February 18-20, 2016 Rice University Houston, Texas 1 VAGANTES CONFERENCE on MEDIEVAL STUDIES RICE UNIVERSITY | FEBRUARY 18 — 20

February 18-20, 2016 Rice University Houston, Texas 1 VAGANTES CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES RICE UNIVERSITY | FEBRUARY 18 — 20

Table of Contents Introduction...... 4 Conference Schedule...... 6 Keynote Speakers...... 10 Rice University Campus Map...... 14

Food and Drinks Directory...... 16

2016 Vagantes Board of Directors

Andrew Welton (University of Florida) Chair of the Board of Directors Miriam Poole (Indiana University Bloomington) GSC Liaison and Public Outreach Coordinator Meg Gregory (Illinois State University) GSC Liaison and Public Outreach Coordinator Roland Black (Western Michigan University) Webmaster Helen Davies (University of Mississippi) Social Media Coordinator Jan Volek (University of Minnesota) Historian

Kyle G. Sweeney (Rice University) Current Host Representative On behalf of the Vagantes Board of Directors, we are delighted to welcome you Carolyn Van Wingerden (Rice University) Current Host Representative to Rice University and to the 15th annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Marjorie Housley (University of Notre Dame) Future Host Representative Studies. We are excited to feature 27 student presenters from 19 institutions from across the U.S. and Canada. It is our great pleasure to have as our keynote speakers Dr. Amy Mulligan from the University of Notre Dame and Dr. Diane Wolfthal from Rice University. Thanks to generous support from the Menil Collection, we are honored to have Dr. Annemarie Weyl Carr join us to give a talk and tour of the remarkable Byzantine icons on display in the collection. To help us capture the Vagantes spirit at Rice, we invite you to post on our Facebook wall and use our Twitter hashtag (#Vagantes2016) throughout the conference. We wish to thank each of you for attending our conference and for bringing your expertise to our gathering. It is our hope that you will find the conference and your stay in Houston inspiring and enjoyable. Rice University Vagantes Conference Planning Committee Co-directors Kyle G. Sweeney and Carolyn Van Wingerden, with José Candelaria, Chelsea Dacus, John W. Ellis-Etchison, Michael E. Heyes, Minji Lee, Natasha Mao, Layla Seale, Lindsay E. Sherrier, and faculty sponsors, Dr. Linda Elaine Neagley and Dr. Diane Wolfthal

Kyle G. Sweeney and Carolyn Van Wingerden Cover: Archangels Michael and Gabriel, Courtesy of the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas Vagantes 2016 Co-directors

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About the Vagantes Conference The Menil Collection with Annemarie Weyl Carr Established in 2002, Vagantes is North America’s largest and most successful A legacy of the late philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil, the Menil medieval studies conference for graduate students. Thevagantes were those Collection opened to the public in 1987. Housed in the first United States building medieval clergy, students, and minstrels who adopted the nomadic life. Their designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, the main museum anchors a thir- wandering spirit is the inspiration for our conference, which moves to a different ty-acre “neighborhood of art,” as the late architectural historian Reyner Banham North American university or college each year, highlighting the unique resources described the Menil campus. Byzantine art and artifacts make up the most signif- of the host institution through keynote lectures, exhibitions, and special events. icant pre-20th-century holdings within the Menil Collection. In 1964, the Menil Since its founding, Vagantes has nurtured a lively community of junior scholars Foundation acquired a carefully assembled collection of more than 800 small from across the disciplines. Every conference features roughly thirty papers on any objects of the sort commonly found in the everyday commerce and piety of medi- aspect of medieval studies, allowing for exciting interdisciplinary conversation and eval Byzantium—stamps, seals, rings, keys, and buckles—from a noted dealer of the creation of new professional relationships between future colleagues. Out of antiquities and African and Asian art, J. J. Klejman. Today, the Byzantine collection consideration for graduate students’ limited budgets, Vagantes never charges a includes over 1,000 of these everyday items, in addition to its collection of icons, registration fee. which is widely regarded by scholars in the field as one of the most important in About Rice University the United States. The Menil’s icon holdings span 1,200 years, from the 6th to the 18th centuries, and encompass a number of distinct cultures, including Greek, Located on a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston, Rice University is consis- Balkan, and Russian, representing the history and reach of the Orthodox Church. tently ranked among the nation’s top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. The breadth and quality of the collection embody the ambitions and the values, With a graduate population of approximately 2,700, Rice's graduate programs are both aesthetic and spiritual, that guided John and Dominique de Menil through- large enough to offer research topics in several important areas of study, but small out their lives as collectors. enough to offer close personal contact between faculty and students. Our graduate students come to Rice from a wide variety of academic disciplines, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and from 50 states and more than 82 countries.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19

11:00 Registration opens Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor 8:45 – 9:15 Breakfast & Registration Participants may pick up their registration materials at any Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor time during the conference. 1:00 –1:15 Welcome and introductory remarks 9:15 – 10:45 Panel 3: Women, Asceticism, and the Spiritual Life Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Chair: Natasha Mao, Rice University 1:15 – 2:45 Panel 1: Kinetic Experience and Liminal Spaces • “‘Ic ne mæg me Þe geswutelian’: Show and Tell in the Old Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor English Life of Mary of Egypt” Chair: Kyle G. Sweeney, Rice University Meg Gregory, English, Illinois State University • “Structuring Experience: The Architecture and Murals of • “‘His wife has prepared herself’: TheVita Angelica, Virginity, the Moldavian Katholika in Dialogue” and Embodiment in ‘Holy Maidenhood’” Alice Isabella Sullivan, History of Art, University of Michigan Nathan John Haydon, English, University of Arkansas • “Serpents and Dragons as Portal Keepers: • “Evoking Emotions: Sorrow, Compassion, and the Viking Era Picture Stones as Doors to Other Worlds” Suffering Body of Elisabeth of Spalbeek” Chelsea Dacus, Art History, Rice University Mary Anne Gonzales, History, University of Guelph • “A Corporibus Obessis: Possession and the Body in Gregory of Tours’ Vita patrum” 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee BreakLovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Kristen Herdman, World Literature, Case Western Reserve University 11:00 – 12:30 Panel 4: Gender, Power, and Authority Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor 2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Chair: John W. Ellis-Etchison, Rice University 3:00 – 4:30 Panel 2: Questioning Political and Social Experiences • “The Power to Lead and the Power to Damn: Cynewulf’s Elene Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor as Anglo-Saxon Abbess” Chair: José Candelaria, Rice University Erin Zoutendam, Theological Studies, Calvin Theological Seminary • “Understanding the Byzantine χλος A Model of ὂ : • “Agents of Justice: Female Plaintiffs in the King’s Court in Popular Action in Eleventh-Century Constantinople” Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England” Felege-Salem Yirga, History, The Ohio State University J. Savannah Shipman, History, Western Michigan University • “Turbans, Foreigners, and Others: How the Sculptures • “Weapons of Wine: Eleventh-Century Norman Women and at Medieval Town Halls in Flanders Reveal More than the Use of Food-Based Poisons” One Might Expect” Crescida Elizabeth Jacobs, History, University of Houston Carolyn Van Wingerden, Art History, Rice University • “Laughing at the Park of Hesdin” 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch break in Ley Student Center and Vagantes Board Scott Miller, Art History, Northwestern University of Directors Meeting 4:30 – 5:00 Coffee Break Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor 1:30 – 3:00 Panel 5: Environment, Landscape, and Nature 5:00 – 6:00 Visiting Keynote Speaker Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Chair: Lindsay E. Sherrier, Rice University Dr. Amy Mulligan, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, • “The Topography of Conversion: Holy Heights in the University of Notre Dame Anglo-Saxon Imagination” “Walking and Talking Place with St. Patrick: Ireland’s National, Maj-Britt Frenze, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame Natural Pilgrimage” • “‘Verdiers d’amor’: Nature and Culture in the Troubadour Albas” 6:00 – 8:00 Exhibition Opening and Reception Anne V. A. Malcolm, English, The Ohio State University Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor • “Mapping Change: Contextualizing the Vercelli Mappa Mundi” José Candelaria and Ingrid Seyb Helen Davies, English, University of Mississippi

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3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Dr. Joshua R. Eyler, Director, Rice Center for Teaching Excellence “Teaching the Middle Ages” 3:15 – 3:30 Rice shuttle from campus to the Menil Collection What does it mean to teach the languages, texts, and cultures of 1533 Sul Ross St., Houston, TX 77006 the Middle Ages, and how do we know that our students are 3:30 – 5:45 Byzantine Icons in the Menil Collection with learning what we hope to teach them? This interactive workshop Dr. Annemarie Weyl Carr Menil Collection will begin by addressing participants’ own goals for teaching Dr. Annemarie Weyl Carr, Department of Art History, in their respective disciplines. From there, we will survey some of Southern Methodist University the most recent scholarship on teaching and learning and discuss “Pursuing the Life of Icons” the ways in which this research is important to the work we do in our classrooms. 5:45 – 6:00 Rice shuttle from the Menil Collection to Simone on Sunset and the Rice campus 1:30 – 3:00 Panel 8: Conversations on Chaucer Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor 6:00 – 9:00 Happy Hour and Small Bites for student presenters Chair: Meg Gregory, Illinois State University and Vagantes organizers • “Penance, Confession, and Feminized Loss: Chaucer & Simone on Sunset, 2418 Sunset Blvd, Houston, TX 77005 Gower’s translation amoris and Ovidian Exile” Caitlin Rose Brenner, English, Texas A&M University SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 • “Fraternal disOrder: Transgressing Ritual Narrative in Chaucer’s 8:45 – 9:15 Breakfast & Registration Troilus and Criseyde” Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Kaitlin Lorraine Browne, Literature, Eastern Michigan University 9:15 – 10:45 Panel 6: Convergence, Causality, and Condemnation • “Dreaming While Awake: The Reading Experience in Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Chaucer’s ‘Prologue’ to The Legend of the Good Woman” Chair: Helen Davies, University of Mississippi Suzanne Tanner, English, University of Houston • “From Isidore to Erkenwald: The Life of a Literary Trope” Brian Cook, English, University of Mississippi 3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor • “Avicennian Existential Causality” Catherine Peters, Philosophy, Center for Thomistic Studies, 3:15 – 4:45 Panel 9: Visual and Literary Strategies and their University of St. Thomas Social Impact • “The Condemned Prince in the Last Judgment Scene of Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor the Bamberg Apocalypse” Chair: Carolyn Van Wingerden, Rice University Roland Black, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University • “Syncretic Serpents: Snakes as Syncretic Images in Old Norse Literary and Material Culture” 10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Sharon Wofford, English, University of Mississippi • “‘And the Sun Stood Still, and the Moon Stayed’: Parallel 11:00 – 12:30 Panel 7: Challenging the Discourse Causation in the Song of Roland and the Book of Joshua” Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, 3rd floor Annie Doucet, French Studies, Tulane University Chair: Chelsea Dacus, Rice University • “Beastly Women: Monstrous Females in Medieval Storytelling” • “Constructing the Middle Ages: Medievalism and the Michaela Baca, English, Texas A&M University Votivkirche in Vienna” Teresa A. Kilmer, Art History, Oklahoma State University 4:45 – 5:00 Coffee Break Lovett Lounge, Fondren Library, 3rd floor • “Self-fashioning and Legacy in Petrarch’s Political Letters” Vanessa DiMaggio, Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania 5:00 – 6:00 Rice Keynote Speaker • “Gundulf the Builder: Prolific Administrator or Educated Humanities Building 117 Architect?” Dr. Diane Wolfthal, Department of Art History, Rice University Thomas Barrows, History, University of Houston “Images of Servants: The Late Medieval Aristocratic Ideal and its Alternatives” 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch/Round Table at the Rice Center for 6:00 — 9:15 Final Banquet Celebration catered by Teaching Excellence Goode Company Barbeque Herring Hall 129 Lee & Joe Jamail Courtyard and Humanities Building 8 9 VAGANTES CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES RICE UNIVERSITY | FEBRUARY 18 — 20

ratives. Her work has been published empire that originated the Orthodox in Speculum, Journal of English and religious tradition and with it the Keynote Speakers Germanic Philology, Studies in Philology practice of icons. Byzantine icons are (forthcoming), Cambrian Medieval extremely rare today; the Menil houses watery, outdoor spaces is privileged, Dr. Amy Mulligan Celtic Studies, Eolas and Proceedings one of the finest collections outside of with a geospatial poetics also deployed the Orthodox world. Religious instru- Assistant Professor of Irish of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, and to ‘naturalize’ Patrick. His actions show ments governed by tradition rather Language and Literature, Fellow of she has published essays in Norman an increasingly harmonious relationship than individual expression, icons have the Medieval Institute, and Fellow Tradition and Transcultural Heritage and with Ireland’s natural environment, not traditionally been regarded as mu- of the Keough-Naughton Institute Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland. and the British-born foreigner is by the seum objects. Already in the early 20th for Irish Studies at University of She is also co-editing (with Else Mun- end of the text embraced as Ireland’s century, however, modernist painters’ Notre Dame dal) a collection titled Moving Words: patron saint. Patrick’s deeds culminate fascination with the abstraction of Literacies, Texts and Verbal Communities in his composition of Irish-language Russian icons drew art-lovers’ attention of the Nordic Middle Ages (under review to icons. The mid-century interest in topographical poems: he becomes a with Brepols). Her current project, A spirituality and art in which Dominique saintly practitioner of the Irish poetics Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and de Menil played such a strong role of place and potentially models how the Poetics of Irish Space from 700-1300, reinforced this attention. The recent Norman colonizers ought to behave in has just been awarded a NEH fellow- post-modern interest in the power of Ireland. TheAcallam offers a uniquely ship for 2016-2017. images has precipitated a yet far broad- Irish version of sacred-secular pilgrim- er and more probing analysis of icons age, one in which contemplative travel and the ways in which their painters through Ireland’s storied landscape is a Dr. Annemarie Weyl Carr manipulated image types, materials, sanctifying process. University Distinguished Professor surrounding spaces, and light to com- of Art History Emerita at Southern mand attention, imprint the memory, and burrow into patterns of thought. “Walking and Talking Place with St. Amy Mulligan is Assistant Professor of Methodist University Drawing on the Menil Collection’s Patrick: Ireland’s National, Natural Irish Language and Literature, Fellow exceptional opportunity to observe the Pilgrimage” of the Medieval Institute and Fellow of genesis and maturation of the icon as the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish well as its long later evolution in Russia, The early 13th c.Acallam na Senórach Studies at University of Notre Dame, the presentation will ask both how (‘Conversation of the Elders’), medieval where she teaches the literatures, icons have looked and how they have Ireland’s longest text, fuses the literature languages and cultures of medieval been seen by artists of our day. of place and pilgrimage to technologies Ireland, Britain, and Scandinavia, at of national imagining. Set in the 5th undergraduate and postgraduate level. Annemarie Weyl Carr, University Distin- century, St. Patrick meets a pagan war- Her doctoral degree (D.Phil) from the guished Professor of Art History Emeri- rior from long ago, Cáilte, and the two University of Oxford was conferred ta at Southern Methodist University in unlikely companions journey together in 2004. An overarching goal of her Dallas, Texas, has worked on the history through Ireland, Cáilte regaling Patrick research program has been to put me- of Middle Byzantine art, especially man- uscripts; on art and issues of cultural with stories prompted by the sites they dieval Irish literature into transnational “Pursuing the Life of Icons” interchange in the eastern Mediterra- visit and his emotional reactions to the contexts and to demonstrate how Irish In 1985, Dominique de Menil acquired, nean Levant in the era of the Crusades, heroic events enacted there. Patrick, at texts inform and are informed by other and so preserved as a whole, a remark- above all on the island of Cyprus; and the behest of two angels, has his scribe North Sea literary traditions. She has able collection of icons, the holy images on women artists in the Middle Ages. record these accounts; the resulting also written about poets and political of Orthodox Christianity. It was dis- She is currently studying the life of text is a reimagined Irish topography literary myths, gender, sovereignty tinguished by its very high quality and icons after Byzantium. She has written merging sacred and secular. In the and depictions of the body politic, by the fact that it included not only Byzantine Illumination, 1150-1250: The Acallam’s construction of Irish space, bodily non-normativity, and the role Russian and Balkan works but icons Study of a Provincial Tradition (1987), an Ireland composed of green, wild, of geography in Irish and Icelandic nar- from Byzantium itself, the late Antique A Masterpiece of Byzantine Art Recov-

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ered: The Thirteenth-Century Murals marginalizes ordinary servants, who of Lysi, Cyprus (1991), and Cyprus and are generally shown as submissive and the Devotional Arts of Byzantium in the subservient boys. Then it will explore Era of the Crusades (2005); and edited two alternatives ideals. The first, holy and co-authored Imprinting the Divine: servitude, depicts Christ as a household Byzantine and Russian Icons in the Menil servant, which sanctifies that role. The Collection (2011), Asinou in Time: The second expresses a mercantile ideal. Church and Frescoes of the Panagia As capitalism develops and merchants Phorbiotissa, Cyprus (2012), and Fama- begin commissioning images, a new gusta, Art and Architecture (forthcom- model emerges of the servant as a dig- ing 2015). She received the Lifetime nified adult who stands at center stage, Achievement Award for Teaching from without his master, and whose labor the College Art Association of America is valued. Medieval servants belong to in 2006. A former president of the Inter- a shifting, unstable category, and the national Center of Medieval Art, she is rich contradictions in images of them now the Vice President of the Board of can be explained both by the disparate the Cyprus American Archaeological viewpoints of patrons and by the fun- Research Institute in Nicosia. damental economic changes that were slowly transforming the conception of the domestic worker from a childlike Dr. Diane Wolfthal subordinate into an independent adult. David and Caroline Minter Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Art Diane Wolfthal is David and Caroline History at Rice University Minter Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Art History at Rice Uni- versity. Her interests include feminist and gender studies, Jewish Studies, the history of sexuality, technical art history, and the study of the intersection of Fondren Library packet. These vouchers are valid on money, values, and culture. She has au- Guest access to Fondren Library and Friday only at any of the @Sammy’s thored books on rape, the intersection the Kyle Morrow Room is possible venues (4.Taco, Whoo Deli, Grillosophy, of space and sexuality, Yiddish book from the main library entrance only. and the Parliament of Chefs). Vouchers illustration, and beginnings of Flemish The main entrance to Fondren Library have no cash value. Amounts beyond canvas painting. Her article “Compli- faces the Academic Quadrangle. the $10 value of the vouchers will be cating Medieval Anti-Semitism: The A valid photo ID is required to enter the responsibility of the guest. No Role of Class in Two Tales of Christian the library. change will be given at the time the Attacks on Innocent Jews,” will appear voucher is surrendered. Vegetarian and “Images of Servants: The Late Medieval in the Spring 2016 issue of Gesta. Her Kyle Morrow Room gluten-free options available. Aristocratic Ideal and its Alternatives” major current project is a book titled Third floor with elevator access. Although medieval representations of Household Help: Servants and Slaves Question and Answer Format No food or drink except in lobby. household servants are numerous, no in Europe and its Colonies, for which Questions from the audience will Please mute cell phones. Smoking is art historian has examined them. This she was awarded grants from the Yale be taken at the end of each session. prohibited in all campus buildings. paper will be the first to explore images Center for British Art and the Getty The session moderator will provide of servants produced north of the Alps Research Institute. guidelines. from the late fourteenth through the Friday lunch early sixteenth century. It will focus on Two $5.00 vouchers for lunch at Dining Internet Connectivity the dominant ideal, which evolved in @Sammy’s in the Rice Student Center Connect to Rice Visitor Wifi for aristocratic courts and denigrates and have been included in your registration internet access.

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Acknowledgements Special Thanks Notes The 15th annual conference is Vagantes 2016 is made possible by sponsored in part by the Departments the tireless efforts of many volunteers, of Art History (Brown Foundation); too many to include in this program. English; History; Medieval and Early The organizers would like to give Modern Studies; Religion; the Rice our hearty thanks to all who have School of Architecture; the Shepherd helped out, whether by staffing tables, School of Music; the Humanities acting as guides, hosting out-of-town Research Center; the Woodson guests, helping with set-up and Research Center; the Office of Graduate clean-up, etc. Your help has made and Postdoctoral Studies; the Office all the difference! We are particularly of the Dean of Humanities; the Center indebted to the following folks for for Teaching Excellence; The Rice their extraordinary assistance: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory (3CT); the Menil Collection; the Thien D. Le, Center and Events Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Coordinator, Center for Critical and the Medieval Academy of America. Cultural Theory, Rice University

Thank you to our abstract readers Kristina McDonald, Graduate and evaluators: Program Administrator, School of Humanities, Rice University At the University of Florida: Alana Lord, Ralph Patrello, and Andrew Welton Saint Arnold Brewing Company At Rice University: John W. Ellis-Etchison, Layla Seale, and Kyle G. Sweeney At the University of Notre Dame: Mimi Ensley, Marjorie Housely, and Andrew Klein

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Notes Notes

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The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame In 2017 the sixteenth annual meeting of the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies will be held at the University of Notre Dame on March 9-12. We hope to see you there!

Host the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies at your school in 2018 The Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies is now accepting applications for our 2018 host institution. Vagantes is a unique opportunity to showcase the Medi- eval Studies community at your institution, as well as to gain valuable professional development experience in planning and organizing the event, and to meet and interact with top medievalist graduate students.

Applications will be accepted until Wednesday, May 4, 2016 and will be reviewed by the Vagantes Board of Directors, comprised of eight medievalist graduate students.

Applications will be discussed at the Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, where the Board may have additional questions for the applicants before reaching a decision. E-mail submissions are required. See any current member of the Board for more information.

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