Chair

Diane Reilly, Co-Chair of the Medieval Academy of America 2021 Annual Meeting Program Committee and Professor and Chair of Art History, Indiana University--Bloomington

MAA Welcome

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, President of the Medieval Academy of America and Distinguished Professor Emerita of French & Italian, University of Pittsburgh

University Welcome

Michael McRobbie, 18th president of Indiana University

Plenary: The Landscape of al-Andalus: Trees, Metaphors, and Materiality

D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor of Landscape Architecture, The Illinois School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2A: Race and Translation

We regret to inform MAA attendees that this session has been cancelled

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair

Afrodesia McCannon, New York University and Chair of the MAA Inclusivity and Diversity Committee

Race, Cosmopolitan, Vernacular, and Translation

Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University

Translating the “Ethiopian” in Medieval European Art

Pamela Patton, Princeton University

“Païen unt tort, e chrestien unt dreit”: Translating Difference in the Chanson de Roland, Fierabras, and El Cantar de mio Cid

Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown University

Translation, Language Politics, and Imperial Ambitions in Medieval Arthuriana

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico

2B: The Manuscripts of Jean Gerson: A Collaboration between French and American Researchers

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair

Daniel Hobbins, University of Notre Dame

Jean the Celestine and the Contemporary Lists of Gerson's Works

Daniel Hobbins, University of Notre Dame

Towards a new edition of Jean Gerson's French works: a preliminary assessment

Isabelle Fabre, University of Paris-Nanterre

Gerson's Ecclesiological Works: Reception and Audience

Bénédicte Sère, University of Paris-Nanterre

2C: Bishops, Bodies and Inscriptions in Early Byzantium

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Daniel Caner, Indiana University Bloomington

Integral Imaginaries: Spirituality, Liminality, and the Abject Body in Byzantium

Leyla Pavao Chisamore, Queen's University

Selective Erasure: Reconciling Inscriptions and Imagery at mid-sixth century S. Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna

Hallie Meredith, Washington State University

Justin II and the African Bishops Exiled by Justinian

Benjamin Wheaton, Independent Scholar

2D: Biography: The Challenges and Possibilities of Writing Medieval Lives

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London

Searching for Ermengarde: Writing a “Biography” of a Medieval Countess

Amy Livingstone, Ball State University

The Quest for El Cid: Biography between History and Fiction

Lucy Pick, Independent Scholar

Spiritual Biography’s Quarrel with Time

Paul Strohm, Columbia University

The Life and the Poet: Writing a Biography of Chaucer

Marion Turner, University of Oxford

2E: Lyric Translations: Proverb, Pastoral, and Psalm

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair

Shannon Gayk, Indiana University Bloomington

Reviving the Eclogue in 14th century France: Jean Gerson’s Pastorium Carmen

Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago

“When men tell me things, I listen”: Citing Proverbs in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Melibee (1386-90) and Leila Chatti’s “Awrah” (2020)

Wendy Matlock, Kansas State University

The Uses of Poetry: Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval Translation

Joanna Murdoch, Duke University

2F: The Materialities and Corporealities of French and Occitan Lyric

Session Track: Objects and Material Culture

Chair

Jennifer Saltzstein, University of Oklahoma

Sound(ing) Bodies: The Material and the Artificial in Troubadour Song

Anne Levitsky, Dixie State University

A great tumult in my heart: Music and the Body in Old French Song

Joseph Mason, University College Dublin

The Wounds, the Spitting, the Thorns: Materialities of the Female Body & Mary's Lament in Planctus ante nescia

Rachel Golden, University of Tennessee

2G: Underneath: Investigating the Unseen in Medieval Texts, Maps, and Objects

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Sarah Luginbill, University of Colorado Boulder

The Tournai Maps and their Maker

Lauralee Brott, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Flipping the Font: Turning Early Medieval Baptismal Sculpture Upside Down

Carolyn Twomey, St. Lawrence University

Less Precious, Less Important? The Ornament on the Underside of Early Medieval Objects

Kristin Böse, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut

3A: Crossing Religious Boundaries in the Medieval World: Categorization, Translation, Figuration, Mysticism

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair

Mairaj Syed, University of California, Davis

Uncovering the Palace of Shaddad ibn ‘Ad: Historical Contexts on an Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Tale about Solomon

David Calabro, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

Peter the Venerable on Islam as “Mixed Heresy”

Breanna Nickel, University of Notre Dame

The Sensorial Experience in the Mystic Poetry of Saint John of the Cross and Ibn al-'Arabí of Murcia: Semitic Poetry and European Neoplatonic Philosophy

Roxanna Colon-Cosme, UCLA

Troping Texts and Changing Sex: Figuring of Desire in Hadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ and Le Roman de Silence

Denise O'Malley, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University

3B: The Late Medieval Codex: Margins, Contents, and Contexts

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair

Maureen C Miller, University of California, Berkeley

“In these pages you should examine well and diligently the points which you will see I made throughout”: Spiritual Direction in the Margins of Fifteenth-Century Italian Manuscripts

Austin Powell, University of California, Davis

“A Gift that Conquers”: The Fourteenth-Century Greek Manuscript Moscow State Historical Museum Synodal Gr 429

Olga Yunak, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

An Investigation of a Printer's Block (Manchester, John Rylands Library, 17252): The Earliest Extant Woodblock Printing Apparatus or an Eighteenth-Century Creation

Emerson Storm Fillman Richards, John Rylands Library, Manchester

3C: Entombing the Precious: Value and the Invaluable in Medieval Burials

Session Track: Objects and Material Culture

Chair

Nick Vogt, Indiana University Bloomington

Laywomen and the Burial of Infants in the Italian Middle Ages

Nancy Wicker, University of Mississippi

Glittering Garnets from the East: 21st Century Science Sheds New Light on the First Merovingian Age

Bailey K Young, Eastern Illinois University

3D: Literary Relationships: Devotion, Anachronism, and Objectification in Old English and Middle English Texts

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair

Emily Thornbury, Yale University

Blended Voices: The Ambiguous Lament of Advent Lyric VII

Jennifer Lorden, College of William and Mary

Exchangeable Women: Trojan Ekphrasis in Floris and Blancheflour

Lydia Kertz, SUNY Geneseo

Marriage and Institutional Time in Chaucer’s Merchant’s and Manciple’s Tales

Lynn Shutters, Colorado State University

3E: Royalty and Sanctity in the High Middle Ages: Interactions of the Political and Sacred

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London

Edward and the Eleanors – Royal Piety and the Expulsion of the Jews from England (1290)

E.M. Rose, Harvard University

The Cross, The Capetians, and Paris

Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College

Sacrum imperium: The Sanctity of the State and the Emperor in the Twelfth-Century Holy Roman Empire

Vedran Sulovsky, University Cambridge

3F: Charles d'Orléans, Plural

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair

Marisa Galvez, Stanford University

Erotic Self-Replication and Mise-en-abyme on Charles d’Orléans’s Pages

Holly Barbaccia, Georgetown College (paper withdrawn)

Charles d’Orléans’s Auto-Allegoresis

R. D. Perry, University of Denver

Old Eyes and Senescent Verse: Charles d’Orléans Goes Grey

Lucas Wood, Texas Tech University

Refashioning Charles d’Orléans’s “I”: The Case of Antonio d’Astesano’s Grenoble Manuscript

Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette University

Plural Languages: The Use of Proverbs in Charles d'Orléans and François Villon—A New Hypothesis

Mathias Sieffert, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III

3G: Representing Nature in the North Atlantic

Session Track: Humans and the Natural Environment

Chair

Joey McMullen, Indiana University Bloomington

Orchards of Abundance: Representing Paradise in Henry VI's Triumphal Entry into London

Danielle Allor, Rutgers University

Land, Animals, and the Persistence of the Other's Discourse in Gerald of Wales's The History and Topography of Ireland

Joshua Foley, University of Iowa PhD student

The Mountain and the Fiery Bower: Nature in the Shield-maiden Sagas

Maj-Britt Frenze, Independent Scholar

Borderland Environments and Lancastrian Sympathies in the Popular Romances of Northeastern England

Andrew Richmond, Southern Connecticut State University

Sponsored by the MAA Graduate Student Committee and IU's Medieval Studies Institute Graduate Student Advisory Committee

Sponsored by the MAA Inclusivity & Diversity and Graduate Student Committees

4A: Who Were the Tatars? Constructing an Identity in the Global Middle Ages

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair

Sierra Lomuto, Macalester College

Dressing the Part: Constructing Tatar/Mongol Identity at the Yuan Court

Eiren Shea, Grinnell College

Mongol Mamluks – Friend or Foe

Josephine van den Bent, University of Amsterdam

Recognizing Tatars, Recognizing Chebechzi: Tatar Identity in the Memoirs of Giosafat Barbaro

Hannah Barker, Arizona State University

Comments

Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz

4B: The Arts in/of Manuscripts

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair

Nahyan Fancy, DePauw University

Music in Motion: John of Affligem’s Treatise De musica

Barbara Haggh-huglo, University of Maryland, College Park (paper withdrawn)

The Worcester Compilations: The Origins and Purpose of Wulfstan’s “Commonplace Book”

Tristan Major, Qatar University

“The Art of Anatomy in Medical Manuscript Illumination, c.1250-1350”

Taylor McCall, Medieval Academy of America

A Fourteenth-Century Food Network: Social Reinforcement in the Recipes of Le Ménagier de Paris

Katie L Peebles, Marymount University

4C: Creation and Procreation: Early Medieval Kinship and the Meanings of Family

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center

From Constantine to the Quinotaur: The Rise of Blood Kinship

Conrad Leyser, Oxford University

The Generation and Regeneration of Medieval Kinship

Hans Hummer, Wayne State University

The Puzzle of Paternal Authority over Kin, Household, and Community, ca. 800-1000

Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky

4D: Women and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair

Morten Oxenboell, Indiana University Bloomington

Wives at Men’s Parties: Female Bodies and Expressions of Closeness

Debby Chih-Yen Huang, University of Pennsylvania

Countess and Queen: Teresa Fernández de Traba and the Sinews of Power in the 12th century Iberia

Miriam Shadis, Ohio University

The Footprints of Female Friendship in Early Medieval English Wills

Nicole Songstad, University of Missouri

4E: ROUNDTABLE: Medieval Collections and Their Display in the 21st Century: Toward an Inclusive Approach

Session Track: Objects and Material Culture

Roundtable Participants

Marietta Cambareri, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Meredith Fluke, College of the Holy Cross

Shirin Fozi, University of Pittsburgh

Risham Majeed, Ithaca College

Griffith Mann, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christine Sciacca, The Walters Art Museum

4F: Mathematics and Species in Roger Bacon's Natural Philosophy

Session sponsored by the Roger Bacon Research Society
Session Track: Natural Philosophy and its Applications

Chair

Meagan Allen, Indiana University Bloomington/Science History Institute

Where will the drop make the vase overflow? Roger Bacon vs. John Peckham on the liquid capacity.

Francesca Galli, Università della Svizzera Italiana

Speculum rubiginosum: the soul as geometrical and material mirror

José Higuera Rubio, Instituto de Filosofia, Faculdade de Letras-Universidade do Porto

Is vision the paradigmatic sense? Roger Bacon's doubts on the analogy between sight and hearing

Yael Kedar, Tel-Hai College

4G: ROUNDTABLE: Graduate Medievalists and the Institutions We Work In: Community and Activism

Session sponsored by the MAA Graduate Student Committee

Chair

Lauren Van Nest, University of Virginia

Roundtable Participants

Abby Ang, Indiana University Bloomington

Christine Bachman, University of Delaware

Henry Gruber, Harvard University

Marian Homans-Turnbull, UC Berkeley

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico

Alexa Sand, Utah State University

Lauren Van Nest, University of Virginia

Welcome

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, President of the Medieval Academy of America

Executive Director's Report

Lisa Fagin Davis

Speculum Editor's Report

Katherine L. Jansen

Treasurer's Report

Aden Kumler

CARA Chair's report

Anne Lester

CARA Prize Ceremony

CARA Teaching Awards: Christina Carlson (Iona College) & Geraldine Heng (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

Kindrick-CARA Award for Service to Medieval Studies: Axel Muller (International Medieval Congress, Univ. of Leeds)

Graduate Student Committee report

Christine Bachman

ASLC Delegate's report

Patrick Geary

6A: Discerning identities in women's religious narratives

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair

Jennifer Lee, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Repairing Temptation in the Book of Margery Kempe

Anna Kelner, Harvard University

Gender, Class, and Confessional Identity at Commemorative Sites in Medieval Egypt

Tara Stephan, Hampden-Sydney College

Reading Christian Identity in the Prophecies of Christina the Astonishing

Briana Wipf, University of Pittsburgh

6B: Textual Criticism and Book History, East and West

Session Track: Manuscripts and Book History

Chair

Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana University Bloomington

Connections, Commentary, and Creativity in the Decorative Frontispiece of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Lat. 12190

Christine Bachman, University of Delaware

Ambrose Autpert and the Neglected Bologna Witness of the Pseudo-Isidorian Liber de numeris

Darcy Ireland, Independent Scholar

Ghost Hunting on the Silk Roads: Finding Bindings via MicroCT

J. D. Sargan, University of Toronto

The Secret Life of Eastern Christian Manuscripts. The Case of the Syriac Book of Secrets

Nicolò Sassi, Indiana University Bloomington

6C: Lay Piety and the Late Carolingians

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Lynda Coon, University of Arkansas

Lay Piety and Noble Counsel in Dhuoda’s Liber Manualis (841–43 CE)

Dana M. Polanichka, Wheaton College, MA

Children as Means of Encouraging Adult Lay Piety in the Late Carolingian World

Valerie Garver, Northern Illinois University

Franks, Northmen, and Noble Identity in late Carolingian Francia

Eric Goldberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6D: Women and Truth-Telling

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Fiona Griffiths, Stanford University

Telling the Truth About Illicit Pregnancy in Medieval France

Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center

Problems of 'True' Autobiography in The Book of Margery Kempe

Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London

Silent and Speaking Bodies: The Challenge of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages

Leah DeVun, Rutgers University

6E: The Poetics of Medieval Anachronism

Session Track: Appropriation of the Middle Ages

Chair

Bissera Pentcheva, Stanford University

Literary History and Anachronism: Poetic Engagements and the Production of Creative Life Forms

Marisa Galvez, Stanford University

Anachronism and Exemplarity

Rachel Smith, Villanova University

Anachronism and the Poetics of Monastic Experience

Kris Trujillo, University of Chicago

Comments

Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley

6F: Communities of Cult: Saints, Monasteries, and Crusades

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair

Leah Shopkow, Indiana University Bloomington

Saint George as Devotional Network

Heather Badamo, University of California, Santa Barbara

Studenica Monastery and St. Demetrios Church in Vladimir – Distant Twins?

Ozlem Eren, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Monastic Technologies of Authority: Cistercian Diplomatic Praxis, Crusade, and the Colonization of the Midi

Leland Grigoli, Brown University

6G: Franciscan Alchemy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Session sponsored by the Roger Bacon Research Society
Session Track: Natural Philosophy and its Applications

Chair

Jennifer Rampling, Princeton University

Paul of Taranto, Experiment, and Scholastic Natural Philosophy

William Newman, Indiana University Bloomington

John of Rupescissa's Liber lucis: Alchemical Practices in Both Laboratory and Text

Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University

Roger Bacon as author of the Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae

Meagan Allen, Indiana University Bloomington/Science History Institute

6H: The Spread of Jewish and Muslim Literatures: The Mediterranean and Beyond

Session Track: Moments of Intercultural Interaction

Chair

Ryan Giles, Indiana University Bloomington

The Heresiarch

Casey K Brown, University of New Mexico

Appropriating the medieval Iberian romancero in postcolonial and diasporic contexts

Rebecca De Souza, University of Oxford

Alexander the Great: A Medieval Hebrew Hero of Ashkenaz

Caroline Gruenbaum, Yale University

Chair

Thomas Dale, First Vice President of the Medieval Academy of America and Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presentation of Publication Prizes

Haskins Medal: Robert G. Ousterhout, Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019). Presented by Ruth Evans.

Karen Gould Prize in Art History: Margaret Graves, Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018). Presented by Lezlie Knox.

Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize: Virtual Angkor (https://www.virtualangkor.com) (Principal Investigators: Adam Clulow and Tom Chandler). Presented by Thomas Dale.

John Nicholas Brown Prize: David Shyovitz, A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). Presented by Gail Gibson.

INAUGURAL Article Prize in Critical Race Studies: Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh, “The Depoliticized Saracen and Muslim Erasure” in Literature Compass, Special Issue: Critical Race and the Middle Ages, September-October 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12548). Presented by Nahir Otaño-Gracia.

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize: Esther Liberman Cuenca, “Town clerks and the authorship of custumals in medieval England,” Urban History 46:2 (2019): 180-201; and Noah Blan, “Charlemagne’s peaches: a case of early medieval European ecological adaptation,” Early Medieval Europe 27:4 (2019): 521-545. Presented by Thomas Dale.

Plenary: Medieval Holy Women and Politics: Wars, Schisms, and Crusades

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, President of the Medieval Academy of America and Distinguished Professor Emerita of French & Italian, University of Pittsburgh

8A: Monstrous Forms and Porous Bodies in Language and Legend

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair

Patty Ingham, Indiana University Bloomington

Contesting the Human in the Middle English Melusine Romances

Bonnie Erwin, Wilmington College

Balancing Beauty, Blackness, and Monstrosity: The Phenomenon of the Queen of Sheba in Twelfth-Century Europe

Jacqueline Lombard, University of Pittsburgh

The Monstrous Script: Instances of Pseudo-Hebrew in Fifteenth-Century German Prints

Reed O'Mara, Case Western Reserve University

8B: ROUNDTABLE: What was medieval monarchy?

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair

Simon Doubleday, Hofstra University

Material Culture and the Families of Frankish Monarchs

Valerie Garver, Northern Illinois University

The Salian Dynasty and Corporate Monarchy in the Late Eleventh Century

Alexandra Locking, University of Chicago

Rulership or Monarchy? Conceptions of Rule in the Arc of Medieval Europe

Christian Raffensperger, Wittenberg University

Theory in Practice: Gender, State Formation, and the role of the “monarch” in Medieval Portugal

Miriam Shadis, Ohio University

Comments

Lucy Pick, Independent Scholar

8C: Prosecution, Justice, and Peace: Law in Medieval Society

Session Track: Connections and Networks in Medieval Social Life

Chair

Amy Livingstone, Ball State University

Royal Law as an Element in Building a Network of Peace

Dillon Knackstedt, Nolan Catholic High School

The Nuclear Family, Urban Life, and Changing Patterns of Prosecution in Late Medieval Flanders

Mireille Pardon, Berea College

Gender, Justice, and Community in the Early Middle Ages: Women's Legal Networks in Pre-Norman England

Andrew Rabin, University of Louisville

8D: Migrants and Migration in the Middle Ages

Session Track: Migration, Immigration, and Exile

Chair

Andrea Achi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Migration and Conversion in Medieval England’s Literary Imaginary

Sierra Lomuto, Macalester College

Andrea of Perugia: A Franciscan In Zayton

Nancy Wu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Cloisters

Exile, Hospitality, and Redemption in 16th-Century Iran and India

Ali Anooshahr, University of California, Davis

8E: Form and Genre as Lenses on Artistic Discourse in Medieval Asia and Europe

Session Track: Form and Genre

Chair

Rosemarie McGerr, Indiana University Bloomington

Líf, Láf, Lof: Destabilizing the Heroic Memory in Beowulf

Sara Burdorff, UCLA

The Troubadours as Author-Composers

Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana University Bloomington

Scholastic Influence upon European Art Music during the Late Medieval Era

Kevin N. Moll, East Carolina University

Dismantling Lǔ Xùn's Zhìguài--Chuánqí Binary

Josiah Stork, University of Wisconsin-Madison

8F: Finite and Infinite Games in Medieval Texts

Session Track: Playfulness

Chair

Arwen Taylor, Arkansas Tech University

Playful Polarities of Perfected Community in Dante’s Paradiso

Curtis Gruenler, Hope College

Mystical Play: The Cloud of Unknowing and Its Affiliated Texts

Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Gordon College

Alchemy as Infinite Game in BL Harley MS 2407

Corey Sparks, CSU, Chico

8G: Culture and Power in Late Medieval Italy

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Akash Kumar, Indiana University Bloomington

50 shades of ‘color’: The ‘musica colorata’ of Giovanni da Firenze’s dream songs

Mikhail Lopatin, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

Communal sergeants and social networks in late medieval Italy

Eric Nemarich, Harvard University

Cautions and Complaints: Medicine and Power in Late Medieval Bologna

Kira Robison, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

8H: ROUNDTABLE: Bridging the Gap - Lesson Plans and OERs for K-12 Teachers

Session sponsored by the MAA K-12 Committee

Chair

Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University

Roundtable Participants

Elizabeth Burbridge, Woodward Academy

Jessalynn Bird, Saint Mary's College

Christine Hitchcock, Indiana University High School

Thomas Lecaque, Grand View University

9A: Figuring Race

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair

Karma Lochrie, Indiana University Bloomington

Towards a Reoriented Global North Atlantic: Race and Captivity in the Stories of Geirmundr Heljarskinn.

Jacob Bell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Circulating Race in Medieval Europe: Global Peregrinations of the Sīrat Antar

Zainab Cheema, American University (paper withdrawn)

The Curse of Ham, the trope of the Magical Black man, and Medieval theories of Causation

Julie Loveland Swanstrom, Augustana University

9B: ROUNDTABLE: Teaching the Appropriation of the Middle Ages

Session Track: Appropriation of the Middle Ages

Chair

Kisha Tracy, Fitchburg State University

Roundtable Participants

Daniel Melleno, University of Denver

Kisha Tracy, Fitchburg State University

Wendy Vencel, Independent Scholar; High School Substitute Teacher

9C: Law and Sovereignty: Textual and Visual Representations

Session Track: General Session

Chair

John B Freed, Illinois State University

Law and Sovereignty in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Imperial Panegyrics

Sviatoslav Dmitriev, Ball State University

Pass the Duchy: 13th-century Petitions, Communication Network analysis, and the Struggle for Gascony

James B Harr III, North Carolina State University (paper withdrawn)

Emperors and the Law in Carolingian Italy: The Illustrations of Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, CLXV

Celia Chazelle, The College of New Jersey

9D: Gender and Power in Late Medieval Iberia: Occult Practices, Manifest Authority

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Edward Holt, Grambling State University

Return of the Queen: Juana, Castilian Queenship, and the County of Ponthieu

Edward Holt, Grambling State University

Scaling Sun Rays and Hermetic Polarity: Impact of Occult Arabic Treatises on the Sulfuric Lake Scene in the Iberian Libro del caballero Zifar

Veronica Menaldi, University of Mississippi

A Prophet Among the Princes: “Reconquest,” Intertextuality, and Royal Masculinity in Late Medieval Castilian Genealogies

David Cantor-Echols, University of Chicago

9E: Migration Myths

Session Track: Migration, Immigration, and Exile

Chair

Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico

Wounds Before Milk: Gender and Steppe Ethnography in Post-Carolingian Europe

Christopher Halsted, University of Virginia

From Alexander the Great to Genghis Khan: Moving Mountains and Virtuous Pagans in Medieval Migration Myths

Patrick Naeve, Cornell University

Gens innoxia: Scotti, Picti, and Settler-Colonial Structure in Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Emily Thornbury, Yale University

9F: Texts Intoned: East and West

Session Track: Moments of Intercultural Interaction

Chair

Dana Marsh, Indiana University Bloomington

"Degenerate and Illegitimate" or "Sweetest and Finest"? On the Aesthetics of Modulation in Eastern and Western Chant

Charles Atkinson, Ohio State University / Universität Würzburg

Beneventan Nuns and the Prosulas for the Proper of the Mass. 

Luisa Nardini, The University of Texas, Austin

9G: Dante, Then and Now

Session Track: General Sessions

Chair

Barbara Vance, Indiana University Bloomington

The Canonization of Piccarda Donati

Laura Ingallinella, Wellesley College

Games and Cultural Identity in Dante's Commedia

Akash Kumar, Indiana University Bloomington

Speaking Vernacular in Late Medieval Italy. Gender and Language in Fourteenth-Century Bologna

Chloé Tardivel, University of Paris

9H: On Computing: Digital-Humanities Reckonings, Reconstructions, and Reimaginings of the Medieval World

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Kalani Craig, Indiana University Bloomington

Vr Sant'Agnese: reconstructing and reimagining medieval nunneries in Rome 

Angelica Federici, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre

Surviving the Black Death: The Digital Reconstruction of a Merchant’s Diary

Isabella Magni, Rutgers University

Guilt by Association?: A computational analysis of the social patterns of inquisition punishments in thirteenth-century Languedoc

Robert L. J. Shaw, Masaryk University - Centre for the Digital Research of Religion

10A: Intimate Exchanges: Reading Race and Ethnicity in Three Medieval Cases

Session Track: Identity, Race, and Ethnicity

Chair

Margaret Graves, Indiana University Bloomington

Diversity in the Reconquest Frontier of New Catalunya and Thaghr of Tarrakunah

Lawrence McCrank, Emeritus

"English" and "Irish" Welshmen: a comparative analysis of the Welsh ethnic nicknames 'Sais' and 'Gwyddel' in Wales, 1050 -1450

Frederick Suppe, Ball State University

From wolfish unions to beneficial bastards: sexual relations between Christians and Saracens in the chansons de geste

Victoria Turner, University of St Andrews

10B: Musical Hagiographies

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Margot Fassler, Notre Dame

Punishment and Sadomasochism in a Medieval Saint’s Office: Singing Saint Katherine in England

James Blasina, Swarthmore College

An Advent Saint: Seasonal and Saintly Music and Liturgy in Thirteenth-Century Paris

Mary Channen Caldwell, University of Pennsylvania

Giving Voice to Everlasting Life: Biblical and Apocryphal Narratives of Non-Death in the Liturgy of St John the Evangelist

Catherine Saucier, Arizona State University

10C: LIGHTNING TALKS: Ecologies of Things and Texts: Nature, Matter, and Material Culture in the Middle Ages

Session Track: Humans and the Natural Environment

Chairs

Vera-Simone Schulz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

Shirin A. Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State University

Embodying the Wind

Kellie Robertson, University of Maryland

Foodways and Bookways; or, What is a Byproduct?

Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia

An Alchemy of Medieval Honduras: Flows of Clay, Becoming Marble, The Animacy of Obsidian, and Mercurial Copper

Rosemary Joyce, University of California, Berkeley

Ecologies of Place in Medieval India

Tamara Sears, Rutgers University

Carved Where It Stands: Buddha Tree-Icons in Japan

Gregory Levine, University of California, Berkeley

Ornament and Landscape: Textual Materialities and Object-Related Temporalities

Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

Crystal Desire: Seeking Love Through Crystal

Marisa Galvez, Stanford University

10D: Medievalism at Play, Then and Now

Session Track: Playfulness

Chair

Sonia Velazquez, Indiana University Bloomington

Chaucer on Hypocrisy: Earnest?

Sherif Abdelkarim, Grinnell College

Poetics, Pornography, and Play in Warner of Rouen’s Moriuht

Caitlin G. Watt, Clemson University, Department of English

Comic Companions: Teaching Medieval Texts Alongside Modern Graphic Narratives

Gina Brandolino, University of Michigan

Moira Fitzgibbons, Marist College

10E: After the Fire: Building and Rebuilding Notre-Dame in Paris

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Before the Fire

Michael Davis, Mount Holyoke College

Computing to Create and re-Create the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris: A Brief Evaluation of Digital Surveying Technologies

Stefaan Van Liefferinge, Columbia University

The Medieval Roofs of Notre-Dame de Paris

Lynn Courtenay, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Archéologie du bâti: Old and New Methods of Architectural Analysis

Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University

10F: Pregnancy, Virginity, and other Performative Virtues

Session Track: General Session

Chair

Manling Luo, Indiana University Bloomington

Signalling Virtue: Countenance and Seemliness in The Cloud of Unknowing

Yea Jung Park, Columbia University

Betres, Beatrice, Beatrijs: Monastic Borders and Miracle Stories in the 13th and 14th centuries

Timi Sgouros, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University

Queer Pregnancy on the Medieval Sacred Stage

Andrea Whitacre, Indiana University Bloomington

10G: Reading Authority though Language: Brittonic-Speakers in a Multilingual Britain

Session Track: Moments of Intercultural Interaction

Chair

Jo Wolf, Virginia Tech

Bards, humanists, and grammar: the glossing and substitution of grammatical terminology in sixteenth-century copies of the medieval Welsh bardic grammars

Michaela Jacques, University of Toronto

Cultural Diglossia in Historia Peredur ab Efrawg: Negotiating Authority in 13th-century Wales

Joseph Shack, Harvard University

The Bodmin Manumissions: "Hearing" Cornish Slave Voices in English Communities

Jo Wolf, Virginia Tech

Chair

Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, Co-Chair of the Medieval Academy of America 2021 Annual Meeting Program Committee and Professor and Associate Chair of History, Indiana University--Bloomington

Welcome and Induction of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows

Barbara Rosenwein, President of the Fellows

Fellows: Chris Baswell; Helen Evans; Geraldine Heng; Katherine L. Jansen; Walter Simons

Corresponding Fellows: Michael Clanchy (posthumous); Jean Dunbabin; Mercedes García-Arenal; Yitzhak Hen; Gabor Klaniczay; Gian Luca Potestà; Emilie Savage-Smith; Richard Sharpe (posthumous)

Plenary: Dante’s Limbo and Equity of Access: Non-Christians, Children, and Criteria of Inclusion and Exclusion, from Inferno 4 to Paradiso 32

Teodolinda Barolini, Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University

Indiana University Bloomington's Jacobs School of Music is home to the Historical Performance Institute. Their ensemble will offer Romance, Reverence, and Riddles: a program of chansons, motets, and dances featuring works by women troubadors and trouvères.

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