Friday 8:30-10:00

Friday 8 September  8:30-10:00

 

Session 1.            Allegorical Literature

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.

 

Session 2.            Reading Chaucer

                        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.”

 

           

Friday 10:30-12:00

 

Session 4.            Chaucer: Flora and Fauna

                        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.”

 

Friday 12:15-1:45

 

Luncheon

                        Gregory Room, BDSC

 

                        Presidential Address:              J. S. Hamilton, Baylor University.

 “Oh No!  Witness Lists.”

 

                        TEMA Business Meeting

 

Friday 2:00-3:30

 

Session 6.            Malory and Chrêtien

                        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.”           

 

 


Session 7.            Medieval Manuscripts

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?"

 

Session 8.            Chaucer: Morality and Femininity

                        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.”

 


Friday 4:00-6:00

 

Plenary Session I.                        Richard II

                        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

 

 

 

Saturday 9 September 9:00-10:30

 

Session 9.            In Honor of the Memory of Debby Ellis I: Chaucer

                        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.

 

Session 10.            Church and State

                        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.”

 

 

Session 11.            Late Medieval Language and Literature

                        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."

 


Saturday 11:00-12:30

 

Session 12.         In Honor of the Memory of Debby Ellis II: Gender Matters

                        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.”

 

Session 13.            Southern Europe

                        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.”

 

 


Session 14.            Religious Life and Literature 

                        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.”

 

Saturday 2:00-3:00

 

Plenary Address II:             Chaucer

                        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.”

 

Saturday 3:30-5:00

 

Session 15.            Late Medieval England

                        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.”

 

 

Session 16.            Chaucer: Gender

                        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.