Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance studies Proclamation ! The Trident Vol. XXI, Issue 3 Jan/Feb 2014 Want to be rewarded for your la- bors? Submit your essay to the AMRS Essay Competition and win cash! Dr. Arnold’s Castles and Cathedrals class put theory into practice and built this castle on AMRS Movie Nights will coming Feb. 5. soon! Keep an eye out for the e-mail What Professors do When They Aren’t Teaching Part I* and join us! By Donald Lateiner would cooperate with him in or- In August 2013, soon ganizing a panel on DISGUST at The Staff of the Trident after I delivered a paper on the biennial Celtic Classics Con- “Disgust in Greek Epic, Tragedy ference to be held in June 2014 Student Editor: Madeline Lank and Comedy,” near Geneva, at Edinburgh. Previously the Tri- Switzerland, I received a query ple C has met in Ireland, Scot- Contributing Students: Alyssa Reed, Jake Simpson from Professor Dimos land, Wales and Bordeaux Spatharas. The promising young (Brittany). The Triple C beck- Contributing Alumni: Sidney Kochman scholar from the University of oned! Contributing Faculty: Dr. Donald Lateiner Crete (Rethymnon) asked if I Cont. on pg 2 AMRS Chair: Dr. Patricia DeMarco IN THIS ISSUE OWU’s Second Folio—--pg. 4-5, 10-11 Speaker Preview———-———pg 8-9 Want to write a story? Have ideas for the next issue? AMRS Abroad——————-pg 6-7 Announcements…——————-pg.. 12 Complaints? Send them to [email protected]. 2 11 We wrote to the two or- extant ancient data (visual as ganizers (Scots and Welsh) well as literary)? How do an- about our proposal. They wel- cient creators show and commu- comed a topic involving nicate feelings with the mind “ancient emotions.” Sixteen and the body (especially the ex- other panels engaged with vari- pressive mouth) and in speech. ous aspects of antiquity will Philosophers and psychologists meet at the same time, compet- today consider this a “hot,” if ing for attention during three not “slimy” topic. days in late June. We first con- My own paper (aside tacted a select group of scholars from co-leading the introduc- who have published on maters tory and summary sessions) will relevant to DISGUST to estab- examine disgust in the Latin lish a core group of speakers, novels of Petronius and Apu- and then we advertised the exis- leius—where detailed descrip- tence of the panel to scholarly tions disgust characters within lists on the WWW in Europe the novels and audiences read- and North America, inviting ing or hearing them. This picture of Shakespeare (above) is substantially older than the rest of the text. If you anyone (PhD or not) to submit Currently we are seeking look closely, you can see the edge. The watermark on the back (below) is another indica- an abstract or summary of about the best image for the Poster for tor. 300 words. The CFP (Call for our Panel. The Brouwer paint- Papers) produced exciting ab- ing below in the middle, entitled stracts from Finland, Greece, “the bitter potion,” is one popu- Britain, Italy, Germany, France, lar contender. Some are too the United States, etc. Topics gross for this student publica- include the aesthetics, psychol- tion. ogy, and promulgation of dis- Unlike the “rules” at gust. Which acts, substances, many other conferences, we two and creatures elicit disgust in as sole “referees” could accept “The Bitter Potion” (left) and other images considered for the poster. 10 3 Continued from title page and Effigies page do as many or few speakers as we sharing of contributions and Page 5 not match: they are made of thought suitable and we could criticisms on a website open completely different card stock. give them little or lots of time. only to contributors and a time The Effigies was printed on a After receiving about 40 submis- for revisions, leading eventually heavier card stock than any of sions, we accepted 20 (including to publication. the pages, and has darkened con- the solicited core members). In Edinburgh, there will siderably more. The page itself Thus, each speaker will have 25 be trips into the hinterland (we was visibly pasted into the book- minutes for his or her paper, fol- won’t be far from the Romans’ along the spine by a restorer. lowed by five minutes for ques- Antonine Wall), tastings at whis- Another interesting fea- tions and comments. Some are key distilleries and beer brewer- ture of our copy is the page fac- still graduate students: at least ies, and excursions to the local ing the title page. It contains, as one has won a MacArthur castle and art museums such as do other complete copies of sec- “genius” award. The Greek and the Scottish National Gallery ond folio, a short poem by Ben Roman topics range from ex- and the National War Museum. Jonson addressed “To the pressions of disgust in art, in lit- The Edinburgh Film Festival Reader.” In our copy this poem erature (prose and poetry, fiction will interest cinephiles. I hope to is handwritten, not printed as it and non-fiction), and in histori- get away and visit the Outer Our Second Folio in comparison to our re- is in others. cal records. All participants are Hebrides (mentioned by Pliny) printed First Folios. Both are in Special Col- This oddity, taken with expected to attend all papers, but before or after the conference lections. the incongruity of our Title and there will be more sessions than itself, perhaps while Scotland With the number of dif- Effigies pages, lead to the con- we are filling, so there will be declares its independence from ferent distributors, it is no sur- clusion that our copy is a com- time to hear something different, Great Britain. prise that there are many variant posite of parts from several dif- perhaps more elevated. +++++++++++++++++++++ versions of the second folio. ferent copies. Our panel’s title is THE *Future Trident contributions to this series will examine various matters of the not- Both the title page and the If you are interested in EMOTION OF DISGUST IN always sedentary Professorial Life. Stay “Effigies” page--the one con- learning more about the Second ANTIQUITY AND ITS EX- tuned for: taining Milton’s poem--have Folio outside of a class visit, PRESSION. Over the three days choosing research topics, writing articles and books and getting multiple versions, the chronol- contact the Rare Books Librar- of the conference, we will hold them published, ogy of which have been hotly ian Bernard Derr. an opening and closing general attending disciplinary conventions contested. If you believe Robert session defining our topic(s) and (MLA, APA, AHA, etc.), organizing and planning Study Abroad Metcalf Smith, the title page in its limits. We will also discuss adventures for students and our copy is one of the latest ver- whether we should try to publish alumni, sions. According to William B. the proceedings as a volume. administering AMRS or other pro- grams and departments, Todd, on the other hand, our title Two publishing houses have al- examining archives and finding excite- page is from the second state of ready expressed interest, al- ment in new cuisines, the first printing. Our Effigies though so far they have seen traveling to AMRS territories (Ireland to Afghanistan, Russia to Egypt) page is the oldest according to nothing except the title. Some- participating in archaeological re- Smith, and one of more recent times papers sizzle and some- search (battlefields, sanctuaries ones according to Todd. Which- times fizzle, beyond the one- and their pottery, monasteries, highways, mines, castles, ceme- ever bibliographer you agree page abstract phase, but we hope teries with ecofacts, etc.), with, however, it is clear that our that there will be subsequent 4 9 The Whole Equals the Sum of “fuzziness”, as she puts it, was that you didn’t need a clergyman its Parts: OWU’s Second Folio to validate the marriage, nor did you need to register your rela- tionship. Marriage existed as an exchange of vows, not necessar- ily in front of a church or wit- nesses. Add to this the complica- tion that there was no way to divorce a spouse: the marriage was either annulled, or termi- nated by death. Karras covers a large swath of time and customs over the Karras’ work on medieval gender has been called “paradigm shifting” course of her book, and peppers her work with the stories of vari- Prize by the American Historical ous complicated women. As Association and has been Mathew Kuefler of San Diego dubbed “a must-read for medie- State University claims, “Her valists” by Judith M. Bennet of conclusions about changing defi- the University of Southern Cali- nitions of the marital union, its fornia. imprecise boundaries, and the The book focuses on the varied alternatives to it— The title page of OWU’s Second Folio. The Ben Jonson poem is on the left page. kinds of relationships between cohabitation and concubinage, By Sidney Kochman and Made- is entirely complete, the closer couples outside of “traditional” clerical marriages and marriages line Lank observer will notice that the fo- marriage. In a podcast interview between individuals of different It’s one of the many lio is a myriad of mixed parts. with the University of Pennsyl- faiths, to name but a few—bear treasures of the Special Collec- 1000 copies of the Sec- vania Press, Karras explains that meaningful repercussions for tions Library—the Second Folio ond Folio were printed follow- “although marriage was univer- modern debates about marriage." of Shakespeare’s works, printed ing the success of First Folio in sally acknowledged as an ideal Why does Karras think we in 1632.