MAM: The Medieval Association of the Midwest

N U N T I A

The Newsletter of the Medieval Association of the Midwest

 

Spring 2003, Volume XXVII Number One

 

Kalamazoo MAM Events

 

MAM business meetings are all scheduled for Thursday, May 7.  The Membership Committee will meet at 11 A.M., in the Valley III Eldridge 2^nd floor lounge.  The Executive Council will meet at 12 noon in Webster’s Restaurant at the Radisson.  All members are invited (indeed, urged) to attend the Annual Business Meeting and Reception with open bar at 7 P.M. in Fetzer 1055.

 

There are seven MAM-sponsored sessions at this year’s conference, up from last year’s five:

 

#24 Fetzer 1035 – Clothing in Chaucer, 10 a.m. Thursday

 

#69, Valley II 208 – Byzantine Literature: Contexts, Ideologies, and Genres, 1:30 p.m. Thursday

 

#130, Valley II 208 – Medieval Argument: Logic and Rhetoric, 3:30 p.m. Thursday

 

#207, Fetzer 2030 – Intertextuality and the Medieval Landscape, 10 a.m. Friday

 

#268, Fetzer 2030 – Teaching the Middle Ages, 1:30 p.m. Friday

 

#313, Valley I 100 – Children in Medieval Literature, 3:30 p.m. Friday

 

#596, Valley I 100 – Medieval Italian Literature, 10:30 a.m. Sunday

 

See you there!

MAM 18^th Annual Meeting

 

The Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest convened at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, September 27-28, 2002, under the non-binding theme of "Pilgrims, Heroes, and Ascetics."  In addition to two excellent keynote lectures, by Norris Lacy of Penn State University ("From Criticism to Fiction: Taking the Arthurian Plunge") and Jon Wilcox of the University of Iowa ("Walking to Santiago de Compostella: A Modern Version of the Medieval Pilgrimage"), the program featured thirty-five presentations in twelve sessions, and attendance topped fifty scholars and guests. 

 

The organization continues to feature in its conferences some novel sessions, as we expand our horizons further into art, philosophy, and work in languages other than English (French, Italian, and Spanish each received representation).  A special session on resources available to MAM members and another of original fiction may encourage continuing innovations in our approaches to presenting and sharing scholarship.  Pleasant, convenient facilities and gradually improving weather contributed to the enjoyment of the participants.  Thanks to all who contributed.

 

 

 

Calls for Papers

 

The absolute deadline for organizers to propose Sponsored and Special Sessions at the 39^th International Congress on Medieval Studies is Thursday, May 15, 2003.  The deadline for submitting paper proposals to organizers of Sponsored and Special Sessions advertised in the July Call for Papers is October 1, 2003.  For General Sessions, it is September 15, 2003.  MAM session organizers should submit proposals to the Cynthia Valk before May 15.  For more information, contact Cynthia Valk, Dept. of English and Speech, University of Texas-Brownsville, Brownsville, TX 78520, telephone: 956-350-8800, fax: 956-350-8811, email: czvalk@utb.edu.

 

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The Medieval Association of the Midwest 19th Annual Conference will take place at The University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday and Saturday, October 10-11, 2003.  The keynote speaker will be Dr. Bernard McGinn, of the School of Divinity at the University of Chicago, on the subject of medieval mysticism.  Inquiries and proposals for sessions, workshops, and papers on all aspects of medieval studies, including writing, art, history, religion, philosophy, and teaching the middle ages are welcome.  They should be submitted to T.J. Morris, Dept. of English, University of Indianapolis, 1400 East Hanna Ave., Indianapolis IN 46227telephone 317-788-3241, fax 317-788-3300, email tmorris@uindy.edu.  A 200-word abstract should make clear the subject matter, area, and methodology of the proposed session/paper.  The submission deadline is June 15.

 

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PMAM (Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest) is currently requesting submissions from the members of the Medieval Association of the Midwest for Volume Nine.  Articles of 3,000-10,000 words may be based on conference papers given in MAM-sponsored sessions at the Annual Congress of the Medieval Institute, M/MLA, or MAM conferences.  MAM members are encouraged to submit book reviews (beginning with Volume 9) and articles unrelated to conference papers.  Many thanks for her fine past service on PMAM to departing co-editor Karen Moranski, and a warm welcome to new co-editor Kristen Figg!

 

PMAM is a refereed annual journal using MLA documentation styles and dedicated to well-researched scholarship on the Middle Ages.  For further information and to make submissions (in three copies), you are invited to contact Dr. Melvin Storm, Jr. (editor of Volume 9), English Department, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801, telephone: 620-341-5563, fax: 620-341-5547, email: mailto:stormmel@esumail.emporia.edu; or Kristen Figg, (editor of Volume 10), Department of English, Kent State University – Salem Campus, 2491 SR 45, South Salem, OH 44460, telephone 330-332-0361 x290, fax 330-332-9256, email: figg@salem. kent.edu.

 

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Studies in Medievalism, “the only academic journal devoted entirely to the study of post-medieval images and perceptions of the Middle Ages,” is now being published annually by Boydell and Brewer.  Contributions (especially on topics beyond the usual -- i.e., Tennyson’s Idylls, Pre-Raphaelites, the Inklings, and the like), are warmly invited.  Intending contributors may direct inquiries and submissions (write first for proper format) to the editor, Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University, Department of English, 221 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103, email mailto:shippey@slu.edu.

 

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Nota Bene:  The English Department at the University of Pennsylvania hosts an electronic mailing list (mailto:cfp@english.upenn.edu) and website (http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/) for calls for papers on English and American Literature and Culture.  We encourage conference or panel organizers and volume editors to find the largest possible audience for their announcements by posting them on this list and web archive.

 

 

MAM Professional News

 

Have you recently finished a dissertation, book, or other major project?  Are you looking for contributors or help on a project?  To announce your latest publications and projects in Nuntia, please supply the following information:

 

Member name

Institution

Title of publication OR focus of project

Short summary or description (optional)

 

(The Editor regrets that only large-scale or published projects can be included here.)  Submit by e-mail (preferred) to figg@salem.kent.edu, or in hard copy to Prof. Kristin Figg, Department of English, Kent State University – Salem Campus, 2491 SR 45, South Salem, OH 44460.

 

Earl Anderson, Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences at Cleveland State University, recently published  Folk-Taxonomies in Early English (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003).  

 

Chuck Reid, of the College of St. Thomas, has completed a book-length manuscript on medieval marriage with the working title "Power over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law."  The book proposes to examine how and where a rights-vocabulary came to be used with reference to marriage.  Chapters explore the right and freedom to contract marriage; the right of paternal power; conjugal rights; the natural right to take under a will; and other similar themes.  The book will be published by Eerdmans in 2004.  

Elizabeth Moore Hunt, Ph.D. Candidate, Univ. of MO-Columbia, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology, has published ”The Urban Fabric and Framework of Ghent in the Margins of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Douce 5-6,” in Als Ich Can: Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. Bert Cardon, (Leuven, Belgium: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), 983-1006.  She also contributed to Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold (800-1475), exhibition catalogue, eds. Hubert Cardon and Jan van der Stock, Stedelijk Museum Vander Kelen-Mertens, 21 September -- 8 December 2002 (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2002).

Randi Eldevik, Associate Professor of English, Oklahoma State University, has published a book translation of  Torfi Tulinius's  La matiere du Nord, translated into English as The Matter of the North: The Rise of Literary Fiction in Thirteenth-Century Iceland.  Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 2002, and has also published an article, “Women's Voices in Old Norse Literature: The Case of Trojumanna saga” in Cold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology, ed. Sarah M. Anderson and Karen Swenson.  New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 55-80.

 

 

Contest Winner

 

We have a winner!!  Leslie Zarker Morgan swiftly identified the Casa di Dante, the mystery photo in our last issue.  How?  Because she took the picture!  Leslie wins an all-expenses-paid imaginary two-week vacation to Italy for her perspicacity, with Umberto Eco and the shade of Virgil as imaginary tour guides, and safe conduct granted to all by the Guelf and Ghibelline factions, their heirs, and assigns.

 

Who can identify this issue’s puzzler, below?

 Recognize this place?  Achieve fame in the next Nuntia by sending the correct answer to pgoodric@nmu.edu.

 

THE MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDWEST is an interdisciplinary association of medievalists in the Midwest founded to promote the study, criticism, research, and exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the medieval period and to articulate the specific needs of medievalists in the Midwest.  Membership benefits include a biannual newsletter, a Conference in the fall and sections at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and at the Midwest Modern Language Association and an annual Publications volume.  Its website is <http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/English/pgoodric/mam/>.  Membership is open to anyone with an interest in medieval studies.  Dues for the calendar year are $25 (and just $10 for graduate students and emeriti).  To join the Association, please complete the form below and mail it with dues payment to Kristie Bixby, Academic Affairs and Research, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260-0013.

 

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NUNTIA: The Newsletter of the Medieval

     Association of the Midwest

Department of English

Northern Michigan University

Marquette, MI 49855-5310

 

Published biannually in spring and fall

Volume XXVII Number 1

Spring 2003