Ohio Medieval Colloquium

Fall Meeting 2005
October 8th

In the Mickelthwaite Banquet Hall in the Student Center
at Shawnee State University

Session I (11:30-12:30)

“’Woe unto the man from whom scandal comes’: The Case of Abbot Arnold of Morimond and Bernard of Clairvaux”
Marc Bocija (Columbus State Community College)

"The Genre of the Ordre de Bel Aise”
Richard Green (Ohio State University)

12:45-2:00 

light lunch followed by a brief business meeting

Session II (2:00-3:30)

“Recording the Future of Iberia: History and Miracle in Asturian and Leonese Chronicles of the Reconquest”
Xenia Bonch-Bruevich (Wright State University)

“The Erotic in Islamic Literature: The Paradox of Joseph and Zulaika”
John Quinn (University of Dayton)

“Ottonian Diplomacy and Notions of Western European Superiority”
James Forse (Bowling Green State University)

3:45-4:15 
coffee/ tea break

Session III (4:30-5:30)

“The Orkney Revenge and the destruction of the Realm in Le Morte D’Arthur”
Peter Schwartz (Elmira College, N.Y.)

“Dinadan and the Knightly Code: Exception Accepted”
Jim Slocombe (Bishop’s University, Quebec)

6:30 
Dinner