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Program
Thursday, 4 April (All Sessions at
Grand Hyatt Hotel)
2:00–3:15
Plenary Session (Ballroom A)
1.
The
Uses of Literacy in Medieval London
Presider: Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham
University
Welcome: Pamela Sheingorn, Baruch
College and Graduate Center, City
University of New York
- Caroline Barron, Royal Holloway,
University of London, “The Uses of
Literacy in Medieval London”
3:15-3:45
Break
(Conference Level Foyer)
3:45-5:30
Concurrent Sessions
2.
The Making of the Middle Ages in Twentieth-Century America
(Shubert/Majestic)
Organizers: Robert W. Hanning, Columbia
University, and Elizabeth C. Parker,
Fordham University
Chair: Elizabeth C. Parker
- D. W. Wright, J. P. Morgan Chase &
Co., “Influential
Taste: Belle Greene and Morgan’s Medieval Manuscripts”
(abstract)
- Linda Seidel,
University of Chicago, “Meyer Schapiro on Medieval Art in
Manhattan”
(abstract)
- Sylvia Tomasch, Hunter Coll., City
University of New York, and Sealy Ann
Gilles, Long Island University, “Chaucer in Chicago: Manly and Rickert”
(abstract)
Respondent: Robert W. Hanning
3.
Unruly Mob or Captive Audience? The Role of the Crowd in Urban Political Spectacle
(Booth/Imperial)
Organizers: Sam Collins, University of California, Berkeley; Jennifer A.
Heindl, Arizona State University; Clementine Oliver, University of California,
Berkeley; and Jason Glenn, University of Southern California
Chair: Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
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Sam Collins, “Vulgus indoctum:
Reading the Crowd in Alcuin’s Tours”
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Jennifer A. Heindl, “Moving the Masses: Cola di Rienza, the Anonimo Romano, and the Roman
Crowd”
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Clementine Oliver, “The Trial and Execution of a London Mayor”
Respondent: Jason
Glenn
4.
Artisans, Merchants, and Texts (Lyceum/Morosco)
Organizer and Chair: Martha W. Driver, Pace University
- Michelle R. Warren, University of Miami, “Trading Furs,
Translating Romance: The Skinners’ Business
in Fifteenth-Century London”
- Lisa H. Cooper, Columbia University, “Urban Conversations: Craftsmen
and Community in Caxton’s Dialogues in French and English” (abstract)
- Sheila Lindenbaum, Indiana University, “Artisans and the Politics of
Writing in Late Medieval England”
5. Urban Revivalism (Music Box/Plymouth)
Organizer and Chair: Gary Dickson, University of Edinburgh
- Augustine Thompson, O.P., University of Virginia, “Holiness Made Visible:
Communal Saints and Their Cults”
- Daniel Bornstein, Texas A&M University, “Sustaining Enthusiasm”
- Jessalyn Bird, Queen’s Coll., University of Oxford, “Paris Masters,
Reform Preaching, and Crusade Recruiting in Urban Contexts” (abstract)
6.
Urban Archaeology
(Uris)
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Clark Maines, Wesleyan University
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Ronald A. Messier, Middle Tennesee State University, “Sijilmasa: The
Myth and Reality of an African Eldorado”
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Justin Hastings-Merriman, University of Leeds, “York and Streoneshealch”
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Virginia Jansen, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Medieval Built
Townscapes”
7.
Medieval Theories of the Categories (Carnegie Hall)
Organizer: Gyula Klima, Fordham University
Chair: Christopher Cullen, S.J., Fordham University
6:00–8:00
Reception (Pierpont Morgan Library)
Friday, 5 April (All Sessions
at Grand Hyatt Hotel)
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Ballroom A Foyer)
8:30-10:00 Plenary Session (Ballroom A)
8. Found in Translation: Medievalists as Translators
Organizer: MAA Committee on Centers and Regional Associations
(CARA)
Chair and Respondent: George D. Economou
- Roundtable discussion with Marie Borroff, Yale University; Robert
Hollander, Princeton University; and Richard Davis, Ohio State University
10:00–10:30
Break (Conference Level Foyer)
10:30–12:15 Concurrent Sessions
9.
The
Influence of Liturgy (Shubert/Majestic)
Organizer and Chair: Kathryn Smith, New York University
- Louis I. Hamilton, Villanova University, “Paschal
II and the Liturgy of the ‘Imperial Papacy’ in Northern Italy and France”
- Evelyn Birge Vitz, New York University, “The Liturgy and the French
Medieval Lyric”
- Nancy Sevcenko, “Art
and Byzantine Hymnography in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries”
10. Crime and
Disorder in the Late Medieval City (Booth/Imperial)
Organizer: Adnan A. Husain, New York University
Chair: Ruth Karras, University of Minnesota
- Steven Bednarski, University of Québec,“Contra
omnes et universos: Criminal Bands and the Underworld of
a Provençal Town (1340-1401)”
- Susan J. Dudash, University of Pittsburgh, “Christinian Politics,
the Tavern, and Urban Revolt in Late Medieval
France”
(abstract)
- Maureen Jurkowski, University Coll. London, “The Lollard Revolt
in Coventry in 1431”
(abstract)
11. Interpreting Women
(Lyceum/Morosco)
Organizer and Chair: Carmela Vircello Franklin, Columbia University
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Donna Alfano Bussell, Columbia University, “Rebuilding the Lost
City: Porphiry’s Grief and a Better Heaven in Clemence of Barking’s Life of St. Catherine”
(abstract)
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Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University, “Christine de Pizan, the
Querelle de la Rose, and the Ethics of Reading”
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Marta Cobb, University of Leeds, “Orthodox Editing: Medieval
Versions of Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love
and The Book of Margery Kempe”
12. Urban
Constructs (Music Box/Plymouth)
Organizer and Chair: Scott Westrem, Lehman
College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Kathryn M. Tallarico, Coll. of Staten Island, City University of New
York, “The City Imagined: Carthage in the Roman
d’Eneas—Generic and Historical Transformation”
(abstract)
- Joseph Grossi, Jr., Providence Coll., “Fishing for the
‘Hermit Crab’: Late Medieval English Apprehensions
of Genoa”
- Laura L. Howes, University of Tennessee, “Romancing the City:
Margery Kempe in Rome”
13. Spectacles of Rule
(Uris)
Organizer: Margaret Pappano, Columbia University
Chair: D. Vance Smith, Princeton University
- Michael Jones, University of Nottingham, “The Rituals and
Significance of Ducal Civic Entries in Late Medieval
Brittany”
- Susan Crane, Rutgers University, “Heraldic Gestures”
(abstract)
- Shayne Aaron Legassie, Columbia University, “Besieging the Castle:
Rape, Spectacle, and Nation (London, 1501)”
(abstract)
14. At Last—Skaldic Poetry! (Carnegie Hall)
Organizer: Martin Chase, Fordham University
Chair: Gudrún Nordal, Stofnun Árna Magnússonar
- Roberta Frank, Yale University, “Fourteen Ways of Looking at a
Raven”
(abstract)
- Russell Poole, Massey University, “The Livelihood of the Skald as
Constructed in Kennings”
- Martin Chase, “‘From the Hiding Places of the Soul’: The
Ins and Outs of Skaldic Poetry”
(abstract)
- Margaret Clunies Ross, University of Sydney, “Kennings in Christian
Skaldic Poetry”
(abstract)
12:15-1:45
Lunch (Ballroom E)
1:00-1:45
Plenary Session (Ballroom E)
15. Business Meeting
Presider: Andrew Hughes, University of Toronto
Presentation of reports; election of officers; awarding of prizes
2:00-3:45
Concurrent
Sessions
16. The Late Medieval Book
in Paris: Urban Patrons and Production (Shubert/Majestic)
Organizers: Martha W. Driver, Pace University, and Consuelo Dutschke,
Columbia University
Chair: Consuelo Dutschke
- Mary Beth Winn, State University of New York, Albany, “Praise for
the Patron: the Louenges of Anthoine Vérard”
(abstract)
- Cynthia Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Signs of
Tension: Late Medieval Entry Accounts of French Queens”
- Myra Dickman Orth, Boston, “Manuscript Illumination in Paris:
Something Old, Something New”
(abstract)
17. Chaucer and
Others (Booth/Imperial)
Organizer and Chair: Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University
- Anne Middleton, University of California, Berkeley, “Chaucer and the
School of Langland”
- David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania, “Chaucer: The Poet as
Ethiop”
- Thomas Hahn, University of Rochester, “The African Queen: Chaucer
and His Precursors”
18. York and the Construction of Urban Values (Lyceum/Morosco)
Organizer and Chair: David N. Klausner, University of Toronto
- Sarah Rees Jones, University of York, “Neighbors and Citizens: The
Development of ‘Bourgeois’ Values in York and Other English Towns Before the Black Death"
- Andreea D. Boboc, University of Michigan, “The City in the Play:
Dramatic Representations of Medieval City in the York Cycle”
- Chester Scoville, University of Toronto, “‘But owther in frith or
felde’: Constructions of the Rural in the Late Medieval Urban Plays of York
19. Urban Spaces: Politics, Sex, Law (Music Box/Plymouth)
Organizer: Daniel L. Smail, Fordham University
Chair: Charles Burroughs, Binghamton University
- Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, “Topography,
Identity, Politics, and The Vacant See in Schismatic
Avignon”
(abstract)
- David C. Mengel, University of Notre Dame, “From ‘Venice’ to
‘Jerusalem’ and Beyond: The Topography of Prostitution in Fourteenth-Century
Prague”
(abstract)
- Ingrid Baumgärtner, University of Kassel, “Communal Legislation and
Administration of Urban Space: The City of Rome from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries”
(abstract)
20. Myth and History
in Civic Imagination and National Identity (Uris)
Organizer: Adnan A. Husain, New York University
Chair: Melissa Furrow, Dalhousie University
- Lynne Dahmen, Indiana University, “Mythologizing Fez: Roudh
El Kartas and Building National Identity in the Fourteenth Century”
- Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston, “Irrepressible Giants:
Primitivism, Giant-Killing, and the Rebirth of Gog and Magog as Paradoxical Icons of
National and Civic Identity in London’s Guildhall”
- Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, “Rebuilding the
Medieval City: Le Vieux Paris
and Paris 1400 at the 1900 World’s Fair”
21. Galbert of Bruges Stages “Our Town” (Carnegie Hall)
Organizers: Nancy F. Partner, McGill University, and Robert M. Stein,
Purchase College, State University of New York
Chair and Respondent: Sarah Foot, University of Sheffield
- Robert M. Stein, “Death by a Trivial Cause: The Meaning of
Events in Galbert’s Urban History”
- Nancy F. Partner, “Galbert’s Hidden Women: Social Presence
and Narrative Concealment”
- Mary Agnes Edsall, Villanova University, “‘De put aire’: Urban
Fabliaux and Galbert of Bruges’s Historical
Narrative”
22.
“Venite filii, audite me, et florem philosophiae docebo vos”: John
Buridan and His Influence (Alvin)
Organizer and Chair: Gyula Klima, Fordham University
- Jack Zupko, Emory University, “Buridan and the Origins of Secular
Philosophical Culture”
(abstract)
- Fabienne Pironet, University of Québec, “Was Buridan a
Revolutionary or a Traditionalist?”
(abstract)
- Hans Thijssen, University of Nijmegen, “The Buridan School
Reassessed”
(abstract)
3:45-4:15
Break (Conference Level Foyer)
4:15-6:00 Concurrent Sessions
23. Imaging the
City/Imagining the City: The Politics of Urban Self-Representation
(Shubert/Majestic)
Organizer and Chair: Martha Howell, Columbia University
- Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, University of Maryland, “Signs and the City:
Urban Identity in the Middle Ages”
- Karen Rose Mathews, University of Colorado, Denver, “Urban Spectacle
and the Display of Spolia in Medieval
Cairo”
- Bissera V. Pentcheva, Columbia University, “Imagining the City: The
Apse Mosaic in Hagia Sophia as a Symbol of
Patriarchal Power”
(abstract)
24. Poetry and
Politics in Late Medieval London (Booth/Imperial)
Organizer and Chair: Catherine McKenna, Queens
College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Glenn Burger, Queens Coll. and Graduate
Center, City University of New
York, “The ‘Gentil’ Subject’s Confession:
Truth Technologies in Chaucer’s Parson’s Tale and Retraction”
- Matthew Boyd Goldie, Rider Coll., “Languishing Lancastrian
London: A City Faults a King”
(abstract)
- Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado, “Willy-Nilly: Late
Medieval English Aristocratic Marriage Practices,
Female Consent, and Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles”
25. Religion, Ethnicity,
and Urban Space in Late Medieval Cities (Lyceum/Morosco)
Organizer: Steven A. Epstein, University of Colorado
Chair and Respondent: James B. Givens, University of California,
Irvine
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David Nirenberg, Johns Hopkins University, “Segregating the Sacred
in Medieval Spain: The Containment of Infidels in the Christian City”
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Sally McKee, University of California, Davis, “‘Passing’ Before
Race: Taken for Somebody’s Other in a Late Medieval Colonial Town”
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Steven A. Epstein, “Tartars in Late Medieval Genoa and Caffa:
Two Styles of Ethnic Divisions”
26.
Urban Schools in Late Medieval Society (Music Box/Plymouth)
Organizer: William J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin
Chair: Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran-Cruz, Georgetown University
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Robert Black, University of Leeds, “Pre-University Education in Florence,
1300-1500”
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David L. Sheffler, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Festival of Fools:
City, Bishop, and the Schools of Regensburg”
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Nicholas Orme, University of Exeter, “Schoolbooks: A New Source for English
Urban History”
27. The Heavenly City (Uris)
Organizer and Chair:
William E. Coleman, John Jay Coll. and Graduate Center, City University of New
York
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Phillip Earenfight, Juniata
College, “Florence as the New Jerusalem: The
Metaphor and the Real on the Piazza San Giovanni”
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Robin Anne O’Sullivan, University of Chicago, “Visualizing the Heavenly
City in Marguerite Porete’s
Mirouer
des simples Âmes”
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Ronald E. Pepin, Capital Community
College, “The Survey of Cities
in Neckham’s Laus Sapientiae
Divinae”
(abstract)
28. Town and Country
(Carnegie Hall)
Organizer: Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University
Chair: Richard Unger, University of British Columbia
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James Masschaele, Rutgers University, “Town, Country, and State in
Medieval England”
(abstract)
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Clif Hubby, New York University, “Integrating Town and Country in
Late Medieval Bavaria: Economic Exchange and Family Economy in the Market of Holzkirchen”
(abstract)
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Andrée Courtemanche, University of Moncton, “Gathered ‘round the
Sheep: Metiers and Social Relations in Manosque at the End of the Middle Ages”
29. Dante’s Histories
(Alvin)
Organizer: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University
Chair: Joan Ferrante, Columbia University
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Teodolinda Barolini, “Reading Dante’s Lyrics: Notes on Some
Early Canzoni and their Connections to the Comedy”
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Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University, “The Measure of Man:
Perspective, History, and Ethics in Purgatorio
X-XII”
(abstract)
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Susan Noakes, University of Minnesota, “Cacciaguida’s Place: An
Anti-mercantile History of Florence within the Structure of the Paradiso”
(abstract)
6:00-7:00
Reception, hosted by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
and Medieval Studies at Yale University (Ballroom C)
Saturday, 6 April (All Sessions at
New York University)
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast (Greenberg Lounge, Law School)
9:00-10:00 Plenary Session (Tishman Auditorium, Law School)
30.
Presidential Address
Presider: John V. Fleming, Princeton University
Welcome:
Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University
- Andrew
Hughes, University of Toronto, “Charlemagne’s Chant or The Great Vocal
Shift: From Ass to Bass”
10:00-10:30 Break (Main
Building, 2nd floor lobby and Room 804)
10:30-12:15 Concurrent Sessions (Main
Building)
31. Urban Spectacle:
Rhythms of Civic Life (Room 206)
Organizer and Chair: Margaret Pappano, Columbia University
- Martine Clouzot, University de Nantes, “The Music of a City: Dijon
and its Musicians in the Fifteenth Century”
- Anu Mänd, Art Museum of Estonia, “Interpreting Carnival
Processions of the Livonian Merchants’
Associations”
- John M. Ganim, University of California, Riverside, “The Afterlife
of the Medieval Street”
(abstract)
32. Cities and Saints (Room
207)
Organizer: Thomas Head, Hunter College
and Graduate Center, City University
of New York
Chair: JoAnn McNamara, Hunter College
and Graduate Center, City University
of New York
- Gerald Guest, John Carroll University, “Urban Sanctity: Saints and
Cities in Thirteenth-Century Stained Glass”
(abstract)
Beth Williamson, University of Bristol, “Siena: City of the Virgin Lactans”
(abstract)
James Grier, University of Western Ontario, “An Urbane Fraud:
Limoges and Adémar de Chabannes’ Apostolic
Liturgy for the Feast of Saint Martial, 3 August 1029”
(abstract)
Tova A. Leigh Choate, Yale University, “A Tale of Two Cities’
Saints: St. Denis of Paris, St. Chéron of Chartres,
and the Musical (De)Construction of Cult”
(abstract)
33. Town and War (Room 208)
Organizer: Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University
Chair: Richard Kaeuper, University of Rochester
- Anne Curry, University of Reading, “A City Occupied? Rouen under
English Rule, 1419–1449”
- William Caferro, Vanderbilt University, “Florence and Its Army in
the Fourteenth Century: A Case for Continuity”
- Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, “Peripheral
Matters: Contesting Civic Space on the Militarized Edge”
(abstract)
34. Religion, Money, and Gender in Mediterranean Cities and Towns
(Room
805)
Organizer: Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University
Chair and Respondent: Isabel Bonet O’Connor, University of Southern
Indiana
- Lucy K. Pick, University of Chicago, “Queen Sancha (d. 1067) and the
Restoration of León”
- Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota, “Women and the City: The
Case of Medieval Montpellier”
(abstract)
Rebecca Lynn Winer, Villanova University, “Slavery and the Domestic
Hierarchy in the Thirteenth-Century Town of
Perpignan”
35. Class and Gender in Representations of Medieval Urban Life
(Room 806)
Organizer and Chair: Steven Kruger, Queens
College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Robert S. Sturges, University of New Orleans, “Gender and Class in
Fifteenth-Century Canterbury: The Prologue
to The Tale of Beryn”
(abstract)
Helen Fulton, University of Sydney, “The Medieval Town Imagined:
Urbanization and Knighthood in Medieval
Literature”
(abstract)
Richard Firth Green, University of Western Ontario, “The Vanishing
Leper and Other Medieval Urban Legends”
36. Books and Teachers in Medieval Paris
(Room 808)
Organizer and Chair: M. Michèle Mulchahey, Fordham University
- Richard Rouse, University of California, Los Angeles, “Paris Book
Producers and Royal Commissions, 1220-1240”
- William J. Courtenay, University of Wisconsin, “Secular Masters and
Teaching Careers at the University of Paris in the Fourteenth Century”
- Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B., Conception Abbey, “Religious Masters
and Teaching Careers at the University of Paris in the Late Middle Ages”
(abstract)
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Concurrent Sessions (Main
Building)
37. Liturgy and Ritual
in Two Imperial Cities: Aachen and Rome (Room 206)
Organizer and Chair: Susan Boynton, Columbia University
- Michael McGrade, Brandeis University, “Lay Participation in the
Liturgy of the Marienkirche in Medieval Aachen”
- Eric Rice, Columbia University, “Aachen’s Coronation Rites in
Text, Sound, and Space”
- Brenda Bolton, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London,
“‘Orta est nova lux in orbe Romano’: Imperial Echoes in Innocent III’s Rome”
38. Women in the City (Room
207)
Organizer and Chair: Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University
- William W. Clark, Queens College
and Graduate Center, City University
of
New York, “The Conjunction of Royal Power, Female Patronage, and Historical Memory in
the Nuns’ Church on Montmartre”
(abstract)
Mary C. Erler, Fordham University, “A Vowed Woman in Chaucer’s
London: Divorce, Travel, Friendship, Reading”
(abstract)
Marguerite Keane, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Creating
a Public Identity in Medieval Paris: The Patronage of Blanche of Navarre”
(abstract)
39. Urban Spaces: Power, Learning, Devotion
(Room 208)
Organizer and Chair: Daniel L. Smail, Fordham University
- Rita Costa Gomes, University Nova de Lisboa and Johns Hopkins University
“Places of Power: Urban
Landscapes and Royal Residences in Medieval Iberia”
(abstract)
Lyse Roy, University of Québec, “Urban and University Space from
the Middle Ages to the Sixteenth Century in the Kingdom of France”
(abstract)
Jill Caskey, University of Toronto, “Private and Public Religious Space in
Coastal Campania, ca. 1100–1300”
(abstract)
40. Commerce, Crusade,
and Corsairs: Medieval Merchants in the Mediterranean (Room 805)
Organizer and Chair: Adnan A. Husain, New York University
- Merav Mack, Cambridge University, “The Merchant of Genoa: The
Genoese in the EasternMediterranean at the Times of the Crusades
(1187-1204)”
- Emily S. Tai, Queensborough Community
College, City University of New
York, “Merchants beyond the City: Piracy, Trade, and Civic Identity in the Medieval
Levant”
- Mark Aloisio, University of Minnesota, “Maltese Corsairs in the
Maghreb during the Fifteenth Century”
41. Radical and
Reformist Thought in England’s Three Languages: 1200-1400 (Room
806)
Organizer: Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
Chair: Linda M. Georgianna, University of California, Irvine
- Larry Scanlon, Rutgers University, “William Langland and the Problem
of Reform”
- Fiona Somerset, University of Western Ontario, “Radical Latin?
Academic Discourse, Occasional Sermons, and the Politics of Reform”
- Nicholas Watson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Fordham University, “A
Tree Rooted in Heaven: Radicalism and Reform in Anglo-Norman Religious Writing”
42. Lost Cities,
Imagined Cities: Reconstructing the City in the Anglo-Saxon Literary
Imagination (Room 808)
Organizers: Michael Matto, Yeshiva University, and Haruko Momma, New
York University
Chair: Paul Szarmach, Western Michigan University
- Nicholas Howe, Ohio State University, “Rome: Capital of Anglo-Saxon
England”
- Andy Orchard, University of Toronto, “Reconstructing The
Ruin”
- Andrew Scheil, Harvard University, “Babylon and Anglo-Saxon
England”
(abstract)
Robin Waugh, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Women in the Textual City:
Performative Politics in Cynewulf’s Elene and
in the Old English Genesis A”
(abstract)
3:45-4:15
Break (Main Building, 2nd floor lobby and Room 804)
4:15-5:30
Plenary Session (Tishman Auditorium, Law School)
43. Fellows Session and Closing
Address
Organizer: Fellows of the Medieval Academy
Presider: Francis Oakley, Williams
College
Welcome: Mary Carruthers, New York University
Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows
- Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr
College, “Rome in Ruin”
5:30-6:30
Reception,
hosted by the Dean of Humanities, New York University (Greenberg Lounge, Law
School)
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