Beginnings and Endings
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin
Guillaume de Machaut
Round VI
14 October, Saturday, 9:00-10:30
38. Chaucer VI: Breakfast with Chaucer, A Reading Out Loud Workshop
Organizer and Chair: Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson University
Please contact Professor Farrell for information on material to be read: tjfarrel@stetson.edu.
39. The Art of Early English Prose
Chair: John Halbrooks, University of South Alabama
Mary Eva Blockley, University of Texas
“Finding the Middle Ground in Old English Prose”
Zoey Shalita-Keinan, Independent Scholar
“The Art of Biblical Narrative in the Old English Hexateuch”
Josephine A. Koster, Winthrop University
“ ‘I recomaunde me vnto you’:
Transactional and Phatic Rhetoric in Late Middle English Letters”*
40. Old English Religious Verse
Chair: Joseph S. Wittig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Howell Chickering, Amherst College
“Dramatic Irony in the Old English Judith”
Trish Ward, College of Charleston
“The Incarnational Moment in Christ I”
Patrick J. Murphy, University of Wisconsin
“Dust stonc to heofonum: The Ending of Exeter Book Riddle 29”
41. Beginnings and Endings: Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Marian J. Hollinger, Fairmont State University
Chair and Respondent: Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern University
Frans van Liere, Calvin College
“The Jews at the End of Time:
Reflections on the Place of Jews in Twelfth-century Eschatology”
Marian J. Hollinger
“In the Beginning Was Their End: The Jews in England, 1066-1290”
Kristine T. Utterback, University of Wyoming
“Beginning of the End:
Declining Toleration of Jews in Fourteenth-Century Aragon”
42. Where Does Hagiography End and Romance Begin?
Bodies and Souls in Oxford Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 108
Organizers: Julie Nelson Couch, Texas Tech University
Kimberly K. Bell, Sam Houston State University
Chair: Kimberly K. Bell
Justin Brent, Presbyterian College
“Negotiating Common Ground: The Debate of Soul and Body in Laud Misc. 108”
Kimberly K. Bell
“Fictional Boundaries, Liminal Spaces in Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc. 108”
43. Marie de France
Chair: Judith Rice Rothschild, Appalachian State University
Meghan L. Burke, Florida State University
“Strength in Numbers: The Saving Power of Female Community in the Lais of Marie de France”
Erin Moore, Florida State University
“When the Husband Discovers the Affair: The End of Adultery in Marie de France’s Lais”
Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston
“Primitivism in Bisclavret: Recuperating the Wolf in Marie de France’s Wolf-Man”*
44. Ballads and Ballad Traditions I
Chair: Mary Hayes, University of Mississippi
Sarah Harlan-Haughey, Cornell University
“Dating ‘The Wife Of Usher’s Well’: A Calendrical Clue”
Philip Krummrich, Morehead State University
“An Alternative Reading of ‘Edward, Edward’ ”
Sherron Lux, San Jacinto College
“Maid Marian in the Mist”
45. Modern Revisions of Medieval Myths
Chair: Joan Wylie Hall, University of Mississippi
Amy Bertram, University of Tennessee
“A Return to Eternal Return (1943):
Rereading Cocteau’s Modernized Version of the Tristan and Iseut Myth”
Meredith Hubbard, University of Montevallo
“From Innocence to Ruin:
The Disenchantment of Sir Pelleas in Malory and Tennyson”
Elizabeth L. Rambo, Campbell University
“Arthurian Endings: Morte Darthur or Not, and Why”
11:00, Second Plenary Address
Professor Roberta Frank, Yale University
"The Hip Factor in Anglo-Scandinavian England"
