Ohio Medieval Colloquium

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Saturday April 8th 2006
12:00-5:15 p.m.

The event is being hosted by
 Columbus State Community College
    Arts and Science Division & The Humanities Department
Columbus, Ohio
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The Colloquium will meet in Nestor Hall Seminar Room B
 (The Seminar Rooms are in the lower level of the building)
 
12:00 – 12:30   Introductions
Ample refreshments will be available throughout the day in the conference room
(or in the atrium depending upon attendance.

Session I (12:30-2:00)

"Relics, Place and Power: 'Tactile Piety' in Winchester and London."
Robyn Malo-Johnson, The Ohio State University, Department of English
           

"Julian of  Norwich in T.S. Eliot’s 'Little Gidding': The Collaboration between a medieval Contemplative and a Modern Poet.” 
Amy Hume, Ohio University, Department of English  
            

            “The Fairy Queen’s Proving/Improving of the Rapist Knight in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale.”  
Catherine Rock, Stark State College of Technology, Department of English

Break  2:00 – 2:15

Session II (2:15-3:45)

            “Kidnappers, Murderers and Assorted Villains in Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur”
Peter Schwartz, Elmira College, Department of English

             "The Politics of Accountability in the Thirteenth-Century Norman Church."
Adam Davis, Denison University, Department of  History

            “Pity, Masculinity and 'Race' in The Sowdone of Babylon”
Patricia DeMarco, Ohio Wesleyan University, Department of English

3:45 – 4:00 Break

Session III (4:15-5:15)

            "Merchant Copy-letters; How Marco Bembo Controlled his Business Operations
            c. 1480." 
Eleanor Congdon, Youngstown State University

             “Who Was The Real Balian of Ibelin?”
Tim Davis, Columbus State Community College, Department of Humanities  

6:00 Dinner at Bravo Italian Kitchen

Vantage Dr. at Crosswoods, next to the 270loop.