TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo 2008

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 43nd International Congress, May 8-11, 2008, are listed below.

[Note: The TEMA Business Meeting will be at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 9, in Valley III 303. Don Kagay will be there to accept your session proposals for Kalamazoo 2008.]

Thursday, May 8 • 10:00-11:30 • Valley II 200
Session 4

Attack and Counterattack: The Embattled Frontiers of Medieval Iberia

Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.
Presider: Jean N. Goodrich, Albany State Univ.

• Las Navas de Tolosa
  David C. McDaniel, Texas Tech Univ.
• Battle Seeking or Battle Avoiding?: Applying the “Gillingham Paradigm” to the War of the Two Pedros (1356–66) and the Castilian Civil War (1366–69)
  L. J. Andrew Villalon, Univ. of Texas–Austin

Thursday, May 8 • 1:30-3:00 • Bernhard 59
Session 88

Rubbish, Waste, and Litter in the Middle Ages

Organizer: Susan Signe Morrison, Texas State Univ.–San Marcos
Presider: Misty Schieberle, Univ. of Notre Dame

• Waste Studies: Chaucer and Urban Fecopolitics
  Susan Signe Morrison
• The Hygienic Situation in Medieval Muslim Towns: A Case of al-Andalus
  Ieva Reklaityte, Univ. de Zaragoza

Thursday, May 8 • 3:30-5:00 • Valley I 100
Session 107

The Scientific Grounding of Medieval Medicine

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Wendy J. Turner

• Medicine or Divine Intervention: Scientific Elements in Anglo-Saxon Miracle Stories
  Benjamin Pugno, Univ. of Houston
• Per viam experimenti: University-Trained Physicians and Empirical Medical Knowledge in the Later Middle Ages
  William H. York, Portland State Univ.
• The Science of Poison: New Analytical Approaches to Toxins in the Late Middle Ages
  Frederick W. Gibbs, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
• Aristotle, Galen, and Astrological Medicine: The Scientific Foundation of Medieval Prognosis
  Glen M. Cooper, Brigham Young Univ.

Thursday, May 8 • 7:30-9:00 • Valley II 202
Session 149

Political Aristotelianism in the Middle Ages

Organizer: Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, Texas A&M Univ., and Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M Univ.
Presider: Cary J. Nederman

• Aquinas on the Political Autonomy of the Household
  Thornton Lockwood, Boston Univ.
• Aristotle, Politics, and the Dominicans in the Middle Ages
  Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern Univ.
• The Aristotelian Political Question: Medieval Efforts to Determine the Best Sort of Regime
  Mary Elizabeth Sullivan
• Tolomeo Fiadoni (Ptolemy of Lucca) and the Controversy over the Reception of Aristotle’s Politics
  James M. Blythe, Univ. of Memphis

Friday, May 9 • 1:30-3:00 • Valley III 303
Session 242

Papal Views of Holy War and Crusade: A New Look at Some Old Evidence

Sponsor: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Texas Medieval Association (TEMA)
Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)
Presider: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State Univ.

• The News from the Battlefield: Letters to the Pope about the Crusades
  Theresa M. Vann
• Pope Urban II (1088–99) and the Theory and Ideology of the Crusades
  Paul E. Chevedden, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of California–Los Angeles

Saturday, May 10 • 3:30-5:00 • Valley I 100
Session 467

Women in the Libro de buen amor

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

• Producing Presence: The Many Faces of Women in the Libro de buen amor
  Abraham Quintanar, Dickinson College
• Witch Women: Methods and Effects of Demonizing “las serranas” in Libro de buen amor
  Rosalie Barrera, Baylor Univ.
• The Dating Game: The Archpriest’s Search for the Ideal Mate
  Nancy Cushing-Daniels, Gettysburg College
• Small Is Beautiful: De las Propiedades que las Dueñas chicas han
  Paul Larson

Sunday, May 11 • 8:30-10:00 - Bernhard 159
Session 548

Royal Saints in Late Medieval England

Organizer: Wendy J. Turner, Augusta State Univ.
Presider: Karmen Lenz, Macon State Univ.

• Saint Edward the Confessor (1005–66): The Anglo-Saxon King through Varied Lenses
  Madeleine Grace, CVI, Univ. of St. Thomas
• Eastern European Royal Saints in English Histories: Royal Ladies Living in Poverty
  Zsuzsanna Papp, Univ. of Leeds
• The Cult of King Henry VI: A Reconsideration
  Jonathan Good, Reinhardt College
• “O crownyed kyng with sceptur in hand”: Re-writing Kingship and Masculinity in the Cult of Saint Henry VI
  Katherine J. Lewis, Univ. of Huddersfield

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