SEWANEE
MEDIEVAL COLLOQUIUM
The University of the South
30-31 March 2012
Theme:
"After
Constantine: Religion and Secular Power in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages"
Lecturers:
Peter
Brown, Princeton University
Thomas Bisson, Harvard University
Friday,
30 March
8:30 A.M. Registration
begins, McGriff Alumni House
(Light breakfast and printed program available.)
9:30 A.M.–
11:30
A.M. Sessions 1, 2 AND 3
1.
Crusade:
Precedent, Context, Implications duPont Library, Torian Room
Chair: Christopher
MacEvitt, Dartmouth College
Paper: "Irish
Monastic Armies: A Reappraisal"
Burnam
Reynolds, Asbury University
Paper: "Ecclesiastical
Reform, Lay Religiosity, and the First Crusade"
James
D. Ryan, CUNY
Paper:
"Religious
and Secular Authority in the New Kingdom of Jerusalem"
Jay
C. Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Comment: Christopher MacEvitt,
Dartmouth College
2. Literary
Perspectives I Spencer Hall 271
Chair: Brian
Gastle, Western Carolina University
Paper: "Church
Power in the Lancastrian State: Gower's 'Epistle' to Archbishop Arundel"
Robert
F. Yeager, University of West Florida
Paper: "The
Donation of Constantine in Piers Plowman"
William
E. Rogers, Furman University
Paper: "Beyond
Scripture: Pope and Prince in the Wycliffite Glossed Gospels"
Mary
Raschko, Mercer University
Comment: Karla Taylor,
University of Michigan
3. The
Sixth and Seventh Centuries: Tensions in East and West McGriff Alumni House
Chair: Stefan
Hodges-Kluck
Paper: "St
Eligius of Noyon between Throne and Reliquary"
Craig
H. Caldwell, Samford University
Paper: "'It
is not right to give to an earthly king what is offered to the heavenly king':
John the Almsgiver and Changing Attitudes to the Wealth of the Church in the
Seventh Century"
Christopher
J. Bonura, University of Florida
Paper: "Holy
Entrepreneur: Agilbert, a Merovingian Bishop between Ireland, England, and
France"
Carl
I. Hammer, University of Pittsburgh
Comment: Samuel Collins, George
Mason University
11:30
A.M.–
12:45
P.M. LUNCH,
Convocation Hall
12:45–
3:00 P.M. SESSIONS
4, 5, AND 6 Gailor Hall 110
4.
Sainthood and the Negotiation of Power
Chair:
David
Dault, Christian Brothers University
Paper: "A
Martyr for Milan: Ambrose and the Easter Crisis of 386"
Collin
Garbarino, Houston Baptist University
Paper: "Political
Sainthood and the Boundaries of Empire: The Case of the Opusculum de nobili
Simone de Monteforti"
Jennifer
Jahner, University of Pennsylvania
Paper: "Comital
Power and the Collective Memory of St Winnoc's Shrine in Early Medieval Flanders"
David
Defries, Kansas State University
Paper: "'Glowing
with apostolic faith': Margaret of Scotland, Pilgrimage, and the Shrine of St
Andrew in the Development of the Medieval Scottish Church"
Lois
L. Huneycutt, University of Missouri
Comment: Thomas J. Heffernan,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
5. Inventing
a Christian History Gailor Hall 132
Chair: Paul
A. Holloway, The University of the South, School of Theology
Paper: '"Engraved
in indelible characters': The Epigraphic Habits of Eusebius and Constantine"
Sarah
Bond, Washington and Lee University
Paper:
"'That
which is worthy of ecclesiastical history': The Christian State in Christian
Histories"
Colin
Whiting, University of California, Riverside
Paper:
"Eusebius
of Emesa: A Bishop and Chronicler of the Post-Constantinian Church"
Joseph
J. Reidy, St Louis University
Paper:
'"The
Portentous Lives (and Deaths) of Emperors: Philostorgius' Vision of Christian
History"
Anna
Lankina, University of Florida
Comment: The Rev. Dr Benjamin J.
King, The University of the South, School of Theology
6.
Secular
Power in Christian Thought: duPont Library, Torian Room
From
Augustine to Dante
Chair: Winston
Black, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: "Augustine
on the Use of State Coercion in Religion"
Edwin
Curley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Paper: "A
Tale of Two Courtrooms? Theories of Royal and Ecclesiastical Justice in
Twelfth-Century England"
Philippa
Byrne, Wadham College, Oxford
Paper:
"Dante's
Faith in Politics: Demarcations of fede in the Commedia"
Dennis
O. Looney, University of Pittsburgh
Comment: John
V. Fleming, Princeton University
3:00
P.M. Tea,
McGriff Alumni House
3:30 P.M. FIRST
PLENARY SESSION, Gailor Auditorium
The
Brinley Rhys Lecture/School of Theology Lecture
"Constantine,
Eusebius, and the Future of Christianity"
Peter
Brown, Princeton University
4:30–
6:30 P.M. SESSIONS
7 AND 8
7. Christian
Communities: Archaeological Perspectives Gailor Hall 110
Chair: TBA
Paper:
"Christian Imperialism and
the Colonization of A Jewish Village in Lower Galilee:
The
Archaeological Evidence from Khirbet Qana (Cana of Galilee)"
C.
Thomas McCollough, Centre College
Paper: "Hydatius,
Archaeology, and the Legacy of Roman Spain"
Rebecca
A. Devlin, University of Florida
Paper: "After
Clovis: What Can Archaeology tell us about the Impact of his Conversion in
Sixth-Century Francia?"
Bailey
K. Young, Eastern Illinois University
Comment: Christine Delaplace,
University of Toulouse
8. Later
Anglo-Saxon England: Kingship, Church, Gailor Hall 132
and
Reform Ideology
Chair: Sara
Miller Schulte, Western Michigan University
Paper: "Confrontations
between Secular and Sacred 'Masculinities' in Early Latin Hagiography
and in Aelfric's Lives of Saints"
Rhonda
L. McDaniel, Middle Tennessee State University
Paper: "'With
these we must be brief': Pastoral
Care and Catechetical Teaching in
Anglo-Saxon
England"
Mark
A. Singer, University of Missouri
Paper:
"Alfred's
Land Management and the Legitimation of his Claim on the Church's Bocland"
Chad Judkins, Purdue University
Paper: "Rebel
Angels and the Benedictine Reform: Political and Ecclesiastical Authority in Tenth-Century
Winchester"
Jill
Fitzgerald, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Mary Frances Giandrea,
American University
6:30 P.M. Cocktails and Dinner
SATURDAY,
31 MARCH
7:45 A.M. Registration
continues, McGriff Alumni House
(Light breakfast and printed program available.)
8:00–
10:00 A.M. SESSIONS 9, 10 AND 11
9. Women,
Religion, and Rulership Gailor
Hall 110
Chair: Laurence
Marvin, Berry College
Paper: "Religious
Patronage and/as Female Secular Power: Judith of Flanders' Books and Relics"
Mary
Dockray-Miller, Lesley University
Paper: "The
Ideology of Queenship in the Earliest Coronation Ordines of the Queen"
Grzegorz
Pac, University of Notre Dame
Paper: "Salian
Women Constructing Authority through the Crowned Virgin Mary"
Nina
Verbanaz, University of Missouri
Comment: Heather Tanner, Ohio
State University
10. Religious
Material Culture and Secular Power in Late Antiquity Gailor Hall 112
Chair: Aneilya
Barnes, Coastal Carolina University
Paper: "Cultural
and Material Prestige in Fourth-Century Cappadocia"
Nathan Howard, University of Tennessee
– Martin
Paper: "The
Roman Catacombs: Material Evidence for a Changing World"
Natalie
Hall, University of Arkansas
Paper: "Haec
spectacula Christianorum:
The Roman Circus in Early Christian Basilicas"
Kim
S. Sexton, University of Arkansas
Paper: "Curating
Ancestors and Culting Saints: The Role of Women in the Anglo-Saxon Conversion"
Austin
Mason, Boston College
Comment: Robin Margaret Jensen,
Vanderbilt University
11. Later
Medieval Monasteries: Issues of Lordship and Authority Spencer Hall 271
Chair: TBA
Paper:
"'I
am a good attorney for her in this country': Continental Monastic Mother Houses
and their English Daughter Houses in the Fourteenth Century"
Katie
L.T. Newell, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: "Monastic
Lordship and the Donation of Constantine on the Eve of the English Dissolution"
Christopher
Guyol, University of Rochester
Paper: "Thomas
de la Mare: A Marvelous Anachronism"
Larry
W. Usilton, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Comments: Larry W. Usilton, University of
North Carolina, Wilmington, and TBA
10:00 Coffee, McGriff Alumni House
10:30
A.M.–
12:30 P.M. SESSIONS
12 AND 13
12. Image,
Ideology, and Power in Late Antiquity Spencer
Hall 271
Chair: Elizabeth
Moodey, Vanderbilt University
Paper: "Imperial
Ideology and/or Christian Theology in Fourth-Century Iconography"
Robin
Margaret Jensen, Vanderbilt University
Paper: "The
Enthroned Jesus and the Miracle-Working Christ: An Assessment of
Post-Constantinian Christian Iconography"
Lee
M. Jefferson, Centre College
Paper: "The
Roman Aristocracy, Battling Bishops, and the Origins of Christian Processions
in Late Antique Rome"
Jacob
Latham, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Comment: Brett
Whalen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
13. Literary
Perspectives II Gailor
Hall 110
Chair:
Stephanie
Batkie, University of Montevallo
Paper: "Nature,
Natural Law, and the Secular Power According to the Roman de la Rose"
John
V. Fleming, Princteon University
Paper: "Authoritative
Conversion: Josephus, Romans, and Authority in the Siege of Jerusalem"
Cord J. Whitaker, University of New
Hampshire
Paper:
"The
Prince and the State in Mesure
in Lydgate's Fall of Princes"
Christina
Di Gangi, Urbana University
Comment: Robert Edwards,
Pennsylvania State University
12:30–
1:45 P.M. Lunch,
EQB House
1:45–
3:45 P.M. SESSIONS
14, 15 AND 16
14. Bishops
and Imperial Authority in Late Antiquity Gailor
Hall 112
Chair:
H.A.
Drake, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper: "Martyr
or Misfit: A New Look at John Chrysostom's Career in Constantinople"
Justin
Stephens, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Paper: "Exiling
Bishops in Late Antiquity: Setting the Pattern"
Eric
Fournier, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Paper: "'Renew
your virtue': Miracles, Imperial Intercession, and the Re-Making of Martin of
Tours"
Michael
Proulx, North Georgia College and State University
Comment: H.A. Drake, University
of California, Santa Barbara
15. The
Carolingian World: Rulership, Authority, Commemoration Spencer Hall 271
Chair: Alexander
M. Bruce, The University of the South
Paper:
"Solomon's
Mirror: Carolingian Kings, the Song of Songs and Guided Meditation"
Hannah
Matis, University of Notre Dame
Paper: "Commemoration
and Image: Depicting Episcopal Authority in the Carolingian Era"
Sigrid
Danielson, Grand Valley State University
Paper: "The
Legendary Charlemagne and the Gemma Augustea: Saint-Sernin of Toulouse and the Visual
Cultivation of the Ideal Proto-Crusader"
Catherine
Fernandez, Emory University
Comment: Matthew Gabriele,
Virginia Tech
16. Undergraduate session Gailor Hall 110
Chair:
TBA
Paper: "Presentation,
Perception, and Power: The authority of foreign terminology in the Reeves
Tale and the Miller's
Tale"
Jacqueline
Cordell, University of New Hampshire
Paper: "Be
they Pagans or Heretics: On the perceptions of Islam in 'The Song of Roland'"
Matthew
Miller, Middle Tennessee State University
Paper:
"King,
Martyr, and Saint: St. Oswald as Hero of Christianity"
Samuel
Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
Paper:
"Young
Hero that was God Almighty "The Dream of the Rood" as Polemic Against Arian and
Pelegian Heresies"
Alex
Taylor, Middle Tennessee State University
4:00
P.M. Tea,
McGriff Alumni House
4:30 P.M. SECOND
PLENARY SESSION, Gailor Auditorium
The
Edward B. King Lecture
"Power
and Lordship in the Norman Anonymous"
Thomas
N. Bisson, Harvard University
5:30
P.M.– SESSIONS
17 AND 18
6:30
P.M.
17. Conflict
and Cooperation: Case-Studies from the Italian Peninsula Gailor Hall 110
Chair: Louis
Haas, Middle Tennessee State University
Paper:
"Church-State
Relations in Fourteenth-Century Siena"
Bradley
Franco, University of Portland
Paper: "Heretics
and the Repudiation of Secular Power in Medieval Italy"
Peter
Diehl, Western Washington University
Comment:
William Caferro,
Vanderbilt University
18. Christian
Values and Lay Society Spencer Hall 271
Chair: Kelly
J. Whitmer, The University of the South
Paper: "Copulating
for Christ: Fornication as a Call to Prayer on Romanesque Village Churches"
Holly
R. Silvers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Glenn Gunnhouse,
Georgia State University
Paper: "'Keep
him so he does no harm': Christian Charity and Social Responsibility meet Urban
Madness in Late Medieval Germany"
Anne
Koenig, Northwestern University
Comment: Kelly J. Whitmer, The
University of the South
6:30
P.M. Cocktails
and dinner, EQB House or McGriff Alumni House (location depends on numbers)
PARTICIPANTS'
E-MAIL ADDRESSES, BY LAST NAME ONLY:
BARNES abarnes@coastal.edu
(contact for all participants in session)
BATKIE sbatkie@montevallo.edu
BLACK wblack3@utk.edu
BONDS bonds@wlu.edu
BONURA bonura@ufl.edu
BYRNE philippa.byrne@wadh.ox.ac.uk
CALDWELL craig.caldwell@gmail.com
COLLINS scolline@gmu.edu
CURLEY emcurley@umich.edu
DANIELSON danielsi@gvsu.edu
DAULT david.dault@gmail.com
DE FRIES djdefries@yahoo.com
DELAPLACE delaplac@univ-tlse2.fr
DEVLIN radevlin@ufl.edu
DI GANGI cdigangi@urbana.edu
DIEHL Peter.Diehl@wwu.edu
DOCKRAY-MILLER mdockray@lesley.edu
DRAKE drake@history.ucsb.edu
EDWARDS rre1@psu.edu
FERNANDEZ caferna@emory.edu
FITZGERALD fitzge11@illinois.edu
FLEMING jfleming@princeton.edu
FOURNIER EFournier@wcupa.edu
FRANC0 franco@up.edu
GABRIELE mgabriele@vt.edu
GARBARINO cgarbarino@hbu.edu
GASTLE bgastle@email.wcu.edu
GIANDREA giandrea@comcast.net
GUYOL cguyol@yahoo.com
HAMMER CHAMMER@pitt.edu
HEFFERNAN tjaheffernan@gmail.com
HODGES-KLUCK quarion.tharivol@gmail.com
HOLLOWAY pahollow@sewanee.edu
HUNEYCUTT huneycuttL@missouri.edu
JAHNER jahner@sas.upenn.edu
JEFFERSON lee.jefferson@centre.edu
JENSEN robinmjensen@gmail.com
JUDKINS judkinsc@gmail.com
KING bjking@sewanee.edu
KOENIG annekoenig2011@u.northwestern.edu
LANKINA alankina@ufl.edu
LATHAM spqr@utk.edu
LOONEY looney@pitt.edu
MACEVITT christopher.macevitt@dartmouth.edu
MATIS hmatis@nd.edu
MCCOLLOUGH Tom.mccollough@centre.edu
MCDANIEL Rhonda.Mcdaniel@mtsu.edu
MILLER SCHULTE sara.lindsay.miller@gmail.com
MOODEY elizabeth.j.moodey@vanderbilt.edu
NEWELL katherine.newell@gmail.com
PAC GrzegorzLeszek.Pac.2@nd.edu
PROULX mlproulx@northgeorgia.edu
RASCHKO raschkom@gmail.com
REIDY reidyjj@slu.edu
REYNOLDS burnam.reynolds@asbury.edu
ROGERS william.elford.rogers@gmail.com
RUBENSTEIN jrubens1@utk.edu
RYAN james.d.ryan@verizon.net
SILVERS hsilvers@illinois.edu
SINGER masinger@mail.missouri.edu
STEPHENS jsteph46@mscd.edu
(contact for all participants in session)
TANNER tanner.87@osu.edu
TAYLOR kttaylor@umich.edu
USILTON usiltonl@uncw.edu
VERBANA nkvvw9@mail.missouri.edu
WHALEN bwhalen@email.unc.edu
WHITAKER Cord.Whitaker@unh.edu
WHITING cwhit005@ucr.edu
WHITMER kjwhitme@sewanee.edu
YEAGER rfyeager@hotmail.com
YOUNG bkyoung@eiu.edu