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Masters, Means & Methods: the (Liberal) Arts in the Medieval World The theme of this year’s conference concerns the transmission of knowledge, from masters to students, from practitioners to audience. It includes the liberal arts, the fine arts, and even the practical arts. Topics might include monastic as well as university education; the trivium and quadrivium; the history of science, music, mathematics, and dialectic; art history, especially the training of artists; the education of women; and professional training in guilds. All sessions will be held in the Marshall Room, in the Christiansen Center, on the campus of Augsburg College. Program Friday, 18 October 2013 Session 1 - Lessons on Belief and Behavior [1:30pm-3:00pm] Chair: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University Yi-chen Huang, Western Michigan University – “The Rhetoric About Exile in the Preaching and Teaching of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Glimpses of Cultural Ideology Revealed in the Homilies” Chad Turner, City University of New York – “Orthodox Teaching in the Hagiography of Rievaulx Abbey” Katherine E. Meyers, University of New Mexico – “Divine Law, Reform, and ‘Mindfulness’ in Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis” Session 2 - Medieval Pedagogy [3:15pm-4:45pm] Chair: C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia University Travis Yeager, Indiana University – “Beyond Guido: The Quaestiones in musica as an Advanced Medieval Textbook on Music” Michael Pifer, University of Michigan – “Strange Epistemologies: The Master-Student Relationship of Jalal-al-Din Rumi” Jonathan Klauke, Central Michigan University – “University and Madrasah: The Role of Education in Medieval Scientific Translation” Saturday, 19 October 2013 Welcome from the Provost [9:00-9:15] Session 3 - The Influence of Antiquity in Early Medieval Education [9:15-10:45] Chair: James B. Williams, University of Indianapolis Massimiliano Vitiello, University of Missouri - Kansas City – “Royal Education in Ostrogothic Italy: Romanitas, civilitas, and the Amal Family” Laura Carlson, Queen's University – “Idolatry's Rhetoric: The Art of Language in the Opus Caroli” Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota – “The Education of the Officer Corps in Pre- Crusade Europe” Session 4 - The Medieval World in the Modern Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion [11:00am-12:15pm] Chair: Leah Shopkow, Indiana University Kate Kelsey Staples, West Virginia University – “Dialogue and Understanding through Debate in the Classroom” Paula Rieder, Slippery Rock University – “Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking” Lunch and Business Meeting – East Commons, upstairs, Christiansen Center [12:30-2:00] Session 5 – Instruction for Religious and Secular Life [2:30-4:00] Chair: William L. North, Carleton College Suzanne LaVere, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne – “’Hoc vult illa Glossa’: The Glossa Ordinaria as an Authority in the Song of Songs Commentaries of Peter the Chanter and Stephen Langton” Libby Karlinger Escobedo, Aurora University – “It’s There in the Hair: Women’s Hairstyles as Bearers of Meaning in the Morgan Picture Bible” Joanna Carraway Vitiello, Rockhurst University – “Trial Procedure, Scholasticism, and Legal Education in Late Medieval Italy” Plenary Lecture – Jordan Sramek, founder and artistic director of The Rose Ensemble – “Devotional Laude: Praise & Procession within the First Franciscan Communities” [4:15-5:15] Introduction: Phil Adamo, Augsburg College Beer and Wine Reception – Student Art Gallery, right next to the Marshall Room [5:30-6:30] Banquet – At the Hotel Minneapolis Metrodome / Marriott [7:00-8:30] Late night reception – at the home of Phil Adamo. See separate map for directions. [8:00-midnight]
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Masters, Means & Methods: the (Liberal) Arts
in the Medieval World The theme of this year’s conference concerns the transmission of knowledge, from masters to students, from practitioners to audience. It includes the liberal arts, the fine arts, and even the practical arts. Topics might include monastic as well as university education; the trivium and quadrivium; the history of science, music, mathematics, and dialectic; art history, especially the training of artists; the education of women; and professional training in guilds.
All sessions will be held in the Marshall Room, in the Christiansen Center, on the campus of Augsburg College.
Program
Friday, 18 October 2013
Session 1 - Lessons on Belief and Behavior [1:30pm-3:00pm]
Chair: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University
Yi-chen Huang, Western Michigan University – “The Rhetoric About Exile in the Preaching and Teaching of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Glimpses of Cultural Ideology Revealed in the Homilies”
Chad Turner, City University of New York – “Orthodox Teaching in the Hagiography of Rievaulx Abbey”
Katherine E. Meyers, University of New Mexico – “Divine Law, Reform, and ‘Mindfulness’ in Johannes Nider’s Praeceptorium divinae legis”
Session 2 - Medieval Pedagogy [3:15pm-4:45pm]
Chair: C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia University
Travis Yeager, Indiana University – “Beyond Guido: The Quaestiones in musica as an Advanced Medieval Textbook on Music”
Michael Pifer, University of Michigan – “Strange Epistemologies: The Master-Student Relationship of Jalal-al-Din Rumi”
Jonathan Klauke, Central Michigan University – “University and Madrasah: The Role of Education in Medieval Scientific Translation”
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Welcome from the Provost [9:00-9:15]
Session 3 - The Influence of Antiquity in Early Medieval Education [9:15-10:45]
Chair: James B. Williams, University of Indianapolis
Massimiliano Vitiello, University of Missouri - Kansas City – “Royal Education in Ostrogothic Italy: Romanitas, civilitas, and the Amal Family”
Laura Carlson, Queen's University – “Idolatry's Rhetoric: The Art of Language in the Opus Caroli”
Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota – “The Education of the Officer Corps in Pre-Crusade Europe”
Session 4 - The Medieval World in the Modern Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion [11:00am-12:15pm]
Chair: Leah Shopkow, Indiana University
Kate Kelsey Staples, West Virginia University – “Dialogue and Understanding through Debate in the Classroom”
Paula Rieder, Slippery Rock University – “Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking”
Lunch and Business Meeting – East Commons, upstairs, Christiansen Center [12:30-2:00]
Session 5 – Instruction for Religious and Secular Life [2:30-4:00]
Chair: William L. North, Carleton College
Suzanne LaVere, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne – “’Hoc vult illa Glossa’: The Glossa Ordinaria as an Authority in the Song of Songs Commentaries of Peter the Chanter and Stephen Langton”
Libby Karlinger Escobedo, Aurora University – “It’s There in the Hair: Women’s Hairstyles as Bearers of Meaning in the Morgan Picture Bible”
Joanna Carraway Vitiello, Rockhurst University – “Trial Procedure, Scholasticism, and Legal Education in Late Medieval Italy”
Plenary Lecture – Jordan Sramek, founder and artistic director of The Rose Ensemble – “Devotional Laude: Praise & Procession within the First Franciscan Communities” [4:15-5:15]
Introduction: Phil Adamo, Augsburg College
Beer and Wine Reception – Student Art Gallery, right next to the Marshall Room [5:30-6:30]
Banquet – At the Hotel Minneapolis Metrodome / Marriott [7:00-8:30]
Late night reception – at the home of Phil Adamo. See separate map for directions. [8:00-midnight]
Masters, Means & Methods: the (Liberal) Arts
in the Medieval World
Fifty-Second Annual
Midwest Medieval History Conference
18-19 October 2013
Augsburg College Minneapolis, MN
About Augsburg College and the Program in Medieval Studies
Set in a vibrant neighborhood in the heart of the Twin Cities, Augsburg College offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and nine graduate degrees to more than 4,000 students of diverse backgrounds. The trademark of an Augsburg education is its emphasis on direct, personal experience. Guided by the faith and values of the Lutheran church, Augsburg educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.
Augsburg’s Program in Medieval Studies is nationally recognized for its experiential, inter-disciplinary teaching. The program’s Medieval Connections course has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Renaissance magazine, Teaching History, and on Minnesota Public Radio. Midwest Medieval History Conference Officers
President: Phil Adamo, Augsburg College���
Vice-president: Paula Rieder, Slippery Rock University���
Secretary: Steven Stofferahn, Indiana State University���
Treasurer: John Lomax, Ohio Northern University���
CARA Representative: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University ���
Councilors: Laura Wertheimer, Cleveland State University; David Perry, Dominican University ���
Program Chair: Amy Bosworth, Muskingum University���
International Congress Session Organizer: C. Matthew Phillips, Concordia University, Nebraska
Registration Conference registration is online at www.augsburg.edu/medievalstudies/mmhc-2013/ Conference registration is $148. The Saturday evening banquet is $45. Graduate students presenting at the conference should register using this form. They will be given their $100 honorarium later. Accommodations The official hotel for MMHC 2013 is the Hotel Minneapolis Metrodome. By the time of the conference, this hotel will transition to become the Courtyard by Marriott – Downtown Minneapolis. Until that happens, there are NO on-line reservations for hotel rooms, but there is a block of reserved rooms. To book your reservation, call the Hotel Minneapolis Metrodome directly at 612-333-4646 or 800-448-3663. When you book your reservation, be sure to tell them you are with the Midwest Medieval History Conference. The conference rate is $129.00 + tax per night for a single or double occupancy. Rooms must be booked by Wednesday, 18 September 2013. This hotel is a 14-minute walk from campus, though we will also arrange shuttle service in the morning, at noon, and at the end of the day. This hotel is also where the banquet will be held on Saturday evening. For questions about local arrangements, please contact Phil Adamo at [email protected].
2211 Riverside Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55454
