THE FIFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF THE TEXAS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
September 7-9, Coates Center, Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, September 7
Session 1. Thursday, 3:30-5:00 - Chauceriana I: The World of
Faith
Chair: Mark Allen, University of Texas at San Antonio
1. "Chaucer's Rhyme Royal Group: Instructions on Christian
Living"
Stephen Scheidt, University of Texas at San Antonio
2. "Service in Silence, Service in Song: The Golem of Prague and
the Prioress's Tale"
David Myers, Rutgers University
3. "Faith and God in Chaucer's Man of Law's and Second Nun's
Tale"
Rachel Mines, Baylor University
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Session 2. Thursday, 3:30-5:00 - The Artistic and Philosophic
Matrix of Early Humanism
Chair: Jeremy Adams, Southern Methodist University
1. "Humanism in Art: The Styles of Masaccio and Raphael"
Christopher Ohan, University of Texas at Arlington
2. "Pico's Dialectic as the Final Stage in Christian Humanism"
Ronald E. Williams, University of Texas at Arlington
3. "Lorenzo Valla and the Donation of Constantine: Precursor to
the Reformation"
Todd Reimer, University of Texas at Arlington
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Session 3. Thursday, 3:30-5:00 - The Uncounted Order I: Women in
Medieval Life and Literature
Chair: Madeleine Pepin, Our Lady of the Lake University
1. "Study of the Signification of Three Romances About Incest"
Beatriz Gomez Acuna, University of Texas at Austin
2. "Nature Says `No': Women and Agricultural Imagery in the
Pamphilus"
Karen Bezella, Columbia University
3. "La Beale Isode: Subject to the Code"
Victoria Kendig, Baylor University
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Friday, September 8
Session 4. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - Latin America Missiology in the
Sixteenth Century
Chair: Jeffrey Coombs, Our Lady of the Lake University
1. "Methodological Problems in the Analysis of Franciscan
Spirituality"
Martin Fleming, Tulane University
2. "Philosophy or Mission: A Jesuit's Conflict"
Walter Redmond, Huston-Tillotson College
3. "Bartolome de Las Casas: Colonialist or Post-Colonialist?"
Jeffrey Coombs, Our Lady of the Lake University
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Session 5. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - Spanish Literature in the Golden
Age
Chair: Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University
1. "_El Mio Cid_ and its Defenders: The Epic Hero and National
Identity"
Paul Larson, Baylor University
2. "Rebellion and Respect for Monarchy: Lope de Vega's _El conde
Fernan Gonzalez_"
Carole Anne Evans, Oklahoma Baptist University
3. "Celestina's Movable Feast: A Transcontinental Orgy"
Kathleen Kish, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Session 6. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - Chauceriana II: A Woman's World
Chair: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
1. "The Wife of Bath as a Feminist"
Gail Jones, University of Texas at San Antonio
2. "A Look at Domestic Abuse in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale"
Diane Looms Weber, Texas A & M University
3. "The Disorder of Violence/The Violence of Order: Abjection and
The Prioress's Tale"
Kathleen M. Hobbs, Rutgers University
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Session 7. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - The Virtues, the Vices and
Machiavelli's _The Prince_
Sponsored by the Sixteenth Century Studies Association
1. "The Virtues"
Daniel T. Lochman, Southwest Texas State University
2. "The Vices"
Robert Haynes, Texas A & M International University
Discussion Panel: Jeffrey Cass, Texas A & M International
University
Per Fjelstad, Texas A & M International University University
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Session 8. Friday, 11:00-12:30 - Medieval Spain: The Three Races
at War and Peace
Chair: Donald Kagay, Albany State College
1. "Umar ibn Hafsun: (Proto-) Nationalist, Patriot or Predator?"
Linda J. Quintanilla, Harris County Community College
2. "The Reconquista during the Reign of Alfonso XI (1312-1350)"
Nicolas Agrait, Fordham University
3. "Jewish Bilingualism in Medieval Spain: Hebrew-Spanish
Language Mixing in the Taqqanot of 1432"
Elaine R. Miller, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Session 9. Friday, 11:00-12:30. - Chauceriana III: The Craft of
Chaucer's Language
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
1. "Rhetorical Abuse and the Pardoner"
Analicia C. Buentello, Texas A & M International University
2. "Rhetorical Figures in Part Four of The Knights' Tale"
George Klawitter, St. Edward's University
3. "`The soleyn fenix of Arabye' and the _Book of the Duchess_"
Tom Saya, Tennessee Technological University
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Session 10. Friday, 11:00-12:30 - Medieval Philosophy
Chair: Jeffrey Coombs, Our Lady of the Lake University
1. "Notes on the Introduction of Scotism in Spain: Gonsalvus
Hispanus"
Andrea Gayoso, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo,
Uruguay
2. "Aquinas on the Primary Principles of the Natural Law and
Practical Rationality"
Gavin Colvert, College of the Holy Cross
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Session 11. Friday, 2:00-3:30 - The Impact of Classical Latin on
Medieval Law and Literature
Chair: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library,
St. John's University
1. "Notes from the Edge: Reconstructing Audiences of Twelfth-
Century Canonical Collections"
Bruce Brasington, West Texas A & M University
2. "Classical Sources for the Anglo-Saxon Bald's _Leechbock_"
Freda Beaty, Stephen F. Austin State University
3. "Aelfric's Grammar: A Grammar of Latin, a Grammar of English"
Melinda J. Menzer, University of Texas at Austin
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Session 12. Friday, 2:00-3:30 - The Pause That Refreshes: Modern
Punctuation Added to the Medieval Manuscript
Chair: Karin S. Colburn, Ambassador University
1. "Malory's Manuscript for _Morte d'Arthur_, Editorial (Mis)-Punctuation
and Style"
Jennifer Fish, Baylor University
2. "Editorial (Mis)-Punctuation in Chaucer's _The Canterbury Tales_"
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
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Session 13. Friday, 2:00-3:30. - The Mystic Dynamic in Medieval
Life and Literature
Chair: Irving Kelter, University of Saint Thomas
1. "Julian of Norwich's Melancholy Mysticism: Pain Relieved by
the Motherhood of God"
Jane E. Jeffrey, West Chester University
2. "St. John of the Cross's Doctrine of Spiritual Maturing"
Walter Redmond, Huston-Tillotson College
3. "`So watz I rauyste wyth glymme pure': Dreaming and Self
Knowledge in _The Pearl_"
Laurel Amtower, California State University, San Marcos
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 4:00-5:00.
"From Charlemagne to Pocahontas:
The Evolution of the Saracen Princess"
Jennifer Goodman, Texas A&M University
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5:00-6:00 - Reception
Hosted by Trinity University
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6:30-7:30
_Vox Leonis_
A play depicting the struggle of six medieval women
(Hroswitha of Gandersheim, Hildegarde of Bingen, Marie de France,
Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Christine de Pizan)
led by the Wife of Bath and Saint Jerome
in search of a publisher.
Written and Directed by:
Judith Laird, Southwest Texas State University
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8:00-Concert
Dramatic presentation and music of Hildegard of Bingen
Sacred Heart Chapel, Our Lady of the Lake University
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Saturday, September 9
Session 14. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - The Text and Context of
Fourteenth-Century Poetry: Lydgate and Villon
Chair: Derek Baker, University of North Texas
1. "And Away Go Troubles Down the Drain: Lydgate, London and the
Poetics of Urban Identity"
David N. DeVries, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
2. "Lydgate's _Life of Our Lady_: The Text as Illumination and
Illuminator"
Katherine McDevitt, Stanford University
3. "Villon Lais: A Problem Revisited"
Norris J. Lacy, Washington University in Saint Louis
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Session 15. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - Medieval Spanish Literature
Chair: Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University
1. "El cuerpo de Santiago en la narrativa de don Juan Manuel"
Francisco Miranda-Llamas, Auburn University
2. "The Church and _El Cid_: Religious Experience and Thought in
Spain's Medieval Epic Poem"
Malcolm Patterson, Texas A & M International University
3. "A Genre Analysis of the Marian Miracle Tale in 13th Century
Spain and France"
David A. Flory, Purdue University
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Session 16. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - Early Humanism: Its Roots in
Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Chair: Florence Weinberg, Trinity University
1. "The Humanist Case for Greek in Sixteenth-Century France"
Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, Trinity College
2. "Rabelais's Use of Biblical and Patristic Metaphors of
Building"
David Posner, Loyola University, Chicago
3. "Letters from Whom? Joachim Du Bellay's `Regrets' and the
Humanist Epistolary Tradition"
Marc Bizer, University of Texas at Austin
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Session 17. Saturday, 8:30-10:00 - The Uncounted Order II: Women
in Medieval and Early Modern Life and Literature
Chair: Jennifer Goodman, Texas A & M University
1. "Eve and Mary, Noah's Wife and Gill: The Struggle of Religious
and Sexual Desire in Medieval Drama"
Fiona Tolhurst Neuendorf, Princeton University
2. "The Inquisition at Home: _Conversas_ in Medieval Iberia"
Deborah S. Ellis, Southwestern University
3. "_Regina Optima et Benigna_: Two Views of Lady Macbeth"
Penelope Warren, Laredo Community College
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Session 18. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - The Medieval Road to
Reformation
Chair: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A & M University
1. "Wyclif and the Politics of the Corpus Christi Controversy"
Karin S. Colburn, Ambassador University
2. "Sigismund and Hus at the Council of Constance"
Russell Mitchell, University of Texas at Arlington
3. "A Difficult Relationship: Martin Luther and the Jews"
Wolfgang Splitter, Bielefeld University
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Session 19. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - Chauceriana IV: Speech,
Vision and Industry
Chair: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
1. "Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Her Vocabulary"
Mark Allen, University of Texas at San Antonio
2. "Visual Variety: Eyes in _Troilus and Criseyde_"
Jennifer J. Stein, Baylor University
3. "Cloth, Tales, and Deceit: The Wife of Bath as a Weaver"
Amy M. Bawcom, Baylor University
4. "Practice of Ransom in the Fourteenth Century and the Kingship of
Theseus"
Windy West Allman, University of California, Berkeley
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Session 20. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - The Medieval Face of Battle
Chair: Richard King, Midwestern University
1. "Christian Heroism and the West Saxon Achievement: Old English
Poetic Evidence"
Kent G. Hare, Louisiana State University
2. "The Sword of Perkunas: the Lithuanian Military in the
Thirteenth Century"
Daniel Wells, University of Houston
3. "Mail and Medieval Warfare"
Randall Rogers, Louisiana State University
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Session 21. Saturday, 10:30-12:00 - The Stain of Sin in Medieval
Society
Chair: Madeleine Pepin, Our Lady of the Lake University
1. "_Ofermod_ and _Hygeleast_: An Anglo-Saxon Psychology of Sin in
_Genesis B_"
Pauline J. Alama, University of Rochester
2. "The Medieval View of Evil"
Edward Iglesias, Texas A & M International University
3. "On Willing What is Evil: Dante and Aquinas on Sin"
Shawn D. Floyd, Saint Louis University
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TEMA LUNCHEON - 12:00-1:00
TEMA Business Meeting
Luncheon Address:
"Recent Discoveries of Medieval Manuscripts
and Incunabula in San Antonio"
Robert O'Conner, The Hertzberg Circus Museum
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PLENARY SPEECH. 1:15-2:15
"Shakespeare, Wagner, Zeffirelli, Monty Python
and the Medieval Dawn Song"
Emerson Brown, Jr., Vanderbilt University
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Session 22. Saturday, 2:30-4:00 - Navigation of the Web for the
Unwary Scholar
Chair: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State College
1. "Manuscript Treasures of the Hill"
Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St.
John's University
2. "The Internet, the World-Wide Web, and the Texas Medievalist:
An Update"
Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
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Session 23. Saturday, 2:30-4:00 - Religious Time and
Discontinuity in Medieval Literature
Chair: Jennifer Goodman, Texas A & M University
1. "The Blood of a Barn in _Piers Plowman_: Time and the Christ
Child"
Theresa Kenney, University of Dallas
2. "`to what entent ese wordis ben understondun': Discontinuity
in Langland, Chaucer, and Kempe"
Charles H. Comer, Southwest Texas State University
3. "Indulgences in Fact and Fiction: The Role of the Pardoner in
Lazarillo de Tormes"
Rhona Zaid, Los Angeles, California
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Session 24. Saturday, 2:30-4:00 - A Medieval Miscellany
Chair: Karin S. Colburn, Ambassador University
1. "Dantean Odysseus: A Christian Interpretation of a Pagan Hero"
Claudia Albini Stephens, University of Texas at Arlington
2. "Rhetorical Cosmology, Exegetical Theology: Rural Facades of
Twelfth-Century France and Spain"
Mickey Abel-Turby, University of Texas at Austin
3. "Music and the Bestiary in the Middle Ages"
Brad Eden, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Session 25. Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Perspectives on Cistercian and
Dominican Spirituality
Chair and Commentator: John Martin, Trinity University
1. "United by Bonds of Love: Cistercian Monasteries and an
Imagined Christian Community"
Martha Newman, University of Texas at Austin
2. "Dominican Friar, Lay Saint: the Case of Marcoline of Forli"
Daniel Bornstein, Texas A & M University
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Session 26. Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Chauceriana V: Teaching Chaucer
An introduction of Chaucer to the undergraduate classroom.
Discussion Panel:
Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
Peter Beidler, Robert F. Cherry Professor, Baylor University.
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Session 27. Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Intersection of Cultures in the
Art of the Iberian Middle Ages:
(Including the Sixteenth Century)
Panel Discussion including:
Laurence le Bouhellec, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla
Charles Talbot, Trinity University
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Session 28: Saturday, 4:15-5:45 - Old English Language and
Literature
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
1. "The OE _Widsith_ as a Poem of Unwisdom"
James E. Anderson, University of Southwestern Louisiana
2. "The Morphological Status of Old English ge-"
Tracy A. Crouch, Stephen F. Austin State University
3. "Between the Acts: The Connecting Tissue in _Beowulf_"
Allan Robb, Baylor University
4. "The Journey Forth: Elegiac Consolation in _Guthlac B_"
Stephen D. Powell, University of Kentucky
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6:00-7:00 - Wine Reception
Hosted by the Texas Medieval Association
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7:30 - Concert
Medieval and Early Renaissance Selections
performed by the
Collegium Musicum of Trinity University
under the direction of
Gerald Benjamin, Trinity University.
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(For information contact the Program Chair, Richard Newhauser, at
rnewhaus@trinity.edu or Edwin Duncan at e7e4dun@toe.towson.edu)
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