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Fifty-Sixth International Congress Lectures on Medieval Studies May 10–15, 2021 Pre-recorded lectures Available May 10–15 and May 17–29 Plenary Lecture I Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America Presider: Jana K. Schulman, Director, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ. University Welcome Edward Montgomery, President, Western Michigan Univ. Introduction Michael A. Ryan, Univ. of New Mexico Marco Polo and the Diversity of the Global Middle Ages Sharon Kinoshita, Univ. of California–Santa Cruz Available May 10–15 and May 17–29 Plenary Lecture II Sponsor: De Gruyter; Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University Presider: Jana K. Schulman, Director, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ. College Welcome Carla Koretsky, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan Univ. Introduction Samantha Kelly, Rutgers Univ. The Black Queen of Sheba: A Global History of an African Idea Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton Univ. Available May 10–15 and May 17–29 Lecture on the Reception of the Classics in the Middle Ages SneakSponsor: Preview. Endo Pleasewed in reportMemory errors of Archibald to [email protected] Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards Presider: Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard Univ. Passion, Personification, Sickness, Sin: Brooding on Envy in the Aetas Covidiana Danuta Shanzer, Univ. Wien Respondent: David Konstan, New York Univ. 1 Schedule of live online events * indicates that an event is scheduled to be live recorded Monday, May 10 Monday 9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT Sessions 1–17 1* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT New Research in Medieval Parish Church Art and Architecture I: Pilgrimage and Movement in the Medieval Parish Church Organizer: Sarah Blick, Kenyon College Presider: Therese E. ovotny,N Carroll Univ. The Church of Santiago of Carrión: Pilgrimage and Urbanization in Twelfth-Cen- tury Iberia John Seasholtz, Univ. of Birmingham Pilgrims in the Parish: Two English Case Studies Catherine E. Hundley, Colorado College Moving in Place: English Late Gothic Parish Church Baptismal Font Covers Sarah Blick 2* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Jerusalem I: The Holy City in Textual, Visual, and Material Cultures Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ. Organizer: Mareike E. Reisch, Stanford Univ. Presider: Mareike E. Reisch Meditation on Materiality: Reconstructing the Loca Sancta through Handmade Reliquary Boxes Katharine Denise Scherff, Texas Tech Univ. In Vestigiis Iesu Domini: Putting Jerusalem on One Leg at a Time in The Book of Margery Kempe Nathan James Phelps, Univ. of Notre Dame Navigating the Imagined: A Re-Evaluation of Jerusalem in Hugeburc of Heiden- Sneakheim’s Preview.Vita Willibaldi Please report errors to [email protected] Liam Andrew McLeod, Univ. of Birmingham Heavenly Jerusalem as Diagram: Symbolics in Devotional Practices Lenka Panuskova, Instutite of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences 2 3* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Law and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Britain I Monday Sponsor: Medieval-Renaissance Faculty Workshop, Univ. of Louisville Organizer: Andrew Rabin, Univ. of Louisville Presider: Andrew Rabin “But he did one misdeed too exceedingly”: Wulfstan and King Edgar Nicholas P. Schwartz, Univ. of New Mexico Feuding and the Motivations for the Norman Conquest Andrew McKanna, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder The Law in Four Words: Defining the “Legal” in Early England Anya Adair, Univ. of Hong Kong 4* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Finding the Familiar: Pop Culture, Burgers, and Travel Presider: Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology A French Medievalist Goes to China: Glossing the Medieval in the Chinese Televi- sion Series Chén Qíng Lìng / The Untamed (2019) and the Novel Mo Dao Zu Shi / Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (2016) Brooke H. Findley, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Altoona The Hell Franchise: Dante’s Commedia in American Marketing Elizabeth Coggeshall, Florida State Univ. 5 Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Old Norse-Icelandic Studies Sponsor: Fiske Icelandic Collection, Cornell Univ. Library Organizer: Jeffrey Turco, Purdue Univ. Presider: Richard L. Harris, Univ. of Saskatchewan Foresight in yhe Family Sagas and Its Effect on Perceptions of Gender and Power Amy M. Poole, Independent Scholar The Colonized and the Racialized: [In]comprehensible Identities in Kjalnesinga Saga Basil Arnould Price, Univ. of York 2020 Arizona Center for Medieval Studies Graduate Student Prize Winner Sneak Preview. Please report errors to [email protected] 3 6* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT The Cistercians in Scandinavia Sponsor: Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan Univ. Organizer: Tyler Sergent, Berea College Presider: Tyler Sergent Monday Queen of Queens: The Virgin Mary in an Anonymous Cistercian Sermon Collec- tion from Early Thirteenth-Century Sweden Stephan Borgehammar, CTR, Lund Univ. A Master Plan, or Planned Masterpieces? The “Scandinavian” Cistercian Houses in Northern Germany Klaus Wollenberg, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München Monastic and Cistercian Horticulture and Possible Connections to Churchyard Traditions in Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany Rose Marie Tillisch, Centre for Pastoral Education and Research 7 Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Orientations: Queer, Trans, Ace, and Beyond I Sponsor: BABEL Working Group; Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA) Organizer: Zachary Clifton Engledow, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington; Cary Howie, Cornell Univ. Presider: Zachary Clifton Engledow Marie de France: Asexual Bodies and Spaces Timothy “Jason” Wright, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington Fantasies of Bestiality: A Study of Animal Imagery in the Medieval Fabliaux Caitlin Mahaffy, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington Pseudo-Mulieres and Pearl-Maidens: Unknowing the Gender Binary in Pearl and The Mirror of Simple Souls James C. Staples, Independent Scholar Respondent: Karma Lochrie, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington 8 Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Science and the Study of Medieval Manuscripts Sponsor: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ. Organizer: Raymond Clemens, Yale Univ.; Gina Marie Hurley, Yale Univ. SneakPresider: Preview. KristenPlease Her reportdman, errorsYale Univ. to [email protected] Encountering the North: Biocodicological Investigation of Certain Romanesque Libri Pilosi Elodie Amandine Leveque, Beast to Craft/Trinity College Dublin Scientific Analysis of Manuscripts: Allowing Objects to Speak for Themselves Richard R. Hark, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale Univ. Manuscripts through Many Lenses Gregory Heyworth, Univ. of Rochester; Alexander J. Zawacki, Univ. of Rochester 4 9 Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Individuals’ Emotions and Emotional Communities in the Mediterranean Monday Sponsor: CU Mediterranean Studies Group; Mediterranean Seminar Organizer: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, Univ. of Colorado–Boulder Presider: Nuria Silleras-Fernandez Emotional Debates on the Title “Emperor of the Romans” (Ninth and Tenth Centuries) Laury Sarti, Univ. of Freiburg “Fazer reir et dar plazer”: Pleasurable Laughter in Don Juan Manuel’s Libro de la caza Sol Miguel-Prendes, Wake Forest Univ. Audiences Attending Passion Plays as Ad Hoc Emotional Communities Ivan Missoni, Independent Scholar 10 Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Environments of Change: Late Medieval Landscapes, Communities, and Health Sponsor: Medieval DRAGEN Lab, Univ. of Waterloo Organizer: Phil Slavin, Univ. of Stirling Presider: Caley McCarthy, Univ. of Waterloo Landscapes of Pandemics: Towards Environmental Understanding of Plague Divergences Phil Slavin (Re)Constructing the Lost Village of Northeye: the Intersection of History, Ar- chaeology, and Augmented Reality Steven Bednarski, St. Jerome’s Univ. in the Univ. of Waterloo Pro Salvatione Totius Marisci: Communal Drainage by Custom and Commission in Late Medieval Sussex Andrew Moore, Univ. of Waterloo Virtual Herstmonceux: GIS and BIM Applications for Reconstructing Lost Medi- eval Buildings Zack MacDonald, St. Jerome’s Univ. in the Univ. of Waterloo 11* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Encounters during the Period of Crusades: History through Objects (A Panel Discussion) SneakSponsor: Preview. Pr ogramPlease in Medievalreport errors Studies, to Univ. [email protected] of Wisconsin–Madison Organizer: Cathleen A. Fleck, St. Louis Univ. Presider: Cathleen A. Fleck A panel discussion with Paroma Chatterjee, Univ. of Michigan–Ann Arbor; Elizabeth Lapina, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Laura J. Whatley, Auburn Univ.–Montgom- ery; Richard A. Leson, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; and Anne E. Lester, Johns Hopkins Univ. 5 12* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Materiality of Languages: Epigraphy, Manuscripts, and Writing Systems in Byz- antium and the Early Islamic Near East (324–1204) I Sponsor: Univ. Warszawski; Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN); Jacksonville State Univ. Monday Organizer: Paweł Eugeniusz Nowakowski, Univ. Warszawski; Yuliya Minets, Jacksonville State Univ. Presider: Yuliya Minets To Write in Greek or to Write in Syriac: Dynamics of Languages in North Syria in Late Antiquity Françoise Briquel Chatonnet, CNRS UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée Cursive versus Monumental Syriac Script: Some Reflections on Inscriptions and Graffiti from Turkey Jimmy Daccache, Yale Univ.; Simon Brelaud, Univ. of California–Berkeley; Flavia Ruani, IRHT-CNRS, Paris 13* Monday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT Art Historical Approaches to Medieval Environments Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee Organizer: Dustin Aaron, Institute