Program
Program
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Latest update: 17-MAR-10
Thursday, March 18
12:00-6:00 Registration Linsly-Chittenden Hall
12:30 Jewish Studies Reception Whitney Humanities Center (Wall St. & Church St.) Room 208.
Sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program at Yale. The meal will be kosher. Please RSVP to: micha.perry@yale.edu if you plan to attend.
2:00-3:15 Plenary Session
1. Opening Address
Welcome: Anders Winroth, Yale University
Introduction: Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University
Opening address: Angelika Neuwirth, Freie Universität Berlin, “Reclaiming the Qur’an as a European Text. Reflections on a New Qur’an Hermeneutics”
3:15-3:45 Coffee and Tea
3:45-5:30 Concurrent Sessions
2. Manuscripts, Texts, and Libraries of Medieval England: A Session in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff
Organizer and Chair: George Hardin Brown, Stanford University
Charles F. Briggs, University of Vermont, “Reconstructing the Role of Moral Philosophy in Medieval England and Beyond, One Manuscript at a Time”
Matthew Salisbury, Worcester College, Oxford, “A Reconsideration of the Identification and Properties of Medieval English Liturgical ‘Uses’”
Rodney Thomson, University of Tasmania, “Bringing the Renaissance to Oxford: The Early Library of Corpus Christi College”
3. A Millennium Ago: Scandinavia, 1010
Organizer and Chair: Oren Falk, Cornell University
Alison Finlay, Birkbeck College, University of London, “Negotiating the Millennium: Pagan Poets and Christian Patrons”
Douglas Bolender, University of Massachusetts, Boston, “The Creation of a Propertied Landscape: Iceland at the Millennium”
Margaret Cormack, College of Charleston, “Iceland’s First Christian Century”
4. Medieval Elementary Education: Schools, Schoolrooms, Schoolbooks
Organizer: Christopher Cannon, New York University
Chair: Traugott Lawler, Yale University
Katherine Zieman, Notre Dame University, “The Secret Lives of Schoolchildren: Early Education and Privacy in Late Medieval England”
Kimberly Durkota, Fordham University, “Horae as Children’s Books: Teaching Literacy to Lay Children through Prayer. An Examination of New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, PML 19604”
Erika Kihlman, Stockholm University, “Poetry in Motion: The Medieval Sequence as a Vehicle for Grammar Teaching”
5. A Mediterranean Society in Retrospective: S. D. Goitein and His Work
Organizer and Chair: Youval Rotman, Tel Aviv University
Mark R. Cohen, Princeton University, “‘A Dwarf Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant’”
Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center, “Goitein and Braudel: The Story of a Failed Collaboration”
Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman, Vanderbilt University, “Transcending Time, Space, and Communal Boundaries: Goitein’s Vision of the Mediterranean”
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania, “Goitein, Free Trade Zones, and the Writing of Economic History”
6. Writing Work: Narrating Labor in the Later Middle Ages
Organizer and Chair: Kellie Robertson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ellen K. Rentz, Claremont McKenna College, “Half-Acre Bylaws: Harvest-Sharing in Piers Plowman”
Lisa H. Cooper, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “‘If I Had a Hammer’: Christ of the Trades and the Treachery of Tools in Late Medieval England”
Ethan Knapp, Ohio State University, “Labor in Gower”
7. Literature and the Courts
Organizer and Chair: Beatrice Gruendler, Yale University
Carl Davila, The College at Brockport, “‘They called her the imâm’: Artiste Slaves and the Production of Courtly Music in Ninth-Century Cordoba”
Jocelyn Sharlet, University of California, Davis, “Being Somebody: Women, Subjectivity, and Material Life in Medieval Arabic Literary Culture”
8. Outside In, Inside Out: Medieval Theologies of the Self
Organizer: Barbara Newman, Northwestern University
Chair: Jessica Brantley, Yale University
Barbara Newman, “Persona: Coinherence, Performance, and the Inner Self”
Rachel Fulton, University of Chicago, “Vas admirabile, opus Excelsi: The Virgin Mary as the Container of God”
Nicholas Watson, Harvard University, “The Whited Sepulchre: Towards a History of Hypocrisy, 1100-1400”
9. The Middle Ages in Film
Organizer and Chair: Brian Noell, Quinnipiac University
Martha W. Driver, Pace University, “What’s Right with this Picture? Meaning and Memory in Medieval Movies”
Carl James Grindley, Eugenio María de Hostos College, City University of New York, “Dante, Doré, Damned, and Dumb”
Michael A. Torregrossa, Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages, “King Arthur, Warrior Woman of Camelot? The Transformation of the Matter of Britain in TYPE-MOON’s Fate/stay night Franchise (2004– )”
5:30-7:00 Opening Reception Yale Center for British Art, with additional funding from the Yale University Art Gallery
7:30 Graduate Student Pub Night Bar (254 Crown Street)
Friday, March 19
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast Linsly-Chittenden Hall
8:00-6:00 Registration Linsly-Chittenden Hall
8:30-10:00 Plenary Session
10. CARA Session: Beyond Vikings: Identity and Belief in Medieval Scandinavia
Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA)
Organizer: Thomas Goodmann, University of Miami
Chair: Nancy Wicker, University of Mississippi
Sverre Håkon Bagge, University of Bergen, “Snorri and Saxo: The Meeting between Latin and Vernacular Historiography in Scandinavia”
Olle Ferm, Stockholm University, “‘A good joke is now told about all abbots’: Just a Comic Tale or a Harsh Satire on Monastic Life?”
Brian Patrick McGuire, Roskilde University, “When Heaven Came Closer: The Coming of Pastoral Christianity to Medieval Denmark”
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea
10:30-12.15 Concurrent Sessions
11. Global French, Multilingual France in the High Middle Ages
Organizer and Chair: R. Howard Bloch, Yale University
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Old French in/and the Medieval Mediterranean”
Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University, “Tour de Babel and lo parler materno”
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University, “The Most Delectable of Languages”
12. A Millennium Ago: Courtiers and Bishops 1010
Organizer and Chair: C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer P. Kingsley, Columbia University, “Aesthetic Self-Consciousness and Aesthetic Reform in the Imperial Church”
Helmut Flachenecker, Universität Würzburg, “1010: A Bishopric Is Born, Foreigners Have to Go?”
Gerd Althoff, Universität Münster, “Bishops and Other Magnates at the Court of Emperor Henry II”
Courtney de Mayo, University of Houston, “The West Frankish Bishops and the Early Capetian State, 987-1031”
13. Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Interaction
Organizer and Chair: Nora Berend, University of Cambridge
Kathryn A. Miller, Stanford University, “Operating an Interfaith Institution: Redemption of Christian and Muslim Captives in the Medieval Mediterranean”
Thomas Devaney, Brown University, “Religion, Community, and Spectacle in Jaén and Cyprus”
Micha J. Perry, Yale University, “Jewish Heaven, Christian Hell: A Twelfth-Century Jewish Perception of the Afterlife”
Alexandra Cuffel, Independent Scholar, “Ten Tribes as Muslim Trope: Intersections in Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Apocalyptic”
14. Round Table: Medieval Economic History and Robert Lopez
Organizer: Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia
Chair: Kathryn L. Reyerson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Participants: John H. Pryor, University of Sydney; James Masschaele, Rutgers University; James M. Murray, Western Michigan University; Richard W. Unger.
15. The Gift of Literature: New Perspectives on Medieval Patronage and Literary Circulation
Organizer and Chair: Deborah McGrady, University of Virginia
Jeanette Patterson, Johns Hopkins University, “Stolen Scriptures: The Wartime Politics of Owning the Bible historiale”
Jennifer E. Naumann, Florida State University, “Problematizing Patronage: The Book as Gift and the Repackaging of Harley MS 4431”
Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, “‘Circuits of power’: A Model for Rereading Poet-Patron Relations in Late-Medieval Defences of Women”
16. Gregory of Tours Reappraised
Organizer and Chair: Walter Goffart, Yale University
Alexander Callander Murray, University of Toronto, Mississauga, “The Political Perspective of Gregory of Tours’ Histories”
Joachim Henning, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, “Sixth-Century Gaul’s Transformation: Gregory Read by an Archaeologist”
Joaquín Martínez Pizarro, State University of New York, Stony Brook, “The Pathos of Pretenders: Gundovald, Munderic, and Gisulf in Gregory of Tours’ Histories”
Andrew Gillett, Macquarie University, “Love and Grief in Merovingian Diplomacy”
17. The Medieval Book: Structure and Symbol
Organizer: Raymond Clemens, Illinois State University
Chair: Sarah Kelen, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Catherine Brown, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Remember the Hand: Early Iberian Scribes and the Articulate Codex”
Diane J. Reilly, Indiana University, “Scribebant auro: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Choir Manuscript”
Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh, “Romance Illustration as Symbol: Choices, Placements, and Treatments”
18. Beauty in the Two Cities: Religious Faith and Embodied Perception
Organizer: Sara Lipton, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Chair: Miri Rubin, Queen Mary College, University of London
Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia, “On Liturgy and Beauty”
Sara Lipton, “Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder”
Talya Fishman, University of Pennsylvania, “Sensing Torah: A Medieval Jewish Thinker on Beauty as a Springboard to Faith”
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Plenary Session
19. Medieval Academy of America Business Meeting
Presider: Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University
Presentation of reports; election of officers; awarding of prizes
2:00-3:45 Concurrent Sessions
20. From Medieval to Early Modern: Continuity or Change
Organizer and Chair: Jim Rhodes, Southern Connecticut State University
David Aers, Duke University, “A Second Whisper”
James Simpson, Harvard University, “Diachronic Dialogue, or Shouting across a Century”
21. A Millennium Ago: Thought 1010: Where Theory Met Practice
Organizer and Chair: Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University
Florence Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University, “Libri passionorum: Guarimpotus on the Passions of the Saints and the Diseases of the Body”
Domenico Lanera, Independent Scholar, “The Geometric Design of Castel del Monte Decoded”
22. Jewish Identities
Organizer and Chair: Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College, Hartford
Suzanne Yeager, Fordham University, “Medieval Jewish Identity and the Image of the City Besieged”
Wolfram Drews, Universität Bonn, “Jewish Identity in the High Middle Ages. Megillat Ahimaaz as Evidence for the Intersection of Different Cultural Traditions”
David Shyovitz, University of Pennsylvania, “The Origins of the ‘Mourner’s Kaddish’: Theological Adaptation and Interreligious Polemic in Medieval Jewish Liturgy”
Yosi Israeli, Tel Aviv University, “Undermining and Constructing Jewishness in conversos Identity: Profiat Duran and Pablo de Santa María”
23. Round Table: The Practical Uses of Manuscripts in Research and Teaching (Graduate Student Committee Session)
Organizer and Chair: Andrew Kraebel, Yale University
Participants: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Consuelo W. Dutschke, Columbia University; Martin Foys, Drew University; Fiona Somerset, Duke University
24. The Aesthetics of Enigma in Medieval Literature
Organizer and Chair: Jeff Rider, Wesleyan University
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College, “Laughter Where You Least Expect It: The Puzzling Pleasures of Humor”
Irit Ruth Kleiman, Boston University, “The Enigma of Origin, or Whom the Grail Serves”
Lucie Dolezalová, Charles University, Prague, “The Charm and Challenge of Textual Enigma in Twelfth-Century Latin Literature”
25. Food, Drink, Environment, and Crisis in Northern Europe
Organizer: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS) Society
Chair: Tim Newfield, McGill University
John H. Munro, University of Toronto, “Changing Patterns of Alcoholic Consumption in Late-Medieval Flanders: The Relative Shift from Wine to Beer Consumption, as Revealed in the Excise Taxes, 1300–1500”
Richard Oram, University of Stirling, “Evaporating Profits? Economic and Environmental Benefits and Costs of Sea-Salt Manufacture in Medieval Scotland”
Nils Hybel, University of Copenhagen, “Food Supplies, Long Distance Trade, Climate, and Population, 1000-1350”
Philip Slavin, Yale University, “The Impact of War on the Fourteenth-Century Food Crisis in England”
26. Round Table: The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Organizer: Paul Freedman, Yale University
Chair: Adam J. Kosto, Columbia University
Participants: Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara; Geoffrey Koziol, University of California, Berkeley; Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University.
Respondent: Thomas N. Bisson, Harvard University
27. “The Loveliness of Many-Colored Gems”: Jewels in the Middle Ages
Organizers: Valerie Allen, John Jay College, City University of New York, and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, Rhode Island School of Design
Chair: Henry Ansgar Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles
Brigitte Buettner, Smith College, “Neither Dead nor Alive: Precious Stones’ Paradoxical Materiality”
Karen Eileen Overbey, Tufts University, “Seeing through Skin: Gems, Jewels, and Crystals on Medieval Reliquaries”
Adin Lears, Cornell University, “Glittery Things: The Jeweled Rhetoric of Sanctity and Female Homoaffective Desire in Hali Meidenhad and the Passion of St. Margaret”
Respondent: G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., Georgetown University
3:45-4:15 Coffee and tea
4:15-6:00 Concurrent Sessions
28. John Boswell’s Medieval World
Organizer: María Rosa Menocal, Yale University
Chair: Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Ralph Hexter, Hampshire College, “‘In the spring of 1410 the saint came to Barcelona’: Fragments of an Unfinished Historical Novel by John Boswell”
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago, “The Power of Love in John Boswell’s Spain of the Three Religions”
María Rosa Menocal, “John Boswell’s Medieval Spain: That Stop on the Road to Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality”
29. Anselm of Laon and His School
Organizer and Chair: John Wei, Grinnell College
Cédric Giraud, Université de Nancy 2, “Anselm of Laon in the Twelfth-Century Schools: Between fama and memoria”
Alexander Andrée, University of Toronto, “In principio erat uerbum: the Gospel of John, Anselm of Laon, and the Origins of a Standard Commentary to the Bible”
Suzanne M. LaVere, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, “‘Preach, O Gathering of My Friends!’ The Active Life in Anselm of Laon’s Song of Songs Commentary and the Glossa Ordinaria”
30. Old English Studies: A Celebration of Fred C. Robinson
Chair: Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University
Mary Blockley, University of Texas, Austin, “Assimilative Variation, or, Come Mighty Must! Inevitable Shall!”
Mary K. Ramsey, Southeastern Louisiana University, “What’s in a Name If the Name Be Christ’s?”
Theo Vennemann, Universität München, “Athel, atheling, ethel: Origin and Decline of a Noble Family of Words”
J. R. Hall, University of Mississippi, “The Sword Hrunting in Beowulf: Unlocking the Word hord”
31. Planning the Action: Editions and Translations of Medieval Ordinals and Customaries
Organizer and Chair: Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame and Yale University
Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University, “Assembling the Ordinal of Monte Cassino”
Susan Boynton, Columbia University, and Isabelle Cochelin, University of Toronto, “A Collaborative Edition and Translation of the Cluniac Customary of Bernard”
Peter Jeffery, University of Notre Dame and Princeton University, “How Do You Get to St. Mary Major? Three Itineraries through the Eighth-Century Ordo Romanus Primus”
32. Medieval Holy Women at Home and Abroad
Organizer and Chair: Rosalynn Voaden, Arizona State University
Ann Marie Caron, Saint Joseph College, “The Liber Specialis Gratiae in Two Contexts”
Jane Tylus, New York University, “Habits of Writing: Catherine of Siena, and Late Medieval Women’s Literacy”
Claire Sahlin, Texas Woman’s University, “Violence against Women, Sexual Purity, and Ascetic Spirituality in the Lives of Holy Women of Medieval Scandinavia”
33. Communication and Reform in Medieval Italy
Organizer and Chair: Maureen C. Miller, University of California, Berkeley
Alison Locke Perchuk, Los Angeles, “Monastic Identity and Reform: Strategies of Visual and Material Communication in Twelfth-Century Lazio”
Kathryn L. Jasper, University of California, Berkeley, “Between Papal and Local Reform: Peter Damian and the Administration of Monastic Property”
Benjamin Brand, University of North Texas, “Echoes of Ecclesiastical Reform in the Liturgies of Medieval Tuscany”
34. New Voices in Medieval Paleography: How Manuscripts Speak to Us in a Digital Age
Organizer and Chair: Barbara A. Shailor, Yale University
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, University of Missouri, Kansas City, “Medieval Manuscripts in a Remote American Collection: Preserved, Protected, and Accessible”
William P. Stoneman, Harvard University, “New Science out of Old Books: New Tools for the Study of Medieval Paleography”
David Ganz, King’s College, University of London, “Digital Scriptorium and the Study of the Earliest Latin Manuscripts in North America”
35. Performance Theory and Medieval Texts
Organizer and Chair: Irina Dumitrescu, Southern Methodist University
Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State University, “Performing Legal Discourse in the Trentham Manuscript”
James A. Schultz, University of California, Los Angeles, “Performance and Performativity in the Middle High German Frauenlied”
Thomas Meacham, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Exchanging Words: Patronage and Epistolary Performance in Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.14.5”
Respondent: Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
6:15-7:30 Reception Beinecke Library, with major funding from Cambridge University Press
7:30-9:00 Banquet
Saturday, March 20
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast Linsly-Chittenden Hall
8:00-1:00 Registration Linsly-Chittenden Hall
9:00-10:00 Plenary Session
36. Presidential Address
Introduction: Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Herbert L. Kessler, Johns Hopkins University, “Speculum: Reflections on the Shattered Surface of Late Medieval Art”
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea
10:30-12:15 Concurrent Sessions
37. Revisiting the Spanish Kingdoms: Session in Honor of the Eightieth Birthday of J. N. Hillgarth
Organizers: Ann Kuzdale, Chicago State University; Lucy Pick, University of Chicago; Thomas Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto.
Chair: Ann Kuzdale
Miguel Gomez, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “‘Si finirem vitam meam in exercitu contra sarracenos’: The Wills of Las Navas de Tolosa”
Natalie Oeltjen, University of Toronto, “Money Talks: Fiscal Realities and the Shaping of Converso Identity in Majorca, 1391-1416”
Damian Smith, St. Louis University, “Crusade, Heresy, and Inquisition in and around the Lands of the Crown of Aragon, c. 1167-1276”
Respondent: Lucy Pick
38. A Millennium Ago: Law 1010
Organizer: Greta Austin, University of Puget Sound
Chair: Robert Somerville, Columbia University
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, “The Secularization of Islamic Law”
Charles M. Radding, Michigan State University, “Secular Law in Northern Italy”
Greta Austin, “The Rise of Western Canon Law in the Year 1010”
39. Jewish-Christian Relations and Vernacular Culture
Organizer and Chair: Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London
Ruth Nisse, Wesleyan University, “The Wars of the Sons of Jacob and the Rebirth of Epic in Early Medieval Europe”
Susan Einbinder, Hebrew Union College, “Jewish Physicians and Their Poetry: Responses to Christian Medicine Reflected in Verse”
Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of Dayton, “Rendering the Unseen Visible: The Language of Thirteenth-Century Manuscript Pictorials”
Lisa Lampert-Weissig, University of California, San Diego, “Temporality and the Myth of the Jew”
40. Medieval Drama: New Approaches
Organizer and Chair: Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland
Lynn Staley, Colgate University, “Wasteland and Dissolution”
Gail McMurray Gibson, Davidson College, “Medieval Drama in Afterlife: Early Modern Collectors and the Mystery Plays”
Helen Solterer, Duke University, “Three Paradoxes of Medieval Performance: Chartres 1935-1945”
41. Multilingualism and Macaronics
Organizer and Chair: Elizabeth Archibald, University of Bristol
Donna Alfano Bussell, University of Illinois, Springfield, “Penitence, Code-Switching, and the Inner Life in the Ancrene Wisse”
Simon Meecham-Jones, University of Cambridge, “Language Contact in the Welsh Penumbra: Evidence from MS Brogyntyn II”
Mark Amsler, University of Auckland, “Multilingual Literacies, Writing across Languages”
42. Revisiting Enclosure: New Approaches to the Study of Medieval Women’s Religious Life
Organizers: Arbeitsgruppe geistliche Frauen im europäischen Mittelalter / Sigrid Schmitt, Universität Trier, and Alison Beach, Universität zu Köln
Chair: Alison Beach
Gisela Muschiol, Universität Bonn, “A Legacy of the Fathers: The Reception of Late Antique Concepts of Enclosure in the Early Middle Ages”
Julian Hendrix, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, “Gender and Intercessory Prayer in Carolingian Monasticism”
Jasmin Hoven, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Projekt Germania Sacra, “Noble Nuns: between Contact, Claustration, and Isolation”
Sigrid Schmitt, “‘We Poor, sorrowful, god-captivated.’ Communities of Enclosed and Non-Enclosed Religious Women in the Late Middle Ages”
43. Script as Image: Epigraphy and Inscription in Medieval Art
Organizer and Chair: Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
Ben C. Tilghman, Walters Art Museum, “Letters of Expanded Meaning in Insular Manuscripts”
Joshua O’Driscoll, Harvard University, “Visual Vortex: An Ineffable Image from an Ottonian Gospel Book”
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center, “The Inscribed Image: Sculpture, Epigraphy, and the Making of Public Art”
Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross, “Christ’s Golden Voice: Inscriptions at the Papal Palace, Avignon”
44. Cicero Refused to Die: The Fate of the Classics in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate University
Chair: Sabine G. MacCormack, University of Notre Dame
Nancy van Deusen, “Medieval Cicero through the Eyes of Quintilian”
Frank T. Coulson, Ohio State University, “Reading Ovid in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance”
Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania, “The Advanced Authors in the Grammatical Curricula”
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:15 Concurrent Sessions
45. Round Table: The Toronto Feminists: How Did We Get Here from There? And Where Is “Here”?
Organizer and Chair: Nancy Partner, McGill University
Participants: Judith M. Bennett, University of Southern California; Kathleen Biddick, Temple University; Dyan Elliott, Northwestern University; Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University.
46. Law, Church, and Crown in the Long Twelfth Century
Organizer: Joshua C. Tate, Southern Methodist University
Chair: Dominique Bauer, Sint-Lucas, Belgium
Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University, and Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University, “Once a Tyrant, Always a Tyrant? John of Salisbury and the Becket Problem”
Emily K. Wood, Clemson University, “The Pragmatism of Protection: Philip Augustus’s Defense of the Church”
Joshua C. Tate, “Property, Patronage, and the Birth of the Common Law”
47. The Manuals of Instruction and Social Control in Fourteenth-Century England
Organizer: Margaret Jennings, Boston College
Chair: Stephen F. Brown, Boston College
Margaret Jennings, “The 1350 Revision of the Speculum Curatorum: Catechesis and Complaint as Tools for Social Control”
Eugene Crook, Florida State University, “Ranulph Higden ‘Edits’ Magna Carta: Maintaining Social Control as Mores Change”
Michael Haren, Dublin, “Confession, Social Ethics, and Social Discipline: The Case and Context of the Memoriale Presbiterorum”
48. Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Sponsored by the Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer and Chair: Ralph W. Mathisen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
John Matthews, Yale University, “The Place of Classical Antiquity in Late Antiquity”
Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University, Chicago, “The Emotions of Late Antiquity: Bridges or Ruptures with the Classical and Medieval Worlds?”
Danuta Shanzer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Practice, Ritual, Law: Continuity and Change in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”
49. A Millennium Ago: Art 1010
Organizer and Chair: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Jonathan M. Bloom, Boston College and Virginia Commonwealth University, “The Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (996-1021) and the Arts”
Carolyn Malone, University of Southern California, “Saint-Bénigne in Dijon (1001-1018) and Bishop Bruno’s Ambitions during the Burgundian Wars”
William J. Diebold, Reed College, “‘Enthusiasm is astir for the great German rulers of the past: precisely at a time when there are no more emperors’: Exhibiting Ottonian Art in Modern Germany”
50. Tree Lines: Nature and Culture in Medieval Woodlands
Organizer and Chair: Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Matthew Scribner, Queen’s University, Kingston, “Tree and Technology: Articulating the Ecological in The Dream of the Rood”
Laura L. Howes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Forests in Middle English Romance: On the Page and on the Ground”
Richard L. Keyser, Western Kentucky University, “Common Rights, Eminent Domain, and Sustainability in Medieval Woodlands”
51. Chaucer Criticism: The Next Ten Years
Organizer and Chair: Alastair Minnis, Yale University
Robert W. Hanning, Columbia University, “Toward a New Chaucerian Synthesis: Possible? Desirable?”
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto, “Chaucer in Circulation”
Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley, “‘Oon of thyne eyen thre’: Chaucer in the Future”
52. Dante: Theology, the Arts, and Poetry
Organizers: Filippo Naitana, Mt. Holyoke College, and Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
Chair: Filippo Naitana
Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley, “Authors and Readers, Active and Passive: Recanting De Vulgari Eloquentia 2.8 in Purgatorio 2”
Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University, “The Poetry of Theology and the Theology of Poetry: from Dante’s Lyrics to the Paradiso”
Ronald L. Martinez, Brown University, “‘Benedictus qui venis’: Palm Sunday in Dante’s Works”
3:15-3:45 Coffee and Tea
4:00-5:30 Plenary Session
53. Fellows Session
Organizer: Fellows of the Medieval Academy
Presider: Joan M. Ferrante, Columbia University
Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows
Charles Donahue, Jr., Harvard Law School, “The Legal Professions of Fourteenth-Century England”
5:30-7:00 Closing Reception Whitney Humanities Center