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May 2012 Vol. 21 No. 2

Graduate Student Honors In addition to the C. Clifford Flanigan ture.” 2011-2012 saw Heidi Støa, investigate further, setting her on a Fund, which supports student travel Ph.D. student in English, receive course that would find her, five years to conferences the Fellowship, and later, studying the medieval period at across the nation, Anthony Nussmeier, Indiana University. the Medieval Stud- Ph.D. Candidate in In her final year of undergraduate ies Institute admin- French and Italian, re- work, Heidi went to McGill University isters two annual ceive the McRobbie in Montréal on exchange. She took awards to help Award. a year of Eng- support graduate Heidi Støa’s lish courses, study. We offer a love for the three of which Recruitment Fel- Middle Ages were classes lowship, which began with on Middle Eng- represents a full Montaigne’s lish; she was year of funding for distaste for hooked. “I just a first-year student it. While she found the Mid- studying the Mid- was working dle English po- dle Ages in any de- on her B.A. etry I read to be partment affiliated Heidi Støa in Literature very fresh and with the Institute, and we also pres- at the University of Oslo, very beautiful,” ent the Andrea McRobbie Award, Norway, she noted the she says. which supports an advanced gradu- “somewhat hostile” atti- Heidi went ate student engaged in “scholarship tudes towards the period on to complete in medieval history, specifically some expressed by Montaigne her Master’s aspect of its social history or some and his fellow early hu- at McGill in theme in medieval social history re- manists. Intrigued by this English Litera- lated to its art, philosophy or litera- antipathy, Heidi decided to ture. She then Anthony Nussmeier worked for two years as a curator in the Manuscripts Collection in the Norwegian National Indiana Hosts GLAC/SHEL Library in Oslo. Here at Indiana, Heidi is taking The eighteenth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC-18) and advantage of her fellowship year by the seventh Studies in the History of the English Language conference learning the languages she will need (SHEL-7) met concurrently April 26-28, 2012, at the Biddle Hotel and to pursue her interests in medieval Conference Center of the Indiana Memorial Union. The combined con- culture (currently Latin and Icelan- ference was hosted by the Department of Germanic Studies and the dic). Department of English, with the financial support of many donors, both Her primary research interest is national and local, including the Medieval Studies Institute. memory, specifically medieval and Ninety-one papers were offered in three concurrent sessions, along modern ideas about memory and with three keynote addresses: “Lexical Diffusion and Grammar,” by Marc how cultural memory works. She is van Oostendorp, Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of particularly interested in the function Arts and Sciences; “Testing Ambisyllabicity in Old English,” by Donka of images and specific types of im- Minkova, University of California, Los Angeles; and “Complex Systems agery in texts, and in the interplay of and the History of the English Language,” by William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., text and image on the manuscript or (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 2) MSN page 2 May 2012 GLAC/SHEL (continued from page 2) Director’s Note University of Georgia. GLAC is the annual conference of the Society for Germanic by Professor Linguistics (SGL), an organization serving the broad communi- Rosemarie McGerr, ty of scholars teaching and researching in Germanic linguistics Director, and philology. Further information about the SGL, and about Medieval Studies past conferences, may be found at the SGL website. Papers Institute presented at GLAC represented a wide range of linguistic and philological topics concerning historical and modern Germanic 2011-12 has been languages and dialects. There were thus papers on the phonol- an exciting aca- ogy, morphology, syntax, dialectology, and non-native acquisi- demic year for the tion of German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Medieval Studies Institute! Along with Faroese, and the older varieties of English. the success of the Vagantes confer- SHEL is a biennial tradition, providing for scholars the oppor- ence, guest lectures, workshops, read- tunity to gather and share their research and pedagogical meth- ing circles, and courses, we now have ods in relation to the history of English worldwide. It thus serves the highest number of students pursu- for North American scholars as an opportunity analogous to the ing a minor or area certificate that we biennial International Conference on English Historical Linguis- have had in many years. We have also tics (ICEHL) hosted at various research centers in Europe. SHEL welcomed new members to the MEST is not affiliated with any sole research institution or sponsoring faculty, including Professor Rega Wood organization. Papers at this year’s conference covered such top- in the Department of Philosophy, Dr. Gi- ics as expressions of degree in the witness depositions from the uliano DiBacco from the Department of Salem witch trials, verb prefixes in Old English, Canadian dialect Musicology and Professor Manling Luo words, and a history of the term onomatopoeia in English. For the from the Department of East Asian Lan- complete program, visit the conference website. guages and Cultures. Thanks to all the students and faculty who have participated in our events during the past year. Honors (continued from page 1) The diversity of the Medieval Studies In- stitute is one of our great strengths: as book page. we exchange ideas among our diverse Anthony Nussmeier received his B.A. in History and Italian at areas of expertise and scholarly meth- the University of Minnesota, and then came to Indiana for an M.A. ods, we enhance our interdisciplinary in Italian. Now a Ph.D. candidate, he will be defending his disser- approach to asking and answering ques- tation, “The Politics of Literary Script: De vulgari eloquentia 1303- tions about medieval cultures. 1589,” on May 3. In addition to being the 2011-2012 McRobbie I want to offer congratulations to all Award recipient, Anthony has garnered multiple honors from the MEST students who have completed a Department of French and Italian. He won the “Most Outstanding MEST minor or certificate and offer them Instructor” Award in 2008 and in 2010 received the Lander Mac- best wishes in their future endeavors. Clintock Award for academic excellence. Keep in touch, so that we can include While at Indiana, Anthony has studied medieval and contempo- your news in the Newsletter! It is always rary Italian history, literature, and languages (including Italian, Old a pleasure to hear how participation in Occitan, Latin, and Arabic). His diversity of coursework coincided MEST has had an impact on a student’s with a diversity of teaching opportunities, as he taught nine sepa- educational experience. Although some rate courses as an Instructor in Italian. The class that he most students could not attend our recogni- enjoyed teaching was a literature survey which ranged from San tion ceremony on April 30th (see photo, Francis of Assisi’s Cantica delle creature to songs by modern Ital- page 9), several of them sent notes of ian singer-songwriters. appreciation. Valerio Cappozzo wrote, Anthony’s research interests include medieval and early mod- “I am deeply grateful to you and to the ern literature, and more specifically lyric poetry, material philology, Institute. I spent the best years of my anthologies, and manuscript culture. He is particularly intrigued doctorate with you all.” Giulia Benghi by the paradox of medieval romance philology: the scientistic also sent her regards: “I’ve been very approach to editing medieval works stands in tension with the happy to be able to complete my minor dependence of literary tradition on individual witnesses, manu- in Medieval Studies. I hope I’ll be able scripts, or books. This philology, Anthony says, is “both eminently to continue in this field, by cultivating a empirical and beguilingly relativistic.” cross-curricular approach and broaden- Congratulations and best of luck to Heidi and Anthony! ing my knowledge in the Middle Ages.”

(Continued on Page 8) May 2012 MSN page 3 Faculty & Student News Jerrell Allen (Ph.D. student, English), Peter Lang [2011] 221-238); and per, “Necessary Imperfection: The presented a paper at Vagantes 2012: “On Zhangzhung and Bon” (In: Henk Body of Sainte Marie l’Egyptienne,” at “The Prioress, ‘Our Blissful Mayden Blezer, ed., Emerging Bon. Halle: IITBS Vagantes 2012. Free’ and the Not-all: A Psychoana- GmbH [2012]). lytic Rethinking of Anti-Semitism in the Prof. Beckwith gave several lec- John Dechant (Ph.D. student, Near Prioress’s Tale” tures, including “Pyrrhonism and Eastern Languages and Cultures), Madhyamaka: Indian sources of Hel- presented at Vagantes 2012: “The Visiting Assistant Professor of Musi- lenistic philosophy” at the University of Construction of Sacred Space in the cology Alison Altstatt has accepted a London (Dec. 2, 2011); “The transla- Hagiography of the Muslim Sufi Saint position as Assistant Professor of Mu- tions of Avicenna’s De anima and the Zayn al-Din-i Taybadi (d. 1389).” sicology at the University of Northern origins of the quaestiones disputatae Associate Professor of History Debo- Iowa School of Music, with a pre-1750 method” at the Universitat Autònoma specialization. rah Deliyannis organized three ses- de Barcelona (Dec. 20, 2011); “Greek sions for this year’s Kalamazoo Con- smorgasbord or Buddhist narratives? gress on “Sixth-Century Italy”, and Beatrice Arduini, Ph.D. in Italian/mi- Identification of Pyrrho’s thought and nor in Medieval Studies, begins her will be giving a paper in one of them practice”. International conference on “The Liber pontificalis, Papal Pri- new position as Assistant Professor of “Buddhist Text Corpora and Iconogra- Italian at the University of Washington, macy, and the Acacian Schism.” She phy along the Silk Road: Dynamics of finished out her three-year term on the Seattle, in the fall term of 2012. She Transfer and Interaction.” Käte Ham- joins the prestigious faculty of French Medieval Academy’s Van Courtlandt burger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität Bo- Elliott Prize committee by presenting and Italian and of a thriving program in chum, Nov. 23-25, 2011; and “Forest scholarly textual editing. this year’s award at the annual meet- Śramaṇas and urban Śramaṇas: Meg- ing in St. Louis. She will be on sab- Germanic Studies Ph.D. candidate asthenes and Pyrrho’s testimonies on batical next fall, working on her book Megan Barrett presented a paper the lifestyles of early Buddhist monks.” on Bishops and Buildings in the Early at Vagantes 2012: “Between Tradi- Conference ‘Locating Religions. Con- Middle Ages. tion and Change: Monastic Reform tact, Diversity and Translocality’. Käte in Three Fifteenth-century German Hamburger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität Edward Grant, Distinguished Profes- Redactions of the Life of St. Mary of Bochum, February 8-10, 2012, among sor Emeritus of the History and Philos- Egypt.” others. ophy of Science, has been presented An international conference he has with a Festschrift entitled “La nature et History Ph.D. student Richard Bar- organized, ‘The Influence of Central la vide dans la physique médiévale” rett received Flanigan funds to attend Eurasian Religious Beliefs on the Cul- (Brepols). Two Indiana University Me- the North American Patristics Soci- tures of the Periphery’, will be held at dieval Studies faculty have articles in ety Conference in May, where he will the Ruhr-Universität Bochum on April the volume: Rega Wood (Philosophy), present a paper, “Civic Devotions to 24-25, 2012, during which he is sched- “What Price the Horror vacui? Intersti- the Mother of God and Identity in Late uled to give a paper on “The origins of tial Vacua and Aristotelian Science,” Antiquity.” the Avesta and the spread of Mazda- and John Walbridge (Near Eastern ism in the ‘Axial Age’.” Languages), “Illuminationist, Place Professor Christopher I. Beckwith and the Void.” Professor Grant is one (Central Eurasian Studies) is still on Mustafa BinMayaba (Near Eastern of the world’s great authorities on me- research leave/sabbatical for the aca- Languages and Cultures) presented dieval natural philosophy and is partic- demic year 2011-2012 as a Visiting a paper at Vagantes 2012:“Malik ibn ularly well known for his book, Much Research Fellow at the Käte Ham- Al-Murahhal’s ‘Religion Has Called for Ado about Nothing: Theories of Place burger Kolleg, Ruhr-Universität Bo- Your Support’ as an Example of the and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to chum. Theory of Persuasive Speech.” the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge A Turkish translation (Ankara 2011) University Press, 1981). He has been of his book Empires of the Silk Road: Valerio Cappozzo has been appointed Assistant Professor of Italian at the one of the leading advocates for the A History of Central Eurasia from the theory that the origins of the Scientific Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton: University of Mississippi where he has been teaching since August 2011. Revolution were in the debates about Princeton University Press 2009) has natural philosophy in the Middle Ages. just been published. A Korean trans- In May he will present a paper at lation is currently being edited and Kalamazoo titled “Editing the Som- Kyle Grothoff (Classical Studies) pre- should appear soon, and a Japanese niale Danielis: Vox Populi and Dream sented a paper at Vagantes 2012: translation is now underway as well. Culture in Medieval Italy”. “The Language of Benefaction in the He has also published three articles: He has also been invited to pres- Writings of Libanius.” “Pyrrho’s Logic: A Reexamination ent his research at the Dar al-Islami- of Aristocles’ Record of Timon’s Ac- yyah Museum and Research Center in Art History Ph.D. candidate Lindsey count” (Elenchos xxxii [2011] 2: 287- Kuwait City, where he will publish an Hansen presented a paper about a 327); “The Central Eurasian Culture article titled: “Crossing Boundaries: Is- leaf from the Lilly Library manuscript Complex in the Tibetan Empire: The lamic Dream Sciences, Dante and Ro- collection at the Newberry Library in Imperial Cult and Early Buddhism” (In: mance Literature”. January: “Re-Visioning the Bible: Rick- etts 19 and thirteenth-century Bible Ruth Erken, ed., 1000 Jahre asiatisch- Amy Lynn Conrad, Ph.D. student in europäische Begegnung. Frankfurt: French and Italian, presented her pa- (Continued on Page 5) MSN page 4 May 2012 Mysterious Spirits Graduate Student Advisory Spirits and spiritual beings were not Biological Spirits: Animal and Vital Committee Update confined to supernatural or other- Even more striking than their role in Vagantes and a proposed con- worldly spheres for medieval thinkers, psychology is the role played by spir- sortium of graduate medievalists but performed important functions its as vehicles and intermediaries in in Indiana are topics that have in psychology and biology. They pro- biology. Avicenna’s Canon, the most kept the Graduate Student Advi- duced sensation, caused cognition, important medieval medical textbook, sory Committee busy this spring. and prompted wakefulness. When identified a spirit as a ‘life force’ or ‘nat- The MEST GSAC representatives present in excess they could cause ural heat’, as the driver of the faculties of seven different departments harm – paralysis, for example. The ex- of the brain and liver. served on the Vagantes 2012 or- treme versatility of the various spirits or Constantine the African’s Pantegni ganizing committee and collabo- spiritual beings probably resulted from describes three kinds of spirit: natural, rated with the Medieval Studies the fact that they vital, and ani- staff to finalize plans for and host were seen as mal. The first Vagantes. The further participa- go-betweens or originates tion in the conference by Indiana as intermediates in the liver graduates from a total of thirteen between corpo- and moves different departments ensured a real and strictly through diverse conference that was en- speaking spiri- the veins; joyed by all. tual substances the second In addition to Vagantes, the such as the soul. originates co-chairs of MEST GSAC, Grant in the heart Simpson and Erin Sweany, Psychological and moves have been corresponding with Spirits through the representatives from the medi- My interest arteries; and eval studies programs at both in spirits or spiri- the third Purdue University and the Uni- tual being was originates versity of Notre Dame about fos- prompted by a in the brain tering greater interaction among study of Rich- and moves graduates in our three programs. An illustration from Avicenna’s Canon ard Rufus’ Mirror through the This proposal for a consortium of of the Soul, an important contribution nerves. Each of these spirits directs graduate students was proposed to medieval perceptual psychology, and powers a corresponding faculty. by representatives of Comitatus, which pioneers an Aristotelian rather The animal spirit, distributed in dif- the graduate medievalist orga- than an Augustinian account. Con- ferent parts of the brain, gives rise to nization at Purdue University. trary to Augustine, Rufus holds that memories, sense, fantasy, intellect and The proposal was the topic of a sensation is the result of intromission reason. As the instruments of the soul, special spring meeting of MEST not extramission. Vision is the result spirits explain the action of the imma- GSAC held on April 16. not of rays leaving the eyes but of in- terial soul on corporeal bodies. That At the meeting, representa- formation received from the external is, they appear to enable contact be- tives decided that the MEST objects we perceive. But how does tween body and soul, and they allow GSAC co-chairs would meet with this information reach us? Rufus an- the soul to control the major biological representatives from the other swers that when we see something functions, including mental functions two universities to discuss how -- a cow, for example -- its likeness like wakefulness and sense. a consortium of medieval stud- or sensible species, a spiritual being, It was reading Avicenna and Con- ies graduates at Indiana universi- moves from the cow through the air to stantine that helped me understand ties might look. This meeting will our eyes why Rufus says that “sense is brought take place on Saturday, May 12 Here Rufus was not alone. Follow- about through animal spirits.” So at noon at the 47th International ing Rufus, his younger contemporary, we’re learning from medieval accounts Congress on Medieval Studies Thomas Aquinas also held that the of the workings of spirits, though the in Kalamazoo, Michigan. MEST immediate objects of sensation were concept of ‘spirit’ is scarcely crystal GSAC welcomes graduate me- spiritual not corporeal, and today a clear. dievalists who would like to par- major controversy about the proper And there’s a warning here: If you ticipate in these talks. For more interpretation of Aristotle concerns the encounter spirits in a medieval text, information, please contact Erin role of spiritual beings in sensation. don’t assume that you know what (esweany@indiana .edu) or Grant Was his a strictly physical account, or they’re doing. Medieval medicinal ([email protected]). did he think spiritual beings were es- spirits can be just as mysterious as sential to perception? ghosts (lemures). --Erin E. Sweany -Rega Wood May 2012 MSN page 5

Faculty & Student News (continued from page 3) traditions.” She also received the Rus- a Fellow at the National Humanities medievalists and early modernists in sell A. Havens Fellowship, which will Center in the Research Triangle, North English, French, Spanish, Religion, allow her to conduct pre-dissertation Carolina for Academic Year 2012- History, and German. research in 9 cities in northern France 2013. In addition, the journal she edits, this summer. Lindsey will be focusing Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Me- Sarah E. McAfoose (School of Li- specifically on the portal sculpture of dieval and Renaissance Studies was brary Science, Music Librarianship) the Gothic cathedrals at these sites, awarded the “Phoenix Award” by The presented her paper “Geisslerlieder: aiming to create comprehensive pho- Council of Editors of Learned Journals A Harmonious Chorus in a Dissonant tographic records of these sculptural (see sidebar for more details!). Profes- Movement” at Vagantes 2012. groups, to examine how their iconog- sor Ingham also helped organize a Professor of French Emanuel Mickel raphy may have been used in or re- symposium, “Surface, Symptom, and was Keynote Speaker at the South- lated to late medieval ceremonial and the Future of Critique” sponsored by east Language and Literatures confer- processionals, and to understand how Exemplaria and held at the University ence at Georgia Southern University the cathedrals were in conversation of Texas, Austin, featuring important (Continued on Page 7) with other buildings (both sacred and secular) within the cities. She is also preparing an article that Exemplaria receives the Phoenix Award for has been accepted for publication by Hortulus: The Online Graduate Jour- Significant Editorial Achievement nal of Medieval Studies. The article is titled:“Acts of Witnessing: The Munich Exemplaria, a journal of theory in medieval and Renaissance studies, support- Ivory of the Ascension, Medieval Visu- ed through the Medieval Studies Institute’s Journals Initiative, was recognized ality and Pilgrimage.” last January at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting with the Finally, in late March, Lindsey was 2011 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement. This award is given elected to the Vagantes Board of Di- annually by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), an organization rectors. comprised of editors of scholarly journals covering a range of subjects. CELJ established the Phoenix Award in 1987, to honor Ph.D. candidate in English Emily Hou- editorial achievement in an already existing journal lik-Ritchey has an article forthcom- that was significantly improved through the hard ing: “Rewriting Difference: ‘Saracens’ work of its editors. Exemplaria’s editors include in John Gower and Juan de Cuen- ca.” It will appear in the journal ES. Patricia Clare Ingham, core faculty in MEST here Revista de Filología Inglesa, special at IU, along with colleagues Noah Guynn (Univer- issue on John Gower. It is a publica- sity of California, Davis), Tison Pugh (University of tion of some of the proceedings of the Central Florida, USA), and Elizabeth Scala (Uni- Second International Congress of the versity of Texas-Austin, USA). John Gower Society: “John Gower in Judges for the Phoenix Award noted the “sig- Iberia, 600 Years,” which was held in nificant development for this already excellent Valladolid, Spain, in July 2011. The ex- journal” over the past three years. President of pected publication date is this coming CELJ, Dr Joycelyn Moody, commented on Exem- July. In this same journal issue will ap- plaria’s recent transformation: “Exemplaria merits pear a paper by Professor Rosemarie commendation, its editorial team has taken a McGerr, based on her paper at the journal that was already well regarded, and built Valladolid conference: “Gower’s Con- on its strengths in a thoughtful and productive manner. Its editorial reorganiza- fessio and the Nova Statuta Angliae: tion, increased attention to book reviews and reimagining of its key visuals all Royal Lessons in English Law.” Emily contribute to a substantial improvement to an already-excellent publication. also presented a paper at Vagantes The changes they have made demonstrate both their mastery of the field and 2012, “Intimate Difference: Extimité in their vision for impacting their discipline in strong and important ways. Con- the Foundational Christian Narratives gratulations to Patricia Ingham, Elizabeth Scala, Tison Pugh, and Noah Guynn, of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” Editors of Exemplaria, on this outstanding work!” Ivy Howell, Ph.D. candidate in Span- “We are immensely gratified to have been honored in this way,” noted Pa- ish and Portuguese, presented a patricia Ingham. “All the editors,” she continued, “alongside the publishing team per at the Association of Hispanic at Maney, have worked hard to build upon the excellent reputation that Exem- Classical Theater Symposium in El plaria has long held in the field. We are especially proud that such an honor Paso, Texas, in March. The paper was came during this, our 25th year!” The editors celebrated this extraordinary titled, “Musical Performance in Lope achievement—and the journal’s 25 years—at a Symposium that focused on de Vega’s ‘Peribanez y el comendador emerging methodological issues in the use of theory in language and literary de Ocaña’: Music as an Agent of Har- study. That symposium, “Surface, Symptom, and the State of Critique,” was mony.” Ivy’s travel was in part funded held at the University of Texas, Austin, February 11-12, 2012. by a Flanigan grant. More information regarding Exemplaria is available here. You can also “like” Exemplaria on Facebook! Patricia Clare Ingham, Associate --Patricia Ingham Professor of English, has been named MSN page 6 May 2012 An Eventful Year “Conversion Timing” a visit from Steven Kruger A Master Calligrapher at the Lilly Library This past fall we were able to bring a very special guest to campus. British On February 27, Steven Kruger, Pro- scribe and illuminator Patricia Lovett was this year’s guest for “Mediaevalia fessor of English and Medieval Studies at the Lilly,” our annual series sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute at Queens College and the Graduate and co-spon- Center, CUNY, visited Bloomington to sored by the lead a workshop for graduate students Lilly Library. The and to give a lecture to the Medieval event is hosted Studies community at large. at the Lilly and Fourteen graduate students gath- ered for a lunchtime discussion of focuses each some of Professor Kruger’s recent year on a dif- work on the Spanish converso exe- ferent topic and getes, who were seen simultaneously set of the hold- and paradoxically as appropriate and ings in the large ill-suited practitioners of Christian anti- collection of Jewish apologetics and polemics. The rare medieval workshop, “Exegesis as Autobiog- manuscripts raphy,” both enabled discussion of a and books at fascinating topic and offered students Indiana Univer- the chance to see Professor Kruger’s sity. vaunted teaching in action. As part of the Professor Kruger’s evening lec- event, which ture, “Conversion Timing,” explored A work in progress: In this demonstration sample of was under the the temporality of conversion, focus- Lovett’s, you can see four stages of the direction of ing on the hesitations, reversals, and illumination process. Cherry Wil- recursions apparent in the multiple liams, curator of manuscripts at the Lilly, and Professor Hildegard Elisa- conversion narratives of Mary Mag- beth Keller of Indiana’s Germanic Studies Department, Lovett taught two dalene from the South English Leg- workshops demonstrating a host of practical aspects about calligraphy, endary. Building upon Jean-Françios illumination and manuscript-making on November 3. In addition to dem- Lyotard’s reading of Augustine, Kruger onstrating all the materials employed by illuminators, from parchment and conceives of conversion as a rupture pigments to gold-leaf from a practitioner’s standpoint, she demonstrated inhabiting time rather than splitting it the peculiarities of some scripts, explained how different techniques of discretely in two. Through a definitive break in time, narratives of conversion quill-cutting effect the shaping of letters and showed step by step how to claim to leave behind the ‘old,’ yet produce a gilded miniature. produce a ‘new’ co-terminal with what Both workshops were very well attended, not only by students and fac- preceded it. ulty, but also by a wide range of interested community members including Based upon the textual complexi- many fans of calligraphic arts in the Middle Ages. Patricia’s charm and her ties legible within narratives of religious deep, humorously presented knowledge won the favor of the audience conversion, Kruger postulates three from the very first moment. The same holds true for her lecture on Novem- temporal modes of conversion. The ber 4, entitled “Gold on Parchment.” Her talk about the craft of manuscript first, “always already,” leaves out the production focused on some of the world’s most prominent examples of transitional stage between old and book illumination (e.g., the Lindisfarne Gospels). new and instead understands conver- At the reception afterwards a considerable audience exchanged im- sion retrospectively to have always pressions over a glass of wine, and many among the audience went to already occurred. In contrast, the see the exhibit of the students in the Ball Room. Both undergraduate and second mode, “yet and yet and yet,” graduate classes from the Germanic Studies Department had tried their pertains to the repetition that struc- own hands at producing a ‘medieval’ bifolium and were enthralled by Pa- tures narratives of conversion (such as tricia’s workshops. After her visit, one said: “First I was stunned and after- Mary Magdalene’s), in which the pro- wards really proud that my bifolium was exhibited at this great library, and liferation of conversionary moments that Patricia Lovett would comment upon it.” renders impossible any absolute identification of the moment of -conver --Hildegard Elisabeth Keller sion, and instead delivers a scenario in See the Mediaevalia page at the Medieval Studies website for more which conversion might have already photos and details! occurred, but must continually recur. (Continued on Page 9) May 2012 MSN page 7

Faculty & Student News (continued from page 5) March 28-30. He also gave a lecture and M.A. in Comp Lit, Ph.D. in FRIT; all facsimiles and the cultural dynamics of at Wabash College on April. The topic in the 1960s). early printed editions. of his paper was “Don Juan, Faust, and the Judgment of Paris.” His ar- Ph.D. candidate in Folklore Freder- Bradley K. Storin (Religious Studies) ticle “Fictional History and Histori- icka Schmadel writes: “I presented successfully defended his dissertation: cal Fiction” will appear this spring in a paper at the Newberry Renaissance “The Letters of Gregory of Nazianzus: Romance Philology. This subject, a Center in Chicago on two 13th century Discourse and Community in Late An- digest of the 40-page article, will be mystics from different worlds -- one in tique Epistolary Culture.” The com- what he will give at the Société Renc- Damascus and one in Central Europe, mittee, consisting of Professors David esvals triennial conference at Oxford in one female poet-mystic without book Brakke, Constance Furey, Bert Har- the UK August 13-17. learning, one scholarly cosmographer- rill, and Ed Watts, approved the dis- mystic. “Myth and Monotheism” was sertation “with distinction.” Krista Lynae Rodkey (Philosophy) the title. I would encourage fellow Upon invitation, he made three con- presented a paper at Vagantes 2012, graduate students to submit papers tributions to the Cambridge Diction- “Anselm’s ‘Fitting Reasons’: Beauty to the Newberry. It was an excellent ary of Ancient Mediterranean Religion, and Vision in Cur Deus Homo.” experience, and, to top off a great con- edited by Eric Orlin, Nicola Denzey ference, the Newberry paid for my ho- Doctoral candidate in English Cynthia Lewis, Elizabeth Fried, and Michael tel and travel. Satlow (Cambridge University Press), Rogers has been named the Helen I completed mediator training in In- Ann Mins Robbins Fellow for next year. forthcoming in 2014. His contributions dianapolis and will soon begin an ap- were “Gregory of Nazianzus,” “Mac- It is a $20,000 one-year residential dis- prenticeship. Eventually I will be able sertation writing fellowship to study at rina the Younger,” and “Basil of Ama- to mediate family disputes as a profes- sea.” the Robbins Medieval Library at Roch- sional and help families deal with these ester, New York. She will be in Roch- Brad has also accepted the posi- matters in a cooperative way, always tion for the upcoming academic year ester from August 2012 to May 2013. better for everyone. And it’s my idea She is also presenting at the New of Visiting Lecturer in the Department of a perfect summer job. And no, I’m of Religious Studies at Indiana. Chaucer Society Congress July 2012 not a lawyer and have no desire to be- in Portland, Oregon. The title of her come one. Anyone interested please English Ph.D. candidate Erin Sweany paper is: “Playing the Game: Recover- e-mail Fredericka at schmadel.freder- presented a paper (“Halnes and halþ: ing the Social and Manuscript Context [email protected].” Anglo-Saxon Bodily Wellness”) at for the Textual Interplay in the Findern Vagantes 2012, where she was also Manuscript (CUL Ff.1.6)” Joining her English Ph.D. candidate and School of elected to the Board of Directors. at the NCS Congress to present their Library Sciences M.A. student Grant own papers will be Arwen Taylor, L. Simpson received Flanigan funding Margot Valles, Ph.D. candidate in Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger, Emily to attend the International Congress Comparative Literature, received Fla- Houlik-Ritchie, and Corey Sparks, on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo this nigan funding to attend the Ameri- all Ph.D. Candidates in English. year. Grant organized a panel, “Edit- can Comparative Literature Associa- Cindy was also named as an alter- ing Old English: Ælfric’s Lives of the tion conference in Providence, RI, in nate for an American Association of Saints,“ in which he will be presenting March. She presented a paper, titled University Women Dissertation Fel- a paper, “Toward a Plan for a New Edi- “Adapting Arthur: Cultural Crisis in Me- lowship, which she will decline in order tion of Ælfric’s Lives of the Saints.” dieval Arthurian Literature.” to take the Robbins Fellowship. Corey Sparks (Ph.D. candidate, Eng- English Ph.D. student Usha Vishnu- Professor Emeritus Samuel N. Rosen- lish) will present a paper at the New vajjala presented a paper at the na- berg (Department of French and Ital- Chaucer Society Congress in July: “I tional joint conference of the Popular ian) has published several chapters: Know Why the Caged Bird Refuses Culture Association and American “Le Tournoi de Chauvency et le Chan- to Sing: Spaces of Confinement, Dis- Culture Association in Boston, MA, sonnier du ms. Douce 308 reliés par le courses of the Will, and Poetic Pro- in April. Her paper, part of the Medi- chant.” In Le Tournoi de Chauvency: duction in John Lydgate’s The Churl eval Popular Culture and Arthurian Lettres, musique et histoire en Lor- and the Bird.” Corey’s travel is being Legends area, examined the various raine médiévale. Ed. Mireille Chazan, subsidized by the Flanigan fund. ways in which medieval Arthurian Nancy Freeman Regalado, and Jean- texts are used as source material for Claude Mullet. (Publications Romanes Professor H. Wayne Storey (French the BBC television series Merlin. Her et Françaises.) Geneva: Droz, 2012, and Italian), has joined the journal Pe- presentation, “‘There must be another pp. 423-433; and “Galeotto Before trarchesca as one of the editors. In Arthur, Because This One’s An Idiot’: the Fall.” In “Accessus ad Auctores”: early April, Prof. Storey participated in The Multi-Textual, Multi-Cultural, and Studies in Honor of Christopher Klein- a workshop on medieval manuscripts Multi-Temporal Lineage of the BBC’s henz. Ed. Fabian Alfie and Andrea Dini. and textual editing at the University of Merlin,” was partially funded by a Fla- Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2012, pp. 51-59. Mississippi, discussing his work on nigan grant. Please note that the medievalist the late 14th-century MS of Petrarch’s honored by this Festschrift, Chris- Fragmenta at the Bodmer Founda- topher Kleinhenz, is a three-degree tion in Cologny. He published issue alumnus of Indiana University (A.B. 6.2 (2011) of Textual Cultures. The issue contains eleven essays on editing, MSN page 8 May 2012 Steven Vanderputten “Reform as a Process: Realities and Representations of Monastic Development in the Central Middle Ages” Steven Vanderputten, Professor of Vanderputten’s talk, delivered to tion of reform onto what in truth was Medieval History in the Department a full house of faculty and students a more organic and idiosyncratic of History at Ghent University, visited in the Slocum Room of the Lilly Li- series of individual changes. This Bloomington from April 7 to April 17, brary, addressed the subject of his understanding of reform was fur- 2012 as a guest of the new book, Reform as ther framed by the arguably more Institute for Advanced Process in Medieval organized and coherent reforms of Study, the Medieval Flanders, which will the twelfth-century, such as those Studies Institute and be published by Cor- of the Cistercians and Carthusians. the Department of nell University Press In his exploration of the tenth- History of Art. The in 2013. Vanderput- and eleventh-century reforms that main purpose of his ten questioned the circulated in Flanders and Lothar- visit was to allow for prevalent definition of ingia, Vanderputten has discerned a collaboration with ‘reform’, typically un- great heterogeneity in both the pro- Diane Reilly, History of derstood as a trans- cess and the outcome of reform, Art, on a forthcoming formative period initi- meaning that the reform of each edition of texts asso- ated by a charismatic foundation was essentially unique. ciated with the pow- individual, and often He has also troubled the notion that erful Flemish bishop known only from later a monastic ‘reform’ can easily be Gerard of Cambrai, apologetic literature. divided into two phases: a charis- who governed the di- He pointed out that matic initial phase followed by the ocese of Arras-Camb- Steven Vanderputten the dominant nar- ‘routinization’ of the reform, typi- rai in the early eleventh rative of reform was cally carried out by an administra- century. Reilly and Vanderputten are constructed by European scholars tor. In reality the structural process in the process of editing the Acta Syn- of the twentieth century who were of change has proven difficult to odi Atrebatensis, a well-known record imbedded in an environment of na- identify. At times, a careful reading of one of the earliest incidents of her- tion-building and transnational orga- of the sources can reveal that a pe- esy in the central Middle Ages, and nization. Thus they may have uncon- riod of questioning and renewal had a related collection of vitae, sermons sciously and anachronistically layered begun even before the arrival of the and letters. a nationalist and networked construc- more famous charismatic leader, who was sometimes invited by an Director’s Note, continued incumbent abbot. Vanderputten also enjoyed a visit Congratulations also to Professor Olga Impey on her retirement from to the Lilly Library’s manuscript col- the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She has guided many lections, and saw a sixteenth-cen- students in their exploration of medieval Spanish literature and culture, tury priest’s miscellany associated and we have all enjoyed her readings at the annual Readers’ Circle with the well-known sixteenth-cen- performances. We look forward to seeing her at MEST events in the tury bishop of Utrecht, George van future. Egmond, and copied at one of the As the academic year draws to a close, I also want to thank the Flemish houses he and Reilly study: graduate students who have made very important contributions to the Saint-Amand-des-Eaux. Further Institute through their appointments as assistants: Christine Dunn, as- digging while in Bloomington led sistant to the director; Diane Fruchtman, special projects assistant; Vanderputten to identify the scribe, and Monica Foote, Journals Initiative assistant. The Institute would and to discover a group of sister not have been able to accomplish as much as it has without their dedi- manuscripts still housed near Saint- cation and initiative. Best wishes to Christine and Monica, as they Amand, at the Bibliothèque mu- complete their appointments with the Institute and move on to new nicipale of Valenciennes. Reilly and phases of their careers! Vanderputten plan to work more Finally, since I will be on sabbatical during the fall semester of 2012, on the manuscript and its liturgical Professor Wayne Storey has been appointed to serve as acting direc- and literary environment during the tor of the Institute during that time. I greatly appreciate his willingness summer of 2013, when Reilly will be to take on these additional administrative duties while I am on leave. back in Ghent to continue their col- His past experience as director of the Institute will allow our program laboration. and administration to continue moving ahead smoothly. --Diane Reilly Best wishes for a wonderful summer! May 2012 MSN page 9 Vagantes 2012 Kruger, cont’d Successful March 29-31 Indiana University, Bloomington These first two opposing modes Wanderings of conversionary time are merged On March 29-31, the Medieval in the third, the “already, not yet,” Studies graduate students of In- which inhabits two times and two diana University hosted Vagan- identities simultaneously and nar- tes 2012, the 11th annual install- rates time in the process of being ment of the Medieval Academy seized. of America’s traveling graduate In Kruger’s analysis of the pagan conference. It was a resounding judge’s conversion in the South Eng- success, thanks to the student lish Legendary, the time between organizers at Indiana University and, most importantly, the 120 wonderful conversion and the institutional medievalists, from Indiana and across the country, who attended the confer- marker of that conversion—bap- ence: 34 graduate students from 22 institutions across North America and tism—sets up a narrative expectation Europe presented papers to an audience that ranged from 25-70 people at that resists any given panel. Even more joined us for the keynote addresses, the concert fulfilment, cre- of Medieval Chant (titled Cantus Vagans and presented by the Early Music ating a tem- Institute under the direction of Professors Alison Altstatt, Wendy Gillespie, poral tension and Paul Elliott), and the Reader’s Circle, a Friday-evening banquet whose between the entertainment featured ribald Old English riddles, Byzantine Chant, a Middle prior (uncon- English performance of Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls (complete with verted iden- feathers!), a flirtation between an Occitan upstart and a Genoese noblewom- tity) that the an, an Old Norse adventure story, the mellifluous tones of Old French and text claims to Medieval Spanish, and more. have moved Attendees, presenters, and organizers alike were delighted with the high beyond, and quality of papers, the engagement of the audience, and the level of cama- the its failure raderie the conference fostered among graduate medievalists. We also this to sustain year had several reminders of Vagantes’ role in professional development: such claims. The pagan judge must both our keynote speakers, Professor Shannon Gayk and the University of make a pilgrimage to Rome for his Wisconsin’s Professor Jordan L. Zweck (as well as some of the faculty who baptism. Despite the journey, the were in attendance at the conference) are Vagantes alumni. baptism never occurs, creating a On the whole, the organizers could not have been happier with how temporal/textual remnant that main- the conference went. It was truly a team effort, bolstered by the unflagging tains the urgency of the spiritual support of graduate students and faculty in all of the departments affiliated narrative. As he embarks on a geo- with the Institute, and the financial support of eighteen different departments, graphical trip back through spiritual programs, and organizations. Special mention should go to the organizers, history and time, his “already, not who each did a tremendous amount of work to make the conference run yet” mode of conversion enacts an smoothly: Megan Barrett (Chair, Housing Committee); Richard Barrett alternative route for the history of (Chair, Finance Committee); Christine Dunn (Chair, Keynote Committee); English Christendom to the Jewish Diane Fruchtman (Chair); Lindsey Hansen (Chair, Registration Committee history to which it is historically in- and Scheduling Committee); Kerilyn Harkaway-Krieger (Chair, Conference debted. Management Committee); Emily Houlik-Ritchey (Chair, Program Commit- --Emily Houlik-Ritchey tee); Victor Rodriguez-Pereira (Chair, Reader’s Circle Committee); Grant and DIane Fruchtman Simpson; Erin Sweany, (Chair, Publicity Committee); Sean Tandy,(Chair, Food Committee).

At the Minors and Certificates Reception on April 30: Our MEST Graduate Minors, right to left: Erin Sweany (English), Corey Sparks (English), Cynthia Rogers (English), Victor Rodriguez-Pereira (Spanish and Portuguese), Monica Foote (Folklore and Ethnomusicology), Elizabeth Elmi (French and Italian; Musicology), Kenny Draper (Classics), and Emilie Cox (English). MSN page 10 May 2012 F a l l 2012 M e d i e va l S t u d i es C o u r ses MEDIEVAL STUDIES MEST-M 390 Studies in Medieval Culture: Roman Literature in Translation 3 cr Balint MEST-M 390 Studies in Medieval Culture: Bronze Age to Mongol Conquest 3 cr Beckwith MEST-M 502 Colloquium in Medieval Studies: Seminar in Italian Poetry 4 cr Storey MEST-M 502 Colloquium in Medieval Culture: Bronze Age to Mongol Conquest 4 cr Beckwith MEST-M 600 Medieval Manuscripts: Medieval Latin Paleography 4 cr Wood MEST-M 650 Introduction to Medieval Music 3 cr DiBacco MEST-M 815 Readings in Medieval Civilization 1–4cr Storey CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES CEUS-T 151 Introductory Persian I - Undergraduate 4 cr Daneshgar/Fazel CEUS-T 251 Intermediate Persian I - Undergraduate 4 cr Daneshgar CEUS-T 351 Advanced Persian I- Undergraduate 4 cr Losensky CEUS-R 351 Prophets, Poets, Kings: Iranian Civilization 3 cr Choksy CEUS-R 399/599 Intro to Central Eurasian History: Bronze Age to Mongol Conquest 3 cr Beckwith CEUS-T 551 Introductory Persian I-Graduate 3 cr Daneshgar CEUS-R 551 Prophets, Poets, Kings: Iranian Civilization 3 cr Choksy CEUS-R 596 The Rus, Khazars, and Bolgars 3 cr Lazzerini CEUS-T 651 Intermediate Persian I – Graduate 3 cr Daneshgar CEUS-T 673 Old Tibetan 3 cr Beckwith CEUS-T 751 Advanced Persian I- Graduate 3 cr Losensky CLASSICAL STUDIES CLAS-L 100 Elementary Latin I 4 cr Ilias CLAS-L 150 Elementary Latin II 4 cr Staff CLAS-L 200 Second-Year Latin I 3 cr Staff CLAS-L 250 Second-Year Latin II 3 cr Staff CLAS-C 360 Latin Literature: Europe to 800 AD 3 cr Balint CLAS-L 409 Readings in Medieval Latin 3 cr Balint ENGLISH ENG-L 205 Introduction to Poetry 3 cr Fulk ENG-L 305 Chaucer 3 cr Adams ENG-G 601 Medieval Languages 4 cr Fulk FRENCH AND ITALIAN FRIT-M 450 Esilio e cittadinanza 3 cr. Storey FRIT-M 550 Seminar in Italian Poetry: Medieval Cultures of Italy 3-4cr. Storey GERMANIC STUDIES GER-E 361 Vikings and Sagas 3 cr Gade GER-G 640 Middle High German 3 cr Keller HISTORY HIST-D 102 Icon & Axe: Russia to 1861 3 cr Ransel HIST-B 204 Medieval Heroes 3 cr Shopkow HIST-H 251 Jewish History: Bible to Spanish Expulsion 3 cr Mokhtarian HIST-T 500 The Rus, Khazars, and Bolgars 3 cr Lazzerini HIST-H 605/705 Colloquium in Ancient History: Worlds of Late Antiquity 4 cr Watts HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE HPSC-X 100 The Science of Sex from Ancient Attitudes to Victorian Secrets 3 cr Inglehart HPSC-X 102 Scientific Revolutions: Plato to Nato 3 cr Seger HPSC-X 406/506 Survey of History of Science up to 1750 3 cr Newman HISTORY OF ART FINA-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art 3 cr Van Voorhis FINA-A 324 The Gothic Cathedral 4 cr Reilly FINA-A 425 Byzantine Art 4 cr Bassett HONORS COLLEGE HON-H 235 Religion in Lit., Art, Music & Performance: Monks, Nuns, & Medieval Art 3 cr Reilly JEWISH STUDIES JSTU-H 100 Elementary Hebrew I 4 cr Maoz-Levy/Naor JSTU-J 251 Jewish History: Bible to Spanish Expulsion 3 cr Mokhtarian LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SLIS-S 584 Manuscripts 3 cr Williams SLIS-S 680 The Book to 1450 3 cr Williams MUSIC MUS-M 435 Performance Practice Before 1750 1 cr Gillespie MUS-M 458/558 Topics in Early Music 1 cr Gillespie/Elliott MUS-M 651 Medieval Music 3 cr Di Bacco NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES NELC-A 100 Elementary Arabic I - Undergraduate 4 cr Istrabadi NELC-E 101 Elementary Egyptian I - Undergraduate 4 cr Vinson NELC-A 200 Intermediate Arabic I - Undergraduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-A 300 Advanced Arabic I - Undergraduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-N 393 Individual Readings in Classical Arabic-Undergraduate 3 cr Afsaruddin NELC-A 500 Elementary Arabic I - Graduate 2 cr Istrabadi NELC-H 501 Elementary Hebrew I 3 cr Maoz-Levy/Naor NELC-N 593 Individual Readings in Classical Arabic-Graduate 1-6 cr Afsaruddin NELC-A 600 Intermediate Arabic I - Graduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-A 660 Advanced Arabic I - Graduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-A 680 Advanced Arabic III- Graduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-N 695 Elementary Egyptian I - Graduate 3 cr Vinson PHILOSOPHY PHIL-P 401 History of Philosophy: Virtue Ethics 3 cr Wood PHIL-P 515 Medieval Latin Palaeography 3 cr Wood PHIL-P 596 Readings: Medieval Philosophical Sources 1-4 cr O'Connor

MEDIEVAL STUDIES MEST-M 390 Studies in Medieval Culture: Roman Literature in Translation 3 cr Balint MEST-M 390 Studies in Medieval Culture: Bronze Age to Mongol Conquest 3 cr Beckwith MEST-M 502 Colloquium in Medieval Studies: Seminar in Italian Poetry 4 cr Storey MEST-M 502 Colloquium in Medieval Culture: Bronze Age to Mongol Conquest 4 cr Beckwith MEST-M 600 Medieval Manuscripts: Medieval Latin Paleography 4 cr Wood MEST-M 650 Introduction to Medieval Music 3 cr DiBacco MEST-M 815 Readings in Medieval Civilization 1–4cr Storey CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES CEUS-T 151 Introductory Persian I - Undergraduate 4 cr Daneshgar/Fazel CEUS-T 251 Intermediate Persian I - Undergraduate 4 cr Daneshgar CEUS-T 351 Advanced Persian I- Undergraduate 4 cr Losensky CEUS-R 351 Prophets, Poets, Kings: Iranian Civilization 3 cr Choksy CEUS-R 399/599 Intro to Central Eurasian History: Bronze Age to Mongol Conquest 3 cr Beckwith CEUS-T 551 Introductory Persian I-Graduate 3 cr Daneshgar CEUS-R 551 Prophets, Poets, Kings: Iranian Civilization 3 cr Choksy CEUS-R 596 The Rus, Khazars, and Bolgars 3 cr Lazzerini CEUS-T 651 Intermediate Persian I – Graduate 3 cr Daneshgar CEUS-T 673 Old Tibetan 3 cr Beckwith CEUS-T 751 Advanced Persian I- Graduate 3 cr Losensky CLASSICAL STUDIES CLAS-L 100 Elementary Latin I 4 cr Ilias CLAS-L 150 Elementary Latin II 4 cr Staff CLAS-L 200 Second-Year Latin I 3 cr Staff CLAS-L 250 Second-Year Latin II 3 cr Staff CLAS-C 360 Latin Literature: Europe to 800 AD 3 cr Balint CLAS-L 409 Readings in Medieval Latin 3 cr Balint ENGLISH ENG-L 205 Introduction to Poetry 3 cr Fulk ENG-L 305 Chaucer 3 cr Adams ENG-G 601 Medieval Languages 4 cr Fulk FRENCH AND ITALIAN FRIT-M 450 Esilio e cittadinanza 3 cr. Storey FRIT-M 550 Seminar in Italian Poetry: Medieval Cultures of Italy 3-4cr. Storey GERMANIC STUDIES GER-E 361 Vikings and Sagas 3 cr Gade GER-G 640 Middle High German 3 cr Keller HISTORY HIST-D 102 Icon & Axe: Russia to 1861 3 cr Ransel HIST-B 204 Medieval Heroes 3 cr Shopkow HIST-H 251 Jewish History: Bible to Spanish Expulsion 3 cr Mokhtarian HIST-T 500 The Rus, Khazars, and Bolgars 3 cr Lazzerini HIST-H 605/705 Colloquium in Ancient History: Worlds of Late Antiquity 4 cr Watts HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE HPSC-X 100 The Science of Sex from Ancient Attitudes to Victorian Secrets 3 cr Inglehart HPSC-X 102 Scientific Revolutions: Plato to Nato 3 cr Seger HPSC-X 406/506 Survey of History of Science up to 1750 3 cr Newman HISTORY OF ART FINA-A 101 Ancient and Medieval Art 3 cr Van Voorhis FINA-A 324 The Gothic Cathedral 4 cr Reilly FINA-A 425 Byzantine Art 4 cr Bassett HONORS COLLEGE HON-H 235 Religion in Lit., Art, Music & Performance: Monks, Nuns, & Medieval Art 3 cr Reilly JEWISH STUDIES JSTU-H 100 Elementary Hebrew I 4 cr Maoz-Levy/Naor JSTU-J 251 Jewish History: Bible to Spanish Expulsion 3 cr Mokhtarian LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE SLIS-S 584 Manuscripts 3 cr Williams MaySLIS 2012-S 680 The Book to 1450 3 cr WilliamsMSN page 11 MUSIC MUS-M 435 Performance Practice Before 1750 1 cr Gillespie MUS-M 458/558 Topics in Early Music 1 cr Gillespie/Elliott MUS-M 651 Medieval Music 3 cr Di Bacco NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES NELC-A 100 Elementary Arabic I - Undergraduate 4 cr Istrabadi NELC-E 101 Elementary Egyptian I - Undergraduate 4 cr Vinson NELC-A 200 Intermediate Arabic I - Undergraduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-A 300 Advanced Arabic I - Undergraduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-N 393 Individual Readings in Classical Arabic-Undergraduate 3 cr Afsaruddin NELC-A 500 Elementary Arabic I - Graduate 2 cr Istrabadi NELC-H 501 Elementary Hebrew I 3 cr Maoz-Levy/Naor NELC-N 593 Individual Readings in Classical Arabic-Graduate 1-6 cr Afsaruddin NELC-A 600 Intermediate Arabic I - Graduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-A 660 Advanced Arabic I - Graduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-A 680 Advanced Arabic III- Graduate 3 cr Istrabadi NELC-N 695 Elementary Egyptian I - Graduate 3 cr Vinson PHILOSOPHY PHIL-P 401 History of Philosophy: Virtue Ethics 3 cr Wood PHIL-P 515 Medieval Latin Palaeography 3 cr Wood PHIL-P 596 Readings: Medieval Philosophical Sources 1-4 cr O'Connor

Fall 2012 Medieval Studies Course Descriptions MEST-M 390 grations of the early Indo-Europeans of Italy in relation to the early develop- Romanitas: Literature and Latinity in down to the Mongol Conquest. The ment of the local vernacular traditions Europe to 800 AD steppe zone (for example, the nomadic from the late twelfth century until the Professor Bridget Balint empires of the Scythians, Attila and the early fourteenth century, including the We will begin with authors who provide Huns, the Turks, and the Tibetans), the composition (and abandonment) of the a baseline portrait of what it meant to ‘Silk Road’ (for example, the great cit- De vulgari eloquentia. Texts will include be a Roman under the Empire, and ies of Bactria, Gandhara, Sogdiana, works by Italy’s earliest writers in the then investigate how later writers used and East Turkistan), the interrelation- vernacular (from Rambertino Buvalelli, and changed their Imperial models, ship of the two, and the intrusion of the Sordello, Lanfranco Cigala, Bartolomeo always maintaining the firm belief that non-nomadic colonial empires of the Zorzi to Giacomo da Lentini, Percivalle they themselves were living examples Chinese, Persians, and Arabs, will be Doria, Guittone d’Arezzo, Brunetto Lati- of “Romanitas,” Roman-ness. Authors covered in depth. The course corrects ni and Dante) to early writers and copy- will include Suetonius, Juvenal, Apu- the traditional view of Central Eurasians ists who found refuge and patronage at leius, Perpetua, Augustine, Boethius, as ‘barbarians’, but the emphasis is Italian courts (such as Uc de Saint Circ, Gregory of Tours, Virgilius Maro Gram- mainly on Central Eurasians as bearers Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Aimeric de Pe- maticus, Einhard, and others. Evalua- of an advanced, complex culture with guilhan, Guilhem de la Tor, and Folquet tion: Three substantive essays. Prereq- many subcultures and regional vari- de Romans), who introduced motifs, uisites: Students are expected to have ants, which dominated Eurasia during genres, and new questions of linguistic a basic working knowledge of Roman most of the period covered. expression to wider circulation in Italy Culture (C102 or equivalent), and the and Europe. While seminar participants ability to write an analytical essay. MEST-M 502 should have a solid reading knowledge Medieval Cultures of Italy of Italian, the course will also provide MEST-M 390/502 Professor Wayne Storey the opportunity to study the basics of Bronze Age to Mongol Conquest While literary histories of early Italian lit- Old Occitan. One additional reading Professor Chris Beckwith erary culture tend to identify a straight- knowledge will be helpful, but not es- This course is an introduction to the his- line trajectory from a Latin to an Italian sential, either of Old French or Latin. tory of the world area known as Cen- vernacular tradition, Italy’s linguistic, tral Eurasia, which stretches from the literary and documentary relations with MEST-M 600 southern sub-Arctic to the Indian Sub- other traditions reveal a far more diverse Medieval Manuscripts: Medieval continent and from eastern Europe to set of traditions that influenced active Latin Paleography northern China and the Sea of Japan. vernaculars both within Italy and as part Professor Rega Wood The focus is on the unique social, po- of its engagement with other political, A course in the history of writing that litical, religious, and economic structure linguistic and intellectual contexts out- enables students to read and research of the nations founded in this area by side Italy, including Arabic in the Duchy medieval philosophy, cosmology, psy- speakers of Indo-European, Japanese- of Puglia, Old French in the Veneto and chology, history of science, and theol- Koguryoic, Mongolic, Tibeto-Burman, Tuscany, and Old Occitan throughout ogy. M600 enables students to read the Tungusic, Turkic, and Uralic languages, the peninsula. Studying especially the scripts and to evaluate the value of the and on their ethnolinguistic origins and relations with and use of Old Occitan, witness provided by medieval manu- historical achievements, including intel- this course examines the origins and scripts. Emphasis is on distinguishing lectual history and history of the arts. diversity of linguistic and intellectual characteristic letter forms and spelling We will cover the period from the mi- traditions engaged in diverse regions (Continued on Page 12) MSN page 12 May 2012 MEST Contact Summer Course: Becoming Human Information MEST M-200 (Summer 2012) Shape-shifters, Beasts, and Monsters: Becoming Human in Medieval Europe The members of the administra- Ben Garceau tive staff of MEST are: Christine Dunn, Diane Fruchtman, , and Why do dragons hoard gold? Can Rosemarie McGerr. If you have humans transform into animals, or animals into humans? Why is the communications you would like to lion the king of the animal world? have distributed as a general an- These were serious questions to nouncement in Medieval Studies, medieval audiences, and the an- please contact Diane at mest@in- swers they formulated through lit- diana.edu. erature, mythology, and scientific inquiry still affect our culture today. [email protected]: for general Before genetics, before Darwin, even before Linnaeus, how did Western thinkers correspondence with the Institue, define the relationship between human and animal? Was this limit more or less or for adminstrative matters with solid than in the modern world? Does the way a culture thinks about animals and Christine, or newsletter and pub- monsters influence the way they will think about human endeavors like the arts, licity issues with Diane. politics, history, or philosophy? These are the questions we will explore in our class. Readings will include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Lais of Marie [email protected]: for di- de France, Bestiaries, Fables, Romances, and more. rect and confidential communications with the Director; this is an administrative account we have Fall Course Descriptions, continued established that will transfer from peculiarities which date and place medieval manuscripts. Our primary medieval director to director. Please note text is an introduction or summary of philosophy, a compendium of philosophy that [email protected] is a per- composed about 1240, but still considered a good basic introduction to philoso- sonal account of another faculty phy in the fifteenth century. Intended for well-educated non specialists, the Com- member. pendium philosophiae tells us how medieval thinkers, poets and physicians as well as philosophers, believed the world worked – about matter and form, the soul In addition to these two e-mail and the senses, ethics and theology, but also about storms and earthquakes, peli- accounts, we also maintain four cans and donkeys. The facsimiles on which our survey of Latin manuscripts from distribution lists: one for students, France, Germany, Italy, Iberia, and Britain is drawn is S. Harrison Thompson’s Latin Book Hands of the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1500. Our guide to the classification one for faculty, one for core fac- and characteristics of the scripts is Albert Derolez’s The Palaeography of Gothic ulty, and one for community mem- Manuscript Books. A graduate open to undergraduates with permission from the bers. If you would like to be added instructor. Requirements include a transcription and a final exam. Knowledge of to any of those lists, please con- Latin is a pre-requisite. tact Diane at [email protected]. MEST-M 650 Introduction to Medieval Music Professor Giuliano DiBacco -Rosemarie McGerr In this course we will explore the musical repertory developed in Western Europe [email protected] during the Middle Ages, evaluating the information that music manuscripts and other textual/visual documents give us on authors, events and on the role of music in the culture and society of the time. The nature of the repertory and of the extant sources requires an interdisciplinary approach: we will discuss the relation of music with aspects of contemporary literary, artistic, philosophic and scientific production. As for the music itself, this was a period of experiments: new forms and techniques Medieval Studies were developed, some very different from today’s practices, as different was the way composers, performers and listeners approached music. However, many pil- Institute lars were erected that allowed greater musical edifices to be built in the centuries to Indiana University come. The aim of the course is to develop a higher familiarity with authors, compo- Ballantine Hall 650 sitions, genres and manuscripts up to ca. 1400; to gain a better understanding of the social, political, cultural and artistic background of musical composition, perfor- Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 mance and circulation in medieval Europe; investigate issues of orality and written (812) 855-8201, circulation, authorship, intertextuality, authenticity in performance. The class time [email protected] will include lectures, student presentations, class discussions and musical listen- ing. One or more sessions will be held at the Lilly Library to examine some medieval www.indiana.edu/~medieval/ music documents. The class sits with M651 (Jacobs School of Music) but all topics MedievalStudiesInstitute on Facebook will be approached from an interdisciplinary point of view. Ability to read scores in modern music notation may be an advantage, but there are no prerequisites. Class attendance is mandatory.