Thursday, September 28

University of North Carolina at Asheville Campus

The university provides shuttle buses from 11:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. between the Renaissance Hotel and the campus.

11:00 - 6:00 Registration, main foyer, Karpen Hall

11:00 - 11:30 Welcoming refreshments hosted by Pegasus Press

11:30 - 1:00 Marie de France in Performance: Fresne read in Old French, by Miriam Rheingold Fuller, in the Laurel Forum. Chantal A. Marchal, Organizer; June Hall McCash, Chair; co-sponsored by the Chaucer Studio and the International Marie de France Society.

1:00 Boxed lunches provided in the Laurel Forum.

1:30 - 3:00 Sessions

1. From Manuscript to Digitized Text: Decoding and Recoding the Work
Karpen Hall 243
Organizer: D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
Chair: Marilyn Parins, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

• D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor U, "From Script to Print"
• Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson U, "The Knight's Tale in Hengwrt"
• D. Thomas Hanks and Thomas J. Farrell, "Manuscripts of the Future; The Digitized Past"

• Sally T. Newell, Charleston County School of the Arts, "Bringing the Middle Ages to Middle School"
• Robert and Laura Lambdin, U of South Carolina at Columbia, "HAL Loves Beowulf: Using Computers to Teach Medievalism in 2001"
• Jake Livingston and Joe Boyles, Birmingham-Southern College, "In Search of Britain's Lost King: A Millennial Quest for Arthur"
• Mary McNulty, Francis Marion U, "Feminism and Juvenile Novels about the Middle Ages"

• James E. Anderson, U of Louisiana at Lafayette, "The Death of the Idea of Balder the God: Some Preliminary Remarks"
• Hyde Abbott, U of South Carolina at Columbia, "The Battle of Maldon"
• Jennifer C. Brown, Wayne State U, "Land, Literacy, and Authority in Anglo-Saxon England"
• Susan P. Millinger, Roanoke College, "Filling in the Blanks: What the Anglo-Saxons Saw in their Landscape"

• Patricia Norwood, Mary Washington College, "Lilies and Roses: Natural Symbolism in Thirteenth-Century Motets"
• Pat Price, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities, "Triumph, Ceremonial Entry, and the Adorned City in Chaucer, The Wars of Alexander, and Richard of Maidstone"
• Lynn Ramey, U of Montevallo, "Images of Battle and Conversion in La mort au Roy Artus"
• Elizabeth Baily, Wesleyan College, "Marian Lauds and Madonna Images: An Early Quattrocento Florentine Street Tabernacle"

• Walter Roberts, Emory U, "Christian Tradition as the Continuation of Roman Imperial Ideology: The Case of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine"
• Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State U, "Imitators of P. Optatianus Porfyrius in the Early Middle Ages"
• Janet Sholty, U of North Texas, "The Other Exegesis: Typology in Medieval Sermons and Saints' Lives"
• Holly Johnson, UNC Chapel Hill, "Good Friday Preaching in Chaucerian England"

• J.R. Hall, U of Mississippi, "The Electronic Beowulf: A Preliminary Evaluation"
• Josephine Tarvers, Winthrop U, "Nineteenth-Century Disciplines, Twenty-First Century Technologies: The Nature of Textual Competence in the Computer Age"
• John Kunder-Gibbs, UNC Asheville, "Techno-gogy: Teaching Chaucer in the Electronic Classroom"

• John Newell, College of Charleston, "Re-thinking the Absence of Lady Philosophy on the Royal Portals of Chartres Cathedral"
• Minnie Sangster, North Carolina Central U, "Notre-dame et les Juifs: Stained Glass and Scriptural Iconography"
• Mary Edwards, Pratt Institute, "The Response of Giotto and His Followers to Classical Culture"
• Eunyoung Hwang, U of North Texas, "Image as a Reflection of Human Belief and Words: The Seven Day Prayers of the Devotio Moderna Carried Out in Bosch's Table Top of the Seven Deadly Sins and the Last Four Things"

• John R. Black, UNC Chapel Hill, "Innovation and Tradition in Medieval Representations of St. Cuthbert"
• John McNamara, U of Houston, "Oral Tradition in the Vulgate and Early Medieval Saints' Lives"
• Britt Mize, UNC Chapel Hill, "The Problem of Perspective in Middle English Hagiography: Lives of St. Margaret"
• Kristina Mormino, Emory U, "'Que valt cist criz?': The Functions of Saint Alexis' Abandoned Women"

• Lyn Myrick, U of Wyoming, "A Gendered Response to Twelfth-Century Rhineland Catharism"
• Marian Hollinger, Fairmont State College, "The Books, the Sermons, the Readers, and the Jews: An English Apocalyptic Response"
• Kristine T. Utterback, U of Wyoming, "Apostate Jew or Heretical Christian? The Case of Jucef de Quatortze vs. the Inquisition"

• Teresa Leslie, Emory U, "The Gift of Prayer: Of Mortuary Roll Ritual as Gift Exchange"
• Caroline Dennis, U of Florida, "Marguerita Datini: A Woman of Fourteenth-Century Italy"
• Mary Baldrige, U of Tennessee, "Contanza de Castilla and the Discourse of Female Identity"
• Cynthia Johnson, Emory U, "Dispute Strategies in Medieval Marriages"

Friday, September 29

Renaissance Hotel

• George Demacopoulos, UNC Chapel Hill, "Gregory I and the Asceticization of Pastoral Authority"
• Uta-Renate Blumenthal, Catholic U, "Violence and Reform in the Eleventh Century: The Struggle of Human Nature"
• Charlotte Gross, North Carolina State U, "Time and Nature in Twelfth-Century Cosmology: In Search of Aristotle"

• Myra Seaman, Lewis and Clark College, "The Waning of Medieval Chivalric Romance in The Squyr of Lowe Degre"
• Renee Severin, Hampden-Sydney College, "The Topography of Contemplation: Jean Gerson's Depiction of Movement and the Mystical Path"
• John Theilmann, Converse College, "Credible Commitment in Fifteenth-Century England: Sir John Fortescue's Theory of Resumption"
• Kay Slocum, Capital U, "Scolares, Juvencule, et Infantes: Educational Practices at Barking Abbey"

• Brian W. Gastle, Western Carolina U, "'Yef me this labour and this bisynesse': Chaucer, Romance, and the Matter of Business"
• Steve Guthrie, Agnes Scott College, "Chaucer and Neoplatonism: Troilus and Criseyde as an Anti-Vita Nuova"
• Joseph Wittig, UNC Chapel Hill, "Troilus and the Law of Kind"

• Eileen A. Joy, Francis Marion U, "Beowulf, John Mitchell Kemble, and the Floating Wreck of History"
• Anthony Allen, Ohio State U, "Bataille médiéviste: le Moyen Age 'informe' de Documents"
• Katherine Alloco, U of Texas, "Undermining Notions of Unnatural Desire in Derek Jarman's Edward II"
• Natalie Grinnell, Wofford College, "Memory Degradation: Star Trek: Voyager and Dante's Vita Nuova"

• Bryan Carella, UNC Chapel Hill, "Early Runic Divination in Germania: The Case for Skepticism"
• Laura R. Fry, U of South Carolina at Columbia, "A Paleographical Puzzle: The Condition, Structure, and Significance of The Code of Euric"
• George Harding, Francis Marion U, "Haus ohne Huter: A Look at the Father in the Old High German Hildebrandslied and the late Middle High German Meier Helmbrecht" Edith Whitehurst Williams, Eastern Kentucky U, "'Thaes Hyhtplegan...Wyrmeth': Exeter Book Riddle No. 18 in the Viking Ethic"

• Flowers Braswell, U of Alabama at Birmingham, "Chaucer and 'Razes': What the Physician Knew"
• Chauncey Wood, McMaster U, "'Nat Worth a Boterflye': Chaucer and the Medieval Valuation of Nature"
• Cynthia Gravlee, U of Montevallo, "Unnatural Acts: Chaucer and His Pilgrims in the Natural World"
• Keith Stiles, Western Carolina U, "Canacee's Ring: Magical Ring-Making in Chaucer's Squire's Tale"

• Anne L. Brannen, Duquesne U, "Peterborough in the Fifteenth Century: Theatre District of the Wash"
• Michael Crafton, State U of West Georgia, "The City: Image, Rhetoric, Text"
• Genevieve Edwards, "The Hocktide Riot in Canterbury, 1188: Excommunication and Polarization in a Medieval Urban Community"
• Brent Hardy, Emory U, "Cluny and the Feudal Revolution"

• Susan Cannon, "The Wife of Bath's Careful Choice of Words: Feminist or Misogynist?"
• Anita Bergeson, U of Tennessee, "'The moste kynge and nobelyst knyght of the worlde': A Consideration of Malory's Arthur"
• Jeremiah Donovan, U of Tennessee, "The Ideal Male and the Supernatural in Marie de France's Guigemar"

• Lester L. Field, Jr., U of Mississippi, "'Nature' as Human, Sexual, and Divine: Icons, Idols, and Concepts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
• Susan Halloran, Allen County Community College, "Dueling Rhetorics of Truth in The Consolation of Philosophy, The Complaint of Nature, The Divine Comedy, and Pearl"
• Debra Boyd, Winthrop U, "The Silence of a Lamb? Language and Gender in Chrétien de Troye's Eric and Enide"

• Tracey L. Billado, Emory U, "'Evil Customs': Monastic Rhetoric in Disputes in Anjou, 950-1150"
• Belle S. Tuten, "Snubbing the Pope: The Dispute over the Priory of Pruniers, 1090-1125"
• Richard Barton, UNC at Greensboro, "The Rhetoric of Right in French Disputes, 950-1150"

• Alice Blackwell, UNC Chapel Hill, "Individuation, Identity, and Illness in Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue"
• Kimberly Bell, Georgia State U, "'Text and Glose': The Narrator as Reader in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess"
• Michelle Hill, U of Georgia, "'Thys was my sweven': Contemplating the Nature of Sorrow within the Natural Dreamscape of The Book of the Duchess"

• Carol A. Marion, "The Remnant of the Faithful Heart: Anglo-Saxon Influences in the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom"
• James S. Guignard, U of Nevada, "The Effects of Guinevere's Wildness in Tennyson's Idylls of the King"
• Jeremy duQ. Adams, Southern Methodist U, "Historia ut Nugae: Joan of Arc on Stage and Film"
• Nanda Hopenwasser, U of Alabama, and Signe Wegener, U of Georgia, "The Woman Warrior Reborn: Medieval Models in the Work of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez"

• Laurel Lacroix, U of Houston, "Theoretical and Structural Implications of Alfred's Methodology in His Translation of Boethius's Consolatio"
• Bernadette McCoy, Hofstra U, "Through a Glass Darkly: The Role of the Translator"
• Lorraine K. Stock, U of Houston, "What Gets Lost in Translation: Translators of Froissart's Chroniques from Lord Berners to the Present"

• Vicki Low Soon Ai, U of Maryland, Baltimore County, "Irrelevant Birdlore in Old English Textual Criticism"
• Sharon Rowley, U of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, "Tradition and the Individual Scribe"
• Roy Liuzza, "What the Thunder Said: Anglo-Saxon Brontologies and the Problem of Sources"

• Melissa Hull, Vanderbilt U, "The Feminine Capital of Lady Meed"
• William E. Rogers, Furman U, "Nature in the Vision of Middle-Earth and in the Discourse of Wit: Piers Plowman IX and XI"
• Frans van Liere, Calvin College, "Witchcraft as Political Tool: John XXII, Huges Geraud, and Giovanni Visconti"

Practice reading Chaucer out loud, with special attention to matters of pronunciation, scansion, and oral interpretation. Particularly aimed at teachers desiring to brush up their classroom delivery, the workshop will be run in several concurrent sections. An experienced teacher/reader will host each section, and the sections will be kept small. Pre-register care of the Dept. of English, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755; email queries to

• Jeremiah Hackett, U of South Carolina at Columbia, "What is Neo-Augustinianism in the mid-Thirteenth Century?"
• Thomas A. Losoncy, Villanova U, "Aquinas on the Human Senses as the Original Radar System"
• Alan R. Perreiah, U of Kentucky, "Reinterpreting Aquinas on Human Nature"

• Randal Garza, Michigan State U, "Medieval Plague: Its Impact and Representation in the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula"
• Lola Bollo-Panadero, "La educacion sentimental femenina en el siglo XV"
• Gretchen Trautmann, UNC Asheville, "El mundo al reves: el humor secual en El Corbacho"

Saturday, Sept. 30

• Lynnea Brumbaugh-Walter, Washington U, "Mysticism in Image and Word: Julian of Norwich's Shewings and George MacDonald's Princess Books"
• Alan T. Gaylord, Dartmouth College, "Trina Schart Hyman and the Brothers Grimm"
• Jean E. Jost, Bradley U, "Medieval Children: Paradigms for Maltreatment"

• Alan Baragona, Virginia Military Institute, "Seeing the Prioress Split: Twenty More Years of Conflict over the Prioress and her Tale"
• Trish Ward, College of Charleston, "Words and Deeds in The Manciple's Tale"
• Susannah Chewning, Kean U, "Emelye's Silent Witness: Critical Attention to (and Neglect of) The Knight's Tale"

• Jennifer Palmgren, Saint Paul's College, "Ways of Being in English Arthurian Romance"
• John Plummer, Vanderbilt U, "Subjective Wholeness and Fragmentation in Malory's 'Tale of Sir Gareth'"
• Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist U, "Slander and Shame in Malory"
• Robert Kelly, UNC Greensboro, "The Initiation Oath of the Knights of the Bath: Model for the Malorian Pentecostal Oath? A Skeptical Inquiry"

• Ed Eleazer, Francis Marion U, "The Vale Perilous and Legends of the Afterlife in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville"
• Anna Morton, U of Tennessee, "The Woman Traveller Between Narrator and Critic in Guiron le Courtois"
• Meredith Reynolds, "Build It and She Will Come: Construction Motif in The City of Ladies"

• James Long, Fairfield U, "On the Usefulness of 'Augustinianism' as a Historical Construct: Two Test Cases from Oxford"
• Antonio Perez-Estevez, "Prime Matter, The Last Foundation of the Natural World. Averroes and Thomas Aquinas: Two Different Readings of Aristotle's Hyle"
• Gordon Wilson, UNC Asheville, "Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, and Henry of Ghent on Matter"

• Laura Jeffries, Emory U, "Sanctity's Structures: Identity and Form in The Book of Margery Kempe"
• Marie Nelson, U of Florida, "Two Trial Scenes: Cecilia vs. Judge Almachius; Margery Kempe vs. the Bishop of York"
• Cheryl Vann, George Washington U, "The Autobiography of Margery Kempe: The Priest's Imitatio Christi"
• Peggy Sheehan Malone, U of Houston, "Authorizing an Intimate Christ: the Sexual Vision of Hadewijch of Brabant"

• Cindy L. Vitto, Rowan U, "Chaucer's Mothers as Teachers"
• John Fleming, Princeton U, "The Pardoner's Purse"
• Jason Lovvorn, Vanderbilt U, "The 'Pleye' of Confessional Discourse in the Wife of Bath's 'Prologue'"
• Kenet Adamson, "Chaucer's Allegorical Journey of Faith in The Canterbury Tales"

• Florence Glaze, College of Charleston, "Medicine as 'Physica' in the Early Middle Ages: An Unfulfilled Ideal"
• Scott Lightsey, U of Delaware, "Miribilia and Science in the Middle English Textual Imagination"
• Peggy McCracken, U of Michigan, "Women's Blood and Men's Blood: 'Natural Oppositions'"

• Girard Etzkorn, "Marcus of Orvieto's Liber de Moralitatibus: An Edition in Progress"
• Jack Zupko, Emory U, "The Question about Medieval Quaestiones"
• Charles Murray, "Duns Scotus's Theory of Universals"

• Shearle Furnish, West Texas A&M U, "The Offering of the Magi, The Towneley Plays, and the Wakefield Master"
• Warren Edminster, Murray State U, "Laying Bare the Wolf-Skin of False Shepherds: The Parody of the Nativity in Secunda Pastorum"
• Lee Templeton, UNC Greensboro, "Cast Them in Canvas: Carnival and the Second Shepherd's Play"
• Karl Tamburr, Sweet Briar College, "From Narrative to Drama: The Transformation of the Gospel of Nicodemus in Middle English"

• Sherron Lux, "Child Marian"
• Bonnie Libby, UNC Greensboro, "Merlin's Dual Nature in the Morte Darthur"
• Merrell Knighten, Louisiana State U, "Out of the Wilderness: Merlin and John the Baptist"

• Candace Rogers Houg, Winthrop U, "Trickery and Betrayal in the Lais of Marie de France"
• June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State U, "Marie de France's Lanval and Yonec as Gendered Fantasies"
• Matthew W. Morris, Oxford College of Emory U, "An Augustinist Scheme to Couldrette's Mélusine"

Buses will leave for the Estate from the Renaissance Hotel. There is also abundant parking on the grounds. Be sure you have your ticket before leaving registration.

• 3:00 - 6:00 Self-guided garden and winery tour
• 6:00 - 7:30 Banquet in the Stable Café
• 7:30 Candlelight tour of the House