Beginnings and Endings

Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin

Guillaume de Machaut

Round IV
13 October, Friday, 10:45-12:15

 

22. Teaching Middle English Literature to Undergraduates: The Language Question
A Panel Discussion with Audience Participation

Organizers: Steve Guthrie, Agnes Scott College

Michael Crafton, University of South Georgia

Chair: Steve Guthrie

Discussants

Mary Behrman, Emory University

Joseph S. Wittig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Susan Hagen, Birmingham Southern College

Michael Crafton

Steve Guthrie

 

23. Body Barter

Chair: Gregory Heyworth, University of Mississippi

Karma deGruy, University of South Alabama
“Symbolic Exchange and Monstrous Appetites in Beowulf”

Dorothy L. Schrader, Oklahoma State University
“Bartering for Birds in Two French Fabliaux”

Jeff Massey, Molloy College
“ ‘Getting It’ in the End: Turning a Profit, a Trick, and a Phrase in The Shipman’s Tale”

 

24. Leveraging the Spiritual

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

Christopher M. Cain, Towson University
“An Early Christian Apocryphal Text in Anglo-Saxon England”

Roy M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee
“Sortes Sanctorum: Liturgies for Casting Lots in the Twelfth Century”

Milton McC. Gatch, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
“Cardinals’ Indulgences: A Little-Known Phenomenon at the End of the Great Age of Indulgences”*

 

25. Tenth-Century Anglo-Saxon History

Chair: Richard Scott Nokes, Troy University

Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University
“Documenting Vernacular Performance in the Anglo-Saxon Parish Guild Banquets”*

William H. Smith, Weatherford College
“The Benedictine Reform and the Beginnings of English Prayer”

Nicole Marafioti, Cornell University
“Memory and Its Obliteration in the Murder of King Edward the Martyr”

 

26. Chivalry: Endings

Chair: Melvin S. Arrington, Jr., University of Mississippi

Catherine Alexander, University of Montevallo
“Unchivalrous Chivalry: Sir Lancelot’s Unholy Quest for the Holy Grail”

Gerald Nachtwey, Eastern Kentucky University
“The Death of Chivalry and the Birth of the War Crime in Froissart and Monstrelet”

 

27. Chaucer IV: Troilus and Criseyde 2

Chair: Dolores W. Frese, University of Notre Dame

Michael Livingston, The Citadel
“The Beginning of the End of Troilus’ Lament”

Catherine Teeling, Southern Methodist University
“Proverbial Chaucer: How sleeping words lie”

Erin Hetzel, University of Tennessee
“ ‘Beth war of men’: Narrative Sympathies in Troilus and Criseyde”

 

28. Symbol and Allegory

Chair: Mary Ramsey, Fordham University

Treasure Ingels-Thompson, University of Montevallo
“The Alpha and Omega: Exploring the Role of Percival’s Sister as the Holy Eucharist in Le Morte Darthur”

Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida, Tampa
“Rereading Le Galien After the Exoneration of Oliver”

 

29. Female Authority I

Chair: Laine E. Doggett, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Samantha Levy, Florida State University
“Christine de Pizan Laughs with Medusa: The City of Ladies as Écriture Féminine”

Tiffany A. Young, Florida State University
“Literary and Cultural Restrictions for Medieval Women Writers: Christine De Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Female Authority”

Erica Maier, University of Georgia
“The Memoirs of Leonor López de Córdoba and the Dawn of Feminine Self-Definition”