International Congress on Medieval Studies Copyright (c) 2013 Western Michigan University All rights reserved. http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms Recent documents in International Congress on Medieval Studies en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 07:36:45 PDT 3600 Mirely We Roll Along http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/586 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/586 Sat, 11 May 2013 20:00:00 PDT The Medieval World as it ought to have been.

Richard R. Ring

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Rowley's <em>Birth of Merlin</em> (A Performance) http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/585 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/585 Sat, 11 May 2013 18:30:00 PDT Arthuriana presents a full stage performance of William Rowley's The Birth of Merlin, or The Child Hath Found His Father. This Jacobean play, first performed in 1622 depicts the origin of the wizard Merlin and the beginnings of the Arthurian legend with a comic tone and a free interpretation of England's most legendary figures. Rich with magic and intrigue, this play offers a chance to see medieval romance through a seventeenth-century lens.

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University New Books Roundtable http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/584 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/584 Fri, 10 May 2013 20:00:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University The Society of the White Hart Lecture http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/583 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/583 Fri, 10 May 2013 17:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Historiographical Gower http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/582 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/582 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University The Material Culture of Magic http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/581 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/581 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT The description and conceptual visualisation of magical artefacts is well-known from medieval written sources, which sometimes dwell on procedures to make and use magical objects at length. Depending on their nature, magical artefacts themselves survive in varying numbers. Protective amulets and verbal charms made, for instance, from parchment, wax, or lead, survive in conspicuously larger numbers than objects of theurgic magic, such as the Sigillum Dei, even though the production of both groups of objects is described in detail in medieval manuals of magic. This session, co-sponsored by the Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, focuses on the information which magical artefacts provide about magical practices, in addition to what the written sources tell about the construction and use of these artefacts.

Mildred Budny

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Old English Alliterating Prose http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/580 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/580 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT This session reconsiders an Old English literary form that has recently occasioned some controversy. Alliterating prose has been characterized as "loose" poetry with meter and half-lines, heightened prose, or something neither poetry nor prose.

Eric Weiskott

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Low German Medieval Literature II: Medicine, Weltchronik, History, Osterspiel http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/579 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/579 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University The Scribes of Medieval English Manuscripts: New Knowledge, New Technologies http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/578 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/578 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT This session presents findings from three projects organized under the auspices of the University of Toronto, and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to use digital resources and tools in the study of problematic areas of textual and palaeographical analysis of medieval English manuscripts.

Benjamin Albritton

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Eco-Critical Approaches to Medieval Art, East and West II: Objects http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/577 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/577 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT This panel seeks to reassert and explore the agency of natural matter upon its human “interactors” through both devotional and secular works of art. It explores the materiality of works of art as it relates to the natural world, analyzes the representation of nature as it conceptualizes nature, and localizes works of art within cultural constructions of the natural. Beyond being curious about the ability of works of art to “reflect” attitudes to nature, this panel asks how works of art in the European and Byzantine Middle Ages shaped conceptions of the natural, made nature present within a devotional context, and evoked the divine agency of nature through their materiality.

Anne F. Harris

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University The Nine-Hundredth Anniversary of the Order of the Hospital: Hospitaller Rules and Statutes II http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/576 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/576 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Socializing with Saints: Popular Reception and Experience of Saints' Cults in Medieval England http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/575 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/575 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT The cult of saints served as one of the pillars of popular religion throughout medieval Europe but was not an exclusively religious phenomenon. Participation in saints’ cults, including the creation and consumption of hagiographic materials, could be understood by those involved as more secular than sacred, as belonging, for example, to social or political experience. This panel would explore the ways in which saints’ cults shaped and expressed facets of social identity, such as gender and membership in a community or sub-culture. The focus on a single geographic area, England, should encourage a useful discussion of both commonalities and change over time.

Judy A. Ford

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Exeter Book Riddles and Short Poems http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/574 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/574 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT The papers presented in this session are focused on discussing aspects of "The Exeter Book Anthology of Old English Poetry that have not been at the center of attention in attempts to describe the character of the anthology.

William Klein

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Temporalities and Medieval Drama http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/573 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/573 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT This panel in interested in the ways medieval drama helps us think about temporalities within its own period and across others. How does medieval drama incorporate contemporary political, social, spiritual, and gendered concerns within or through temporal disruptions or cross-temporal dynamics? Papers might explore these questions through audience orientations to temporalities, temporalities within dramatic texts, and performance contexts and interactions. Papers might also trouble distinctions between drama in the medieval and early modern, interrogating how temporal relations within and among these literary and historical periods helps us understand them together.

Katherine Leveling Wait

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Performativity II: Color, Sound, Gesture http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/572 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/572 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT This session investigates the broad realm of performativity in terms of the sensorial experiences of sound and gesture.

Patricia Hollahan

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Source Studies in Music http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/571 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/571 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Form, History, and Middle English Literature II: The Form of Historicism http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/570 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/570 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Formalism and Historicism in Middle English Literary Studies

R. D. Perry

]]> Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University Peasant Economies http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/569 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/569 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University On the Borders: Reconceptualizing the Literature of Late Medieval/Early Modern Scotland http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/568 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/568 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University European Merlins http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/567 http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/medieval_icms/2013/schedule/567 Sun, 12 May 2013 10:30:00 PDT Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University