THE MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC
ANNUAL MEETING
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 11-12, 2005
PROGRAM
Friday, March 11, 2005
8:30-9:30 REGISTRATION [Seven Hills: Lobby and Coit Lounge]
9:30-11:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS I
Receptions of Antiquity [Seven Hills: Twin Peaks Room]
Chair: Emily Albu [Classics, University of California, Davis]
“Vergil in the Middle Ages”
Rose Marie Deist [Modern and Classical Languages, University of San Francisco]
“Dante’s Ovidian Oneirics: Eros Redeemed?”
Andrew Matt [Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis]
Music, Words, and the Female Body [Cantina]
Chair: Phyllis Brown [English, Santa Clara University]
“Gendering the Harp: Stringed Musical Instrument as Female Body”
Nancy E. Bowen [Music, Claremont Graduate University]
"'And spek vor me, thou one': Mary and Perfected Language in the Middle English Lyrics"
Georgiana Donavin [English, Westminster College]
Sex and Gender [Towers: Presidio Room]
Chair: Henry Ansgar Kelly [English, University of California, Los Angeles]
“Sex with Eunuchs and the Implications of Sexual Difference”
Mathew Kuefler [History, San Diego State University]
“The Medieval Mae West? Chaucer’s Wife of Bath as Female Camp”
Lisa Manter [English, Saint Mary’s College of California]
“Poetic Intersections: Cecco Angiolieri and the Troubadours”
Selby Schwartz [Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley]
Old English into Print [Towers: Richmond Room]
Chair: George Brown [English, Stanford University]
“The First Critical Edition of an Old English Text”
Carl T. Berkhout [English, University of Arizona]
“Of Facts and Facsimiles: Representing the Medieval Book”
Siân Echard [English, University of British Columbia]
Tolerance and Intolerance [Towers: Sunset Room]
Chair: Fred Astren [Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University]
“The Middle Ages in the History of Toleration”
Glenn W. Olsen [History, University of Utah]
“Loving thine enemy: Reconciling the Crusades and Christianity in German Romance”
Karina Marie Ash [German, San Francisco State University]
“Innocent IV and the Organization of Inquisitorial Activity in Italy, 1251-54”
Peter Diehl [History, Western Washington University]
11:00-11:30 BREAK [Seven Hills: Coit Lounge]
11:30-1:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS II
Uses of the Past [Cantina]
Chair: Ned Lee Fielden [Library, San Francisco state University]
“Going Greek: An Investigation of Medieval Scotland’s Non-Trojan Heritage”
Lisa Justice [History, University of California, Davis]
“Subverting the Stuarts: The Revival of Anti-Imperialism in Gologras and Gawane”
Randy Phillip Schiff [English, University of California, Santa Barbara]
"A 1779 Attack on Abbot Suger of St. Denis and Twelfth-Century Monasticism"
Georgia Wright [National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Berkeley]
Shapeshifting and other “Trolldoms” [Towers: Presidio Room]
Chair: TBA
“The Loathly Lady’s Agency in Hrólfs saga Kraka and ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’”
Marijane Osborn [English, University of California, Davis]
“Trolls and Trolldómr in Hrólfs saga Kraka and Other Sagas”
Janice Hawes [English, University of California, Davis]
“’He sleeps and sends’: Grendel’s Ecstatic Attack and Bjarki’s Bear Helper”
Stephen Glosecki [English, University of Alabama at Birmingham]
Piety and Ecclesiastical Power [Towers: Richmond Room]
Chair: Thomas Turley [History, Santa Clara University]
“’Both Mary and Martha’: The Vita of Bishop Lietbertus of Cambrai (1051-1076) and the Fashioning of Episcopal Sanctity in a Border Diocese”
John S. Ott [History, Portland State University]
“'Appeased by the prayers of my Mother, I shall be merciful to the Franks:' The Virgin and Marian devotion in the Chronicles of the First Crusade”
Vincent Ryan [History, Saint Louis University]
“Foster-mother of vipers’: Santa Verdiana, Episcopal Conflict, and the Development of the Commune of Castelfiorentino”
Corinne Wieben [History, University of California, Santa Barbara]
Chaucer and Gower [Towers: Sunset Room]
Chair: Georgiana Donavin [English, Westminster College]
“Hateful Contraries in the ‘Merchant’s Tale’”
John Fyler [English, Tufts University]
“Moral Gower and Moralizing Chaucer”
Anne Salo [Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis]
“Pleasure, Poetry, and the Rhetoric of Royal Address in the Confessio Amantis”
Amanda Walling [English, Stanford University]
Early English Perspectives [Seven Hills: Twin Peaks]
Chair: Roger Dahood [English, University of Arizona]
“Beowulf’s Deathbed Confessions: History and Heroic Language”
Donna Beth Ellard [English, University of California, Santa Barbara]
“Æfter <thorn>an flode: National History and the Encyclopaedic Tradition in La3amon’s Brut.”
Scott Kleinman [English, California State University, Northridge]
"The 'Fates of Men' and the Fears of Their Mothers: Maternal Point of View in an Old English Poem from the Exeter Book"
Murray McGillivray [English, University of Calgary]
1:00-2:00 LUNCH [Seven Hills: Nob Hill Room]
2:00-3:00 FIRST PLENARY SESSION [Humanities Building: Room 133]
"Remembering and Forgetting Aristocratic Women: A Tale of Two Judiths."
Patrick J. Geary [History, University of California, Los Angeles]
3:00-3:30 BREAK [Seven Hills: Coit Lounge]
3:30-5:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS III
Royal Narratives [Cantina]
Chair: Michael Curley [Honors, University of Puget Sound]
“Wace’s Representation of Henry I in the Roman de Rou”
Charity Urbanski [History, University of California, Berkeley]
“Icelanders in the English Courts”
Nichole L. Sterling [Scandanavian, University of California, Berkeley]
“Narrative Rendered as Illustration: ‘Li Rei de Engleterre’ in Two Genealogical Texts”
Sharon Goetz [English, University of California, Berkeley]
Flowers and Gardens in Cross-Cultural Perspective [Towers: Presidio Room]
Chair: Rev. Penelope Duckworth [Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real]
“Praying with Herbs: The Contemplative Life of a Franciscan Lay Preacher, Rose of Viterbo”
Darleen Pryds [Franciscan School, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley]
“Montezuma’s Gardens: The Impact of Aztec Botany on Mediterranean Culture, 1519-1600”
Fabio Lopez-Lazaro [History, Santa Clara University]
“The Saint of Silicon Valley: Clare of Assisi and Her Horticultural Legacy”
Nancy Lucid [Lucid Landscape Design, San Jose]
Expressions of Law [Towers: Richmond Room]
Chair: Piotr Górecki [History, University of California, Riverside]
“Wapentake: Symbolic and Real Force in Germanic Law”
Michael McGlynn [Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Wichita State University]
“Death of a Carolingian Paradigm: Metropolitan Power, the Canonists, and Fourth Lateran”
Anthony Perron [History, Loyola Marymount University]
“Family Dependence: Representation in the Eyre Courts of Thirteenth-Century England”
Arlene M. W. Sindelar [History, University of British Columbia]
God and Free Will: Mid-Thirteenth-Century Responses [Towers: Sunset Room]
Chair: Barnabas Hughes [Emeritus, California State University, Northridge]
"The Influence of Aristotelian Psychology on Rufus' Account of Free Will"
Jennifer Ottman [Philosophy, Stanford University]
"Richard Rufus of Cornwall and St. Anselm"
Rega Wood [Philosophy, Stanford University]
Comments: Hester Gelber [Religious Studies, Stanford University]
The Jewish Middle Ages [Seven Hills: Twin Peaks Room]
Chair: Brenda Deen Schildgen [Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis]
“Becoming Beloved? Encounters between the Jewish Sage and Muslim and Christian Power in Megilat Achimaatz”
Julia Watts Belser [Jewish Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and Graduate Theological Union]
“Visigothic Echoes in the Toledo of the Jewish Period”
Francisco J. Martin [World Languages, California State University, San Marcos]
“Awakening Obedyah: The Lasting Importance of an Eleventh-Century Conversion Text”
Christina R. Wilson [Franciscan School, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley]
7:00-9:00 BANQUET [McCormick & Kuleto's Restaurant at Ghirardelli Square]
Saturday, March 12, 2005
8:30-9:30 REGISTRATION [Seven Hills: Lobby and Coit Lounge]
9:30-11:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV
Image and Representation [Towers: Presidio Room]
Chair: Virginia Jansen [Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz]
“Personification and Theater: The Medieval Morality Play”
Julie Paulson [English, San Francisco State University]
“The Gilded Cage: A Look at Bird Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
Christina Francis [English, Arizona State University]
“Sensual Splendor: The Icon in Byzantium”
Bissera V. Pentcheva [Art History, Stanford University]
“Byzantium and Landscape in Lorenzetti’s Palazzo Pubblico Frescoes”
Anne McClanan [Art, Portland State University]
Discoveries in Manuscripts [Towers: Richmond Room]
Chair: Michael Calabrese [English, California State University, Los Angeles]
“Paris BnF Codex Grec 54 and Princeton University Codex Garrett 3: A Copy/Model
Relationship for their Greek Gospel Texts?”
Kathleen Maxwell [Art History, Santa Clara University]
“Helena, the Finding of the True Cross, and those Mysterious Rabbits of Plimpton MS 40B”
Kevin P. Roddy [Medieval Studies, University of California, Davis]
“A New Date for William of Aquitaine’s ‘Song of Penance’”
Marc Wolterbeek [Literature, Notre Dame de Namur University]
"The Ambiguity of the Book: Readings, Redactions, and the 1480 Rusch edition of the Glossa Ordinaria"
Mark A. Zier [San Francisco, California]
Cults and the Making of Meaning [Towers: Sunset Room]
Chair: John Ott [History, Portland State University]
"Crux Fidelis: The Rise to Distinction and Eminence of the Christian Cross"
James K. Otté [History, University of San Diego]
“Learning from Orderic Vitalis’s Mistakes: Relic Theft and Historical Method”
Amanda Jane Hingst [History, University of California, Berkeley]
“The Making of a Lay Saint’s Cult in Lucca”
Mary Harvey Doyno [History, Columbia University]
“’Margarete, the storye dothe hir calle’: The Textual Invention of St. Margaret of Antioch”
Marisa Libbon [English, University of California, Berkeley]
Uses of the Holy [Seven Hills: Twin Peaks Room]
Chair: Maureen C. Miller [History, University of California, Berkeley]
“Transforming Marian Miracles Through Context: BPT, SC MS 55 and the Catalonian Frontier”
Kathleen Stewart [History, University of California, Berkeley]
“Canon and Canonization: Direct Revelation and Adam Easton’s Defense of St. Birgitta”
Lawrence R. Jannuzzi [History, University of California, Berkeley]
“Chaucer’s ‘Clerk’s Tale’ and Holy Fear”
Claire Banchich [English, Lewis and Clark College]
“Transvestites, Anchorites, Wives, and Martyrs: How Legends of Female Saints were read by Fifteenth-Century Florentine Women”
Lisa Kaborycha [History, University of California, Berkeley]
Narrative and Romance [Cantina]
Chair: Sharon Kinoshita [Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz]
“Losing Fairies in Le Bel Inconnu and Bataille Loquifer”
Bérénice Virginie Le Marchand [French, San Francisco State University]
“Courtly Love and Knightly Violence in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival”
Peter Sean Woltemade [German, University of California, Berkeley]
“The Political Implications of Narrative Disruption: Chaucer’s ‘Tale of Sir Thopas’ and ‘Squire’s Tale’”
Arthur W. Bahr [English, University of California, Berkeley]
“The Memory of Loss: Expressing the Inexpressible in the Tosa Nikki and Dante’s Vita Nuova”
Barbara J. S. McKee [Comparative Literature and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley]
11:30-11:45 BREAK [Seven Hills: Coit Lounge]
11:45-12:30 MAP BUSINESS MEETING [Seven Hills: Nob Hill Room]
12:30-1:30 LUNCH [Seven Hills: Nob Hill Room]
1:30-2:30 SECOND PLENARY SESSION [Humanities Building, Room 133]
“The Language of Fraud in Dante's Malebolge”
Warren Ginsberg [English, University of Oregon]
2:30-3:00 BREAK [Seven Hills: Coit Lounge]
3:00-4:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS V
Observations of the Natural World [Towers: Presidio Room]
Chair: Meg Worley [English, Pomona College]
“The New Geometry of Raymond Lull, O.F.M.”
Barnabas Hughes [Emeritus, California State University, Northridge]
“Animals in Dante's Commedia”
Brenda Deen Schildgen [Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis]
“As the World Turns: The Body, the Cosmos, and the Astrolabe”
Victoria Sweet [Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco]
Images in English Incunabula [Towers: Richmond Room]
Chair: Maidie Hilmo [English, University of Victoria]
“Pictures in Print in English Books for Lay Readers (and some French Sources)”
Martha W. Driver [English and Women’s and Gender Studies, Pace University]
“Putting the King together Again: the Pictorial Scheme of Caxton’s Game and Playe”
Jenny Adams [English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst]
“The Clerk’s ‘Unscholarly Bow’: Reading Caxton’s Woodcuts for the Canterbury Tales”
Maidie Hilmo [English, University of Victoria]
Women and Religion in Late-Medieval England [Towers: Sunset Room]
Chair: Dorothea French [History, Santa Clara University]
“Private Liturgies and the Power of the Word: Books of Hours as Healing Texts”
Stephanie Volf [English, Arizona State University]
“Draco Interdum Vincit? The Influence of Arundel’s Constitutions on The Book of Margery Kempe”
Lisa Di Liberti [English, Michigan State University]
“Julian of Norwich and the Rhetoric of the Late-Medieval English Sermon”
Jenny Rebecca Rytting [English, Arizona State University]
Boccaccio and Chaucer [Library: DeBellis Room (6th floor)]
Chair: Elizabeth Walsh [English, University of San Diego]
“Ricardian and Trecento Spatialities”
John M. Ganim [English, University of California, Riverside]
“Another Look at the Ugly Crow in Boccaccio’s Il Corbaccio”
Michaela Paasche Grudin [Emerita, Lewis and Clark College]
“Time and ‘Time Off’ in Chaucer and Boccaccio”
Leonard Koff [Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles]
4:45-5:30 CONCERT OF EARLY MUSIC [Seven Hills: Nob Hill Room]
William Mahrt [Music, Stanford University], Director
5:30-6:30 RECEPTION [Seven Hills: Coit Lounge]
EXHIBITS
Those attending the MAP meeting will find two exhibits of interest:
Scholar’s Press will display newly published books on medieval Europe, which will be available for sale at a discount. The display, located in Seven Hills: Russian Hill Room, will be open on Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The DeBellis Collection, located on the sixth floor of SFSU’s library, will have an exhibit of early and rare books on Dante and other fourteenth-century Italian authors. The exhibit will be open on Friday and Saturday from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.