Vagantes 2004
THURSDAY, MARCH 11
2.00 - 4:00 pm: Tours of Cornell University Library Old Norse and Dante Collections
3.35 - 4.20 pm: Tour of Cornell University Laboratory of Dendrochronology ( B-48 Goldwin Smith Hall)
4:30-6:00 pm: University Lecture, Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Chair: Paul R. Hyams, Department of History, Cornell University
Richard Landes
Director of the Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University
When Adam Delved and Eve Span: Demotic Christianity and the Economic Expansion of Europe, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
University Lecture sponsored by the Department of Government and the
Medieval Studies Programme
6:00-7:00 pm: Reception for Richard Landes, English Department lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall
7:30-9:30 pm: Welcome reception, Stella’s Bar and Restaurant, 403 College Avenue
FRIDAY, MARCH 12
8:00-8:45 am: Registration and Breakfast, Barnes Hall Auditorium
8:45-9:00 am: Welcome - John T. Sebastian, Cornell University
9:00-10:00 am: Featured Speaker Session I
Chair: Johanna Kramer, Cornell University
Danuta Shanzer, Cornell University/University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
Idolothyta, Oaths, Demons, and Consequences in Late Antiquity
10:00-10:15 am: Break
10:15-11:45 am: Session I: Finding a Place
Chair: Jeff Turco, Cornell University
Amelia Borrego, University of California
Berkeley Morality and Monstrosity on the Hereford Mappa Mundi
Leigh Harrison, Cornell University
La3amon’s Disowned Lake: Problematic Marvels in a Medieval Literary ‘History’
Tuija Ainonen, University of Toronto
Navigating Text, Searching for Answers
11:45 am-1:15 pm: Lunch (off-campus)
1:15-2:45 pm: Session II: Re-reading the Spirits
Chair: Cassandra Campbell, Cornell University
Jessica Barr, Brown University
Mother, Lover, Virgin, Wife: Images of the Soul in Meister
Eckhart and Gertrude of Helfta
Libby Maxey, Cornell University
If the Story Does Not Lie: Going Beyond Allegory in the Ovide
Moralisé
Grace Chan, University of Illinois
Petrarch’s Lunacy: Dante, Aristotelianism, and the Canzoniere
2:45-3:00 pm: Break
3:00-4:30 pm: Session III: Sanctioning Social Order
Chair: Misty Urban, Cornell University
Kim Zarins, Cornell University
When Good Pets Go Bad: Gower, Beast Literature, and the 1381
Rebellion
Pascale Rihouet, Brown University
Rituals and Images: The Unifying Power of the Banner of
San Bernardino
Margaret Garnett, University of Notre Dame
How Not to Kill an Archbishop: Contemporary Depictions of the Murder of St. Thomas Becket
4:45-6:30 pm: Manuscript Tour and Reception - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Kroch Library
SATURDAY, MARCH 13
8:30-9:00 am: Breakfast, Barnes Hall Auditorium
9:00-10:30 am: Session IV: Playing Politics
Chair: R. H. Henry, Cornell University
Leigh Coleman, University of Southern Mississippi
Peace Interrupted: The Implications of Sacrilegious Murder in Twelfth-Century Flanders
Laura Cochrane, University of Delaware
Good and Bad Kings in the Utrecht Psalter
Jonathan Newman, University of Toronto
Bernard of Clairvaux and the Troubadour Marcabru: Crusade
Rhetoric in the Vulgar Tongue
10:30-10:45 am: Break
10:45 am-12:15 pm: Session V: Shifty Borders
Chair: Ionuţ Epurescu-Pascovici, Cornell University
Morgan Swan, Yale University
What is a City? Confusion over Community in Piers Plowman
Patricia Turning, University of California, Davis
‘Moriantur Scholares’: Town and Gown Rows and Displays of Power in Fourteenth Century Toulouse Disputes
Paul Milliman, Cornell University
Disputing Identity, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in a Medieval Borderland: Poland, Brandenburg, and the Ordensstaat in the Drang nach Danzig, 1308-9
12:15-2:00 pm: Lunch, International Lounge, Willard Straight Hall
2:00-3:30 pm: Session VI: Britannia insula est?: Translation and Synthesis
Chair: Nicole Marafioti, Cornell University
Richard Hewitt, University of Oxford
Bede’s Cædmon and Symeon’s Bede: Two Case Studies in Latin
Translations from Old English
Kari Maaren, University of Toronto
Essentially Between: The Figure of the Hybrid Hero in the Middle English Prose Merlin
Paul Blyskal, University of Chicago
Old English ‘ellen’ and the Meaning of ‘courage’ in Beowulf
3:45-4:45 pm: Tour of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art - to be confirmed
5:00-6:00 pm: Featured Speaker Session II, Guerlac Room, A. D. White House
Chair: Miranda Wilcox, University of Notre Dame
Maura Nolan, University of Notre Dame
Public Culture, Classicism, and Historicism: The Triumph of Rome
6:00-7:00 pm: Reception, A. D. White House
8:00
pm: Banquet
SUNDAY, MARCH 14
9:00-9:30 am: Breakfast, Barnes Hall Auditorium
9:30-11:00 am: Session VII: Receiving Transmission / Transmitting Reception
Chair: Lauren Schwartzman, Cornell University
Donald Uitvlugt, University of Notre Dame
The Reception of Isidore of Seville’s In Vetus Testamentum
Saadia Eisenberg, University of Michigan
The Hebrew Report on the Trial of the Talmud: Timebound
Information, Timeless Confirmation
Bret Mulligan, Brown University
Elucidating Claudian in Alain de Lille’s Anticlaudianus
11:00-11:15 am: Break
11:15 am-12:45 pm: Session VIII: Retrieving the Fragments
Chair: Christopher Bailey, Cornell University
Alexander Kyrychenko, Abilene Christian University
Medieval Slavic Acts of the Apostles: Computer-Assisted Collation and Preliminary Conclusions
Gur Zak, University of Toronto
Petrarch and the Crisis of Autobiography
Cynthia Turner Camp, Cornell University
Bodily Hermeneutics: The Interpretation of the Incorrupt Saint in Bede and Gregory of Tours
12:45-1:00 pm: Closing Remarks - Curtis Jirsa, Cornell University and
Miranda Wilcox, University of Notre Dame
After 1:00 pm: Tours of Ithaca area wineries - to be confirmed