Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Third Annual Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Discipuli Juncti: Students Connected through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Friday October 29, 2010 Arizona State University at the West Campus

Hosted by

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Sponsored by New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Co-sponsored by

ASU Jewish Studies ASU University College School of Human Evolution and Social Change The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies – The Faculty of Religious Studies

Acknowledgments ------ACMRS would like to thank the following for their financial support:

New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences – Vice President and Dean, Elizabeth Langland ASU Jewish Studies – Director, Hava Tirosh-Samuleson ASU University College – Dean, Frederick C. Corey School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies – Faculty of Religious Studies – Chair, Joel Gereboff School of Human Evolution and Social Change – Executive Director, Alexandra Brewis Slade ------

Organizing Committee Mary L. Dudy Bjork, Chair William Gentrup Audrey Walters Program Committee William Gentrup, Chair Mary L. Dudy Bjork Audrey Walters Travel Grant Committee Markus Cruse, Chair Marsha Fazio Ryan Muckerheide

Discipuli Juncti Student Committee Melissa Sawyer, Chair Michelle Jameson ----- Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

ACMRS Staff ------

Director Robert E. Bjork

Assistant Director William F. Gentrup Research Coordinator Karen Lackey Managing Editor Roy Rukkila Manager of Design & Production Todd Halvorsen

Program Coordinator Audrey Walters Manuscript Editor Leslie S. B. MacCoull Graduate Research Assistant Leah Faibisoff

---- General Information ------Registration will be open on Friday from 8:00am – 3:30pm in the room 131 of the SANDS Classroom Building at ASU West campus. Participants must check in and pick up name badges at the registration desk Sessions Locations: Sessions will be held in SANDS 101, 103, and 105. Book Exhibit: Publishers and book sellers will display their publications from 8:30am – 4:00pm in SANDS 131.

Beverage Service: Refreshments will be provided beginning at 8:00am. Free lunch will be provided for the presenters, chairs, and invited guests in the UCB Faculty/Staff Lounge.

Closing Reception will be held in the UCB Faculty/Staff Lounge.

Thank you for attending the 2010 conference Session ONE – 8:45-10:00am

1A. Ambiguities in Old English Poetry Chair: Heather Maring, Arizona State University SANDS 101 Unlocking the Ferhðcofa: Discourse of Loyalty in the “Finn Episode” of Beowulf Emile Young, New York University Wulf and Eadwacer: A Modern Interpretation Courtney Barajas, University of Arizona Argument by Analogue: Beowulf and Grettir Zach Miller, University of Miami

1B. The Bamberg Witchcraze Chair: Stephanie F. DeBacker, Arizona State University SANDS 103 Hecate’s Daughters: Witch Hunts in Early Seventeenth Century Bamberg Matthew Gramling, Oglethorpe University Inversion and Modernity: The Trials in Bamberg and the Role of Women Clair Carter, Oglethorpe University Bamberg at the Intersection of False Dichotomies in Witchcraft Studies Brittany Prince, Oglethorpe University

Morning Break – 10:00-10:15am

------Session Two – 10:15-11:30am

2A Documenting Medieval History Chair: Patricia Turning, Arizona State University SANDS 101 The Warrior of Badon: King Arthur’s Place in History Ryan Hatch, Arizona State University Where the Crescent Meets the Cross: Law in the Crusader States Samuel Mijal, Arizona State University Trade and the Power of the English Monarchy Alan Rosenfeld, University of California, Davis

2B Models for Medieval Piety Chair: Tom Goodmann, University of Miami SANDS 103 The Cult of St. Margaret of Antioch at Tarrant Crawford: The Saint’s Didactic Body and Its Resonance for Religious Women Jenny Bledsoe, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Vanity and the Virgin Lilliam Albizu-Campos, University of Miami Mid-morning Break: 11:30-11:45am

------Session Three – 11:45am-12:45pm 3 Plenary Session SANDS Kiva

Welcome

Introduction Mary L. Dudy Bjork, Arizona State University

From Script to Print: Reactions to a Technological Revolution Rodney M. Thomson Honorary Research Fellow, School of History and Classics University of Tasmania, Australia

Lunch Break: 12:45-1:45pm Faculty/Staff Lounge

------Session Four – 1:45pm-3:00pm

4A Pride, Monsters, and Heretics in Medieval Religion Chair: Diane Facinelli, Arizona State University SANDS 103 Augustine of Hippo on Pride and Humility, Damnation and Redemption Zachary Young, University of California, Davis I Stand at the Door and Knock. Hard: Divine Inspiration and the Monstrous in the Ottonian Gospel’s Portraits of the Evangelists Emily M. Smith, Arizona State University Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade Kristy Stapley, Arizona State University

4B Female Agency in Arthurian Romance/Chronicle and in Shakespeare Chair: Brad Ryner, Arizona State University SANDS 101 The Role of Faerie Ladies in Arthurian Romance Ariane Merida Metz, University of California, Davis Geoffrey's and Chrétien's Guinevere: The Development of Agency in Arthur's Queen Emily Reynolds, Arizona State University Effeminacy and the Meta-Theatrical in As You Like It: The Boy-Actor as Rosalind Genevieve Egana, Arizona State University

Afternoon Break: 3:00-3:15pm ------Session Five – 3:15pm-4:30pm

5A Politics and Contact: Byzantium, the West, and the East Chair: Wm. Bradford Smith, Oglethorpe University SANDS 103 Alexios I and the First Crusades David Gondo, Arizona State University The Kiev Metropolitan See as Intermediary between East and West in Late Renaissance Literature Ryan Hanning, Maryvale Institute, Liverpool Hope University Bureaucracy and Autocracy in Sima Qian's Shiji Chloe Edwards, Oglethorpe University

5B Contexts for Middle English Poetry Chair: William Bolton, Arizona State University SANDS 101 “The forme to the fynishment foldez ful selden”: The Accommodation of the Welsh in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Michael Diaz de la Portilla, University of Miami The Crown and the Garter: The Shared Motto of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Edward III’s Order of the Garter David Urbach, Santa Clara University Lighting the Doom: The All Saints’ “Pricke of Conscience” Window Krista Boone, Arizona University

5C Chaucer’s Narrators Chair: Robert Sturges, Arizona State University SANDS 105 Say Not So: The Bewildered Narrator in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess David McDevitt, Arizona State University “What may ever laste?”: The Desire for Permanence in an Impermanent Written Culture in Chaucer’s The House of Fame Elizabeth Pitts, Arizona State University

Closing Reception 4:30 – 5:30pm Faculty/Staff Lounge Mentors

Carl T. Berkhout, Emily M. Smith University of Arizona Professor, English Haruko Momma Courtney Barajas New York University Associate Professor, English Fr. Andriy Chirovsky, STHD Emile Young St. Paul University Professor, Theology Kevin Roddy Ryan Hanning University of California, Davis Professor, Medieval Studies Diane Facinelli Alan Rosenfeld Arizona State University Zachary Young Principal Lecturer, Barrett, The Honors College Wm Bradford Smith Emily Reynolds Oglethorpe University Professor, History Marsha Fazio Clair Carter Arizona State University Chloë Edwards Lecturer, Humanities, Arts & Cultural Matthew Gramling Studies Brittany Prince Genevieve Egana Robert Sturges Thomas Goodman Arizona State University University of Miami Professor, English Associate Professor, English David McDevitt Lilliam Albizu-Campos Elizabeth Pitts Michael Diaz de la Portilla Zachary Miller Thomas Turley Santa Clara University Thomas Heffernan Associate Professor, History University of Tennessee, Knoxville David Urbach Professor, English & Patricia Turning Tina Shepardson Arizona State University University of Tennessee, Knoxville Visiting Assistant Professor, History Associate Professor, History David Gondo Jenny Bledsoe Ryan Hatch Samuel Mijal Rebekah Pratt Kristy Stapley Arizona State University Ph.D. Candidate, Art History Claire Waters Krista Boone University of California, Davis Associate Professor, English Asa Mittman Ariane Metz California State University, Chico Assistant Professor, Art History