The conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association for 1999 will be hosted by the University of Tennessee and will meet at the Knoxville Hilton from October 14-16. Since this meeting falls close to the end of the millennium and also represents the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the association (which was founded in Knoxville in the spring of 1975), it is only appropriate that the theme for this year's conference be "Medieval Studies at the Millennium: Where We've Been, Where We're Going." Though there are a variety of papers on the whole range of medieval topics, many papers and sessions focus particularly on this theme.

Luke Wenger's many years of experience overseeing the Medieval Academy of America and editing Speculum make him uniquely qualified to deliver the conference's first plenary address on "The New Middle Ages." The second plenary address will be delivered by long-time SEMA member Joseph T. Snow of Michigan State, who will discuss how one of the great works of Spanish literature--a work likewise celebrating an important anniversary--has fared at the hands both of scholars and theatrical producers in the twentieth century in his "Celestina (1499-1999) Medieval and Modern: Survival and Renewal of a Spanish Classic."

Other sessions focusing on the contemporary state of Medieval Studies include "The Modern Middle Ages," "Computers and Medieval Studies at the Millennium," "Integrating Multiculturalism in the Medieval Studies Classroom," "The Greats --Chaucer, The Pearl-Poet, and Malory--and Their Critics," "Approaches to Medieval Studies at the Millennium," "Medieval Criticism in the Twentieth Century I and II," as well as a plenary roundtable discussion entitled "A Twenty-fifth Anniversary Reflection on the History of the Southeastern Medieval Association" featuring many members of the organizing committee of the association's first meeting.

On a lighter note, conference participants are all invited on Friday evening to attend a banquet featuring Tennessee barbecue and the Bluegrass music of Danny Gammon and his band, All Over the Road.

Knoxville, Tennessee

Located in the geographical center of the eastern US, Knoxville is within a day's drive of half the nation's population. It is the northern gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains; the most visited National Park in the US. Nestled in the foothills, Knoxville is the largest city in East Tennessee and offers visitors a delightful combination of natural beauty, charm and southern hospitality. Knoxville is conveniently located at the intersection of Interstate 40 and Interstate 75 for access by automobile.

The city is surrounded by seven of the "Great Lakes of the South" created by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Oak Ridge, a major center for research and development, is located twenty-three miles to the northwest. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established in 1942, has a wide scope of research activities including genetics, fusion, energy conservation, nuclear safety, advanced materials, global climate change, advanced computing, and the basic sciences. Knoxville is also home to the University of Tennessee. Founded in 1794, UT was the nation's first co-ed higher education institution. Its more than 20,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students hail from almost every state in the country and more than ninety foreign nations.

In October, the weather in Knoxville is near perfect; temperatures range from 45 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Medium or lightweight clothing is recommended, and an extra sweater or jacket may come in handy. In case of a fall showers, you may want to bring an umbrella.

Thursday, October 14

Chair: Robert J. Bast, University of Tennessee

• Bryan Carella, UNC Chapel Hill, "Early Irish Vernacular Law in the European Context: A Study of Mise-Page"
• Lester L. Field, University of Mississippi, "Icons, Idols, and Concepts: Mapping Sex and the Body in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
• Eric P. Miller, University of Virginia, "The Legal Status of Jewish Synagogues in Sixth-Century CE Italy"

Chair: Amy Neff, University of Tennessee

• Ruth Ann Stephens, University of Alabama, Huntsville, "The Alpha and Omega: The Beatus Legacy in Iberia"
• Minnie B. Sangster, North Carolina Central University, "Theophile et Notre Dame: Evolution of the Visual Conception of the Virgin Mary"
• Mary Douglas Edwards, Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts, "Reflections on Some Works by Simone Martini"

Chair: Susan L. Ridyard, University of the South

• David J. Viera, Tennessee Tech, "Francesc Eiximenis's Concept of the Good King or Princep"
• Larry Hunt, University of Georgia, "Wealthy and Wise: The Solomonic Paradigm in King Alfred's Conceptions of Wisdom, Kinship, and Educational Reform"
• Marc Guidry, Loyola University, New Orleans, "Dear Prudence: Reading the Melibee in the Twentieth Century"

Organizer and Chair: Elizabeth S. Sklar, Wayne State University

• Roy Liuzza, Tulane University, "Lost in Translation: Beowulf in the Nineteenth Century"
• Julie Towell, Wayne State University, "Transforming Power: Misglossing Female Figures in Beowulf and Judith"
• Richard Nokes, Wayne State University, "Water to Wine: Prose to Poetry in Editing Old English Texts"

Chair: Tracy Parkinson, University of Tennessee

• Elizabeth Trelenberg, Florida State University, "From Parchment to PC: An Electronic Edition of Cynewulf's Elene"
• Clay Kinser, Baylor University, "Reckoning Chaucer's Reeve"
• Martin K. Foys, Florida State University, "Freten Words: Violence, Consumption, and Textuality in Anelida and Arcite"

Chair: Laura Howes, University of Tennessee

• Kari Kalve, Earlham College, "A temple ymad of glas: Turning Insides Out in The House of Fame"
• Clark Hutton, Volunteer State Community College, "The Duplicitous Narrator of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde"
• Jeff Massey, Emory University, "The double binde of Troilus for to tellen: The Time of the Gift and Chaucer's Troilus

Chair: Rosalind Gwynne, University of Tennessee

• Laura and Bob Lambdin, University of South Carolina, "Medieval Debates and Hypertext: A Non-Linear Browse into the Millennium"
• Sherron Lux, The University of Tennessee, "Medieval Studies Meets the Internet"
• Josephine K. Tarvers, Winthrop University, "Old Disciplines, New Technologies: Teaching Textual Competence in the Computer Age"

Chair: Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern University

• Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University, "Spreading Monastic Reform Abroad"
• Howard Kaminsky, Florida International University, "The Two Axiologies in the Middle Ages: State and Public Interest; Lordship, 'Estate,' and Property Right"
• Mary F. Thurlkill, Southern Arkansas University, "Mary: Chosen Among Women"

Chair: E. Paige Wisotzka, College of Charleston

• Janet P. Sholty, University of North Texas, "St. Augustine is Alive and Well and Living in Hollywood"
• Jamieson Ridenhour, Western Carolina University, "Fantastic Narratives: Chaucer and the Films of Terry Gilliam"
• Steven R. Guthrie, Agnes Scott College, "On the Rebel's Tale: Language and Meter for Hoaxers and Parodists of Chaucer"

Organizer and Chair: Judith L. Barban, Winthrop University

• Dolliann Hurtig, Louisiana Tech, "Diversement prier: Reflections upon Prayer in and beyond the Espurgatoire St. Patrice, sen and surplus"
• David M. Merchant, Louisiana Tech, "The Impulse to Nurture in Marie de France's Lai le Frense"
• Candace Rogers, Winthrop University, "Marie de France: Women in General"

Organizer: Janet Schrunk Ericksen
Chair: Roy Liuzza, Tulane University

• Janet Schrunk Ericksen, University of Minnesota, Morris, "The Numbered Universe of Christ and Satan"
• Melinda Menzer, Furman University, "Medieval Language Theory: Is Language Fallen or Divine?"
• Dabney Anderson Bankert, James Madison University, "'Manly Women': Intellectual Female Converts and Their Male Counterparts in Old English Literature"

Organizer and Chair: Marian Hollinger, Fairmont State College

• Helen T. Bennett, Eastern Kentucky University, "Bede and Cynewulf"
• Ordelle G. Hill, Eastern Kentucky University, "Henry Grosmont's Castle and Sir Gawain's Castle Experience"
• Marian Hollinger, Fairmont State College, "Oxford Book Production in the Thirteenth Century"

Chair: Thomas J. Heffernan, University of Tennessee

• Mark Allen, University of Texas, San Antonio, "Nat but ynough: Sufficiency and Satisfaction in Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale"
• Joanna M. Beall, Florida State University, "Spiritual Gold: Verbal and Physical Alchemy in The Pardoner's Tale and The Canon's Yeoman's Tale"
• Thomas J. Farrell, Stetson University, "The Gradus amoris in the Chaucerian Fabliau"

Chair: Joseph T. Snow, Michigan State University

• Connie L. Scarborough, University of Cincinnati, "Early Editions of the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea: Lost, Found, and Misplaced"
• Dwayne Carpenter, Boston College, "Tales from the Script: Tracking the Elusive Alborayque"

Chair: Keith Taylor, Middle Tennessee State University

• Timothy D. O'Brien, U. S. Naval Academy, "Gender, Power, and Authority in The Book of Launcelot and Queen Guinevere"
• John Grosskopf, Florida State University, "For gode of hymseluen: The Sin and the Self in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
• Jean E. Jost, Bradley University, "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell: The Center and Three 'Others'"

Luke Wenger, Outgoing Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America: "The New Middle Ages"

2:00 - 3:30 Sessions

16. Classical Texts and Their Transmission

Organizers: Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern University, and Frans van Liere, Calvin College
Chair and Commentator: Charles F. Briggs

• Karen Kletter, UNC Chapel Hill, "The Jewish Wars of Flavius Josephus in Medieval England"
• Andrew Travers, Southeastern Louisiana University, "The Authenticity of Scotus's Quaestiones super libros De anima Aristotelis"
• Frans van Liere, Calvin College, "Quanto iuniores, tanto perspicaciores?: Andrew of St. Victor and Jerome"

Organizer and Presider: Saher Amer, UNC Chapel Hill

Scholars in many disciplines are increasingly emphasizing the role of Semitic culture in European Medieval civilization. This workshop will explore how to include these new insights in the classroom. Those interested in participating should notify the organizer, and submit three questions that they would like to have addressed at the session. Participants will also be sent a reading of approximately 20 pages that they should be prepared to discuss. Prof. Amer can be contacted (preferably by e-mail) at saharamer@mindspring.com, Dept. of French, UNC-Chapel Hill, 238 Dey Hall, CB# 3170, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170

18. Religion and French Literature

Chair: Leon Stratikis, University of Tennessee

• Matthew W. Morris, Oxford College of Emory University, "The Concept of Empire and Transcendental Mission: An Augustinist Scheme in the Chanson de Roland"
• Rene M. Serverin, Hampden-Sydney College, "Less is More: Jean Gerson's 'Simple' Readers and Union with God"
• Kelly Ingram, David Lipscomb University, "Thematic and Religious Parallels in the Lais of Marie de France and Accounts of the Old Testament"

Organizer and Chair, D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University

• Lorraine Kochanske Stock, University of Houston, "On Chaucer"
• Robert J. Blanch, Northeastern University, and Julian N. Wasserman, Loyola University, New Orleans, "Gawain's Antifeminism: From Tolkien to the Millennium"
• D. Thomas Hanks, Baylor University, "On Malory"

Chair: Joseph Trahern, University of Tennessee

• Jennifer C. Black, Wayne State University, "Writing-Power and Writing Power: The Rise of Literacy as a Means of Power in Anglo-Saxon England"
• Dorothy Haines, Shorter College, "Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England: Rhetoric and Practice
• J. R. Hall, University of Mississippi, "Three Notes on the Manuscript Text of Beowulf: Lines 47b, 747b, and 3155a"

Chair: John O'Brien, Cornell University

• Kathryn Jacobs, Texas A & M, Commerce, "Which was the mooste fre, as thynketh yow?: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Liberal Ideal"
• Keith Stiles, Western Carolina University, "Chaucer and the Magical Arts: Perceptions of Medieval Magic in the Franklin's Tale"
• Chris Harris, Florida State University, "The Pardoner's Sins and Why they Don't Matter to Chaucer"

Organizer: Janice Wright, College of Charleston
Chair: Connie Scarborough, University of Cincinnati

• Denise K. Filios, University of California, Berkeley, "The Use and Abuse of the Voice of the soldadeira in the Cantigas de Escarnho e Maldizer"
• William D. Paden, Jr., Northwestern University, "Genre and Gendre in Galician- Portuguese"
• Janice Wright, College of Charleston, "Mother/Daughter Relationships in the Cantigas de Amigo"

Chair: Anthony Moses, University of Tennessee

• Britt Mize, UNC Chapel Hill, "The Loss of Grammatical Gender in Early Middle English, with Special Reference to Ancrene Wisse"
• Brian A. Ray, Middle Tennessee State University, "The Hero Framed: A Look at the Structure of Malory's Le Morte Darthur"
• Michelle M. Butler, Duquesne University, "Thei will tell yow many a lie: Medieval Drama in Introductory Textbooks"

SEMA at the Millennium: A Twenty-fifth Anniversary Reflection on the History of the Southeastern Medieval Association

Chair: June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University
Participants: Members of the Organizing Committee of the First Meeting of SEMA in 1974, including:

• Lanier Smythe, Suffolk University
• Mary Richards, University of Delaware
• Paul Barrette, University of Tennessee
• John H. Fisher, Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee
• Henry Kratz, Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee

Vans will be available to take participants.

Chair: Ellen Macek, University of Tennessee

• Michael Frassetto, Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Persecution and the Other: Heretics and Jews in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes
• Kathryn M. Karrer, Sacramento, California, "Fear of the Future or Great Expectations: Millennial Endgames in 13th-Century Languedoc"
• Kristine T. Utterback, University of Wyoming, "Saints and Sinners on the Same Journey: Pilgrimage as Ritual Process"

Organizers and Co-chairs: Marilyn Parins, University of Little Rock, and Flowers Braswell, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Panelists:

• Marilyn Parins, University of Little Rock
• Laura A. Smoller, Little Rock
• Helen Damico, University of New Mexico
• Mary Blum, San Francisco, CA
• Kellie Meyer, University of New Mexico
• Kenneth Ruhl, University of New Mexico
• Melinda Cammarata, Brook High School, Birmingham, AL
• Karen Gardiner, Warrior Academy, Eutaw, AL

Chair: E. Paige Wisotzka, College of Charleston

• Joan E. McRae, Hampden-Sydney College, "Reading Retrospectively: Using Medieval Reader Reception as an Interpretive Guide to Chartier's Belle dame sans mercy"
• Linda M. Rouillard, Wabash College, "Reading the Reader: Jean Wauquelin's Prose Adaptation of La Manekine"
• Ineke Hardy-Stovel, University of British Columbia, "Teaching the Computer to 'Listen' to Trouvere Songs: An Analysis of the Works of Raoul de Soissons"

Chair: Fiona Tolhurst, Alfred University

• Warren Erdminster, Clemson University, "Separating the Shepherds from the Lamb: Festive Influences in the Wakefield Prima Pastorum"
• Susan Halloran, Allen County Community College, "A Partnership of Completion: Gender Complementarity in the N-Town Plays"
• Anne Brannen, Duquesne University, "A Century of Mankind: How a Very Bad Play Became Very Good"

Organizer and Chair: Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Boston College

• Peter G. Beidler, Lehigh University, "Children Who Witness a Mother's Sexual Activities: A French Fabliau Called The Man Who Moved the Stone, Boccaccio's Decameron 7, 3, and Chaucer's Shipman's Tale"
• Cristiana Fordyce, Boston College, "The Child-Image: Evolution of a Topos in the Merchant Era"
• Elena Ivanova, Boston College, "Child Abuse Then: The Case of the Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfonso X"
• Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Boston College, "Narrative Exploitation of Children in Gautier de Coinci's Miracles de Nostre Dame"

Chair: P.A. Price, University of Minnesota

• Jennifer Woods, "Chaucer and the Violence Against Women"
• Laura Barefield, Eastern Kentucky University, "Women's Power in the Tale of Constance"
• Kelly Waldrop, University of Tennessee, "Tiburce's Kiss: Sexuality and the Second Nun's Tale"

Organizer and Chair: Susannah Mary Chewning, Kean University

• Susannah M. Chewning, Kean University, "A Marriage of the Unknowable: Medieval Devotional Literature and Queer Theory"
• Christopher Nugent, University of Rochester, "The Sodom Story in Anglo-Saxon England: Violence and Vernacularity"

Organizers and Presiders: Marie Nelson and Caroline Dennis, University of Florida

We would like to invite SEMA participants to join us as we see and hear women working in the Middle Ages. We will show a series of slides of women at work in agriculture, business, metallurgy, textile production, war, medicine, teaching, writing, the fine arts, and household tasks. To this series of slides we have added the words of Christine de Pisan, the Paston women, Margery Kempe, Dame Alice de Bryene, Jacqueline Felicie, Christina Corner, Nicolosa Sanuti, Joanna Hill, and Margarita Datini. We welcome contributions of colleagues who have slides and/or documented speech that will help us broaden our presentation. Please address inquiries to Marie Nelson and Caroline Dennis, English Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

32. Approaches to Medieval Studies at the Millennium

Chair: Paul Barrette, University of Tennessee

• John Haines, Shorter College, "Friedrich Ludwig's Musicology of the Future"
• Kay B. Slocum, Capital University, "The Changing Face of Medieval Musicology: 1970-1999"
• Wojciech Iwanczak, Warsaw, Poland, "Polish Medieval Research at the End on the 20th Century"

Chair: Anne Latowsky, University of Washington

• Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Presbyterian College, "Oiseuse: An Entree to a Homoerotic Reading of Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la Rose"
• Bryan M. Egnew, Middle Tennessee State, "Entre li mainz de une feme: The Compatibility of Fin' Amor and Mystical Love in the Feminine Literature of Northern France and England"
• Katherine Alloco, University of Texas, "Homophobia and Conflict over the King's Two Bodies in Marlowe's Edward II"

Organizer and Chair: Alan Gaylord, Dartmouth College
Readers:

• Emerson Brown, Jr., Vanderbilt University
• D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
• Susan Hagen, Birmingham Southern College
• Patricia Ward, College of Charleston
• Alan Gaylord, Dartmouth College

Organizer and Chair: Cynthia Ho, University of North Carolina at Asheville

• Chauncey Wood, College of Charleston, "John Matthews Manly: Some Old Light on Chaucer"
• Gregory James Wilsbacher, University of South Carolina, "Raising the Siege: Anti-Semitism and Aesthetics in The Siege of Jerusalem"

Chair: David Linge, University of Tennessee

• Girard J. Etzkorn, St. Bonaventure University, "Walter of Chatton, O. F. M. (1285-1344): Ockham's Nemesis"
• Sibylle Jefferis, University of Pennsylvania, "The Heiligenleben (1343/1349) of Hermann von Fritzlar and its Relationship to the Paradisus anime intelligentis"
• Cheryl Vann, George Washington University, "The Trials of Margery Kempe: Prophet for Our Time?"

Chair: James Shelton, University of Tennessee

• June Hall McCash, Middle Tennessee State University, "Stylistic Considerations in La vie seinte Audree"
• Signe Wegener, University of Georgia, and Nanda Hopenwasser, University of Alabama, "Creating a Comic Heroine: Imitatio Birgittae in The Book of Margery Kempe"

Chair: P.A. Price, University of Minnesota

• Myra Seaman, Portland Community College, "Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal and the Englishing of Medieval Romance"
• Celia M. Lewis, Baylor University, "Partners in Crime: Chaucer's Pardoner and Boccaccio's Ser Ciappelloto"
• Alice Blackwell, UNC Chapel Hill, "Reexamining Courtesy in Fourteenth-Century English Literature"

Organizer and Chair: John Newell, College of Charleston
Panelists:

• Cindy Ho, University of North Carolina at Asheville
• John Newell, College of Charleston
• Patricia Ward, College of Charleston
• Sally T. Newell, Charleston County School of Arts

Chair: Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State University

• Leon Stratikis, University of Tennessee, "Between Venice and Byzantium: Corfu in the Fourteenth Century"
• F. Thomas Luongo, Tulane University, "Revelation to Writing: Epistolarity and the Career of Catherine of Siena"
• Daniel F. Pigg, University of Tennessee, Martin, "Defining Masculinity in the City: Perky Revelour's Apprenticeship as Evidence in Chaucer's Cook's Tale"

Chair: Sal DiMaria, University of Tennessee

• Lee Daniel Snyder, New College of the University of South Florida, "The Hidden Christ of the Inferno: A New Reading of the Old Man of Crete"
• Lynn Ramey, University of Montevallo, "Female Rule and Universal History in Christine de Pizan and Boccaccio"
• Elizabeth Walsh, University of San Diego, "The Drama of the Grotesque in Iconography of Dante's Inferno"

Organizer and Chair: Cynthia Ho, University of North Carolina at Asheville

• Susan Purdy, University of Western Ontario, "Critical Figures"
• James Cahill, Brown University, "The Languages of Coercion, Resistance, and History in Cynewulf's Elene"
• Lola Bollo-Panadero, Davidson College, "A New Approach to the Study of the Exempla in Medieval Spain"

Organizer and Chair: Peter G. Beidler, Lehigh University

• Cindy L. Vitto, Rowan University, "'Nightmare Beast of the Firebrand Tail': The Nun's Priest's Tale for Children"
• Lynnea Brumbaugh, Washington University, "'Love on the Rocks': The Franklin's Tale for Children"
• Elizabeth MacDaniel, Clarion University, "'Death's Murderers': The Pardoner's Tale for Children"

Organizer and Chair: Gregory Kaplan, University of Tennessee

• Karen Daly, Indiana University, "Teaching the Kharja in the Context of the Muwashshah: A Proposal"
• Mary Baldridge, University of Tennessee, "Two Visions of Profeminism in Medieval Spain: Diego de San Pedro and Constanza de Castilla"
• Michelle M. Hamilton, University of California, Berkeley, "Tabiba or Curandera: Celestina as Marginalized Healer"

Chair: Anna Morton, University of Tennessee

• Cynthia A. Gravlee, University of Montevallo, "Circling the Entity: Power and the Feminine Principle in Old English Poetry"
• Gayle H. Miller & Teresa Spence, Western Carolina University, "Women Who Weave: Sources of Strength, Power, Magic, and Fear"
• Mindy J. Milnes, Florida State University, "Female Relationships (or the Lack Thereof) in Gawain and Le Morte d'Arthur"

Please send any additions or corrections to Joyce Lionarons.