TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Kalamazoo '97

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 TEMA-sponsored sessions scheduled for the 32nd International Congress, May 7-11, 1997, are listed below.


1. Friday, 10:00 - Session 138 Vox Patris: How Women OUGHT to Behave in the Middle Ages Room 313
Organizer: Diane Looms Weber, Louisiana State University-Alexandria
Presider: Erin Redfield, Louisiana State University-Alexandria

Paul Larson, Baylor University
Eve and Melibea Blaming Women for Everything in Rojasic's La Celestinas
Anna Dronzek, University of Minnesota
Conduct Books and Chancery Court Petitions
Tamara O'Callaghan, University of Toronto
Children Should be Seen and not Heard: Polyxena as the Dutiful Daughter in Benoit's Roman de Troie
Diane Looms Weber
Everybody Knows that Women Lead Men Astray


Friday, 3:30 - Session 235 Sir Thomas Malory: Text and Context Room 104
Organizer: Karen Cherewatuk, St. Olaf College
Presider: Karen Cherewatuk

D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
Malory's Reader Expectations: Manuscript, Syntax, Sense
Robert L. Kelly, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Arthur's "Hasty Jougement" of Guinevere in Malory in the Light of Treason Cases Involving English Queens and Peeresses, 1330-1469
Alfred Kraemer, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Malory's Grail Story and Generic Features of Fifteenth-Century English Saints' Lives


Friday, 3:30 - Session 245 The Crusading Idea and the Iberian Reconquest Room 1060 Fetzer
Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State University
Presider: Donald J. Kagay

Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Fordham University
Pope Honorius III and the Idea of the Crusade
Paul E. Chevedden, Virginia Military Institute
Medieval Siege Warfare of the 13th Century: The Campaigns of Jaume the Conqueror and Baybars Compared
Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
The Construct of Feudal War in Medieval Iberia and the Latin East


Saturday, 10:00 - Session 290 The Culmination of the Iberian Reconquest Room 1060 Fetzer
Organizer: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State University
Presider: Donald J. Kagay

Cynthia L. Chamberlain, University of California-Los Angeles
The King Sent Them Very Little Relief: The Castilian Siege of Algeciras, 1278-79
Nicholas Agrait, Fordham University
The Siege of Algeciras 1342-44 in its Reconquest and Military Context
Albert D. McJoynt, Alexandria, Virginia
An Appreciation of the War for Granada (1481-92): A Crucial Link in Western Military History
Respondent: Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Fordham University


Saturday, 3:30 - Session 366 Old English Versification Room 202
Organizer: Edwin Duncan, University of Akron
Presider: Edwin Duncan

Thomas Cable, University of Texas-Austin
Recent Theories of Old English Meter, with a Focus on Hutcheson 1995
James Keddie, University of Western Ontario
Hypermetrics: Reading from Left to Right
Geoffrey Russom, Brown University
Skaldic Evidence for the Word-Foot Analysis of Sievers's Types B and C
Calvin Kendall, University of Minnesota
Resolution in Beowulf: A New Model