Upcoming Sessions:
Check out our news page for the latest on the sessions we're sponsoring at Kalamazoo 2005 (the 40th Congress). A preliminary Call For Papers has been also been emailed to Society members.
Previous Sessions
At the Thirty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI, 6-9 May 2004):
Session 7: Valley III 308
Thursday, May 6, 10 am
The Conflicted Avignon Papacy
Presider: Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State Univ.
Puellae Literatae et Illiteratae: Female Monastics and the Papacy
Mark Dupuy, Georgia State Univ.
The Antipope Who Wasn’t There: Three Formal Submissions to Pope John XXII
Blake Beattie, Univ. of Louisville
“Let Pope John Die, and No Other”
Philip E. Berman Jr., Independent Scholar
Our business meeting is at 5:15 pm in the Fox Lounge of Valley III. Please drop by!
Session 246: Valley III 302
Friday, May 7, 1:30 pm
Peace and Responses to the Hundred Years War
Co-sponsored with the Society of the White Hart
Presider: Peter Fleming, Univ. of the West of England
The Quest for Sir John Mandeville
Michael Bennett, Univ. of Tasmania
Aliens in the Pardons of Richard II
John Leland, Salem International Univ.
Crusading Rhetoric and the Problem of Peace: Philippe de Mégières and the
Hundred Years War
Suzanne Yeager, Univ. of Toronto
Session 516: Fetzer 2030
Saturday, May 8, 3:30 pm
Fourteenth-Century Legal, Theological, and Philosophical Perceptions of Magic
Co-sponsored with Societas Magica
Presider: John Leland, Salem International Univ.
Hermes Trismegistus, Magic, and Philosophy in the Fourteenth Century
David Porreca, Wilfred Laurier Univ.
Negotiating with the Theological Censure of Astrology in Later Medieval
England
Hilary M. Carey, Univ. of Newcastle
Canon Law, Charming Magic, and Chaucer’s Spells
Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Session 554: Valley III 313
Sunday, May 9, 8:30 am
The Fourteenth Century: Cracks in the Façade
Co-sponsored with Medieval Prosopography
Presider: Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State Univ.
The English Diplomatic Corps, 1375–1422
Katherine Jane Benson, Univ. of Reading
Peasant Prosopography and the Second Wave of the Black Death:
Maurienne, Savoy
Michael H. Gelting, Rigsarkivet
Royal Biography: Robert I of Scotland and the Black Prince
Susan Foran, Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin
Session 585: Valley III 313
Sunday, May 9, 10:30 am
New Universities and Learning in the Fourteenth Century
Presider: Thomas Burman, Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville
The French Connection: Was Chaucer Star-Struck by Charles V’s College of
Astronomy?
Connie Meyer, Texas A&M Univ.–Commerce
Doctors and Divination: The New Universities and the Uses of Prophecy
Wendy Love Anderson, St. Louis Univ.
A Juridical College in Fourteenth-Century Milan
Sharon Dale, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Erie, The Behrend College
At the Thirty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI, 8-11 May 2003):
Session 54: Sangren 2204
Thursday, May 8, 10 am
A Distant Mirror, 25 Years Later
Presider: Judy Ann Ford, Texas A&M Univ.-Commerce
The Lure of Italy: Right or Wrong?
Diane Owen Hughes, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Looking Glass or Carnival Mirror? The Choice of Enguerrand de Coucy as Tuchman's Main Character
Dick E. H. de Boer, Rijksuniv. Groningen
Tuchman's Neglect of the East: The Hanseatic League and the German Empire in the Fourteenth Century
Hanno Brand, Rijksuniv. Groningen
Session 119: Sangren 2301
Thursday, May 8, 1:30 pm
Art Patrons of the Fourteenth Century
Presider: Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State Univ.
Legend and Community: Patron Images in Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Missals
Kyung-hee Choi, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.
"Democratic" Patronage: Donating to Strasbourg Cathedral in the Early Fourteenth Century
Charlotte A. Stanford, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Session 153: Schneider 1140
Thursday, May 8, 3:30 pm
New Trends in Fourteenth-Century Spirituality
Presider: Wendy Love Anderson, St. Louis Univ.
Cultivating the Seed: The Reception of a Heretical Text and the Rehabilitation of Meister Eckhart's Theology
Charlotte Radler, Univ. of Chicago
Narratives of Space: Pilgrims and Penance in Late Medieval Rome
Katherine Brophy Dubois, Michigan State Univ.
Simone Martini's Frescoes in the Porch of Notre-Dame des Doms at Avignon
Mary Douglas Edwards, Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts
Our business meeting (immediately following the 3:30 session) is at 5 pm in Schneider 1140. Please drop by and offer suggestions for next year's sessions!
At the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI, May 2-5, 2002):
Thurs 2 May 2002 3:30
Session 163: Schneider 1125
Thursday, May 2, 3:30 pm
Finding Change Everywhere in the Fourteenth Century
Presider: Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State Univ.
The Peasants' Revolt of 1381: The Culminating Emerging Capitalistic Response to the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century England
Gina M. Bright, Lehigh Univ.
The Black Death as a Spur to Administrative Reform
Michael H. Gelting, Univ. of Copenhagen
Creation of the Cosmos in Fourteenth-Century Southern German Sculpture: Reflections of Changing Mentalities
Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv Univ.
Our business meeting will take place at 5 pm in Scheider 1125. All are welcome.
Our first business meeting at Kalamazoo was held on Friday, May 4, 2001, during the 36th Congress, at 5 pm in Bernhard 213.
