Sixteenth Annual ACMRS Conference
Humanity and the Natural World
in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
11 – 13 February 2010
Four Points by Sheraton Tempe
Tempe, Arizona
Hosted by
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
ACMRS Staff
Robert E. Bjork
Director
William Gentrup
Assistant Director
Roy Rukkila
Managing Editor
Audrey Walters
Program Coordinator
Todd Halvorsen
Manager of Design and Production
Leslie MacCoull
Manuscript Editor
Emilie Roy
Research Coordinator
Research Assistants
Kasandra Castle
Cyndi DeVito-Ziemer
Leah Faibisoff
Rebekah Pratt
José Pablo Solis De la Paz
Kristopher Tiffany
ACMRS ADVISORY BOARD
Albrecht Classen
University of Arizona
Roger Dahood
University of Arizona
Stephanie F. Debacker
Arizona State University, West
Monica Green
Arizona State University
Amy Holbrook
Arizona State University
Anne Scott
Northern Arizona University
Frederick Kiefer, Jr.
University of Arizona
Cynthia Kosso
Northern Arizona University
Kari McBride
University of Arizona
Ian Moulton
Arizona State University, Polytechnic
Corine Schleif
Arizona State University
Juliann Vitullo
Arizona State University
Acknowledgments
ACMRS would like to thank the ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, particularly Divisional Dean of Humanities, Deborah Losse; the ASU School of International Letters and Cultures; the ASU School of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies; the ASU Department of English; the ASU Institute of Humanities Research; the University of Arizona College of Humanities; and the University of Arizona Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee (UAMARRC) for their financial support of this conference.
Finally, we appreciate the staff at the Four Points by Sheraton Tempe and the many ACMRS volunteers whose assistance is invaluable to the success of this conference.
General Information
Conference Hotel: Four Points by Sheraton Tempe, 1333 South Rural Road, Tempe, AZ. Phone: 888-627-8132, 480-968-3451 (local); Fax 480-968-6262; Web: www.fourpointstempe.com. The conference room rate is $127 for a single or double and $10 additional per person for triple or quadruple (plus tax). To get the special rate, let them know you are attending the ACMRS conference.
Registration will be open Thursday from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. in the Four Points Lobby; Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–noon in the Four Points Tempe Lobby.
Welcoming Reception will be held on the Four Points Patio, Thursday 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Session Locations: All sessions will be held in the Four Points Tempe conference facilities: Jerome Room, Ruby Room, Tempe South, and Tempe North.
Book Exhibit: Publishers and booksellers will display their publications Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. in the Four Points West Ballroom.
Beverage Service: Refreshments will be provided in the West Ballroom, Friday and Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Banquet will be held in Tempe Ballroom, Friday 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Farewell Reception will be held on the Four Points Patio, Saturday 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 11
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Pre-Conference Workshop
The Medieval Manuscript Workshop
Four Points Tempe – Ruby Room
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Timothy Graham
Director, Institute for Medieval Studies
Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Registration 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Four Points Tempe – Lobby
Welcoming Reception 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Four Points Tempe – Patio
Hors d’oeuvres
Finger sandwiches
Spinach and Artichoke dip
Mini Chicken Empanadas
Mushroom caps
Vegetable spring rolls
Artesian Cheese with Crisps & Crackers
Hosted wine, iced tea, coffee, and water
The reception is sponsored by
the ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the ASU School of History, Philosophy, and Religion; the ASU School of International Cultures and Letters; the ASU Institute for Humanities Research; the ASU Department of English; the University of Arizona College of Humanities; and the University of Arizona Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Committee (UAMARRC).
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Friday, February 12
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Session One
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
1A Miracles, Magic, and Nature in Jewish Narrative and Thought
Jerome Room
Chair: Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University
The Miracle of the Bees in Joseph and Aseneth
Françoise Mirguet, Arizona State University
The Lion, the Witch, and the Werewolf: Magic and Monstrosity in the Theology of Nature of the Hasidei Ashkenaz
David Shyovitz, University of Pennsylvania
Conceptions of Nature in Medieval Judaism
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
1B Satire, Subversion, and Spaces in Renaissance French Culture
Ruby Room
Chair: Deborah Losse, Arizona State University
“Par craincte de tomber en ceste vulgaire et Satyrique mocquerie”: Monstronsity as a Satire of Humanity in Sixteenth-Century France
Bernd Renner, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Prometheus and the Human Poetics of Maurice Scève
E. Bruce Hayes, University of Kansas
Topographical Umbilicoplasty: Gilbert Cousin’s Burgundiae superioris
Evan Bibbee, Minnesota State University, Mankato
1C Cosmic Love and Cooking in Medieval Romance
Tempe North
Chair: Dhira Mahoney, Arizona State University
Medea’s Magic: Women’s Relationships to the Natural World in Middle English Romance
Misty Urban, Lewis-Clark State University
Cosmic Romance: The Reunification of Divine and Human Love in Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice
Mahlika Hopwood, Fordham University
The Raw and the Cooked in the Roman de Silence
Robert Sturges, Arizona State University
1D Doubting the Cosmos and Weather in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Tempe South
Chair: David Hawkes, Arizona State University
None Ends Where He Begun: Donne’s Skepticism in a Polemical Age
Andrew Fleck, San Jose State University
Secularism and Individual Application in Seventeenth-Century Devotional Writing Katherine Kickel, Miami University
“How like a winter”: The Seasons in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Roy Neil Graves, The University of Tennessee at Martin
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Morning Break
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. – West Ballroom
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Session Two
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
2A Humours and Complexions: Changing Medical Theories
Jerome Room
Chair: Monica H. Green, Arizona State University
Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Peter of Abano and Complexionate Medicine
Matthew Klemm, Ithaca College
Poison in the World and the Body
Fred Gibbs, George Mason University
Theodoric of York 4.0: Teaching Medieval Medicine and Natural Philosophy in the Modern Medical Curriculum
Brenda Gardenour, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy
2B Relations to Creation
Ruby Room
Chair: Anna Beer, Oxford University
Nature Serving Grace: George Herbert and the Natural World
Chauncey Wood, McMaster University
The Tender Trap: Humanity and the Natural World in Milton’s Paradise Lost
John Mulryan, St. Bonaventure University
Adam, Eve, and the Natural World in the Russian Religious Imagination
J. Eugene Clay, Arizona State University
2C Discipuli Juncti: Undergraduate Award Papers
Tempe North
Chair: Rosalynn Voaden, Arizona State University
The Implications of the Interruption: From Madonna Oretta to the Squire
Leah Faibisoff, Arizona State University
Spenser’s Aristotelian Ethos
Katherine Cook, Arizona State University
Descanting on Deformity: The Irregularities in Shakespeare’s Large Chiasms
Matthew Ramirez, University of Texas at Austin
2D The Nature of Man’s Relationship with God
Tempe South
Organizer: Alaya Kuntz, Arizona State University
Chair: William E. Bolton, Arizona State University
Margery Kempe’s Vision, Conversion, and Early Life
William E. Bolton, Arizona State University
Incarnational Theology in the Secunda Pastorum
Alaya Kuntz, Arizona State University
Spiritual Crisis and Labor in the Secunda Pastorum
Nathaniel Bump, Arizona State University
Intersections between the Natural World and the Divine in Tenth-Century Constantinople
Shawn McAvoy, Arizona State University
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Lunch
12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
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Plenary Session
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Plenary Session
East Ballroom (Jerome & Ruby)
Welcome
Deborah Losse, Divisional Dean of Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University
Introduction
Robert E. Bjork, Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Keynote
Nature and Artifice: A Changing Relationship in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Pamela O. Long, Independent Historian, Washington, D. C.
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Afternoon Break
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. – West Ballroom
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Session Three
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.
3A The Natural World of Scholasticism: Paris in the Thirteenth Century
Jerome Room
Organizer: Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University
Chair: Spencer Eliot Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Eye of the Eagle: Philip the Chancellor on Synderesis
Nancy Van Deusen, Claremont Graduate University
The Nature of Morality / The Morality of Nature: Peter of Limoges on Seeing the World Rightly
Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University
The Ferment of Worldly Learning: Parisian Theologians and the libri naturales of Aristotle in the Early Thirteenth Century
Spencer Eliot Young, University of Wisconsin, Madison
3B Anglo-Saxon Charms and Saga Heroes
Ruby Room
Chair: Carl Berkhout, University of Arizona
Archaic Magic of Wolf and Eagle in the Anglo-Saxon “Wen” Charm
Marijane Osborn, University of California, Davis
“Water Connects, Land Divides”: Revisiting the Narrative Topography of the Sagas
Maria-Claudia Tomany, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Inside and Outside in Gísla saga Súrssonar
Kendra Willson, University of California, Los Angeles
3C Reconstructing Medical Knowledge in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Tempe North
Chair: Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University
The Best Medicine? Medical Education and Practice in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and Metalogicon
Cary Nederman, Texas A&M University Takashi Shogimen, University of Otago
Malaria in Chaucer’s Time
Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
Dr. Rabelais: “Gargantua was born from his mother’s ear?!” Medical Mysteries and their Literal Link to the Natural World
Nathalie Ettzevoglou, University of Connecticut
3D The Divine Purposes of Nature
Tempe South
Chair: Ian Moulton, Arizona State University
Natural Disaster, Cosmic Purpose, and the Limitations of Human Understanding in the Meteorological Writings of Pietro Pomponazzi
Craig Martin, Oakland University
The Voice of Nature in Tasso’s Aminta
Patricia Patrick, BYU – Hawaii
Enthusiasm and Transformation of Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Aesthetics
Juan Pablo Maggiotti, Universidad de Navarra
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Happy Hour
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Cash Bar
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Banquet
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Tempe Ballroom
Feature Presentation: 7:30 p.m.
Arizona State University Performers
Agrément
Saturday, February 13
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Session Four
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
4A Natural Law and Church Authority
Jerome Room
Chair: Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Protecting the Holy: Limitations of Burial ad sanctos in Early Medieval Ravenna
Edward Schoolman, University of California, Los Angeles
Human Rights, Natural Law, and Authority in the Late Medieval Church
Katherine E. Meyers, University of New Mexico
4B The Wilderness as Inner/Under-World
Ruby Room
Chair: Heather Maring, Arizona State University
Wilderness and Fairy in “Sir Orfeo”
Paul Gaffney, Hiram College
The Forest: Symbol for Man’s Own Nature?
Carlie Shurtliff, University of Utah
4C Catholic and Protestant Views of the Book of Nature
Tempe North
Chair: Miriam Y. Miller, University of New Orleans, Emerita
“Otrosi semeja el omne al arbol trastornado”: Nature, Man and Morality in Don Juan Manuel’s Libro del cauallero et del escudero
Maria Cecilia Ruiz, University of San Diego
The Lutheran Book of Nature
Kathleen Crowther, University of Oklahoma
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Morning Break
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.
West Ballroom
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Session Five
10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
5A Natural Harmonies and Ontologies
Jerome Room
Chair: Cynthia Kosso, Northern Arizona University
Nature’s Good Husbandry: Life Indoors and Out in Bartholomeus Anglicus’s On the Properties of Things
Anthony Colaianne, Virginia Tech
The Souls of Rocks and Plants
Eleanor Kaufman, University of California, Los Angeles
5B Medieval Body Worlds
Ruby Room
Chair: Robert Sturges, Arizona State University
Bursting Brains and Laudable Pus: The Spectacular Economy of Flesh and Fluids in Medieval Medicine and Drama
Sarah M. Owens, Adams State College
Visible Virgins and their Problematic Female Bodies: Performances of Virginity in Seinte Margarete and in St. Julian of Norwich’s Book of Showings
Alissa Magorian, California Polytechnic State University
5C Symbolic and Spiritual Places
Tempe North
Chair: Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University
Spatiality in Dante’s Vita Nuova: Human Beings on Earth, in the Cosmos, and in Heaven
Dino Cervigni, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Right Fit: Exploratory Piety and the Navigatio sancti Brendai abbatis
Blair Citron, University of California, Davis
5D Patronage and Politics in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(continued as 6D)
Tempe South
Chair: Fred Kiefer, University of Arizona
Patterns in Court Performances under Elizabeth I
James Forse, Bowling Green State University
Lodgers as Rational Economic Actors: Humanity, Botany, and Profit at the Inns of Court
John Garrison, University of California, Davis
Facilitating the Lieta Fine: Governmental Oversight and Plot Resolution in Sixteenth-Century Italian Comic Theater
Erica Westhoff, University of California, Los Angeles
The Portrait of Edward Grimston: Contextualizing an Artifact
A. Compton Reeves, Ohio University
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Morning Break
11:15 – 11:30 a.m.
West Ballroom
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Session Six
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
6A The Language of God
Jerome Room
Chair: Sherry L. Reames, Emerita, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Julian of Norwich and the Word of God
Barbara Zimbalist, University of California, Davis
The Apophatic Metaphor in The Cloud of Unknowing
Ronald Stottlemyer, Carroll College
6B Nature, the Natural Order, and the “Sweet Science” of Instruction in Medieval and Renaissance Music (session ends at 12:45pm)
Ruby Room
Chair: Catherine Saucier, Arizona State University
The Interplay of Presence and Meaning in Carolingian Music Theory
Blair Sullivan, University of California, Los Angeles
Root, Branch, and Flower: Lineage and Fecundity in the Versified Offices for St. Anne
Michael Alan Anderson, Eastman School of Music
For “such as desire to . . . taste . . . so ravishing a Sweet Science”: Self-Help Lute Books in Early Modern England
Tom Flanigan, Idaho State University
6C Forests and Mountains in Germanic Culture (session ends at 12:45pm)
Tempe North
Chair: John Alexander, Arizona State University
Mountains as Epistemological Challenges in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona
Crossing the Boundaries of the Civic, the Natural, and the Supernatural