Vancouver 2008

The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Victoria are delighted to host the 83^rd annual meeting of The Medieval Academy of America, 3 April – 5 April 2008. This is also the 42nd annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific. An unusual number of early-period papers in the MAP/ MAA meeting, along with the presence, in the same place and time, of the annual Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, will provide a rich feast for medievalists of all chronological persuasions. Programmes of the PNRC and of the UBC Medieval Workshop, to be held on 2 and 3 April, are available on the UBC Medieval Studies web site, http://medievalstudies.arts.ubc.ca/events.shtml, as well as on the Medieval Academy website.

In addition to the regular plenary lectures, papers on numerous other topics in a variety of disciplines and periods of medieval studies will be presented. Some sessions will feature a roundtable format to facilitate discussion of new directions, or as part of disciplinary stock-taking.

Sessions will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Vancouver. The opening reception will take place in Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver facility, the Harbour Centre, a renovated heritage building in the heart of the downtown.

The conference is open to anyone interested in the Middle Ages and is not limited to members of the Medieval Academy.

The deadline to pre-register for the meeting and to reserve a hotel room at the conference rate is 10 March, 2008.

Please note that registration after this date will incur a late registration fee, and that some conference activities may not be available to late registrants.

Excursions to the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology on Thursday morning and to Vancouver Island and the University of Victoria or to Simon Fraser University as well as UBC on Sunday are planned. Registrants who want to take advantage of the options available should sign up through Venue West in Vancouver either through the web site, http://new.venuewest.com/matpw.aspx or by telephone in North America at 1-866-481-5226.

PREREGISTRATION

All who plan to attend the Medieval Academy meeting should register by the preregistration deadline, 10 March. To register complete the form on the inside back cover of this programme (or a photocopy of it) or print a copy of the form from the UBC Medieval Studies web site (http://medievalstudies.arts.ubc.ca/events.shtml) and mail it to the address on the form along with a check, money order, or bank draft payable in either Canadian [CAD] or American [US] dollars and made out to the “University of British Columbia.” Alternately register on line, after 1 February, by going to the UBC Medieval Studies website and follow the links or go directly to the registration form maintained by Simon Fraser University at https://webform.sfu.ca/form/engl.medieval.2008. Registrants can then use the option of paying by credit card. Credit card payments will be made in Canadian funds and billed by credit card companies at the prevailing exchange rate in line with their standard practices.

Social events. When registering be sure to sign up for every event you plan to attend, including those that are free of charge. Registering for all events assists conference organizers and is essential for the planning of catered events such as receptions and for scheduling buses. Please note that even free receptions will require admission tickets provided in the registration packets for those who have preregistered for the events.

Registration categories. Everyone attending the conference and its sponsored events must register. Students and members of the Medieval Academy pay a discounted registration fee. If you are not a member of the Medieval Academy and wish to join to avoid the higher fees for non-members as well as to receive the many other benefits of membership, forms are available at http://www.MedievalAcademy.org (“Member Information”)

Registration categories and additional fees are indicated on the registration form printed inside the back cover of this brochure.

Spouses/ companions. A discounted registration fee of $45 is offered to non-medievalist companions of registrants who will not attend programme sessions but wish to participate in social events such as the receptions. To register, specify the companion’s name as “Name 2” on the main registrant’s form and check the social events the companion will attend; if necessary, include additional payment for meals.

Late registration and cancellation fees. Pre-registration helps planners organize a successful meeting. The pre-registration deadline is 10 March, 2008. A surcharge of $30 will apply to all registrations postmarked after the deadline and for on-site registrations. Due to catering deadlines, some social events may not be available to those who register after the deadline.

A fee of $20 to cover administrative costs will be charged for cancellations received before the registration deadline; the balance of your payment will then be refunded. Please note: Cancellations received after 10 March cannot be refunded.

HOTEL

Rooms are being held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 655 Burrard Street , Vancouver, BC, V6C 2R7 (604-683-1234; http://vancouver.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp ). This gracious hotel in downtown Vancouver boasts well appointed newly renovated guestrooms with contemporary styling, unmatched meeting and convention facilities and tantalizing dining options. The hotel facilities include a health club and business centre. Local attractions include Robson Street (shopping), the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gastown, Yaletown, Stanley Park and the Vancouver Aquarium, English Bay (beaches), and Granville Island, many of them a short walk from the hotel, and others easily accessible by bus, taxi, and/or water taxi.

Conference attendees are encouraged to stay at the conference hotel. All conference sessions will be held at the hotel, and there is a generous discounted room rate. Failure to fill the room block results in extra charges to the Medieval Academy,

The discounted rate for single and double rooms is CAD$141, for a triple room CAD$176.00 and for a quadruple room CAD$211.00, in all cases plus relevant taxes. Reservations at this rate must be made by 10 March; regular weekend rates for this hotel start at 239.00.

Reservations: To reserve a room, contact the Hyatt Regency Vancouver by phone at 888-591-1234 (toll free) or 604-683-1234 or by e-mail at salesyvrrv@hyatt.com. Refer to the “Medieval Academy” group in order to receive the discounted room rate. You may also reserve online at https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=55995.

The reservation deadline is 10 March 2008. Please reserve early, since the number of rooms available at the discounted conference rate is limited.

TRANSPORTATION

IMPORTANT: Americans traveling to Canada by air now require a valid passport. Airlines will not allow passengers to fly into Canada without proper documentation. To avoid being put off flights and incurring financial penalties and to insure timely arrival at the meeting all those traveling from outside Canada to the meeting should be sure to carry a valid passport.

By air. Downtown Vancouver and the hotel are about 30 minutes (traffic dependent) from Vancouver International airport (visit http://www.yvr.ca for more information). The cost of a taxi from the airport is approximately $27.00, plus tip. Major city taxi companies include Yellow Cab (604-681-1111); Black Top Cabs (604-731-1111); MacLure’s Cabs (604-451-1111); and Vancouver Taxi (604-255-5111).

The Hyatt is also served by the Airporter bus; at the airport, look for the bright green bus labeled “Airporter,” and at the hotel, arrangements may be made with the concierge. Tickets may be purchased at the hotel, airport or on the bus. Cost is $13.00 one way, $20.00 roundtrip per adult, $6.00 one way, $12.00 round trip for children. Senior and family discounts are available. For more information, visit http://www.yvrairporter.com/

By train. Both Via Rail and Amtrak serve Vancouver. A taxi from the hotel to Pacific Central Station is approximately $5.00.

By public transportation. Vancouver is served by buses, seabuses, and the Skytrain. For the last the Burrard Street Skytrain station is located across the street from the Hyatt Regency. Information on the system, including maps, routes, trip planning, and fares, is available on the TransLink website: http://www.translink.bc.ca

PARKING

Underground parking is available at the Hyatt Regency; self parking costs $24.00 a day, and valet parking is $35.00 a day. The cost includes all taxes, and in-out privileges.

REGISTRATION DESK

The registration desk will be located in the Plaza Foyer North of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. It will be open Thursday from 9:00 – 6:00, Friday 8:00 – 6:00, and Saturday 9:00 – 12:00. Those who have pre-registered should pick up their conference packets at the registration desk.

The desk will also accept new registrations, subject to the late registration fee of $30. Payment must be by check or bank draft payable to the University of British Columbia, or cash. No credit card payments will be accepted at the meeting.

LOCATION OF EVENTS

All sessions will be held in function rooms at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, as indicated in the programme.

Book exhibits will be in room Georgia B of the Hotel.

There is one off-site conference event: the opening reception on Thursday evening will be held at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, some seven city blocks from the Hotel. A shuttle bus will be provided for travel to and from the SFU Harbour Centre.

The provision of audio-visual equipment for the conference is underwritten by the University of Victoria and the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory of the University of British Columbia.

FOOD AND DRINK

Continental breakfasts, coffee and tea. Continental breakfasts (Friday and Saturday) will be available in the Plaza Hallway. Coffee and tea breaks will be available at the same location throughout the conference.

Receptions and banquet. The meeting will include three receptions, the costs for which are covered by our sponsors and the registration fee. Be sure to check the appropriate boxes on the registration form to receive reception tickets in your registration packet. Spouses and companions who will not attend conference sessions but who wish to attend these receptions should pay the fee requested on the registration form. All who wish to attend the banquet should also mark the registration form and pay the additional charge. Banquet tickets may not be available for those who register late.

The opening reception (Thursday, 5:30 p.m.), sponsored by the president of Simon Fraser University, will be held in the Simon Fraser Harbour Centre which can be reached from the Hyatt Regency Hotel by walking three blocks north on Burrard Street to Hastings and then four blocks east along Hastings. A shuttle bus will also be available, as well as taxis. The Friday evening reception, sponsored by the Vice President Research of the University of British Columbia, and the Saturday evening reception, will take place in Georgia A and B on the second floor of the hotel. The Friday banquet will take place in the Plaza Ballroom next to the reception rooms.

Lunches. The business meeting lunch on Friday will be held in the Plaza Ballroom. The lunch on Saturday will be held in the same location.

Graduate students. On Saturday from 12:30 to 2:00 graduate students are invited to an informal discussion with members of the Medieval Academy’s Graduate Student Committee in the Cypress Room. Coffee and soft drinks will be provided courtesy of the English Department of the University of British Columbia. Lisa Chen will chair a discussion of Researching in European Libraries, Archives and Museums. Members of the roundtable will be Jennifer Feltman, Emily Graham, Catherine Barrett.

Other food options. The Hyatt Regency has a restaurant (the Mosaic Bar & Grille), a lounge, and a coffee bistro. Information about other restaurants will be available in brochures in the registration materials and from Tourism Vancouver which will have representatives near the registration desk.

BOOK EXHIBITS

Publishers and booksellers will exhibit at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in room Georgia B behind the registration desk. The hours will be from noon to 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.

THURSDAY AND SUNDAY EXCURSIONS

On Thursday morning, 3 April, a tour will take interested members through the city and along the shore line past Spanish Banks to the University of British Columbia, located at the end of a peninsula and on a bluff over the Strait of Georgia. The tour will include a visit to the Museum of Anthropology. Highlights of the museum include the Great Hall, which contains totem poles from the Haida, Gitxsan, Nisga'a, Oweekeno and other First Nations, and Bill Reid’s famous depiction of the Haida creation story, The Raven and the First Men. Buses will leave the hotel at 9:00 a.m. and return at 12:30 p.m.; that is, a full hour before the opening session. The fee will be $41 in Canadian funds.

On Sunday, 6 April, there will be two options for those able to stay on and visit part of British Columbia.

The first tour will be of the two lower mainland universities, Simon Fraser and the University of British Columbia. It will also include visits to different parts of the city, the North Shore and Stanley Park. The Burnaby campus of SFU is set on the top of a mountain while UBC is at the end of a peninsula. Both offer dramatic views while SFU enjoys distinctive and dramatic architecture, designed by Arthur Erickson, one of Canada’s most famous architects. Faculty members from both universities will be on board to act as guides and respond to questions. There will be a stop in Stanley Park for lunch with a view across English Bay. The cost of lunch is included in the tour fee of $80 in Canadian funds. Buses will leave the hotel at 9:00 a, m. and return at around 3:00 p. m.

The second tour will take members to Vancouver Island by ferry and include visits to the University of Victoria as well as the city of Victoria, the province’s capital and home to such impressive Gothic Revival buildings as the Empress Hotel and the Parliament Building. The voyage of about one and a half hours passes through the scenic Gulf Islands, including the spectacular Active Pass. On Vancouver Island the first stop is Butchart Gardens with an impressive collection of flora arranged in impressive theme gardens. At the University of Victoria a member of the faculty will act as guide with a chance to hear about the manuscript program that is part of Medieval Studies at the University. Buses will leave the hotel at 7:00 a. m. in order to catch the ferry and return at around 7:30 p. m. There will be opportunities for meals on board ship and in Victoria. The fee will be $135 in Canadian funds.

All excursions can be booked directly through Venue West Conference Services. Their web site devoted to the meeting of the Medieval Academy can be found at http://new.venuewest.com/matpw.aspx. or they can be contacted toll free at 866-481-5226 in North America or via e-mail at congress@venuewest.com. Mention the Medieval Academy when booking your tour.

The organizers are grateful for the generous financial support of:

The Office of the Vice President Research, University of British Columbia

The Office of the President, Simon Fraser University

The Dean of Humanities, University of Victoria

The Department of English, University of British Columbia

The Department of History, University of British Columbia

The Department of Central, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia

The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia
THURSDAY, 3 APRIL

1:30 – 2:45 Plenary Session (Plaza Ballroom)

1. Opening Address

Welcome: Richard Unger, University of Britsh Columbia

Introduction: Siân Echard, University of British Columbia

Opening address: Christopher Wickham, Univ. of Oxford, “The culture of the

public: assembly politics and the feudal revolution”

2:45 – 3:15 Tea (Plaza Hallway)

3:15 – 5:00 Concurrent Sessions

2. Manuscript Culture and the Poet’s Last Word: A Session on the Occasion of Derek Pearsall’s New Edition of the C-Text of Piers Plowman (Plaza A)

Organizer: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Univ. of Notre Dame

Chair: Míceál Vaughan, Univ. of Washington

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Univ. of Notre Dame, “Langland’s C-Text and Professional Reading Circles in the Ricardian Civil Service”

Lawrence Warner, Univ. of Sydney, “Piers Plowman C as Source of ‘Dobest’”

Derek Pearsall, Harvard Univ., “The Character of Langland’s C-text”

3. East Central Europe, 900-1350:  Beyond the Frontier Paradigm.  A Session in Honor of János Bak (Seymour)

Organizer: Piotr Gorecki, Univ. of California Riverside

Chair: Michael A. Ryan, Purdue Univ.

Paul Knoll, Univ. of Southern California, “On the Frontier?: The University Tradition in East Central Europe”

Boris Todorov, Yonsei Univ., “Between Empire and Nomads: Shifts in the Discourse of Power in Tenth-Century Bulgaria”

Piotr Gorecki, Univ. of California Riverside, “Ambiguities of the Frontier:  The Henryków Region, 1150-1300”

4. Late Medieval Rhetoric: Schools and School Texts (Georgia B)

Organizer and Chair: Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College

Anne Hubert, Univ. of Illinois, “When Too Much Was Not Enough: Monkish Interpolators and the ‘Tria sunt’”

Martin Camargo, Univ. of Illinois, “Special Delivery: Were Medieval Letter Writers Trained in Performance?”

Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby, York Univ., “Composing School Texts in Tudor England: William Horman’s Notebook at Eton College”

5. Textual Plundering: The influence of earlier sources on the construction of hagiographical texts, c.975-1167 (Kensington)

Organizer: Emily A. Bannister, Keele Univ.

Chair: Phyllis G. Jestice, Univ. of Southern Mississippi

Marianne M. Delaporte, Notre Dame de Namur Univ., “Swelling Cephalophores: Hilduin of St. Denis’ Life as Hypotext and Hypertext”

Emily A. Bannister, Keele Univ., “’He Snatched Away Many from the World’: The Construction of Peter Damian’s Vita Beati Romualdi (c.1042)”

A. Michele Moatt, Lancaster Univ., “’The Limpid and Abundant Spring’: Textual Allusion in Walter Daniel’s Life of Aelred of Rievaulx”

6. Women of the Capetian World (Grouse)

Organizer and Chair: Joel T. Rosenthal, SUNY Stony Brook

Jane Martindale, Chare Hall Cambridge, “Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of the French and Duchess of Aquitaine (1137-1152)”

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, New York Univ., “An Esthetic of Aristocratic Marriage in 12^th- Century France”

Richard E. Barton, Univ. of North Caroline at Greensboro, “Women as Lords in Western France, c. 1150-1250”

7. Emotionality and Performativity in Medieval German Literature (Cypress)

Organizer: Jutta Eming, Univ. of British Columbia

Chair: Kathryn Starkey, Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Elke Koch, Freie Universität Berlin, “Emotional Expression as Performance: Grief in Courtly Romances”

Ingrid Kasten, Freie Universität Berlin, “Rationality and Emotion in the Literature of the Middle Ages: Representative Juxtapositions”

Jutta Eming, Univ. of British Columbia, “Emotional Patterns in Gottfried von Straßburg’s Tristan”

8. Medieval Iberia after 9/11 (Stanley)

Organizer and Chair: John Dagenais, UCLA

Michelle M. Hamilton, Univ. of California Irvine, “The Fall of Spain: 711 after 9/11”

Simon R. Doubleday, Hofstra Univ., “Ethics and the Event: Rethinking Past and Present in the Generation of 9/11”

Catherine Brown, Univ. of Michigan, "The Vanished Gardens of Córdoba"

5:30 – 7:00 Reception – Simon Fraser Harbour Centre, hosted by the President of Simon Fraser University. Room 1400, 515 West Hastings Street, ground floor.

FRIDAY, 4 APRIL

8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast (Plaza Hallway) – Courtesy of the Department of History, University of British Columbia

8:45 – 10:00 Plenary Session (Plaza Ballroom)

9. CARA session: Medieval Asia: A Roundtable

Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA)

Organizers: Stephen West, Arizona State Univ., and Thomas Goodmann, Univ. of Miami & Director of Conference Programs, CARA

Moderator: Patrick Geary, Univ. of California-Los Angeles

Robert Joe Cutter, Arizona State Univ., “The Point of a Blade: Legitimacy in the Chinese Early Middle Ages”

H. Mack Horton, Univ. of California-Berkeley, "The East is Read: Japan's 7th Century Great Cultural Revolution"

Stephen West, Arizona State Univ., "Medieval to Early Modern in China: Markers of Transition in Urban Forms, 960-1125"

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee (Plaza Hallway)

10:30 – 12:15 Concurrent Sessions

10. Medieval Narrative: Text and Image I (Grouse)

Organizer: Catherine Harding, Univ. of Victoria

Chair: Barbara Altmann, Univ. of Oregon

Laura Gelfand, Univ. of Akron, “Simultaneous Reading and Revelation: Text and image-narratives in the Hours of Isabella Stuart”

Marian Bleeke, Cleveland State Univ., “The Love of a Statue: Versions of Pygmalion in the Illuminated Roman de la Rose (Bodleian Library, MS Douce 195)”

Joyce Coleman, Univ. of Oklahoma, “The Author as Participant-Observer: Depictions of Boccaccio’s Intersections with his Narrative in French De casibus Manuscripts”

11. Seeing Technology (Cypress)

Organizer: Richard Unger, Univ. of British Columbia

Chair: John Langdon, Univ. of Alberta

Steven Walton, Pennsylvania State Univ., “reCOGnition – Visualizing the geared mill from Vitruvius to print”

Shana Worthen, Univ. of Arkanasas Little Rock, “Nero’s spectacles: The changing origins of a medieval invention”

Adam Lucas, Univ. of New South Wales, “Pictures and Words: technical treatises versus managerial documentation in the interpretation of medieval waterpowered machinery”

12. Is It Law or Literature? Anglo-Saxon Legal Sources and Their Contexts (Seymour)

Organizer and Chair: Geoffrey Koziol, Univ. of California Berkeley

Richard Abels, US Naval Academy, “’The crimes by which Wulfbald ruined himself with his lord’: the limits of state action in late Anglo-Saxon England”

Bruce O’Brien, Univ. of Mary Washington, “The Creation and Mutation of Legal Texts in England before 1200”

Carol Pasternack, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, “Anglo-Saxon Law in CCCC 201: Sex and the Safety of the State”

13. Saint and Cult, Text and Image in Byzantium and Beyond (Lord Byron)

Organizer and Chair: Claudia Rapp, UCLA

Eugene Vance, Univ. of Washington, “St Lawrence in Ravenna: The Martyr as Heroic Exegete”

John Ott, Portland State Univ., “An Armenian Archbishop in Seditious Flanders: Imagining Sacred Landscapes in the eleventh-century vitae of St Macarius of Antioch”

Laura Grimes, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, “Hearts Pierced and Burning: Images of Conversion in Gertrud of Helfta and Augustine of Hippo”

Anne Simon, Univ. of Bristol, “Showcasing a Saint:  St Katherine of Alexandria, Patrician Patronage and Empire in Fifteenth-century Nuremberg”

14. Founding Mothers (Stanley)

Organizers: Kathy M. Krause and Virginia Blanton, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City

Chair: Kathy M. Krause, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City

Helene Scheck, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York, “Queen Mathilda of Saxony and the Founding of Quedlinburg: Women, Memory, and Power”

Virginia Blanton, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, “The Kentish Queen as Omnium Mater: Goscelin of St. Bertin’s Lection and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh”

Kathy M. Krause, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, “Founding Mothers: Genealogy and Literary Politics in Medieval Picardy”

Rachel Dressler, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York, “Motherhood and Lineal Anxiety in the Performance of Status in Limington Parish Church, Somerset” [PP]

15. Transforming Genre (Georgia A)

Organizer: The Programme Committee

Chair: Scott Kleinman, California State Univ., Northridge

Kristen Lee Over, Northeastern Illinois Univ., “A Medieval Welsh Biography: History as Literary Myth-Making”

Jon Whitman, Hebrew Univ., “Historicizing Romance: Holy Sepulchre and Holy Grail”

Claire Waters, Univ. of California Davis, “Problems of Categorization in La riote du monde”

16. Interconnections: The Impact of Geographic Mobility, Economic Pressure, and Inter-religious Polemic on Medieval Jewish Women (Kensington)

Organizer: Judith Baskin, Univ. of Oregon

Chair: Warren Ginsberg, Univ. of Oregon

Judith Baskin, Univ. of Oregon, “The Impact of Geographic Mobility on Marital Status in Medieval Ashkenaz”

Rebecca Lynn Winer, Villanova Univ., “Daily Life, the Longue Durée, and Jewish Women in Medieval Perpignan”

Sharon Faye Koren, Hebrew Union College, “Interpreting Text, Gender, and the Other: Medieval Jewish and Christian Exegetes on the Menstruant”

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch (Plaza Ballroom)

1:15 – 2:00 Plenary Session (Plaza Ballroom)

17. Medieval Academy of America Business Meeting

Presider: Bernard McGinn, Univ. of Chicago

Presentation of reports; election of officers; awarding of prizes

2:00 – 3:45 Concurrent Sessions

18. Medieval Narrative: Text and Image II (Grouse)

Organizer: Catherine Harding, Univ. of Victoria

Chair: Carol Knicely, Univ. of British Columbia

Stefano Riccioni, Univ. of Dijon, “Epiconography: the work of art as a visual synthesis of epigraphy (text) and image”

Anne Laskaya, Univ. of Oregon, “Ekphrasis and Orientalism in the Middle English Emaré

Noelle Phillips, Univ. of British Columbia, “Monsters and Merry Olde England: Other[ed] Narratives in the Luttrell Psalter”

19. Medieval Weather (Lord Byron)

Organizer and Chair: Paul Dutton, Simon Fraser Univ.

Albrecht Classen, Univ. of Arizona, “Tragic Consequences of Bad Weather in Medieval Literature: From Apollonius of Tyre to Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron”

Timothy Newfield, McGill Univ., “Revisiting the Dust-Veil Event”

Paolo Squatiri, Univ. of Michigan, “Storms, Floods and Climate Change in the Dark Ages: An Italian Case”

20. Exegesis as Literature (Seymour)

Organizer and Chair: Gernot Wieland, Univ. of British Columbia

Theresa Tinkle, Univ. of Michigan, “Patriarchy and Dissent: The Medieval Reception of I Timothy 2”

Eyvind Ronquist, Concordia Univ., “Reconstituting Affect from Exegetical Handbooks”

Jonathan Juilfs, Univ. of Notre Dame, “Love’s ‘Transcending’ of the Scriptures: Marguerite Porete’s Debt to I Corinthians 13 in The Mirror of Simple Souls”

21. Space and Place in Medieval Drama (Stanley)

Organizer and Chair: Patricia Badir, Univ. of British Columbia

Sharon King, UCLA, “From Commonplace to Comic Space: Misfits of Metaphor in Medieval French Comedy”

Pamela King, Bristol Univ., “’From Minster to Marketplace’ revisited: explaining the incarnation in York and N-town”

Helen Solterer, Duke Univ., “Nicholai Evreinov and the Art of Medieval Role-Play”

22. Hybrid Histories: The Western Edge (Cypress)

Organizer and Chair: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Univ. of York

Tristan Major, Univ. of Toronto, “Bede’s Religious Perceptions of Linguistic Diversity”

Julia Crick, Univ. of Exeter, “Albion before Albina: the Scottish question”

Christopher Baswell, UCLA, “Hybrid Bodies, Hybrid Geographies: Saints’ Histories in 12th- and 13th-Century England

23. Women and the Medieval Economy: A Roundtable on Past, Present, and Future Research (Georgia A)

Organizer and Chair: Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham Univ.

Discussants: Judith Bennett, Univ. of Southern California; Constance Berman, Univ. of Iowa; Samuel Cohn, Univ. of Glasgow; Dyan Elliott, Northwestern Univ.

Comment: The Audience

24. In their own voices: Medieval Jewish Literatures (Kensington)

Organizer and Chair: Sheila Delany, Simon Fraser Univ.

Robert Daum, Univ. of British Columbia, “Rabbi Ishmael in the Roman brothel:

early Palestinian narrative and Babylonian rabbinic hagiography”

Julie Mell, North Carolina State Univ. at Raleigh, “Divine Economies, Material Economies: Money and Avarice in Jewish and Christian Exempla”

Kirsten Fudeman, Univ. of Pittsburgh, “The Elegy of Troyes and the Poetics of Martyrdom”

3:45 – 4:15 Tea

4:15 – 6:00 Concurrent Sessions

25. The Medieval Sculpted Portal: At the Threshold of the Sacred and the Secular (Grouse)

Organizer and Chair: Conrad Rudolph, Univ. of California Riverside

Dorothy Glass, Univ. of Buffalo, “Reading Genesis at Modena Cathedral”

Janet Snyder, West Virginia Univ., “Dressed for the Labyrinth: the significance of column-figures, 1140-1170”

Doron Bauer, Johns Hopkins, “Does the Siren Seduce or Heal? Some Reflections on the Iconography of the Southern Portal of Santa Maria de Uncastillo”

Therese Martin, Univ. of Arizona, “Reconstructing the Lost North Portal of San Isidoro de León”

26. Lay People, Institutions and Documents in the Early Middle Ages: A Roundtable (Stanley)

Organizers and Chairs: Adam J. Kosto, Columbia Univ.; Warren C. Brown, California Institute of Technology

Respondents: Geoffrey Koziol, Univ. of California-Berkeley; Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago

Warren C. Brown, Calif. Inst. of Technology; Jonathan Conant, Univ. of San Diego; Marios Costambeys, Univ. of Liverpool; Nicholas Everett, Univ. of Toronto; Hans Hummer, Wayne State Univ.; Matthew Innes, Birkbeck College, London; Adam J. Kosto, Columbia Univ.

27. Words and Things in the Germanic North: Lexical and Semantic Studies (Lord Byron)

Organizer and Chair: John Tucker, Univ. of Victoria

Richard Perkins, Univ. of London, “At krjupa at keldu: what sort of bucket is Thorhallr veithmathr wielding in chapter 9 of Eric the Red’s saga?”

Richard Harris, Univ. of Saskatchewan, “Proverbs in the Sagas and in Saxo”

Christopher Sanders, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose, “Low-German influence on Old Norse: future co-operation between Nordic medieval dictionary projects”

28. Imagining Britain (Seymour)

Organizer and Chair: Robert Stacey, Univ. of Washington

Hannah Johnson, Univ. of Pittsburgh, “Memory and Exterminatio: The Meaning of Annihilation in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing”

Morgan Kay, Fordham Univ., “Prophecy and National Identity in Medieval Wales and Britain”

Keith Lilley, Queen’s Univ. Belfast, “Mapping the realm: The Gough Map and English cartographic imaginaries of fourteenth-century Britain”

29. Credit Networks in Southern Europe in the Middle Ages (Cypress)

Organizer: Kathryn Reyerson, Univ. of Minnesota

Chair: James Murray, Western Michigan Univ.

Laurent Feller, Université de Paris I- Panthéon-Sorbonne, “Credit Practices of the Ninth Century in Northern Italy”

François Menant, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, “The Networks of Local Credit in Communal Italy (12^th-14^th Centuries)”

Kathryn Reyerson, Univ. of Minnesota, “Italians in the Credit Networks of Early Fourteenth-Century Languedoc”

John Drendel, Univ. of Quebec at Montreal, “Italian Networks of Rural Credit in Fourteenth-Century Provence”

30. Evil Spirits, Aliens, and Fantasy Beasts in Medieval Literature (Plaza A)

Organizer: The Programme Committee

Chair: R.F. Yeager, Univ. of West Florida

Martha Rampton, Pacific Univ., “Fantasy Beasts or Females Gone Bad: Striae and Lamiae in Early Medieval Literature”

John T. Sebastian, Loyola Univ. New Orleans, “Aliens Among Us: Hybrid Identities in Marie’s Lais”

Elizabeth Archibald, Univ. of Bristol, “The Devil and Mrs Kempe”

31. Mediterranean Cultural Traffic (Kensington)

Organizer: Brenda Deen Schildgen, Univ. of California Davis

Chair: John Ganim, Univ. of California Riverside

Robert Hanning, Columbia Univ., “Boccaccio, Mediterraneo”

Belen Bistue, Univ. of California Davis, “Multilingual Translation and Multiple Knowledge(s) in Alfonso X’s Libro de la ochava esfera (1276)”

Brenda Deen Schildgen, Univ. of California Davis, “Cordoba’s Mezquita and Mediterranean Multiplicity”

6:00 – 7:00 Reception (Georgia A & B)

Hosted by the Vice President Research, Univ. of British Columbia

7:00 – 9:00 Banquet (Plaza Ballroom)

SATURDAY, 5 APRIL

8:00 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast (Plaza Hallway) – Courtesy of the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia

9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Session (Plaza Ballroom)

32. Presidential Address

Introduction: Patrick Geary, UCLA

Bernard McGinn, Univ. of Chicago, “Regina quondam…”

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee (Plaza Hallway)

10:30 – 12:15 Concurrent Sessions

33. Manuscript-Print Relations (Grouse)

Organizer Chair: Siân Echard, Univ. of British Columbia

Kathryn Veeman, Univ. of Notre Dame, “John Shirley’s Literary Impersonations”

William S. Monroe, Brown Univ. Library, “Iacobus Laurentianus and the Copying of Printed Books in the Fifteenth Century”

Sherry Reames, Univ. of Madison Wisconsin, “Some Valuable Textual Finds in BL MS. Cotton Appendix 23”

34. Visions (Georgia A)

Organizer: The Programme Committee

Chair: John Klassen, Trinity Western University

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Univ. of Pittsburgh, “Demonic Challenges to Orthodoxy in the Visions of Ermine de Reims (+1396)”

Ronald Surtz, Princeton Univ., “Saved by the Bell: Faith vs. Works in the Visions of Tecla Servent”

Martha Newman, Univ. of Texas at Austin, “’The conviction of things not seen’: Seeing and Believing in Cistercian Exempla Collections (1170-1225)”

35. The Long Shadow of the Carolingians: A Roundtable Discussion (Seymour)

Organizer: Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.

Discussants: Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech; Courtney Booker, Univ. of British Columbia; Samuel Collins, George Mason Univ.; Jane Stuckey, Louisiana Tech Univ.; Anne Latowsky, Univ. of South Florida Tampa

36. Romance (Plaza A)

Organizer and Chair: Dana Symons, Buffalo State Univ.

Thomas Hahn, Univ. of Rochester. “Linguistic Conquest and Submission in Alexander and Dindimus”

Katherine McLoone, UCLA, “’Wher-of Bretouns maked her layes’: Sir Orfeo and the Problem of a Postcolonial Reading”

Anita Obermeier, Univ. of New Mexico, “The Grail as a Symbol of Fertility and Sterility”

37. Monastic Apostasy and Repentance in the Central Middle Ages (Kensington)

Organizer: Katherine Allen Smith, Univ. of Puget Sound

Chair and Respondent: David Tinsley, Univ. of Puget Sound

Katherine Allen Smith, Univ. of Puget Sound, “Blood of the Flesh, Blood of the Soul: Intersections of Violence and Penance in Monastic Life”

Scott Wells, California State Univ., Los Angeles, “The Repentant Self: Penitential Techniques for Accruing Identity in the Monastery”

Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount Univ., “Vita misera sub gravi custodia: Monastic Claustration and Apostasy in the Nordic Church, 1150-1230”

38. The Poetics of Nature (Cypress)

Organizer and Chair: Iain Higgins, Univ. of Victoria

Winston Black, Univ. of Toronto, “Natura the Gardener in Henry of Huntingdon’s medical poetry”

Susan Dudash, Fordham Univ., “Philippe de Mezieres’ Political Bestiary”

Susan Crane, Columbia Univ., “Metaphoric Thought in the Bestiaries”

39. Performing Objects (Stanley)

Organizer: The Programme Committee

Chair: Phyllis Brown, Santa Clara Univ.

Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois Univ., “Enacting Birth: Devotion, Body, Performance”

Judith Oliver, Colgate Univ., “The Longest Day of the Year: Celebration of Easter in a Cistercian Nuns’ Gradual”

Karen Blough, SUNY Plattsburgh, “From Minnekästchen to Reliquary: Siculo-Arabic Wooden Boxes in German Convent Treasuries”

12:15 – 1:45 Lunch (Plaza Ballroom)

12:30 – 1:30 Graduate Student Roundtable Discussion (Cypress)

1:15 – 1:45 MAP Business Meeting (Georgia A)

1:45 – 3:30 Concurrent Sessions

40. Interplay between Main Text and Margin in Medieval Written Culture (Grouse)

Organizer and Chair: Erik Kwakkel, Univ. of Victoria

Adrienne Boyarin, Univ. of Victoria, “Beyond the Edge of the Page: Reading the Symbolism in Medieval Seals”

Steven Bednarski, St Jerome’s Univ. in the Univ. of Waterloo, “At the Fringe of Justice: Marginalia in Fourteenth-Century Provençal Court Records”

Rolf Bremmer, Leiden Univ., "From Margin back to Text: An Interverbally Glossed Old Frisian Psalter"

41. Insular History Writing: Dismemberment and Remembering (Georgia A)

Organizers: Matthew Fisher and Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA

Chair: Michelle Bolduc, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Jennifer Miller, Univ. of California Berkeley, “Dismembering and Remembering the Body Politic: Reforming History, 1265-1327”

Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA, “Political Sexualities: Heretics and Sodomites”

Matthew Fisher, UCLA, “Textual Violence: The Borders and Bodies of English Historiography”

42. Pseudo-Augustines (Kensington)

Organizer and Chair: Mark Vessey, Univ. of British Columbia

Lesley-Anne Dyer, Univ. of Notre Dame, “Pseudo-Augustinian Exegesis of Genesis 1 and 2”

Alison Frazier, Univ. of Texas at Austin, “On Not Printing a Life of Augustine: The Dilemma of Giovanni Garzoni (d. 1506)”

Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska, “Wyclif’s Pseudo-Augustinian Readings of the Beatitudes”

43. Romance in Context (Plaza A)

Organizer and Chair: Robert Rouse, Univ. of British Columbia

Carol Harding, Western Oregon Univ., “Twisted Trees:  Exploring the Historical Context for the Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic”

Peggy McCracken, Univ. of Michigan, “Romance Captivities in the Context of Crusade”

Nicholas Orme, Univ. of Exeter, “Doorways to Somewhere Else: Chapels in Medieval History and Literature”

44. The Margins of Orthodoxy (Seymour)

Organizer and Chair: Peter Diehl, Western Washington Univ.

 
Robert E. Lerner, Northwestern Univ., “The Censorship of Marguerite Porete” 
 

Gavin Hammel, Univ. of Toronto, “Sending Mixed Signals: Church Politics, Jurisdictional Conflict and the Ecclesiastical Reception of the Flagellants in Magdeburg in 1349”

John Van Engen, Univ. of Notre Dame, “Alijt Bake (1415-55): Spiritual Autobiographer, Prioress, Exile”

45. Music and Poetry (Cypress)

Organizer: Susan Boynton, Columbia Univ.

Chair: Chantal Phan, Univ. of British Columbia

Luisa Nardini, Univ. of Texas at Austin, “Fitting New Texts into Old Melodies: The Diffusion and Technique of Prosulas for Tracts and Graduals in Italian Manuscripts”

Daniel DiCenso, Univ. of Cambridge, “Chant Transmission and the Carolingian Liturgical Reforms: How Musicologists Got it Wrong!”

Peter Loewen, Rice Univ., “Franciscan Song in an Age of Reform, a Rudder for the Ship of Fools”

46. Patronage, Power, Protection (Stanley)

Organizer: The Programme Committee

Chair: Leslie Arnovick, Univ. of British Columbia

Arlene Sindelar, Univ. of British Columbia, “Royal Flunkies or Local Fellows? Fourteenth-Century English Attorneys in Royal Service”

Joseph Grossi, Canisius College, “Romance and Its Uses in a Monastic Context”

Robert Epstein, Fairfield Univ., “’That Slydynge Science’: Alchemy and Economy in the Canon’s Yeoman's Prologue and Tale

3:30 – 4:00 Tea (Plaza Hallway)

4:00 – 5:30 Plenary Session (Plaza Ballroom)

47. Fellows Session

Organizer: Fellows of the Medieval Academy

Presider: Richard Pfaff, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Univ. of York, “The Margins of Confidence? Aspects of Insular Historiography”

5:30 – 7:00 Closing reception (Georgia A & B)

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