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SEMA 2009
Knowing and Unknowing
Thursday, 15 October
10:00 am – 5:00 pm: REGISTRATION
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Sessions 1 – 6
1. Sacred Knowing: The Virgin and the Christ Child
Laskey A
Chair: Patricia Ward, College of Charleston
Katherine Haynes, Aquinas College
“Medieval Views of the Christ Child's Knowledge: Experiential, Providential”
Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State University
2. Monuments in Text and Space
Laskey B
Chair: Leah Giamalva, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Session sponsored by the Marco Institute, University of Tennessee
“Ammianus, Constantius II, and the Obelisks of the Circus Maximus”
Sean Williams, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“The Gero Cross in Context: Thietmar's Chronicon and Episcopal Liturgy in the mid-10th Century”
Michale Tomczyk, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Gregor A. Kalas, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
3. Seeing and Knowing
Clyde and Mary Hall
Chair: Joan McRae, Middle Tennessee State University
“Limits of Knowledge: Void and Imagination”
Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois University
“Thessalonica, Serbia and the Astrapas Family Atelier”
Dylan Remes Jensen, Independent Scholar
Mary Edwards, Pratt Institute
4. Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages
Fondren 21
Chair: Meredith Reynolds, Francis Marion University
“A Sacred Eloquence: The Cappadocian Fathers and Medieval Rhetoric”
Nathan Howard, University of Tennessee-Martin
“The Christianization of Roman Women”
Aneilya Barnes, Coastal Carolina University
“The Controversial Role of Lady Philosophy in Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy”
Antonio Donato, City University of New York
5. The Bible in the Middle Ages
Fondren 23
Chair: John Plummer, Vanderbilt University
“The Bible in Medieval Libraries: What Do We Know?”
Frans Van Liere, Calvin College
“Knowing Then, Unknowing Now: Teaching Chaucer's Christianity in The Canterbury Tale”
D Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
“The Teaching of Ideal Christian Kingship in Widsið”
Holly K. Tipton, Middle Tennessee State University
6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Fondren 24
Chair: Helen Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University
Ordelle G. Hill, Eastern Kentucky University
“Producing Sir Gawain: The Three "Confessions" in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Alice Blackwell, Louisiana State University at Alexandria
3:00 – 4:30 pm: Sessions 7 – 12
7. Madness, Liminality, and the Medieval Aesthetic
Laskey A
Chair: Phil Purser, Georgia State University.
Phil Purser, Georgia State University
Jennifer Randall, Georgia State University
Michelle Abbott, Georgia State University
Jimmy Crowder, Georgia State University
8. PDE Grammar and HEL in a Post-Grammar Society: An Audience Participation Panel
Fondren 21
Chairs: Steve Guthrie, Agnes Scott College and Mike Crafton, West Georgia University
9. Conversion and the Crusades
Clyde and Mary Hall
Chair: Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University
Margaret McGill, Clemson University
“Pope Urban II, the Franks, and the Arc of Sacred History”
Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech
“Knowing the Path of Vengeance: Converting God's Will Into Personal Gain in The Siege of Jerusalem”
Steve Conn, The Citadel
10. Tolkien and Dante
Laskey B
Chair: Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University
“Dante’s Conversion of Statius and the Limits of Earthly Knowledge”
Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William and Mary
“’Leaf By Niggle:’ Tolkien, Dante, and Christian Purgatory”
Jay Ruud, University of Central Arkansas
“Tolkien's Spelling Beorhtnoth: A Case Study in Correcting the Past”
Alexander M. Bruce, Sewanee
11. Mystical Knowing
Fondren 24
Chair: Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State University
“Wonder and Explication in the Advent Lyrics of the Exeter Book”
Patrick Lane, University of Missouri-Columbia
“Bernard of Clairvaux's Book of Experience: Knowing, Loving, Being in the Twelfth Century”
Travis Neel, Southern Illinois University
“Re-mystification of the Divine: Pearls of Unknowing in Middle English Mysticism”
Bradley Stabler, Wayne State University
12. French Farce on Stage, a dramatic reading (in French) of two late Medieval farces,
Pernet qui va a l'ecole and the Farce du Pet
Laskey C
Chair: Barbara Bowen, Vanderbilt University, Participants: Louis Betty, Rachel Early, Julian Ledford, Elizabeth McGonigle, Daniel Ridge,
5:30 – 7:00 pm: Reception (Buttrick atrium, Vanderbilt University)
Friday, 16 October
8:00 am – 5:00 pm: REGISTRATION
9:00 am – 10:30 am: Sessions 13 – 18
13. Paleography
Clyde and Mary Hall
Chair: Joan McRae, Middle Tennessee State University
Josephine A. Koster, Winthrop University
“The Scribe in His Chamber: The Writer and The Text”
Marian J. Hollinger, Fairmont State University
Anthony Minnema, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
"The [Peter G.] Beidler Principle; or Another Look at the Annotations to the Clerk's Tale in Hengwrt"
Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson University
14. The Labor of Knowledge in John Gower’s Poetry
Fondren 23
Chair: Matthew Irvin, Sewanee
Session sponsored by the John Gower Society
“’Of the parfit medicine:’ Vernacular Alchemy in the Confessio Amantis”
Stephanie Batkie, University of Montevallo
“Labour est ease et le repose greivein: Erotic Service in John Gower’s Cinkante Balades”
Holly Barbaccia, Georgetown College
“Knightly Power and Peasant Labor in the Vox Clamantis”
Matthew Irvin, Sewanee
15. Medieval Models, Modern Situations
Laskey C
Chair: Amy Kaufman, Wesleyan College
Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston, and Betty J. Proctor, Houston Community College
“The More Things Change: Maria Edgeworth's The Modern Griselda”
Alison Ganze, Western Kentucky University
“The Medieval Parallels of Edna Earl's Hero Journey in St. Elmo”
David Michael Merchant, Louisiana Tech University
16. Scandalous Relationships in Comic Literature
Laskey A
Chair: Larissa Tracy, Longwood University
Session organized by Mary Leech, University of Cincinnati
“A Curious Cupid: The Diex d'Amors and the Lover in Guillaume de Lorris's Romans de la rose”
Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Valdosta State University
“Knowing, Unknowing, and Life Without a Clue: A Prelapsarian Perceval”
Susanne Hafner, Fordham University
Barbara Bowen, Vanderbilt University
17. Knowing Chaucer
Laskey B
Chair: Laura L. Howes
Session sponsored by the Marco Institute, University of Tennessee.
“I nam no divinistre: Heterodoxy and Disjunction in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale”
Melissa J. Rack, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“But Why Imitate a Fool?: How Chaucer Expresses and Deflects Anxiety in The Tale of Sir Thopas”
Tricia K. George, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“Takyng a Vertuous Leve: Boethian Poetics in The Parson's Tale and The Retraction”
Brent Krammes, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
18. Islamic/Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
Fondren 21
Chair: David Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University
“Pre-Islamic Arabian Christianity's Influence on Islam”
Ibrahim Mumayiz, Independent Scholar
“Knowledge and Social Order in the Early Islamic Diwan (ca. 70–193 AH/690–808 CE)”
Najm al-Din Yousefi, Virgina Tech
“The Way to God is through Knowledge: Ramon Llull's Reasoning of the Christian Truth”
Lina L. Cofresi, North Carolina Central University
11 am – 12:30 pm: Sessions 19-25
19. Beowulf
Clyde and Mary Hall
Chair: Mary K. Ramsey, Southeastern Louisiana University
“The Concepts of ‘Land’ and ‘Sea’ in Beowulf and Kudrun: A Comparative Analysis”
Claudia Anita Becker, North Carolina Central University
“Disastrous Chemical Reagent and the Manuscript Text of Beowulf”
J.R. Hall, University of Mississippi
“From Courage to Despair: Adversaries, Heroic Ideals, and Narrative Structure in Beowulf”
James Hamby, Middle Tennessee State University
20. Virtue and the Feminine in Middle-English Literature
Laskey A
Chair: Amy Kaufman, Wesleyan College
“Virtue Trouble, From Chaucer to Henryson”
Holly A. Crocker, University of South Carolina
“The Madwoman Under the Tree: Herodis in the Middle English Sir Orfeo”
Gerald Nachtwey, Eastern Kentucky University
“Al Songe to Loue Þat Gay Juelle: Telling the Tale of Virtue in Pearl”
Rachael Deagman, Duke University
21. Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Fondren 23
Chair: TBA
“Augustine, Antithesis, and Anglo-Saxon Wisdom”
Marie Nelson, University of Florida
Janet Schrunk Ericksen, University of Minnesota
“Troubling Teaching in Cynewulf's Elene”
Irina Dumitrescu, Southern Methodist University
22. Piers Plowman
Laskey B
Chair: Melissa Hull, Tennessee State University
Rebecca Pomeroy, University of South Carolina
“Haukyn and the Perils of Self Knowledge: Narratorial Self Criticism in Piers Plowman”
M. Leigh Harrison, Cornell University
“Kynde Knowinge: Interpretation and the Polytemporal in Piers Plowman”
Claire Barbetti, Duquesne University
23. Women in (and Interpreted by) the Church
Fondren 21
Chair: Rachel Leech, University of Mississippi
“Knowing Women through Clerical Eyes: The Case of Thietmar of Merseburg”
Phyllis Jestice, University of Southern Mississippi
“More of Aelfric's Other Women: Melantia, Eutychia, and Aphrodosia”
Rhonda L. McDaniel, Middle Tennessee State University
“Telling the ‘Truth:’ The Making of Catherine in her Hagiographies”
Boncho Dragiyski, Washington University in St. Louis
24. Relationships of Political and Social Power
Fondren 24
Chair: TBA
“Orosius' Gelded Rhetoric: Reconfiguring the Place of Rome in the Old English Orosius”
Teresa Hooper, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“I wyl go syttyn in Goddys se: The Assertion of Power in the N-Town Creation Play”
Clark Hutton, Volunteer State Community College
“Biding Time: Knowledge and the Balance of Power in The Canterbury Tales”
Mary Behrman, Morehouse College
25. Readers' Theatre Performance of the Brome: "The Sacrifice of Isaac" and the York "Abraham and Isaac."
Laskey C
Chair: Warren Edminster, Murray State University
Participants: Thomas J. Farrell, Gloria Betcher, D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Joe Ricke, Justin Brent, and Dana-Linn Whiteside.
12:30 – 2:00 pm: Business Lunch (in Great Hall)
2:30 – 4:00 pm: Sessions 26 – 32
26. More Seeing and Knowing
Fondren 21
Chair: John Newell, College of Charleston
“Community, Self, and Anti-Semitism: William of Norwich and Sir James Hobart”
Carlee A. Bradbury, Radford University
“Power in Theophile Iconography: Images and a Search for Knowledge”
Minnie Sangster, North Carolina Central University
“Image and Imaging in Representations of the Legend of Constantine”
Elizabeth Bailey, Wesleyan College
“Typological Knowing in Northern Stained Glass Design”
Ellen Konowitz, State University of New York, New Paltz
27. Know Thy Self, Know Thy Other: Identifying (with) the Medieval Monstrous
Laskey A
Chair: Jeff Massey, Molloy College
Session sponsored by MEARCSTAPA
“Beastly Humans: Liminal Creatures in Medieval Bestiaries”
Lisa LeBlanc, Anna Maria College
“Headless and Loving It: Blemmyae and the Knowing Touch”
Lara Farina, West Virginia University
“Monsters in the Margins: Identifying with Antiquity in the Milemete Treatise”
Libby Karlinger Escobedo, Aurora University
28. Italian Intellectual History
Fondren 24
Chair: William P. Caferro, Vanderbilt University
“Cosmic Order, Complexion, and Character: Humoralism in Goro Dati's Sfera”
Kurt Boughan, The Citadel
“Alchemists' Schemes and Merchants' Dreams: Aquinas and the Limits of Economic Knowledge”
John Whitney Buchmann, Duke University
Greg Caramenico, Vanderbilt University
29. Scholarly Medievalisms
Laskey B
Chair: Amy Kaufman, Wesleyan College
“King Alfred and the Myth of Anglo-Saxonism”
Michael Modarelli, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“The Anxiety of Antiquarianism and the Horror of Medieval Studies: M.R. James in Context”
Fred Porcheddu, Denison University
“Terror and Error in the Antiquarian Fiction of M.R. James”
Patrick J. Murphy, Miami University
"Academic Culture in Twenthieth-Century Bavaria: Several Medieval Historians from Anton Chroust (d. 1945) to Karl Bosl (d. 1933)"
John Eastman
30. Masculine/Feminine in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Clyde and Mary Hall
Chair: Ashley Crownover, author of Wealtheow: Her Telling of Beowulf
“Hiding Behind a Mask: The Critique of Heroic Masculinity in The Wife's Lament”
Daniel F. Pigg, University of Tennessee-Martin
“Beowulf's Masculine Performance in Hygelac's Hall”
David Fritts, Henderson Community College
“Heroic Hermeneutics: Re-imagining the Anglo-Saxon Warrior/King”
Mary K. Ramsey, Southeastern Louisiana University
31. Epic and Romance
Fondren 23
Chair: Daniel O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi
“Knowing Time and Space: Sounds of Roland”
Rachel M. Golden, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“Emotion and the Courtly Aesthetic in Herzog Ernst A & B”
Kevin R. Kritsch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Valerie M. Wilhite, Miami University
32. Gender in Old French Literature
Laskey C
Chair: Ellen Friedrich, Valdosta State University
“A Merry Widow on the Stage of a French Fabliau”
Dorothy L. Schrader, Oklahoma State University
“Doubled Nature: Gender as Plural and Simultaneous in Le Roman de Silence”
Chad Simpson, University of Michigan
“The Absent Cuckoo and the Kite: Reading a Missing Sign in Jean Renart's L'escoufle”
Jake Burnett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:30 – 5: 30 pm: Plenary Session, 4309 Stevenson Center, Vanderbilt University
“Medieval Europe’s Culture Wars: Contesting the Intellectual Heritage of the Arabs”
John Tolan, Université de Nantes
8:00 – 9:00 pm: Early Music Concert, Cathedral of the Incarnation, 2015 West End
Collegium Vocale, Blair School of Music,
David Childs, Director
Saturday, 17 October
Sessions on Saturday will take place at the Stevenson Center on the Vanderbilt University
Campus, in the Math building
For rooms 1210 and 1214, take elevator down one floor and turn right.
For rooms 1307, 1313, and 1320, on entry floor past elevator
For rooms 1431 and 1432, take elevator up one floor, turn left
8:00 am – 3:00 pm: REGISTRATION
9:00 – 10:30 am: Sessions 33 – 39
33. Knowing and Unknowing Pleasures
Stevenson 1431
Chair: Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Session sponsored by the BABEL Working Group
“I Wanted to See the Innermost Part of India: The Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle”
Eileen A. Joy, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
“Occitan Love Poetry”
Anna Klosowska, Miami University of Oxford, Ohio
“Fascist Pleasure: Masculinity and Medievalism”
Laurie Finke, Kenyon College and Martin Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University
“Pleasure in the Leper”
Julie Orlemanski, Harvard University
Respondent: Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern University.
34. Irish Literature and Culture
Stevenson 1432
Chair: Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University
Westley Follett, University of Southern Mississippi
“In the Phoenix's Paradise: The Legacy of the Celtic Otherworld in the Old English Poem The Phoenix”
Christopher Janus, Western Washington University
Michael P. McGlynn, Wichita State University
35. Jews and Muslims in Christian Apocalypticism
Stevenson 1307
Chair: Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Session sponsored by the Marco Institute, University of Tennessee
"'Laudate Domine': Religious Art and Triumphalism in the Era of Las Navas de Tolosa"
Miguel Gomez, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“Islam and History in a Fourteenth-Century Parisian Anthology”
Leah Giamalva, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Geoff Martin, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
“Peter John Olivi, His Critics, and the Apocalyptic Conversion of the World”
Brett Whalen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
36. Knowing Malory
Stevenson 1320
Chair: Elizabeth Sklar, Wayne State University.
“Merlin and the Thomistic Problem of Knowledge in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur”
Carl Franks, Central Methodist University
“Loyalty, Christianity, and Fin Amor: Conflicting Codes in Malory's Morte Darthur”
Stephen Barker, Winthrop University
“And than he seyde to hymselff: Malory and Internal Monologue”
Meredith Reynolds, Francis Marion University
37. Dante and Boccaccio
Stevenson 1313
Chair: Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William and Mary
"Medusa between Boccaccio and Petrarch"
Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University
“Prison Editing In Florence"
Beatrice Arduini, Tulane University
Kristina Olson, George Mason University
38. Epistemology
Stevenson 1214
Chair: Frans van Liere, Calvin College
“The Grammatical Basis for Knowledge in William of Conches”
John H. Newell, College of Charleston
“The Four Internal Senses and Medieval Epistemology in St. Thomas Aquinas”
Kevin F. Keiser, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
“Knowing and Unknowing in 14th Century Philosophy”
Alan Perreiah, University of Kentucky
39. Dreams, Visions, and Devotion
Stevenson 1210
Chair: Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
“The Language of Vision in the Old English Christ I”
Trish Ward, College of Charleston
“’L'Abbaye du saint esprit:’ Its Relation to Devotio Moderna and The Imitation of Christ”
Kathryn A. Hall, Florida State University
“What Fortune Can Never Withdraw: The Dream Vision Poem as Philosophical Proving Ground”
Ginna Wilkerson, University of South Florida
11 – 12 am: Plenary Session, 4309 Stevenson Center, Vanderbilt University
“Knowledge and the failure of knowledge in verse encyclopaedias and encyclopaedic verse”
Sarah Kay, Princeton University
2 – 3:30 pm: Sessions 40-45
40. When Categories Fail!: Taxonomies of the Unknowable
Stevenson 1431
Chair: Jeff Massey, Molloy College
Session sponsored by MEARCSTAPA
“The Problem of Grendel's Sentience in Beowulf 748b”
Julianna Hoffman, Florida Gulf Coast University
Melissa Ridley-Elmes, The Carlbrook School
“Dragons of the Viking World and the Conversion of Scandinavia”
Lilla Kopár, The Catholic University of America
41. The Middle Ages in Novels and Film
Stevenson 1307
Chair: Rachel Early, Vanderbilt University
“Cinematic Melancholia in Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale”
Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida
“Medievalist Macbeths: Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter and Nigel Tranter's Macbeth the King”
Elizabeth L. Rambo, Campbell University
“The Story of Alisaundre: The Medieval Alexander and Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004)”
Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern University
42. Scientia in the Middle Ages
Stevenson 1320
Chair: Holly Crocker, University of South Carolina
“Anglo-Saxon Awareness of the Functions of the Brain”
Leslie Lockett, Ohio State University
“Mathematical Knowledge and Building Practice in the Twelfth Century”
Stefaan Van Liefferinge, University of Georgia
“What Humans Knew About Humans: Nature and Behavior in The Pricke of Conscience”
Jean E. Jost, Bradley University
"Scientific Knowledge transmitted throughout Centuries-- Chaucer’s Astrolabe"
Gila Aloni, Lynn University
43. Gender and Performativity
Stevenson 1210
Chair: Amy Kaufman, Wesleyan College
“To Weep Als a Woman: Arthur's Grief in the Alliterative Morte Arthure”
Lee Templeton, North Carolina Wesleyan College
“Medieval Masquerade: Unveiling a Lesbian History”
Erica Leigh Carson
“Knowing the Woman Who Knows Not a Man”
Kristina Watkins Mormino, Georgia Gwinnett College
44. Knowing the Anglo-Saxons
Stevenson 1432
Chair: J.R. Hall, University of Mississippi
“A Fresh Reading of Aldred's Colophon in the 'Codex Lindisfarnensis'”
Francis Newton Sr., Duke University, and Francis Newton Jr., Gardner- Webb University
“Knowing and Unknowing: Athelstan and the Battle of Brunanburh”
Helen T. Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University
Daniel M. O’Gorman, Loyola University
45. Cleanness and Pearl
Stevenson 1214
Chair: Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State University
“(Im)Proper Uses of the Artifact in Cleanness and Knowing the Difference”
Denis Ferhatovic, Yale University
“Seeing One's Soul: the Body and Dress in Cleanness”
Kimberly Jack, Auburn University
“The Class Structure of Heaven: An Examination of Pearl's Paradise”
Kathryn Magaña, Northwestern State University
4:00 – 5:30 pm: Sessions 46 – 52
46. More Medieval Monsters
Stevenson 1431
Chair: Lisa Leblanc, Anna Maria College
“An Unholy Trinity: Functional Interpretations of Literary Monsters”
Marcus Hensel, University of Oregon
“Mapping Bodies: Overcoming Distance through the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East”
Michelle Kustarz, Wayne State University
“Becoming Undone: Monstrosity, Leaslicum Wordum, and the Strange Case of the Donestre”
Rosalyn Saunders, University of Glasgow
“Chaucer's Sir Thopas and Knowledge of Humorous Romance Giants”
Debra E. Best, California State University
47. The Troubadours and their Legacy
Stevenson 1214
Chair: Caitlin Pendergrass, University of Mississippi.
Session organized by Daniel E. O’Sullivan, University of Mississippi and Editor, Medieval Perspectives
“Na Maria: The Virgin Mary in Old Occitan Song”
Daniel E. O’Sullivan, University of Mississippi
“Prose and Verse from the Troubadours to Dante”
Jelena Todorovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Sensing Bernart de Ventadorn’s Love Songs”
Ana Carapostol, University of Mississippi
48. Malory’s Knights
Stevenson 1432
Chair: Jennifer Randall, Georgia State University
“Telling the Truth: Malory's Use of Uther's Bed-Trick”
Gary Lim, City University of New York
“Sir Dinadan's Knightly Language”
Rebecca Reynolds, University of Cincinnati
“The (Un)Importance of Noble Blood in Malory's Torre and Pelinor”
Laura Bedwell, Baylor University
49. Pilgrimages and Other Journeys
Stevenson 1210
Chair: Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida
“An ‘Ecolook’ at the Desert in the Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca”
Connie L. Scarborough, Texas Tech University
“Norse and Norman Pilgrimage in the Eleventh Century: Cultural Continuity and Competition”
Aynsley A. Saucier, University of Southern Mississippi
“Stranger in a Strange Land: Getting to Know Henricus de Darbato”
Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University
50. Editing and Translation
Stevenson 1320
Chair: Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University
“Repurposing Romance in Late Medieval England: Cambridge University Library MS Ff.2.38”
Myra Seaman, College of Charleston
“Translation in the Fifteenth Century: Octovien de Saint-Gelais’s Lystoire de Eurialus et Lucresse”
Shira Schwam-Baird, University of North Florida
“Informed Chaos: Textual Sources in Editing Villon from Marot to the Nineteenth Century”
Robert D. Peckham, University of Tennessee-Martin
51. Sexuality in the Middle Ages
Stevenson 1307
Chair: Chad Simpson, University of Michigan
“’Non schal wedden of his ken:’ Knowing and Unknowing in the Problem of Incest”
Karen Summers, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“Fabliau Wives and Classical Rape: Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae and Chaucer's Merchant's Tale”
Nicole Sidhu, East Carolina University
“Death of the Maiden, Triumph of the Law: Britomart and Amoret in Spenser's Labyrinth”
Lori Tubbs, Baylor University
52. Philosophical Knowing
Stevenson 1313
Chair: TBA
“John Buridan on the Doctrine of Aristotle's Categories”
Alexander W. Hall, Clayton State University
“Madness in the Mirror: Self-Knowledge in Thomas Hoccleve's Series”
Elizabeth Harper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6:30 – 8:00 pm: Banquet, Embassy Suites