Session 144, Thursday, 3:30pm, Schneider 1340

Borders and Sanctity

Sponsor: Hagiography Society and the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Fiona Griffiths, New York Univ.
Presider: Susan L. Einbinder, Hebrew Union College

Co-opting Saints and Borrowing Believers: Interfaith Encounters in Hagiography and Reality
Alexandra Cuffel, Harvard Divinity School/Macalester College

Medieval /Modern Divides: Gender, Sex, Work, and the Case of the Old English Mary of Egypt
Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers Univ.

Saints, Borders, and Ecclesiastical Reform: The Case of Cambrai
John S. Ott, Portland State Univ.

Session 210, Friday, 10am, Valley II Garneau Lounge

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Preaching and Pastoral Care I

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Presider: Holly Johnson, Mississippi State Univ.

Preaching and Pastoral Care in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Century
Ronald J. Stansbury, Roberts Wesleyan College

Crux a Crucis Dicitur: Preaching Self-Torture as Pastoral Care in Twelfth- Century Religious Houses
Matthew Phillips, Concordia Univ. Nebraska

Teaching from the Creed: From Lateran IV to the End of the Thirteenth Century
Andrew Reeves, Univ. of Toronto

Session 268, Friday, 1:30pm, Valley II Garneau Lounge

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Preaching and Pastoral Care II

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Presider: Ronald J. Stansbury, Roberts Wesleyan College

Guido of Monte Rochen’s Manipulus curatorum and Sermonic Intention
Anne Thayer

Gendered Implications in Mirk’s Instructions for Parish Priests
Claire E. Nava, California State Univ.–Fullerton

Thomas à Kempis’s Sermons for the Novices: Education and Pastoral Care in the Chapter of Windesheim
Mathilde van Dijk, Rijksuniv. Groningen

Session 341, Friday 3:30pm, Fetzer 2016

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Liturgy, Drama, and Popular Devotion

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Presider: George Ferzoco, Univ. of Leicester

Reading the Liturgy, Performing the Book: An Examination of BnF n.a.l. 1436
Jay Diehl, New York Univ.

Performativity of the Passion: The Enactment of Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
Carolyn Muessig, Univ. of Bristol

Bearing Offence to the Sacred Image in the Sermons of Italian Preachers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Francesca Braida, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Session 388, Saturday, 10am, Valley II 205

Medieval Sermon Studies IV: Sermons and the History of Preaching

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Organizer: Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Presider: Eileen Kearney, St. Xavier Univ.

Canes Multi Non Valentes Latrare? The State of Preaching in the Merovingian Centuries
Nancy M. Thompson, California State Univ.–East Bay

“Gird Your Sword on Your Leg”: Remigio dei Girolami’s 1301 Sermon for the Reception of Charles of Valois
Teresa Rupp, Mount St. Mary’s Univ.

The Sheep and the Servant: Julian of Norwich and Middle English Sermons
Jenny Rebecca Rytting, Northwest Missouri State Univ.

Preaching in Fourteenth-Century England
Carola L. Mattord, Georgia State Univ.

12:00 noon International Medieval Sermon Studies Society Bernhard 107

Business Meeting

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