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The Eleventh Annual Medieval Guild Conference

THE MEDIEVAL ARTISTIC COMMUNITY: TEXTUAL EXCHANGES IN THE
MIDDLE AGES

Saturday, October 14, 2000
Philosophy Hall
Columbia University

Keynote Address:  Christopher Baswell, UCLA
        "Aeneas in 1381"

Schedule of Events

9:00 - 10:00    Registration and Coffee
10:00 - 11:15   Roundtable Panel: Methodology
        Sandra Pierson Prior, English and Comparative
                Literature, Moderator
        Patricia Grieve, Spanish and Portuguese
        Teodolinda Barolini, Italian
        Robert Hanning, English and Comparative Literature
        Carmela Franklin, Classics
        Consuelo Dutschke, Manuscripts

11:30 - 12:45   Concurrent Sessions
        1.  Music, Image, Inter-text
Kathleen Ruffo: "Playing Games: Textual Invective and
        Pictorial Commentary Disguised in the Montpellier
        Codex"
Rachel Carlson: "Biblical Marian Motifs in the Acquitanian
        Versus"
Asifa Malik: "Apocalyptic Unpleasantries: Margery Kemp's
        Mirror of Humanity and the Shame of Riches in the York
        Cycle Plays"

        2.  Handling Auctoritas
Karl Steel: "Burning His Laurels: Jean de Meun as Auctor in
        La Querelle de la Rose"
Jamie Fumo: "Heroides 5 and Its Ovidian Contexts in Chaucer's
        Troilus and Criseyde"
Gila Aloni: "'Myn entent is in English to declare many a story as
        authors seyn': Chaucer's Conscious Textual Interplay in The
        Legend of Good Women"

        3.  Adaptation and Discord
Jennifer Brown: "Richard Rolle, The Song of Songs, and the
        Female Audience"
Jennifer Edwards: "Gendered Notions of Morality: The Writings of
        Dhuoda of Septimania and Jonas of Orleans"
Dorina Iancu: "'Ful merily than wolde he singe and crye': The
        Repressed Intertext of Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale'"

12:45 - 2:15    Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:30     Keynote Address: "Aeneas in 1381"
        Christopher Baswell
        University of California, Los Angeles

3:45 - 5:00     Concurrent Sessions
        4.  Medievals Read Medievals
Susan Small: "Deconstructing the Honeysuckle Metaphor"
Sister Lucia Treanor: "Marie de France and the Wolf of
        Gubbio: A Re-examination of 'The Lay of Bisclavret'"
Andrew Majesky: "Textual Interplay in Chaucer's Troilus:
        Criseyde's Roman de Thebes and Pandarus' Thebiad and the
        Spectre of Dante"

        5.  Mystical Image, Spiritual Text
Asa Mittman: "Crossing Boundaries"
Shamma Boyarin: "Text as Decoration: Micrography and Other
        Decorative Texts in the Rylands Haggadah"
Annika Fisher: "In the Embrace of the Crucifix: The Textual,
        Visual, and Performative Expressions of Angela of
        Forligno's Devotion"

        6.  Medieval Knowledge and Learning
Geoff Rector: Rhetoric and Historiography in Twelfth-Century
        France"
Christopher Bey: "Heloise and Abelard: Tragic Woe and the
        Dialectic Method"
Lori Garner: "Architecture and Oral Tradition in Old English
        Poetry"

5:15 - 6:00      Play: The Building of the Ark and the
        Flood, from the York Cycle
6:00 - 7:00      Reception

Early Registration for the conference is $10 ($15 at the door).
Checks payable to "Columbia University, English Department"
should be sent to:

        Columbia University Medieval Guild
        Department of English and Comparative Literature
        602 Philosophy Hall – MC 4927
        Columbia University
        New York, NY 10027-4927