Wednesday 17 May 9.30-10.00Venue: Faculty of GeographyRegistration & History (c/ Montalegre 6), Sala Gran, 4th floor 10.00-10.30 Inauguration 10.30-11.30 Opening Lecture Dr. Justine Trombley Mediaeval Studies in Toronto (Canada) , Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of High Ghostly Feelings or a Vox Diabolica?: The Debate Over the Heresy of Marguerite Porete and the Mirror of Simple Souls 11.30-12.00 Coffee break Venue:12.00-13.30 Faculty of GeographySession &1 History (c/ Montalegre 6), Room 306, 3rd floor Anna Peterson, University of St. Andrews (UK) The Leper and the Law: Legislating Lepers and Leprosaria in the Thirteenth Century Courtney A. Krolikoski, McGill University (Canada) “No More Horrified by Them”: Female Saints and Their Lepers in the Medieval West Pol Bridgewater, University of Barcelona On the Edge of Society? Inclusion and Exclusion Strategies of Welfare in Medieval Barcelona Chair: Dr. Salvatore Marino, University of Barcelona-ISSN-CNR Naples (Italy) 13.30-15.00 Lunch 1 Living on the Edge. Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages 15.00-16.30Venue: Faculty of GeographySession &2 History (c/ Montalegre 6), Sala Gran, 4th floor Rebecca Merkelbach, University of Cambridge (UK) Transgressing Nature, Disrupting Society: Monstrous Magic and Social Exclusion in the Sagas of Icelanders Andrea Roche Velázquez, University of Barcelona Outlaws and Love: Echoes of the Victorine Thoughts on Love in the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas Dr. Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen, University of Bergen (Norway) Laws for the Margins of Society in 13th-Century Norway Chair: David Carrillo Rangel, University of Barcelona 16.30-17.00 Coffee Break 17.00-19.00 Session 3 Dr. Pau Castell Granados, University of Barcelona Preaching on Exclusion. Mendicant Sermons and Local Statutes against Jews in 15th- Century Catalonia Dr. Jordi Casals Parés, University of Barcelona El derekh ha-goim al tilmedu, “no seguiu la via dels gentils”: la societat cristiana sota la visió dels jueus de la Corona d’Aragó Dr. Linda G. Jones, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona “Oh Slave Girl, You Reside among the Christians; You Must be One of Them”: Rhetorical Mechanisms of Social Exclusion and Transgression in the Sermons of Medieval Mediterranean Muslim Preachers Haifa Fersi, University of Kent (UK) On the Margins of the Mudejar-Morisco Manuscript of Ocaña: Reading and the Survival of a Religion Chair: Josep Suñé, University of Barcelona 19:00-19:30 Medieval concert by ARDIT Ensemble 2 Thursday 18 MayLiving on the Edge. Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages 9:00-10:30Venue: Institució MilàSession i Fontanals 4 (c/ Egípciaques 15), Saló d’actes, Ground floor Kathryn Loveridge, Swansea University (UK) Gendered Spaces and Transgressive Flesh: Auda Fabra and the Eucharistic Afterbirth Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, University of Barcelona Transgressing Identities: A Relational Approach to Dissident Movements in the Late Middle Ages Dr. Lidia Negoi, Independent Scholar The Enemy Within: Heretics in the Sermons of Nicholas Eymerich, OP Chair: Dr. Rachel Ernst, Georgia State University (USA) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:00 Keynote lecture Dr. Carles Gascón Chopo, Arxiu Comarcal de l’Alt Urgell Cátaros en Cataluña (siglos XII-XIV): la disidencia religiosa como expresión de las tensiones sociales 12:00-13:30 Session 5 Dr. Sergi Sancho Fibla, CNRS – Aix-Marseille Université (France) “Ni monega non es, ni non sabem qui sia”. Autoafirmación y trasgresión por acto y por escritura en las beguinas de Roubaud Xavier Costa Badia, University of Barcelona La Regla transgredida: reflexions entorn a l’observança de la regla de sant Benet en els monestirs alt-medievals dels comtats catalans (segles IX-XI) Laura de Castellet, University of Barcelona El rebuig a través de la imatge pública: resposta d’un bisbe als insults d’un trobador Chair: Pol Junyent, Institució Milà i Fontanals – CSIC, Barcelona 3 Living on the Edge. Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages 13:30-15:00 Lunch 15:00-16:30 Session 6 Lydia Hayes, University of St. Andrews (UK) Marginalizing the Protagonists: Transgression and Redemption in Arthurian Romance and Biblical Exposition Angana Moitra, University of Kent (UK) – Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) On the Margins of Society: Exclusion Through Exile as a Structuring Motif in Sir Orfeo David Carrillo Rangel, University of Barcelona The Language of Transgression in Birgitta of Sweden’s Revelations Chair: Dr. Lourdes Soriano, University of Bacelona 16:30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:00 Session 7 Marta Palacín Mejías, University of Barcelona La exclusión de lo pagano en el Imperio bizantino y su persecución en la obra de Gemisto Pletón Pablo Montosa Molinero, University of Barcelona The Roscelin Affair Chair: Dr. Andreu Grau, University of Barcelona 18:00–19:30 Visit to the Old Jewish Quarter of Barcelona Guided by Dr. Jordi Casals Parés, University of Barcelona With the collaboration of the City of Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) 20:00 Conference dinner (more details to follow) 4 Friday 19 MayLiving on the Edge. Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages 9:00-Venue:10:30 Faculty of Philology,Session Aulari 8 Josep Carner (c/Aribau 2), Room 0.1, Ground floor Marta Fernández Lahosa, University of Barcelona Art, iconografia i ortodòxia entre els segles IV i V Estela Estévez Benítez, University of Santiago de Compostela Contención y transgresión: entendiendo a los pueblos monstruosos Dr. Maria Soraya Ahn Ríos, University of Barcelona The Impact of Witchcraft Iconography: The Etchings in Ulrich Molitor’s De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus (1489) Chair: Dr. Pau Castell, University of Barcelona 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:00 Closing lecture Dr. Ana del Campo, University of St. Andrews (UK) Managing the Edge: Undertakers and Hired-Mourners in the Late Middle Ages 12:00-14:00 Session 9 Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France) Marginalised Women? Representations of Female Old Age in Medieval Iberia (12th -15th c.) Dr. Mireia Comas Via, University of Barcelona L’exclusió social de les vídues a la Barcelona baixmedieval Dr. Cèlia Nadal Pasqual, Università per Stranieri di Siena (Italy) Misogínia medieval i crítica textual moderna. Una reflexió d’ètica metodològica Oriol Murall Debasa, University of Barcelona Fembra qui açò sap és de molt major valor que si no ho sabia. L’accés a l’educació de la dona a la Barcelona de la baixa edat mitjana Chair: Dr. Araceli Rosillo, Franciscan Archive of Barcelona 5 Living on the Edge. Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages 14:00-15.30 Lunch 15.30-17.30 Visit to the Old Hospital of Santa Creu i Sant Pau Guided by Dr. Antoni Conejo, University of Barcelona With the collaboration of the Biblioteca de Catalunya 6.