SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY

All sessions and events to be held at the Donald Houston Conference Center, Texas A&M University Research Park, Corner of University Avenue & Discovery Drive, College Station.

Parking is free in any parking space marked "TAMU Reserved" or "Visitor"; please do NOT park in spaces marked "Delsite," as you may be ticketed and towed.

Registration table will be open on October 11 from 4-7 p.m., October 12 from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., and October 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Lunches at the Donald Houston Conference Center are by prior reservation and ticket only. If you did not reserve lunch, the nearest restaurants are in the Northgate section of College Station, approximately 2 miles east of the Houston Center along University Avenue, across from the main Texas A&M University campus.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

5-6 p.m. Opening Reception (Foyer)

6-7 p.m.

Keynote Lecture (Auditorium)
Open to the public at no charge.

Introduction & Chair: Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University

Marcia Colish, Yale University:

"Synderesis and Conscience: Medieval Survivals and Transformations"

Friday, October 12, 2007

8:30-9 a.m. Coffee (Hallway)

9-10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions I

Ia. (Room 105) LINGUISTIC AND TEXTUAL STUDIES

Chair: Britt Mize, Texas A&M University

William Smith, Weatherford College	The Bricoleur at Work: Reassessing Old English Composite Homilies
Beverly Hoke, Texas Tech University	MS Laud Misc. 108: A Post-Colonial Document Reasserting English Language, Power, and Identity in Post-Conquest England or The English Are Right and the Normans Are Gauche
J. Lawrence Mitchell, Texas A & M University	Stop Devoicing in Old English

Ib. (Room 108A) MALORY ENGENDERED

Chair: D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University

Jason Davis, Baylor University	Female Magic in Malory
Karen Brown, Baylor University	Cheval and 'Chevalry' in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
Amanda Keys, Baylor University	Malorian Women and Their Conflicts: More than Window-Dressing in King Arthur's Court

Ic. (Room 108B) LAWYERS AT WORK: THEORIES AND PRACTICES

Chair: Marcia Colish, Yale University

Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University	The Augustinian Element of Twelfth-Century Canon Law
Bryan Carella, Assumption College	Further Evidence of Hiberno-Latin Thought in the Prologue to the Laws of Alfred
Wendy J.Turner, Augusta State University	The Legal Regulation and Licensing of Alchemy in Late Medieval England

10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee Break (Hallway)

10:45-11:45 a.m.

Keynote Lecture (Auditorium)
Open to the public at no charge.

Welcome: James Rosenheim, Director, Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University
Chair: Leah Devun, Texas A&M University

Walter Goffart, Yale University:

"Rome's Last Conquest: The Barbarians"

11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch (Room 106)

1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions II

IIa. (Room 108A) ENVISIONING FEMALE MYSTICS

Chair: Leah Devun, Texas A&M University

Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University- Polytechnic Campus	Revisioning the 'Master' Narrative: Christina of Maryate as Spiritual Mentor to Abbot Geoffrey of St. Albans
Donna Ray, University of New Mexico	"The Wonders of God in a Sweet and Delightful Song": Hildegard of Bingen's Theology of Harmony
Katie Keene, Central European University	Dream Visions in the Miracles of St. Margaret

IIb. (Room 105) CHAUCER BEYOND THE CANTERBURY TALES

Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson University

Catherine Clifford, Texas A & M University	The Performance of Architecture in Chaucer's House of Fame
Karen Tanguma, Our Lady of the Lake University	Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess: Celestial, Mythological and Philosophical Influences
Gretchen Mieszkowski, University of Houston- Clear Lake	Fainting: 'A mannes game'- Troilus's Masculinity

IIc. (Room 108B) WARFARE AND ITS IMPACT ON KINGS, PRINCES, AND ARISTOCRATS IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA

Organizer: Don Kagay, Albany State University
Chair: Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University

David McDaniel, Texas Tech University	The Royal Victory of Las Navas de Tolosa, 1213
L. J. Andrew Villalon, University of Texas	The Effect of War on Castilian Families of the Mid-Fourteenth Century
Don Kagay, Albany State University	War as Family Rivalry: Prince Ferran and the War of the Two Pedros

2:30-2:45 p.m. Coffee Break (Hallway)

2:45-4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions III

IIIa. (Room 105) PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Chair: Christie Maloyed, Texas A&M University

Bruce Chabot, Texas A & M University	The Metaphysics of Comedy
Walter Redmond	Aquinas, Stein, and Frege on Deum esse: Can Subsistent Being Be Expressed in Quantification Logic?
Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, Texas A & M University	Advocating Democracy in the 14th Century: Marsigli of Padua's Use of Democratic Arguments in the Defensor Pacis

IIIb. (Room 108B) MINING THE RECORDS OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Chair: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University

Brent Hanner, Texas State- San Marcos	Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Papal Penitentiary Records
Diane Martin, Houston Baptist University	The Siblings of Richard II: The Hollands
Thomas A. Fudge, Hewitt Research Foundation	Beasts in the Dock: A Neglected Chapter in the Search for Goodness and Order in Medieval Church and Law

IIIc. (Room 108A) CHAUCERIAN THEMES AND METHODS

Chair: Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University

D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University	Chaucer's Erotics, ii: Swyving for hire Sustenance
Jo Anna Gutierrez, Our Lady of the Lake University	Chaucer's Various Views on Love and Beauty
David Thomson, Baylor University	The Rhyming of Discourse in Chaucer's Use of Rhyme

Saturday, October 13, 2007

10-11:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions IV

IVa. (Room 105) BEING GOOD AND BEING BAD IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

Chair: Peyton Wofford, Texas A&M University

Jan Crenshaw, San Jacinto College North	To Err is Human: What Sanctuary Records Reveal about Being Bad in Medieval England
Matthew McCabe, University of Toronto	Incarnation, Works, and Lollardy: John Gower as Vernacular Theologian
Victor Scherb, University of Texas-Tyler	The Difficulty of Being Good in Chester Play V

IVb. (Room 108A) THE MIDDLE AGES - BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Chair: Steele Brand, II, Baylor University

Judd Burton, Texas Tech University	The Religious Periphery of Medieval Banias: Cult Figures, Saints, and Sects
Judy Ann Ford, Texas A & M- Commerce	Apocrypha in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend
Karen Daly, University of Wollongong	On One's Best Behavior: Medieval Castilian Travelers as Exemplary Models

IVc. (Room 108B) CHRISTIAN DISCOURSES IN THE CANTERBURY TALES

Chair: Robert Boenig, Texas A&M University

Amanda Milford, University of Texas-Tyler	The Knight's Tale: Chaucer's Morality Play
Heather Hughes, Baylor University	The Suspect God in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale and Clerk's Tale
Brandi Braud, Baylor College of Medicine	The Wife of Bath: Chaucer's Construction of Mary Magdalene

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. - Lunch (Room 106)

TEMA Business Meeting

2007 Presidential Address

Cary Nederman, Texas A&M University:

"Studying Medieval Political Thought: Why and How"

1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions V

Va. (Room 105) EXCESS IN PILGRIMAGE LITERATURE: USURY, TEARS, AND WASTE

Organizer: Susan Morrison, Texas State University - San Marcos
Chair: Clare E. Blackstone, Independent Scholar

Sukyi Douglas-McMahon, Texas State Univ.-San Marcos	The War Between Crown and Crozier: The Political Side of Guillaume de Deguileville in The Pilgrimage of Human Life
David Hadbaawnik, Texas State Univ.-San Marcos	"A Time to Weep": Performative Tears in the Divine Comedy, Piers Plowman and The Book of Margery Kempe
Jon McCarter, Texas State Univ.-San Marcos	Give to Others, Not Yourself: Waste in Piers Plowman, The Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe

Vb. (Room 108A) THE MEDIEVAL BALTIC

Organizer: Daniel B. Wells, University of Houston
Chair: Thomas A. Fudge, Hewitt Research Foundation

Maria Corsi, University of Houston	Women in Trade in Viking Denmark
Daniel B.Wells, University of Houston	Eberhard von Monheim and the End of the Riga-Teutonic Order War (1328-1330)

Vc. (Auditorium) TEACHING THE MIDDLE AGES ONLINE: A WORKSHOP

Chair: Dianne L. Martin, Houston Baptist University

Edwin Duncan, Towson University	Creating and Teaching Online Content
Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University - Polytechnic Campus	Issues in Online Course (and Career) Management

Vd. (Room 108B) THE NEXT GENERATION: MEDIEVAL RESEARCH BY UNDERGRADUATES

Organizer: Jane Chance, Rice University
Chair: Brandi Braud, Baylor University

Kathryn Noll, Rice University	Relations Between Conquerors and Conquered in the Crusader States
Kate Janse van Rensburg, University of St. Thomas	The Social and Religious Factors Leading to Participation in the People's Crusade of 1096
Elizabeth Cooper, Rice University	Stained and Soiled Clothing: Images of Sin in Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

2:30-2:45 p.m. Coffee Break (Hallway)

2:45-4:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions VI

VIa. (Room 108B) OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Chair: Robert Boenig, Texas A&M University

Claire E. Blackstone, Independent Scholar	Beauty and Goodness Influencing Perceptions of Body and Violence in Cynewulf's Juliana and Maguire's Wicked
Britt Mize, Texas A & M University	The Treasure of Wisdom and the Incarnation in Homiletic Fragment II
Sheryl Craig, Independent Scholar	Perception of Evil in Pre-Christian and Early Christian Literature: The Tain, The Mabinogion, Njal's Saga, and Beowulf

VIb. (Room 108A) DISRUPTION AND VIOLENCE

Chair: Don Kagay, Albany State University

Paul E. Chevedden, University of California-Los Angeles	The Crusades as Contemporaries Saw Them
Kevin R.West, Stephen F. Austin State University	The Pilgrim's Presence: Disruption, Mitigation, and Contradiction in Dante's Inferno
Ruel A.Macaraeg, Texas Wesleyan University	Dressed to Kill in Medieval Europe: Observing Patterns in Armed Fashion and Social Violence

VIc. (Room 105) NARRATING THE CANTERBURY TALES

Chair: Victor Scherb, University of Texas at Tyler

Larry Bonds, McMurry University	Chaucer's May 3: A Hart Hunting Context
Laura Bedwell, Baylor University	God's Purveaunce in the Miller's Tale
Kathleen Walker-Anderson, University of Houston- Clear Lake	The Wife of Bath: A Man-Made Woman But a Woman First

VId. (Auditorium) WOMEN, LOLLARDS, AND DANTE: PERSPECTIVES IN MEDIEVAL VERNACULAR RELIGIOUS LITERATURE

Organizer: Beth Allison Barr, Baylor University
Chair: Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, Texas A&M University

Beth Allison Barr, Baylor University	"As she was in church and heard a preaching": The Influence of Sermon Literature on the Lives of Medieval Women
Bracy V. Hill, II, Baylor University	Daniel and the New Law: The Conservative Biblical Hermeneutic and Use of the Book of Daniel in English Wycliffite Sermons
Scott Rushing, Baylor University	Broadening Beatrice: A Reexamination of Dante's Purgatorio

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