PROGRAM FOR THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE TEXAS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio, Texas
September 8-10, 1994
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Session 1. 3:30-5:00 THE EARLY CHURCH WC 109
"Night of the Talking Dead: Gregory of Tours and the Use of the
Voice of the Dead"
John F. Doyle, University of Arkansas
"Ernulf of Rochester and the Development of Canon Law"
Kendall F. Downs, West Texas A&M University
"The Benedictine Rule and the Pursuit of Liberal Studies"
Bennett Donovan, University of Texas-Austin
Session 2. 3:30-5:00 CHAUCERIANA I - WOMEN IN CHAUCER WC 104
Chair: Tom Hanks, Baylor University
"Christ, the Church, the Wife, and her Lovers"
Jennie-Rebecca Stine, Baylor University
"Liberation or Victimization? Dorigen's Price of Love in the Franklin's
Tale"
Leslie Ann Buchta, Baylor University
"The Accepting Power of Custance"
Elizabeth Pollard, Baylor University
Session 3. 3:30-5:00 ART AND ICONOGRAPHY WC 110
Moderator: Ric Slocum, Our Lady of the Lake University
"Holy Hirsutism and Defamation of Character: The Case of St. John
Chrysostom"
Elizabeth Nightlinger, Marymount University
"Albrecht Duerer and the Ages of Man"
Eric M. White, Southern Methodist University
"Franciscan Millenial Eschatology and the Iconographical Program of
Tecamachalco's Socorro Paintings"
Martin Fleming, Tulane University
"The _Beowulf_ poet's _mael_: The Limits of Swords, History, and Time"
Karin S. Colburn, Ambassador University
Special Session. 7:00-8:30. SOR JUANA INEZ DE LA CRUZ (at Mexican
Cultural Institute, 600 Hemisfair Plaza)
"Las castas mexicanas en los villancicos de Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz"
Laurence le Bouhellec, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla
"Sor Juana's Last Dream," a poem by Gail Wronsky, Loyola Marymount
University
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Session 4 9:00-10:30 PHILOSOPHERS AND POLITICS IN LATE
MEDIEVAL ENGLAND WC 109
Chair: J. Morgan Sweeney, Michigan State University
"Wyclif's _De Civili Dominio_ and Natural Rights"
Stephen E. Lahey, University of Connecticut
"Sir Thomas Elyot and Plato: The Dialogues of Knowledge"
Robert Haynes, Texas A&M International University
Session 5 9:00-10:30 NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE
MISSIONARIES WC 104
Moderator: Bernardino Verastique, Our Lady of the Lake University
"Indian Cofradias in the Lima Valley, Peru, during Colonial Times"
Paul Charney, West Texas A&M University
"Berceo's _Milagros_, Astorgan Folklore, and Franciscan New World Exempla
in the Widow Cromberger's Broadside, 1541"
Nancy Joe Dyer, Texas A&M University
"Medieval Images of the Passion and Penance in the Art of the Southwestern
Santeros"
Renee Bennett, Saint Louis University
Session 6. 9:00-10:30 MEDIEVAL MUSIC WC 110
"The Oratory of San Bernardino of Siena and the Angel Musicians of
Agostino di Duccio"
Herbert Turrentine, Southern Methodist University
"The Virgin Mary as Saint/Protector in Thirteenth Century Spanish Music"
Brad Eden, League City, Texas
Session 7. 11:00-12:30 MIDDLE ENGLISH POEMS AND POETS WC 104
"Poetic Territorialism in Skelton's 'Against Garnesche'"
Victor Scherb, University of Texas at Tyler
"Editing Middle English Battle Poems: Problems with the Four Versions of
_The Battle of Agincourt_"
John W. Schwetman, Sam Houston State University
"Ex Nihilo: Chaucer, Dante, and Guilhem IX as First Poets"
Nancy Helen Goldsmith Rose, Shimer College
Session 8. 11:00-12:30 MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE SOUTHWEST WC 109
Moderator: Thomas Keyes, Our Lady of the Lake University
"Libertas y determinacion en Alonso Briceno, 1587-1689"
Mirko Skarica, Universidad Catolico de Valparaiso
"Friar Alonso de la Vera Cruz: Quantified Inference in 16th Century
Mexican Logic"
Walter Redmond, Huston-Tillotson College
"Las Casas: Between Medievalism and Modernism"
Robert S. Haller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Session 9. 11:00-12:30 IN HONOR OF JOSEPH F. O'CALLAGHAN WC 110
WARFARE AND SOCIETY IN TWELFTH-CENTURY EUROPE
Chair: Theresa Vann, University of Minnesota/Duluth
"Non-Iberians in the Twelfth Century Reconquest"
Randall Rogers, Louisiana State University
"Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Stephen of Blois in England"
Steve Issacs, Louisiana State University
"The Diffusion of the Traction Trebuchet from China to the Mediterranean"
Paul E. Chevedden, Salem State College
Session 10. 2:00-3:30 ARTHURIANA I - ENGLAND WC 109
"The Once and Future King: The Effect of History on the Character of King
Arthur in Malory's _Morte Arthure_ and Spenser's _Faerie Queene_"
David Oakes, Texas A&M University
"The Stillness at the Heart of the Whirlwind: Arthur as an Emblem of
Integration Amid Social Turbulence"
Penelope Warren, Laredo Community College
"Christian Sterility and Pagan Fertility in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight: An Arithmological Reading"
Tracy Kalkwarf, University of North Texas
"Gawain and the Green Knight: A Pagan's View of the Tale"
Edward G. Iglesias, Laredo, Texas
Session 11. 2:00-3:30 IN HONOR OF JOSEPH F. O'CALLAGHAN WC 110
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH: UNEXPECTED REWARDS
Chair: Randall Rogers, Louisiana State University
"Every Medievalist's Dream: Discovering and Historicizing a Tenth Century
Byzantine Manuscript"
Karin Colburn, Ambassador University
"Unforeseen Occurrences: The Discovery of a Cache of Iberian Manuscripts
in Minnesota"
Theresa Vann, University of Minnesota-Duluth
"Manuscripts: Pitfalls and Possibilities"
Derek Baker, University of North Texas
Session 12. 2:00-3:30 WRITTEN COMMUNICATION IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES WC 104
Chair: Gert Melville, University of Muenster
"Heretical Attacks on the Legitimacy of the Law: Evidence from the
Polemics"
Peter Diehl, Western Washington University
"Thomas Sanchez on the Cloistering of Nuns: Canonical Theory and Spanish
Colonial Practice"
Elizabeth Makowski, Southwest Texas State University
"The _Abbreviatio_ `Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum': A Distinctive Regional
Reception of Gratian's _Decretum_"
Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas A&M University
PLENARY ADDRESS. 4:00-5:00 WC 104
"The Medieval Safe-Conduct: A Mini-Institution for Muslims, Christians,
and Jews in Arago-Catalonia"
Robert I. Burns, S.J., University of California-Los Angeles
OLLU RECEPTION 5:00-6:00 BLUE ROOM IN PROVIDENCE HALL
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Session 13. 8:30-10:00 ISLAM IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN LITERATURE WC 110
"The Image of the Other: Misconceptions of Islam and the Muslims in the
Popular Middle English Romances"
Elizabeth Berlings, St. John's University
"The Function of the Saracen Religion in the Old French Chansons de Geste"
David Horton, Western Michigan University
"al-Ghazali: That Which Delivers From Error"
Madeleine Pepin, Our Lady of the Lake University
Session 14. 8:30-10:00 CHAUCERIANA II WC 109
Chair: Judith Laird, Southwest Texas State University
"Sermons, Symbols, and Storytellers: A New Look at Fragments V and VI of
The Canterbury Tales"
Victoria Kendig, Baylor University
"Unexpected Correlations in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and Physician's
Tale"
Steven J. Yarborough, Baylor University
"The Sin of Sporting in The Canterbury Tales"
Maury Gortemiller, Baylor University
Session 15. 8:30-10:00 MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS WC 104
Moderator: Jeffrey Coombs, Our Lady of the Lake University
"Ramon Lull, Universal Genius Neglected"
John Haddox, University of Texas-El Paso
"Aquinas and his Critics on Rationality and Practical Error"
Gavin T. Colvert, College of the Holy Cross
"A Note on Two Modal Propositions of Burleigh"
Lynn Cates, University of Texas-Austin
Session 16 10:30-12:00 THE WORDS AND WORKS OF GOD WC 104
Chair: Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University
"The Female Audience of the _Bible moralisee_: Blanche of Castille and
the Example of Vienna"
Tracy Chapman, University of Texas at Austin
"An Analysis of the Origin of Life in the New World in Jose de Acosta's
Natural and Moral History of the Indies"
Lucia Lockert, Michigan State University
"Stultia on Stage: Masculinity and Femininity in Erasmus' _In Praise of
Folly_"
Todd W. Reeser, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
"Medieval and Early Renaissance Papal Tomb Monuments in Old St. Peter's
and France: Memoria, Nepotism, and Familia"
Christiane Esche, Austin, Texas
Session 17. 10:30-12:00 THE MEDIEVAL BALTIC WC 109
"Courts, Crime, and Gender in Medieval Livonia"
Peter Rebane, Pennsylvania State University
"The Image of the Virgin Mary in the Revelations of Saint Birgitta of
Sweden"
Sean Kinsella, St. Bonaventure University
"Stumbling in the Right Direction: the Roles of Andrew and Daumantas in
Lithuanian Expansion"
Daniel B. Wells, University of Houston
Session 18. 10:30-12:00 - ARTHURIANA II - THE CONTINENT WC 110
Chair: Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams, Southern Methodist University
"Chretien de Troyes and the Courts of Eleanor and Henry"
Nancy Helen Goldsmith Rose, Shimer College
"Craft and Purpose in Chretien de Troyes's _Chevalier de la
Charrette_"
George Klawitter, St. Edward's University
"Weaving with Transcendent Threads: Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo's
_Amadis de Gaula_"
Alison Caplan, Providence College
TEMA LUNCHEON - 12:00-1:00 GOLD DINING ROOM II
OLLU SPANISH DANCERS 12:10-12:30
BUSINESS MEETING 12:30-1:00
PLENARY ADDRESS. 1:15-2:15 WC 104
"The Herald in the Middle Ages"
Gert Melville, University of Muenster
Session 19. 2:30-4:00 BEOWULF WC 109
Chair: Peter Richardson, University of North Texas
"Statements of Creation, With Especial Reference to Bede and
_Beowulf_"
Alan P. Robb, Baylor University
"Giants, Dragons, and Isolation: The Elements of Horror in _Beowulf_"
David A. Oakes, Texas A&M University
"`When the Watcher Sleeps': Guardians in _Beowulf_"
Jennifer Fish, Baylor University
"_Beowulf_ as a Prescriptive Maxim"
Tina Good, California State University-Fresno
Session 20. 2:30-4:00 IN HONOR OF JOSEPH F. O'CALLAGHAN WC 104
THE WORLD OF RELIGION AND POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA
Chair: Paul E. Chevedden, Salem State College
"The Emergence of 'Parliament' in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragon"
Donald J. Kagay, Albany State College
"An Early Bequest to the Brothers of Calatrava"
Theresa Vann, University of Minnesota-Duluth
"Shelter and Segregation: Lepers in Medieval Catalonia"
James W. Brodman, University of Central Arkansas
Session 21. 2:30-4:00 MISCELLANIA WC 110
"Laying out the Lesson: The Pedagogical Aspects of the Decoration in the
Walter of Milenete Treatise"
Lynn Ransom, University of Texas at Austin
"Chronicle and History in the _Historia Caroli VIII_ and _Historia
Ludovici XI_ by Thomas Basin (1412-1490)"
Mark Spencer, University of Kentucky
Session 22 2:30-4:00 TEACHING THE MIDDLE AGES WC Lounge
"Texas Medievalists, Mentoring, and Collaboration": A Roundtable
Discussion
Participants: Thomas Hanks, Baylor University
Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
Session 23 4:15-5:45 ANGLO-SAXON LIFE AND LITERATURE WC 109
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
"Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Translation: King Alfred's _Boethius_"
Tracy A. Crouch, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Dazed and Confused: Creating Meaning in The Wife's Lament"
Paula Bilstein, Ohio State University
"The Eighth-Century Mercian Kings and the Bretwaldas"
Kent G. Hare, Louisiana State University
Session 24. 4:15-5:45 CHAUCERIANA III WC 110
"Chaucer's Grand Experiment: Free Will in _Troilus and Criseyde_"
Christopher R. Hair, Baylor University
"`To Stonden at my Juggements': Harry Bailly as Judge in _The
Canterbury Tales_"
Wendy Williams, Baylor University
"Chaucer's Innocents: The Prioress' 'little clergeoun' and the
Physician's Virginia"
Kimberly D. Parrish, Texas Tech University
Session 25. 4:15-5:45 IN HONOR OF JOSEPH F. O'CALLAGHAN WC 104
FEUDAL AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN OLD WORLD AND NEW
Chair: Donald Kagay, Albany State College
"Politics Makes Uneasy Bedfellows: Henry I and Theobold of Blois"
Jean Truax, University of Houston
"Cabeza de Vaca and Shamanism"
Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Just Say _Oc_: The Characterization of Identity in Early Feudal Society"
Derek Baker, University of North Texas
TEMA WINE HOUR 6:45-7:45 RENAISSANCE PARLOR - MAIN BUILDING
8:00 CONCERT (Medieval and Spanish Colonial Selections) BY THE SAN
ANTONIO EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE IN THE SACRED HEART CONVENTUAL CHURCH AT OLLU
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The official conference hotel is the Menger. For conference rates phone
1-800-345-9285. Registration for the conference is $35. For more informa-
tion, please contact the Program Chair, Madeleine Pepin, at (210) 434-6711
ext. 230 or at pepin@ollac.ollusa.edu.
Sincerely,
Edwin Duncan, President
e7e4dun@toe.towson.edu