TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo 2006

Every year the Texas Medieval Association sponsors a number of sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. These sessions are open-submission, and you do not have to be a TEMA member to participate in one. The seven TEMA-sponsored sessions scheduled for the 41st International Congress, May 4-7, 2006, are listed below.

[Note: The TEMA Business Meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 5, in the Garneau Lounge (Valley II). Don Kagay will be there to accept your session proposals for Kalamazoo 2007.]

Thursday, May 4 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley III - Stinson Lounge
Session 4

The Correspondence of Saint Anselm

Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: James R. King, Midwestern State Univ.

• Thought in Practice: Anselm of Canterbury’s Letters
  Arjo Vanderjagt, Rijksuniv. Groningen
  
  
• The Uses of Biography and the Letters of Anselm of Canterbury
  Thomas Bestul, Univ. of Illinois–Chicago
  
  
• The Patterns of Anselm’s Correspondence
  Sally N. Vaughn

Friday, May 5 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley II 207
Session 222

Origins of the Crusades, the Military Orders, and Mediterranean Warfare
(Co-Sponsor: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library)

Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Presider: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.

• The Council of Melfi (1059) and the First Crusade: The Norman Conquest of Islamic Sicily (1059–1091)
  Paul E. Chevedden, Santa Monica College
  
  
• The Catalan Navy in the Late Medieval Period
  Paul G. Padilla, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
  
  
• Divine Intervention and Religious Warfare
  Theresa M. Vann

Fri, May 5 • 1:30-3:30 • Sangren 2201
Session 318

Dana Carleton Munro’s “The Speech of Pope Urban II at Clermont, 1095”: A Centennial Appreciation

Organizer: Paul E. Chevedden, Santa Monica College
Presider: Paul E. Chevedden

• Urban’s Promise of “Spiritual Rewards”: Dana Munro and Ecclesiastical History
  John Howe, Texas Tech Univ.
  
  
• The Reception of Pope Urban II’s Speech at Clermont in Scandinavia
  Janus Møller Jensen, Syddansk Univ.
  
  
• Urban II’s Challenge to Islam in the West: Multiple Crusades and the Evolving
  Crusading Movement from Spain
  Lawrence J. McCrank, Chicago State Univ.
  Respondent: James M. Powell, Syracuse Univ.

Fri, May 5 • 3:30-5:00 • Schneider 1220
Session 360

Debates concerning Peter Lombard and His Circle

Organizer: Philipp W. Rosemann, Univ. of Dallas
Presider: Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen, Kalaallit Nunaata Univ.

• Christology and Its Contexts: The Critical Reception of Peter Lombard’s Sentences
  Clare Monagle, Johns Hopkins Univ.
  
  
• The Conception of the Theological Project in the Prologue of the Pseudo- Poitiers Gloss
  Philipp W. Rosemann
  
  
• Master Bandinus and Christological Nihilianism: Context and Controversy in an Early Follower of Peter Lombard
  Jason Taliadoros, Monash Univ.

Sat, May 6 • 10:00-11:30am • Valley III 304
Session 390

Friendship Networks and Spiritual Friendship

Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Sally N. Vaughn

• The Language of Friendship in the Correspondence of Gerbert of Aurillac
  Courtney de Mayo, Univ. of Houston
  
  
• Male-Female Spiritual Friendship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Ideals and Realities
  Holle Canetella, Univ. of Houston
  
  
• Friends of God and Man: Scandinavian Saints
  Elizabeth Walen Walunas, Univ. of Houston

Sun, May 7 • 8:30-10:00am • Bernhard 215
Session 600

Peasant Revolts of the High and Later Middle Ages

Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Michael H. Gelting, Rigsarkivet

• Not Those Guys! Peasant and Noble Responses to Norman Rule in Early Normandy and Brittany
  Aylwin Bailey, Independent Scholar
  
  
• Simon de Montfort’s Rebellion: Baron’s War and Peasant Revolt
  James R. King, Midwestern State Univ.

Sun May 7 • 8:30-10:00am- Valley II 200
Session 606

Strategies for the Treatment of Mental Illness in Medieval England

Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
Presider: Donald J. Kagay

• Pre-Bedlam Wardship of the Mentally Incompetent in England
  Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
  

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