Beginnings and Endings

Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin

Guillaume de Machaut

Round III
13 October, Friday, 9:00-10:30

 

15. Round-Table Discussion: Teaching the Middle Ages at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Chair and organizer: Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University

Discussants

Elizabeth Dachowski

Donna Crawford, Virginia State University

John D. Hosler, Morgan State University

 

16. Law, Literature, and History

Chair and Respondent: John M. Theilmann, Converse College

Michael P. McGlynn, Wichita State University
“Dispute Settlement in the Finn Episode of Beowulf”

Daniel O’Gorman, Loyola University Chicago
“ ‘Except in Treachery against his Lord’: The Evolution of Legislative and Literary Treatments of Regicide in Later Anglo-Saxon England”

Mary Jane Schenck, University of Tampa
“Ending the Feud, Beginning the Peace: The Tristan Negotiations”

 

17. Medieval Romance: Origin and Genre

Chair: Mary Hayes, University of Mississippi

Audrey DeLong, Suffolk County Community College
“Clarion at Clermont: Pope Urban’s Speech and the Beginning of Romance Chivalry”

Sachi Shimomura, Virginia Commonwealth University
“The Wife of Bath and the Ends of Romance”

 

18. Chaucer III: Troilus and Criseyde 1

Chair: Gregory Heyworth, University of Mississippi

Ashley Combest, University of Tennessee
“In Service of Love: The Non-Returnable Gift in Troilus and Criseyde”

Judith Haas, Rhodes College
“Love, War, and the Demands of History in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”

Andrew Bethune, Albion College
“Sum sine amore: Fortune’s Wheel and Troilus’s Fate”

 

19. Malory’s Morte Darthur: Theme, Manuscript, Edition

Chair: John F. Plummer, Vanderbilt University

Jacob Lewis, University of Arkansas
“Adventures in Postcolonial England: Lancelot, Gender, and the Emergence of English Nationalism”

Dwayne C. Coleman, University of Central Arkansas
“Beginnings and Endings and the Space Between: Malory’s Voice in the Explicits to Le Morte Darthur”

D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
“ ‘Endings and Beginnings’:
The Manuscript and Printing Traditions of Malory’s Morte Darthur”

 

20. History of Anglo-Saxon Scholarship

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

Carl T. Berkhout, University of Arizona
“Laurence Nowell and the Anglo-Saxon Laws of King Ine”

Dabney A. Bankert, James Madison University
“Benjamin Thorpe’s Influence on Joseph Bosworth’s A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language”

John D. Niles, University of Wisconsin
“Lejre and the Skjöldungs: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Myth”

 

21. The Middle Ages on Film

Organizers: Kathleen Kelly, Northeastern University

Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida

Chair: Elizabeth Sklar, Wayne State University

Lauren C. Ermel, University of Florida
“Problematizing of the Visible and Non-Visible in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Pasolini’s Famous Recreation”*

Kathleen Kelly
“Will Rogers’ Pink Spot: A Connecticut Yankee (1931)”

Tison Pugh
“Sean Connery’s Star Persona and the Queer Middle Ages”