Program
University of Notre Dame
March 3-5, 2005
Thursday, March 3
2:00-2:15 | Opening Remarks, Medieval Institute Reading Room
2:15-3:45 | First Session, Medieval Institute Reading Room
Proselytization and Warfare
Chair: Owen Phelan, History Department, University of Notre Dame
Jay Paul Gates, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Homecoming of Old English Missionary Literature: Genesis A, the Saxon Genesis, and the Necessity of (Re-)Converting England"
Boris A. Todorov, University of California at Los Angeles
"Conversion by Coercion: Bulgaria in the Mid-9th Century"
Philip Wynn, University of Notre Dame
"The Canonical Compilation of Augustinian dicta on Just War"
3:45-4:00 | Break
4:00-5:15 | Second Session, Medieval Institute Reading Room
Social Implications of Romance
Chair: Julianne Bruneau, English Department, University of Notre Dame
Peter Woltemade, University of California at Berkeley
"der lac von einer tjoste tôt / als im diu minne dar gebôt: Courtly Love and Knightly Violence in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival"
Jon Sherman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Acceptable Magic in the Stricker's Daniel"
Misty Schieberle, University of Notre Dame
"We ben bothe on: Marriage and the Common Profit in John Gower's Tale of Florent"
5:15-5:45 | Tour of the Medieval Institute Reading Room by Dr. Marina Smyth, Medieval Institute Librarian
6:00 | Carpool to Fiddler's Hearth
Friday, March 4
8:00-9:00 | Breakfast, McKenna Hall, Rooms 112-114
Book Vendors' Display
9:00-9:15 | Announcements
9:15-10:30 | Keynote Address I, McKenna Hall Auditorium
Chair: Stephen Molvarec, History Department, University of Notre Dame
Paul Cobb, Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
"The Elephant in the Room: Our Shared Medieval Endeavors"
10:30-10:45 | Break
10:45-12:00 | Third Session, McKenna Hall Auditorium
Ecclesiastical Politics
Chair: Franklin Harkins, Theology Department, University of Notre Dame
Jim Hart, University of Minnesota
"Political Saints and Kingship: Sacrality and Cults of Simon de Montfort and Thomas of Lancaster"
Jennifer C. Edwards, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Holy Battleground or Community Garden?: Negotiation and Competition Revealed in the Church of Sainte-Radegonde, Poitiers"
Owen Phelan, University of Notre Dame
"Sacrament: Oaths of Allegiance in the Early Middle Ages"
12:00-1:30 | Lunch on campus
1:30-1:45 | Announcements, McKenna Hall Auditorium
1:45-3:00 | Fourth Session, McKenna Hall Auditorium
Spain and Sicily
Chair: Phillip Wynn, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Mary Lampe, Univeristy of California at Santa Barbara
"Leo de Iannacio: Notarial Witness and Local Entrepreneur in Post-Vespers Palermo"
Heather Coffey, University of Toronto
"Identifying Spectacle and the Spectacle of Identity: The Mantel of Roger II of Sicily"
Rebecca Moyle, University of California at Berkeley
"Rewriting Toledo"
3:00-3:15 | Break
3:15-4:30 | Fifth Session, McKenna Hall Auditorium
Interfaith Dispute: Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Chair: John Young, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Maya Soifer, Princeton University
"Ego sum Israel: An Anonymous Anti-Jewish Treatise from Thirteenth-Century Spain"
Andrew J. Donnelly, Loyola University of Chicago
"Pilgrimage and Violence: Assessing the German Pilgrimage of 1064"
Frances H. Mitilineos, Loyola University of Chicago
"What They Pawned: Intercultural Aspects of Material Culture in Medieval England"
5:00-6:30 | Reception in Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library 100
7:00-7:30 | Collegium Musicum, Medieval and Renaissance Music
Directed by Daniel Stowe
Reyes Organ and Choral Hall
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
7:30 | Carpool to local restaurants
8:00 | Vagantes Board of Directors Meeting, Star of India Restaurant
Saturday, March 5
8:00-9:00 | Breakfast, McKenna Hall, Rooms 112-114
Book Vendors' Display
9:00-9:15 | Announcements
9:15-10:30 | Sixth Session, McKenna Hall Auditorium
Stretching Genre Conventions: Epistles and Skaldic Verse
Chair: Scott Smith, English Department, University of Notre Dame
Kristen M. DeVries, Loyola University of Chicago
"Sketching Episcopal Communities in the Letters of Avitus of Vienne"
Isabelle Pinard, University of Toronto
"Between Celestial Escalation and Textual Transmission: The 'letre' as Ladder; Ascending and (Con)descending in Christine de Pisan's L'Epistre Othea"
Keith Russo, Western Michigan University
"'To Be Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest': The Psychology of Skaldic Verse and the Making of an Outlaw"
10:30-10:45 | Break
10:45-12:00 | Seventh Session, McKenna Hall Auditorium
Negotiating English Economy and Politics
Chair: Misty Schieberle, English Department, University of Notre Dame
Scott Smith, University of Notre Dame
"Ymb Land Sacan: Old English Narratives of Property Disputes"
Nicole Marafioti, Cornell University
"Kings' Bodies and Legitimate Succession: Physical Propaganda in Late Anglo-Saxon England"
Jennifer Watkins, Cornell University
"The Words We Use: Stallage in Medieval England"
12:00-2:00 | Lunch, Sandwich buffet, McKenna Hall Basement
2:00-3:15 | Eighth Session, McKenna Hall Auditorium
Visual Hermeneutics
Chair: Paul Patterson, English Department, University of Notre Dame
Shannon Gayk, University of Notre Dame
"Engraving the Heart, Writing on the Walls: The Art of Visual Translatio in Lydgate's Testament"
Ann Marie Carroll, Queen's Univeristy
"Simone Martini's St. John the Evangelist: The Form and Function of a Lost Triptych of the Man of Sorrows Flanked by the Virgin and St. John"
Jonathan Juilfs, University of Notre Dame
"John of All Trades: The Multiple Roles of the Evangelist in an English Apocalypse Book"
3:15-3:30 | Announcements
3:30-5:00 | Tour of the Snite Museum of Art
5:00-6:15 | Keynote Address II, Coleman-Morse Lounge
Chair: Amelia Borrego, University of California at Berkeley
Steven Justice, Associate Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley
"Believing in the Middle Ages"
6:15-7:45 | Reception, Coleman-Morse Lounge
8:00 | Banquet, Oak Room of the South Dining Hall
Vagantes Business
Closing Remarks: Miranda Wilcox, University of Notre Dame
Amelia Borrego, University of California at Berkeley
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Vagantes 2005 organizers would like to thank the following individuals and entities for helping to make this conference possible.
Sponsors:
Medieval Institute, Director T.F.X. Noble
Alumni Association's Graduate Alumni Outreach Program, Peter Lombardo
Department of English, Stephen Fredman
Department of History, John McGreevy
Devers Program in Dante Studies, Theodore Cachey
Graduate School, Vice President Jeffrey Kantor
Graduate Student Union
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Peter Diffley
Nanovic Institute for European Studies, A. James McAdams
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Notre Dame Professor of English
Conference Organizers:
Organizer: Miranda Wilcox
Abstract Readers:
Notre Dame: Simone Brosig, Jon Davis Secord, Sarah Davis Secord, Meg Garnett, Jonathan Juilfs, Owen Phelan, Julia Schneider, Scott Smith*, Phillip Wynn, Corey Zwikstra
Cornell: Heather Crider, Robert Henry, Ashleigh Imus, Leigh Harrison, Nicole Marafioti, and thanks to Kim Zarins
UC Berkeley: Rebecca Vollmer, Arthur Bahr, Andrea Lankin, Nichole Sterling, Karl Whittington
Book Vendor Coordinator: Paul Patterson
Housing Committee: Julie Bruneau, Becky Davis*, Christina DiGangi, Melinda Dille, Shannon Gayk*, Caroline Goodson, Amber Handy, Daria Lucas, Courtney Luckhardt, John Scofield, Kathryn Veeman
Publicity Committee: Becky Davis, Misty Schieberle, John Scofield
Program Design: Daniel Perett
Special Event Coordinator: Meg Garnett
Transportation Coordinator: Owen Phelan
*Designates Committee Chair
Special Thanks
Harriet Baldwin, Academic Conferences Coordinator
Roberta Baranowski, Medieval Institute Assistant Director
Margaret Cinninger, Medieval Institute Administrative Assistant
Paul Cobb, Assistant Professor of History
Collegium Musicum and Daniel Stowe, Director
Diana Matthias, Snite Museum
Stephen Moriarty, Snite Museum
T.F.X. Noble, Director of the Medieval Institute
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Notre Dame Professor of English
Ben Panciera, Assistant Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections
Marina Smyth, Medieval Institute Librarian
Hesburgh Library Rare Books and Special Collections Staff