Program

LATIN CHRONICLES AND ENGLISH LAW

Presider: Sarah B. Lynch, Angelo State University

The Meaning of Roman History: The Adaptation of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita in the Historiae of Orosius
Trevor Davis, University of North Texas

In Linguam Nostram Tectum: Isidore’s Etymology and the Origins of the Goths
Erica Buchberger, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

Fleta Reconsidered: Textual Community and English Common Law in the Thirteenth-Century
John Casey Gooch, UT Dallas

MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY AND THOMISTIC THOUGHT
Presider: Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University

Friday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

As Nimble as the Pen of a Scribe: The Tongue in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Psalms
Albert Marie Surmanski, University of St. Thomas-Houston

Aquinas and Avicenna on the First Emanation from God’s Nature
Thao Nguyen, University of St. Thomas- Houston

Governance, Legitimacy and Fluidity in Latin Jerusalem
Mark Napieralski, University of Texas at Arlington

IBERIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SEMANTICS I
Presider: Theresa M. Vann, University of Minnesota

Friday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

Paleohispanic: A New Terminology Between Medieval and Modern Studies
Rodrigo Tirado, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (CXD)

Delimitación del Ciclo de Jacob en la General e grand estoria
Francisco Peña Fernández, University of British Columbia - Okanagan

NORDIC SAGAS AND BEYOND I
Presider: Lane J. Sobehrad, Texas Tech University

Friday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

Tongues Restored: Speech, Justice, and Conversational Community in the Miracula of St. Óláfr of Norway
Elizabeth Hasseler, Texas A&M University-San Antonio

The Christian Saga-Teller? Christian Interjections in the Icelandic Saga Tradition
Jodi Grimes, Dallas Baptist University

Figurative Language and Poetic Modifiers in Skaldic Kennings with Religious Referents
John Paul Ewing, Indiana University - Bloomington

FH 227

ALFONSO X'S GENERAL ESTORIA WORKSHOP: RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES
Presider: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State University

Friday
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Presenters
Francisco Peña Fernández, University of British Columbia - Okanagan David Navarro, Texas State University
Cassidy Acheson, University of British Columbia - Okanagan Guadalupe González Diéguez, Université de Montréal

FH 228

NORDIC SAGAS AND BEYOND II
Presider: Don Kagay, Albany State University

Friday
10:45 a.m. -12:15 a.m.

Getting Into Our Heads: The Donestri and Anglo-Saxon Cultural Anxiety in Wonders of the East
Brian McFadden, Texas Tech University

“Good People”: Race, Ethics, Cultural Difference in Tolkien’s World
Robert T. Tally, Texas State University

The Names Of The Senkaku Islands in the Medieval and Early Modern Ages
Ishiwi Nozomu, Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University

UNDERGRADUATE SESSION - MIDDLE ENGLISH AND CHAUCER: LANGUAGE, POWER, AND NATURE
Presider: Susan Morrison, Texas State University

Friday
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

The Stormin’ Normans: Recontextualizing the Post-Plague Middle English Corpus
Langston Neuburger, Texas State University

The Virgin Martyr’s Ability to Gain Agency in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Physician’s Tale”
Allyson Godfrey, Texas State University

The Merchant’s Stand-Up Morality
Joshua Z. Altemus, Texas State University

The Power of May: Seasonal Hierarchy and Assumption of Power in “The Merchant’s Tale”
Sarah Godfrey, Texas State University

FH 254

MEDIEVAL WOMEN VOICES I
Presider: Jaime Leaños, University of Nevada, Reno

Friday
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

What (WoMen Want: The Female Voice in Late Medieval Iberian Love Literature
Janelle Neczypor, Washington University in St. Louis

Undressing Mia Madre Virgil: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Feminization of Text
Michelle G. Piersol, Texas State University

“Let them address me in our own language”: Translation in Bokenham’s St. Agnes and Gower’s Medea
Caitlin R. Brenner, TAMU - College Station

FH 230

12:30-1:45 p.m.

FH 227

CASTILIAN EPIC: WOMEN, KNIGHTS, AND CHRONICLES
Presider: Paul Larson, Baylor University

Friday
2:00-4:00 p.m.

Mujeres en la épica: Sancha de León y Sancha de Aragón
Mercedes Vaquero, Brown University

Cantares, Chroniclers, and the Siete infantes de Lara
Peter Mahoney, Stonehill College

Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
Don Kagay, Albany State University

Semiología: Propaganda anti-islámica en el Cantar de Mio Cid
Jaime Leaños, University of Nevada, Reno

FH 228

DEATH, SURVIVAL, AND ARS MORIENDI
Presider: Erica Buchberger, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

Friday
2:00-4:00 p.m.

Transmitting Death—or Not—in Malory’s Morte Darthur
Thomas D. Hanks, Baylor University

The Great Famine in Prussia and Livonia (1315-1322). How Serious Was It?
Daniel Wells, Art Institute of Houston

“Died in an Edifying Manner”: The Diary of Reutlingen’s Executioner (1563-1568)
Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University

FH 229

GRADUATE SESSION: MEDIEVAL IBERIA
Presider: David Navarro, Texas State University

Friday
2:00-4:00 p.m.

Lazarillo, Mío Cid y Hernán Cortés: Pícaro pobre o héroe noble. ¿Cuál es la diferencia?
Marlan Walker, Texas State University

Analizando El Cid según la ideología franquista
Lourdes Schmader, Texas State University

La imagen de la prostitución en la Celestina en la España del siglo XV
Diana Young, Texas State University

FH 254

SIMULATING THE MIDDLES AGES IN THE CLASSROOM
Presider: Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M University-Texarkana

Friday
2:00-4:00 p.m.

Roundtable
David Sweeten, Eastern New Mexico University Cordelia Ross, University of Alabama
Amy Curry, Lonestar College - Montgomery TX
Lauren Wilson, North Heights Junior High School - Arkansas

CENT 157

PLENARY LECTURE

Friday
4:30-5:45 p.m.

Transfigured Tongues: Persona, Vox, and Middle English Religious Lyric
Andrew Kraebel, Trinity University

TMH 101
Friday
5:45-6:15 p.m.

TEMA BUSINESS MEETING

TMH Patio
Friday
6:15-7:30 p.m.

EVENING RECEPTION

TMH 101

HOW TO WIN STUDENTS AND INFLUENCE COLLEAGUES: INNOVATIVE TEACHING IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN CLASSROOM
Presider: Susan Morrison, Texas State University

Saturday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

Roundtable
Sarah Lynne Bowman, Austin Community College
Amber Dunai, Texas A&M University – Central Texas
Kjell Hedgard Hugaas, Independent Scholar
Wendy Lerner Lym, Austin Community College
Kerri Pope, Austin Community College
Lauren “Lola” Watson, Austin Community College

TMH 104

MEDIEVAL VOICES II
Presider: Sarah B. Lynch, Angelo State University

Saturday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

Women and Unconsecrated Burial in Tenth-Century England
Nicole Marafioti, Trinity University

A Grief Beyond Words: The Life and Death of Katherine, the Mute Princess of England
Brooke Kennel, Texas Tech University

Slumber of Sins and the Shadow Beast: Looking at Teresa de Cartagena’s Writings Through an Anzaldúan Lens
Lea Christine Colchado, Texas State University

TMH 106

IN HONOREM PROFESSOR CONNIE L. SCARBOROUGH
Presider: Paul B. Nelson, Louisiana Tech University

Saturday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

La última desaparición del alferza, la figura que precedió a la dama del ajedrez
Juan Morilla Romero, Indiana University - Bloomington

Egilona de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: una interpretación decimonónica de la leyenda de Don Rodrigo
Irina Mozuliova, Texas Christian University

El ingenuo desafío a las normas masculinas en el siglo 17: Catalina de Erauso, fuerza y dignidad
Lydia Rodríguez, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

TMH 110

THE STATE OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY IN TEXAS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Presider and Organizer: Lane J. Sobehrad, Texas Tech University

Saturday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

Workshop

CMAL 201

POWER OF WORD, TIME, AND SPACE
Presider: Brian McFadden, Texas Tech University

Saturday
9:00-10:30 a.m.

“Padiglioni, Tende e Trabache” – Tents’ Terminology in Late Medieval Italian Language
Federico Marangoni, Università Primo Levi - Bologna

Fighting Words: Language and War in the Late Middle Ages
Daniel Davies, University of Pennsylvania

Combined & Entangled: Changing Complexities of Time and Space in the Fifteenth-Century
Kathryne Beebe, University of North Texas

A Question of Control: Late Medieval Authorities and Their Struggle to Impose Order Upon Soldiery During the Hundred Years’ War
William Mulloy, West Texas A&M University

PLENARY LECTURE

Saturday
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lying Tongues: Can We Ever Trust Historical Records?
Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

BEST GRADUATE PAPER AWARD

Saturday
1-2:30 p.m.

TMH 101

IBERIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SEMANTICS II
Presider: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Texas State University

Saturday
3:00-5:00 p.m.

Chair as Metaphor for Earthly and Divine Power
Connie Scarborough, Texas Tech University

The Immaculate Tongue: the Lack of Putrefaction in Berceo’s “El clérigo y la flor”
Paul Larson, Baylor University

Race, Religion, and the Origins of the Reconquest In Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s De rebus Hispaniae
Theresa M Vann, University of Minnesota

TMH 104

SO YOU’RE GOING TO TEACH THE MIDDLE AGES: A ROUNDTABLE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Presider: Lane Sobehrad, Texas Tech University

Saturday
3:00-5:00 p.m.

Roundtable
Erica Buchberger, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley Bruce Brasington, West Texas A&M University
Sarah B. Lynch, Angelo State University

TMH 106

CHAUCER AND MIDDLE ENGLISH
Presider: Kathryne Beebe, University of North Texas

Saturday
3:00-5:00 p.m.

Medieval Tongues of Orpheus
Vincenzo Giordano, UT - Austin

Everybody Wants Some: Deception and Sex in “The Miller’s Tale”
Thomas Rushin, UT - Austin

“Al is for to selle”: Marriage, Economic Rhetoric, and the Painting of Critics in Chaucer's Wife of Bath
David Sweeten, Eastern New Mexico University

Excerpting and Excising Women’s Narratives: “The Tale of Tereus” in Harley 7333
Abigail Adams, UT - Austin

CMAL 103

CRUSADES
Presider: David Navarro, Texas State University

Saturday
3:00-5:00 p.m.

Czech Knight in Paris. Chivalric Ideal or Reality
Wojciech Iwańczak, University of Cracow (Akademia Ignatianum)

Gender and Jewish Resistance to Conversion in the Hebrew Chronicles of the First Crusade
Jacob Lackner, University of Oklahoma

The Early Crusades and Eschatology: Christian and Muslim Perspectives
Paul E. Chevedden, University of Texas at Austin

CMAL 201

TRANSMISSION OF THE FAITH: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO SERMONS, VISITATION RECORDS, AND HAGIOGRAPHIES
Presider: Beth Allison Barr, Baylor University

Saturday
3:00-5:00 p.m.

Bridging the Source Gap for Women Religious: Thirteenth-Century Sermons and Fifteenth-Century Visitations at Elstow Abby
Elizabeth Marvel, Baylor University

'My fleshe is verely meate, and my bloud is verelye drynke': The Eucharist as portrayed in John Mirk’s Festial and Edmund Bonner’s A Necessary Doctrine
Eric Joseph Wilson, Baylor University

Which Mary of Egypt? Editorial Decisions and Religious Context in Two Versions of the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Anna Wells, Baylor University

Religious Technology and the Medieval “Vièrge Ouvrante”
Katharine Scherff, Texas Tech University