IMEMS at International Conferences
The IMEMS send faculty and graduate students to a handful of international conferences each year. In 2013 the Institute will be sending participants to major international conferences including the ICMS at Kalamazoo, the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, Sixteenth Century Society Conference, and the Renaissance Society of America Conference.
In 2013 the Institute, in conjunction with a number of other departments at Durham University, will be sponsoring a number of sessions at the ICMS at Kalamazoo including Piers Plowman and Vernacular Theology (Department of Theology and Religion), Communal Contexts for Monastic Thought (Centre for Catholic Studies), Orderic Vitalis (Department of History), John of Salisbury and His World (IMRS), New Perspectives on John of Salisbury (IMRS), and From Anglo-Norman to English Knight: Romance and Reality (Department of English Studies).
48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 9-12 May 2013
The IMRS and Departments sponsored the following sessions at Kalmazoo 2013
1. Piers Plowman and Vernacular Theology
Sponsor: Department of Theology and Religion, Durham Univ.
Organizer: Giles E.M. Gasper, Durham Univ., and Cullen McKenney, Durham University
Presider: Giles E.M. Gasper
"Lead me forth with tales": Images, Sermons, and Exemplary Narrative in Piers Plowman
Rachael Deagman, Wake Forest University
From the LEtter of the Law to the Spirit of Justice: Langland and Translation(s) of Equity
Arvind Thomas, Yale University
William LAngland's Eucharistic Economy
Cullen McKenney
2. Communal Contexts for Monastic Thought
Sponsor: Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham Univ.
Organizer: Jay Diehl, Long Island Univ.-C.W. Post Campus, and Lauren Mancia, Yale University
Presider: Jay Diehl
Concerning Concordance: Anselm of Canterbury's Last Communities
Giles E.M. Gasper, Durham Univ.
John at Fécamp
Lauren Mancia
Cluniac Writers and Literary Reputation during the Abbacy of Peter the Venerable
Marc Saurette, Carleton Univ.
Respondent: Alex J. Novikoff, Rhodes College
3. Orderic Vitalis
Sponsor: Dept. of History, Durham Univ.
Organizer: Charlie Rozier, Durham Univ.
Presider: Joanna Huntington, Univ. of Lincoln
"With Their Accustomed Hospitality": Orderic Vitalis and His Gossip Network
Katherine E. Sheffield, Univ. of Missouri--Columbia
Dynasties, Desertion, and the Proper Direction: Orderic's Views on Love in the Historia ecclesiastica
Laura Gathagan, SUNY--Cortland
"They Shrank from bending their minds to the task of composing or writing down their traditions": Orderic Vitalis on Sloth
Charlie Rozier
The World of Orderic Vitalis Revisited: The Tone of Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica
Emily Albu, Univ. of California--Davis
4. John of Salisbury and His World
Sponsor: Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham Univ.
Organizer: John D. Hosler, Morgan State Univ.
Presider: Daniel F. Callahan, Univ. of Delaware
Responsibilities of the Crown: Imago Regis and Moral Responsibility in the Writings of John of Salisbury and Anselm of Canterbury
Thomas J. Ball, Durham Univ.
Caritas Ordinata: John of Salisbury and the Sacramental Tradition of Human Unity
Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, Univ. i Bergen/Københavns Univ.
Civil Religion and the Ensouled Body in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus
Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M Univ.
5. New Perspectives on John of Salisbury
Sponsor: Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham Univ.
Organizer: John D. Hosler, Morgan State Univ.
Presider: David F. Callahan, Univ. of Delaware
Breaking (the) News: Re-dating John of Salisbury’s Letter 305 Account of Becket’s Martyrdom
Karen Bollermann, Arizona State Univ.
John of Salisbury and William of Saint Thierry
Devin O’Leary, Durham Univ.
John of Salisbury’s Mythical Place in the History of Chivalry
John D. Hosler
6. New Perspectives on John of Salisbury
Sponsor: Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham Univ.
Organizer: Thomas Ball, Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham Univ.
Presider: Irene O'Daly, Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin
Grace, Free Will, and Moral Action: The Normative Philosophy of the Twelfth Century Embodied in the Policraticus
Thomas Ball
Grammar after Nature: Language, Sense-Perception, and the Liberal Arts in John of Salisbury's Metalogicon
Robert Davis, Harvard Univ.
John of Salisbury as a Military Strategist
John D. Hosler, Morgan State Univ.
7. From Anglo-Norman to English Knight: Romance and Reality
Sponsor: Dept. of English Studies, Durham Univ.
Organizer: Meghan Glass, Durham Univ., and N.J.C. Smith, Lynchburg College.
Presider: Jenny Adams, Univ of Massachusetts--Amherst
The Bravest of Knights and the Loveliest of Ladies: Knighthood in Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, and King Horn
Meghan Glass
Romance and Knightly Service: England in the Twelfth Century
N. J. C. Smith
The Visual Knight: Navigating Identity in Illuminated Manuscripts and Funerary Art
SaraLouise Smith Howells, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Accounting for Honor: Reformulating Late Medieval Knighthood for the Mercantile Classes
Robert Allen Rouse, Univ. of British Columbia
