The Ohio Medieval Colloquium

October 27, 2007
Ohio University

11:00–11:30 Arrival and coffee

Session I (11:30-1:15)

"Writing History as Law: Sovereignty and Political Rivalry in the Asturian Chronicle Tradition"
Xenia Bonch-Bruevich (Department of Modern Languages, Wright State University)

"Medieval Timurid Historiography in Safavid Chronicles"
Sholeh Quinn (Department of History, Ohio University)

"A Milanese Taxonomy of Sins and Virtues: Bonvesin de la Riva's Libro delle tre scritture"
Maria Adele Romagnoli (Department of English, University of Cincinnati)

"Taking Care of Business: Sponging, Scraping, and Wiping in the Garderobes of Medieval England"
Keith Pepperell (Department of Humanities, Columbus State Community College)

Lunch (1:15-1:45)

Session II (1:45-3:30)

"Gendered Speech in Heorot"
David Fritts (Department of English, Ohio University)

"Chaucer and Geometric Names"
                Glending Olson (Department of English, Cleveland State University)

"Chaucer's Holy Feminine Trinity: Mary, Anne, and the Second Nun"
Melanie Lee (Department of English, Ohio University)

"Marriage on the Medieval Stage"
Jim Forse (Department of History, Bowling Green State University)

3:30: Break

Session III (3:45-5:30)

"Visions from Confinement: Boethius and St. John"
Christopher A. Sims (Department of English, Ohio University)

"Jerome, Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Pearl: Mediated Journey to the Light"
Josie Bloomfield (Department of English, Ohio University)

"Dionysian Light in Julian of Norwich"
Heather Frese (Department of English, Ohio University)
               
"Malory's Burlesque of Chrétien's Knight of the Cart"
Peter Schwartz (Department of English, Elmira College)

 
5:45 Dinner at the OU Inn