ON THE THEME:

Medieval Perceptions of Women 
and Womanhood

Lecturers: Madeline H. Caviness, 
E. Jane Burns, 
Traugott Lawler

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH

 FRIDAY, 16 APRIL

8:00 A.M. Registration begins, Foyer of Convocation Hall

9:00 A.M FIRST PLENARY SESSION, Convocation Hall
        "From Linen to Silk: Women and Cloth in Medieval French Literature"
                E. Jane Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

10:00 A.M.        Coffee, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium

10:30 A.M. SESSIONS 1 AND 2

1. Women, Conversion and Devotion
        Convocation Hall
Chair: Larry Usilton, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Paper: "The Role of Augustine's Mother in the Confessions:  A Philosophical Interpretation"
            Ann Hartle, Emory University
Paper: "Beyond Virginity: Women in the Writings of John Capgrave"
            Karen Winstead, Ohio State University
Paper: "Escaping the Confines of Corporeality: The Anomaly of Saint Martha"
            Martha M. Daas, Old Dominion University

Comment: John V. Fleming, Princeton University

2. Writers and their Audiences
        Torian Room, duPont Library

Chair: R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University

Paper: "`To thinke what was in hir wille": A Female Reading Context for the Findern Anthology"
            Ashby Kinch, University of Montana
Paper: "Watching Women: Romance Images of Female Desire"
            John Plummer, Vanderbilt University
Paper: "The Traffic in Talk about Women: The MS Evidence in Italian and French"
            Regina Psaki, University of Oregon

Comment: R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University

12:30 Noon            Lunch, Dutch Treat

2:00 P.M. SESSIONS 3 and 4

3. Women, Religion, and Authority
         Convocation Hall

Chair: Louis Haas, Middle Tennessee State University

Paper: "The Social Theory of the Three Orders and the Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Female Monasticism"
            John Damon, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Paper: "What the Nuns Knew, What the Bishop Thought: Visitations of Some English Convents"
            Emilie Amt, Hood College
Paper: "Women Writing for Vernacular Readers: Julian of Norwich's Revelations and Margery Kempe's Book"
            Susan Uselmann, Rhodes College

Comment: Martha Newman, University of Texas

4. Women, Wisdom, and Power in Literature
        Torian Room, duPont Library

Chair: Stephen B. Raulston, University of the South

Paper: "Good Old Girls: An Introduction to Spiritual Eroticism"
            John V. Fleming, Princeton University
Paper: "Assertive Maidens: Catherine, Beatrice, and Herrad's Combatants"
            Sr Mary Clemente Davlin, Dominican University
Paper: "Women who run the Show: Examples in the Works of Adenet le Roi"
            Anna Morton, independent scholar

Comment: Joseph Wittig, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

4:00 P.M.        Tea, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium

4:30 P.M. SESSION 5

5. Daughters, Wives, and Widows
        Torian Room, duPont Library

Chair: Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University

Paper: "Abandoned by Jason, Forgotten by Chaucer? Hypsipyle in the Legend of Good Women"
            David Allen, The Citadel
Paper: "`Mucho bien me fiso': Real(ly) Good Love in the Libro de buen amor"
            Nancy Cushing-Daniels, Gettysburg College
Paper: "Refiguring Widowhood: Stereotypes, Reality, and Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies"
            Laura Reinert, St. Louis University

Comment: E. Jane Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

6:30 P.M. Cocktails and dinner, Rebel's Rest

SATURDAY, 17 APRIL

8:15 A.M. Continental Breakfast, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium

8:30 A.M. Registration continues, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium

9:00 A.M. SECOND PLENARY SESSION, St. Luke's Hall 214
        "Gender and Authority in a German Law Book (the Sachsenspiegel): A Feminist Deconstruction"
                Madeline H. Caviness, Tufts University

10:00 Coffee, Foyer of Guerry Auditorium

10:30 A.M. SESSIONS 6 and 7

6. Royal Women
        St. Luke's Hall 214

Chair: Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Emory University

Paper: "The Rhetoric of Queenship: Gendered Language in the Portrayal of Royal Women during the English Anarchy, 1135-54"
            Lois Huneycutt, University of Missouri, Columbia
Paper: "Figuring Royal Women in Pictorial Genealogies of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries"
            Joan Holladay, University of Texas
Paper: "Isabella the "She-Wolf": The Final Chapter, 1330-1358"
            Larry Usilton, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Comment: Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University

7. Interpreting the Virgin and the Magdalen
        Torian Room, duPont Library

Chair: Michelle White, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Paper: "Birgitta of Sweden, a Woman of Influence: Her Life, her Influence, her Mariological Moorings"
            Donna M. Altmari-Adler, St Xavier University
Paper: "The Womb of the Virgin Blossoms: Transfigurations of Mary in Aquitanian Versus"
            Rachel Carlson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper: "The Secularization of the Magdalen in English Medieval and Early Modern Drama"
            Frederick Waage, East Tennessee State University

Comment: Cynthia Cyrus, Vanderbilt University

12:30 P.M. Lunch, Sewanee Inn

1:45 P.M. SESSIONS 8 and 9

8. Women, Society, and Authority
        Torian Room, duPont Library

Chair: James D. Mixson, University of Alabama

Paper: "Changing Perceptions by Twelfth-Century Chroniclers of Women in Flanders and Hainault"
            Karen S. Nicholas, SUNY Oswego
Paper: "The Jewish Woman in Court"
            Frances Mitilineos, Loyola University
Paper: "The Female Exorcists: Beyond Traditional Power Structures"
            James Grady, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University

Comment: Lois Huneycutt, University of Missouri, Columbia

9. Women as Victim, Women as Other
        Walsh-Ellet Hall 210

Chair: Judith P. Haas, Rhodes College

Paper: "Tereus, Procne, and Her Sister: Chaucer's Perception of Criseyde as Victim"
            Joseph Wittig, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paper: "Imagining Amazons: From Giovanni Boccaccio to Christine de Pizan"
            Suzanne Hagedorn, College of William and Mary

Comment: Traugott Lawler, Yale University

4:15 P.M. THIRD PLENARY SESSION, St. Luke's Chapel
            The Brinley Rhys Memorial Lecture
        "Legends of Good and Bad Women: Chaucer's Women and the Anti-Feminist Tradition"
                Traugott Lawler, Yale University

4:15 P.M.  Tea, Rebel's Rest

5:15 P.M. SESSION 10

10. Marginalizing Women?
        Walsh-Ellet Hall 210

Chair: Pedro Campa, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Paper: "Gendering of the Trope of Dislocation in the Pearl-Poet, Julian of Norwich, and Langland"
            William E. Rogers, Furman University
Paper: "Francesc Eiximenis on Women: Complementary or Conflicting Views?"
            David Viera, Tennessee Tech
Paper:  "Women on the Edge:  Constructing Feminine Space in the Book of the Knight of the Tower"
            Laura Dull, University of Notre Dame

Comment: Pedro Campa, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

6:30 P.M. Cocktails and dinner, Rebel's Rest