Beginnings and Endings

Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin

Guillaume de Machaut

Round II
12 October, Thursday, 2:45-4:15

 

8. Designing Images

Chair: Richard Scott Nokes, Troy University

Helen T. Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University
“The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings”

Lindsey N. Phillips, Florida State University
“Reconstructing Woman’s Place: Feminized Architectural Allegories in Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen”

Elizabeth Sklar, Wayne State University
“ ‘Stuffed with Ymagarye’: Emaré’s Robe and the Construction of Desire”

 

9. Art History II

Chair: Nancy L. Wicker, University of Mississippi

Genevra Kornbluth, Independent Scholar
“Spinning the Self: Spindle Whorls, Sword Beads, and the Construction of Early Medieval Identity”*

Jennifer Stalec, Loyola University Chicago
“The Sharp End Points Down: Knife Deposition and Meaning in Anglo-Saxon Burials”

Robert D. Stevick, University of Washington
“The Beginnings of Perfect Coherence of Form in Insular Arts”*

 

10. Old English to Middle English

Chair: Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., University of Tennessee

M. Leigh Harrison, Cornell University
“Nationalism, Mysticism, and ‘the Continuity of English Prose’: The History of an Illusion”

Sharon M. Rowley, Christopher Newport University
“Medieval Use-signs in the Manuscripts of the Old English Version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica”

 

11. Peter of Eboli

Organizer and Chair: Florence Eliza Glaze, Coastal Carolina University

Florence Eliza Glaze
“Imperial Politics and Medicine: Peter of Eboli’s Use and Abuse of Medical Theory”*

Jean D'Amato Thomas, Northwestern State University
“New Beginnings: The Dedication Miniature of Peter of Eboli’s De balneis Terre Laboris”*

Gwenyth E. Hood, Marshall University
“Pietro da Eboli’s Theme of Reconciliation in his Liber ad honorem Augusti”*

 

12. Music: Voice and Power

Chair: Warren Steel, University of Mississippi

Patricia P. Norwood, University of Mary Washington
“Women’s Voices in the Thirteenth-Century Motet”

Laura Bedwell, Baylor University
“Music and Speech in Sir Orfeo”

Holly Johnson, Mississippi State University
“God’s Music-Making: The Cross-Harp Metaphor in Late-Medieval Preaching”

 

13. Chaucer II: The Canterbury Tales 2

Chair: John F. Plummer, Vanderbilt University

John H. Brinegar, Virginia Commonwealth University
“ ‘My soule bitake I unto Sathanas’: Heretical Ends in the Miller’s Tale”

Dolores W. Frese, University of Notre Dame
“New Beginnings: The Mark of Vernacular Theory and Praxis in Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale”

Liam O. Purdon, Doane College
“Language, Translation, and Ambiguity in the Squire’s Tale”

 

14. Fourteenth-Century English Mystics

Chair: Mary F. Thurlkill, University of Mississippi

David Barbee, University of Pennsylvania
“ ‘And at the end, all shall be charity’: Deification in 14th century English Mysticism”

Rick McDonald, Utah Valley State College
“Identifying with the Divine: Defining Self through Union with God”