Spring 2004 Ohio Medieval Colloquium
Saturday, March 20, 2004
12:30 pm - 6:00 pm, dinner to follow
Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
(George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201)
Session I (1:00:-2:15)
"Depiction of Horses in Medieval Italy Epics: Fact or Fiction?"
Gloria Allaire (University of Kentucky)
"Resident Aliens: The Literary Ecology of Medieval Mice"
Lisa Kiser (OSU)
Session II (2:15-3:30)
"Brothers and Sisters at Court: The Entitlements of Gender, Religion and Wealth in Thirteenth-Century Portugal."
Miriam Shadis (Ohio University)
"Cropped Round or Falling Loose: Manipulations of Hair in the Depictions of Jeanne D'Arc"
Roberta Milliken (Shawnee State University)
Coffee Break (3:30-4:00)
Session III (4:00-5:15)
"Odo of Cluny and the Invention of Sodomy"
Christopher A. Jones (OSU)
"Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and the Dit du Mercier"
John B. Friedman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
6:00. Dinner (location to be arranged)