Borderlines XIV: Codices and Codification

Friday 9 April 2010

9.30 - 11.00 Registration, Tea and Coffee

11.00 - 12.30 Welcome + Session One: Transgression

Derek Dunne (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Revenge Tragedy and the Changing Face of the Law’

Emily O’Brien (Trinity College Dublin)
‘On the Borders of Decency: Codifying Discourse in Early Modern Murder Pamphlets and Plays’

Gerard O’Brien (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘Strategies of Transgression in Medieval English Culture’

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.15 Session Two:
Codifying Piety I

Elizabeth Scarborough (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘“Approved Women”: The Role of Discretio Spirituum in Defining Female Devotion’

Amy Kieran (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘Constructing a Devotional Community in the Later Middle Ages: Reflections on a Fifteenth Century Sermon’

Laura Gallagher (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘“She Swooned”: The Sustained Appropriation of the Mourning Mother by Women Writers in the Renaissance’

15.15 – 15.30 Tea and Coffee

15.30 - 16.45 Session Three: Church and State

Steffen Magister (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Concepts of Kingship in Wipo’s Gesta Chuonradi Secundi Imperatoris’

Remus Daniel Valsan (McGill University)
‘The Constitutions of Clarendon and the Spiritual-Temporal Judicial Divide in Twelfth-Century England’

Edina Eszenyi (University of Kent)
‘Cardinals on Thrones: Ferdinand de Medici and Henry of Portugal’

18.00 Wine Reception

Sponsored by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature

Saturday 10 April 2010

9.00 - 9.30 Tea and Coffee

9.30 - 11.00 Session Four: Co-Defining Individuality: Identities Within Established Traditions

Sarah MacMillan (University of Birmingham)
‘Henry Suso and the Ascetic Individual’

Anna Gottschall (University of Birmingham)
‘The Individual Experience of the Pater Noster’

Emily Rozier
‘Codpieces and Codification: The Interplay of individual and Group Identities in a Late Medieval Satirical Figure’

11.00 - 11.30 Tea and Coffee

11.30 - 12.30 Session Five: In Between Orality and Literacy: Early Irish Contexts

Jean Price (Headland Archaeology)
‘Ogham and Ogham Stones: An Interface of Orality and Literacy?’

Michelle Doran (University College Cork)
‘Codifying the Oral Text: Examples from Medieval Ireland’

12.30 - 13.45 Lunch

13.45 - 15.15 Session Six: Sites and Sounds

Eamon Byers (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘A Common Sense: “Auditory Piety” in the Middle Ages’

Will Liddle (Queen’s University Belfast)
TBC

Paul Murphy (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘Considering Re-presentation: Medieval Drama on Our Streets’

Conor Smyth (Queen’s University Belfast)
‘“There is so Much to See in Rome”: The Cinematic Materialities of Martin Luther’s Reformation’

15.15 - 15.45 Tea and Coffee

15.45 - 17.00 Session Seven

Dáithi Ó Mathghamhna (University College Cork)
‘“Where Once Beasts Dwelt”: Defining and
Regulating the Natural World in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica’

Sarah McCann (NUI Galway)
‘Wilfrid: A Saint on the Edge’

19.00 Conference Dinner

Sunday 11 April 2010

9.30 - 10.00 Tea and Coffee

10.00 - 11.45 Session Eight: Manuscript Culture

Foteini Spingou (University of Oxford)
‘What Can a Byzantine Manuscript Tell?’

Owen Roberson (University of Leicester)
‘Is there Anybody Out There? Who is Listening to MS Junius 11?’

Elisabeth Kempf (Freie Universität Berlin)
‘Split Textual Identities?: The Regiment of Princes and its Marginal Glosses’

11.45 - 13.00 Session Nine: Codifying Piety II

Joni Henry (University of Cambridge)
‘The Communion of Saints: The Transmission of Chaucer and Lydgate’s Religious Works in Miscellanies and Collections’

Rhian Barrance
‘Faith or Family: The Place of Family in Late Medieval Religious Practice’

Kamila Fuk (The Pontifical University of John Paul II)
‘Iconology and Iconography in the Speculum Humanae Salvationis’