Florilegium: Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference
October 29, 2005
Yale University

Sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies at Yale University

On Saturday October 29, 2005 Yale University will host the 23rd annual Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference, a traveling conference between Brown University, the University of Connecticut, and Yale. The symposium, entitled "Florilegium," is designed to bring together scholars from all disciplines and cultures of the medieval world, including history, literature, religious studies, art history, music, drama, and manuscript studies.

Registration:
The registration deadline is Friday September 23. You may register by paper or email by sending us your name, email and mailing addresses, affiliation and field of study.

Inquiries:
Questions about the conference program can be directed to Sara McDougall in History, Irina Dumitrescu in English, or Eric Knibbs in Medieval Studies. Phone inquiries may be directed to Sara McDougall at 203-500-8261.

Travel:
New Haven is served by Amtrak and Metro North and by Greyhound and Peter Pan bus lines. For driving directions to Yale visit http://www.yale.edu/visitor/directions.html. For additional questions regarding accommodations and travel, contact Yale University Conference Services at (202) 432-0465 or by e-mail at confserv@yale.edu.

Schedule:

8:30-9:30 Refreshments, Linsly-Chittenden Hall

9:30-10:45: Morning Session 1

Room 1 (Linsly-Chittenden 211)
Art in the Medieval World
Moderator: Paul Freedman, Yale University.

1. Annie Labatt, Yale University. "The Santa Croce Miniature Mosaic Icon: Fragmentary Hints of Hesychasm."
2. George Neal, University of North Texas. "Image, Polemic, and Salvation: Modes of Manifestation in the Morgan Beatus."
3. Chad Kia, Columbia University. "Is the Bearded Man Drowning? Picturing the Figurative in the Late Fifteenth Century."

Room 2 (Linsly-Chittenden 101)
Representations of Women in Medieval Texts
Moderator: Jeff Rider, Wesleyan University.

1. Andrea Beaudin, Southern Connecticut State University. "The Reader's Fortunate Fall: Reflections on Wolfram's Cundrie la sorcière."
2. Maria Frangos, University of California at Santa Cruz. "Monstrous Mothers and their Children: The Story of Mélusine and the Question of 'Transmission' in the Middle Ages."
3. Katharina Piechocki, Università degli Studi di Firenze. "'Io non so donna nata': Boccaccio's Griselda entangled in dynamis and héxis."

11:00-12:15: Morning Session 2

Room 1 (Linsly-Chittenden 211)
Texts and Authors
Moderator: Oscar Martín, Yale University.

1. Mihai Cristian Bratu. "The Rise of the Medieval Chronicler."
2. Stephanie Amsel, University of Texas at San Antonio. "Did Boccaccio, and not just Petrarch, influence Chaucer's Grisilde story in the Clerk's Tale?"
3. Daniel Stokes, University of Connecticut. "The Role of Southwark: Setting and the Construction of Community in the Canterbury Tales."

Room 2 (Linsly-Chittenden 101)
Art and Architecture and its Uses
Moderator: Sheila Bunde, Brown University.

1. Melissa Katz, Brown University. "Preventative Medicine: The Retable Altar of St. Sebastian by Josse Lieferinxe as a Defense against Plague in Provence"
2. Alice Klima, Brown University. "The Foundation of the Augustinian Abbey at Roudnice on the Elbe, Bohemia: a Monastic Space for Devotion and Political Power."
3. Kristine Hess, Yale University. "Sacred Space in Byzantium: The Topographies of Sinai."

12:30-2:00: Lunch, Beinecke Library (Open to all attendees).

2:00-3:15: Afternoon Session 1

Room 1 (Linsly-Chittenden 211)
Old and Middle English Texts
Moderator: David Benson, University of Connecticut.

1. Kevin Caliendo, University of Oklahoma. "The Reveling Coded Performances of Old English Angels."
2. Eleanor Pachaud, University of Toronto. "On God's Time: Passion, Devotion and Middle English Hours of the Cross Lyrics."
3. Brendan Cook, University of Toronto. " Anglo-Saxon Poetic Vocabulary in Henry of Huntingdon and Layamon."

Room 2 (Linsly-Chittenden 101)
Saints and Saints' Lives
Moderator: Amy Remensnyder, Brown University.

1. Anna Taylor, University of Texas at Austin. "Dead Man Walking: the headless saint in medieval Latin verse saints' lives."
2. Laura Diener, Ohio State. "Choosing the Better Part: An examination of Bavarian holy women, 1098-1180."
3. Christopher Petitt, CUNY. "Models of Masculinity in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries."

3:45-5:00: Afternoon Session 2

Room 1 (Linsly-Chittenden 211)
Social History
Moderator: Anders Winroth, Yale University.

1. Camilo Gomez, Yale University. "Qadi Iyad: Muslim Jurists and State Building in the First Berber State."
2. Andrew Donnelly, Loyola University Chicago. "Coinage and the Roman Perception of the German."
3. Andreea Marculescu, Johns Hopkins University. "The Time of Historia and the Time of Fabula in Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage."

Room 2 (Linsly-Chittenden 101)
Water and Cities
Moderator: Jeffrey Fynn, University of Connecticut.

1.Britt Rothauser, University of Connecticut. "'A rever...brighter þen boþe the sunne and mone': three roles of water in the construction of the city."
2. Amy Hamman, University of North Texas. "The Baptism of Rome-A City Reborn of Water and Spirit."

5:00-7:00: Post-Conference Reception

A post-conference reception will be held at the nearby brew-pub BAR, 254 Crown Street. Coming out of the front entrance to Linsly-Chittenden Hall, go left on High Street, cross Chapel Street and turn left onto Crown. BAR is half a block down on the right.