TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo 2007

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 42nd International Congress, May 10-13, 2007, are listed below.

[Note: The TEMA Business Meeting will be at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 11, in Valley III 306. Don Kagay will be there to accept your session proposals for Kalamazoo 2008.]

Thursday, May 10 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley II 205
Session 10

Kingship, Trade, and Urban Centers in the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Centuries

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

• The Importance of Strong Kingship to the Growth of Towns and Trade in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Denmark
  Maria Corsi, Univ. of Houston
  
  
• Caen: An Urban Trading Center in Normandy
  Priscilla D. Watkins, Houston Community College
  
  
• Identity Crisis: Who Was Baldwin II Emperor of Constantinople?
  Heidi Bridger, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London

Thursday, May 10 • 3:30-5:00 • Valley II 207
Session 118

Aspects of the Libro de buen amor

Organizer: Paul Larson, Baylor Univ.
Presider: Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown Univ.

• The Subversive Body: The Body’s Passions and the Undoing of Reason in the Libro de buen amor
  Abraham Quintanar, Dickinson College
  
  
• Turmoil in Talavera: Subversive Worms and Societal Silk
  Carlos Hawley-Colón, North Dakota State Univ.
  
  
• The Libro de buen amor in a Million Little Pieces
  Paul Larson

Thursday, May 10 • 7:30-9:00 • Valley II Community Building Lounge
Session 170

(Dis)ability and (Ab)normality of the Mad in the Middle Ages

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Shannon McCabe, Univ. of New Mexico

• Enabling Madness: The Criminally Insane in Medieval France
  Aleksandra Pfau, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor
  
  
• Frenzied, Feverish, and Possessed: Homicidal Insanity and the Medieval English Courts
  Sara M. Butler, Loyola Univ., New Orleans
  
  
• Medieval English Legal Perceptions of Criminal Insanity and the Ill Who Commit Crimes
  Wendy J. Turner
  
  
• “But Nowe Mysilfe to Mysilfe Have Ensurid”: Symptom, Semiotics, and Self in Hoccleve’s Series
  Julie Orlemanski, Harvard Univ

Friday, May 11 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley III 304
Session 201

Love and Its Manifestations in the High Middle Ages

Organizer: Sally N. Vaughn, Univ. of Houston
Presider: Christina Christoforatou, Baruch College, CUNY

• Long Distance Love: Eve of Wilton and Goscelin of Saint Bertin’s Spiritual Friendship
  Holle Canatella, Univ. of Houston
  
  
• Anselm and His Students Writing about Love: A Precursor to the Rise of Romantic Love in Literature?
  Sally N. Vaughn

Saturday, May 12 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley III 303
Session 381

Peter Lombard’s Book of Sentences

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

• Hugh of Saint-Cher’s Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
  Magdalena Bieniak, Univ. di Padova/Univ. de Paris IV–Sorbonne
  
  
• Rivaling the Lombard’s Sentences: Comestor’s Historia scholastica as a Fundamental Textbook in Theology
  Mark J. Clark, Thomas Aquinas College
  
  
• Understanding Tradition with Denys the Carthusian: An Interpretation of the Prologue to His Sentences Commentary
  Philipp W. Rosemann

Sunday, May 13 • 8:30-10:00 • Bernhard 105
Session 579

The Far-Ranging Effects of Medieval War: Captains, Crusaders, and Aristocratic
Families

Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
Presider: Edwin Duncan, Towson Univ.

• Pere III’s Captaincy System: Agents of Defense and Imperialism on the Frontier
  Donald J. Kagay
  
  
• Canon 2 and the Council of Clermont (1095) and the Crusade Indulgence
  Paul E. Chevedden, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
  
  
• The War of the Two Pedros and Mendoza Family Fortunes
  L. J. Andrew Villalon, Univ. of Texas–Austin

Sunday, May 13 • 10:30-12:00 - Valley III Stinson Lounge
Session 591

The Formation of Bishops: Education and Role Models

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

• East Meets West: Saint John Chrysostom and the English Archbishops in Exile
  Jean Truax, Independent Scholar
  
  
• Bishop Hugh of Welles of Lincoln and His Campaign to Educate the Clergy of His Diocese
  James R. King, Midwestern State Univ.
  

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