THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
September 25, 26, and 27
WACO
Registration
and all Regular Sessions are on the 5th floor of
Carrington
Van Service Schedule:
Friday,
September 26
Leaves Hilton for
Sessions at 8:00 and 8:30 am
Returns to Hilton
after Reception at 7:30 and 8 pm
Saturday,
September 27
Leaves Hilton for
Sessions at 8:15 and 8:45 am
Returns to Hilton
after Sessions at 5:45 and 6:15 pm
Leaves Hilton for
Concert at 8:15 pm
Returns to Hilton
After Concert at 10:15 pm
Thursday, September 25
7:30-9:00
OPENING "INFORMAL" RECEPTION
at the Hilton
Hosted by Dr. Paul E. Larson
Registration materials will be available at this time
Friday, September 26
8:00-10:30 Coffee Service
8:45-10:15
Session 1 (Cashion 510): English
History I (Kagay)
Jeffrey Hamilton
Baylor University
The Reliability of the Household Knights of
Edward II
Diane Martin
Houston Baptist University
Crown Strategies for Reducing Papal
Interference in the Reign of Richard II
Dolores Wilson,
University of Houston
The Intertwined Nature of Politics and the
Environment in Magna Carta
Session 2(Cashion
500): Medieval
Literary Space (Larson)
M. Sean Wilson
Middle Tennessee State University
Anglo-Saxon Aqua Vitae: the Supernatural Connection between Beowulf and the Sea
Mark Spencer
Southeastern Oklahoma State
University
A Medievaling We Will
Go: Time-Travel Narratives to the Middle Ages
Judith Hurst
Defense Language Institute
Why Reinvent the Wheel: Using the Medieval Concept of Fortuna to Enhance Our Life Today and Ensure Success
Session 3 (Cashion 501): Medieval Philosophy I: Augustine (Munro)
Peter Candler
Baylor University
Augustine and Borrowed Speech
Sr. Madeleine Grace, CVI
University of St. Thomas
The Concept of Happiness as seen by
Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas
10:30-12:00
Session 4(Cashion 510): Chaucer
()
Karen D. Robinson
Texas A&M University
The House of Fame's
Cliffhanger Ending: Chaucer's Intention?
Rebecca Munro
Baylor University
Chaucer and the Pleasure of the
Text
Gretchen M.
Cohenour
Texas Tech
University Department of English
Chaucer's Pardoner:
A Neutered Spirit
Session 5 (Cashion 500): English History II (Hamilton)
Christopher Hill
The University of Texas at Austin
In Their Own Interest:
Katie Keene
Southern Methodist University
What’s in a Name?: The Case of
Margaret of Scotland.
John McQuillen
Southern Methodist University
Imaging the Cult of Thomas of Lancaster
Session 6
(Cashion 501): History (Brasington)
Donald J. Kagay
Albany State University
“A Construction Crisis: Aragonese Fortress Repair
in the War of the Two Pedros”
Daniel B. Wells
University of Houston
Advice and Consent in Medieval Lithuania: the Treaties of Grand Prince Algirdas (1345-1377)
E. Kay Harris
University of Southern Mississippi - Gulf Coast
The Garden of Eden and the Wars of the Roses
1:30-3:00
Session 7 (Cashion 510): Gender in
Medieval Studies (McGlashan)
Julie Nelson Couch
Texas Tech University
Those Crazy Kids: The Mis-gendering
of Youth in King Horn
Marcia Beene
Middle Tennessee State University
Death by Dress: The Real Reason Why Joan of Arc
Was Executed
Elizabeth
Haluska-Rausch
Southern Methodist University
Women in the c.1150 and 1201 Rolls
of the Seigneury of Montpellier
Session 8 (Cashion 501): Christianity
and Culture I (Pitts)
D. Thomas Hanks
Baylor University
The Society for the Study of Christianity and
Culture
Bruce Brasington (projector and screen)
West Texas A & M
Is it on the Test? Teaching Christianity and the
Humanities in a Secular Environment
William Smith
Weatherford College
Sins of the Body: the lorica in Old English prayer
Session 9 (Cashion 500): Medieval
Lit (Larson)
Jeannette
Marshall Denton
Baylor
University
Expressing Inner States and Ancestral Potential:
Symbolism of the Hands in Early Germanic Poetry
Sarah-Jane Murray
Baylor University
Medieval Scribes and
Modern Scholars: Baylor University joins
the Digital "Charrette Project"
Lisa Nicholas
University of Dallas
Remembering God: The Pattern of
Augustine's Confessions in Chrétien's The
Story of the Grail
3:15-4:45
Session 10 (Cashion 510): . Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight (Denton)
Jacqueline Leslie
Lamar University
A Storm of Opposition: The Role of Women in Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
Anne Thornton
San Antonio College
Gilding the Pill: A Renaissance
Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
Linda Winterbottom
University of Texas, San Antonio
“The Court’s Cheer and Gawain’s Shame: How a Green Baldric Transformed Emulates Christ’s Love”
Session 11 (Cashion 501): Spanish I (Larson)
Benjamin T. Smith
Minnesota State University Moorhead
What Prosification Can Tell Us About The "Intelligent
Scribe": The Cantar de Mio Cid in the Crónica
de Veinte Reyes
(over head projector)
Abraham Quitanar
Dickinson College
By Hook or By Crook: Escaping Menga’s Wrath in the Marques
de Santillana’s 'Por todos estos pinares’
Mike McGlynn
University of Oregon
Rehabilitating the Traitor Conde
Julián
Session 12 (Cashion 500): Medieval
Lit (Hanks)
Terri Vaughn Gore
University of Texas Arlington
The Medieval Reader and the
Inherent Spatiality of Sacred Texts
Chris Gardner
Southwest Texas State University
Translating Criseida
Ana Krahmer
Texas Tech University
Chaucer and His Parson:
Multiplicity of Character
Cashion 510: 5:15-5:30 Official Welcome to Baylor:
Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey, Provost, Baylor University
5:30-6:30
Plenary Session
Introduction of speaker by Thomas Hanks
Bonnie
Wheeler
Southern
Methodist University
Slander in
Malory
Saturday, September 27
8:30 Coffee service
9:00-10:30
Session 13
(Cashion 501): Spanish II (Quintanar)
Paul E. Larson
Baylor University
Berceo and “El novio y la virgin”
Vicente Lledo-Guillem
University of California, Berkeley
Ausias March: A Catalan model for a Hispanic
translatio studii
Session 14
(Cashion 500): Medieval History (Kagay)
Bruce Brasington
West Texas A & M
High Plains Scriptorium: Using the WTAMU
Cornette Library in the Teaching of Medieval Education and Scribal Culture.
Robert Welsh
Texas A&M International
University
Teaching Shakespeare and Other Renaissance Writers in First-Year Writing
Courses
Ruel A. Macaraeg
University of Texas at Arlington
“Ritual Weapons in Late Medieval
and Renaissance Europe: A Survey of Artistic and Textual Sources”
Session 15 (Cashion 510): Religion II (Kelter)
Claire Sahlin
Texas Women's University
Contemplatrix and Revelatrix of Divine
Mysteries: The Image of Birgitta of
Sweden in Matthew of Cracow’s Papal Address
Elizabeth Walunas
University of Houston
Magic and Miracle: Changing Perceptions and Portrayals of Healing Relics
Beth Allison Barr
Baylor University
A
Picture is a Thousand Words:
Medieval English Church Carvings and the Pastoral Care of Women
10:45-12:15
Session 16 (Cashion 500): Pilgrimage
Literature I (Baenziger)
Chad Heltzel
Southwest Texas University
Vernacular as Postcolonial
Discourse in William Langland’s Piers
Plowman
Nahal Suzanne Jamir
Southwest Texas University
“Raphèl ma* amèch zabì almì”:
Inter- and Intralinguistic (Mis)Connections in The Divine Comedy
Alison
Cimino
Southwest Texas University
Mysticism
in Pilgrimage: A Means Towards Affective
Piety in The Divine Comedy and The Book of Margery Kempe
Session 17
(Cashion 501): Tolkien
at TEMA (Kisacky)
E. B. Hawkins
Lamar University
The Eagle Flights in Chaucer's House of Fame and
Tolkien's The Hobbit
David Thomson
Waco Independent School District
An End Worthy of Song: the Elegiac Sense in
Tolkien’s Major Fictions
Session 18
(Cashion 510): Medieval Literature (Murray)
Karina Marie Ash
University of Notre Dame
A Reconsideration of Wolfram's Vrou Uote: Heroic Parody or Mournful
Piety?
Brent Lynn
Texas Tech University
Wrestling the Dragon: Spenser's "Saint
Britomart" in Book V of The Faerie Queene.
R. L. Smith
University of Texas San Antonio
Totus Tuus: Robin Hood’s Marian Devotion in the Medieval
Ballads
12:30-2:00 Cashion
510:
Saturday
Luncheon: Tex-Mex Buffet
Brief
remarks from the president: Dueling
Signs: The Roman and the Greek from the Libro de buen amor
Introduction
by Jeffrey Hamilton
Plenary
Session: Jeremy duQ. Adams
Southern Methodist University
Discovering Rodrigo Diaz: A Teacher's Quest
2:15-3:45
Session 19 (Cashion 500): Pilgrimage
Literature II (Gordon-Kelter)
Carrie
Price
Southwest Texas University
Recreation
and Ritual: Little Women, Cowgirls, and
Carnival in Juan Ruiz’s Book of Good Love
Michelle
Detorie
Southwest Texas University
Women and
"The Confessional Mode in Medieval Pilgrimage Literature" A
consideration of Margery Kempe and Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Moriah
McCracken
Southwest Texas University
The Wife
of Bath and Molly Bloom
Session 20 (Cashion 510): Medieval Literature (Gwynn)
Elline Lipkin
University of Houston
Inhabiting the Page: The Page as a Space for the
Provençal Trobairitz
Nancy J. Brown
Lourdes College
“Judith: A Hero Cheated
Out of Fame.”
Philipp W. Rosemann
University of Dallas
The Structure of Medieval Commentary Traditions:
The Case of Peter Lombard’s Sentences
Session 21 (Cashion 501): Medieval Philosophy II (Candler)
Cary J. Nederman
Texas A&M University
Ecclesiology and Political
Philosophy in Nicole Oresme’s Le Livre de
Politiques d’Aristote
David Arias
University of St. Thomas
St. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of
Nature
Joseph P. Hattrup
University of St. Thomas
The First Act of the Intellect: A
Response to Cartesian Epistemology
4:00-5:30
Session 22 (Cashion 510): Medieval
Lit (Kisacky
Price McMurray
Texas Wesleyan University
The Circuit of the Impious: Inferno
XVI and the Limits of Rhetoric
Robert Haynes
Texas A&M International
University
‘Of government the properties to unfold’: One Thing after Another in Measure for Measure
Stephen Stallcup
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Some Medieval English Charms to
Know a Thief: Identification through
Dreams
Session 23 (Cashion 500):
Religion III (Hanks)
Julie Chappell
Tarleton State University
"Comownycacyon & good
wordys": Margery Kempe and the
Rhetoric of the Medieval Sermon
Greg Maillet
Campion College, University of
Regina
"To Make Men Glorious": Pericles
and the Medieval Theology of Glory
Kent G. Hare
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs: Christological Kingship in Tenth-Century
England
Session 24 (Cashion 501): Medieval
Literature (Gwynn)
Linda Crippen
Our Lady of the Lake University
Sex and the Fabliaux: Circumventing
the Penitentials in the Middle Ages
Leah Larson
Our Lady of the Lake University
Strange Bedfellows: Revisiting John Fowles Rendition of Marie de France
Carol Christopher
Our Lady of the Lake University
King Arthur and the Knight of the American Forest