Beckham Room, BDSC
Chair: D. Thomas Hanks,
Baylor University
1.
Rebecca
Munro, Baylor University.
"The Knight, Christ and the Plowman: History of
a Metaphor in Piers Plowman."
2.
Ginger
Kirk, Idaho State University.
“Orality and Textuality:
Representations of Discourse in Piers Plowman.
3.
Victor
I. Scherb, University of Texas at Tyler.
“’Thynke and remember’:
Memory and Allegory in Mankind.
Barfield Drawing Room, BDSC
Chair: Wendy W. Allman, Baylor
University
1.
Milissa
Ellison-Murphree, Auburn University.
“ Inversion and Misrule in
the’Third Fragment.’”
2.
Melissa
Barry, Baylor University.
“Out with the Clerk: the Clerk’s Misreading of
Griselde.”
3.
Edwin
Duncan, Towson University
“New Approaches to
Presenting Chaucer on the Web.”
Session 3. Art, Literature, and Intellectual
Constructs
White Room, BDSC
Chair,
Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M Univ.
1.
Patricia
Radford, Oklahoma State University.
“Irish Muiroighe and Their
Meaning: Mermaids in the Irish Medieval Church.”
2.
Philipp
Rosemann, University of Dallas.
“Intellectual History
through Art: The Case of the ‘Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquinas.’”
3.
Emma
B. Hawkins, Lamar University.
“Medieval English Chalk-Figures, Scouring, and
Tolkien’s Fantasy Fiction.”
Baines Room, BDSC
Chair: Joyce Spivey, Baylor
University
1.
Erica
Spencer, Baylor University.
“Animal Imagery in The
Knight’s Tale.”
2.
Dominique
M. DeSpain, Baylor University “Gardens in The Merchant’s Tale and
The Wife of Bath’s Tale.”
3.
Jennifer Newton, Baylor University.
“Of Cuckoos and Cocks:
Chaucer’s Birds in The Parliament of Fowls and The Nun’s Priest’s
Tale.”
Session 5. Libraries, Manuscripts, Texts in
Late Medieval England
Beckham Room, BDSC
Chair: J.S. Hamilton, Baylor
University.
1.
Anne
Rudloff Stanton, University of Missouri-Columbia.
“Sex and the Single Man:
Marginal Mischief in the Tickhill Psalter.”
2.
Beth
Allison Barr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“’Be he
husband, be he wife’: John Mirk and the Pastoral Care of Women in
Fifteenth-Century England
3.
Thomas
N. Hall, University of Illinois at Chicago.
“
Exegetical Studies in Post-Conquest Salisbury.”
Gregory Room, BDSC
Presidential Address: J. S. Hamilton, Baylor University.
“Oh No! Witness Lists.”
TEMA Business Meeting
Beckham Room, BDSC
Chair: Cynthia Z. Valk,, University
of Texas at Brownsville
1.
James
Wheeler, Baylor University.
“The Christensens as
Medievalists: A Method of Reading and Analyzing Malory’s Morte Darthur.”
2.
Merrell
Knighten, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
“Malory’s Hamlet: Galahad
and the Failure of the Grail Quest.”
3.
Lisa
Nicholas, University of Dallas.
“The Significance of the
Dubbing Ritual in Chrêtien de Troyes’ Percival.”
Treasure Room, Armstrong
Browning Library
Chair: D. Thomas Hanks,
Baylor University
1. Cynthia Burgess, Baylor University
"A Medieval Miscellany: Notable Canterbury
Tales and Other Treasures at the Armstrong Browning Library."
2.
Sha
Towers, Baylor University
"From Pen to Press: Medieval Music Represented
in Manuscripts and Paintings from the 12th to 17th
Centuries."
3.
D.
Thomas Hanks, Baylor University
"Why bother with manuscripts when we can use
printed editions?"
Baines Room, BDSC
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson
University
1.
Sandi
Reynolds, Texas Woman’s University.
“’Taketh the fruyt, and lat
the chaf be stille’: Truth in Chaucer’s The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.
2.
David
Pinnell, University of Texas at Tyler.
“St. Cecilia and Margery
Kempe: Influence and Emulation in The Second Nun’s Tale and The Book
of Margery Kempe.”
3.
Leigh
Nelson, Baylor University.
“Feminine ‘Gentilesse’ in The Canterbury Tales.”
Treasure Room, Armstrong Browning
Library
Welcome by Dean Wallace L. Daniel,
Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, Baylor University
Introduction of Speaker:
Jill C. Havens, Baylor
University
George B. Stow Jr., La Salle
University
“The Madness of Richard II?: Evidence from the
Chronicles.”
Followed by reception featuring performance of the
Baylor Chamber Singers led by Dr. Donald Bailey
Tenors: Randall Ball, Chris Diamond, Randy Hooper,
John Wiles
Basses: William Blackstone, Richard Bueckle, Stephen
Edwards, Jonathan Greer, James Moore
Baines Room, BDSC
Chair and Organizer, Susan Signe Morrison, Southwest
Texas State University
1.
Misty
Schieberle, Southwest Texas State University.
“The True Tragedy of Troilus.”
2.
Wendy
L. Maldanado, Southwest Texas State University.
“’Bad Joke’ of Formal
Sermon: The Pardoner’s Tale and The Book of Good Love.”
3.
Lesley
Allen, Emporia State University.
“The ‘beste game of all’:
Fabliau Possibilities in the Knight’s Tale.
Beckham Room, BDSC
Chair: Irving A. Kelter, University
of St. Thomas
1.
Elizabeth
Dickenson, Southern Methodist
University.
“The Council of Elvira and
Spanish Christian Identity.”
2.
Matthew
H. Hammond, University of Texas at Austin
“Noble Patronage in Twelfth-Century Scotia.”
3.
Bruce
Brasington, West Texas A&M University.
“Bad Latin Made Easy: The
Transmission of Pope Zachary’s Letter on Baptism to Boniface.”
White Room, BDSC
Chair: Fr. Edward Baenziger,
University of St. Thomas
1.
Kevin
Dunagan,, University of Texas at Tyler.
“Gower
and the Rise of Standard English.”
2. Todd
Hood, University of Mississippi.
“The Dream of the Rood and Schopenhauer’s
Theory of the Sublime: Transcending the Limitations of Christianity.”
3. Julia
Kisacky, Baylor University
"Magic in the Decameron: Exceptions that
Prove the Rule."
Baines Room, BDSC
Organizer and Chair, Susan Signe Morrison, Southwest
Texas State University
1.
Andrea
Rossi-Reder, Connecticut College.
“For God and Country:
Aelfric’s Accounts of Saints Agatha and Lucy.
2.
Gena
Diltz, Washington State University.
“Margery Kempe: ‘lewd’ woman
or clever rhetor?”
3.
Julie
Chappell, Tarleton State University.
“Conflict between the Mortal
and Spiritual Texts: Margery Kempe and the Performance of her Book.”
White Room, BDSC
Chair: J.S. Hamilton, Baylor
University
1.
Elizabeth
Haluska-Rausch, Harvard University.
“A Decline in the
Independence of Heiresses in Bas-Languedoc: Two Twelfth-Century Examples.”
2.
Don
Kagay, Albany State University.
“Bad King, Bad Conference:
Medieval Iberian Rulership and the Art of Conference Management.”
3.
Paul
Larson, Baylor University.
“Abreviar la predicación:
Small is Beautiful in the Libro de Buen Amor.”
Beckham Room, BDSC
Chair: Jill C. Havens, Baylor
University
1.
James
Lapeyre, Baylor University.
“Performing the Text of the Wakefield Plays.”
2.
Crystal
Summers, Baylor University.
“The Parable of the Lord and the Servant:
Implications of Julian of Norwich’s Life as an Anchoress.”
3.
Daphne
Trueblood, Baylor University.
“The Art of Forgiveness: Chaucer’s Religious Message
in The Franklin’s Tale and The Tale of Melibee.”
Baines Room, BDSC
Introduction of Speaker:
D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University
Jane Chance, Rice
University.
“The Castration of Saturn: The Abuse of Kingship in
Chaucer.”
Beckham Room, BDSC
Chair: Janice Gordon-Kelter,
University of St. Thomas
1.
Kent
Hare, Northwestern State University.
“Athelstan, Holy War, and the Reconquest of the
Danelaw.”
2.
Brent
Hanner, Southwest Texas State University.
“Sport and Society in the
Oxfordshire eyre of 1241.”
3.
John
E. St. Lawrence, University of Texas at Austin.
“Popular Rebellion and Constitutional Change: New
Approaches to the Barons’ Revolt.”
Baines Room, BDSC
Chair, James Lapeyre, Baylor
University
1.
Karen
Brock, Baylor University.
“A Knight’s Reprieve: Rape and Rehabilitation in The
Wife of Bath’s Tale.”
2.
Sara
Morris, Baylor University.
“The Male Gaze on Feminine
Suffering: Hagiography and Feminine Imitatio Christi in Chaucer’s Clerk’s
Tale.
3.
Maria-Theresa
Nogales, Baylor University.
"Chaucer's Prudence as a Well-Spoken
Feminist."
Coffee will be available throughout the conference
in the Fentress Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
Please be sure to visit the Boydell & Brewer
book display in the Fentress Room of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
All sessions will take place in the Bill Daniel
Student Center or the Armstrong Browning Library on the Baylor University
campus.