Forty-Sixth Annual 2007 Saint Louis University

Officers

President: John Lomax, Ohio Northern University
Vice-president: C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia University - Nebraska
Secretary: Louis Haas, Middle Tennessee State University
Treasurer: Martin Arbagi, Wright State University
Councilors: Linda Mitchell, Alfred University; Annette Parks, University of Evansville
Local Arrangements: Thomas F. Madden, Saint Louis University

Program

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All sessions held in the Pere Marquette Gallery located on the second floor of Dubourg Hall.

Friday, October 12, 2007
1:30 p.m. Registration Begins. Pere Marquette Gallery.

2:30 - 4:00 Graduate Student Session - Rediscoveries
Chair: Cullen J. Chandler, Lycoming College

From Frontier Fortress to Trading Center: Cologne's Transformation in the Early Middle Ages
Thomas R. Farmer, University of Minnesota
The Church in Languedoc Prior to the Albigensian Crusade: Less Efficient and Less Zealous?
Walker Reid Cosgrove, Saint Louis University
Finding Eleanor Cobham: The Search for Sources on the Life and Trial of a Fifteenth-Century English Witch
Julia Geiger, The Ohio State University

4:15 - 5:45 Graduate Student Session - Cross-Currents
Chair: Leah Shopkow, Indiana University

Felicians, Paulicians, and Carolingians: The Construction and Interaction of Borderland Heresies in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries
James B. Williams, Purdue University
"Fere impotabiles et onorose": Financing Reconquest and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century
Miguel Gomez, University of Tennessee
Enemies of the Cloister: Ideas about Jews in the Monasteries of Medieval Germany
John D. Young, University of Notre Dame

8:00 - 10:00 Cocktail Reception. Drury Inn. Main Lobby.

Saturday, October 13, 2007
8:00 a.m Registration and Continental Breakfast.
Pere Marquette Room.

8:45 a.m. Welcome
Thomas F. Madden, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University

9:00 - 10:30 Debating the Early Middle Ages
Chair: David S. Sefton, Eastern Kentucky University

The Missing Mancus and the Early Medieval Economy
Richard R. Ring, University of Kansas
Rule Collecting and Rule Compiling: Methods of Ninth-Century Monastic Reform
Matthew Ponesse, Ohio Domnican University
"Let them establish schools": What Did Charlemagne Really Mean by Admonitio Generalis cap. 72?
John J. Contreni, Purdue University

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break.

11:00 - 12:30 Plenary Address

Is There a Monk in the House? Death-Bed Conversion to Monastic Life in the Twelfth Century
Joseph H. Lynch, The Ohio State University

12:45 - 2:15 Business Lunch. College Church Ballroom.

2:30 - 4:00 Religious Culture
Chair: Thomas Burman, University of Tennessee

Capitulation or Capital Punishment? The Dividing Lines in al-Andalus in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Andrew Kurt, Grand Valley State University
Scripture, Liturgy, and the Treasury of Merit
Robert W. Shaffern, University of Scranton
The Devil in the Late Middle Ages
Michael Bailey, Iowa State University

4:00 - 4:15 Coffee Break

4:15 - 5:45 Power and Memory
Chair: Linda Mitchell, Alfred University

Where's Daddy? Family Commemoration of Aristocratic Men in the Lands of the Loire, 1050-1200
Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University
Talking about Kingship When Preaching about Saint Louis
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College
The Papacy as Viewed from Spain
Damian J. Smith, Saint Louis University

6:00 Cocktails. Cupples House.

7:00 Banquet. The Grand Hall.

9:00 President's Reception.

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