Minnesota at Kalamazoo 2013

Thursday

Session 4—War and Schism in the Iberia of the “Calamitous Fourteenth Century”

Presider: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

Session 10—Romancing Islam

“Reading Hybrid Identities across the Medieval Mediterranean in Gui de Nanteuil”

Rachel Gibson, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 42—In Memory of Ulrich Müller I: Fluid Texts and Literary Traditions in Medieval Germany

Organizer: Evelyn Meyer, St. Louis Univ.

Session 73—Castles and Landscapes

“Three Timber Castles: Modeling Landscape Siting with GIS”

Jennifer L. Immich, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 75—Saints and Sensibility II

“Despise, Despair, and Desire: Literary Devices in the Golden Legend and Popular Old French and Occitan Literature”

Lisa ShugertBevevino, Univ. of Minnesota—Morris

Session 76—Musical Traditions: East and West

“Harmonizing Sounds, Smells, and Political Differences: Restoring the Bell-Knife in Medieval China”

Lars Christensen, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 77—New Research in Old High German Literature and Linguistics I

“Allegoriam: Keruni”

Valentine A. Pakis, Univ, of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Session 83—Medieval German Narrative Literature I: Games, Wagers, Pursuits

Organizer: Evelyn Meyer, St. Louis Univ.

Session 92—Linguistic Contact(s) in Medieval Iberia

Presider: Cynthia Kauffeld, Macalester College

“Magical Incantations Found in ‘Aljamiado’ Manuscript Showcase Connections between Romance and Arabic”

Veronica Menaldi, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 94—Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity

Presider: K. Christian McGuire, Augsburg College

Session 108—Medieval German Narrative Literature II: Questions of Origin, Justice, Interest

Organizer: Evelyn Meyer, St. Louis Univ.

Session 119—Teaching Medieval Jews (A Roundtable)

Discussion participant: Michelle Hamilton, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 125—Iron Age Ceremonial Centers and the Foundations of the Middle Ages (The Robert T. Farrell Lecture)

“Flowing through Time: The Ritual Use of Springs in France from the Iron Age to the Medieval Period”

Katherine M. Erdman, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Response: John Soderberg, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 133—New Research in Old High German Literature and Linguistics II

“Alternating versus Varying Argument Structures in Old High German”

Stephen Mark Carey, Univ. of Minnesota—Morris

Session 140—Guthlac

“Friendship in Felix’s Life of Saint Guthlac”

Glenn Davis, St. Cloud State Univ.

Session 143—Beowulf and Old Norse Literature

“The Price of a Cup of Mead: An Exploration of the Bad Hostess in Beowulf and The Saga of the Volsungs

Rebecca Aylesworth, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 146—French Cultural Traditions in Italy: The Era of Andrea daBarberino (A Roundtable)

“Spaces of Cultural Appropriation in the Medieval Veneto: From L’Entréed’Espagneto Niccolòda Verona’s La Prise de Pampelune

Rachel D. Gibson, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 163—The Journal of Medieval Military History Annual Lecture

Commentator: Bernard S. Bachrach, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 165—Productive Anachronism? The Promise and Peril of Historical Analogy in the Study of Medieval Culture (A Roundtable)

“Fruits and Flowers for Pedagogical Thieves”

Alex Mueller, Univ. of Massachusetts—Boston

Session 178—What Was Global in the Middle Ages? (A Roundtable)

Discussion participant: Susan Noakes, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 186—Franciscan Spirituality I: Identity and Principles

Presider: Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv., Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Session 187—Thomas Aquinas I

Organizer: John F. Boyle, Univ, of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Friday

Session 202—In Memory of Ulrich Müller II: Words to the Wise: Wisdom, Mentorship, and Friendship in Medieval German Literature

Organizer and Presenter “Words to the (Un)Wise: Herzeloyde’s Mentorship of Sigune”

Evelyn Meyer

Session 204—Collaborations: The Multi-lingual Classroom, Text Editing, and New Media (A Poster Session)

“Peer Mentoring Groups in a Bilingual Medieval Classroom”

Matthew V. Desing, Univ. of Texas—El Paso

Session 205—Italian Ecclesiastical Art

Presider: Holly R. Silvers, Minnesota State Univ.—Moorhead

Session 214—The Venerable Bede: Intellectual Landscapes II: Vernacular Adaptations and Audiences

“Readers of Bede in Anglo-Saxon England”

Larry J. Swain, Bemidji State Univ.

Session 238—E-publishing and Medieval Studies (A Roundtable Discussion)

Presider: Larry J. Swain, Bemidji State Univ.

Session 240—Thomas Aquinas II

Organizer: John F. Boyle, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Session 259—Dress and Textiles I: Looking North

Presider: M.A. Nordtorp-Madison, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Session 267—In a Word, Philology: Etymology, Lexicography, Semantics, and More in Germanic I

Organizer and Presider: Adam Oberlin, Univ. i Bergen

“Manuscript Comparison and the Characterization of the Giant Ecke in the Middle High German / Early Modern High German Das Eckenlied”

Isaac Schendel, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 295—“Mesteressenpecado”?: Questioning Perfection in the Mester de Clerecía

Organizer and Presider: Matthew V. Desing, Univ. of Texas—El Paso

Session 298—Thomas Aquinas III

Organizer: John F. Boyle, Univ, of St. Thomas, St. Paul

“Aquinas on Debilitation and Virtue in Christ”

Gregory J. Coulter, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Session 315—Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture II: Ruptures in Architecture

“Stained Glass and the Long Path of Italian Medieval Art”

Nancy M. Thompson, St. Olaf College

Session 325—In a Word, Philology: Etymology, Lexicography, Semantics, and More in Germanic II

Organizer and Presider: Adam Oberlin, Univ. i Bergen

“The Roles of Old Norse Nicknames”

Paul Peterson, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 338—Rethinking Reform I: Textual Perspectives

Organizer: William L. North, Carleton College

Session 344—Anglo-Saxon and Old Saxon (and Other) Cross-cultural Connections

Organizer and Presider: Larry J. Swain, Bemidji State Univ.

Session 352—Medieval Iberia in the Mediterranean

Organizer and Presider: Michelle Hamilton, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

“Placeless Mediterranean Spaces: The Island and Ethical Formation in IbnTufail’sHayyIbnYaqdhan”

NicoParmley, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

8:00 p.m. New Books Roundtable

Sponsor: Society for Medieval Germanic Studies (SMGS)

Organizer: Evelyn Meyer, St. Louis University

Saturday

Session 396—Rethinking Reform II: Liturgies of Reform

Organizer: William L. North, Carleton College

Session 419—Rivalrous Masculinities II

“Against All Others? Brotherly Masculinity and Its Rivals in the Late Middle Ages”

Cameron W. Bradley, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 430—Courtly Scandals

Presider: F. Ronald P. Akehurst, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 431—New Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Literature: Celtic, Germanic, Latin I

Organizer and Presenter “The Comparative Moment”

Andrew Scheil, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 434—(Un)true Confessions: Love’s Affairs, Adventures, and Consolations in the Iberian Middle Ages

“The Language of Love’s Adventures and Misadventures in the Milagros de nuestraseñora”

Benjamin Smith, Minnesota State Univ.—Moorhead

Session 447—The BibliothèqueNationale and Beyond: Research Resources in Paris (A Roundtable)

Organizer and Presider: Mary Franklin-Brown, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 464—Rethinking Reform III: Unity or Plurality? Local Reforms and Global Narratives, Eleventh—Twelfth Centuries

Organizer: William L. North, Carleton College

Session 481—Feeling the Pain in Arthurian Literature: Wounds, Sickness, and Emotion

“Malory’s Thighs and Launcelot’s Buttock: Wounds and Moral Transgression in the MorteDarthur”

KatenCherewatuk, St. Olaf College

Session 486—Court Presentations (A Roundtable)

Discussion participants: F. Ronald P. Akehurst, Univ, of Minnesota—Twin Cities; Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 487—New Comparative Approaches to Anglo-Saxon Literature: Celtic, Germanic, Latin II

Organizer and Presider: Andrew Scheil, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 493—Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching Tools: Liturgy, Poem, Handbook

“The Resurrection of Christ in Late Medieval Franciscan Easter Sermons”

Steven J. McMichael, OFM Conv., Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul

Session 500—New Developments in Digital Resources on Medieval Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

Sponsor: Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML)

Presider: Theresa M. Vann, HMML

Organizer and Presenter “The vHMML Project: At the Crossroads of Digital Humanities and Manuscript Studies”

Matthew Z. Heintzelman, HMML

“Finding What You’re Looking For: Hill Museum and Manuscript Library’s Online Search Systems and Finding Aids”

Wayne Torborg, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

Session 509—Violence and Warfare in Late Medieval England

“Murder, Rapists, and Thieves: The Criminal Elements of the Black Prince’s Army, 1355-56”

Mollie Madden, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 515—Blunder (A Roundtable)

“Speculations”

Nancy M. Thompson, St. Olaf College, and Maggie Williams, William Paterson Univ.

Session 518—Celebrating the Work of Jane Chance (A Roundtable)

Discussion participant: Geraldine Heng, Univ. of Texas—Austin/ Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 521—Rethinking Reform IV: Textual Perspectives on Monastic Reform and the Secular Clergy

Organizer: William L. North, Carleton College

Sunday

Session 524—The Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of the Order of the Hospital: Hospitaller Rules and Statues I

Sponsor: Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML)

Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

Session 528—Cognitive Approaches to Medieval Studies I: Cognition and Emotion

Presider: Andrew Scheil, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 534—Late Antiquity II: Barbarians, Communication, and Frontiers

“The Prosopography of Communication in Merovingian Gaul, ca. 560-610”

Bernard S. Bachrach, Univ. of Minnesota—Twin Cities

Session 576—The Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of the Order of the Hospital: Hospitaller Rules and Statutes II

Organizer: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library