Queen s University Belfast June 10-13, 2010 Supported by Mapping Late Medieval Lives of Christ University of St Andrews conference programme Film and Drama Centre, Queen s University Belfast
Acknowledgements Thursday June 10 9.30-12.00 Registration 12.00-12.15 Welcomes (Geographies of Orthodoxy team) 12.15-1.15 Plenary One Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin pellentesque, est ut venenatis aliquam, lorem quam porttitor ligula, eget ultrices velit dui sed quam. Praesent vehicula placerat lectus. Nulla pede. Quisque a nulla quis massa pulvinar sagittis. Pellentesque neque massa, mattis vulputate, pellentesque nec, vehicula volutpat, purus. Proin pretium dui et nulla cursus eleifend. Aenean aliquam urna eget urna. Vestibulum euismod elit. Donec eget augue sit amet neque elementum pretium. Proin posuere lacus id lacus. Duis vel justo suscipit neque ornare iaculis. Ut urna urna, rhoncus eget, vestibulum tempus, venenatis non, nunc. Nunc consequat quam in nulla. Praesent feugiat posuere orci. Sed ac ante. Mauris pellentesque massa vitae ante mattis bibendum. Quisque dapibus lectus eu eros. Nulla facilisi. Praesent hendrerit egestas erat. Suspendisse at velit. Quisque mollis feugiat est. Curabitur ut leo. Cras auctor semper augue. Pellentesque leo pede, tempus sed, ornare in, venenatis sed, nisl. Quisque est velit, eleifend vitae, mollis ac, adipiscing at, eros. Mauris velit. Etiam nec lorem. Vestibulum pellentesque ligula a velit. Maecenas felis metus, suscipit et, eleifend vel, accumsan vitae, magna. Phasellus ut justo vel magna congue laoreet. Michael Sargent (City University of New York) 1.15-2.15 Lunch (provided) 2.15-3.45 Session One Imagining Christ s Childhood Denise L. Despres (University of Puget Sound), Adolescence and Interiority in Aelred s Lives of Christ Linda R. Bates (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), The Missing Years of Christ s Childhood, Seen and Heard in Late Medieval England Mary C. Dzon (University of Tennessee), Tales of the Good Thief s Benevolence from Medieval England
3.45-4.00 Tea/ coffee 4.00-5.30 Session Two The Politics of the Book Sarah James (University of Kent), Rural hospitality in St John's College MS G.25 Catherine Innes-Parker (University of Prince Edward Island), The Middle English Lignum Vitae and Textual Mouvance John Thompson (Queen s University Belfast), Awakening the Passion for Lay Readers 7.30 - Dinner, Great Hall, Queen s Dinner Address: Derek Pearsall Friday June 11 9.00-10.30 Session Three Writing Communities: Carthusian and Bridgettine contexts Paul J. Patterson (St Joseph s University), This is þe Englysshe : Devout Reading and Approved Women at Syon Abbey David Falls (Queen s University Belfast), Love's Mirror before Arundel Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis (University of Notre-Dame), Theology through the Looking Glass: Overcoming the Latin/Middle English Divide in Nicholas Love s The Mirroure of the Blessede Life of Jesu Criste and the Myrror to Devout People 10.30-10.45 Tea/ coffee 10.45-12.15 Session Four Devotion in Practice I: Visual and Material cultures David Griffith (University of Birmingham), Here our lord ys skorgyd : Passion Cycles in the English Parish Church Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Kent), To move the mind : Scenes from Christ s Life on Faversham s Painted Pillar Rachel Canty (University of Birmingham), Seeing is Believing: Images of the Passion in Late Medieval Visual Art
12.15-1.15 Plenary Two Martha Driver (Pace University) 1.15-2.15 Lunch (provided) 2.15-3.45 Session Five Reading Communities: Institutional and Domestic Heather Reid (University of Victoria & Pacific Union College), A Patroness of Orthodoxy: Elizabeth Berkeley and the Middle English Storie of Asneth, a West Midlands Devotional Text Ulla Bucarey (University of Augsburg), A Vernacular Vita Christi in a 15th Century Illuminated Manuscript of the Cistercian Nunnery of Lichtenthal, Germany Suzan Folkerts (University of Groningen), From Written Gospel to Passion Culture: Lay Readers and the Variety of Vernacular Gospel Manuscripts in the Late Medieval Low Countries 3.45-4.00 Tea/Coffee 4.00-5.30 Session Six Translation and Cultural Encounter Sabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen), A Fourfold Truth: the Tradition of the Diatessaron in Medieval Italy Maureen Boulton (University of Notre-Dame), The Life of Christ in Meditative Texts in Late Medieval France Kiril Petkov (University of Wisconsin-River Falls), The Life of Christ in the Tale of the Three of the Cross 5.30-6.30 Plenary Three Sarah McNamer (Georgetown University) Saturday June 12 9.00-10.30 Session Seven The Passion Embodied Allan Westphall (University of St Andrews), Blood, Sacrifice and Tears of Compunction: Doing Meditative Theology in Michigan State University MS 1
Marlene Villalobos Hennessy (City University of New York), Reading, Image-Making and Passion Devotion in A Meditation on the Seven Sheddings of Christ s Blood Pamela King (University of Bristol), Plays: Reception and Re-Production 10.45-11.00 Tea/ coffee 11.00-12.30 Session Eight Echoes, Analogues, Afterlives James Carley (York University), The 1556 Edition of The folowinge of Chryste : Background and Context William Marx (University of Wales, Lampeter), The Devil as Narrator of the Life of Christ Jennifer L. Sisk (University of Vermont), Langland s Life of Christ and the Pseudo-Bonaventuran Tradition 1.15-2.15 Lunch (provided) 2.15-3.45 Session Nine Devotion in Practice II: The Liturgy and Christ Eleanor McCullough (University of York), Praying the Passion: The Hours of the Cross as a Short Meditation on the Death of Christ Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh (University College Cork), Bearing Witness to the Truth: Crucifixion Imagery in Twelfth-Century Ireland David Harry (University of Bristol), Passive attendance? Spiritual Communion and the Secular Mass in Fifteenth-Century England 3.45-4.00 Tea/Coffee 4.00-5.30 Session Ten Pseudo-Bonaventure in England Barbara Zimbalist (University of California-Davis), Christ s Speech in The Life of the Virgin Mary and the Christ: Trinity College Dublin MS 423 Mayumi Taguchi (Osaka Sangyo University), The Pepysian Version of the Middle English Meditationes de Passione Christi
Amanda Moss (Royal Holloway, University of London), Seeking Salvation: Fifteenth-Century Compilers and Uses of The Rule of the Life of Our Lady 5.30-6.30 Plenary Four Toshiyuki Takamiya (Keio University, Japan) 7.30 - Conference dinner (location tbc) Sunday June 13 9.00-10.30 Session Eleven Readers and Reading Elisabeth Salter (Aberystwyth University), Silent speaking: Popular Reading and Lives of Christ in the Fifteenth Century Lucy Allen (University of York), What are Women Reading in Lives of Christ? Elizabeth Scarborough (Queen s University Belfast), Living in the Time of Christ: Margery Kempe s deuoute ymaginacion 10.30-10.45 Tea/Coffee 11.00-12.00 Plenary Five Vincent Gillespie (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) 12.00-1.00 Session Twelve Histories and Controversies Valerie Allen (City University of New York), Belief and Knowledge in Love s Mirror Stephen Kelly (Queen s University Belfast), (How) Does Affective Piety Work? Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (University of Notre-Dame), Translating Marguerite Porete s Mirror: the Early Fifteenth Century and the Golden Age of Women s Theology in English 1.15 Goodbyes