TEMA-SEMA '96 Conference Program
Thursday, 3 October 1996
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Registration
Session 1: 1-2:30 p.m.
1.1 The End of the World I: Apocalypticism in Modern Times (Texas 1)
Chair: James McKeown, Baylor University
The angel in front of the dam: (Mis)Reading David Koresh's
Eschatology
Cheryl Bohde
McLennan Community College
A New ge Shall Dawn: Apocalyptic Thinking and the Human
Response to Change (Modern and Ancient Apocalypticism)
David Redles
University of Texas, San Antonio
1.2 Body and Gender (Texas 2)
Chair: Joyce Lionarons, Ursinus University
Mirth and Domesticated Masculinity in Chaucer's Host
Mark E. Allen
University of Texas-San Antonio
Medieval Femininities
Jena Recer
Our Lady of the Lake University
The Wife of Bath: Reviving the Anglo-Saxon Woman
Martha A. Kalnin
Baylor University
1.3 Church and State in Medieval Europe (Texas 3)
Chair: Patricia J. Bradley, Auburn University at Montgomery
Prince Vladimir of Kiev: Christian Innovator or Political Opportunist?
Ronald E. Williams
University of Texas at Arlington
Apocalypse Not: Edward II and the Templars
J. S. Hamilton
Baylor University
Good Counsel and Famylyaryte in Thomas Starkey's Dialogue
Between Pole and Lupset
Robert Haynes
Texas A&M International University
Thursday 1-2:30 p.m.
1.4. English and Continental Mysticism (Ranger 1)
Chair: Shearle Furnish, West Texas A & M University
The Structure of Reform in the Sixth Tribulation of Angelo Clareno
Judy Ann Ford
East Texas State University
The Stars Sneezed: Hildegard of Bingen's Use of Metaphorical
Language in Causes and Cures
Judith L. Bishop
Vanderbilt University
The Grammar of Selfhood in Julian of Norwich
Martha A. Tanner
Tulane University
1.5 Beowulf (Ranger 3)
Chair: Clay Kinsner, Baylor University
Setting and Cultural Memory in Part II of Beowulf
Victor I. Scherb
University of Texas at Tyler
Beowulf, St. Michael, and the Dragon of the Apocalypse
Jonathan Evans
University of Georgia
The Examination of "Otherness" in Beowulf
Warren Edminster
Baylor University
1.6. Gender and Narrator Roles from Hrothgar to Victoria (Ranger 5)
Chair: Ginger Rudd, University of Georgia
Peace-weavers and Angels: Old English and Victorian Icons of the Feminine
Gay Barton
Baylor University
Needing Her Space: Prisoners of Gender in Wulf and Eadwacer
and The Wife's Lament
Cynthia A. Gravlee
The University of Montevallo
Mine gefræge, Ic hyrde [as I have heard] in Beowulf:
Undermining the Narrator
Brent Gibson
Baylor University
Session 2
Thursday 3-4:30 p.m.
2.1 Apocalypse: In Medieval and in Medievalism (Texas 1)
Chair: Timothy Stifel, Baylor University
Apocalypse and Apotheosis: The Ending of the Troilus
Ann Bradley
Rice University
Alexander the Great and the Day of Judgment
Zachary Zuwiyya
Westminster College
The Old Order Passeth: Apocalyptic Vision in Tennyson's
Idylls of the King and in John Boorman's Excalibur
James A. Moore
Angelo State University
2.2 Not so Merrie--Violence and/or Apocalypse in the Middle Ages
(Texas 2)
Chair: J. S. Hamilton
The Teutonic Knights as the Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Literary and
Film Reception of the Battle on the Ice
Rasma Lazda-Cazers
Baylor University
Brothers and Cousins, In-laws and Outlaws: Norman Kinship Patterns
and the Struggle between Henry Beauclerc and Robert Curthose
Kent G. Hare, LSU
Violence and Transformation in the Basset Case, 1222
Patricia Orr
Bastrop, Texas
2.3 Chaucer's Women (Texas 3)
Chair: Lorraine Kochanske Stock, Univ. of Houston
The Role of Women in The Canterbury Tales
Kimberly Musia
Baylor University
The Wife of Bath's Creation of a Legal Fiction
Eric Leatherwood
University of Southern Mississipi
A Rereading of The Wife of Bath's Tale and Lak of Stedfastnesse:
Richard II and the Ideology of Benign Sovereignty
Peggy Sheehan Malone
University of Houston
2.4 Chaucer: Sex and Gender (Ranger 1)
Chair: Mark Allen, Univ. of Texas-San Antonio
Chaucer and Rape: Revealing the Victim
Jessica Green
Southwest Texas State University
Treasonable Adultery in the copie of a treetys and a lettre
that Troilus Gives to Deiphebus and Helen
Chip V. Court
Emory University
Triangulated Desire and Gendered Angels in Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde
Stephanie Dietrich
University of Houston
2.5 Mystics, Marxists, Messiahs--and Hope (Ranger 3)
Chair: Marilyn Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Wordely Things and Fleschely Conceits: The Disavowal of Language
in Medieval Mystical Texts
Richard B. McDonald
University of South Florida
The Messiahs of Piers Plowman
Susan Dauer
University of Texas-Austin
Marxists and Christians on the Eschaton--A Thomistic Logic of Hope
Walter Redmond
Huston-Tillotson College
2.6 Chaucer (Ranger 5)
Chair: Pete Beidler, Lehigh University
Translating Griselda
Amy W. Goodwin
Randolph-Macon College
Chaucer and the Clerk's Revolt
Wendy Allman
University of California-Berkeley
Out with Minstrels, In with Poets: Chaucer's Bid for Patronage in
the Canterbury Tales
Michelle Miller
University of Houston
5 p.m.: FIRST PLENARY SESSION : "Pope Urban II's Regulations for the
First Crusade."
Robert Somerville, Professor of Religion and History,
Columbia University (Hilton Town Square Central/South)
6:30 p.m. Opening Reception
7:30 p.m. SEMA Executive Council (Ranger 1)
7:30 p.m. TEMA Executive Council (Ranger 3)
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Friday, 4 October
8 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration
8-a.m.-4 p.m. Book Display: Ranger 2
7:15-8 a.m. Coffee and Muffins
Session 3 8-9:30
3.1 Apocalyptic Literature (Ranger 1)
Chair: Roy Liuzza, Tulane University
Deposuit potentes: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in the Middle English
Robert of Sicily
Joan Baker
Florida International University
Les Merveilles de Rigomer's Apocalyptic Geography
Daniel E. O'Sullivan III
Boston College
Judgment Calls: The Name of the Rose and the Limits of Apocalypse
John M. Lewis
Southern Methodist University
3.2 Journeys to God (Ranger 3)
Chair: John Halbrooks, Tulane University
The First Sunday of Lent: Its Origin and Celebration in Medieval France
Robyn A. Holman
College of Charleston
Pilgrims and Pirates on the Late-Medieval Journey to Jerusalem
Kristine T. Utterback
University of Wyoming
At the Brink of Apocalypse: England and Europe during the Later Middle
Ages
John Aberth
Norwich University
3.3 Chaucer (Ranger 5)
Chair: Susan Hagen, Birmingham-Southern College
Prioresses and the Prioress's Tale: Revelation, Grace, and the Keeping
of Small Dogs
Nandra Perry
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Antichrist Polemics in Four Canterbury Tales
Dansby Evans
Emory University
The Sense of an Ending in Cursor Mundi and The Canterbury Tales
Ordelle Hill
Eastern Kentucky University
3.4 Creation and Fall: From the Anglo-Saxon Old Testament to Paradise Lost
(Huaco Room)
Chair: Andrea Rossi-Reder, Baylor University
Adam's Fountain, Noah's Flood: Creation as Inverted Apocalypse in
Genesis A
Scott Norsworthy
University of Southwestern Louisiana
The Theocracy of the Word in the Anglo-Saxon Genesis Band
Milton's Paradise Lost
Heather Barkley
Texas Tech University
Veiling the Past, Revealing the Future: An Apocalyptic Metaphor in
Eleventh-Century England
Benjamin C. Wither
Indiana University, South Bend
3.5 The Lais of Marie de France: Glossing the Letter I (Texas 1)
A panel in honor of R. Howard Bloch
Chair: Dolliann Hurtig, Louisiana Tech University
Supernatural Elements in the Lai of Yonec
Elizabeth Walsh
University of San Diego
Layering Love in Marie de France's Guigemar
Judith Barban
Winthrop University
The Persistence of Doubling in Marie de France's Eliduc
Wendy Tibbetts Greene
North Carolina A & I State University
3.6 Monsters, Martyrs, and the Apocalypse in Old English Poetry (Texas 3)
Chair: Jo Goyne, Southern Methodist University
Dangers Without, Dangers Within: Grendel as Monstrous Critique of
Cultural Practices in Beowulf
Daniel F. Pigg
University of Tennessee
Expressions of the Apocalypse in Medieval Poetry
Gayle H. Miller
Luann Ham
Western Carolina University
From Monster to Martyr: The Old English Legend of St. Christopher
Joyce Tally Lionarons
Ursinus University
9:30-4 FRIDAY ONLY A display of interest to medievalists will take place
in Ranger 4. It will include Baylor's copy of the new full-size,
full-color facsimile of the Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales.
10 a.m. Presidential Welcome and Address: (Bosque Theater)
Robert Sloane, President, Baylor University.
One View of the Apocalypse
10:45-12:15 Session 4
4.1 The Helpless in the Arena of War and Politics: Women and
Clergy as Medieval Warriors and Rulers (Texas 1)
Don Kagay, Organizer
Chair: Derek Brewer, University of North Texas
The Constitutional Crisis of Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
Theresa M. Vann
Hill Monastic Manuscript University
Ecclesiastical Politics and the Anglo-Norman Civil War: The
Career of Bishop Bernard of St. David
Jean Truax
University of Houston
4.2 Malory (Ranger 1)
Chair: Dan O'Sullivan III, Boston College
A New Spin on an Old Wheel: Launcelot and Fortune in Malory's
Morte Darthur
Rebecca S. Beal
University of Scranton
A King By Any Other Name
Belinda Powell Gadd
Eastern Kentucky University
Merlin, Morgan, and Magic: A Comparison of the Dueling Wizardry
in Morte Darthur and its Societal Influences
Edward Iglesias
University of Houston
4.3 Teaching History of the English Language:
Assignments That Work (Ranger 3)
Chair: Marylyn Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Helen Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University
Steve Guthrie, Agnes Scott College
Mimi Miller, Univ. of New Orleans
Karl Tamburr, Sweetbriar College
4.4 Franciscan Apocalypticism (Huaco Room)
Chair: Patricia Bradley, Auburn University
Peter Damian and Monte Cassino
John Howe
Texas Tech University
Bonaventura da Bagnoregio
Roberto Mondonico
University of Milan
Some Varieties of Franciscan Apocalypticism
John Fleming
Princeton University
4.5 The End of the World II: The Millenial Vision Through the Centuries
Don Kagay, Chair--Albany State College (Texas 3)
The Millenial Vision of Julian of Toledo
Jeremy duQuesnay Adams
Southern Methodist University
How an American City Reversed the Past and Singlehandedly
Inaugurated The End of Time
Paul E. Chevedden
Virginia Military Institute
4.6 Marie de France (Ranger 5)
Chair: Kathleen M. Hobbs, Rutgers University
Le LaYstic et le Rossignol: Issues of Intertextuality and Influence
in Marie De France and Chretien de Troyes
June Hall McCash
Middle Tennessee State University
The Knight of the Werewolf: Bisclavret and the Shape-Shifting Metaphor
David Leshock
Duquesne University
Twelfth-Century Feminism: The Self-Determining Heroines of Marie de France
Edith Whitehurst Williams
Eastern Kentucky University
Judith Rice Rothschild
Appalachian University
12:30-2 LUNCH (SEMA members are on their own for lunch)
TEMA's business lunch, paid for in registration, will
take place in the Hilton's Town Square South.
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Oh, NO! Not Canon Law!
Bruce Brasington, West Texas A & M University
Friday, 2:30-3:30
SECOND PLENARY SESSION (Bosque Theater)
Chaucer, Dante, and the Four Last Things.
Professor Helen Cooper, University College, Oxford University
4-5:30 Session 5
5.1 Old English (Ranger 1)
Chair: Kimberly Musia, Baylor University
Fears of the Apocalypse: The Anglo-Saxons and the Coming of the Millennium
Edwin Duncan
Towson State University
Pre-Conquest Glossary-Making in English, Latin--and FRENCH?
David Porter
Southern University
Gigantic Irony: Re-Reading the Giants of Beowulf
Timothy Stifel
Baylor University
5.2 The Arthurian Apocalypse (Texas 1)
Chair: Melanie McGarrahan, Southern Methodist University
Tristram's Apocalpytic World
Maureen Fries
Fredonia State University of New York
Malory and the Apocalypse
Bonnie Wheeler
Southern Methodist University
Fin' amor as Apocalyptic Generator: Chretien's Resurrected Lover
and Marcabru's Catalogue of the Damned
Mark N. Taylor
University of Texas-Austin
5.3 Working the Web: Part 1 (Beginners)
Bonnie Duncan
Millersville University
(VANS WILL LEAVE THE HILTON AT 3:50 TO TAKE PARTICIPANTS TO A
COMPUTER CLASSROOM AT BAYLOR.)
This interactive lab session is designed for beginners wanting to learn
the basics of HTML with a medieval slant and a focus on pedagogy and
scholarly uses. It will utilize Macintosh computers, but the skills and
information cross platforms quite easily. Walk-ins are welcome, but if
possible, contact Bonnie Duncan in advance for handouts, software, and
other information.
E-Mail: bduncan marauder.millersv.edu
Snail: Bonnie Duncan, 208 Chryst Bldg., English Dept.
Millersville University, Millersville PA 17551
(717) 871-2080
5.4 Medieval Drama (Huaco Room)
Chair: Teresa Reed, University of Florida
Parodies of Mary: Comic Foils of the Virgin Mother in Three
Plays by the Wakefield Master
Lisa M. Goetz
Duquesne University
Speaking of the Devil: Scripture, Law and Interpretation in
the Towneley Harrowing of Hell
Lisa Verner
New Orleans, LA
Eschatology, History, and Identity in the Chester Mystery Cycle
Mary E. Sokolowski
Binghamton University
5.5 Marie de France (Ranger 3)
Chair: Amy Bawcom, Baylor University
Marriage, Mutuality and Marie
Sylvia P. Heffley
University of Connecticut
(En)Gendering Public and Private: The Fairy Mistress Motif in
Pwyll, Pendeuic Dyuet and Marie's Lanval
Kathleen M. Hobbs
Rutgers University
Family Matters: Women and Kinship in the Middle English Lai le Freine
Andrea Rossi-Reder
Baylor University
5.6 The Word, the Book, and the Magic of Reading (Ranger 5)
Chair: Ordelle Hill, Eastern Kentucky University
Literate Characters Reading Their Texts: Infinite Regression
Jean E. Jost
Bradley University
The Manuscript and the Reader: Two Lyrics in MS Harley 2253
John Halbrooks
Tulane University
The Book and Magic of Reading
Albrecht Classen
University of Arizona
Friday 4-5:30
5.7 The Hispanic Middle Ages (Texas 3)
Chair: Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University
El Cid as a Rebel Vassal: an Interpretation of the Poem of Il Mio Cid
Beatriz Gomez Acuna
University of Texas at Austin
The Presence of the Future in Juan de Mena's Laberinto de
Fortuna
Galen Beckwith Yorba-Gray
Texas Tech University
From Medieval Europe to the New World: The Penitentes and Their
Imitatio Christi Patroness.
Elizabeth Nightlinger
Marymount University
The Cult of the Virgin of Copacabana in History and Literature
Paul Charney
West Texas A&M
6 p.m. SUPPER: A TEXAS BARBECUE ON THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE (weather permitting).
The barbecue is paid for in your registration fee.
Performance Friday night, 7:30 p.m. (Bosque Theater)
Music of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age.
Presented by the Baylor Medieval and Renaissance Music Group,
directed by Dr. Christine Getz.
Performance Friday night, 8:30 p.m. (see session 6.4) (Bosque Theater)
Boss for Three Days: A Middle Dutch Comic Play translated for the
Twentieth Century. Produced by Pete Beidler. Translated by Therese
Decker. Directed by Amanda Bunt. Featuring from Baylor University:
Amy Bawcom
Kevin Cole
Stephen Cooper
Kirsten Escobar
Richard Garrett
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Saturday 5 October
7:15-8 a.m. Coffee and rolls
8 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration
8-a.m.-4 p.m. Book Display: Ranger 2
8-9:30 Session 6
6.1 Working the Web: Part 2 (Intermediate)
(Vans will take participants from the Hilton to a Baylor computer
classroom starting at 7:45)
Chair: Bonnie Duncan, Millersville University
This session is designed for people with some experience with the web
and/or for participants in Session I on Friday. It will employ Macintosh
computers, but the skills and information cross platforms quite easily.
Walk-ins are welcome, but if possible, contact Bonnie Duncan in advance
for handouts, software, and other information.
E-Mail: bduncan@marauder.millersv.edu
Snail: Bonnie Duncan, 208 Chryst Bldg.
English Dept.
Millersville University
Millersville, PA 17551 (717) 871-2080)
6.2 Pearl (Ranger 1)
Chair: Amy W. Goodwin, Randolph-Macon College
Marian Metonymy and Folds of Significance in Pearl
Teresa P. Reed
University of Florida
Pearl's New Jerusalem
Ginger Rudd
University of Georgia
Privatizing the Apocalypse: Pearl and the Sense of an End
David N. DeVries
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
6.3 Constructing Female Voices: Heloise, Christine de Pisan, and
Chaucer's Good Women (Texas 1)
Chair: Karl Tamburr, Sweetwater College
The Voice of Heloise
Karin Colburn
Ambassador University
The Voice of Christine de Pisan
Judith Laird
Southwest Texas State University
The Voices of Chaucer's Good Women
Fiona Neuendorf
Alfred University
6.4 Boss for Three Days: A Discussion (Texas 3)
Chair: Peter Beidler, Lehigh University
Translating the Middle Ages: Making Boss for Three DaysBoss
Kirsten E. Escobar
Baylor University
Man of Many Hats: The Multiple Roles of Imbrecht in Boss
Richard L. Garrett
Baylor University
Breaking the Silence: Jan's Abuse of the Power of Language in Boss
Amy M. Bawcom
Baylor University
Perverted Honor and Prostitution: Pimping for Power in Boss
Amanda Bunt
Baylor University
Unholy Ceremony: Satire in Boss
Kevin L. Cole
Baylor University
6.5 The Poet's Craft in Beowulf and Cynewulf (Ranger 3)
Chair: Heather Barkley, Texas Tech University
The Begang of Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles
Jim Anderson, University of Southern Louisiana
Apocalpyse in The Wanderer
Tim Romano
Swarthmore University
Concealing Grendel's Dam from the Reader: Problematizing the Concept
of Individualism
Hadley J. Mozer
Baylor University
6.6 Middle English Alliterative Poetry (Ranger 5)
Chair: Martha Tanner, Tulane University
Sir Gawain and the Sense of an Ending
Britt Mize
University of North Carolina
Not for a halyday honestly arayed: Dress Codes in Alliterative
Long-line Poetry
Patricia Price
Willamette University
The Boundaries of Patience
Donna Crawford
University of Richmond
Saturday 10-11:30 Session 7
7.1 Chaucer On-Line: Report on Teaching Chaucer with Electronic
Resources. Introducing the SEMA "Teaching Chaucer" Bulletin Board
(Vans will take participants from the Hilton to a
Baylor computer classroom beginning at 9:45.)
Susan Hagen
Birmingham-Southern College
7.2 The Grammar of Morality and Grace (Huaco Room)
Chair: Susan Dauer, University of Texas-Austin
The Grammatical Basis for Morality and Cosmology in William of Conches
John H. Newell, Jr.
College of Charleston
Schools, Grammar, and Exegesis in Twelfth-Century England
Frans van Liere
College of Charleston
The Grammar of Grace: AElfric's Grammar and the End of the World
Melinda Menzer
Furman University
7.3 The English Apocalypse (Ranger 1)
Chair: Beth Pollard, Baylor University
LECTIO + IMAGO = APOCALYPSIS (The English Jews and the Apocalypse)
Marian J. Hollinger
West Virginia University, Morganstown
Apocalyptic Belief and Economic Change: Piers Plowman, the 1381
Rebellion, and the Growth of the Profit Economy
Justine Rydzeski
Tulane University
The Apocalyptic Rhetoric of Promising in Everyman (c. 1495):
Excretion, Exchange, Concealment and Revelation
Ronald Heckelman
University of St. Thomas, Houston
7.4 Hagiography (Ranger 3)
Chair: Michael Calabrese, California State U-Los Angeles
The Miracle of the Lengthened Beam in Apocryphal and Hagiographical
Tradition
Tom Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Aqua in cruorem: The Early Development of the Cult of Thomas Becket
Kay Slocum
Capital University, Columbus, Ohio
Manifestations of Evil in Thirteenth-century Narratives on the
Miracle of Theophilus
Irene E. Gnarra
Kean College of New Jersey
7.5 Margery Kempe (Texas 1)
Chair: Cindy Ho, University of North Carolina-Asheville
Eucharistic Mysticism and the Wounds of Christ in The Book of
Margery Kempe
Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
Hokkaido University
I take you, Margery, for my wedded wife, for fairer, for fouler,
for richer, for poorer
Emma Lipton
Duke University
From Transgression to Transformation: The meaning of Margery Kempe's
Travels
Terence Bowers
College of Charleston
Canonizing Margery Kempe: the Disparate Selections of Wynkyn de
Worde and the Norton Anthology of English Literature
Lynnea Brumbaugh-Walter
University of the Ozarks
7.6 Wakefield Plays (Ranger 5)
Chair: Ann Bradley, Rice University
Creators, Creatures, and Artifacts in the Opening Pageants of the
Wakefield Plays
Shearle Furnish
West Texas A&M University
From Post-Lapsarian to Pre-Nativity: Mak and Gill as Everycouple
in the Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play
Bindu Malieckal
Baylor University
The Audience of the Wakefield Noah: In Cosmic, Historic Time
and Place
Cami D. Agan
Duquesne University
7.7 The Lais of Marie de France: Glossing the Letter II (Texas 3)
A panel in honor of R. Howard Bloch
Chair: Judith Barban, Winthrop University
Re-membering Marie de Frances's Lai Des Deus Amanz
Minnie B. Sangster
North Carolina Central University
Medieval Models of Marriage and the Choice of Partners in Marie de
France's Ole Fresne
Dolliann Hurtig
Louisiana Tech University
The Search for a Place To Speak: Text and Image in a Manuscript of
Marie's Fables
Richard Hartman
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
12-1:30 SEMA BUSINESS LUNCHEON--Hilton Dining Room
TEMA members are on their own for lunch
Saturday
2-3 THIRD PLENARY SESSION:
Modern Millenialism: Waco's Davidians and Branch Davidians.
William Pitts, Professor of Religion, Baylor Univ. (Bosque Theater)
3:30-6:30 Waco's Apocalypse: a Tour of The Compound at Mt.
Carmel led by Bob Darden (co-author of Mad Man in
Waco: The Complete Story of the Davidian Cult, David Koresh,
and the Waco Massacre)
8-10: TEMA Executive Board Meeting (Ranger 1)
8-10 SEMA Executive Board Meeting (Ranger 3)
8-10 Graduate Students and Medieval Studies: General topics; a survey of
resources in Texas and on the TEMA Home Page. Amy Bawcom, Baylor U.
(Ranger 5)
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Sunday 6 October
8-9 a.m. Coffee and pastries
9-10:30 Session 8
8.1 The End of the World III: Holy War and Last Times (Ranger 1)
Chair: Will Hasty, University of Florida
The Millenial Ideology of St. Augustine
Andrew Graham
Southern Methodist University
Aldemar of Chabannes and the Peace of 994: An Apocalyptic
Episode?
Michael Frassetto
LaGrange College
Crusading Millenialism
Elizabeth Dickenson
Southern Methodist University
8.2 Chaucer and Lydgate on Law and Lawlessness (Huaco Room)
Chair: John M. Lewis, Southern Methodist University
What Chaucer Learned from the Law Texts
Mary Flowers Braswell
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Old Man, New Law: Contextualizing Chaucer's Reeve in Fourteenth-
Century Legal Developments
Warren Rawson
University of Houston
The Cook's Tale as a Censored Text: A reading in Foucauldian
Transgression
Daniel S. Traber
University of Houston
Bounde to a new lawe: Lydgate's Siege of Thebes
Candace Barrington Waldrop
Duke University
8.3 Chaucerian Apocalypse (Texas 1)
Chair: Sylvie Heffley, University of Connecticut
The Miller's Tale as Mock-Apocalypse
George Klawitter
St. Edward's University
Apocalypse in the Farmyard: The Nun's Priest Tale and The Book of
the Dun Cow
Jim McKeown
Baylor University
Fallen Language, Apocalyptic Vision in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale
Barbara Kline
Seattle, WA
8.4 Music (Ranger 5)
Chair: Christine Getz, Baylor University
Rhythmic Structure in a Group of Late Thirteenth-Century Motets
Patricia P. Norwood
Mary Washington College
Music Of and About the Apocalypse
Brad Eden
League City, TX
8.5 Guinevere and Marian (Texas 3)
Chair: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
Guinevere: Rumor, Round Table, and Decline
Victoria Kendig
Baylor University
What's Your Mama's Name, Child?: Guinevere's Missing Mother
Penelope Warren
Laredo Community College
A Bonny Fine Maid
Sherron Lux
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
8.6 Arthurian (Ranger 3)
Chair: Jean Jost, Bradley University
There is no wisdom in not freely making one's knowledge available:
Enide Speaking.
Melanie McGarrahan
Southern Methodist University
Steinbeck's Arthurian Vision: Tortilla Flat as Novel and Movie.
Henry Hall Peyton III
Memphis University
Arthurian Dreams and Medieval Dream Theory
Jo Goyne
Southern Methodist University