34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum Plymouth State University

“Travel, Contact, Exchange”Friday and Saturday, April 19-20, 2013

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013

Registration opens at 8:15 a.m. and will be available throughout the conference.Rounds Hall First Floor

Opening Ceremonies: Convene in front of Rounds HallProcession begins at 9 a.m. from Rounds Hall to the Hartman Union Building (HUB) Fireplace Lounge Bagpipe accompaniment by Eleanor Mardin

Reading from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Ruby Lonergan, Campton Elementary School Welcome poem by Ivy Page, Forum Assistant Director Opening Remarks, Jini Rae Sparkman, Interim Forum Director, Plymouth State University Welcome from Sara Jayne Steen, President of Plymouth State University Join us in the first verse of Gaudeamus Igitur, with the Plymouth State University Chamber

Singers

Friday Session 1: 9:30-10:50

Enacting Power: Practical Tools of Government in Medieval EuropeModerator: Jonathan Couser, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 203

The Many Dimensions of the name Mora, the flagship of William the Conqueror, Elisabeth P.Waugaman, Washington Center for Psychoanalysis

Couriers and Government Communication in Late Medieval Valencia, Adam Franklin-Lyons,Marlboro College

Contact and Exchange: Gómez Manrique and the Catholic Monarchs, Carl Atlee, Independent Scholar

Controlling the Terms of Exchange: Cultural Contacts, Political Strife, and the Shaping Role of the Duchesses of Burgundy Isabel of Portugal and Margaret of York, Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY

Undergraduate Panel: Perspectives on MaloryModerator: Peter Schwartz, Elmira CollegeRounds Hall 107

Malory's Arthur: Fortune's Fool, Penny Landon, Elmira College

Malory's Launcelot and the Conflict Between Chivalry and Courtly Love, Elizabeth Forrest, Elmira College

Malory's Camelot:  A Noble but Failed Ideal, Kelsey Donnelly, Elmira College

Arthur's Chivalric Code:  Arthur's Gospel, Danielle Raymond, Elmira College

Malory's Launcelot:  A Life of Bad Choices, Cletus Jacobs, Elmira College

The Power of the Written Word: Names, Words, and Books in Medieval EuropeModerator: Geneviève Pigeon, University of Québec, MontrealRounds Hall 204

"After mi name Albion": Speech and Conquest in The Tale of Albin, Kristi J Castleberry, University of Rochester

Letter Exchange and Culture Shock in Alexander and Dindimus, Kara L. McShane, University of Rochester

Bessarion’s Gift to Venice: A Plea on Behalf of Byzantium, Maureen McGuire, Independent Scholar

Reflecting on Nature in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeModerator: Donald Hochstetler, Menno Simons Research InstituteRounds Hall 303

The Practicality of the Herbal in Conrad of Megenberg’s Buch der Natur, Madeline Ross, University of Oklahoma

Nature and Knowledge in Paradise Lost and An Apology for Raymond Sebond, Amanda Barnett, Seton Hall University

“The relish of a pine-apple”: Early Modern Botanical Collecting and the Quest for Exotica, Christine E. Griffiths, Bard Graduate Center

Friday Session 2: 11:05-12:25

New Approaches to Chaucer Moderator:   Thomas J. Napierkowski, University of ColoradoRounds Hall 204                                                                               

Comedy of Delight and Comedy of Scorn: a Chaucerian Crisis Poignancy, Philip F. O’Mara,Independent Scholar

Walking with an Astrolabe: Measuring Time on Chaucer’s Pilgrimage, Josephine Bloomfield, Ohio University

“A berd! A berd!”: Gender Roles in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale, Jessica Tefft, Eastern Connecticut State University

On Being Christian in Medieval EuropeModerator: Donald Hochstetler, Menno Simons Research InstituteRounds Hall 203

Frankenpagan the Assimilation of Christianity into The Saga of the People of Laxardal, Rachael Warmington, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Hildegard von Bingen & Concentric Contemplation, Michael C. Gardiner, University of Pittsburgh

Dante’s Religious and Theological Pilgrimage through the Three Realms of the After-life, Claire-Marie Hart, North Shore Community College

Foreign Spaces and Spiritual JourneysModerator: Rachel Tanski, Seton Hall UniversityRounds Hall 303

Josephus, the Bellum Judaicum, and the Holy Landscape at the time of the First Crusade, Christopher Freeman, University of Wisconsin, Stout

Bogomils or Vita Apostolica?  Travel as a Stimulant to Heresy in the Eleventh Century, Nathan Morse, Community College of Vermont

Close Encounters: When Christians Marry Pagans in Medieval Literature, Angela Jane Weisl, Seton Hall University

Looking East: Early Cultural ExchangesModerator: A. Joan Bowers, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 322

Echoes of Byzantium: Artistic Exchange between Ireland and the Mediterranean in the 5th to 8th Centuries as Evidenced in the Christ Enthroned page of the Book of Kells, Laura McCloskey Wolfe, George Mason University

Islamic Mirror for Princes: Greco-Persian Political Wisdom and the Rise of Islamic Political Thought, Najm al-Din Yousefi, California State University, Chico

Distance, Myth, and Marvel: Perceptions of Otherness in the Old English Wonders of the East, Suzanne Wimberly, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Chainmaille WorkshopRounds Hall 107

Medieval Society Student OrganizationMaterials Supplied

LUNCH 12:45-1:45

Prospect Hall(Tickets Required)

1:30-2:30 Human Chess MatchHartman Union Building/Alumni Green

Medieval Society Student Organization

Friday Session 3: 2:25-3:45

Medieval German LiteratureModerator: Donald Hochstetler, Menno Simons Research InstituteRounds Hall 107

“Hagene, der vil ungetriuwen Man"? Conflicting Definitions of Loyalty and the Figure of Hagen in the Nibelungenlied, Katherine DeVane Brown, UMASS-Amherst

The Interrupted Text: Sources for Vernacular Modes of Narration in German, Robert G. Sullivan, UMASS-Amherst

A Knight in Shining Armor? Parzival’s Exchanges of Weapons, Horses, and Armor, Geraldine Poppke Suter, James Madison University/University of Virginia

Understanding Literary Form: Inspiration and RhetoricModerator: John Achorn, New England CollegeRounds Hall 203

Dialogue in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Thomas J. Napierkowski, University of Colorado –Colorado Springs

“On the Same”: Colasterion and Tetrachordon as Twin Texts, Madeline Lesser, Dartmouth College

Undergraduate Panel: Boethius and ChaucerModerator: Josephine Bloomfield, Ohio UniversityRounds Hall 204

Bound by Time: Boethius and the Limits of Temporal Transcendence, Taylor Reinhart, Ohio University

Emeraude: Medieval Gem Lore and the Curious Contradictions of Chaucer’s Prioress, Bethany Lopreste, Ohio University

Dialogues with the Devil: Hidden Moral Agents in The Canterbury Tales, William Lavelle, OhioUniversity

Religion and Subversion in the British IslesModerator: Roberta Staples, Sacred Heart UniversityRounds Hall 303

The Subversive Power of St. David's: Gerald of Wales and the Dominion of Canterbury, Sarah Sprouse, George Mason University

Restored by Sin: Sir Gawain’s Initiation into Sin and its Revitalization of Camelot, Benjamin Bradley, Catholic University of America

Masculine Anxiety and Supernatural Women in the Alliterative Tradition: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Awntyrs off Arthur, Jason D. Lubinski, University of Oklahoma

Encountering the Other and Re-inventing OneselfModerator: Ruth M.E. Oldman, Indiana University of PennsylvaniaRounds Hall 304

William of Rubruck’s Contact with Christians in the Mongol Empire, Elizabeth Williamsen, Kent State University at Stark

A Heretic, he made himself Catholic and [...] left his homeland": Virtual Pilgrimage and the Symbolic Trajectories of Early Modern Convert Diaspora Artists, Ruth S. Noyes, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

“Atheism” and the Exploration of Medieval European Travelers, Margaret Kim, National Tsing Hua University

KEYNOTE ADDRESSFriday April 19th 4 p.m.

Hartman Union BuildingHage Room

 "The Anecdotal Way to Santiago de Compostela"

Dr. David L. Simon, Colby College | Ellerton and Edith Jetté Professor of Art  

PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION5:30-6:30 p.m.Center Lodge

The Bradford Room

DINNER 6:45 p.m.

Prospect Hall(Tickets Required)

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL7:45 p.m.

Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013

Saturday Session 4: 9:00-10:20

Self and Society in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeModerator: Jonathan Couser, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 204

Wulfstan and the Three Orders in Anglo-Saxon England, Nicholas Schwartz, University of New Mexico

Unstable Identities in La española inglesa, Emily Colbert Cairns, Salve Regina University

Holding Identity Captive: Reorienting Race, Gender and Religion in Antonio de Sosa, Christina I. McCoy, The University of Texas at Austin

ShakespeareModerator: Ivy Page, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 107

“‘Let her come in’”: An Examination of Ophelia’s Euphemistic “Going Out,” Janine Quimby, Drew University

Twelfth Night and the Return of Magna Mater, John Achorn, New England College

Family Matters: Parents and Children in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Roberta Lynne Staples, Sacred Heart University

Re-Imagining Oneself and OthersModerator: Whitney Howarth, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 203

Saints' Lives: The Power of the Deceased in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England, Kiley Malone,University of Sydney

More’s Utopia in Colonial New England, Kaitlin Tonti, Seton Hall University

Lady Gaga: A Modern-Day Mélusine, Joseph C. Stewart V, Seton Hall University

Saturday Session 5: 10:35-11:55

Twelfth-Century French Literature Moderator: Katharine Harrington, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 107

Masquerades of Liberation: Female Agency in Marie de France’s Yonec, Jessica Auz, Seton Hall University

The Mapping of Narrative Authority and Textual Truth: The Writer and Reader as Cartographer in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Philip Schochet, Seton Hall University

The Narrative Voice in Le Pèlerinage de Renart, Brian R. Campbell, Independent Scholar

Malory and the Holy GrailModerator: Forrest Helvie, Norwalk Community CollegeRounds Hall 322

The Demotion of Perceval: Asking the Question, Jim Slocombe, Champlain College/Bishop’s University

Percivale's Demotion:  Second to Galahad, Peter Schwartz, Elmira College

Last Call: Forsaking Camelot for the Sangreal, Gary Lapointe

Travel and the Other in Medieval and Early Modern LiteratureModerator: Ann McClellan, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 304

Transformative Sea Travel Mystic Barges and Chivalric Cargo in Medieval Tales, Paul Dingman, University of Rochester/Alfred University

Palomides, the Medieval Ripley, Meriem Pagès, Keene State College

The Early Spanish Contact with China: The Embassy of Philip II to Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, Carmen Hsu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

History as a Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeModerator: Marsi Wisniewski, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 203

When Two Worlds Collide : Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Account of Brutus’ Conquest of Britain, Geneviève Pigeon, Université du Québec à Montréal

For the Increase of Divine Praise: Comparing Structure and Kingship in William of Chartres and Geoffrey of Beaulieu’s Lives of Louis IX, Dianne LaBerge, University of Vermont

“Nor am I not where…”: Thomas Wyatt’s Broken Homes, Carl G. Martin, Norwich University

Travel in Early Medieval EuropeModerator: Charles Pierce, Tidewater Community CollegeRounds Hall 204

“The journey away of my lord afflicted me greatly here”: Trauma of Travel in Old English Elegies, Ruth M.E. Oldman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“There’s No Place Like Home:” Carolingian Laments about Travel, June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University

Power and Prerogatives: Royal and Religious Travel in Late Saxon Wessex Jennifer MacDonald, Acadia University

LUNCH12:00-1:00

Prospect Hall(Tickets Required)

Saturday Session 6: 1:30-2:50

Roundtable on Senior and Capstone Projects in Medieval Studies Moderator: Adam Franklin-Lyons, Marlboro College Rounds Hall 203

Adam Franklin-Lyons - Marlboro College Henry White - Marlboro College Alexandra Ciampoli - Marlboro College Angela Weisl - Seton Hall University Elizabeth Centanni, Seton Hall University

Milton on Gender and Women Moderator: A. Robin Bowers, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 204

“Sufficient to have stood”? God’s Fruitless Warning, Lucretia Witte, Dartmouth College

Angel Sex: How Milton Separates Gender from Genitalia, Laura Bryn Sisson, Dartmouth College

The Female Pastoral Guide ‘Sallies Out and Sees Her Adversary’: Lady as Guide in Training in Milton’s A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, Comus, Sharon R. Yang, Worcester State University

Of Small Things Not Quite Forgotten: Re-Examining Practical Objects Moderator: Karolyn Kinane, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 303

The Cloisters’ Pack of Playing Cards: Between a Utopian Representation of the World and a Symbol of Power, Paulina Pardo, SUNY-Stony Brook University

‘From every shires ende’: Deviations of Intent in Medieval Pilgrim Badges and their Wearers, Tanya Anderson Hooper, University of North Texas

A Global Heaven: The Celestial Iconography of “Veneto-Saracenic” Spherical Incense Burners, Lora Webb, Tufts University

Undergraduate Panel: Medieval Sources and Modern TextsModerator: Meriem Pagès, Keene State CollegeRounds Hall 303

Merlin and Gandalf, Megan Briggs, Keene State College

The Hero and the King: Aragorn as Depicted by Tolkien and Jackson, Lisa Gaidosz, Keene State College

Robin Hood and the Outlaw Hero, Sean St Germain, Keene State College

Chainmaille WorkshopRounds Hall 107

Medieval Society Student OrganizationMaterials Supplied

Saturday Session 7: 3:00-4:20

Journeys and Trials in Dante and ChaucerModerator: Claire-Marie Hart, North Shore Community CollegeRounds Hall 107

‘Tis But a Flesh Wound: Observations of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in The Canterbury Tales, Morgan Rose, Eastern Connecticut State University

Dante’s Purgatory: Still a Meaningful Crucible of Lust and Natural Desire, Dena Arguelles, Seton Hall University

“I am a feend; my dwellyng is in helle”: The Mythological Influences of Chaucer’s devil in The Friar’s Tale and the Reeve’s portrait, Aurora Schurman, Eastern Connecticut State University

Sex and Gender in Medieval Religious Women’s WritingsModerator: June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University Rounds Hall 203

“Confusyd in hirself and hir owyn unstabylnes:” Plurality, Bricolage, and Infinite Regress in The Book of Margery Kempe, Meredith Clermont-Ferrand, Eastern Connecticut State University

Visions and Re-Visions: Margery Kempe as Regina Coeli, Cathryn McCarthy Donahue, College of Mount Saint Vincent

In a Nutshell:  The Physical, Emotional, and Female Sanctity in the Later Middle Ages, Hillary O’Brien, Keene State College

Changing Spiritual Identities in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeModerator: Kathy Tardif, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 204

The Changing Role of the Martyr in Medieval Judaism, Mith Barnes, Bellarmine University

Dutch Death Trip: Anabaptist Pilgrimages to the Earthly New Jerusalem 1530-1535, Donald Hochstetler, Independent Scholar

Sins of the Body and Sins of the Flesh in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s The Conversion of the Harlot Thais (or Pafnutius), Rachel Tanski, Seton Hall University

Being Medieval: Visual Representations of the Middle Ages TodayModerator: Suzanne Wimberly, University of Massachusetts, DartmouthRounds Hall 303

When the Present Makes Contact with the Past: Comic Adaptations and Translations of Medieval and Early Modern Sources, Forrest C. Helvie, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Placing a Poker in a Bowl: The Gender Battle Underneath Arthur’s Claim for His Sword, Elizabeth Centanni, Seton Hall University

(continued)(Time) Travel to the Middle Ages, Carl James Grindley, The City University of New York

Educating the Young: Pedagogy Then and NowModerator: Karolyn Kinane, Plymouth State UniversityRounds Hall 304

Does Education Destroy the English Gentleman? The Effect of Travel on Ascham’s The Schoolmaster, Sean Richmond, Eastern Connecticut State University

Walter Pater’s Renaissance, Paulette E. Barton, University of Maine

Spring Break in England: A Model for an Embedded, Faculty-Led Travel Course, Rebecca Powell Lartigue, Springfield College

MEDIEVAL FEASTHeritage Hall

Doors Open 5 p.m.Tickets Required

5:30-8:30 p.m. Cash bar

6 p.m. Hand-washing CeremonyFeasting, singing, and bawdy entertainment by:

The Corr Thieves

www.corrthieves.com

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013

Prince John’s Medieval Festival11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Hartman Union Building/Alumni Green

Featuring demonstrations and displays by the local branch of the SCA, The Guild of Saint Moritz, and Daniel Greenwolf, magician and entertainer.

Free and open to the public.Hosted by the Medieval Society Student Organization

Save the Date!

"Artists, Authors, Audiences"

Friday and Saturday April 25-26, 2014Plymouth State University’s

35th Medieval and Renaissance Forum

Keynote Address: Dr. Rebecca Krug, University of Minnesota