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READING THE MIDDLE AGES:
BOOK, OBJECT, IMAGE

DATE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1997
PLACE: Fourth Floor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College
Broadway at 117th Street

For registration information, see below

8:00-9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00-10:15 Roundtable Panel: METHODOLOGY

James Room, Barnard Hall, Fourth Floor

Dr. Consuelo Dutschke, Columbia University
Prof. Nancy Freeman Regalado, NYU
Prof. Michael Sargent, CUNY
Prof. Barbara A. Shailor, Rutgers University
Prof. Evelyn Birge Vitz, NYU
Prof. J.J.G. Alexander, IFA-NYU; Moderator

10:30-11:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS -- Altschul Hall

Session One -- Altschul 805
Moderator: Marlene Villalobos Hennessy
Bookish Maying in Chaucer's Dream Poetry
Karen Bezella, Columbia University
Subject to Approval: Early Printers and the Courtly Chaucer
Kimberly Keller, Indiana University
Painterly Expectations: Guillaume de Machaut's Illuminated Prologue in Paris BN ms. f. fr. 1584
Domenic Leo, IFA-NYU

Session Two -- Altschul Auditorium
Moderator: Henry Stevens Turner
Eating Their Words: The Politics and Poetics of a Lancastrian Banquet
Robert Epstein, Harvard University
Constructing a Late Medieval Morality: Reading the Speculum theologie as an Architectonic System
Lynn Ransom, University of Texas-Austin
A Book in the Hand: The Meaning of Convention in Medieval Presentation Scenes
Erik Inglis, Oberlin College

Session Three -- Altschul 903
Moderator: Mary Agnes Edsall
Reading Medieval World Views Through Ethnography
Arthur Figliola, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Reading Wills
Marna Miller, Harvard University
Mirrors of Glory: Medieval Reception and Usage of Three 15th-century French Courtly Narrative Genres
Michelle Magallanez, New York University

11:45-1:15 Lunch Break

1:15-2:45 PLENARY SESSION:

ALTSCHUL AUDITORIUM

Machina mentis: The Medieval Aesthetic of Cognition
Prof. Mary Carruthers, New York University
Respondent: Prof. Christopher Baswell, Barnard College

2:45-4:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Session Four -- Altschul 903
Moderator: Donna Bussell
From the Cloister to the World: Lectio divina and Affective Meditation
Mary Agnes Edsall, Columbia University
The Memory of Tears in Early Monastic Rhetoric
Pamela Dolan, New York University
Wives, Widows and Maidens: Scribal Commentary in a Middle-English Translation of St. Bridget's Revelations
Nicole Rice, Columbia University

Session Five -- Altschul Auditorium
Moderator: Kären Sorensen
"Reading" the Wise and Foolish Virgins: Gothic Sculpture and the Limits of Textual Analysis
Jacqueline E. Jung, Columbia University
Images of the Book in Art
Anna Lee Spiro, Columbia University
Literary Dress and Early Christian Funerary Sculpture
Sharon Salvadori, IFA-NYU

Session Six -- Altschul 805
Moderator: Corey Olsen
A Stunning Blow on the Head: Literacy and the Anxiety of Memory in the Legend of Cenn Faelad's Brain of Forgetting
David Georgi, New York University
Material Object as Sign in the Qur'an
Ruqayya Khan, University of Pennsylvania
Jesus autem transiens: Magical Inscriptions and the Power of Language in the Late Middle Ages
Raegan Russell, Cornell University

4:15-5:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Session Seven -- Altschul Auditorium
Moderator: Karen Green
Structures of Beholding in the Bibles moralisées: Text, Image, Reader
Gerry Guest, IFA-NYU
What Do Medieval Bookbindings Mean?
Michael Laird, Ursus Rare Books
The Ingeborg Psalter: Power, Legitimacy, and the Reception of Byzantine Art in the West
Kathleen Schowalter, University of Texas-Austin

Session Eight -- Altschul 903
Moderator: Thomas Hill
Scarlet Letters: Binding the Reader in Christine de Pizan's Débat sur le Roman de la Rose
Marcella Munson, UCLA
The Libro de buen amor and its Implied Women Readers
Martha Lorena Rubí, CUNY
La vostre C.: The Troubling Correspondence of a Fictional Woman
Martha Dana Rust, University of California-Berkeley
The Construction of Reading in the Works of Chrétien de Troyes
Heather Blurton, Columbia University

Session Nine -- Altschul 805
Moderator: Jessica Goldberg
Reading Crisis, Writing History: Galbert of Bruges and Historiographic Performance
Lisa H. Cooper, Columbia University
Reading Amalar of Metz' Reading the Liturgy: Ritual and Text in 9th-century Francia
Gavin Ferriby, Brown University
Reading the Fading Text: The Iconographic Reinscription of Latin Text in the Liturgical Drama of the Middle Ages
James Harley, University of Texas-Austin
(Un)Necessary Narratives: Strategies of Abridgement in William of Malmesbury's History of the Kings of England
Chloë Wheatley, Columbia University

WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION TO FOLLOW

James Room, Barnard Hall


Registration Information:

To register, please mail your registration fee with a brief note including your name, mailing address, and academic affiliation to:

Medieval Guild
602 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

Registration Fees:

Pre-Registration (forms postmarked by 10/20): $10.00

At the Door: $15.00

Checks should be made payable to: English Department, Columbia University.

For further information:

Contact Marlene Villalobos Hennessy at mvh2@columbia.edu,
Henry Stevens Turner at hst5@columbia.edu, or
Karen Green at klg19@columbia.edu


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