Program

Texas Medieval Association

THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER

7 PM: Opening Reception, Clarion Hotel

FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER (Registration all day, Moody Library)

(NOTE: The Clarion Hotel provides a complimentary continental breakfast.)

8-8:35 a.m. Coffee and rolls: Moody Library, Garden Level

Session One (8:45-10:15)

El libro de buen amor:

"Juan Ruiz, Implied Author of the Libro de Buen Amor"
Paul Larson
Baylor University

"The Morrish Fable and El libro de buen amor"
Elizabeth Schirding
Baylor University

"Queering Women's Boundaries in Libro de Buen Amor"
Gabriella Thompson
Baylor University

Chaucer I:

"Omissions to the Mythological Background of Theseus: How These Exclusions Color the Knight's Character"
Elizabeth Cooper
Rice University

"Custance: A Self-Defined Woman in Word and Deed"
Beverly Hoke
Texas Tech University

"Wives versus Christians: Moral Confusion in the Clerk's Tale"
Erin Heath
Texas Tech University

Cross and Crescent:

"Damned for all eternity?!: The Myths of Sylvester II"
Courtney DeMayo,
University of Houston

"Miscellaneous Canon Law: London, British Library Add. 10973"
Bruce Brasington
West Texas A&M University

"The Medieval Crescent"
Ali Alibha
Southern Methodist University

Iberia in the Later Middle Ages:

"Cardinal Sins and Cardinal Virtues in a Late Medieval Churchman: El Gran Cardenal, Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza"
L. J. Andrew Villalon
University of Texas

"A Revenant Sabbath : New Evidence of the Melding of the Jewish Ha-Levi and Catholic Carvajal Families in Late Medieval Spain"
Roger Louis Martinez
University of Texas

"The Murder of the Abbot: The Implications of a Homicide in Late-Medieval Iberia"
Donald J. Kagay
Albany State University, Georgia

Arthuriana Festschrift Presentation (10:20-11: Moody Library, Entry Foyer)

Session Two (11:10-12:40: Moody Library)

Christian and Other in Medieval Spain:

"Blindness and Insight: What Does the Archpriest Really Want?"
Rosalie Barrera
Baylor University

"The Collapse of Trinitarianism in Pre-Islamic Spain"
Preston Shires
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Chaucer II:

"Engendering Roles: The Progress of the Estate and Role of Women in Chaucer"
Karen Brown
Baylor University

"The Marriage of Wheat and Chaff: Alisoun's Abject Quest for Maistrie"
Lori Tubbs
Baylor University

"The Characters Behind Chaucer's Proverbs"
Catherine Quinn Teeling
Southern Methodist University

Reading Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'arthur Aloud:

Organizer and Narrator: Tom Hanks

"A Brief Response: The New Reader's Perspective"
Melanie McQuere
Southern Methodist University

"Brief Response, II: "This is frightening," or "How do you say that diphthong?"
Julie Nelson Couch
Texas Christian University

"Why the Pronunciation of Medieval Texts Matters"
Jeannette Marshall Denton
Baylor University

Medieval Governance:

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: St. Oswald of Northumbria and the Fall of Domnall Brecc"
Kent Hare
Northwestern State University of Louisiana

"Toward a New Understanding of ‘Feudalism,' or Everything I Thought I Learned about ‘Feudalism' in Medieval History 101 Was Wrong"
Henry E. Bower
University of Houston

Lunch on campus, on your own: 12:40-1:50

Session Three (2-3:30: Moody Library)

Medieval Music and Drama:

"Breathing Life into Medieval Music: Chant at St. Andrews in the 13th Century"

Jann Cosart
Baylor University

"New Texts for Old Melodies: The Diffusion and Technique of Prosulas for Tracts and Graduals"
Luisa Nardini
University of Texas

"Illuminating the York Plays"
Victor Scherb
University of Texas-Tyler

Holy Women in 'lfric:

"The Economics of Sanctity in Aelfric's ‘Life of St. Euphrosyne'"
Stephen Stallcup
University of North Carolina-Greensboro

"'How do you solve a problem like Maria?' Aelfric and the Bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary"
Rebecca Stephenson
University of Louisiana-Monroe

"Gendered Ground: Placing the Saintly Body in Aelfric and Other Old English Texts"
Jacqueline Stodnick
University of Texas-Arlington

Love Sacred and Secular in Mysticism and Romance:

"Violent Themes in Mystical Imagery: Mystical Union with God and Medieval Marriage"
Sharmain van Blommestein
Midwestern State University, Wichita

"Sacrificial Love in Lai le Fresne"
Ian Perry
Baylor University

"Affliction and Consolation: A Study of the Relationship Between Pleasure and Pain in the Lives of Female Medieval Mystics"
Nicole Provencher
Our Lady of the Lake University

The Construction of Self and Other in Medieval Languages:

"Andreas Capellanus and the Construction of Self and Other"
Dr. Kathleen Andersen-Wyman
Brazosport College

"Li, or How the Scholastics Indicated Metalanguage"
Philipp W. Rosemann
University of Dallas

"Reading Eriugena, Reading Dionysius: The Uses of Bad Translation"
L. Michael Harrington
University of Dallas

PLENARY SESSION: ARMSTRONG BROWNING LIBRARY (3:45-5:15)

Geraldine Heng, University of Texas-Austin, "The Invention of Race in the

European Middle Ages"

SATURDAY 7 OCTOBER

8-8:30: Coffee and Rolls, Moody Library Garden Level

Session One (8:30-10: Moody Library)

El libro de buen amor II:

"Money in El libro de buen amor: radix omnium malorum est cupiditas",
Tara Murray
Baylor University

"No Better Than the Birds-Misquoting Aristotle in El Libro de Buen Amor"
Michelle Porter
Baylor University

"Love, Lust, or Both: El Libro de Buen Amor"
Genny Smith
Baylor University

Reflections of Richard II:

"The Man for All Reasons: The Posthumous Historiographical Tradition of Richard II"
George B. Stow, Jr.
Lasalle Univesity

"The King's Mother: Joan of Kent and the Exercise of Authority"
Diane Martin
Houston Baptist University

"Richard II as Wise King Herod: Richard's Approach to Oath-taking"
Bracy V. Hill III
Baylor University

The Medieval Body: Dismembered, Consumed, and Consuming:

"Heads on the Mind: Contextualizing the Image of the Severed Head in Beowulf"
Dana Stiffler,
Texas State University-San Marcos

"Pig Prohibition, Transubstantiation, and the Desecration of the Saracen Body Politic in Richard the Lion Hearted"
Micah Robbins
Texas State University-San Marcos

"Eating a Path to Individualism: the Significance of Food and Other in Medieval Literature"
Laura Kooris
Independent Scholar

Arthur, Self, and Other:

"The Epic of Arthur: A Middle English Romance Reconsidered"
Spencer Kyle Smith
Brook Hill School

"‘Othering' an Arthurian Nation: The Presentation of Anti-Semitism in De ortu Waluuanii"
Peter Larkin

"Feminine Agency and Gender Bent Fellows in Malory's 'Tale of Gareth'"
David Thomson

SECOND PLENARY SESSION: ARMSTRONG BROWNING LIBRARY (10:30-12

Cynthia Neville, Dalhousie University, "Knights, Knighthood, and Chivalric

Culture in Gaelic Scotland, c. 1050-1300"

BUSINESS LUNCHEON 12:15-1:30 (with the "Presidential Address" as dessert)

Medieval Celtic Music: 1:30-2:30

Session Two (2:45-4:15: Moody Library)

Historical Women of Power:

"Emma of Blois: Arbiter of Peace and the Politics of Patronage"
George Neal and Mickey Abel
University of North Texas

"From Public to Private Powers: Women in the Family of the Lords of Montpellier in the XII-XIII Centuries"
Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch
Southern Methodist University

"Left Behind: Women and the Language of Reformation in Early Modern England"
Beth Allison Barr

Christian and "Pagan" Self and Other:

"Gatholonabes and the Suicide Assassins of Mandeville's Travels"
Edwin Duncan

"Roman Pagans, Roman Christians"
Judy Ann Ford
Texas A&M University-Commerce

"The Earthly Paradise and the Icelandic Saga of Eirek the Wide-Faring"
Nicola Lugosch
Rice University

Medieval Music and Drama II:

"The Rhetoric of Praise in the Musical Practices and Preaching of the Medieval Franciscans"
Peter Loewen
Rice University

"The Union of Music and Sculpture: The Cult of St. Regulus at the Cathedral of Lucca"
Benjamin Brand
University of North Texas

"The Seven Deadly Sins in Medieval Drama: The Body of Excess, the Body in Pain"
Carolyn Roark and Drew Wall
Baylor University

Chaucer III:

"She's No Killer: Griselda's Power and Passivity in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale"

Carrie Jerrell
Texas Tech University

"The Self and the Other in the Medieval Medea"
Leah Larson
Our Lady of the Lake University

"Chaucer, Alceste, and Kingship: The Gendered Power Dynamics in the Legend of Good Women"
Misty Schieberle
University of Notre Dame/ University of Rochester (NY)

Session Three (4:25-5:55: Moody Library)

The Politics of Patronage:

"Whistling Past the Saint's Shrine: Doubt and Revenge Fantasies among Rebel Clergy in a Late Thirteenth-Century Liber miraculorum"
J. E. St. Lawrence
University of Texas

"King-Makers, Dupes, or Something In-between? The Percies, Henry of Lancaster, and the Revolution of 1399"
Douglas L. Biggs
Waldorf College

"Royal Patronage and the Nobility in the Reign of Henry IV: Some Exchequer Evidence"
Mark Arvanigian
California State University, Fresno

Christian and Other in El libro de buen amor:

"The Fable of the Sparrow and the Bustard in the Book of Good Love"
Audrey Bryant
Baylor University

"The Question of Fidelity in Juan Ruiz's ‘Don Pitas Payas'"
Alicia Reyes-Barriéntez
Baylor University

"Don Amor as the id of Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita"
Faith Rice-Mills
Baylor University

Old English Monasticism and Medicine-Dialogues of Comfort and Counsel:

"Healing of the Soul and Body; Classical medicine in Anglo-Saxon Monsasteries"

Benjamin Pugno
University of Houston

"Faith, Hope and Charity as viewed by Augustine (354-430) and Thomas More (1478-1535)"
Sr. Madeline Grace
University of St. Thomas

"Tyrants, Flatterers, and ‘Brute Beastes': The Rhetoric of Tomas Elyot's Of the Knowledge Whiche Maketh a Wise Man"
Robert Haynes
Texas A&M International University

Heraldry "Portraits," Frescoes, and Console Figures in Medieval Art:

"Symbolic Stand-Ins: Social Facets of Heraldry as Portraiture"
A. Jehan Morris
Southern Methodist University

"Donor Rolls and the San Clemente Frescoes"
Joshua L. McConnell
University of Texas

"Reading in the Vernacular: Alterity in the Console Figures at Chartres Cathedral"
Jennifer L. Lyons
Massachusetts College of Art