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December Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association 

Princeton University, McCormick 106

December 9, 1 to 5 pm.

1:00 pm  Coffee

1:30 – 3:00 pm 

Eduard Muehle, Universität Münster, IAS, Princeton

The Slavic World in the Middle Ages – real or Invented Slavisism?

Adam Izdebski, University of Krakow/IAS, Princeton,

Climate Change and the Eastern Roman Empire. A new dimension of history

3: 30 – 5:00

Xin Wen, Princeton University

Reassembling the Ruins: Song Dynasty (960-1279) Views of the Tang Capital Chang’an

Thomas Conlan, Princeton University,

Law and Violence in Medieval Japan

5 pm Reception

Friday, October 29, 2021, 3 PM EST | Morgan Library & Museum

Join Joshua O’Driscoll, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, for a virtual tour of the exhibition Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500, which offers a sweeping overview of manuscript production in the Holy Roman Empire. As the first major presentation of this subject in the English-speaking world, Imperial Splendor introduces visitors to fundamental aspects of this history, including how artists developed a visual rhetoric of power, the role of the aristocratic elite in the production and patronage of manuscripts, and the impact of Albrecht Dürer and humanism on the arts of the book.

Please note that the program will take place online. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom. Participants are advised to download the app in advance for the best user experience.

Tickets Options: Many of the Morgan’s digital programs are offered at low cost or free to the public. Please select the ticket price that best suits your needs and thank you for supporting the Morgan’s programming.

To register and for more information: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/imperial-splendor-art-book-holy-roman-empire-ca-800-1500-virtual-gallery-talk

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DVMA Meetings 2014-2015

 Meetings held in 2013-2014

April 5 @ Drew University
Organizers:  Louis Hamilton, Laura Morreale, and Dot Porter
Theme:  Communities of Italy:  New and Traditional Approaches

Speakers:    • Wayne Storey (Indiana University), “A Rich-Text Petrarch and the Expansion of Communities”

  • Isabella Magni (Indiana University), “Petrarchive: a new digital frontier in the study of Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta”


  • Samantha Kelly (Rutgers University), “The Black Africans of Italy”

  • Laura Morreale (Fordham University), “The French of Italy: Rethinking Political Narratives” 

 • Matthew Shoaf (Ursinus College), “Bound by Sound: Trecento Art and Community”

  • Andrew Irving (The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church), “Quam inhonestum: Changes in Massbook Design at Montecassino in the Eleventh Century”

  • Richard Gyug (Fordham University), “Between East and West on the shores of the southern Adriatic: Dubrovnik and Kotor.”

February 15 @ the RUC Campus Center Rutgers University-Camden

Organizers:  Aaron Hostetter and Adam Miyashiro 



Speakers:  

• Gabrielle Parkin (University of Delaware), “’Clothed by God in fanciful costume’: White Clothes, Tears, 
and Livery in the Book of Margery Kempe” (Winner of the DVMA Paper Prize)

 

• Adam Miyashiro (Stockton College), “Alexander Between Empires”

  

• Cord Whitaker (Temple University), “Black, White, and in Between: Medieval Race, the Spirit, and   Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale 


• Carissa Harris, Assistant Professor of English, Temple University:  ” ‘All medons be ware, be rewe’: 
  Sexual Education in the Middle English Pastourelle”

 

• Andrew Cole, Professor of English, Princeton University: “Chaucer’s Occupations”

 Lightning Talks on Chaucerian Manuscripts from Advanced Undergraduates and Graduate students:

  • Richard Milligan (Rutgers-Camden)

  • Cristina Chillem (Rutgers-Camden)

  • Nikolai Fomich (Rutgers-Camden)

  • Nate Hall (Rutgers-Camden)

  • Sarah Baginsky (Stockton College)

  • Mark-Allan Donaldson (Stockton College)

  • Lauren Bevins (Rutgers-New Brunswick)

November 23 @ the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University


Organizer:  Colum Hourihane
Speakers:                               

• Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University), “History and Cultural Brokerage in Late Antiquity”
                                                 

• Susan Mosher Stuard (Haverford College, Emerita), “Shopping as Consuming Acts in 
Fourteenth Century Italian Towns”

• Markus Cruse (Arizona State University and Institute for Advanced Study) “What Marco Polo’s Travel Account Meant to its Earliest Readers”


• Judith Golden (Princeton University), “Mahaut, Countess of Artois as Patron, Proclaiming  Wealth and Heritage through her Gardens and her Art”


• Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo (Montclair State University), “Hearing the Image at Santo  Domingo de Silos”


• Maureen McCormick (Prosopon School of Iconology and Princeton University Art Museum), “     From Image to Likeness: Musings of a Latter Day Iconographer”


• Michael Curschmann (Princeton University, Emeritus), “Duo bellatores: The Changing    Contexts and Meanings of a Visual Paradigm”

September 23 @ the Special Collections Center, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania

Organizer:  Dale Kinney

Speakers:             

•  Dorothy Porter (University of Pennsylvania),  “What are we Presenting? Gauging medievalists’ Use of Digital Resources through Major Conferences in the Field”

• Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College), “Natural Philosophy in LJS 384: William of Conches, De   philosophia mundi”

• Tom Izbicki (Rutgers University), “Analyzing a Legal Miscellany: Schoenberg MS 450”

“Lightning” talks:                  • Nick Harris, LJS 441
• Jackie Burek, LJS 477
• Larissa Grollemond, LJS 19: Spanish Nobility and 16th-Century Manuscript Illumination
• Regan Kladstrup, The Penn Provenance Project
• Marie Turner, MS Roll 1066
• Lynn Ransom, The Schoenberg database of manuscripts
• Liza Strakhov, Codex 902
• Alex Devine, MS Codex 236
• Emily Steiner, LJS 266: The History of the World (according to the French) 
• Dorothy Porter, The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance
• Will Noel, The Schoenberg Institute

Meetings held in 2012-2013

April 13 @ LGBT Carriage House, University of Pennsylvania
Symposium in Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association


Organizer:  Martha Easton
Speakers:

• Edward Peters (University of Pennsylvania), “Just One More Foundation Myth: From the Lilly
Pennsylvania Program to the DVMA”

 • Agnieszka E. Szymańska (Temple University),”Designing the Vault of Heaven at the Cappella Palatina, Palermo”

 • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), “Medieval/Environmental Activism”

 Participants in Roundtable Discussion of “The Future of Medeival Studies”:

 • Celia Chazelle (The College of New Jersey)

 • Dallas G. Denery (Bowdoin College)

 • Darin Hayton (Haverford College)

 • E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania)

 • Karen Overbey (Tufts University)

 • David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)

March 16 @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Topic:  “Crossing Bridges”

Organizer:  Dale Kinney

Speakers:

• Larry Nees (University of Delaware), “Arculf”

• Louis Hamilton (Drew University), “Invisible Cities, Invented Histories: Jerusalem and Rome       in the Exegesis of Bruno of Segni”

• Jesse Mann (Montclair State University), “Juan de Segovia & Islam: 

  Opportunities, Obstacles and Contexts”

• Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania, Lecture and Gallery Visit


December 1 @ Princeton University


Organizer:  Colum Hourihane
Speakers: 


•  Johanna Seasonwein (Princeton University Art Museum), “A Tale of Two Windows: the Gothic Revival at Princeton University”

• Courtney Palmbush (Princeton Theological Seminary), “The Frontier and Patrick’s ‘Ministry of Slavery’ ”  

• Susan Auth (Curator Emerita, Newark Museum), “Birds and Their Symbolism in the Late Antique Art of Egypt”  

• Danielle Oteri (International Center of Medieval Art, The Cloisters), “The Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters:   Weaving a New Interpretation”  

• Anna Zayaruznaya (Princeton University), “Cis chans veult boire! On the Anthropomorphisation of   Late-Medieval Song”  

• John Rassweiller (Independent Scholar), “A collection of seal matrices of the common People:  Signatures and a Portal to Medieval Life”  

• Mayke de Jong (Utrecht University), “Epitaph for an Era: Paschasius Radbertus and his Lament  for Wala”


September 15 @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Topic:  Visions of Wonder, Thoughts of the Divine


Organizer:  Geoffrey W. Gust


Speakers:

 •  Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania), “Living with Uncertainty:  Reactions to Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Later Middle Ages” 

 •  Julia Verkholantsev (University of Pennsylvania), “The Two Bibles of St. Jerome:  The Question of the

    Vernacular and the Legend of St. Jerome’s Slavonic Rite and Letters” 

 •  Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), “Fraud” 

 •  Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College), “Holy Popes” 

Meetings held in 2011-2012

April 28 @ Villanova University 


Organizers:  Rebecca Winer and Adriano Duque


Speakers:  


• Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths (University of Delaware), “Beauty Matters. Towing the line between aiding the   divine and enabling the demonic in the later Middle Ages”  • Adriano Duque (Villanova University), “Reading Gardens in the Spanish Frontier Ballad Tradition”  

• Jessica Goldberg (University of Pennsylvania), “The Language of Trust, Risk and

 Calculation in the  Documents of Medieval Mediterranean Merchants”   



February 18 @ The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey


Organizer:  Adam Miyashiro 


Speakers:

• Marla Pagan-Mattos (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “The Erasure of a Saintly
 Genealogy: The Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla of Berceo and the Task of ‘tornar en 
romance’”


• Claire Taylor Jones (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “Meister Eckhart’s Daughter?” 


• Aaron Hostetter (Rutgers University, Camden), “Feeding Aristocratic Identity in Sir Gowther”


• David King (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey), “Judicial Duels and Moral Anomie in La Mort le Roi Artu”


• Teofilo Ruiz (University of California, Los Angeles), “Writing Festivals in Late Medieval Spain” 

December 3 @ Princeton University 

Organizer:  Colum Hourihane (Princeton University)
Speakers:       

• Andrea Worm (University of Augsburg), “Sancta Mater Ecclesia. A Catechetic Rendering of
the Heavenly Jerusalem”
                     

• Mailan Doquang (Princeton University), “Architectural Thresholds in Thirteenth Century
 France” 
                    

• Martha Easton (Seton Hall University), “Memory, Mysticism, and Medieval Architecture: Hammond Castle and American Medievalism”

 • Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), “The Holistic Approach is Greater
Than the Sum of the Parts:  The Added Mark Frontispiece in the Ninth-Century Royal Bible
Revisited”

• Nino Zchomelidse (Princeton University), “Allegory and Remembrance: Lay Patronage in the Angevin Kingdom”

• Beatrice Radden Keefe (Princeton University), “A Pictograph of Terence”  

• Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, emeritus), “Naming Images,
 Venerating Icons in Sylvester Syropoulos’ World”

October 1 @ Glencairn Museum


Organizer:  Martha Easton (Seton Hall University)


Speakers: 

• Sandy Bardsley (Moravian College),  “Gender, Health, and the Archaeological Record”
                

• Heather Flaherty (Gettysburg College), “Theological Summa or Liber Laicorum? Classifying the Speculum Humanae Salvationis”

Meetings held in 2010-2011

April 9 @ Temple University
Topic:  Performing Medieval Women


Organizer:  Montserrat Piera (Temple University)


Speakers:
           

•  Margaret Schaus (Haverford College), “When Adam Delved and Eve Span”: Taking Account of Women and Gender”
            

•  Jessica Van Oort (Temple University), “The Wound of the Left Foot”: Agnes Blannbekin’s Theory and Practice of Sacred Performance and Dance”
            

•  Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota), “Why did Medieval Women Want to Get Married?”
            

•  Geoffrey Gust (Temple University), “Performing the Middle Ages:  Cinematic Frames, Gender Games, and the Theater of Medieval Studies”


Feb. 26 @ Rutgers University
Topic:  From England to Byzantium: Geography, Manuscripts and Architecture in the Middle Ages


Organizer: Erik Thuno 


Speakers:
            •  Matthew Goldie (Rider University), “England’s Insularity in the Late Middle Ages: Theoretical 
                   and Material Geographies” 
            •  Robert Maxwell (University of Pennsylvania), “Illuminating Absence: Signatures and Signs on 
                   Romanesque Charters”
            •  Jeanette Patterson (Johns Hopkins University), “Stolen Scriptures: The Wartime Politics of 
                   Owning the Bible Historiale” (Winner of the Graduate Student Paper Award)
            •  Jelena Trkulja (Princeton University), “Hidden Revelations: Semiotics of Byzantine
                   Architecture”

December 11 @ Princeton University
Topic:  Contemplation, Image and History in the Middle Ages 
Organizer: Colum P. Hourihane, Princeton University
Speakers:
        •  Lynn Ransom (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts), “The Stein Quadriptych and the 
            Pictorial Vita Christi Tradition in the Late Middle  Ages”
        •  Don C. Skemer (Princeton University), “English Genealogical Chronicle Rolls and their Readers”
        •  Constance Bouchard (University of Akron), “The Twelfth Century Contemplates Its Merovingian Past”
        •  Karl Morrison (Rutgers University), ” ‘The image of God is one thing; what is contemplated in the
            image is another’:  Paradoxes of Art and the Self”
        •  Katrin Kogman-Appel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “Women with Books in Medieval Jewish
            Art: Female Education and (Il)literacy from Cairo to Worms” 
        •  Michael Curschmann (Princeton University), “Integrating Anselm: Pictures, Inscriptions and Music in
            a 12th-Century Manuscript of His Prayers and Meditations”

September 11 @ Free Library of Philadelphia
Topic:  Transmedieval Techne
Organizer: Kathleen Biddick, Temple University
Speakers:

Larry Scanlon (English-Rutgers), “The Premodern Real”

Kathleen E. Kennedy (English- PSU Brandywine), “Transmedieval IT: The Law”

Margaret Mullett (Director of Byzantine Studies-Dumbarton Oaks), “A Life of Bliss: Positioning Byzantine Studies in the 21st Century”

Catherine Conybeare (Classics-Bryn Mawr), “Postmodern Positivism: On Techne & Text Editing”

September  26 @ University of Pennsylvania
Organizer:  Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:

Erik Knibbs (University of Pennsylvania), “The First Seven Miracles Performed by Aldhelm of Malmesbury”

Martin Foys (Drew University), “The Digital Mappaemundi Project: Making the World more than Word”

Round-table Discussion with Kathleen E. Kennedy (Penn State University-Brandywine) & Paul Patterson (St. Joseph’s University) on “Reforming the Reformation of the Book: A Report on the recent NEH Seminar ‘Reformation of the Book'”

December 12 @ Princeton University
Organizer: Matt Shoaf, Ursinus College
Speakers:

Colum Hourihane (Index of Christian Art), “The Irish High Crosses – A New Interpretation”

Emily Zazulia (University of Pennsylvania), “Corps contre corps, voix contre voix: Conflicting Codes of Discourse in the Late Fifteenth-Century Combinative Chanson” WINNER OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE

Robert Hollander (Princeton University), “Dante’s Problematic Cato the Younger: Purgatory I& II”

February 21 @ Bryn Mawr College
Topic:  Translatio and Translation in Medieval Europe
Organizer:  Ellie Truit, Bryn Mawr College
Speakers:

Maud McInerney (Haverford College), “Hector in the Alabaster Chamber: Translating History in the Medieval Troy Story”

Jennifer Borland (Oklahoma State University and Penn Humanities Forum), “Accessing Health in the Regime du corps”

Jamie Taylor (Bryn Mawr College), “From Mouth to Page: William Langland’s Testimonial Book”

Nicholas Watson (Harvard University), “Work in Progress: The Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Revolution and the Making of Lay Identity”

April 17 @ Temple University
Organizer: Montserrat Piera, Temple University
Speakers:

Susan Einbinder (Hebrew College), “Seeing the Blind: On Misreadings of the Medieval Jewish Past”

Ronald Surtz (Princeton University), “The Perils of Female Writing in Late Medieval Valencia”

Kathleen Biddick (Temple University), “Dead Neighbors: The Sovereignty of Miracles”

September 27 @ University of Pennsylvania, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Organizer: Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Speakers:

Richard Hodges (Williams Director, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania), “Rethinking S. Vincenzo al Volturno and the Plan of St. Gall”

Alan Gaylord (Winkley Professor of English, emeritus, Dartmouth College; Senior Scholar, English, Princeton University; Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania), “Medieval Literature and Medieval Readers: Performed Out Loud or Imagined by Single Readers?”

December 13  @ Princeton University
Organizer:  Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware
Speakers:

Julia Smith (University of Glasgow; visiting member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), “Rulers and Relics in the Early Middle Ages”

Erik Thun? (Rutgers University), “The Early Medieval Apse: Observations on Liturgy and Reception”

Mary Morse (Rider University), “Julitta and Quiricus: Childbirth Protectors in Medieval English Manuscripts and Devotional Traditions”

February 11 @ Rider University
Topic: The Hidden and Revealed in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Speakers:

Linda Carreiro (University of Calgary), “Revealing the Anatomical Body: Inscriptions within Early Modern Dissection Culture”

Timothy McCall (Villanova University), “The Signore Hidden and Revealed: the Coretto of Pier Maria Rossi of Parma”

Joseph Salvatore Ackley (New York University), “Increasingly Improper: 13th and 14th Century Manuscript Illuminations of Biblical Sodomite”

Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University), “The Global South of Medieval Maps”

Dominick Finello (Rider University), Cultural Landscapes and Esthetic Norms in the Quijote”

Geoffrey Shamos ( University of Pennsylvania), “A Crucial Divide: Visions of Zechariah in the Hortus Deliciarum, fols. 64v. and 65r”

Nick Welding (Georgia State University), “Unmasking the World: Galileo and Authorship”

Laura Levine (New York University), “Magic and Counter-magic: Spectacles of Visibility”

Robert J. Dobie (LaSalle University), “The Hidden and the Revealed in Medieval Philosophy”

Keynote Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame’s School of Architecture in Rome), “The Secret World of Athanasius Kircher”

April 19 @ The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Organizer:  Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:

David Reynolds (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University), The Roman de la Rose Digital Library

Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University), Digital Humanities: New Challenges

Giles Constable (Institute for Advanced Study), Cluny and Rome

Martha Easton (Bryn Mawr College), Nudity and Dress in the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry