Sewanee Medieval ColloquiumThe University of the South 7-8 April 2006Theme: Power in the Middle Ages Lecturers: Janet L. Nelson, C. David Benson

FRIDAY, 7 APRIL

8:00 A.M. Registration begins, Convocation Hall. Revised programs with room assignments will be available here.

9:00 A.M FIRST PLENARY SESSION “The Limits of Power: Charlemagne, the Old and the New” Janet L. Nelson, King’s College, London

10:30 A.M. SESSIONS 1 AND 2

1. Power in the Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon Worlds Chair: Kevin Shirley, LaGrange College�� Paper: “The King’s Mercenaries in Later Anglo-Saxon England” Richard Abels, US Naval Academy Paper: “Abandonment and Opportunity: Women and the Aftermath of Carolingian Exile” Steven A. Stofferahn, Indiana State University Paper: “Public Architectures of Carolingian Power” Kim Sexton, University of Arkansas Comment: TBA

2. Power as Literary Theme IChair: Stephen B. Raulston, University of the South

Paper: “The Power of the Image: Animal Imagery in the Fourteenth-Century Book of Good Love”

Nancy Cushing-Daniels, Gettysburg College Paper: “The Power of the People: Popular Spirituality as Refl ected in the Literature of

Medieval Spain” Martha Mary Daas, Old Dominion University Paper: “Powerpoints: Saga Characters in the Cross-Winds of Their Times” Jona Hammer, Duquesne University Comment: Ryan Giles, University of Chicago

2:00 P.M. SESSIONS 3 and 4

3. Power and Religious (In)tolerance Chair: Irven Resnik, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Paper: “Jerusalem, the First Crusade, and the Right of Leadership” Jay Rubenstein, University of New Mexico Paper: “The Reality of Minority Autonomy in Medieval Islam” David Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University Paper: “Perspectives of the Powerless: The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom” Robert Chazan, New York University Comment: Thomas Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

4. Power in Medieval Political Thought and Theology Chair: Nicholas M. Beasley, Vanderbilt University Paper: “Knowledge=Power? The Clerkly King as a Problematic Model in the Later

Middle Ages” Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern University Paper: “The Devil at Law: The Tension between Law and Justice in Medieval Law and

Theology” Karl Blaine Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison Paper: “The Power of Virtue: The Case of the Last Palaiologi” Malgorzata Dabrowska, University of Lodz/Rice University Comment: Brett E. Whalen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

4:30 P.M. SESSIONS 5 and 6

5. Forms of Power in France, Flanders, and England Chair: Anna Dronzek, Rhodes College Paper: “English Secular Clergy as Political Actors” Hugh M. Thomas, University of Miami Paper: “Centrally Isolated: The Pursuit of Power in Twelfth-Century Guines” Leah Shopkow, Indiana University Paper: “‘Violating the Peace of the Land and Our Statutes’: Confl icting Models of Power

in Late Medieval France” Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Harvard University Paper: “Collaborative Governance in the Comital Family of Flanders, 1067-1244” Karen S. Nicholas, Oswego State University Comment: TBA

6. Power and Patronage at the End of the Middle Ages Chair: Michelle White, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Paper: “Book Production and the Dilution of the Power of Patronage” Robert Costomiris, Georgia Southern University Paper: “Power ful Pictures of Punishment: Demonstrations of Power in Depictions of

Capital and Corporal Punishment in Sixteenth-Century London” Alexander Hunnicutt, University of Texas, Arlington Comment: James Turrell, The University of the South

SATURDAY, 8 APRIL8:00 A.M. Registration continues, McGriff Alumni House

8:30 A.M. SESSIONS 7 and 8

7. Confl ict and Power in Western France and the Anglo-Norman WorldChair: Steven White, Emory University

Paper: “‘Evil Customs’ in Eleventh-Century Western France” Tracey L. Billado, Cornell University Paper: “Emotions and Power in Orderic Vitalis” Richard Barton, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Paper: “Instigators and Peacemakers: Women, Warfare, and the Power of Persuasion in the

Eleventh-Century Anglo-Norman World” Colleen Slater, Cornell University Comment: Bruce O’Brien, University of Mary Washington

8. Power and Society in Medieval Italy and the Mediterranean Chair: Victoria Morse, Carleton College Paper: “A Dialogue of Power: The Politics of Burial in Fourteenth-Century Italy” William Caferro, Vanderbilt University Paper: “Sickness and Control: Experiences and Perceptions of the Female Body in Late

Medieval Italy” Megan Moran, Vanderbilt University Paper: “Ports of the Mediterranean: Medieval Barcelona and Genoa” Shelley Roff, University of Texas, San Antonio Comment: Loius Haas, Middle Tennessee State University

11:00 A.M. SESSIONS 9, 10, 11

9. Power as Literary Theme II Chair: TBA Paper: “The Raptus of Men through the Rape of Women in Chaucer and Gower” Kathleen E. Kennedy, University of Alabama, Huntsville Paper: “‘I wyl go syttyn in Goddys se’: The Assertion of Power in the N-Town Creation Play” Clark Hutton, Volunteer State Community College Paper: “Forms of Power and the Power of Forms: The Case of The Three Living and the

Three Dead”Three Dead”Three Dead Ashby Kinch, University of Montana Comment: Tony Colaianne, Virginia Tech

10. Power, the Holy, and the Unholy Chair: Sarah Downey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Paper: “Magic, Power and Ritual in Two Early Medieval Penitentials” Martha Rampton, Pacifi c University Paper: “Dark Age Bodies: Power and Eroticism in the Early Medieval West” Lynda L. Coon, University of Arkansas Paper: “Sithra Athra against the Godhead: The Power of Evil” James Grady, Vanderbilt University Comment: Dyan Elliott, Vanderbilt University

11. Medieval Queenship Chair: Marylou Ruud, University of West Florida Paper: “Ira Reginae?: The Empress Matilda, Gender and the Public Face of Sovereignty” Lois Huneycutt, University of Missouri, Columbia Paper: “A Queen's Power in the 12th Century: Eleanor of Aquitaine as Henry II's Queen, 1154-68” Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University Paper: “Johanna I of Naples and Fourteenth-Century Queenship” Elizabeth Casteen, Northwestern University Comment: Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern University

2:30 P.M. SECOND PLENARY LECTURE “Three London Poets and Power: Chaucer, Gower, Langland” C. David Benson, University of Connecticut

4:00 P.M. SESSIONS 12 and 13

12. Power as Literary Theme III Chair: Michael Leslie, Rhodes College Paper: “The Power of Penance: The Gawain Poet and Dante” John F. Plummer, Vanderbilt University Paper: “The Wife of Bath’s Use of the Term Power” William E. Rogers, Furman University Paper: “‘This prayer shal he have of me’: The Rhetoric of Authorial Presence in the House

of Fame” William Revere, Yale University Comment: C. David Benson, University of Connecticut

13. Conceptions of Power in the Early Middle Ages Chair: Richard Gerberding, University of Alabama, Huntsville Paper: “Christian Notions of Power in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: The Growth of

Christian Patronage in the Early Medieval Period” Walter E. Roberts, University of Arizona Paper: “Power and the Powerful in Early Merovingian Francia” Elizabeth P. Hancock, Gainesville College Paper: “Inventing Paganism in Eighth-Century Bavaria” Jonathan Couser, University of Notre Dame Comment: Janet L. Nelson, King’s College, London

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