Upcoming Sessions:

Four sessions have been approved for the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11-14, 2017:

1. Urban Economies in the Fourteenth Century, organized by Debra Salata, email: debra.salata@lmunet.edu.
This session will focus on urban economic issues of the medieval Europe, including the local, regional, and long distance trade networks of medieval cities, the economic spatial relationships of medieval cities, and the economic motivations underlying the formation, functioning, and development of medieval cities. This session welcomes papers based on both traditional research methods and new analytical processes, such as GIS.

2. Before and After 1348: Prelude and Consequences of the Black Death, organized by Monica Green, email: monica.green@asu.edu.

The “new paradigm” of Black Death studies has adopted the findings of recent paleogenetics and evolutionary understandings of Yersinia pestis's late medieval genetic diversification to see the Black Death as a much broader epidemiological phenomenon than previously realized. Although Black Death narratives are usually told from the perspective of western Europe, it is in fact likely that much of Eurasia and North Africa was affected by the newly proliferating organism. And in many of those areas, we know now, plague “focalized,” becoming embedded in the local fauna and thus persisting for years, or even centuries, thereafter. This session invites work that looks both at the late medieval pandemic’s origins before 1348 (whether in China or other places in central Eurasia) and its after-effects, including the 1360-63 pestis secunda. Cultural as well as scientific approaches are welcome.

3. Popular Rebellion in the Fourteenth Century, organized by William Chester Jordan, email: wchester@princeton.edu.
“Popular” rebellion has been a recurrent theme in scholarship on the Middle Ages, particularly that dealing with the fourteenth century (the Pastoureaux violence in France and Aragon, the Jacquerie in France, the Ciompi uprising in Florence, and the Great Peasant Rebellion in England). But much, if not all, of the most interesting, indeed brilliant, recent work was published in the 1990s. Since then there has been a relative dearth of studies, although several are at last on the horizon. This session aims to bring together researchers who are using new methodological approaches to rebellion, who are exploring new themes related to the topic, and who are looking at hitherto understudied regions.

4. Customary Law in the Fourteenth Century, organized by Elizabeth Kamali, email: ekamali@law.harvard.edu.
Abstract: Medieval custom (consuetudo) has alternately been described as unenacted law, common usage, or simply the way things have always been done. In the fourteenth century, customary law in some localities came into conflict with an increasingly well-defined common law (e.g., in England) or ius commune (in continental Europe). The fourteenth century was also a time of written compilations of customary law, and some argue that the very act of recording custom transformed it into something new. This panel will explore the nature and impact of customary law in the fourteenth century.

If you wish to submit a proposal, please send a one-page abstract and a Participant Information Form to the organizer listed for the session by September 15. The links to information on this process and the Participation Information Form may be found at http://www.wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions.

Past Sessions:

2016

Friday, May 13

3:30 p.m. The Culture of Port Cities in the Fourteenth Century

Valley III, Stinson 303 (Session #278)

Organizer: William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
Presider: Marie D'Aguanno Ito, Georgetown University

Ports and Prostitutes: Rethinking the Margins
- Susan McDonough, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Wissant: The Forgotten Port
- William Chester Jordan, Princeton University

Saturday, May 14

10:00 a.m.: Economies of the Fourteenth Century: Macro and Micro Issues

Schneider 1155 (Session #356)

Organizer: Marie D'Aguanno Ito, Georgetown University
Presider: Debra A. Salata, Lincoln Memorial University

Over Land and Sea: Gendering the Economies of Fourteenth-Century Catalonia
   - Sarah Ifft Decker, Yale University
Within One Another: The Bell Tower of Ghent and The Privileges and Statutes of Ghent and Flanders
   - Karen M. Klockner, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Independent Scholar
Wheat versus Grain: The Two-Tiered Economic and Social Environment of the Florentine Market at Orsanmichele, 1265-1330s
   - Marie D'Aguanno Ito, Georgetown University

3:30 p.m.: Interfaith Relations in the Fourteenth Century

Bernhard 205 (Session #484)

Organizer: Maya Soifer Irish, Rice University
Presider: Maya Soifer Irish

"Aleph!": Islamic Prosperity and the Destruction of Christians in Riccoldo da Montecroce's Letters to the Triumphant Church
   - Davide Scotto, Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen
Jews in the Byzantine Empire in the Fourteenth Century
   - Petros N. Toulis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Congress Travel Award Winner
From Halakhah to Kabbalah: The Evolution of the Jewish Animosity against the Gentiles
   - Federico Dal Bo, Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin
"Collusion" between Old Christians and Jews/Conversos in Majorca following the 1391 Riots
   - Natalie Oeltjen, University of Toronto

2015

Saturday, May 16
10:00 am: Incarceration in the Fourteenth Century

Session 349, Fetzer 1045

Organizers: Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, and Wendy J. Turner, Georgia Regents University
Presider: William H. York, Portland State University

"Inside a Most Fortified Little House": Communities and the Imprisonment of the Senseless in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
    - Leigh Ann Craig, Virginia Commonwealth University
Handcuffs, Chains, and Ropes: Medieval English Restraint and Incarceration of the Mentally Afflicted
    - Wendy J. Turner, Georgia Regents University
"In Danger of Losing my Life": Prison as Punishment in French Remission Letters
    - Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College

1:30 pm: Markets, Fairs, and Merchant Travel in the Fourteenth Century

Session 427, Schneider 1275

Organizer and Presider: Marie D'Aguanno Ito, Georgetown University;

Integration and Arbitrage in the Medieval FX Market
    - Tony Moore, University of Reading
Dressing Symkyn's Wife: Chaucer, Gower, and the Anxiety of Bad Taste
    - Craig E. Bertolet, Auburn University
Rebels, Markets, and Social Networks in 1381
    - Michael Hanrahan, Bates College

3:30 pm: Women and Families in the Fourteenth Century

Session 486, Schneider 1275.

Organizer and Presider: Debra A. Salata, Lincoln Memorial University;

Widowhood, Familial Identity, and Economic Agency in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
    - David Sweeten, Ohio State University
Material Household in Late Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire: Materiality and Early Consumerism in Rural and Urban Inventories
    - Emmamarie Haasl, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Empress Strikes Back: Madonna Elena as Judge, Jury, and Executioner
    - Kristen Streahle, Cornell University
"Lat hem be breed of pured whete-seed,/And lat us wyves hoten barly-breed": The Wife of Bath's Sexual Politics of Food
    - Oya Bayiltmis Ogutcu, Hacettepe University

2014

At the forty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies:

Friday, May 9

10:00 am: Guilds, Confraternities, and Merchant Companies in the Fourteenth Century

        Session 181, Fetzer 2016
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Organizer and Presider: Marie Dï¿½Aguanno Ito, Catholic Univ. of America
The Scuole of Fourteenth-Century Venice: Guilds, Confraternities, and Merchant Companies
    - Alan M. Stahl, Princeton Univ.
The Nitty Gritty of Trade: Weighing, Measuring, Discounts and Allowances in Late Medieval Lucchese Commercial Transactions
    - Christine Meek, Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin
Nuisance and Necessity: Supervising the Leather Industry in Late Medieval Lucca
    - Daniel Jamison, Univ. of Toronto

1:30 pm: The Hundred Years War: New Perspectives

    Session 232, Fetzer 1010

Organizer: Debra A. Salata, Lincoln Memorial Univ.
Presider: William Chester Jordan, Princeton Univ.
Cause and Consequence in the Medieval Infantry Revolution: Rethinking English Military Recruitment, 1314ï¿½1360.
    - Daniel P. Franke, United States Military Academy, West Point
Thunder on the Waters: The Introduction of Gunpowder at Sea during the Hundred Years War
    - Lawrence V. Mott, Independent Scholar
A Merchantï¿½s Experience in the Hundred Years War: Business as Usual or Collateral Economic Casualty?
    - Debra A. Salata

3:30pm: Law and Justice in the Fourteenth Century

    Session 285, Fetzer 1010

Organizer and Presider: Elizabeth Kamali, Univ. of Michiganï¿½Ann Arbor
Law and Justice in Mirrors for Princes for Charles VI of France
    - Kristin Bourassa, Univ. of York, and ICMS Karrer Travel Award Winner
Mental Incompetency and the Law in Late Medieval England
    - Eliza Buhrer, Seton Hall Univ.
Forming a Defense in a Fourteenth-Century Sorcery Trial: ï¿½ . . . qualiter fecit ymaginem operantem mortem etiam amorem cordialemï¿½
    - Jan K. Bulman, Auburn Univ.ï¿½Montgomery

2013

At the forty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies:

Thursday May 9th

3:30 pm Commerce, Credit, and Finance in the Fourteenth Century

Session 131, Schneider 1235

Presider: Marie Dï¿½Aguanno Ito, Catholic University of America
An Evaluation of the Wealth of the English Properties of Beauport, Savigny, and Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer Based on Fourteenth-Century Extents and Inquisitions
    -Paul Evans, York Univ.
Please, Sir, Can You Spare Some Francs? Merchant Credit and Social Relationships in Late Fourteenth-Century Montpellier
    -Debra A. Salata, Lincoln Memorial Univ.
Marco Carelli, a Fourteenth-Century Ruthless and Devout Merchant
    -Martina Saltamacchia, Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha

Friday May 10th

10:00 am Guilt and Punishment in the Fourteenth Century

Session 183, Valley III 303

Presider: Phyllis Pobst, Arkansas State Univ.
The Favoriteï¿½s Demon: Black Magic and the Punishment of Alice Perrers
    -John L. Leland, Salem International Univ.
The Authority to Bind and Loose: Guilt Assessment in Fourteenth-Century England
    -Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Univ. of Michiganï¿½Ann Arbor
Expenses Related to Corporal Punishment in France
    -William Chester Jordan, Princeton Univ.

1:30 pm - Fourteenth-Century Health Care

Session 272, Schneider 1275

Presider: William Chester Jordan, Princeton Univ.
Pharmaceutical Traces: Textual Traditions of Drugs in the Late Middle Ages
    -Fred Gibbs, George Mason Univ.
Critiques of Medicine and Critiques of Astrology in the Fourteenth Century
    -James Byrne
Health Crises in the Mediterranean: State Prevention and Responses
    -Alexander F. More, Harvard Univ.

Friday May 10th

3:30 pm Revolts and Rebellions in the Fourteenth Century

Session 333, Schneider 1325

Presider: James Byrne, Quest Univ. Canada
Loyal Icelanders and Rebellious Norwegians? ï¿½lï¿½fs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta (ï¿½STm) and the Norwegian rebellions of 1333 and 1338
    -Eleanor Heans-Glogowska, Univ. of Cambridge
Parables of Obedience in the Mesnagier de Paris and the Revolts of 1380ï¿½83
    - Michael Sizer, Maryland Institute College of Art

5:15 pm Business Meeting Bernhard 211

2012

At the forty-seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies:

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        Paul Crawford, California University of Pennsylvania, presiding

How secret were the Templarsï¿½ ceremonies? Evidence from the Proceedings in the British Isles
        ï¿½ Helen J. Nicholson, Cardiff University
The Trial of the Templars in Germany
        ï¿½ Jochen Burgtorf, California State University at Fullerton
Templars after the Trial: Fact and Fiction
        ï¿½ Alan Forey, University of Durham

Travel and Travel Narrative in the Fourteenth Century
        James Byrne, Princeton University, presiding

The Book of John Madeville: Odors and Images
        ï¿½ Jean E. Jost, Bradley University
The Knight of the Parrot as Transformative Travel Narrative
        ï¿½ Morgan Bozick, Pennsylvania State University
Legendary History and Contemporary Travel: The Surprising Case of the Alliterative Morte Arthure
        ï¿½ Patricia A. Price, California State University at San Marcos
A Genoese Slave Meets a Mamluk Geographer at Prison: Medieval Encounters and the Islamic Geographical Imagination
        ï¿½ Jonathon Brack, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Hafiz, Sufism and Islam in the 14th (CE) Century
        June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University, presiding

Inheriting Spirituality? Role of the State in Institutionalizing Sajjadahnashini in a 14th Century Chishti Sufi Centre in Punjab
        ï¿½ Tanvir Anjum, Quaid-i-Azam University
(Quest)ioning the Medievality: Sufism in the Verse of Amir Khusrau
        ï¿½ Vibha Sharma, Aligarh Muslim University
The Influence of Sufis and Sufi Orders in the Establishment of the Ottoman State (14th Century)
        ï¿½ Dilaver Gurer, Selcuk University
Scriba Dei: Dante, the Book of the Miraj, and the Anxiety of Heresy
        ï¿½ Elizabeth A. Pallitto, Lander College for Women

Commerce, Economics and Finance in the 14th Century
        Marie Dï¿½Aguanno Ito, Catholic University of America, presiding

Giottoï¿½s Rural Enterprise: Art, Avarice and Ambition
        ï¿½ Jill Harrison, Open University
Commerce, Economics, and Finance in 14th Century Siena: Painted Ideals and Luxurious Consumption
        ï¿½ Edna Carter Southard, Miami University in Ohio
Mercers, Dyers and Stocking-Makers: Local Tradesmen in Late Medieval Lucca
        ï¿½ Christine Meek, Trinity College at Dublin

2011

Whose Crisis Was It, Anyway? Religion, Women and ï¿½Signs of the Timesï¿½ in 14^th-Century

Healing Anxiety in 14^th-Century Provence: the Witnesses to the Canonization of Delphine

~~Negotiating Justice: Petitioning and Granting Amnesty in 1329 Siena - Glenn Kumhera,~~

ï¿½Cedit in Exemplumï¿½: High Crime under Philip VI Valois - Jolanta N. Komornicka,

Prison Prologues: Jewish Writing from Prison in Aragon and Provence - Susan L. Einbinder,

Decoration of City Halls in Central Europe
- Josef Zï¿½ruba-Pfeffermann, U. Karlova v Praze
14^th-Century Novgorod: a View on its Communication
- Thomas Stiglbrunner, ï¿½sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Royal City, Self-Ruled City: Orality, Writing, and the Legal Status of 14^th-Century London

Economic Growth and the Development of Capital Markets in Northwest Europe

Royal City, Self-Ruled City: Orality, Writing, and the Legal Status of 14^th-Century London

2010

Poison and Medicine in the Western World before the Appearance of the Treatises about

Poisons (End of the 13^th Century) - Franck Collard, Universitï¿½ Paris Xï¿½Nanterre

Poison, Medicine and the Medieval Apothecary - Marie A. Kelleher, California State U.

Trials for Sorcery in Early 14^th-Century Avignon - Robert Ticknor, Tulane University

Acknowledging the Annals: a New Perspective on Witchcraft in the Alice Kyteler Trial

Maleficae et Maledictae Feminae: 14^th-Century Sources for Key Features of the Learned

Interpretation of Witchcraft in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages - Fabrizio Conti, Central European University

2009

Medical Education at the University of Montpellier in the Wake of the Black Death

Real Men Read Poetry: Instructional Verse in Fourteenth-Century Fight Manuals

Famine(s) and Hunger in the North Atlantic in the Fourteenth Century: Problems,

Sponsor: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS) and the 14th Century Society

Depending on the ï¿½tlands: Food and Famine in Fourteenth-Century Iceland

Sessions 2006

Displaying the Body of Christ: Monstrance Development in the 14^th-Century Rhineland

Affective Piety and the Physical Suffering of Christ in 14^th-Century Mendicant Thought

Gravity and Levity in the Fourteenth Century: an Interdisciplinary Exploration

A Reading of Saint Dominicï¿½s Miraculous Book in Italian Art: the Late 13^th and Early 14^th

From Pondus to Gravitas: A Philosophical Enquiry - Michael P. Muth, Wesleyan College,

From Gravity to Levity: Images of the Madonna della Misericordia - Katherine T. Brown,

Resistance, Community, and Dominican Mission - Christine Caldwell Ames, U. South

Challenging Inquisitorial Authority: the Rise of the Heterodox Martyr - Janine Larmon

Calling in the Law: Facing Down a Dominican Inquisitor, Utrecht 1398 - John Van Engen,

Forging a European Identity in 14^th-Century Sermons - Judy Ann Ford, Texas A & M

Kingdom on the Verge: 14^th-Century Scotland and the Issue of Identity - Lisa Justice

2007

the Forty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies:

Art in the Fourteenth Century I

Lars R. Jones, Florida Institute of Technology, presiding

The Classical and Non-Classical Modes in the Frescoes in the Oratory of Saint George in Padua

Mary Douglas Edwards, Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts

The 14^th-Century Frescoes in the Cathedral of Orvieto: Piety, Politics, Commemoration,and

Celebration - Sara Nair James, Mary Baldwin College

Urban Image and Civic Identity in 14^th-Century Sienese Painting - Judith Steinhoff

University of Houston

In the Eyes of the Bardi: How the Patrons Would Have Interpreted the Holy Confessors Chapel

in Santa Croce - Richard Busby, U. Wisconsin at Madison

Art in the Fourteenth Century II

Lars R. Jones, Florida Institute of Technology, presiding

Franciscan Virtues and Their Corresponding Vices: the Reclaimed Identities of Ambrogio

Lorenzettiï¿½s Statuettes - Doot Bokelman, Nazareth College

The Religious Grotesque: Marginalia in Early 14^th-Century Manuscripts - Ilana Krug,

Villa Julie College

Sidelong Glances and Silent Screams: the Emotional World of the Luttrell Psalter

Michelle P. Brown, University of London

Heterodoxy in the Early Fourteenth Century

William Chester Jordan, Princeton University, presiding

The ï¿½Uncanonized Saintï¿½ and the Boy Bishop: Peter John Olivi, Saint Louis of Anjou, and

Models of Franciscan Piety in the 14^th Century
- Holly J. Grieco, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, St Michaelï¿½s College, U. Toronto

Contra Exemptos: Giles of Rome and the Templars

- Paul Crawford, California University of Pennsylvania

Failures of Leadership: a 14^th-Century Perspective

Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State University, presiding

The Successful Failure of Guido Tarlatti of Arezzo in the 1320s - Blake R. Beattie,

University of Louisville

Populist Savior and Self-Serving Tyrant: Cola di Rienzo in Retrospect - Carrie E. Beneï¿½,

New College of Florida

Obligations of Order: Indecisive Leaders, Corruption of Office and Popular Protest in

14^th-Century Toulouse - Patricia Turning, U. California at Davis

Obey Me! I Am Neither Dead nor Insane: Disputed Authority in the 14^th-Century Low

Countries - Dick E. H. deBoer, Onderzoerksschool Mediï¿½vistiek

Black Death

David C. Mengel, Xavier University, presiding

Survivor: Plague and Piety in Florence, the 1390s - Elizabeth Bailey, Wesleyan College

Jewish Physicians and the Black Death: Jacob B. Solomon of Avignon - Susan Einbinder,

Hebrew Union College

Looting the Empty See: Pillaging at the Death of Pope Clement V in 1314 Carpentras

Physicians and the Practice of Medicine in 14^th-Century Avignon - Daniel LeBlï¿½vec,

ï¿½An Infinite Mortality That Has Never Been Seen on Earthï¿½: Facing the Black Death in Bologna

Out on the Streets: the Tabernacolo a Mensa in Florence - Elizabeth Bailey, Wesleyan College

An Islamic Perspective on the Black Death: Ibn al-Khatib and ï¿½al-Marad al-Hï¿½ilï¿½

An Exploratory Survey of Treatises on the Black Death - Daniel Hobbins, U. Texas at Arlington

A Plague on Bohemia? The Black Death in the Czech Lands - David C. Mengel, Xavier Univ.

An Aesthetic of Ugliness: Death Imagery in the Time of the Plague - Cynthia Rostankowski,

The Plague and Chaucerï¿½s Spiritual Healers: the Pardoner, the Parson and the Diseased

2005

Civic Memory and Antiquity in the Cronaca di Partenope
- Samantha Kelly, Rutgers Univ.

Ancient Deliciae of the Phlegraean Field and Their Lesser-Known Proto-Humanist ï¿½Excavatorsï¿½

- Jean Dï¿½Amato Thomas, Louisiana Scholarsï¿½ College, Northwestern State Univ.

The Spread of ï¿½Antique Exemplaï¿½ through Religious Orders in the 14^th and Early 15^th

Literacy, Selfhood, and the Rise of Humanism in the 14^th Century - Burt Kimmelman,

Boccaccioï¿½s Teseida and its Commentary Context - Kenneth P. Clarke, University College,

Guido delle Colonne and the Historia destructionis Troiae: a Humanistic Approach?

Emergence of the Commissary-General in Lincoln: Social or Institutional Conflict?

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 Wasnï¿½t There: Three Formal Submissions to Pope John XXII
Blake Beattie, Univ. of Louisville
ï¿½Let Pope John Die, and No Otherï¿½
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 Mï¿½giï¿½res 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 Chaucerï¿½s Spells
Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of Californiaï¿½Los Angeles

Session 554: Valley III 313
Sunday, May 9, 8:30 am
The Fourteenth Century: Cracks in the Faï¿½ade
Co-sponsored with Medieval Prosopography
Presider: Phyllis E. Pobst, Arkansas State Univ.

The English Diplomatic Corps, 1375ï¿½1422
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 Tennesseeï¿½Knoxville

The French Connection: Was Chaucer Star-Struck by Charles Vï¿½s College of Astronomy?
Connie Meyer, Texas A&M Univ.ï¿½Commerce
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.ï¿½Erie, The Behrend College

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!

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.

2001

The Roman Clans and Urban Violence in the Time of the Avignon Papacy - Blake R. Beattie,