Gestures, Behaviors, and Emotions in
the Middle Ages
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE ILLINOIS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
FEBRUARY 16-17, 2001
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, CHICAGO
SPONSORED BY
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
AND THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY’S
CENTER FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES
THE ILLINOIS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION
Executive Secretary: Allen Frantzen (Loyola University of Chicago)
Executive Committee for 2000-2001: Anne Clark Bartlett (DePaul University), Ray Clemens
(Illinois State University), Bill Fahrenbach (DePaul University), Mark D. Johnston (The
Newberry Library), Lisa Lampert (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), Barbara
Rosenwein (Loyola University of Chicago), David Wagner (Northern Illinois University)
PROGRAM OF THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING
FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2001, 1:00PM-2:00PM
Registration (Lobby)
FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2001, 2:00PM-3:00PM
Welcome and Introduction (Ruggles Hall)
FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2001, 3:00PM-4:30PM
“Romance” (Room TBD)
Chair: Anne Clark Bartlet (DePaul University)
James Palmer (Purdue University), "Ruled and Defeated by Desire: Living by Unsanctioned
Metaphors and the Social Construction of Emotion in the Prison of Love"
Sharon M. Wailes (Indiana University), "Passion in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan"
Rebecca Morrow (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "The Independent Couple:
Meliur as frouwe and Partner in Konrad von Würzburg's Partonopier und Meliur"
“Deviance” (Room TBD)
Chair:
Lisa R. Perfetti (Muhlenberg College), "Medieval Views of Laughter: the Body, Behavior,
and the Question of Gender"
Lynn Laufenberg (Sweet Briar College), "More than Words: Gender and the Physical
Language of Defamation and Defiance in Medieval Florence"
Nancy F. Marino (Michigan State University), "How Portuguese Damas Scandalized the
Castilian Court in 1454"
“Performance” (Room TBD)
Chair: Dina Kalman (The Newberry Library)
Juliet Sloger (University of Rochester), "The Performance of Politeness: Middle English
Courtesy Books and the Articulation of Social Identity"
Jennie Fauls (Chicago, Illinois), "Body Talk: The Performing Power of Christina Mirabilis
and Karen Finley"
Liz Herbert McAvoy (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), "'. . . wondyrfully turnying &
wrestyng hir body . . .': Gendered Agonies and Ecstasies as Performative Strategy in The
Book of Margery Kempe"
“Public Emotions” (Room TBD)
Chair:
Esther Cohen (Hebrew University), "Emotion and sensation: the interaction of fear and
pain"
Gerhard Jaritz (Central European University, Budapest), "Ira Dei, material culture, and
behavior in the Late Middle Ages"
Ann Ramsey (University of Iowa), "The Dance of Penitence: Guilt and its Expiation in
Sixteenth-Century Flagellant Movements"
FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2001, 4:30PM-5:30PM
Reception and Cash Bar (Room TBD)
SATURDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2001, 9:00AM-10:30AM
“Emotional Subjects” (Room TBD)
Chair:
Lyn Blanchfield (Binghamton University), "A Vale of Deceitful Tears: Deception, Weeping,
and Emotion in Medieval Europe"
Jane E. Connolly (University of Miami), "'The most unfortunate, forsaken and condemned
woman in the world': Leonor López de Córdoba and her Representation of Self"
Kate Koppelman (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Moder of Mercy/Empress of
Helle: The Ambivalence of the Virgin in Late Medieval England"
“Early Medieval Gestures” (Room TBD)
Chair:
Wendy Marie Hoofnagle (Kalamazoo Valley Community College), "Futile/Feudal Gestures
and a Christian Tragic View of the Chanson de Roland"
Jack Weiner (Northern Illinois University), "Greetings in the Poema de Mio Cid (PMC) (c.
1207)"
Helena de Carlos (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), "Real and Parodic Gestures in
the Letters of Geoffrey of Rheims"
“Christine de Pizan” (Room TBD)
Chair:
Susan Dudash (University of Pittsburgh), "Defiant Gestures and the Art of Politics in
Christine de Pizan"
Julia Simms Holderness (Michigan State University), "A Response to Grief: Consolation and
Mutation in the Early Thought of Christine de Pizan"
Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University) and Pamela Sheingorn (CUNY), "The Rhetoric
of Anger in Christine de Pizan's Othea"
“Reading Gestures” (Room TBD)
Chair: Paul Saenger (The Newberry Library)
Mark Amsler (Eastern Michigan University), "The Eyes Have It: Gestures of Reading and
Speaking in the Middle Ages"
Nancy Bradley Warren (Utah State University), "'Quiting' Gestures and 'Lollard-like'
Behavior: Chaucer, the Vernacular, and Female Virtue"
Karen Scott (DePaul University), "Transforming Emotions, Perceptions, and Actions: The
Power of Imagery in the Letters of Catherine of Siena"
SATURDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2001, 11:00AM-NOON
Plenary Address: E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania), "Theories of the Passions
and the Ecstasies of Late Medieval Religious Women" (Ruggles Hall)
SATURDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2001, 12:30PM-1:30PM
Lunch – advance reservations only (Ruggles Hall)
SATURDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2001, 2:00PM-3:30PM
“Art” (Room TBD)
Chair:
Isidro J. Rivera (University of Kansas), "The Visual Representation of Gesture and
Emotions in the Early Printed Editions of Celestina"
Natalie Crohn Schmitt (University of Illinois, Chicago), "Learning to Read Gestures in
Medieval Iconography"
Leslie Abend Callahan (University of Pennsylvania), "The Grief of the Fathers: Gender and
Culture in Late Medieval Representations of Mourning"
“Devotion” (Room TBD)
Chair:
Ann Astell (Purdue University), "'Ego Affectus Est': Julia Kristeva Reading Bernard of
Clairvaux"
P. J. Nugent (Earlham College), "Dreams, Visions, and the Prayers of Pilgrims at the Shrines
of the Saints, c. 950-1200"
Antha Cotten Spreckelmeyer (University of Kansas), "Reforming Naughty Nuns: Three
Middle English Rules for Women"
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
FROM THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING IN
ESSAYS IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
The Executive Committee of the Association invites all meeting participants to submit their
papers for consideration for publication in Essays in Medieval Studies, the Association’s annual journal.
The journal is available on-line at http://www.luc.edu
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Anne Clark Bartlett
New Market Caterers
Allen Frantzen
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
Loyola University of Chicago
Newberry Library Office of Events
Mark D. Johnston