“How sweet are
your words to my taste!”*
Eating Food,
Imbibing Drink, and Devouring Texts in the Middle Ages
Conference
Schedule
Philosophy Hall,
Food and the East:
Jessamine Buck -
"Eating Mandeville: Disgusting Food Practices and Lurking Cannibalism in
the Travels"
Carl Watson - "Dismemberment and Redemption in the Book of John
Mandeville"
William Woys Weaver - "Medieval Food Terms in
the Assizes of the Kingdom of Cyprus"
Feasting:
Chase Cryn Johannsen - "Late Medieval Representations of
Eating: Laughter and Feasting in Hans Sachs, the Land of Cockaigne,
and Erasmus"
Jeffrey Johnson - "Le Banquet de Voeu as Ritual of Transformation"
Ruth Lexton – “ ‘To be fedde
in kynge Arthure's courte’: eating in the kitchen and in the hall in Malory's Tale of Sir
Gareth.”
Mihai Cristian Bratu - "Images of Hunger and Abundance in the
Writings of Villon and Rabelais"
Professor Paul Freedman,
Eucharist:
Kathleen Smith - "The Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Exploring the Eucharist and the Social Body that Consumes It"
Adam Hooks - "Torture the Host"
Tovi Bibring - "Heart
and Bread, Love and Hunger: Sexual Transgression and the Parody of the Last
Supper in the Lai d'Ignaure"
Food and Regulation:
Karl Steel - "Bestialibus hominibus
sumenda sunt": The
Regulation of Carrion in Penitential and Legal Literature
Ellen Ketels - "Gastronomical Sins in Langland's Piers Plowman"
Nicholas Jones - "Playing the Christian: Internal Heretics and the Politics
of Eating in Medieval and Early Modern Spain"
(Sponsored by The Medieval
Guild of Columbia University, GSAC (