FOURTEENTH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS
Thursday,
September 16, 2004
8:00 p.m.
Welcoming
Reception
sponsored
by the
Dallas
Medieval Texts and Translations series
(Founders'
Grill, Hotel Lawrence, Dallas)
Friday,
September 17
8:30-10:00
a.m.
Session 1:
Chaucer and Skelton (chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson University)
(Haggar Reception)
- Raymond DiLorenzo
(University of Dallas): Chaucerian Philology and the Ending of Troilus
and Criseyde
- Andrew Moran
(University of Dallas): Illusions of Sovereignty and Illusions of Love in
"The Franklin's Tale"
- Victor I.
Scherb (The University of Texas at Tyler): Master Skelton and East Anglian
Culture
Session 2: Medieval Women I (chair: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist
University)
(Haggar Dining)
- Beth Allison
Barr (Baylor University): Persuasive Piety: The Influence of Sermon Literature
on the Life of Margery Kempe
- Julie Chappell
(Tarleton State University): Preserving the Book of Margery Kempe: The Role
of the Sixteenth-Century Rubricator/Glossator
- Holle Canatella
(University of Houston): The Duality of Love in The Life of Christina of
Markyate
Session 3: Monasticism (chair: John Sommerfeldt, University of Dallas)
(Gorman Faculty Lounge)
- Carter S.
Hillyer (University of Mississipi): Why Pagan Texts Survived the Dark Age:
The Preservation of The Cattle Raid of Cooley by Irish Christian Monks
- Paul Lockey
(University of Phoenix) : The Ecclesiology of Guerric of Igny
- Matthew McGraw
(Texas Tech University): Religious Art in the Monasteries of the High Middle
Ages
10:30-12 noon
Session 4:
The English Alliterative Revival (chair: Stephen Maddux, University of Dallas)
(Haggar Reception)
- Paul W. Camden
(Texas State University): The Spirit of the Green Man in Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight
- Emma B. Hawkins
(Lamar University): The Man Without a Name in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
- David Strong
(The University of Texas at Tyler): Meed's Right to Subvert Justice
Session 5: Military History I (chair: Jeremy Adams, Southern Methodist
University)
(Haggar Dining)
- Donald J.
Kagay (Albany State University): The Rite of Holy War in Fourteenth-Century
Iberia
- Ruel A. Macaraeg
(University of Texas at Arlington): Toward a Typology of European Martial
Traditions: Environment and Social Organization in the Formation of Warrior
Ethics
- Ernest Perez
(ARMA-The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts): The Myth of Strength
and Medieval Knightly Combat
Session 6: Images of Salvation: Saving Students from Themselves in History
and Literature (The Christianity and Culture Project)
(Gorman Faculy Lounge)
- Bruce C. Brasington
(West Texas A&M University)
- Jeffrey S.
Hamilton (Baylor University)
- D. Thomas
Hanks (Baylor University)
12:00-1:30
p.m.
Lunch
Break
1:30-3:00
p.m.
Session 7:
Marginalized Medievals (chair: Kent G. Hare, Northwestern State University,
Louisiana)
(Haggar Reception)
- Edward J.
Baenziger C.S.B. (University of St. Thomas, Houston): Chancellor with No University:
Jean Gerson
- Bruce C. Brasington
(West Texas A&M University): A Tangled Web: The Theological and Canonistic
Reflection on the Story of Ananias and Saphira Down to the Twelfth Century
- Elizabeth
Haluska-Rausch (Southern Methodist University): Invisible Childhood: Children
in Twelfth-Century Montpellier
Session 8: Aquinas I (chair: Sarah Byers, University of Dallas)
(Haggar Dining)
- James Lehrberger,
O.Cist. (University of Dallas): Obscuris et novis verbis: The Esotericism
of Thomas Aquinas
- Walter Redmond
(Independent Scholar): On the "Mistakes" in the Third Way of Showing
God's Existence: Did St. Thomas Go Wrong?
- Victor Salas,
Jr. (Saint Louis University): Thomas Aquinas on Personhood, Subsistence, and
the Incarnation
Session 9: Beowulf (chair: Debra Romanick Baldwin, University of Dallas)
(Gorman Faculty Lounge)
- Michael P.
McGlynn (Wichita State University): The Embracer: A Possible Oral Formula
in Beowulf
- Minghan Xiao
(Hunan Normal University and Sichuan Normal University, China): The Integration
of Christian and Germanic Traditions in Beowulf
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Session 10:
Modern and Postmodern Medievalisms (chair: Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas
A&M University)
(Haggar Dining)
- L. Michael
Harrington (University of Dallas): The Pageant of Dante's Earthly Paradise
Remade for Postmodernity in Finnegans Wake
- Francis P.
Kilcoyne (Boston College): The Twenty-First, the Best of Centuries? Some Considerations
for Medievalists
- David Thomson
(Waco ISD): Tolkien's Quasi-Typology and Self-Figurations in The Lord of
the Rings
Session 11: Anglo-Saxon Culture (chair: Kent G. Hare, Northwestern State
University, Louisiana)
(Haggar Reception)
- Scott Cassingham
(Independent Scholar): The Example of Anglo-Saxon Cities in Early Medieval
Urban Development
- Russell K.
Earhart (Texas Tech University): Northumbrian Identity and the Origins of
the Frisian Mission
- Sally-Jayne
Gilpin (Collin County Community College): The Enigmatic and Remarkable Habitat
of "The Wife's Lament"
Session 12: Hagiography (chair: Christopher J. Malloy, University of
Dallas)
(Gorman Faculty Lounge)
- John Howe
(Texas Tech University): St. Berardus of Marsica (d. 1130), "Model Gregorian
Bishop"
- Elena Ivanova
(University of Texas at Arlington): The Marvelous and the Monstrous in Medieval
Iberia
- Elizabeth
Walen Walunas (University of Houston): Saints and Stones: Connecting Immigrant
and Native Power in Medieval Hagiography
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Welcome
by
the
President of the University of Dallas, Dr. Francis M. Lazarus
followed
by
Address
by the TEMA President for 2004
(Lynch Auditorium)
Philipp
W. Rosemann
New
Interest in Peter Lombard: The Current State of Research and Some Desiderata
for the Future
Saturday,
September 18, 2004
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Session 13:
Aquinas II (chair: James Lehrberger, O.Cist., University of Dallas)
(Art History Auditorium)
- Peter M. Candler
(Baylor University): Tradition in Aquinas
- Thomas S.
Hibbs (Baylor University): Marion and Aquinas
- Derek Morrow
(University of Dallas): Aquinas, Marion, and Analogy
Session 14: Lexicographical Issues (chair: Robert Scott Dupree, University
of Dallas)
(Gorman Faculty Lounge)
- Edwin Duncan
(Towson University): Queynte: "Elegant, Pleasing Thing" or
Just a Fancy Spelling for You-Know-What?
- Wesley M.
Stevens (University of Winnipeg): Calx, calcus, calculus-A Game-Counter
or a Bit of Jewelry?
Session 15: Military History II (chair: Donald J. Kagay, Albany State
University)
(Haggar Reception)
- Peter Rebane
(Pennsylvania State University): Hostages, Crusaders, and Missionaries
- Meredith L.
D. Riedel (University of Oxford): Why can't a Roman be more like a Saracen?
The Takita of Leo VI the Wise and Tenth-Century Byzantine-Arab Warfare
- Thomas R.
Besch (University of Louisiana): The Functions of Armored Knight at the Intersection
of Three Literary Genres: The Epic, the Travel Narrative, and the Critical
Essay
Session 16: Medieval Romance (chair: Emma B. Hawkins, Lamar University)
(Haggar Dining)
- Theresa Kenney
(University of Dallas): Vengeance, Justice, and Mercy in the Middle English
Romance
- Ana Krahmer
(Texas Tech University): To be Holy in Love
- Peter Larkin
(Independent Scholar): De ortu Waluuanii and the Matter of Rome in
an Arthurian Romance
10:30-12:00 noon
Session 17:
The Notion of the Medieval Reconsidered (chair: Philipp W. Rosemann, University
of Dallas)
(Gorman Faculty Lounge)
- John Deely
(University of St. Thomas, Houston): "Medieval Philosophy" Re-Defined
- Cary J. Nederman
(Texas A&M University): The Medieval/Modern Divide Revisited: Pocock on
Empire
Session 18: Art, Architecture, and Iconography (chair: Robert Scott Dupree,
University of Dallas)
(Art History Auditorium)
- Andrea D.
Taylor (University of Alabama): Images of Isis as a Source for the Developing
Iconography of the Virgin Mary: Images of the Moon and the Stars
- Margaret Jennings
(St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn): Sermons in Stone: The Three Arks of Bourges
- Nora Laos
(University of Houston): Aspects of the Middle Ages in Twentieth-Century Chapels
Session 19: The Renaissance (chair: Theresa Kenney, University of Dallas)
(Haggar Reception)
- Jacqueline
A. Dana (University of Texas at Austin): Asceticism and Narrative in the Martyrdom
of Thomas More
- Robert W.
Haynes (Texas A&M International University): Medieval Fathers and Sons:
Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
- Brent D. Lynn
(Texas Tech University): Discursive Love and Faith: Errour and the Areopagite
in Book I of The Faerie Queene
12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.
Business
Lunch
followed
by
Plenary
Address
Steven
J. Livesey (University of Oklahoma):
Accessus
ad Lombardum: The Secular and the Sacred in Medieval Commentaries on the
Sentences
(Haggar
Dining)
2:00-3:30
p.m.
Session 20:
Manuscript Studies (chair: D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University)
(Art History Auditorium)
- John T. McQuillen
(Southern Methodist University): How Many Days Hath September? A Popular
Lyric from the Book of Hours to Mother Goose
- K. Sarah-Jane
Murray (Baylor University): From Plato's Timaeus to the Song of
Roland: Poetry and Humanism in Oxford Bodleian MS. Digby 23
- James M. Palmer
(Prairie View A&M University): Looking Back to the Carolingians: Organizational
Techniques of Thirteenth-Century Spanish Library Catalogues
Session 21: Revisionist Perspectives on Controversial Religious Figures and
Movements (chair: Irving Kelter, University of St. Thomas, Houston)
(Haggar Reception)
- Gabrielle
E. Gonzales (Baylor University): The Heretic Pope John XXII and His "Beatific
Vision"
- Madeleine
Grace C.V.I. (University of St. Thomas, Houston): Why the Béguines?
- William Netherton
(Amarillo College): Richard Rolle and the Question of Authority
Session 22: Chaucer (chair: Raymond DiLorenzo, University of Dallas)
(Gorman Faculty Lounge)
- Laurel Amtower
(San Diego State University): Zombies and the Craft of Poetry in Chaucer's
Book of the Duchess
- Joseph Howe
(Texas Tech University): Chaucer's "Monk's Tale" and the Failings
of Anthology
- Marilyn S.
Ward (Dallas County Community College): A Passion for Combining History and
Literature: Fourteenth-Century Political History in Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Session 23:
COMMBASE: An Electronic Database of Medieval Commentators on Aristotle and Peter
Lombard's Sentences (chair: Philipp W. Rosemann)
(Science Building 13)
- Steven J. Livesey
(University of Oklahoma)
Session 24: Medieval Women II (chair: Janice Gordon-Kelter, University
of St. Thomas, Houston)
(Art History Auditorium)
- Katie Keene
(Southern Methodist Universuty): The Piety and Patronage of Margaret of Scotland
- Sarah Pruett
(University of Houston): Beyond Reform: The Extended Message of the Gospels
of Matilda of Tuscany
- Mark Spencer
(Southern Oklahoma State University): Writing Medieval Women: The Recent Critical
Reception of Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter
Session 25: The Trecento (chair: Stephen Maddux, University of Dallas)
(Haggar Reception)
- Price McMurray
(Texas Wesleyan University): "To mourn the dying day": Nostalgia
and the Poetics of Dante's Purgatory
- Silvia Ruffo
Fiore (University of South Florida): Finding Boccaccio's Genius: Art, Criticism,
and the Plague in the Decameron
Y'ALL COME!