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Schedule of Papers & Events

(2007 Conference)
 

Sponsors

Department of English and Modern Languages
Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy
Longwood History Club
Longwood Literature Club
The Cook-Cole College of Arts and Science
The Office of the President, Longwood Universty
Longwood Student Government Association

General Schedule
(panels below)

Friday, 6 April

 
Noon—5 pm: Registration (Science Bldg Atrium)
2:00—3:30pm: Session #1
3:30—3:45pm: Afternoon Refreshments
3:45—5:15pm: Session #2
6:30—8:00pm: Reception and Banquet at LCVA
8:00—9:00pm: First Plenary Address

Saturday, 7 April

 
9:00—9:30am: Continental Breakfast
9:30—11:00am: Concurrent Sessions: #3 & #4
11:00—11:15am: Morning Break
11:15—12:30pm: Second Plenary Address
12:30—2:00pm: Lunch around Farmville
2:00—3:30pm: Session #5
3:45—5:15pm: Session #6

Sessions and Speakers

Friday, 6 April

Session #1:  2:00—3:30pm
Queen Medb: Old Irish Queenship and the Goddess
  • “The Tain’s Medb: Womanly Destroyer”
     Jackie Plain, Longwood University
  • “The Good Queen Medb”
     Carrie Kearney, East Carolina University
  • “Man Needs a Goddess: Cuchulainn’s Dependency on the Morrigan”
     Niki Swann, Longwood University
Session #2:  3:45—5:15pm
Dante, Chaucer and Humanism
  • “Sympathy for Lovers: Keeping Palamon and Arcite out of Dante’s Hell in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale”
     Merritt Droste, Longwood University
  • “Woman On Top: Playing by Men’s Rules in The Miller’s Tale”
      Jessica Laffoon, Longwood University
  • “Bridging the Gap: Medieval and Renaissance Humanism in the Work of Dante”
     Brian Hill, Longwood University
First Plenary Address:  8:00—9:00pm

Prof. Richard Abels, U.S. Naval Academy
“Culture and Warfare in the Middle Ages”

Saturday, 7 April

Concurrent Sessions 3 and 4:  9:30—11:00am
Kingship and Christianity (Session 3)
  • “Constructed Carolingian Kingship, 769—900”
     Shannon Gorman, University of Virginia
  • “Vicarius Christi: Henry IV and the definition of Christianity and Imperial Intellectualism”
     Diana Wright, Virginia Tech University
  • “Unhallowed Temples: Cathar Churches in the Aquitaine and Languedoc Regions of France”
     Daniel Banker, Virginia Tech University
The Pursuit of the Holy Land (Session 4)
  • “Both Heaven and Earth: The Physical and Spiritual Impact of Jerusalem on Western Europe, 700-814”
     Christopher Riedel, University of Virginia
  • “Stephen of Blois: A Crusader Vindicated?"”
     Hunter Swanson, Longwood University
  • “The Origins of the Knights Templar”
     Avie Cone, Longwood University
Second Plenary Address:  11:15—12:30pm

Prof. David F. Johnson, Florida State University
“Meeting in the Middle: Vision, Prayer and Judgment in Late Anglo-Saxon England”

Session5:  2:00—3:30pm
The Military Persona
  • “'Dogs of War' and the Negotium Dei”
     Travis Lankford, Longwood University
  • “The Confused Knight: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale as Literary Amalgam”
     Melissa Elmes, Longwood University
  • “Abnormal or Adolescent: A Psycho-Historical Perspective on Joan of Arc’s Faith and Behavior, Applying the Theories of Erik Erikson”
     Clair Thomason, Lynchburg College
Sessions 6:  3:45—5:15pm
Sin, Sex, and Corporeality
  • “Tsk, Tsk: Denying Virginity in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander’”
     Alice Kirby, Longwood University
  • “Church Views on Prostitution in Late Medieval Europe”
     Jennifer Morrill, Longwood University
  • “Catharism and the Development of Catholic Doctrine”
     Keith Taylor, Longwood University