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Representations and Realities 

of Medieval and Renaissance Experience

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ASSOCIATION

Thursday, April 3

8:00 p.m.

Informal gathering of conference participants, Judge Baldwin's, Antlers Adams Mark Hotel

8:30 a.m.-Noon

Conference registration, information and refreshments, Lennox Lounge, Worner Center

Session 1A, Worner Center 211-Identity and Signification

Chair: [Maria Daniels (Colorado College)]

• Kim Klimek (University of New Mexico), "Abelard, Signification, and Intentionality"
• Ashli Sharp (Brigham Young University), "Clothed in Righteousness: The Symbolic Role of the Robe in Emaré"
• Angela Scordo-Polidori (University of Denver), "Angelica and the Presence of (In)visibility in The Orlando Furioso"

Session 1B, Worner Center 212-Representations and Realities in Early Modern Drama

Chair: Genevieve Love (Colorado College)

• Maren Donley (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Preserving the Author: Commodification of Criticism and the Imagining of a Capitalist Contract in the Induction to Bartholomew Fair"
• Christopher Fassler (University of Utah), "Thomas Heywood's Rape of Lucrece: Rape Represented and Genre Realized"
• Jean MacIntyre (University of Alberta),"'Honor Pricks Me On': Duels on the Jacobean Street and Stage"

Session 1C, Worner Center 213-Religious Practice and Medieval Thought

Chair: Katherine Clark (Fort Lewis College)

• Paul Dietrich (University of Montana), "'The Elevated Host is the Hurled Stone': The Agonistic Structure of Reality in the Liturgy, Universal History, and Reform Politics of Honorius Augustodunensis"
• Manu Radhakrishnan (Columbia University), "Relics, Guibert, Interiority and Intention"
• Carol Neel (Colorado College), "Confession and Conversion in Twelfth-Century Vitae"

Session 1D, Worner Center 216-Chaucer I

Chair: Jane Hillberry (Colorado College)

• Alice Blackwell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "The Company One Keeps: Chaucer's Monk, his Greyhounds, and the Hare"
• Heidi Eldredge (Brigham Young University), "'Love as to a creature' or "Affeccioun of hoolynesse': Worthiest Love in The Knight's Tale"
• Robert Haller (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), "Chaucer's Universes: Causality, Morality, Truth and Self-Interest"

10:30-11:50 a.m.

Session 2A, Worner Center 211-Shaping Piety in the Church Temporal

Chair: Carol Neel (Colorado College)

• Isabel Moreira (University of Utah), "Suffering Sinners and the Economy of Pain in the Early Middle Ages"
• Katherine Clark (Fort Lewis College), "Danger and Discretion: Pious Widowhood in Later Medieval Preachers' Exempla"
• Richard Terrell (Doane College), "Savanarola: As Bad as He Sounds?"

Session 2B, Packard Hall 22-Disrupted Perspective in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Arts

Chair: Donald Seastrum (Western State College, Colorado)

• Barbara Bays (Ohio University), "The Narrative Pulpit at Barga Cathedral"
• Jerry Marino (Florida International University), "The 'Infection of St. Anthony(?): Reconsidering Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece"
• Barnaby Nygren (Roger Williams University), "Perspective as Representation and Reality in the Works of Paolo Ucello"

Session 2C, Packard Hall 126-Rethinking Women and Politics in Early Modern England

Chair: Andrea Knox (University of Northumbria, Newcastle)

• James Daybell (University of Reading), "Women's News and Intelligence Networks in Early Modern England"
• Karen Robertson (Vassar College), "Negotiating Favour: The Letters of Lady Ralegh"
• Susan Frye (University of Wyoming), "Anne of Denmark and the Historical Contextualization of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII"

Session 2D, Packard Hall 23-Early Middle Ages

Chair: Jane Woodruff (William Jewell College)

• James Otté (University of San Diego), "Betwixt War and Peace: The Bell Goes to War"
• Alexandra Olsen (University of Denver), "Subtractive Rectification and the Old English Riming Poem"
• Charlene Kellsey (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Reading and Memory in the Sixth-Century Letter of Caesaria to Radegund and Richilde"

Noon-1:30 p.m.

Lunch break

1:00-end of day

Conference late registration, information, and refreshments, Packard Gallery

1:30-2:50 p.m.

Session 3A, Worner Center 216-Power and Women in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Susan Frye (University of Wyoming)

• Philippe Bonolas (Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon and I.S.L.A. Porto), "Representation of Power in Queen Margot's Memoirs"
• Andrea Knox (University of Northumbria at Newcastle), "Poverty, Property, and Education: Irish Nuns and Female Monastic Tradition in Spain, 1563-1670"
• Jerome Dees, (Kansas State University), "'[Love] had forced him to live in his head': Thought and Thinking in Petrarch, Sidney, Spenser, and Lady Mary Wroth"

Session 3B, Packard Hall 126-Representation of the Other: Monsters and Transgressives

Chair: Regula Evitt (Colorado College)

• Margaret Harp (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), "Presence and Absence of the Gigantesque in Twentieth-Century Illustrations of Rabelais' Gargantua"
• Michael T. Walton (Salt Lake City UT), "Illustration as Iconographic Sermon: The Monk Calf"

Session 3C, Packard Hall 126-Chaucer II

Chair: William West (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Stacy Pratt (Brigham Young University), "The Presence of Mary in Chaucer's Man of Law: Constance as an Alternative Virtuous Woman"
• Cindy Carlson (Metropolitan State College of Denver), "Chaucer's Prioress and the Process of Demonizing the Jews"
• Paul Thomas (Brigham Young University), "Chaucer's Knight's Tale: Were Arcite and Emelye Really Married?: Why It Matters"

Session 3D, Packard Hall 24-Representing the Past

Chair: Thomas Eckenrode (Fort Lewis College)

• Norma Engberg (University of Nevada Las Vegas), "What the Notion of the 'Nine Worthies' Reveals about the Middle English Alliterative Morte Poet's Attitudes toward History"
• Jeremy Kiene (University of Notre Dame), "'Heauy Ruine they did seeme to threat': Ruins and History in Faerie Queene II.vii"
• Patricia Marchesi (University of Colorado, Boulder), "'We are no tyrant but a Christian King': Reinventing Antiquity and Englishness in Shakespeare's Henry V and Julius Caesar"

3:00-4:20 p.m.

Session 4A, Packard Hall 22-Narrative Strategies I

Chair: Christopher Wood (Boston College)

• Kurtis Haas (Mesa Sate College), "The Unfortunate Traveler and the Ramist Controversy: A Narrative Dilemma"
• Christopher Horner (University of Utah), "An Impasse for 'Chronicle-Telling' and the Birth Pangs of 'History-Writing': Fictional Narrative at the Crossroads in the Quart Livre of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel"
• William West (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Jacob Burckhardt's Untimely Meditations"

Session 4B, Packard Hall 126-Representing Difference and Distance

Chair: Dana Rosenfeld (Colorado College)

• Gunnar Anderson (State University of New York, Potsdam), "Muhammad's Fate: Medieval European Distortions of the Demise of the Prophet"
• Benjamin Deneault (University of Colorado, Boulder), "Fear of A Black Planet: Fulke Greville's 'precolonial awareness'
• Todd Upton (University of Colorado at Boulder), "In re Jerusalem and the Holy Sites: Was There a Change in the Ecclesiastical Tradition from the Fifth to Twelfth Centuries?"

Session 4C, Packard Hall 23-Shakespeare

Chair: Mark Stavig (Colorado College)

• Hesham Khadawardi (University of Nebraska), "The Merchant of Venice and Receptivity to Cultural Intelligibility"
• Catherine Winiarski (University of California, Irvine), "Iconoclasm and Iconophilia in Shakespeare's Othello"
• Sharon Beehler (Montana State University), "Teaching Shakespeare around the World"

5:00 p.m.

Colorado College Collegium Musicum Concert

Packard Auditorium

6:00 p.m.

Reception honoring graduate student participants

hosted by Colorado College's History Department

Gaylord Hall

Worner Center

7:00 p.m.

RMMRA Thirty-fifth Anniversary Banquet

Gaylord Hall

Worner Center

Saturday, April 5

7:00 a.m.

Executive Council breakfast, Worner 216

9:00 a.m.-end of day

Conference late registration, information, and refreshments, Packard Gallery

9:30-10:50 a.m.

Session 5A, Worner Center 216-Modes of Chivalry, Tragic and Comic

Chair: Charles Smith (Colorado State University)

• David Fein (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), "The Knight Who Discovered the Woman in His Bed Was Actually His Wife: A Reading of the Ninth Tale of the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles"
• Jolyon Hughes (Colorado State University), "The Titurel Fragment: Continuing Themes in Parzival"
• Rex Nielson (Brigham Young University), "Reputation and the Crisis of Identity in Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight, Or Where Did All this Armor Come From and Who Am I Anyway?"

Session 5B, Packard Hall 22-Early Modern Narrative Strategies II

Chair: Kurtis Haas (Mesa State College)

• Jaime Leanos (University of Nevada, Reno), "Eneas Silvio Piccolomini's Historia de duobus amantibus and its Influence on Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Siervo libre de amor"
• Christopher Wood (Boston College), "Patronio's Dangerous Game: The Domestication of Alterity in the Libro de Patronio y del Conde Lucanor"
• Charles Whitney (University of Las Vegas Nevada), "Self-Shattering and Self-Discovery, 1605: Applying the New Reception Theories"

Session 5C, Packard Hall 22-Gender, Sexuality, and Representation

Chair: Brenda Tooley (Colorado College)

• Elspeth Whitney (University of Nevada Las Vegas), "Bartholomeus to Batman: Physiology and Gender in the Theory of the Temperaments"
• Kimberly Schibi (University of Colorado, Boulder), Sidney's Arcadia and the Privileging of Male Homoerotic Desire"
• Richard Mann (San Francisco State University), "The Avant Garde, Queer Sexuality, and El Greco"

Session 5D, Packard Hall 23-Intertextuality and Cultural Context

Chair: Alexandra Olsen (University of Denver)

• Jefferey Taylor (Metropolitan State College, Denver), "The Audience and Culture of the York Cycle"
• Kirsti Bobo (Brigham Young University), "The 'Emaré-Donkey Skin' Connection
• Sarah Owens (University of Denver), "Leechcraft/Stagecraft: Popular Presentations of Mediecal Knowledge in Medieval English Drama"

11:00 a.m.

PLENARY LECTURE-Packard Auditorium

Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College)

"The Arts and the Church in Twelfth-Century Rome"

12:30-2:00 p.m.

Luncheon and business meeting

Gaylord Hall, Worner Center

Paul Thomas (Brigham Young University), presiding

2:30-4:00 p.m.

ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

Electronic and Library Resources for Teaching Undergraduates-

WES Room, Worner Center

Hoyt Duggan (University of Virginia)

Mark Darby (Temple University)

Richard Harp (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Charlene Kellsey (University of Colorado. Boulder)

The Middle Ages in the Secondary-School World History Classroom

Gaylord Hall, Worner Center

Jack Betterly (Albuquerque NM)

Paul Kim (Fountain Valley School)

Troy Gedack (Manitou Springs Middle School)

Thaddeus Romansky (Palmer High School)

Mark Johnson (Colorado College)

unday, April 6

10:00-11:30 a.m.

Picnic brunch and walk in the Garden of the Gods

CALL FOR ENTRIES

RMMRA 2003 PAPER AWARDS

Allen Breck Award

Each year the Association presents the Allen Breck Award for the best paper presented at the conference by a younger scholar. The winner receives a prize of $300 and an invitation to publish his/her essay in the Association's annual journal, Quidditas. All younger scholars are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration. Papers should be communicated substantially as presented to Paul Thomas, President, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 484 East 2100 North, Provo UT 84604 by August 1, 2003.

Delno West Award

Now for the fourth year, the Association presents the Delno West Scholar Award for the best paper presented at the conference by a senior scholar. The winner receives a plaque and an invitation to publish in Quidditas. Papers should be communicated to Paul Thomas, President, again by August 1 of this year.

RMMRA 2004

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association will be held at Fort Lewis College, Durango CO. RMMRA 2004 will be hosted by Professors Thomas Eckenrode and Katherine Clark.