March 2-3, 2007
University of California, Los Angeles

CREDITS

MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC

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THE UCLA CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES

The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) promotes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies of the period from late antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century in order better to understand cultural, social, religious, and political issues that are rooted in the deep past yet continue to resonate in our contemporary world. CMRS supports the research activities of some 140 faculty members in twenty-eight different academic disciplines and programs. It offers fellowships and support for both graduate and undergraduate educations; it sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences, and it hosts visiting scholars and other researchers. Its publications include the journals Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published twice yearly, and Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published annually; the book series Cursor Mundi: Viator Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern World; and the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages–Online. For more information, please visit the CMRS web site at http://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/.

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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

No later than February 16, 2007, please send the MAP Conference Registration Form with a check in the appropriate amount to Blair Sullivan, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Box 951495, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485. Your check should be made out to U.C. Regents; please write CMRS/MAP Conference on the memo line of the check. Graduate students need not pay the registration fee, but they must pay for the banquet and the reception, if they wish to attend these events. We will not be able to issue refunds for cancellations made after February 16.

The MAP Conference banquet will take place Friday evening at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard (11461 Sunset Blvd.) It will be buffet style with meat, fish, and vegetarian choices; the price of $50 per person includes wine, service, and tax. The Saturday evening reception will be held in the Executive Dining Room of the UCLA Anderson School of Management (Gold Hall, 2nd Floor) on the UCLA campus; the price of $15 includes wine and hors d’oeuvres.

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CONFERENCE LOCATION

Except for the banquet, all of the activities of the 2007 MAP Conference will take place on the UCLA campus. A map of the campus, indicating all of the conference venues, is provided. Public parking is available at a cost of $8 per day and can be obtained at any of the UCLA parking kiosks; please tell the attendant that you are attending the 2007 MAP Conference.

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ACCOMMODATIONS

Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the following local hotels; please make your reservations through the particular hotel’s reservation department, mentioning the Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference at UCLA.

Hilgard House Hotel, 927 Hilgard Ave., Westwood; 310-208-3945, 800-826-3934; fax 310-208-1972; reservations@hilgardhouse.com. $129/night single; $134/night double. Reservations must be made by February 1, 2007.

Westwood on Wilshire Hotel, 10740 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood; 310-475-8711, 800-472-8556; fax 310-475-5220; reservations@thewestwoodhotel.com. $149/night single or double. Reservations must be made by February 1, 2007.

Hotel Angeleno, 170 N. Church Lane, Los Angeles 90049; 310-476-6411, 866-ANGELENO; fax 310-472-1157. $168/night single or double. Reservations must be made by February 8, 2007.

The Claremont Hotel, 1044 Tiverton, Westwood; 310-208-5957, 800-266-5957; fax 310-208-2386. $68.40/night single, including tax. Reservations must be made by February 1, 2007.

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TRANSPORTATION

The Hilgard House Hotel and the Claremont Hotel are within easy walking distance of the UCLA campus. Complimentary shuttle service is available by reservation between the Hotel Angeleno and the UCLA campus. The UCLA shuttle service operates between locations on the UCLA campus and Westwood. Public transportation leaves from the bus station on Hilgard Avenue. Taxis can be found outside of the W Hotel at 930 Hilgard, one block south of campus. Two taxis companies serving the area are United Taxi Company (800) 308-0700 and the Beverly Hills Cab Company (800) 273-6611. Fares between Westwood and Los Angeles International Airport are approximately $35.

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BOOK EXHIBIT

There will be a book exhibit in Royce Hall 306, Friday and Saturday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

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COFFEE

Coffee will be served on the loggia outside Royce Hall 306 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

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Friday, March 2, 2007

8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION [Royce 314]

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9:00-10:30 SESSION I

Inventio (Sponsored by the Early Middle English Society) Inventio (Sponsored by the Early Middle English Society) [Faculty Center, Redwood Room]
Organizer: Dorothy Kim, UCLA
Chair: Christopher Baswell, UCLA
Andrea Jones, UCLA: The Gesta Herewardi as Outlaw Reliquary
Michael Hanly, Washington State University: Langland, Gower, and War

Christine and Margery [Faculty Center, Pines Room]
Chair: Gretchen Angelo, California State University, Los Angeles
Danielle J. Hignett, Saint Louis University: Authority vs. Authorship: Control for the Pen in The Book of Margery Kempe
Cary Nederman, Texas A & M University: Christine de Pizan and Jean Gerson on the Body Politic: The Limits of Intellectual Influence?
Nhora Lucia Serrano, California State University, Long Beach: Rewriting the Myth of Ceres: Agriculture in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othéa

Medieval Italy [Faculty Center, Sierra Room]
Chair: Kirstin Noreen, Loyola Marymount University
Peter Diehl, Western Washington University: The Cults of Saints as Antiheretical Propaganda in Medieval Italy
Sherri Johnson, UC Riverside: The Hermitess and the Madonna: The Foundations of Santa Maria del Monte della Guardia
Edward Schoolman, UCLA: The Validation of Wills in a Time of Legal Disorder: The Case of Early Medieval Ravenna

Responding to the Visual: The Reception of Medieval Imagery [Royce 314]
Chair: Eric Palazzo, The J. Paul Getty Institute
Asa Simon Mittman, Arizona State University: Naked Monsters and Men in Monster-Suits: Looking at the Body in the Beowulf Manuscript
Christine Sciacca, The J. Paul Getty Institute: In the Company of Angels: Donor Imagery in the Laudario of Sant’agnese

Writing between the Lines: Winged Words and Strategies of Indirection [Faculty Center, Hacienda Room]
Organizer: Courtney M. Booker, University of British Columbia
Chair: Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA
Courtney M. Booker, University of British Columbia: Telling the Truth about the Field of Lies: The Carolingian Drama of Paschasius Radbertus
Clementine Oliver, California State University, Northridge: “Who has ears for hearing, let him hear”: Parliament and the Birth of Political Pamphleteering, 1376–1388

Negotiating the Past [Faculty Center, California Room]
Chair: Hester Gelber, Stanford University
Stacee Barcelata, California State University, Northridge: Medieval Themes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Charles Buchanan, Ohio University: The Illustrated Bamberg Moralia in Job
Kevin Roddy, UC Davis: Egyptian and Celtic Influences in Bede’s Accounts of St. Cuthbert

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10:30-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:30 SESSION II

Chaucer I [Faculty Center, Pines Room]
Chair: Henry Ansgar Kelly, UCLA
Roger Dahood, University of Arizona: History and Fiction in the Prioress’s Tale
John Fyler, Tufts University: The Virgin Mary, the Prioress, and the Second Nun
Judith Hicks, UC Santa Barbara: “Some murie thyng of aventures”: A Boethian Reading of Patience in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale

Politicizing Romance [Faculty Center, Sierra Room]
Chair: Alison Taufer, California State University, Los Angeles
Debra E. Best, California State University, Dominguez Hills: The Barbaric, the Humorous, and the Tall: Classifying Giants and the Attack on Medieval Cultural Institutions
Kelly Corwin, UC Irvine: Superlative Knights in Undecidable Conflicts: Evidential and Immanent Judicial Systems in Chrétien de Troyes’s Yvain
Carol Harding, Western Oregon University: A Governing Principle: Gui de Warewic and the Political Scene

Language and Rhetoric in Old English [Faculty Center, Redwood Room]
Chair: Donka Minkova, UCLA
Martin Huld, California State University, Los Angeles: Old English i(n)cge
Mara Vejby, UC Davis: Wyrd in Beowulf

Historiography and Historians [Faculty Center, Hacienda Room]
Chair: Patrick Geary, UCLA
Catherine Barrett, University of Washington: The Identity Crisis of Cordes
John Bernhardt, San Jose State University: Ernst H. Kantorowicz: Continuities in Thought
Chris Jones, University of Canterbury: Friend, Foe, or Simply Forgotten? The English in Late Thirteenth-Century French Thought

The Visual Virgin [Royce 314]
Chair: Louise M. Bishop, University of Oregon
Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois University: Unveiling the Body: Devotional Anatomy and the Vièrges Ouvrantes
Kriszta Kotsis, University of Puget Sound: The Empress and the Virgin
Robert J. McDonie, UC Irvine: Mystery and Artifice in the N-Town Marian Plays

Medieval Diversions [Faculty Center, California Room]
Chair: John Ott, Portland State University
Sandy Carpenter, San Diego State University: Carolingian Hunting
Karrie Fuller, San Diego State University: An Imaginary Journey: The Medieval Travel Narrative according to John Mandeville
Robert Palazzo, Independent Scholar: Medieval English Pilgrim Badges, an Overview

National Identities [Faculty Center, Sequoia Room]
Chair: John Eldevik, Pomona College
Helen Steele, California State University, Northridge: Nationality, Loyalty, and Identity in the Works of Giraldus Cambrensis
Sara Stepongzi, California State University, Northridge: King Alfred and Beowulf: The Politics of the Anglo-Saxons
Julie Tanaka, San Jose State University: Rhomaioi to Greeks: Identity in Byzantium

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12:30-1:50 LUNCH BREAK

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1:50-2:00 WELCOMING REMARKS [Royce 314]

Brian P. Copenhaver, Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

2:00-3:00 FIRST PLENARY SESSION [Royce 314]

"Visual Matter: Attitudes toward Images in the Later Middle Ages"
Caroline Walker Bynum, Institute for Advanced Study

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3:00-3:30 BREAK

3:30-5:00 SESSION III

Chaucer II [ Faculty Center, California Room]
Chair: V.A. Kolve, UCLA
Andreea Boboc, University of the Pacific: Punishment in The Wife of Bath’s Tale as a Mechanism of Social Reeducation
Theresa Tinkle, University of Michigan: The Wife of Bath's Marginal Authority
Amanda Walling, Stanford University: Placebo Effects: Counsel and Antifeminism in the Merchant’s Tale

Old French in England: Private and Political Selves in Anglo-Norman Literature [Faculty Center, Sierra Room]
Organizers: Thomas O’Donnell, UCLA, and Margaret Lamont, UCLA
Chair: Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA
Margaret Lamont, UCLA: The Rape of Buern Bocard’s Wife: Personal and National History in Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis and the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut
Thomas O’Donnell, UCLA: An Anglo-Norman Communion in Matthew Paris’s Vie de Seint Auban
Christine Thuau, UCLA: Privacy and Private Space in the Lais of Marie de France

Writing [Faculty Center, Sequoia Room]
Chair: Robert Hanning, Columbia University
Laurel Amtower, San Diego State University: Writing as Metaphor: Imagining Redemption in The Pearl
Donna Beth Ellard, UC Santa Barbara: Writing in Stone, Writing in Ink: Writing the Body in Anglo-Saxon England
Robert Rouse, University of British Columbia: Writing the World: Romance as Literary Cartography

Law in Action [Faculty Center, Pines Room]
Chair: Paul Knoll, USC
Ke'izo Asaji, Kansai University: Quittance of Common Summons before Justices in Eyre and the Essoin Legislation between 1258 and 1285
Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State University, San Marcos: TheAuthors of the Mozarabic Documents of Toledo: The Case of Legajo 3036 fol. 6
Arlene Sindelar, University of British Columbia: A Legal Jack-of-All-Trades: The Local Attorney in Fourteenth-Century England

Medievalism [Faculty Center, Hacienda Room]
Chair: Richard H. Rouse, UCLA
Barbara Balážová, Slovak Academy of Sciences: Gothic in the Age of Baroque. On the Ideological and Formal Reception of Gothic Art in the Eighteenth Century
Eileen Jankowski, Chapman University: Beowulf and Grendel: Stars of Stage and Screen
Allison Adler Kroll, UC Irvine: Tennyson’s Medievalism and the Imaginative Foundations of Heritage Culture: The Morte D’Arthur

Vision and Knowledge in Medieval Discourse [Faculty Center, Redwood Room]
Organizer: Lisa Bitel, USC
Chair and Commentator: Claudia Rapp, UCLA
Lisa Bitel, USC: Versions of Visions in Early Medieval Europe
Dallas Denery II, Bowdoin College: Vision and Relativism in the Fourteenth Century
Andrew Fogleman, USC: Jean Gerson and Religious Visionaries in the Era of the Great Western Schism

Panels, Diptychs, and Altars [Royce 314]
Chair: Kathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara University
Barbara Beall-Fofana, Assumption College: A Predella Panel in the Worcester Art Museum: Recalling the Apocryphal Tradition of Saint Silvester and the Emperor Constantine
Anne McClanan, Portland State University: Animal Violence in Consular Diptychs
Carolyn Malone, USC: Saint-Bénigne’s Trinity Altar in the "Third Heaven”

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7:00-10:00 BANQUET [Luxe Hotel Sunset, 11461 Sunset Blvd., Rooms 1, 2, & 4]
Shuttles will depart from the Faculty Center at 6:30 pm and return at 9:30 and 10:00 pm.

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Saturday, March 3, 2007

8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION [Royce 314]

9:00-10:30 SESSION IV

Translatio (Sponsored by the Early Middle English Society) [Royce 362]
Organizer: Dorothy Kim, UCLA
Chair: Matthew Fisher, UCLA
Sharon K. Goetz, UC Berkeley: Textual Assemblies: The Historiographical Veneer of Harvard Law MS 1
Dorothy Kim, UCLA: Women, Music, and Multilingualism in the Nuneaton Book

In partibus remotis: Fringeness and Its Consequences in the Central Middle Ages [Royce 150]
Organizer: Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University
Chair: Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount University
Piotr Górecki, UC Riverside: “Another World, As It Were”: The Uses of Cultural Distance in Medieval Poland
Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University: In medio prauae nationis: Papal Views of Sweden, 1150–1250
Christian Raffensperger, University of Nebraska, Omaha: The Papacy and Rus'

Physical Presence in Medieval Literature [Faculty Center, Hacienda Room]
Organizers: Elizabeth Allen, UC Irvine, and Andrea Denny-Brown, UC Riverside
Chair: Andrea Denny-Brown, UC Riverside
James J. Condon, UC Riverside: Chivalric Violence and the Potency of Medieval Christendom
Seeta Chaganti, UC Davis: Landscape and Differentiation in Marie de France’s Lais
Elizabeth Allen, UC Irvine: Holy Injustice and Breach of Sanctuary

Medieval Mediterranean Studies: New Directions and Orientations [Royce 154]
Organizers: Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz, and Brian Catlos, UC Santa Cruz
Chair: Brenda Deen Schildgen, UC Davis
Brian A. Catlos, UC Santa Cruz: Conflict of Civilizations? Religious Ideology and Political Reality in the Western Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Sharon Kinoshita, UC Santa Cruz: Towards a Medieval Mediterranean Literature
Ray A. Kea, University of California, Riverside: The Literary and the Historical: Greater Ethiopia and the “Medieval” Mediterranean World

Science and Technology [Royce 314]
Chair: Victoria Sweet, UC San Francisco
Kathryn Canan, California State University, Sacramento: Healing Magic in Medieval England: The Intersection of Magic, Religion, and Science
Barnabas Hughes, California State University, Northridge: The De practica geometrie of Fibonacci: A Unique Compilation of Arabic and Greek Mathematics
Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia: Energy and Environmental Constraints in Medieval Agriculture

Men, Women, and Monasticism [Faculty Center, Sierra Room]
Chair: Judith Bennett, USC
Laura Grimes,California State University, Fullerton: Apostles to the Dead: Memorial Intercession among the Nuns of Helfta
Stephanie Johnson, UC Irvine: Writing in the House of the Lord: Language of Love and Desire for Place in Goscelin of St. Bertin’s Liber confortatorius
Benjamin Saltzman, Pace University: Tracing St. Goscelin’s Spiritual Friendship: The Legacy of Late Anglo-Saxon Sherborne andd Its Subversive “Rules of Confraternity”

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10:30-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:30 SESSION V

Chaucer III [Royce 150]
Chair: Edward I. Condren, UCLA
Rachael A. Hines, Oklahoma State University: The Revealing Nature of Physiognomy in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Elizabeth Kelly, University of Maryland: Disenchanting the Narrator: Rewriting Authority in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
Walter Wadiak, UC Irvine: Chaucer’s Gifts and the Idea of Literary Value

Medieval Femininities and Masculinities: A Session in Honor of Dhira Mahoney [Faculty Center, Hacienda Room]
Organizer: Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico, and Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Chair: Anita Obermeier, University of New Mexico
Alison L. Ganze, Valparaiso University: “Na Maria, pretz e fina valors”: A New Argument for Female Authorship
Stephanie L. Volf, Arizona State University: “Ora pro nobis”: Patron Saints, the Book of Hours, and Household Duties in Late Medieval England
Christina Francis, Bloomsber University: Blood and the Body: Metonymy in Malory’s Morte Darthur

Miscellanies and Masculinities in the Fifteenth Century [Faculty Center, Sierra Room]
Chair: William Bonds, San Francisco State University
Christina M. Fitzgerald, University of Toledo: Miscellaneous Masculinities and Bodleian MS Laud. Misc. 108
Mike Hammer, San Francisco State University: Treating of Virtue: Intertextuality in a Fifteenth-Century Spanish Miscellany
Helen Maurer, Independent Scholar: Male Honor and the Value of a Man’s Word during the Wars of the Roses

Celtic History and Myth [Royce 362]
Chair: Michael Curley, University of Puget Sound
Lenore Fischer, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick: Brian Boru: Usurper or Not?
Blair Gibson, El Camino College: Behind Every Great Saint Is a Good God(dess): Reconstructing a Celtic Cosmology in Western Ireland
Kristen Lee Over, Northeastern Illinois University: Speaking through History: The Example of Historia Gruffudd ap Cynan

Christian Confrontations with Islam [Royce 154]
Chair: Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles
Shirin Khanmohamadi, California State University, Los Angeles: Glancing Sideways at the Crusades: Joinville's Vie de Saint Louis
Paul Chevedden, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: The Oath of Robert Guiscard to Pope Nicholas II at the Council of Melfi (23 August. 1059): The Foundation Charter of the Crusade
Michelle M. Hamilton, UC Irvine: The Semiviros: Halfmen between al-Andalus and Latin Christendom

Organization of Space [Royce 314]
Chair: Virginia Jansen, UC Santa Cruz
Laura Hollengreen, University of Arizona: Reinhabiting Medieval Jewish Space
Alison Perchuk, Yale University: Toward a “Functional Aesthetics” in Romanesque Art: Movement and Experience in the Basilica at Castel S. Elia, Italy
Scott Wells, California State University, Los Angeles: The Monastery at the Center of the World: Metropole and Periphery in 11th-c. World Chronicles

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12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK

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2:00-3:00 SECOND PLENARY SESSION [Royce 314]

"Minima Mediaevalia: Micro Medieval Studies in Theory and Practice”
Paul Dutton, Simon Fraser University

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3:00-3:30 MAP BUSINESS MEETING [Royce 314]

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3:30-4:00 BREAK

4:00-5:30 SESSION VI

Rethinking Medieval Women [Royce 362]
Chair: Georgiana Donavin, Westminster College
Karen Bollermann, Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus: Langland’s Lady Mede: Cultural Koine Turned Political Critique
Michael Calabrese, California State University, Los Angeles: Will and Troilus
Alison Tara Walker, UCLA: “And cald ochane”: Affective Narration in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid

Martin de Cambrai: A Fifteenth-Century French Farce in Performance [Royce 314]
Organizer: Sharon King, UCLA, Les Enfans Sans Abri
Performers: Sharon King, UCLA, Curt Steindler, Barry Silver
Chair: Sharon King, UCLA

Beowulf [Faculty Center, Hacienda Room]
Chair: Heather Maring, Arizona State University
Marcus Hensel, University of Oregon: You Are What You Eat: The Grendelkin, Diet, and the Making of a Monster
Keri Wolf, UC Davis: Unferth’s Sword: Another Foil to Beowulf?
Kevin Wolf, UC Davis: Sleeping in Heorot: A Marker for Criticism of the Danes?

Dante and Petrarch [Faculty Center, Sierra Room]
Chair: Michaela Grudin, Lewis and Clark College
Caery Evangelist, University of Portland: Petrarch and the Young Augustine: An Examination of Augustine’s Doctrine of Grace and Free Will in Petrarch’s Secretum
Karen Gross, Lewis and Clark College: Petrarch, Giotto, and Temples of Virtue
Rossella Pescatori, UCLA: Dante Alighieri and the Kabbalah

Poverty and Riches [Royce 154]
Chair: John Ganim, UC Riverside
Cara Hersh, University of Portland: Renegotiating Administrative Thinking in Dives and Pauper
Andrew Jones, Western Washington University: The Preacher’s Right to Sumptus in the Exchange between St. Thomas Aquinas and William of St. Amour
John Hilary Martin, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley: New Money and the Departure of Usury: Money in the Hands of Nicole Oresme

Medieval Identity Construction [Royce 150]
Chair: Martha Bayless, University of Oregon
Heidrun Kubiessa, University of Utah: From Dialectic to Trinity: Atlakviða and Guðrunharvot from Build-Up of Tension to Closure
Tiffney Mortensen, California State University, Northridge: Original Sin Undone in Middle English Poetry
Brikena Ribaj, The Ohio State University: Are We Naïve to Search for the Real Hildegard?

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5:30-7:00 RECEPTION [UCLA Anderson School of Management, Executive Dining Room, Gold Hall, 2nd Floor]

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