commercial Fishery in Iceland 

Frank J. Feeley, Graduate Center, CUNY 

540 FETZER 1010 

Materia Medica: Plants, Animals, and Minerals in Healing 

Sponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: William H. York, Portland State Univ. 

Presider: Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Univ. of Missouri–Kansas City 

Origins and Ingredients: A Comparison of Early Medieval Remedies 

Claire Burridge, Univ. of Cambridge 

The Use of the Mandrake in the Early Middle Ages for the Gout, for the Conception, 

and as an Anesthetic 

Arsenio Ferraces-Rodríguez, Univ. da Coruña 

Memory and Materia Medica in Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine: An Attempt at the 

Reconstruction of the Inner Logic of Application 

Shahrzad Irannejad, Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz 

541 FETZER 1040 

Cistercian Abbeys of Brittany 

Sponsor: Ancient Abbeys of Brittany Project; Center for Cistercian and 

Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ. 

Organizer: Claude L. Evans, Univ. of Toronto–Mississauga 

Presider: K. Paul Evans, York Univ. 

Les abbayes cisterciennes de Bretagne au XIIe siècle: Lieux de prières et sentinelles 

politiques 

Joëlle Quaghebeur, Univ. de Bretagne Sud-Lorient 

Acceptation et refus de la modernité stylistique dans l’architecture cistercienne: 

L’exemple de la Bretagne 

Yves Gallet, Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne 

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Le Relecq Abbey: Constructing Uniformity on the Margins of the Christian World 

Alexandra Gajewski, Independent Scholar 

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542 FETZER 1045 

Ibero-Medieval Studies Tomorrow: Developing New Materials and Pedagogical 

Approaches to Introduce the Rich Variety of Medieval Iberian Cultures (A Roundtable) 

Sponsor: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA); 

North American Catalan Society 


Presider: Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown Univ. 

A roundtable discussion with Emily S. Beck, College of Charleston; Linde M. Brocato, 

Univ. of Memphis; Mark D. Johnston, DePaul Univ.; Gregory Kaplan, Univ. of Tennessee– 

Knoxville; Isidro J. Rivera, Univ. of Kansas; and Maureen Russo Rodríguez, Schreiner Univ. 


543 FETZER 1060 

No Entry: Impenetrable Architecture in Medieval Art 

Organizer: Danny Smith, Stanford Univ.; Lora Webb, Stanford Univ. 

Presider: Danny Smith and Lora Webb 

One Does Not Simply Walk into the Heavenly Jerusalem: The Visualization of 

Access and Restriction on Early Christian Sarcophagi 

Beatrice Leal, Univ. of East Anglia 

Ars Memorativa, Reliquaries, and the Performance of Grief: Interaction of Image 

and Text in the Berlin Veldeke Manuscript (mfg 282) 

Robert Forke, Stanford Univ. 

Reading the Choir Stalls of Amiens Cathedral as an Enclosed Garden 

Emogene S. Cataldo, Columbia Univ. 

544 FETZER 2016 

Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture II 

Organizer: Judith Soria, “Orient et Méditerranée,” CNRS; Jennifer Lyons, 

Ithaca College 

Presider: Jennifer Lyons 

The Dialectic of Body and Soul in Medieval Funeral Art (1200–1500) 

Robert Marcoux, Univ. Laval 

Fleshy Books, Soulful Writing, and Medieval Identity in the Flemish Last Judgment 

Fresco at Albi 

Elizabeth M. Sandoval, Ohio State Univ. 

Mediators of Body and Soul: Representations of Plants as Physical and Spiritual 

Medicine 

Sarah R. Kyle, Univ. of Central Oklahoma 

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545 FETZER 2020 

Transformations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages II: New Methodologies 

and Approaches 

Sponsor: Dept. of History, Durham Univ. 

Organizer: Helen Foxhall Forbes, Durham Univ. 

Presider: James Corke-Webster, Durham Univ. 

From Group to Subject: Rethinking Identity in the Early Middle Ages 

Guy Halsall, Univ. of York 

Gregory of Tours, Religious Authority, and Modern Sociology 

Christopher Guyol, SUNY–Geneseo 

Calabria, AD 400–900: Early Medieval? Late Antique? Byzantine? 

Helen Foxhall Forbes 

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546 FETZER 2030 

Across Boundaries: Traditions, Texts, Ideas 

Sponsor: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; Platinum 

Latin 

Organizer: B. Gregory Hays, Univ. of Virginia; Danuta Shanzer, Univ. Wien 

Presider: B. Gregory Hays 

The Functions of Natural Description in the Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus 

Michael Roberts, Wesleyan Univ. 

When the Greeks Were Arabs: Genealogy and the Transfer of Knowledge in al-Kindī 

Coleman Connelly, Ohio State Univ. 

Arabica Exemplaria: William of Tyre’s Use of Christian Arabic Historiography 

Julian Yolles, Harvard Univ. 

547 FETZER 2040 

The Matter of Ornament 

Organizer: Ashley Jones, Univ. of Florida 

Presider: Ashley Jones 

Material Presence and Painted Ornament in Carolingian Gospel Books 

Beth Fischer, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 

Mediating the Earthly and Sacred: The Play of Ornament in Liturgical Objects 

from Saint-Denis 

Gerry Guest, John Carroll Univ. 

Ornament as Interface: The Significance of Ornament in Intercultural Encounters 

Johannes von Müller, Warburg Institute/Max Weber Stiftung, Bonn 

Ornament’s Matter and Painting’s Fiction in the Chapels of Charles IV 

Allison McCann, Univ. of Pittsburgh 


Making History: Biographical Imperatives in Constructing “Robin Hood” 

Sponsor: International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) 

Organizer: Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston 

Presider: Lorraine Kochanske Stock 

Vindicating Marian: The Influence of Mary Wollstonecraft in Thomas Love Peacock’s 

1822 Maid Marian 

Sadie Hash, Univ. of Houston 

Robin Hood with Disney Stood: A New Biography of the Outlaw in 1950s Hollywood 

Thomas Rowland, Wentworth Military Academy College 

Robin Hood’s Postmodern Rhizomatic Biography 

Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian Univ. 

Rewriting History and Legend: Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood 

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Laura Blunk, Cuyahoga Community College 

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Settlement and Landscape II: Textual Approaches to the Medieval in the Modern 

Organizer: Vicky McAlister, Southeast Missouri State Univ.; Jennifer L. 

Immich, Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver 

Presider: Jennifer L. Immich 

Approaching the Medieval in Comic: How the Adventures of an Arthurian 

Knight are Appropriated for a Contemporary Audience 

Annegret Oehme, Univ. of Washington–Seattle 

Hive Minds: Interdisciplinarity in Research and Pedagogy 

Lahney Preston-Matto, Adelphi Univ. 

America’s “Poisoned Landscape”: Medievalism and the Alt-right 

Mary A. Valante, Appalachian State Univ. 



Purity: Early Medieval Perspectives II 

Sponsor: Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der 


Organizer: Veronika Wieser, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische 

Akademie der Wissenschaften; Albrecht Diem, Syracuse Univ. 

Presider: Albrecht Diem 

Ideologies of Death and Salvation at Early Medieval Saints’ Shrines 

Veronika Wieser 

Make Carthage Great Again: The Council of Carthage of 525, Episcopal Authority, 

and Monastic Privileges 

Merle Eisenberg, Princeton Univ. 

Liturgical Purity and Political Polemic in Ninth-Century Lyons 

Graeme Ward, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der 



Hunting for the Animal Subject in Anglo-Saxon England (A Roundtable) 

Organizer: Matthew E. Spears, Cornell Univ. 

Presider: Matthew E. Spears 

A roundtable discussion with Benjamin Weber, Princeton Univ.; Heather M. Flowers, 

Minnesota State Univ.–Mankato; Danielle Ruether-Wu, Cornell Univ.; Kaitlin Griggs, 

Carleton Univ.; and Robert Stanton, Boston College. 

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Bodies and Communities in Anglo-Saxon England 

Sponsor: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Columbus State Univ. 

Organizer: Shannon Godlove, Columbus State Univ. 

Presider: Shannon Godlove 

The Disembodied Patron in the Encomium Emmae reginae 

Emily Butler, John Carroll Univ. 

Grief and the Grave: Change and Community Obligation to the Dead Body in 

Anglo-Saxon England 

A. Aversa Sheldon, Univ. of Oxford 

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Conflicting Forms: Europe 1300–1500 

Organizer: Zachary E. Stone, Univ. of Virginia 

Presider: Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette Univ. 

Political Posters in Late Medieval England: An Archaeology of Form 

Sonja Drimmer, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst 

Art under Siege in Fourteenth-Century France 

Christina Normore, Northwestern Univ. 

Semiotics on the Battlefield 

Daniel Davies, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

We Need to Talk about the Schism 

Zachary E. Stone 


Music and Liturgy II 




Presider: Joseph Dyer, Independent Scholar 

Dynamic Parallelism in the Psalms and Gregorian Chant 

William Peter Mahrt, Stanford Univ. 

On the Notion of Hexachordal Function in Medieval Music Theory and Practice 

Stefano Mengozzi, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

The Art of Psalm Paraphrase in Early Frankish Offices 

Benjamin Brand, Univ. of North Texas 


The Second Sex: Women and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature 

Sponsor: New England Saga Society (NESS) 

Organizer: Andrew M. Pfrenger, Kent State Univ.–Salem 

Presider: Marjorie A. Housley, Univ. of Notre Dame 

Draumkonur as Dream Anima 

Suzanne Valentine, Háskóli Íslands 

Maðr þóttumk ek mensskr til þessa: Reclaiming Gender and Genealogy in The 

Waking of Angantyr 

William Biel, Univ. of Connecticut 

Með leynilegri ást: Love, Marriage, and Authorial Agenda in The Saga of Viglund 

the Fair 

Andrew M. Pfrenger 

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Gray Matter: Brains, Diseases, and Disorders 

Organizer: Deborah Thorpe, Univ. of York 

Presider: Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College 

Treatment of Learning Disabilities and Other Mental Health Issues in Medieval 

English Medicine and Law 

Wendy J. Turner, Augusta Univ. 

Madness, Nightmares, Melancholy: Exceptional Mental States in Medieval Commentaries 

on Aristotle’s De somno 

Agnes Karpinski, Univ. des Saarlandes 

Attention and Distraction in Medieval Thought 

Eliza Buhrer, Loyola Univ. New Orleans 

Diagnosing Mental Infirmity in Medieval Irish Legal Scholia 

Anna Matheson, Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, Univ. Bretagne 

Occidentale/UFR des Langes étrangères appliquées, Univ. de Lille 3 


Math in Medieval Literature 

Organizer: Michaela Wiesinger, Univ. Wien 

Presider: Christine Cooper-Rompato, Utah State Univ. 

Who Reads Mathematical Texts? The German Arithmetical Manuscripts in the 

Austrian National Library 

Christina Jackel, Univ. Wien 

“Of a Certain Magnitude”: Aristotle and the Size of Sublimity 

Valerie Allen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 

Logico-Mathematical Descriptions of Infinity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Selena Erkizan, Ege Univ. 

The “Algorism” in Medieval German Literature 

Michaela Wiesinger 


Technical Communication in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State Univ. 

Presider: M. Wendy Hennequin 

Medical Maths, or, How I Learned to Love a Graph 

Elise Williams, Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto 

Restoring Continuity: How Readers and Writers Remedied Terminological Flaws 

in Constantine the African’s Translations 

Brian Long, Univ. of Pennsylvania 

Begging Poems as Business Writing: From Chaucer to Hoccleve to the Poet Laureate 

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Mary Frances Zambreno, Elmhurst College 


Revisiting Alphonsine Historiography and Legislation 

Organizer: Yolanda Iglesias, Univ. of Toronto; David Navarro, Texas State 

Univ.–San Marcos 

Presider: Peter Mahoney, Stonehill College 

New Approaches to Siete Partidas and the 1272 Revolt of the Nobles 

Yolanda Iglesias and David Navarro 

“Los Sabios Antiguos”: The Sources of Alfonso X’s Las Siete Partidas 

Matthew Orsag, Univ. of Toronto 

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“Foolish Belief ”: The Status of Muslims and Jews under the Reign of Alfonso X 

Sandra Fildes, Univ. of Toronto 


Lettered Bodies: Theorizing Epistolarity in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Elise Broaddus, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

Presider: Elise Broaddus 

How Did Heloise Respond to Abelard’s Historia calamitum in Her First Letter? 

Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College 

Letter-Writing and Collecting as Performing and Shaping Sanctity in Late Medieval 

Italy 

Austin Powell, Catholic Univ. of America 

Hypermediation and the Dictaminal Letter 

Jonathan M. Newman, Missouri State Univ. 


Neighboring Languages and Cross-Cultural Exchange: Persian/Arabic, French/ 

English 

Organizer: Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Univ. of Toronto 

Presider: Suzanne Conklin Akbari 

Theater of Letters 

Karla Mallette, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor 

Arabic in English and French 

Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Middle English/Arabic 

Shazia Jagot, Syddansk Univ. 


Speaking of Soth and Slaughter: Pragmatic Meaning in the Middle Ages 

Organizer: Eric Bryan, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology 

Presider: Alexander Ames, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia 

Repetition, Class, and the Unnamed Speakers of Beowulf 

Michael R. Kightley, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette 

Killing Each Other like Civilized People? Verbal Jousting in Tristrams saga 

Emily Reed, Univ. of Sheffield 

Verbal Aggression and Pragmatic Meaning in Old Norse Sagas 

Eric Bryan 

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The Medieval University Today 

Organizer: M. Jane Toswell, Western Univ. 

Presider: Lindy Brady, Univ. of Mississippi 

Who’s the Boss: Philology, Philosophy, or Theory? 

Haruko Momma, Institute for Advanced Study, Univ. of Notre Dame 

The Politics of the Liberal Arts, Then and Now 

Edward L. Risden, St. Norbert College 

Ed-Tech Abelard: Classroom Innovation and Medievalism 

Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology 

Respondent: M. Jane Toswell 

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The End of Merlin 

Sponsor: Société Internationale des Amis de Merlin 

Organizer: Anne Berthelot, Univ. of Connecticut 

Presider: Barbara Miller, Univ. at Buffalo 

Merlin’s End in the Premiers faits du roi Arthur: A True Fairytale 

Anne Berthelot 

Merlin’s Triumphant End in the Middle English Romance Of Arthour and of Merlin 

Kathryn Walton, York Univ. 

Merlin’s Suspension in Graal Théâtre, by Florence Delay and Jacques Roubaud 

Florence Marsal, Univ. of Connecticut 

A Saint or a Devil: Maugis and Merlin’s Ends 

Kathleen Jarchow, Univ. of Connecticut 


Victorian Medievalism: Translation and Adaptation 

Organizer: Daniel C. Najork, Arizona State Univ. 

Presider: Daniel C. Najork 

“A Vision Rather Than a Dream”: Adaptation of Structure and Self in News from 

Nowhere 

Amber Dunai, Texas A&M Univ.–Central Texas 

Fixed Forms in the Kelmscott Penitential Psalms 

Arthur J. Russell, Case Western Reserve Univ. 

Translation and Adaptation from Medieval to Modern in a Victorian Illuminated 

Manuscript 

William Diebold, Reed College 

Women in the East: Exoticism and Healing in Sir Beues of Hamtoun and Ivanhoe 

Sarah Star, Univ. of Toronto 


The Crusades through the Nexus of Text and Nonlinguistic Representations 


Organizer: Paul E. Chevedden, Univ. of Texas–Austin 

Presider: Donald J. Kagay, Univ. of Dallas 

The Crusade’s East-West Nexus: Toledo-Tarragona-Rome-Antioch-Jerusalem 

Lawrence J. McCrank, Independent Scholar 

The Early Crusades Schematized: From Text to Image 

Paul E. Chevedden 

Beatus Manuscripts during the Reign of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor of 

England: A Response to the Fall of Jerusalem? 

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Presider: Michael Van Dussen 

The Wordes of Poule 

Michael Sargent, Queens College, CUNY 

Hilton on Paul 

Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut 

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“[H]o so haþ clene affectioun in his soule”: Conservative Affectivity and the Middle 

English Meditiationes de passione Christi 

Ryan Perry, Univ. of Kent 

Love: Is It More than a Feeling? 

Robyn Malo, Purdue Univ. 


Education and Society: Schools, Teachers, and Pupils in the Medieval World 

Organizer: Sarah B. Lynch, Angelo State Univ. 

Presider: Sarah B. Lynch 

Fosterage versus Schooling and Social Dynamics of Education in Medieval Iceland 

Ryder Patzuk-Russell, Univ. of Birmingham 

System for Teaching: On the Pedagogical Project of Peter Lombard’s Sentences 

Robert J. Porwoll, Univ. of Chicago 

The Devil’s School: Paradigms of Teaching in Cynewulf’s Juliana 

Christina M. Heckman, Augusta Univ. 

Teachers, Students, and Schools in Visigothic Iberia 

Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Angelo State Univ. 


Premodern Futurities: Speculative Objects and Prognostication in the Medieval World 

Organizer: Carly B. Boxer, Univ. of Chicago; Jack Dragu, Univ. of Chicago; 

Luke Fidler, Univ. of Chicago 

Presider: Carly B. Boxer, Jack Dragu, and Luke Fidler 

Historical Fiction or Prose Fantasy? Arthurian Fantasies of Tomorrow 

Joseph Derosier, Northwestern Univ. 

Timekeeping in the Cloister: Teleologies of Sculpture and Water Clocks 

Matthew J. Westerby, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison 

Material Temporalities of Earth and Stone 

Laura Veneskey, Wake Forest Univ. 

The Shape of Reform 

Katherine C. Little, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder 

Respondents: Roland Betancourt, Institute for Advanced Study/Univ. of California– 

Irvine, and Anne F. Harris, DePauw Univ. 


Rape and Education, Medieval and Modern (A Roundtable) 


Organizer: Carissa M. Harris, Temple Univ. 

Presider: Carissa M. Harris 

Rape, Hyper-vigilance, and the Making of an Honorable Woman 

Mary C. Flannery, Univ. de Lausanne 

“Our Very Moder in Kynde, of Our First Makyng”: Bodily Sovereignty and the 

Problematics of Rape 

Katharine W. Jager, Univ. of Houston–Downtown 

Teaching Rape in Chaucer and Gower 

Jennifer Garrison, St. Mary’s Univ. 

Teaching the Legend of Philomela from Ovid to Gower 

Shyama Rajendran, George Washington Univ. 

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Medieval Philosophy II: Ethics and Political Thought 

Sponsor: Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy 

Organizer: Jason Aleksander, National Univ. 

Presider: Jason Aleksander 

The Political Thought of Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib 

Josep Puig Montada, Univ. Complutense Madrid 

The Problem of Self-Sacrifice in Thirteenth-Century Philosophy 

Milo Crimi, Univ. of California–Los Angeles 

Political Philosophy in the Scholastics: Peter of John Olivi and John Duns Scotus 

Ryan Thornton, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 



As Through a Proverb Darkly: Sentential Modes of Interpretation in Early Literature 

Sponsor: Early Proverb Society (EPS) 

Organizer: Karl Arthur Erik Persson, Signum Univ. 

Presider: Sarah M. Anderson, Princeton Univ. 

Syntax, Wisdom, and Aesthetics in Old English Poetry 

Evan Wilson, Univ. of California–Berkeley 

Proverbial Wisdom and Ways of Knowing in Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale 

Johanna Kramer, Univ. of Missouri–Columbia 

More Than Grammatically Feminine: Crashaw’s Epigrammata sacra 

Emily A. Ransom, Univ. of Wisconsin–Green Bay 

Reading between the First Two Lines: Al-Mutanabbi’s Poetics of the Proverb 

Joshua Calvo, Princeton Univ. 


Syon Abbey and Its Associates 

Sponsor: Syon Abbey Society; Vernacular Devotional Cultures Group 

Organizer: Stephanie Morley, St. Mary’s Univ.; Brandon Alakas, Univ. of 

Alberta–Augustana 

Presider: Stephanie Morley 

Fifty Shades of Syon Abbey 

Jennifer N. Brown, Marymount Manhattan College 

Spiritual Exercises at Syon Abbey: Syon MS 18 and the Emergence of Ignatian 

Spirituality 

Brandon Alakas 

A New Syon Manuscript? The Carthusian Door Verses of Beinecke MS 317 

Laura Saetveit Miles, Univ. i Bergen 

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Cities of Religion, Religions of the City: Religious Diversity and Urbanization in 

Medieval Europe 

Sponsor: Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Bristol; Henri Pirenne 

Institute for Medieval Studies 

Organizer: Benjamin Pohl, Univ. of Bristol 

Presider: Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan Univ. 

The Late Medieval English Cathedral in Its City: Structural Diversity and Local 

Relations at Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester 

Richard Fisher, Univ. of Bristol 

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Urban Identity as “Translatio”: The Development of Caen in the Eleventh and 

Twelfth Centuries 

Laura L. Gathagan, SUNY–Cortland 

A “Scabby Goat”? Theology Students between the University and the City, Paris 

ca. 1200 

Jan Vandeburie, Leverhulme Trust/Univ. degli Studi di Roma Tre 

Nizhny Arkhyz: A Little-Known Holy City of Medieval Christianity 

John Latham, School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London 


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