Registration
and all Regular Sessions are in Malloy Hall, 3815 Mt. Vernon Street, entrance
on Campus Mall.
Carrington
Van Service Schedule:
Thursday,
October 3
Leaves Warwick Hotel for
Reception at 7:15 and 7:45 pm
Returns
to Warwick from Reception at 8:45 pm
Friday,
October 4
Leaves Warwick for Sessions
at 8:00 and 8:30 am
Returns to Warwick after
Reception at 7:30 and 8 pm
Saturday,
October 5
Leaves Warwick for Sessions
at 8:15 and 8:45 am
Returns to Warwick after
Sessions at 5:45 and 6:15 pm
Leaves
Warwick for Concert at 8:15 pm
Returns to Warwick After
Concert at 10:15 pm
7:30-9:00
OPENING
"INFORMAL" RECEPTION
De La Salle House, 4010 Graustark
Hosted by Dr. Janice Gordon-Kelter
8:45-10:15
Session 1: Women Mystics (Malloy 113)
Chair: Mary Catherine Sommers, U. of St. Thomas
"Hildegard
von Bingen: A Drama All Her Own"
Celeste Pottier, East Carolina U.
"Spiritual Imagery Found within the Writings of Catherine of Siena"
Sr. Madeliene Grace, U. of St. Thomas
"The Implicit
New Paradigm in Teresa of Avila"
Brooke Williams Deely, U. of St. Thomas
Session
2:
The "Medieval" Shakespeare (Malloy 014)
Chair: Don Kagay, Albany State U.
"Exploring
the Boundaries of Medi[Evil]: Richard III as the New Moral Agent"
James A. Moore, Angelo State U.
"Imitation, Theatricality, and Dialogue: Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's
Edward II"
Robert W. Haynes, Texas A&M International U.
10:30-12:00
Session 3: Ethical Practices in the Middle Ages (Malloy 113)
Chair: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M U.
"The Many
Aspects of the Legal Inquisition in the Medieval Crown of Aragon"
Don Kagay, Albany State U.
"Bureaucratic
Ethics and Identity in the Reign of Henry VI"
Janice Gordon-Kelter, U. of St. Thomas
"The Aristocratic
Widows of the Rotuli de Dominabus as Mothers"
Amy Brown Amelio, Independent Scholar
Session 4: Humor and Irony (Malloy 024)
Chair: Edward Baenziger, CSB, U. of St. Thomas
"I-am-Smiling:
Humor from the Anglo-Latin Perspective"
David W. Porter, Southern U.
"The Inadequacy
of Language in the Search for Truth in Piers Plowman"
Teresa Morris, San Antonio College
"Sir Gawain
and the Three-Headed Giant: Chaucer's and the Gawain-Poet's Analogous Romances"
Anne Thornton, U. of Texas, San Antonio
"Wink, Wink-Nudge,
Nudge: Gender Play in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women"
Vicki L. Kirk, Our Lady of the Lake U.
Chair: Sally Vaughn, U. of Houston
"Foresters,
Hunters, and Hawkers: Agents of Anglo-Norman Resource Management"
Dolly Wilson, U. of Houston
"The Mosaics
of Monreale: Evidence of the Norman Mindset Regarding the Use of Human and Technological
Resources"
Kevin Stone, U. of Houston
"Piety or
Pragmatism: Norman and Anglo-Norman Women Killers"
Amy O'Neal, U. of Houston
1:30-3:00
Session 6: The Military Arts in Literature (Malloy 012)
Chair: James Barloon, U. of St. Thomas
"Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight as Heraldic Narrative"
Clinton Brand, U. of St. Thomas
"Mimming
and Mimesis: The Sword that is There and Not There in Old English Waldere"
Jonathan Himes, Texas A&M U.
Session
7:
The Verbal Chaucer (Malloy 014)
Chair: Kerry MacArthur, U. of St. Thomas
"Things
Happening Twice: Repetition of Episodes in the Canterbury Tales"
Edwin Duncan, Towson U.
"The Post-Postmodern
Chaucer: Confessional Rhetoric and Transformation in the Last Tales"
Gregory Roper, U. of Dallas
"The
Wordes Moote be Cosyn to the Dede: Development of Ethos in the Canterbury
Tales"
Kimberly Saxon, U. of Texas, San Antonio
Session
8:
Curious Figures (Malloy 016)
Chair: Elspeth Whitney, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas
"What Made
Ivo Mad? Reflections on a Medieval Bishop's Anger"
Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M U.
"Chancellor
of the University of Paris: Saint Jean Charlier Gerson (1363-1429): Did You
Say Saint?"
Edward Baenziger, CSB, U. of St. Thomas
"The Passion
of a Discontented Earl: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and R. Doleman's
A Conference About the Next Succession to the Crown of England"
Kevin Lindberg, Texas A&M International U.
3:15-4:45
Session 9: Aquinas Symposium (Malloy 012)
Chair:
John Deely, U. of St. Thomas
"The Relationship between the Old (Mosaic) Law and the Natural Law in Thomas
Aquinas"
Randall Smith, U. of St. Thomas
"Cicero and Aquinas on the Precepts of the Natural Law"
Rollen Edward Houser, U. of St. Thomas
"Defense
and Discovery: Thomas Aquinas and the 'Novelty' of the Dominican Order"
Mary Catherine Sommers, U. of St. Thomas
Session
10:
Spanish Literature in the Middle Ages (Malloy 014)
Chair: Clinton Brand, U. of St. Thomas
"Feminist
Protest Literature of the Spanish Middle Ages"
Debra D. Andrist, U. of St. Thomas
Berceo's Introduction
to Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora"
Paul Larson, Baylor U.
"The Thin
Line between Anger and Lust: Frustrated Emotion in Pedro de Escavia's Llegando
cansado yo"
Abraham Quintanar, Dickinson College
Session 11: The Moral Chaucer (Malloy 016)
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson U.
"Knowing
when Enough is Enough: Sufficiency and Satisfaction in the Canterbury Tales"
Mark Allen, U. of Texas, San Antonio
"Creating
Moral Fables: The 'Moralitee' of Chaucer's Nun's Priest Tale and the Roman
de renart Tradition"
R.L. Smith, U. of Texas, San Antonio
"Oaths, Troths,
and Lies: Chaucer's Hypocritical Pardoner and the Blasphemy of Swearing in 'The
Pardoner's Tale'"
Alexis Lutich, U. of Texas San Antonio
5:00-6:30
Plenary
Session
Cullen Hall, 4001 Mt. Vernon St.
"'We're Bound for the Rio Grande': The Closing of the Medieval Frontier"
James
Muldoon
John Carter Brown Library and Emeritus, Rutgers U.
Welcome by Father J. Michael Miller, CSB, President, U. of St. Thomas and Introduction by Cary Nederman, Texas A&M U.
6:30-8:00
Reception with Medieval Music
Little Archaeology Gallery, 3907 Yoakum
Istanpitta-Early Music Ensemble
8:00
U.
of St. Thomas Department of Drama
presents the
World Premiere
of
HOTEL FAUX PAS
by
Sam Havens
Jones
Theatre on the Mall
Special Tickets of $5.00 for TEMA. For reservations call 713
525-3520 and say you are attending TEMA.
9:00-10:30
Session 12: Anglo-Saxon Literature I: Identity, Function, and Legacy (Malloy 021)
Chair: Susan Signe Morrison, Southwest Texas State U.
"Elene,
Judas and a Burgeoning English Nationalism,"
Clare Blackstone, Southwest Texas State U.
"The Functions
of Beowulf and traditional Oral Literature in Aelfric's Sermon on the
Sacrifice on Easter Sunday: Catholic Homily, II, 15"
Trey Jansen, Southwest Texas State U.
"Anglo-Saxon
Auden's Paid on Both Sides"
Joanna Beck, Southwest Texas State U.
Session
13:
Medieval and Contemporary Literature (Malloy 014)
Chair: Randall Smith, U. of St. Thomas
"Soaring
with the Eagles"
Emma B. Hawkins, Lamar U.
"'Dear Christian
Men and Wymmen' A Medieval Perspective on the Modern Gender Inclusive Language
Debate"
Beth Allison Barr, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Coming Back to
Haunt Us: The Medieval Origins of the Victorian Ghost Story"
Leah Larson, Our Lady of the Lake U.
"Beyond Br.
Cadfael and The Name of the Rose: Modern Historical Novels of the Middle
Ages"
Mark Spencer, Southeastern Oklahoma State U.
Session 14: Anglo-Norman History (Malloy
016)
Chair: Jeffrey Hamilton, Baylor U.
"Fiscal Administration
and Economic Principles in later 12th Century England"
Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M U.
"Bishops,
Abbots, Priors, and the Royal Courts: The Struggle for Clerical Property Rights
in early 13th Century England"
James R. King, Midwestern State U.
"Anglo-Norman
Hospital Foundations: Piety and Patronage"
Joanie South-Shelley, U. of Houston
10:00-12:00
"Medieval
Martial Arts: Literature & Studies"
Malloy 017
John Clements, ARMA
Slide show/Lecture and Hands-on Presentation of Medieval Fighting Manuals, replica arms and armor, and interpreted fighting skills.
10:45-12:15
Session 15: Conceptualizing (in) the Middle Ages (Malloy 021)
Chair:
Rollen Edward Houser, U. of St. Thomas
"Peter Lombard-Anti-Scholastic founder of Scholastic Theology?"
Philipp Rosemann, U. of Dallas
"How Would Thomas Aquinas Answer Descartes?"
Anthony Crifasi, U. of St. Thomas
"What is
the Middle in Middle Ages?"
John Deely, U. of St. Thomas
Session
16:
Anglo-Saxon Literature II: Gender in Anglo-Saxon Texts (Malloy 014)
Chair: Susan Signe Morrison, Southwest Texas State Univ.
"Uncontrolled
and Dangerous Forces: Female Subjectivity and Women's Reproductive Power in
Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts"
Heather Helm, Southwest Texas State U.
"The Construct
of Violence: Examining Aggression as a Literary Device in Female Saints and
Judith"
Alison Cimino, Southwest Texas State U.
"Women as
Weavers, Women as Singers"
Michelle Detorie, Southwest Texas State U.
Session
17:
Buildings and Books in the Middle Ages (Malloy 016)
Chair: Judith Steinhoff, U. of Houston
"Martyrdom
and Memorial: Defending Images and Elite Status in Eighth-Century Rome"
Gregor A. Kalas, Texas A&M U.
"Reconstruction
of the Romanesque Rebuilding of the Provencal Baptistery of Riez"
Nora Laos, U. of Houston
"Monsters,
Females and She-Males in the Illumination of the Milemete Treatise and in the
British Library's Secretum Secretorum
Libby Karlinger, Independent Scholar
12:30-2:00
Saturday
Luncheon: A Texas Barbecue
Scanlan Hall, Jerabeck Center, 4000 Mt. Vernon St.
($15.00
per person)
Annual Business Meeting
followed by the
Presidential Address
"The Bible As A Source for the History of Science"
Irving Kelter, U. of St. Thomas
Session 18: Gender Motifs in Medieval and Early Modern Texts (Malloy 014)
Chair:
Debra Andrist, U. of St. Thomas
"Magic, Women, and Weaving: The Magic Cloth in Emare and some other
Middle English Romances"
Yvette Kisor, U. of California, Davis
"The Old Woman"
Gretchen Mieszkowski, U. of Houston, Clear Lake
"Phlegmatic Women and Menstruating Men: Temperament, the Demonic, and the
Fluidity of Gender in 16th Century Medical Discourse"
Elspeth Whitney, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas
Session 19: Authority in the Middle Ages
(Malloy 016)
Chair: Judith Steinhoff, U. of Houston
"Auctoritas
and the Gospels of St. Augustine of Canterbury"
John McQuillen, Southern Methodist U
"The Self-Image
of an Imperial Bureaucrat in the Leo Bible"
Vessela Valiavitcharska, U. of Texas, Austin
"Persecution
of Heretics before A.D. 1000"
Samuel Bono, Louisiana State U.
Session 20: Anglo-Saxon Kingship (Malloy
021)
Chair: Sally Vaughn, U. of Houston
"Heroes and
Saints: Holy Kingship in the Age of Bede"
Kent G. Hare, Northwestern State U. of Louisiana
"Athelstan
and Arthur: Rightwys Kynges Borne of All Englond"
Lori Lehtola, U. of Houston
"Edgar the
Peaceable and the Coronation of 960[?]"
Rogan Ellen Brunet, U. of Houston
"Historical Landscape(s) of the 'Arthurian' Moment?"
Jeremy
Adams, Southern Methodist U.
3:00-5:30
Film and Medieval Civilization
A Special Showing of Icelandic Filmmaker Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's
"I
Skugga Hrafnsins" ("In the Shadow of the Raven")
Malloy 017
Followed by Jane Chance and Jessica Weinstein, Rice U., "National Identity and Conversion through Medieval Romance: The Case of Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's In the Shadow of the Raven"
4:00-5:30
Session 21: The Anglo-Norman World During the Reign of Henry III (Malloy 014)
Chair: Janice Gordon-Kelter, U. of St. Thomas
"The Kingship
of Henry III Reconsidered"
Jeffrey Hamilton, Baylor U.
"Rebel vs.
Royalist Bishops: the Clerical Leadership of England during the Barons' War
(1263-1267)"
James R. King, Midwestern State U.
"Manly Men,
Feminine Priests: Masculinity and the Norman Clergy, 1248-1269"
Jennifer Thibodeaux, U. of Kansas, Lawrence
Session 22: Medieval Frontiers and Warfare
(Malloy 021)
Chair: Joseph McFadden, U. of St. Thomas
"The Rise
of the Polish State: the Early Piast Dynasty"
Bradford A. Wineman, Texas A&M U.
"Casimir the Great
and Polish Horse-Warrior Culture"
John Paul Bardunias, Florida International U.
"The Perfidy
of Peluse: Treachery and Revenge in 13th Century Lithuania"
Daniel B. Wells, U. of Houston
"Historiography
as Process in the Study of Western Martial Arts"
Ruel A. Macaraeg, U. of Texas, Arlington
Session 23:
Shakespearean Madness and Machinations (Malloy 016)
Chair: Nicki Berry Cone, Texas A&M International U.
"I, Henry
IV and Deception: Scene by Scene"
Jose Silva, Texas A&M International U.
"Crafty-Sick
Hamlet and the Scope of Sanity"
Elvira Mante, Texas A&M International U.
"Macbeth
and 9-11"
Shryll Averitt, Texas A&M
International U.
8:45-10:00
Concert of Medieval Music in the Chapel of St. Basil
3802 Yoakum
Tom
Crow, Music Director
Y'ALL COME!