Friday, August 31
8:00-9:00 am - Registration, Coates Center Foyer
9:00-10:30 am
Session 1: Aspects of Medieval English Literature (Waxahachie Room)
Moderator: Mark Allen, University of Texas at San Antonio
1. "The
Function of the Scop in Beowulf"
Jeff Turpin, University of Texas at San Antonio
2. "Checking
Accounts: Trade Anxiety in the Tale of Beryn"
Jenny Adams, University of North Texas
3. "King
Alfred's Boethius: The Oralization of a Literary Text"
Laurel Lacroix, University of Houston
Session 2: Authority and
Medieval
Philosophy (Woodlawn Room)
Moderator: Philipp Rosemann, University of Dallas
1. "Aristotle,
Auctoritas, and Theinred of Dover's Theory of
Species: An English Contribution
to the Twelfth-Century Renaissance"
John Snyder, University of Houston
2. "Thoughts
on Freedom and Authority in Dante and Machiavelli"
Robert Welsh, Texas A & M International University
Session 3: The Libro de buen
amor
(Tehuacana Room)
Moderator: Don Kagay, Albany State University
1. "Amendment,
the Vernacular, and Pilgrimage in the Libro de buen
amor"
Susan Morrison, Southwest Texas State University
2. "Feminine
Identity in the Libro de buen amor -- 'Ms.-reading' the Text."
Paula Luteran, Angelo State University
3. "The
End of True Love: Lamenting the Death of Urraca."
Paul Larson, Baylor University
1o:30-11:00 - Break
11:00-12:30
Session
4: The Legist and Medieval Society (Waxahachie Room)
Moderator: Theresa Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
1. "'Clothes
Unmake the Man': Ivo of Chartres and the Presbyter of Orleans."
Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University
2. "Pere
Albert: Barcelona Canon, Feudal Lawyer, Royal Advocate."
Don Kagay, Albany State University
Session 5: Women in Ancient and Medieval
Literature (Woodlawn Room)
Moderator: Emma Hawkins, Lamar University
1. "Abduction
and Elopement in Medieval Greek Romance."
Joan Burton, Trinity University
2. "Late
Antique Women, Asceticism and Early Christianity: A Window of Opportunity"
Janet Chavez, University of Texas at El Paso
3. "Partnership
or Mastery: Affective Marriage in the Medieval Mystery Cycles"
Terri Gore, University of Texas at Arlington
Session 6: Pronouncing Malory's Dialect (Tehuacana Room)
Moderator: Edwin Duncan, Towson University
1. "Pronouncing
Malory's English"
D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University
2. "The
Regional, Social, and Phonetic Foundations of Malory's Dialect"
Jeannette Marshall Denton, Baylor University
12:30-2:00
- Lunch Break
(Conference attendees make their own arrangements)
2:00-3:30
Session 7: The Gendered Middle Ages in a Modern World (Waxahachie Room)
Moderator: Janice Gordon-Kelter, University of St. Thomas
1. "It's
Called a Lance...Hello?": An Exploration of Contemporary Film and Medieval
Setting"
Leah Larson, Our Lady of the Lake University
2. "Gendered
Space in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe"
Rebecca Flynn, University of Houston
3. "Christine
de Pisan and the Lettre au Dieu d'Amor"
Edward J. Baenzinger, University of St. Thomas
4. "'What,
may I nat stonden here?' Gendering Criseyde's Space in Geoffrey
Chaucer's
Troilus and Criseyde"
Mikee Delony, University of Houston
Session 8: Medieval Art and Architecture II: The Italian Environment
(Woodlawn Room)
Moderator: Richard King, Midwestern State University
1. "The
St. Victor Altarpiece for Siena Cathedral as a Civic Icon"
Judith Steinhoff, University of Houston
2. "Il
ludo scaccorum: The Game of Chess in Fifteenth-Century Lombardy"
Allison Lee Palmer, University of Oklahoma
Session 9: The Medieval Southwest (Tehuacana
Room)
Moderator: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A & M University
1. "Medieval
Blends to Modern: Material Evidence from the Coronado Expedition"
Richard Flint, New Mexico Highlands University
2. "Lingering
Medieval Evidence: La Sangre Limpiada of Marina Flores Gutiérrez
de la Caballera"
Shirley Cushing Flint, New Mexico Highlands University
4:00-5:00
Plenary
Speech
Fiesta Room
Introduction: Richard Newhauser, Trinity University
"The
Dresden Project: New Approaches to a Comparative History of Religious Orders."
Gert Melville, Technische Universität, Dresden
5:00-6:00
Reception
Skyline Dining
Room
Hosted
by
Texas Medieval Association
Saturday, September 1
8:30-10:00
Session 10: The Mendicants and Some Form of their Relationship to the Public (Waxahachie Room)
Moderator: Richard Newhauser, Trinity University
1. "Performances,
Provocations, and Pseudo Rituals in Earliest Franciscan History"
Achim Wesjohann, Technische Universität, Dresden
2. "Social
Analysis and the Focus on Individuality in Mendicant Pastoral Concepts"
Jörg Oberste, Technische Universität, Dresden
3. "Exemplum
and Disputatio: The Public Argument between Mendicants and the Secular
Clergy on Poverty and the Story of the Jackdaw in the Episode of Aurons
Pfenning in the Wartburgkrieg"
Stephan Müller, Technische Universität, Dresden
Session 11: Late Medieval England (Woodlawn Room)
Moderator: Kent Hare, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
1. "Royal
Medicine in the Reign of Edward II"
Jeffrey Hamilton, Baylor University
2. "The
Madness of Richard II: The Curious Tale of an Historical Myth"
George Stow, LaSalle University
3. "Power,
Patronage, and Survival: The Career of Lady Margaret Sarnesfield, 1381-1444"
Douglas L. Biggs, Waldorf College
Session 12: Military History (Tehuacana Room)
Moderator: Don Kagay, Albany State University
1. "The
Siege of Rhodes of 1480 and the Military Revolution Debate"
Theresa Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
2. "Medieval
Martial Arts"
John Clements, Houston, Texas
10:00-10:30 - Break
10:30-12:00
Session 13: Aspects of Medieval Spirituality (Waxahachie Room)
Moderator: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A & M University
1. "The
Dominicans and their Public Perception."'
Markus Schürer, Technische Universität, Dresden
2. "'The
Saucy Serving Girl': The Body in the Spirituality of Aelred of
Rievaulx"
John Sommerfeldt, University of Dallas
Session 14: The Eloquence of Friendship in St. Augustine
(Woodlawn Room)
Moderator: Philipp Rosemann, University of Dallas
1. "Divine
Eloquence in the Confessions: Augustine's Poetical Rhetoric and the
Senecan Bees"
Raymond DiLorenzo, University of Dallas
2. "Augustine
Sign Theory and the Allegory of Theatre"
Donnalee Dox, Texas A&M University
3. "Friendship
and the Fabled Lie: Augustine Confessions IV, 8"
James McEvoy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Session 15: Medieval Art and Architecture I: The Ecclesiatical
Milieu (Tehuacana Room)
Moderator: Richard King, Midwestern State University
1. "Clontuskert
Abbey: Lions, Griffins, and Mermaids, Oh My!"
Leisha O'Quinn, University of Oklahoma
2. "The
Iconography of the Column Narrative in Durham Castle"
Merrillee Cunningham, University of Houston-Downtown
12:00-1:00
TEMA
LUNCHEON
Skyline Dining Room
TEMA Business Meeting
1:15-2:15
Presidential
Speech
Fiesta Room
Introduction: John Martin, Trinity University
"Curiosity's
Fall: The Miller's Tale and Anti-Intellectualism"
Richard Newhauser, Trinity University
2:30-4:00
Session 16: The Other Middle Ages: The Baltic (Waxahachie Room)
Moderator: Don Kagay, Albany State University
1. "Before
the Germans Came: Early Scandinavian Activities in the Baltic"
Peter Rebane, Pennsylvania State University, Abington
2. "Lithuanian
Defectors to Prussia and Livonia in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries"
Daniel Wells, University of Houston
Session 17: The Mendicants and Concepts
of Ethics (Woodlawn Room)
Moderator: Gert Melville, Technische Universität, Dresden
1. "Curiosity,
Idolatry, and the Eucharist: Bonaventure (and Several Others) on How to View
a Miracle"
Dallas Denery, Stanford University
2. "Timete,
Dominum: The Virtue of Fear in the Writings of the Early Lives of
St. Francis
of Assisi"
Sean Kinsella, University of Toronto
3. "The
Inquisitive Friar?: Curiosity and Fear in the Tractatus of
Stephen of Bourbon"
Andrea Winkler, Whitman College
Session 18: Renaissance Literature (Tehuacana Room)
Moderator: Irving Kelter, University of St. Thomas
1. "Allegory
and the Masochism of Critique in The Fairie Queene: Spenser's Despair"
Willis Salomon, Trinity University
2. "The
Myth of Renaissance Individualism"
John Martin, Trinity University
3. "Renspeak:
Archaic Revival in the Language of the Medieval/Renaissance Re-enactment Community"
Ruèl A. Macaraeg, University of Texas at Arlington
4:15-5:45
Session 19: The Technology of Medieval Studies (Cowles Life Science Building, Room 336)
Moderator: Edwin Duncan, Towson University
1. "The
World of Manuscripts on Line: Navigating the World's Largest Manuscript Data
Base."
Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
2. "Javascript
and Multimedia: A Web Edition of Chaucer's General Prologue"
Edwin Duncan, Towson University
Session 20: The Mark of Law on Iberian Society (Waxahachie Room)
Moderator: Paul Larson, Baylor University
1. "A
Case of Inquisitorial Suicide: Isabel de Olivas y Lopez"
Elizabeth Dickenson, University of Texas
2. "Poetry
in the Dock: The Court Culture of Joan I on Trial (1396-1398)"
Don Kagay, Albany State University
Session 21: Medieval Literature and
its Modern Imprint (Woodlawn Room)
Moderator: D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University
1."The
Book of the Duchess as a Writing Sample"
Robert Haynes, Texas A&M International University
2. "Interrogating
Prescribed Cures for the Lover's Malady of Heroes"
James Palmer, Purdue University
3. "What
About That Green Man?"
Emma Hawkins, Lamar University
Session 22: The King as Political and Religious Symbol
(Tehuanaca Room)
Moderator: John Martin, Trinity University
1.
"Louis of Toulouse as Patron Saint and Dynastic Symbol for the First
Valois King"
Maureen Quigley, University of Texas
2.
"Harold Godwinson: A Peculiar Choice for a Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century
Anglo-Norman Royal Role Model"
Mark Vaughn, University of Rhode Island
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