2011-2012

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”