Saturday, 28 April 2012
Villanova University
West Lounge of Dougherty Hall
Organized by Rebecca Winer and Adriano Duque
10 AM Cristina Guardiola-Griffiths (Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, U. of Delaware), “Beauty
Matters. Towing the line between aiding the divine and enabling the demonic in the latter Middle Ages”
11AM Adriano Duque (Dept. Romance Languages & Literatures, Villanova University), “Reading Gardens in the Spanish Frontier Ballad Tradition”
12-1:30 Lunch (cold sandwich buffet, fruit, tea, coffee and other beverages)
1:30PM Jessica Goldberg, Dept. of History, U. of Pennsylvania, "The Language of Trust, Risk and Calculation in the Documents of Medieval Mediterranean Merchants"
Directions to Villanova and maps of the campus can be found at:
http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/admission/visit/maps.html
2011-2012 MEETINGS
February 18 @ The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Organizer: Adam Miyashiro
Speakers: • Marla Pagan-Mattos (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “The Erasure of a Saintly
Genealogy: The Vida de San Millán de la Cogolla of Berceo and the Task of ‘tornar en
romance’”
• Claire Taylor Jones (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), “Meister Eckhart’s
Daughter?”
• Aaron Hostetter (Rutgers University, Camden), “Feeding Aristocratic Identity in Sir Gowther”
• David King (The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey), “Judicial Duels and Moral Anomie in
La Mort le Roi Artu”
• Teofilo Ruiz (University of California, Los Angeles), “Writing Festivals in Late Medieval Spain”
December 3 @ Princeton University
Organizer: Colum Hourihane (Princeton University)
Speakers: • Andrea Worm (University of Augsburg), “Sancta Mater Ecclesia. A Catechetic Rendering of
the Heavenly Jerusalem”
• Mailan Doquang (Princeton University), “Architectural Thresholds in Thirteenth Century
France”
• Martha Easton (Seton Hall University), “Memory, Mysticism, and Medieval Architecture:
Hammond Castle and American Medievalism”
• Mildred Budny (Research Group on Manuscript Evidence), “The Holistic Approach is Greater
Than the Sum of the Parts: The Added Mark Frontispiece in the Ninth-Century Royal Bible
Revisited”
• Nino Zchomelidse (Princeton University), “Allegory and Remembrance: Lay Patronage in the
Angevin Kingdom”
• Beatrice Radden Keefe (Princeton University), “A Pictograph of Terence”
• Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, emeritus), “Naming Images,
Venerating Icons in Sylvester Syropoulos' World”
October 1 @ Glencairn Museum
Organizer: Martha Easton (Seton Hall University)
Speakers: • Sandy Bardsley (Moravian College), “Gender, Health, and the Archaeological Record”
• Heather Flaherty (Gettysburg College), “Theological Summa or Liber Laicorum? Classifying the
Speculum Humanae Salvationis”
