Beginnings and Endings
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin
Guillaume de Machaut
Round VII
14 October, Saturday, 2:00-3:30
46. Anglo-Saxons on the Mind
Chair: Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University
Britt Mize, Texas A&M University
“Beowulf and the Treasure House of the Mind”
James H. Morey, Emory University
“The Fourth Fate of Men: The Darkened Mind”
Leslie Lockett, Ohio State University
“Anglo-Saxon Folk Psychology in The Rhyming Poem and The Ruin”
47. Royal Rule: Defining and Establishing Kingship
Chair and Respondent: John H. Newell, College of Charleston
Phyllis G. Jestice, University of Southern Mississippi
“Theophanu and the Slavs: Creating Non-Military Kingship in the Tenth Century”
James J. Todesca, Armstrong Atlantic State University
“Queen Urraca (1109-26) and the Preservation of Leon-Castile”
Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, University of Connecticut
“ ‘From One End to the Other’: The Via Regia and the Advancement of Anglo-Norman Hybridity”
48. Legendary Women
Chair: Robert M. Butler, Alcorn State University
Wilkie Collins, Wayne State University
“ ‘The Master-Mistress’:
Complicating Figurations of Power and Desire in the Old English Judith”
Carolyn Cruce, Florida State University
“The Loathly Hag: From Kingmaker to Spellbreaker”
Amber Holmes, University of Montevallo
“Morgana/Morgan Le Fay: Her Archetypal Significance as a Post-Feminist Heroine”
49. The Chrétien Tradition
Chair: Judith Rice Rothschild, Appalachian State University
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College
“Beginning and Ending Chrétien’s Conte du graal”
Amy L. Ingram, James Madison University
“Character Construction in Le Chevalier du papegau”
50. Pagans, Christians, Jews
Chair: Mary Ramsey, Fordham University
Jay Ruud, University of Central Arkansas
“Trajan: A Stranger in Paradise”
Joan Baker, Florida International University
“Does the End Justify the Means? Jews and Charity in Piers Plowman”
Roger Dahood, University of Arizona
“ ‘Free and open at eyther ende’ and the Englishness of the Prioress’s Tale”
51. Chaucer VII: Beyond Sex—Obscenity and Subversion in Chaucer’s Work
Organizer: Larissa Tracy, Longwood University
Sponsor: Société Fableors
Chair: Jean Jost, Bradley University
Larissa Tracy
“A ‘queynte’ Phrase:
Sexual Euphemism, Satire, and Subversion in The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale”
Mary Leech, University of Cincinnati
“To Ers is Human:
The Fabliaux Influence on Sexual Humiliation and Homosocial Fear in The Miller’s Tale”
52. Female Authority II
Chair: Laine E. Doggett, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Rabia Gregory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Obedient Cats and Other Not-quite Miracles
in the Fifteenth-Century Convent Chronicles of the Modern Devotion”
Amy M. R. Hall, Florida State University
“Bake the Bread and Kiss the Host: Identity Through Gender Roles and Sexuality”
Emily Rendek, Florida State University
“Traces of Mary: Asserting Authority in Women’s Medieval and Early Modern Writing”
53. Ballads and Ballad Tradition II
Organizer: Thomas D. Hill, Cornell University
Chair: Susan E. Deskis, Northern Illinois University
Joseph Harris, Harvard University
“As I Lay Dying, the Ballad”
Thomas D. Hill
“Feminist Theology and the Traditional Anglo-Scots Ballad: The Case of ‘Thomas Rhymer’ ”
Richard Firth Green, Ohio State University
“Sir Gawain in America”
