Session 4. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - Latin America Missiology in the
Sixteenth Century
Chair: Jeffrey Coombs, Our Lady of the Lake University
1. "Methodological Problems in the Analysis of Franciscan
Spirituality"
Martin Fleming, Tulane University
2. "Philosophy or Mission: A Jesuit's Conflict"
Walter Redmond, Huston-Tillotson College
3. "Bartolome de Las Casas: Colonialist or Post-Colonialist?"
Jeffrey Coombs, Our Lady of the Lake University
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Session 5. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - Spanish Literature in the Golden
Age
Chair: Paula Luteran, Stephen F. Austin State University
1. "_El Mio Cid_ and its Defenders: The Epic Hero and National
Identity"
Paul Larson, Baylor University
2. "Rebellion and Respect for Monarchy: Lope de Vega's _El conde
Fernan Gonzalez_"
Carole Anne Evans, Oklahoma Baptist University
3. "Celestina's Movable Feast: A Transcontinental Orgy"
Kathleen Kish, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Session 6. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - Chauceriana II: A Woman's World
Chair: Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University
1. "The Wife of Bath as a Feminist"
Gail Jones, University of Texas at San Antonio
2. "A Look at Domestic Abuse in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale"
Diane Looms Weber, Texas A & M University
3. "The Disorder of Violence/The Violence of Order: Abjection and
The Prioress's Tale"
Kathleen M. Hobbs, Rutgers University
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Session 7. Friday, 9:00-10:30 - The Virtues, the Vices and
Machiavelli's _The Prince_
Sponsored by the Sixteenth Century Studies Association
1. "The Virtues"
Daniel T. Lochman, Southwest Texas State University
2. "The Vices"
Robert Haynes, Texas A & M International University
Discussion Panel: Jeffrey Cass, Texas A & M International
University
Per Fjelstad, Texas A & M International University University
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Session 8. Friday, 11:00-12:30 - Medieval Spain: The Three Races
at War and Peace
Chair: Donald Kagay, Albany State College
1. "Umar ibn Hafsun: (Proto-) Nationalist, Patriot or Predator?"
Linda J. Quintanilla, Harris County Community College
2. "The Reconquista during the Reign of Alfonso XI (1312-1350)"
Nicolas Agrait, Fordham University
3. "Jewish Bilingualism in Medieval Spain: Hebrew-Spanish
Language Mixing in the Taqqanot of 1432"
Elaine R. Miller, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Session 9. Friday, 11:00-12:30. - Chauceriana III: The Craft of
Chaucer's Language
Chair: Edwin Duncan, Towson State University
1. "Rhetorical Abuse and the Pardoner"
Analicia C. Buentello, Texas A & M International University
2. "Rhetorical Figures in Part Four of The Knights' Tale"
George Klawitter, St. Edward's University
3. "`The soleyn fenix of Arabye' and the _Book of the Duchess_"
Tom Saya, Tennessee Technological University
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Session 10. Friday, 11:00-12:30 - Medieval Philosophy
Chair: Jeffrey Coombs, Our Lady of the Lake University
1. "Notes on the Introduction of Scotism in Spain: Gonsalvus
Hispanus"
Andrea Gayoso, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo,
Uruguay
2. "Aquinas on the Primary Principles of the Natural Law and
Practical Rationality"
Gavin Colvert, College of the Holy Cross
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Session 11. Friday, 2:00-3:30 - The Impact of Classical Latin on
Medieval Law and Literature
Chair: Theresa M. Vann, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library,
St. John's University
1. "Notes from the Edge: Reconstructing Audiences of Twelfth-
Century Canonical Collections"
Bruce Brasington, West Texas A & M University
2. "Classical Sources for the Anglo-Saxon Bald's _Leechbock_"
Freda Beaty, Stephen F. Austin State University
3. "Aelfric's Grammar: A Grammar of Latin, a Grammar of English"
Melinda J. Menzer, University of Texas at Austin
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Session 12. Friday, 2:00-3:30 - The Pause That Refreshes: Modern
Punctuation Added to the Medieval Manuscript
Chair: Karin S. Colburn, Ambassador University
1. "Malory's Manuscript for _Morte d'Arthur_, Editorial (Mis)-Punctuation
and Style"
Jennifer Fish, Baylor University
2. "Editorial (Mis)-Punctuation in Chaucer's _The Canterbury Tales_"
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr., Baylor University
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Session 13. Friday, 2:00-3:30. - The Mystic Dynamic in Medieval
Life and Literature
Chair: Irving Kelter, University of Saint Thomas
1. "Julian of Norwich's Melancholy Mysticism: Pain Relieved by
the Motherhood of God"
Jane E. Jeffrey, West Chester University
2. "St. John of the Cross's Doctrine of Spiritual Maturing"
Walter Redmond, Huston-Tillotson College
3. "`So watz I rauyste wyth glymme pure': Dreaming and Self
Knowledge in _The Pearl_"
Laurel Amtower, California State University, San Marcos
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 4:00-5:00.
"From Charlemagne to Pocahontas:
The Evolution of the Saracen Princess"
Jennifer Goodman, Texas A&M University
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5:00-6:00 - Reception
Hosted by Trinity University
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6:30-7:30
_Vox Leonis_
A play depicting the struggle of six medieval women
(Hroswitha of Gandersheim, Hildegarde of Bingen, Marie de France,
Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Christine de Pizan)
led by the Wife of Bath and Saint Jerome
in search of a publisher.
Written and Directed by:
Judith Laird, Southwest Texas State University
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8:00-Concert
Dramatic presentation and music of Hildegard of Bingen
Sacred Heart Chapel, Our Lady of the Lake University