Medieval Narratives

Friday February 20, 2015, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

REGISTRATION, Busch Student Center (BSC) 251AB

Friday February 20, 2015, 9:00 – 10:30 am

COFFEE SERVICE, BSC 251AB

Friday February 20, 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am

The Theological Significance of Retelling
Location: BSC 253A
Chair: Jay Hammond, Saint Louis University

Revising Histories: Hugh of St Victor's Pedagogical Critique and Re-telling Biblical Narratives
Robert Porwoll, Divinity School, University of Chicago

Systematic Theology Organized by Narrative: Hugh of Saint-Victor's and Bonaventure's Use of Redemptive History as Organizing Schema
Donna Hawk-Reinhard, The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

Retelling Saints' Stories: Adam of Saint Victor's Sequences as Pedagogical Tool
Juliet Mousseau, RSCJ, Aquinas Institute of Theology

Moral Failure?
Location: BSC 253B
Chair: Colleen McCluskey, Saint Louis University

Bathsheba's Bath and the Seven Deadly Sins: A New Interpretation of a Visual Narrative Strategy in Late Medieval Books of Hours
Mónica Ann Walker, University of Louisville

'Always Read the Label and Take as Prescribed': What Happens When the Moral Is Missing from a Late Medieval Fictional Narrative?
Chantelle Saville, University of Auckland

A Story About Song: Narrative Ethics Versus Lyric Isolation in Charles d'Orléans
Gabriel Haley, Concordia University, Nebraska

Epic Poems
Location: BSC 253C
Chair: Julio Hernando, Indiana University South Bend

Changing Authorial Voices in Raoul de Cambrai
Benjamin Obernolte, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Political Gestes: Raoul de Cambrai and the Pernicious King
Genevieve Young, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Memories, Dreams and Fictions: The Unreliable Narratives Behind the Production of an Epic Hero
Marcelo Fuentes, University of Minnesota

Tolkien's Translation of Beowulf
Organizer: Paul Acker, Saint Louis University
Location: BSC 254
Chair: Anthony Cirilla, Saint Louis University

Tolkien and Klaeber: How Not to Have a Conversation about Beowulf
R.D. Fulk, Indiana University

"Tolkien and the Translation as Alien Poetry-Scape
Robert Hasenfratz, University of Connecticut

Fantasy and the Archaic: On Comparing Morris's and Tolkien's Beowulf
Amanda Giebfried, Saint Louis University

Sellic Spell, Folktales and Northern Totemic Beasts
Paul Acker, Saint Louis University

Friday February 20, 2015, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

LUNCH (on your own)

Friday February 20, 2015, 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Chaucer: Rewriting and Reinterpreting
Location: BSC 253A
Chair: Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University

Strength, Sufficiency, and Steadfastness: Chaucer's Asseveration 'Trewe as Stel'
James E. Hicks, Independent scholar

Longing for Eden: The Sincerity of 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'
David Pedersen, Fordham University

Chaucer's Griselda as an Aristotelian Ideal of Sovereignty
Richard Houser, Georgia Southern University

Constructing Saints' Lives
Location: BSC 253B
Chair: James Ginther, Saint Louis University

The Substitute Subject: A Hagiographic Trope of Late Antique and Byzantine Biography
Peter Schadler, College of Charleston

Narrative Scope in the Old English Riming Poem
Douglas Simms, SIUE

Narrative Conduits of Communication: Alcuin's Expectation of Conversion in his Vita Sancti Martini
Lisa-Marie Duffield, Independent Scholar, Saint Louis University

Narration through Text and Image
Location: BSC 253C
Chair: Cathleen A. Fleck, Saint Louis University

The Story and the Swan: Narrative as Image in Harley 647
Joyce King, Saint Louis University

To Prompt or Not to Prompt Parzival?— The Grail Community's Dilemma in Word and Image
Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University

Should She Stay or Should She Go?: Retelling the Visitation in Medieval Texts and Art
Meghan Nestel, Arizona State University

Establishing Authoritative Accounts
Location: BSC 254
Chair: Damian Smith, Saint Louis University

'I return it to the faithful': Alfonso VI's Narrative of the Conquest of Toledo (1085)
Patrick Harris, Western Michigan University

The Narrative of Spanish Crusading as Seen through Preaching
Richard Allington, Saint Louis University

Legal Sources of Hospitaller Narratives (13th-15th century)
Theresa Vann, College of Saint Benedict

Friday February 20, 2015, 2:30 – 3:30 pm

COFFEE SERVICE, BSC 251AB

Friday February 20, 2015, 3:00 - 4:30 pm

Geopolitics, Status, and Identity
Location: BSC 253A
Chair: Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University

Biopolitics of Imperial Security. The Story of the City of Cherson in De Administrando Imperio
Alex Papadopoulos, DePaul University

Between Gender and Social Standing: The Seals of Women in Thirteenth-Century London
John McEwan, Saint Louis University

Sexuality, Identity (and Geopolitics?) in Medieval Italy
Simone Bregni, Saint Louis University

Miracles and Sin in Marian Narratives
Location: BSC 253B
Chair: Juliet Mousseau, RSCJ, Aquinas Institute of Theology

Confessions of Faith: Narrating Sin in Marian Miracles and Dante's Commedia
Elizabeth Weber, University of Illinois at Chicago

Medieval Maternity: Deconstructing Rites and Roles through Narratives
Susan Cowart, Wright College

The House that Flew: Political Function and Lived Reality of the Miraculous in the Late-Medieval March of Ancona
Bianca Lopez, Washington University in St. Louis

Unusual Saints' Lives
Location: BSC 253C
Chair: Lisa-Marie Duffield, Saint Louis University

Si mortiferum quid biberint, non eis nocebit: Trial by Poison in Hagiography
Jennifer Timmons, University of Chicago

Blood of the Princess: Gender and Storytelling in the Limbourg Brothers' Saint Catherine Cycle
Allison Raper, University of Edinburgh

Haggling over Brice: The Tawdry yet Saintly Legacy of St. Martin's Protégé
Michael Wehrman, Frostburg State University

Shaping Stories of Conquest, Victory and Defeat
Location: BSC 254
Chair: Thomas Madden, Saint Louis University

Personae Miserabiles: Tropes and Agendas in Western Biographies of the Prophet of Islam
Jordan Amspacher, University of Notre Dame

Miracles and Marvels: Evoking the First Crusade in Latin Crusade Narratives, 1147 – c. 1220
Beth Spacey, University of Birmingham

Narrating the Fifth Crusade: Bible, Liturgy, Sermons
Jessalynn Bird, Dominican University

Friday February 20, 2015, 5:00 - 6:30 pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall
Chair: Cathleen A. Fleck, Saint Louis University
Welcome by Michael Barber, SJ, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Saint Louis University

Tents of Silk and Trees of Light: Ibn al-Khatib's Narration Of a Mawlid Celebration in the Alhambra
Cynthia Robinson, Cornell University

Friday February 20, 2015, 6:30 pm

RECEPTION
Location: Sinquefield Stateroom, DuBourg Hall (fifth floor)
Welcome by Thomas Madden, Director for the Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University

Toast in Honor of Mark Johnson, Outgoing Executive Director of IMA

Saturday February 21, 2015, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

REGISTRATION, BSC 251AB

Saturday February 21, 2015, 8:00 – 9:00 am

Coffee Service & Continental Breakfast , BSC 251AB

Saturday February 21, 2015, 9:00 - 10:30 am

Narratives of Pain and Impairment
Location: BSC 253A
Chair: Robert Sims, Saint Louis University

Mystics, Saints, and Souls in Purgatory: Redemptive Suffering and Women's Power in the Middle Ages
Seth Alexander, Loyola University Chicago

Sister Death's Sacramental Embrace: Theological Narration of Sickness and Dying in Bonaventure's Legenda Maior
Benjamin Winter, Saint Louis University

Caxton's Prologues and Epilogues: Narratives as Prosthesis
Will Rogers, Case Western Reserve University

Fiction & Historical Context in Spanish Literature
Location: BSC 253B
Chair: Ana M. Montero, Saint Louis University

Signs of the Times: The 'Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor' and 13th-century Iberia
Megan Havard, Augustana College

Metafiction in Carcel de Amor
Amy Borja, University of Dallas

The Narrative Within or Beneath: History, Theory, Story in 15th-century Spain
Linde M. Brocato, University of Memphis

Technique in Early Germanic Narrative Texts
Location: BSC 253C
Organizer: Britt Mize, Texas A&M University
Chair: Paul Acker, Saint Louis University

The Poetics of Mentality: Parallels between Old English and Old Saxon Verse Narration
Britt Mize, Texas A&M University

Formulaic Language in the Monstrous Landscapes in Beowulf and Blickling Homily XVII
Kathy Torabi, Texas A&M University

Disrupted Narrative in Anonymous Old English Prose Hagiography
Johanna Kramer, University of Missouri, Columbia

Rereading Books
Location: BSC253D
Chair: Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University

A Brothel of Blaspheming Jews: Gallia and the Revolt against King Wamba
Brandon Taylor Craft, University of Missouri, Columbia

Narrative Silences
Jordan Zweck, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Repetition in Epic Poems and Other Versified Compositions
Location: BSC 254
Chair: Julio Hernando, Indiana University South Bend

Beowulf's Poetics of Absorption: Narrative Syntax and the Illusion of Stability in the Fight with Grendel's Mother
Evelyn Reynolds, Indiana University

Revealing through Repeating: The Emergence of Pure Narrative in La Chanson de Roland
Trask Roberts, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

'Wistasces, qui molt sot de gile': The Use of Formulaic Expressions in The Romance of Eustace the Monk
Cristina Azuela, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Saturday February 21, 2015, 10:30 – 11:30 am

Coffee Service, BSC 251AB

Saturday February 21, 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 am

Innovation in Theological Themes
Location: BSC 253A
Chair: Donna Hawk-Reinhard, The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

In Northumbria was the Word: Christology in Bede's Homilies
Kent Pettit, Saint Louis University

'Our stories and your stories' in Thomas Bradwardine´s 'De causa Dei'
Edit Lukacs, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung

Confirmation Bias and Medieval Narratives of Proof
Lianna Farber, University of Minnesota

Narratives of Spirituality in Medieval Castile
Location: BSC 253B
Organizer: Isidro J. Rivera, University of Kansas
Chair: Linde M. Brocato, University of Memphis

Inscribing Saintly Memories: Reading, Writing and Memory in the Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla and the Vida de Santo Domingo de Silos
Christina Ivers, University of Kansas

Hermeneutic Intervention: Influencing Affective Devotional Practices at the Source in Fray Hernando de Talavera's De las ceremonias
Michael O'Brien, Washburn University

The Carta de Léntulo and the Narrative of the Passion in La passion del eterno principe (Burgos 1493)
Isidro J. Rivera, University of Kansas

The Making of Boethian Narratives
Location: BSC 253C
Organizer: Anthony Cirilla, Saint Louis University
Chair: Seth Strickland, Saint Louis University

Narrating Boethius's Backstory: The Wound and Its Cure
Amy Freeman, University of Dallas

Aetas Boethiana: Ethopoetic Imagination and Twelfth Century Personifications
Anthony Cirilla, Saint Louis University

In Sickness and In Health: The Boethian Narrative of the Two Geralds of Brecon
Sarah Sprouse, Texas Tech University

Questioning Traditional Narratives Concerning the Early Middle Ages
Location: BSC 254
Organizer & Chair: Valerie L. Garver, Northern Illinois University

Leniency Towards the Enslaved in the Lombard Laws
Christopher Paolella, University of Missouri, Columbia

Pseudo-Alcuin's Theological Reinterpretation of the Apocalypse: The Role of Predestination and Free Will
Michael Lovell, Northern Illinois University

The Community and Relics of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre
Alexa LaRocco, Northern Illinois University

Saturday February 21, 2015, 12:30 - 2:00 pm

IMA Business Meeting (Executive Council): Saint Louis Room, BSC (Third Floor)

LUNCH, Saint Louis Room, BSC (Third Floor)

Saturday February 21, 2015, 2:00 - 3:30 pm

Narratives of Late Medieval Violence
Location: BSC 253A
Chair: Thomas Rowland, Saint Louis University

Weapons and Armor in the Occitan Blandin de Cornoalha
Wendy Pfeffer, University of Louisville

Feuding, Truth, and Half- Truths in a Fourteenth-Century Courtroom
Joseph Figliulo-Rosswurm, University of California, Santa Barbara

Fideli narratione: Jean Gerson's Deploratio super civitatem and the Narrativity of Lament
Matthew Vanderpoel, The University of Chicago Divinity School

Reconstructing the Past in the Middle Ages
Location: BSC 253B
Chair: Lois L. Huneycutt, University of Missouri-Columbia

The Rebel Óðinn
Eric Scott, University of Missouri, Columbia

Memories of the Norman Conquest, c. 1077-1225
Joe Genens, University of Missouri, Columbia

Assembling a National Narrative: Englishness and Nation in the Work of Robert Mannyng of Brunne
Chris Anderson, Western Washington University

Conflict and Identity in Religious Orders
Location: BSC 253C
Chair: Steven A. Schoenig, S. J., Saint Louis University

Monachi and Conversi in the Cistercian Visionary Narratives of the XIIIth Century: The Concepts of Differentiation
Elena Kuzmenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University

The Cartulary as Textual and Physical Narrative: Crisis at the Abbey of Prémontré
Heather Wacha, University of Iowa

'Dissonantia historiarum': Telling the Story of the Diocletianic Persecution and its Aftermath in the Speculum historiale
Miles Blizard, Indiana University

Arthurian Narratives: Time, Place, and Characters
Location: BSC 254
Chair: Evelyn Meyer, Saint Louis University

The Motif of the Double: A Pathway to Shifts and Changes of Time and Place in the Narrative of Perceval ou le Conte du Graal
Sara Rychtarik, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Retelling: The Power of Stealing Characters
Mickey Sweeney, Dominican University

‘In syngne of my surfet’: The Girdle in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a Symbol of Mercy
Seth Strickland, Saint Louis University

Saturday February 21, 2015, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Location: Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall (Third floor)
Chair: Damian Smith, Saint Louis University
Welcome by Donna LaVoie, Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Saint Louis University

Narratives of Authority and Authorization: The Cases of Bernard of Clairvaux and Hildegard of Bingen
  John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame