TEMA-Sponsored Sessions at Leeds 2006

Once again, the Texas Medieval Association will sponsor sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England. These sessions are open-submission, and you do not have to be a TEMA member to participate in one. The three TEMA-sponsored sessions scheduled for Leeds 2006, July 10-13, are listed below.

Session 224 - July 10 - 2:15-3:45pm

Royal Coronations in England and Spain: Ritual, Drama, and Politics

Organiser: Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
Moderator: Michael H. Gelting, Rigsarkivet, København

• Edgar the Peaceable and the Coronation of 961
  Rogan Brunet, Department of History, Houston Community College Southwest
  
  
• Claims and Coronations of Kingly Men
  Patricia Torpis, University of St Thomas, Texas
  
  
• Coronation or Regency: Gesture as Power Transfer in the Liber Feudorum Maior
  Eileen P. McKiernan Gonzalez, Department of Art, Berea College, Kentucky

Session 1009 - July 12 - 9:00-10:30am

The Politics of Royal Children: Potential and Actual

Organiser: Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
Moderator: Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston

• All My Children: The Questionable Parentage of Edward the Elder's Youngest Sons
  Lori A. Lehtola, Department of History, University of St Thomas, Houston
  
  
• Las Infantas: Medieval Spanish Royal Females
  Debra D. Andrist, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of St Thomas, Houston
  
  
• King for Lack of Adult Men of the Royal House: King Erik III of Denmark, 1137-1146
  Michael H. Gelting, Rigsarkivet, København

Session 1317 - July 12 - 4:30-6:00pm

Abbots, Jews, and Other Christians Go to Court: Emotion, Drama, and Politics of Trials

Organiser: Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
Moderator: Patricia Torpis, University of St Thomas, Texas

• Preserving its Patrimony: The Cases at Court of St Etienne, Caen
  Priscilla D. Watkins, Houston Community College
  
  
• Drama in the Courtroom: The Abbey of Bec at Court
  Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
  
  
• Jews and Christians in the 13th-Century English Courtroom
  Frances Mitilineos, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago

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