ANNOUNCING: The Seventh Annual Medieval Guild Conference
"DEATH JUDGEMENT, AND THE ESCHATOLOGICAL IMAGINATION"
OCTOBER 26, 1996 AT PHILOSOPHY HALL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
8-9 REGISTRATION
9-10 Roundtable Panel: Eschatology and Methodology
Prof. Robert Lerner, Prof. Donald Maddox, Prof. Sandra P. Prior,
Adnan Husain, Claudia R. Papka
Moderator: Prof. Caroline Walker Bynum
10:15-11:15 Concurrent Sessions
Session 1: Women Imagining the End
Moderator: Margaret Pappano
Death and the Abbess: Responses to Death on a Twelfth-Century Mortuary
Roll- Teresa Elaine Leslie,Emory University
Imagining Enclosure at Syon Abbey: Death and Space in the
Fifteenth-Century English Cloister- C. Annette Grise,University of Western
Ontario
The Year of Double Eights: The Apocalyptic and Millenarian Content of the
Dreams of Lucretia de Leon in the Spain of 1588-Maria Jordan, Columbia
University
Session 2: Death and the Body
Moderator: James Dominic Cain
Death and Inversion, Death and Conversion: The Violent End of Archbishop
Engelbert-Jackie Jung, Columbia University
Deep, Dark, and Smelly: The Gender of Hell in Two Thirteenth-Century
Collections of Marian Tales-Anne McCormick, UC Berkeley
>From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin de la Riva's 'Book of
the Three Scriptures'-Manuele Gragnoloti, Columbia University
11:30-12:30- Concurrent Sessions
Session 3: The Living and the Dead
Moderator: Karen Bezella, Columbia University
Reliving the End: Reading the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Books of
Hours-Leslie Abend Callahan, Vassar College
'Orans" at the Tomb-Ann Marie Yasin, University of Chicago
Community in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints,
Anna Harrison, Columbia University
Session 4: Apocalypse in History
Moderator: Adnan Husain, UC Berkeley
Prophecies and Eschatology in Morisco Writings, Reem F. Iverson, Princeton
University
The Mission of the Twelve: Apostolic Poverty, Authority, and the
Eschatological New World-Patricia Franz, CUNY Graduate Center
Creating a Climate for Reform: Nicolas de Clamanges on the End-Christopher
Bellitto, Fordham University
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2-3:30 Plenary Session "The Blindness of Tobit: Joachim of Fiore and the
Jews" - Prof. Robert Lerner, Northwestern University
3:45-4:45 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5: Ends of Language
Moderator: Lisa Cooper, Columbia University
Fragmina Verborum: The Wakefield Last Judgment Play-Nicolas Pullin, Loyala
University
Speaking of Ghosts...:Justice and Eschatological Memory-Sean K. Kelly,
Binghamton University
Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series' and the Politics of Translating the ars
moriendi-Trena Evans, University of Western Ontario
Session 6: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
Moderator: Claudia R. Papka, Columbia University
'Pearl' in its Architectural Setting-Ann R. Meyer, University of Chicago
Purgatory and Eschatological Representations in 14th-15th Century Italy,
Anca Bratu-Minott, University of Pennsylvania
Cannibalisn and the Eschatology of the 'Hortus Deliciarum': Herrad of
Hohenbourg's Vision of Hell, Fional Griffiths, Cambridge University
5:00 THE WAKEFIELD LAST JUDGMENT PLAY
Directed by Julie Crosby, Columbia University
Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow
Pre-registration- $10.00
At the Door- $15.00
Make out Check to Columbia University English Department
Send to: Columbia University Medieval Guild
602 Philosophy Hall, MC 4927
1150 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
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