Beginnings and Endings
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin
Guillaume de Machaut
Round VIII
14 October, Saturday, 3:45-5:15
54. Teaching Medieval Drama: Beginning to Teach Old Plays in New Ways
Organizer and Chair: Gloria Betcher, Iowa State University
Warren Edminster, Murray State University
“‘Were ye oght wrang led?’ Discrediting Cycle Play Myths”
Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute
“Better Late Than Never: A Conversion Story”*
Fiona Tolhurst, Alfred University
“Why Our Undergraduates Should Perform Medieval English Drama in Middle English”*
Joseph S. Wittig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Final Judgment 1: A Response from the Non-Drama Specialist Perspective"
Gloria Betcher
“The Final Judgment 2: A Response and Reading List from a Drama Scholar’s Perspective”*
55. Church History
Chair and Respondent: Lester L. Field, Jr., University of Mississippi
Nathan D. Howard, University of Tennessee at Martin
“The Classical Heritage of the Cappadocian Epistles in Western Europe, 400-1200”
Emily K. Wilson, Harvard University
“The Case of Abbot Ernisius of St-Victor:
Successes and Failures of Papal Judicial Delegation in Twelfth-century France”
Susan Uselmann, Rhodes College
“The End of Heresy or the Death of the Author?
Models of the Reading Process in Early Fifteenth-Century Devotional Texts”
56. Old Norse
Chair: Thomas D. Hill, Cornell University
Kirsten Wolf, University of Wisconsin
“Reflections on the Colors of the Rainbow in Snorri’s Edda”
Jeffrey Turco, Cornell University/University of Western Ontario
“Male and Female Spheres of Action: Beginning and Ending Gisli’s Saga”
Jeanine Elise Aune, Iowa State University
“The Rhetoric of Silence in the Icelandic Sagas”
57. Reading French and Latin Texts in Codex
Organizer and Chair: Daniel E. O’Sullivan, University of Mississippi
Andrus Ashoo, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, University of Mississippi
“An Editorial History of Joinville’s Histoire de Saint Louis”
Roland Mullins (UM '06), Florida State University
“Medieval Readings of Ancient Roman Authors”
Douglas Ray, Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, University of Mississippi
“Pious Propaganda in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. Lat. 2688”
58. Chaucer VIII: Chaucer and Other Middle English Poets
Chair: Gregory Heyworth, University of Mississippi
Mary H. McNulty, Francis Marion University
“The Parlement of Foules and the English Bird Debate Tradition”
Alice Blackwell, Louisiana State University at Alexandria
“Hats Off to the Ladies:
Millinery and Morality in The Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Eloise Grathwohl, Meredith College
“To What End Pilgrimage? Chaucer, Langland, and the Old French Voies”
59. Exotic Unions
Chair: Lorraine K. Stock, University of Houston
Connie L. Scarborough, University of Cincinnati
“Another look at the Encounter with the Serranas in El libro de buen amor”
Carl Franks, University of Arkansas
“Criseyde As Fairy Lover: Celtic Subtexts in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”
Denise C. White, Kennesaw State University
“Reviving the Knight of the Swan”
60. Premodern to Modern Humanisms: Endings
Organizer: The BABEL Working Group
Chair: Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Co-Respondent: Myra Seaman, College of Charleston
Co-Respondent: Nelljean Rice, Coastal Carolina University
Discussants
Deirdre Joy, National Institutes of Health
(population genetics and malaria research)
Betsy McCormick, Mt. San Antonio College
(medieval literature)
Teresa Reed, Jacksonville State University
(medieval literature and feminist theory)
Michael Harper, Mt. San Antonio College
(20th-century American literature)
Valerie Vogrin, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
(novelist and memoirist)
