Medieval Academy of America Conference Program

1. Opening Address
Presider: Bernard S. Bachrach, Univ. of Minnesota
Welcome: F. R. P. Akehurst, Univ. of Minnesota
Robert Bartlett, Univ. of St. Andrews, “The Making of the Middle Ages Fifty Years On: R. W. Southern’s ‘Secret Revolution’ Reconsidered in 2003”

2. Travel and Encounters (FACULTY ROOM)
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Patricia Mulrooney Eldred, Coll. of St. Catherine
Matthew Desing, Univ. of Minnesota, “Gender Journeys: Pilgrimage and Masculinity in the Cantigas de Santa María of Alfonso X, the Wise”
Claudia Bornholdt, Univ. of Illinois, “Of Brides and Beasts: Christian-Heathen Encounters in Pre-Courtly German Romances”
Helen Damico, Univ. of New Mexico, “Monstrous Doings: Beowulf’s Beheadings and a Political Analogue of Eleventh - and Twelfth-Century England”

3. Richard Southern’s The Making of the Middle Ages after Fifty Years (REGENTS ROOM)
Organizer: Paul Freedman, Yale Univ.
Chair and Respondent: Richard K. Emmerson, Medieval Academy of America
Paul Freedman, “The Enduring Appeal of The Making of the Middle Ages”
Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College, Hartford, “The Humanity of Christ: Image and Reality”
R I. Moore, Univ. of Newcastle, "Southern and the Sinews of Power"

4. Paradigms of History I (PRESIDENTS ROOM)
Organizers: Celia Chazelle, Coll. of New Jersey; Deborah Deliyannis, Indiana Univ.; and Felice Lifshitz, Florida International Univ.
Chair: Celia Chazelle
Genevra Kornbluth, Univ. of Maryland, “Material Ethnogenesis: Art of the Earliest Medieval Goths”
Charles R. Bowlus, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, “Between Byzantium and the Latin West: Southeastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages”
Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida, “Late Medieval or E arly Modern? Mongols and Ottomans in the History of Medieval Eastern Europe and the Question of Periodization”

5. Art and Performance (NOLTE ROOM)
Organizer: Michal Kobialka, Univ. of Minnesota
Chair: George Shuffleton, Carleton Coll.
Rita W. Tekippe, State Univ. of West Georgia, “Relic Cults and Corpus Christi: Bodily Procession in the Diocese of Liège”
Seeta Chaganti, Univ. of California, Davis, “Theatrical Enshrinement and the N-Town Assumption of Mary”
Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State Univ., “Courtly Performance and Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale”

6. Outlaw Texts and Outlaw Spaces (CAMPUS ROOM)
Organizer: Timothy S. Jones, Augustana Coll.
Chair: Kaaren Grimstad, Univ. of Minnesota
Timothy S. Jones, “Chaucer, Chaucerians, and Outlawry”
A. Keith Kelly, Saint Louis Univ., “Outlawry, Heroism, and Liminality in the Life and Legend of Hereward the Wake”
Jana Schulman, Western Michigan Univ., “‘Fair are the fieldsof Hlitharendi’: Gunnar of Hlitharendi and the Legal Implications of Outlawry in Njáls Saga”

5:30–6:30
• Reception (CAMPUS CLUB, COFFMAN MEMORIAL UNION) •
Coffman Memorial Union is three blocks west of the hotel, on the plaza across Washington Ave. The Campus Club is on the top floor.

8:30
• Concert (125 WILLEY HALL, WEST-BANK CAMPUS) •
Concentus Musicus Minnesota, directed by Arthur Maud, will perform a concert of fourteenth-century music composed for the Papal Court at Avignon.

8:00–9:00
• Continental Breakfast (UNIVERSITY BALLROOM FOYER) •

9:00–10:00
• Plenary Session (UNIVERSITY BALLROOM) •

7. The Politics of Translation in Teaching and Research
Presider: Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Graduate Univ.
Organizer: Medieval Academy Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA)
Roundtable discussion with Keith Busby, Univ. of Wisconsin; Michael Herren, York Univ.; Nancy Partner, McGill Univ.; and Roy Liuzza, Tulane Univ.

8. Narrating Violence I (FACULTY ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Elizabeth Robertson, Univ. of Colorado
Sarah McNamer, Georgetown Univ., “Franciscan Affect and the Two Crucifixions of the Meditationes Vitae Christi”
Rebecca Krug, Univ. of Minnesota, “Violence and the Family: Margaret Paston’s Letters”
Jennifer N. Brown, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York, “Narrating Violence in the Middle English Vitae of Continental Mystics”
Respondent: Elizabeth Robertson

9. Bishops, Wine, and Miracles (REGENTS ROOM)
Organizer: F. R. P. Akehurst, Univ. of Minnesota
Chair: Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State Univ.
Carol Harvey, Univ. of Winnipeg, “The Cangé Plays: Variations on a Theme”
Jeanette Beer, Purdue Univ., “Beasts, Birds, and Bishops: Innovative Appropriations of the Physiologus in Thirteenth-Century France”
Wendy Pfeffer, Univ. of Louisville, “Meeting the Grape and Exchanging Toasts: Wine Consumption and the Troubadours”

10. Writing and Mapping (ALUMNI ROOM)
Organizer: Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan Univ.
Chair and Respondent: Dawn M. Hayes, Borough of Manhattan Comm. Coll., City Univ. of New York
Dimitri Starostine, Univ. of Michigan, “Conceiving the Monastic Domain: The Map of Marmoutier (Alsace) and Its Cultural Context”
Robert F. Berkhofer III, “Mapping Sacred and Commercial Space at Saint-Vaast d’Arras”
Richard Keyser, Western Kentucky Univ., “The Law of the Land: The Precise Definition of Space in Medieval Champagne”

11. Paradigms of History II (PRESIDENTS ROOM)
Organizers: Celia Chazelle, Coll. of New Jersey; Deborah Deliyannis,
Indiana Univ.; and Felice Lifshitz, Florida International Univ.
Chair: Felice Lifshitz
Michael E. Kulikowski, Univ. of Tennessee, “Drawing a Line under Antiquity: Archaeological and Historical Categories of Evidence in the Transition from the Ancient World to the Middle Ages”
Julia M. H. Smith, Univ. of St. Andrews, “After Rome: Periods and Paradigms in European History, 500–1000”
Lisa M. Bitel, Univ. of Southern California, “Period Trouble: The Impossibility of Teaching Feminist Medieval History”

12. Christians, Muslims, Jews I (NOLTE ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Barbara Weissberger, Univ. of Minnesota
Michael Lower, Univ. of Minnesota, “Holy L and Crusaders and Violence against the Jews of Western France, 1236–1240”
Michael Ryan, Univ. of Minnesota, “Prophecy and Conversion: The Case of Fray Anselm Turmeda/‘Abdallah al-Taryuman”
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ben Gurion Univ., “ Creatio ex nihilo in the Sarajevo Haggadah: Nahmanides versus Allegorists”

13. Emperors, Popes, and Apostles: The Making of Christian Rome (CAMPUS ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Kristina Sessa, Univ. of California, Berkeley, “Liturgical Performance and Papal Authority in Early-Medieval Rome”
Thomas F. X. Noble, Univ. of Notre Dame, “Four Visits and a Changing Vista: The Eternal City, 357, 500, 663, 774”
Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Columbia Univ., “Hagiography and the Cult of the Apostles in Early-Medieval Rome”

• Lunch (HUBERT HUMPHREY BALLROOM) •

1:00–1:45
• Plenary Session (HUBERT HUMPHREY BALLROOM) •

14. Business Meeting
Presider: John V. Fleming, Princeton Univ.
Presentation of reports; election of officers; awarding of prizes

15. Presidential Address
Presider: Lester K. Little, American Academy in Rome and Smith Coll.
John V. Fleming, Princeton Univ., “Muses of the Monastery”
Sponsored by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at St. John's University

3:00–3:30
• Break (UNIVERSITY BALLROOM FOYER) •

3:30–5:15
• Concurrent Sessions •

16. Narrating Violence II (FACULTY ROOM)
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Marguerite Ragnow, Univ. of Minnesota
Tison Pugh, Univ. of Central Florida, “Queering Genres, Battering Males: The Wife of Bath’s Narrative Violence”
Andrea Denny-Brown, Columbia Univ., “The Rape of Philosophy and the Feminine Aesthetic”
Drew G. Miller, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, “Torturous Tonsuring: Violence, Communication, and ‘Anticlericalism?’ in the Reign of King Edward I”

17. Written Communication and the Lay Aristocracy (REGENTS ROOM)
Organizer: Peter J. Burkholder, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stout
Chair: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg Univ.
Peter J. Burkholder, “Written Communication in a Small Community: A Case from Anjou”
David S. Bachrach, Univ. of Minnesota, “Cities between the Aristocracy and the Crown: Written Communication and War in Thirteenth-Century Germany”
Richard Barton, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Making a Clamor to the Lord: Communicating Disputes in Eleventh-Century Anjou”

18. Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Hero Bevis (ALUMNIROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Stephanie Van D’Elden, Univ. of Minnesota
Jennifer R. Goodman, Texas A&M Univ., “Bevis and Bove: The Acculturation of a Hero”
Siobhain Bly Calkin, Carleton Univ., “The Anxieties of Encounter and Exchange: Saracens and Christian Heroism in Sir Beves of Hamtoun”
Judith Weiss, Univ. of Cambridge, “Le curteis guerrer: Epic and Romance in Boeve de Haumtone”

19. Christians, Muslims, Jews II (PRESIDENTS ROOM)
Organizer: Barbara Weissberger, Univ. of Minnesota
Chair: William D. Phillips, Univ. of Minnesota
Ronald E. Surtz, Princeton Univ., “Dialogue’s End: From Jewish-Christian Disputation to Converso Catechism”
Adnan A. Husain, New York Univ., “Dagger of Faith: Translation and Polemic in the Early Orientalism of the Dominican Ramón Martí”
Isabel O’Connor, Univ. of Southern Indiana, “Mudejar Mobility in Christian Spain: A Sign of a Strong Islamic Identity?”

20. Pilgrimage (NOLTE ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Eric Hollas, O.S.B., St. John’s Univ.
Joyce Coleman, Univ. of North Dakota, “Handling Pilgrims: The Gilbertine Cult and Robert Mannyng”
Kathryn Rudy, Univ. of Toronto, “Pilgrimage, Passion Parks, and Layers of Witness”
Sarah Blick, Kenyon Coll., “A Re-discovered Shrine-Altar of Saint Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral”

21. Music (CAMPUS ROOM)
Organizer: F. R. P. Akehurst, Univ. of Minnesota
Chair: Lawrence M. Earp, Univ. of Wisconsin
Vivian S. Ramalingam, Roseville, Minn., “Nuper rosarum flores, Brunelleschi’s Dome, and the Pregnant Virgin”
Anna Maria Busse Berger, Univ. of California, Davis,“Isorhythmic Motets and the Art of Memory”
Julie E. Cumming, McGill Univ., “Generic Allusion in Du Fay’s Supremum est mortalibus bonum”

5:30–6:30
• Reception (UNIVERSITY BALLROOM) •

6:30–8:30
• Banquet (HUBERT HUMPHREY BALLROOM) •

8:00–9:00
• Continental Breakfast (UNIVERSITY BALLROOM FOYER) •

9:00–10:45
• Concurrent Sessions •

22. Friendship (FACULTY ROOM)
Organizer: Françoise Denis, Macalester Coll.
Chair: Walter Blue, Hamline Univ.
John R. Sommerfeldt, Univ. of Dallas, “Aelred’s Friendship Revisited”
Fiona Griffiths, Smith Coll., “Abelard in Alsace: Colmar MS 128 and the Pastoral Care of Women”
Kristen M. Burkholder, Eastern Oregon Univ., “‘Let my other robes be distributed among my friends’: Using Material Bequests to Enhance Friendship and Familial Connections”

23. Women and Property (REGENTS ROOM)
Organizer: Anna Dronzek, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris
Chair: Barbara A. Hanawalt, Ohio State Univ.
Constance H. Berman, Univ. of Iowa, “Women’s Use of Dower Property for Religious Benefactions in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century France: The Cases of Eleanor of Vermandois and Blanche of Castile”
Roisin Cossar, Univ. of Manitoba, “‘She earns money and does not share it’: Conversae and Their Property in the Hospitals of Bergamo, 1320–1400”
Janet S. Loengard, Moravian Coll., “Wills, Wives, and Chattels: Husbands’ Attitudes to Household Property in Late-Medieval England”

24. Barbarians at the Gates (ALUMNI ROOM)
Organizer: Peter Wells, Univ. of Minnesota
Chair: Sheila McNally, Univ. of Minnesota
Demetrius Glover, Purdue Univ., “The Politics of Corruption in the Merovingian Kingdoms”
Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of South Carolina, “Catalogues of Barbarians in Late Antiquity”
Ryan P. Crisp, Ohio State Univ., “Reconsidering the Marriage of Clotild and Amalaric, King of the Visigoths”

25. Thirteenth-Century Literary Modification (PRESIDENTS ROOM)
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Ray Wakefield, Univ. of Minnesota
Evelyn Meyer, Univ. of Minnesota, “Are Knightly Women in Hartman’s Iwein Heroic?”
Oscar Martín, Yale Univ., “Reinventing the Cid in Early-Thirteenth-Century Castile: The Heroic Model of the Poema de mio Cid as Contestation of Previous Models”
Kathy Krause, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City, “La fille du comte de Ponthieu in Her Manuscript Context”

26. Avignon (NOLTE ROOM)
Organizer: F. R. P. Akehurst, Univ. of Minnesota
Chair: Susan Noakes, Univ. of Minnesota
Victoria M. Morse, Carleton Coll., “An Apologist for Papal Avignon: The ‘Moral Geography’ of Opicino de Canistris”
April L. Najjaj, Boston Univ., “Avignon and the Alhambra: A Late-Medieval Comparative Study”
M. Alison Stones, Univ. of Pittsburgh, “Illumination in Southern France: Manuscripts for Popes Clement V and John XXII”

27. Saints (CAMPUS ROOM)
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Glenn M. Davis, St. Cloud State Univ.
Elizabeth Walsh, Univ. of San Diego, “Images of the Dormition of the Virgin: East and West”
Patricia C. Kiernan, Rutgers Univ., “‘All Nations Gathered Together before Him’: The Last Judgment Tympanum of Sainte - Foy at Conques”
Karolyn Kinane, Univ. of Minnesota, “Prayer and Imitation in the Katherine Group Saints”

28. Fellows Session
Presider: Florence H. Ridley, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows
Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist Univ., “History, Art, and the Icons of Death in Medieval Cyprus”

12:30–1:30
• Lunch (HUBERT HUMPHREY BALLROOM) •
• Lunch for Graduate Students (235 NOLTE CENTER) •

1:30–3:15
• Concurrent Sessions •

29. Literature and the Hundred Years War (FACULTY ROOM)
Organizer: Michael G. Hanly, Washington State Univ.
Chair: Thomas H. Bestul, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Michael G. Hanly, “‘Se les princes n’ayment chevalerie’: Criticism of Knightly Dereliction in French and English Poetry of the Late Fourteenth Century”
Terry Jones, London, “Who Murdered Chaucer?”
Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, “Chaucer’s Knight and Henry Bolingbroke in Prussia: Heathens, Converts, and Schismatics”

30. Translation and Transmission (REGENTS ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Krista Twu, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth
Zrinka Stahuljak, Boston Univ., “Peregrinations of a Metaphor: From Genealogy to Translatio(n)”
K. Sarah-Jane Murray, Princeton Univ., “Translation and Metamorphosis in the Old French Piramus and Thisbe”
Robert K. Upchurch, Univ. of North Texas, “Transmitting Monastic Ideals in Translations for the Laity: Ælfric’s Old English Life of Chrysanthus and Daria”

31. Magic (ALUMNI ROOM)
Organizer: Rebecca Krug, Univ. of Minnesota
Chair: Ruth Mazzo Karras, Univ. of Minnesota
Susan L’Engle, St. Louis Univ., “Stargazing Clerics: The Practice of Magic in the Medieval Church”
Leslie Arnovick, Univ. of British Columbia, “Prayer in Performance of Anglo-Saxon Magic Charms: A Case Study of the Pater Noster Spell”
Martha D. Rust, New York Univ., “‘The Arms of the Passion’: The List as Devotional Object”

32. Approaches to Medieval Frontiers (PRESIDENTS ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: William North, Carleton Coll.
Ruth Nisse, Univ. of Nebraska, “Realms of Conversion: Jews and Mongols between Apocalypse and Romance”
Theresa M. Vann, St. John’s Univ., “Descriptions of the Chri stian-Muslim Frontier in the Mediterranean World, 1100–1350”
Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ., “Defending the Western and Southern Frontiers in the War of the Two Pedros: An Experiment in Nation Building”

33. Relics (NOLTE ROOM)
Organizer: Nancy Thompson, St. Olaf Coll.
Chair: Anne F. Harris, DePauw Univ.
Scott B. Montgomery, Univ. of North Texas, “Bones and Stones: The Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Sacred Defense of Medieval Cologne”
Lynn Jones, Jenkintown, Penn., “Relics of the True Cross and Medieval Identity”
Elizabeth Pastan, Emory Univ., “Sai nt Charlemagne? Relics and Choice of Window Subjects at Chartres Cathedral”

34. Gold I (CAMPUS ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Nancy L. Wicker, Univ. of Mississippi
Christina Lee, Univ. of Nottingham, “Pennies for Heaven or the Devil’s Due?”
Martin Rundkvist, Stockholm Univ., “ Post festum: Solid Gold among the Swedes from the End of the Migration-Period Solidi Import to the Beginning of the Viking Raids”
Alan M. Stahl, Ossining, N.Y., “The Disappearance of Gold from Early-Medieval European Coinage”

3:15–3:45
• Break (UNIVERSITY BALLROOM FOYER) •

3:45–5:30
• Concurrent Sessions •

35. Medievalism in Popular Culture (FACULTY ROOM)
Organizer: Philip Adamo, Augsburg Coll.
Chair: Karal Ann Marling, Univ. of Minnesota
Louise Fradenburg, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, “Neo -Knights in the Desert”
Amy Hollywood, Dartmouth Coll., “Breaking the Waves and the Hagiographic Imagination”
Philip Adamo, “Medievalism in Middle America: Graceland, the Holy Land, and the Pedagogy of Pilgrimage”

36. Anglo-Latin Grammar-School Education: In Honor of A. G. Rigg (ALUMNI ROOM)
Organizer: Jenifer Sutherland, Univ. of Toronto
Chair: Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State Univ.
Jenifer Sutherland, “Walter of Wimborne: Confessions of a Schoolboy’s Whip”
Mary Dzon, Univ. of Toronto, “The Impish Christ-Child in Walter of Wimborne”
Jill Averil Keen, Univ. of Minnesota, “Walter and His Boys: Evidence for a Thirteenth-Century School at Wimborne Minster"

37. Russia and Eastern Europe in the Age of the Mongols (PRESIDENTS ROOM)
Organizer: William North, Carleton Coll.
Chair: Adeeb Khalid, Carleton Coll.
Roman Kovalev, Univ. of Minnesota, “The Role of the Finno-Ugrians in the Infrastructure of the Great Medieval Novgorodian Fur Trade”
Peter Jackson, Keele Univ., “The Mongol Frontier in Eastern Europe, 1242–1410”
Charles J. Halperin, Bloomington, Ind., “Muscovy as a Successor State of the Golden Horde”

38. Maps (NOLTE ROOM)
Organizer and Chair: Kevin Cragg, Bethel Coll.
Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State Univ., “Mapping History and National Identity in France during the Hundred Years War”
Richard W. Unger, Univ. of British Columbia, “Ships on Maps and European Exploration”
Scott D. Westrem, Lehman Coll. and Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York, “The Bell Library Mappamundi and Its Place in Medieval Cartography”

39. Gold II (CAMPUS ROOM)
Organizer: Nancy L. Wicker, Univ. of Mississippi
Chair: Calvin B. Kendall, Univ. of Minnesota
Niamh Whitfield, London, “Anglo -Saxon Gold Filigree and the Classical Tradition”
Barbara Armbruster, C.N.R.S., Toulouse, “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Viking Age Goldworking”
James Graham-Campbell, Univ. College London, “The Hoen Hoard and the Use of Gold in Viking Age Scandinavia”

6:00–7:00
• Reception (SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA) •
Buses leave the hotel at 5:45.

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