PROVISIONAL TEMA IX SCHEDULE

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Session 1: Images and Imagining of El Conde Lucanor
Moderator: Paul Larson, Baylor University

"Not Judging the Book by its Cover: The Moorish King and His Three
		Sons"
	Cassandra Diaz, Baylor University
"Almond Blossoms and Rose Water: King Abenabet and Ramayquía"
	Rosalie Barrera, Baylor University
"The Taming of the Shrew Revisited"
	Paul Larson, Baylor University

Session 2: Early Modern Philosophy

"Influence of the Pseudo-Bonaventure on the Book of Margery Kempe."
 	Peter J. Pellegrin, University of Southern Louisiana
"Dramatic Conflict in Thomas Starkey's Dialogue"
	Robert Haynes, Texas A & M International University

11:00-12:30

Session 3: Medieval Drama

"Manorial Elements in the Wakefield Plays: Prolegomenon to a
Historical Study of the Wakefield Royal Manor and the Wakefield Plays"
	Shearle Furnish, West Texas A & M University
"Old English Drama: The Quem Queritis Trope and the Regularis 
Concordia"
	Erich Keleman, University of Delaware

Session 4: Law and Medieval Society
Moderator: Theresa Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

When Canonists Go Bad: The Strange Career of Johannes Molinaeus, 
Editor of Ivo of Chartes' Decretum
	Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University
"The Treason of Center and Periphery: The Uncertain Contest of Government
and Individual in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
	Donald J. Kagay, Albany State University
"Echoes of Papal Monarchy in Modern Political Thought"
	Gilbert Prud'homme, Princeton University

2:00-3:00

Session 5: Papers from the Edge of Europe
Moderator: Jean Truax, University of Houston

"Right of Sanctuary in Medieval English Churches"
	Jan Crenshaw, University of Houston
"Lithuanian Nobility in the Thirteenth Century"
	Daniel Wells, University of Houston
"Usurpation, Fratricide and Illegitimacy: The Brief and Unhappy
		Reign of Daniel Bane, King of Scots"
	Henry Greek, University of Houston 

Session 6: Scholasticism and Science

"Mathematics, Theology, and the Recte Philosophantes"
	Edgar Laird, Southwest Texas State University
"Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault."
	Philip Roseman, University of Dallas

4:00-5:30

Session 7: The Academic Job Search
Roundtable


Session 8: Medieval Prose and Poetry
Moderator: Edwin Duncan, Towson University

"Academic Grinding Or Does Medieval Poetry Matter?"
	David DeVries, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
"Notes Toward Editing Middle English Prose - Especially Malory's 
		Morte d'Arthur"
	D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University

6:00-7:00

Plenary Speech

"The Commemoration of the Dead in the Early Middle Ages"
Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study

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8:30-10:00

Session 9: Medieval Spanish Life and Literature
Moderator: Paul Larson, Baylor University

"Marriage, Law and Religion in Los siete infantes de Lara and in 
		Medieval Spain"
	Theresa Camacho, Norwich University
"Doña Juana - The Misunderstood"
	Paula Luteran, Saint Lawrence University
"Of Signatures, Stockings, Oil, and Love: Marginalized Text in 
		Alfonsine Science"
	Anthony Cardenas, University of New Mexico


Session 10: Chaucer's Variable Text
Moderator: Paul Larson, Baylor University

"Critical Implications of the `Fostre' Ambiguity in Chaucer's
		Clerk's Tale"
	Jeff Turpin, University of Texas at San Antonio
"`Swimming to Salvation': Langland, Chaucer, Kempe and Salvation for 
		the Unlearned."
	Misty Y. Schierberle, Southwest Texas State University
"Misreading Chaucer: Criseyde's Mutable Text"
	Angelique Davi, Tufts University

10:30-12:00

Session 11: The Realm of Medieval Spirituality

"Voluntary Flagellation: Elite or Popular Origins?
	John Howe, Texas Tech University
"From Suppression to the Benefit of Clergy: The Anomalous Status of 
		the Beguines in Late Medieval Canon Law,"
	Elizabeth Makowski, Southwest Texas State University
"Literacy and Religious Behavior in the Vitae of Two Female Saints"
	Sara Ritchley, Southwest Texas State University

Session 12: Varieties of Early Modern Literature
Moderator: Robert Haynes, Texas A&M International University

"Thomism and Pauline Homilectics in John Donne's 1622 Sermon to the 
		Virginia Company of London."
	Jay Stubblefield, Texas A&M International University
"Spiritual Autobiographies and the Use of Memory Systems: From 
		Opicinus de Canistris to Martha Moulsworth"
	Kate Frost, University of Texas
"Comus of the US-Mexico Border: The Durability of Milton's Political 
		Insights"
	Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International University


1:30-2:30

Presidential Address

Theresa Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

2:45-4:15

Session 13: Medieval Studies and the Web

"Medieval Manuscripts on the Web: Some Considerations"
	Edwin Duncan, Towson University
Arthurnet
	Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
"Dallas Library of Medieval Latin Texts in Translation."
	Philip Roseman, University of Dallas

Session 14: The Music of Hildegard von Bingen

"What is This?  B-Molle in Two Songs with E Final in Hildegard von
		Bingen's Symphonia
	Sheila Forrester, Florida State University

4:15-5:45

Session 15: Old English Literature
Moderator: Donald Kagay, Albany State University

"The Old English Aecerbot Uncharmed"
	James E. Anderson, University of Southwestern Louisiana
"Was Grendel a Bigfoot?"
	Edwin Duncan, Towson University

Session 16: Medieval English History

"Bishops, Earls and Barons: Witness Lists to the Charter Rolls of 
		Edward II"
	Jeffrey Hamilton, Baylor University
"The Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Clergy of the Diocese of Lincoln"
	James R. King, Midwestern State University