Justice, Law, and Literature in the Middle Ages

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)

Organizer Name

Toy-Fung Tung

Organizer Affiliation

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Presider Name

Toy-Fung Tung

Paper Title 1

Straining the Qualities of Mercy: Writing about Justice in Twelfth-Century Sicily and England

Presenter 1 Name

Philippa Byrne

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Oxford

Paper Title 2

Legalism and Divine Justice in the York Play of the Last Judgment

Presenter 2 Name

Emma Lipton

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

Paper Title 3

Of Statutes and Squirrels: Reading Medieval Law in Illuminated Manuscripts

Presenter 3 Name

Katie L. Peebles

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Marymount Univ.

Paper Title 4

"From this time forth I never will speak word": Closing the Gap between Words and Things in Decameron 8.10 and Othello

Presenter 4 Name

Margaret Escher

Presenter 4 Affiliation

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Start Date

9-5-2013 7:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 213