Beginnings and Endings
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin
Guillaume de Machaut
Round V
13 October, Friday, 2:00-3:30
30. Teaching “Below the Belt” in the Bible Belt
Organizer: Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Valdosta State University
Sponsor: Société Fableors
Chair and Respondent: Larissa Tracy, Longwood University
Karen Taylor, Morehead State University
“Sexy Mother Mary: Maternal and Sexual Images of the Virgin in the Old Provencal Poem ‘Esperanza, de totz ferms esperans’ ”
Mary E. Leech, University of Cincinnati
“Blood and Sex:
Teaching the Medieval Concept of Gendered Sexual Morality and Transgression”
Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
“Resistance to Reading: Approaching Magic, Graphic Language, and Sex in Texts”
31. Beowulf, the Dragon, and the Scholars
Chair: Fred C. Robinson, Yale University
James F. Doubleday, University of Rio Grande
“The Scop’s Lie and Beowulf’s Death”
Alan K. Brown, Ohio State University
“Stepping up Close to the Dragon's Head”
John Halbrooks, University of South Alabama
“Beowulf’s Restlessness”
32. Defining the Old French Epic
Chair: Judith Rice Rothschild, Appalachian State University
Michael Crafton, University of West Georgia
“From Epic to Romance: The Bayeux Tapestry and Performing Literature”*
Irene Gnarra, Kean University
"Religion and the Idealized Past: From Roland to Enéas"
Colleen Hays, Tennessee Tech University
“The Chanson de Roland: The Redefinition of the French Epic”
33. Death and Its Afterlife
Chair: Cynthia Ho, University of North Carolina-Asheville
Christopher A. Jones, Ohio State University
“Naming Relics in the Early Medieval West”
Amy L. Stahl, Florida State University
“Rendering the Extraordinary Common:
Virgins, Whores, and Martyrdom Across the Centuries”
Jean E. Jost, Bradley University
“Hans Holbein’s The Dance of Death”*
34. Alliterative Traditions: Beginnings and Endings
Chair: Richard Scott Nokes, Troy University
Susan E. Deskis, Northern Illinois University
“The Origins of Some Middle English Alliterative Proverbs”
Ordelle Hill, Eastern Kentucky University
“The Alliterative Revival: A New Beginning, an Ending, or a Lateral Move?”
John T. Sebastian, Loyola University New Orleans
“Apocalyptic Beginnings and Indeterminate Verdicts: Judgment in Wynnere and Wastoure”
35. Chaucer V: Masculine and Feminine
Chair: Robert M. Butler, Alcorn State University
Lee Templeton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
“ ‘Discure Me Youre Woo’: Talking Grief in the Book of the Duchess”
Timothy H. Flake, University of Mississippi
“The Story behind the Story of the Wife of Bath”
Daniel F. Pigg, The University of Tennessee at Martin
“Masculinities on Trial:
Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale and the Dilemma of Representing Male Action”
36. Fictive Truth
Chair: John H. Newell, College of Charleston
John D. Hosler, Morgan State University
“Prince John’s Betrayal: Historical or Literary?”
Helen Marshall, University of Toronto
“Sex and Lies: The Rehabilitation of Falsehood in Troilus and Criseyde”
Misty Urban, Cornell University
“ ‘The whiche history I haue bygonne’:
Claims to Truth in Caxton’s Malory and the English Melusin”
37. A Readers’ Theatre Performance of Mankind
Organizer: Warren Edminster, Murray State University
Readers:
Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute
Gloria Betcher, Iowa State University
Warren Edminster
Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson University
Joseph Ricke, Taylor University
Dana-Linn Whiteside, Roanoke College
Joseph S. Wittig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:00, First Plenary Address
Professor Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study
"The Fourth Crusade"
