56th International Congress on Medieval Studies

When May 10, 2021 09:00 AM to
May 15, 2021 07:00 PM
Where Kalamazoo, MI
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Meetings and Sessions of the IMSSS at Kalamazoo

Thursday, 13 May, 1-2:30 p.m.  EDT

International Medieval Sermon Studies Society Business Meeting

 

Session 290, Thursday, May 13, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Medieval Sermons in the Modern Classroom (A Roundtable)

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Organizer: Holly Catherine Johnson, Mississippi State Univ.

Presider: Holly Catherine Johnson

A roundtable discussion with Christine Cooper-Rompato, Utah State Univ.; Amity Reading, DePauw Univ.; Reid S. Weber, Univ. of Central Oklahoma; Jessalynn Lea Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame; William H. Campbell, Univ. of Pittsburgh– Greensburg; and Beth Allison Barr, Baylor Univ.

 

Session 333, Friday, May 14, 9:00 a.m. EDT

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Preaching and the Crusades

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Organizer: Reid S. Weber, Univ. of Central Oklahoma

Presider: Reid S. Weber

Dialogic Crusading: Papal Crusade Letters and Surviving Crusade Sermons from Early Thirteenth-Century Paris

Jessalynn Lea Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame

Turning Judas into Crusader: The Spectacular Preaching of John of Cantimpré

Luo Wang, Peking Univ.

Eudes of Châteauroux’s Preaching of the Crusades before, during, and after Louis IX’s First Crusade (ca. 1245–ca. 1268)

Alexis Charansonnet, Univ. Lumière Lyon 2

Failing at Failure and a Call for Crusade in Ubertino Posculo’s Constantinopolis 

Bryan A. Whitchurch, Washington Latin School

 

Session 351, Friday, May 14, 1:00 p.m. EDT

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Preaching Gender

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Organizer:  Holly Catherine Johnson, Mississippi State Univ.

Presider:Anne Thayer, Lancaster Theological Seminary

“Battle, Perilous and Frightening”: Learning Monastic Masculinity through Ex- perience in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables

Jacob W. Doss, Univ. of Texas–Austin

Mulieres Suspectae and Meretrices? The Portrayal of Women in Medieval Polish Preaching

Karolina Morawska, Univ. Warszawski

Women These Days: Qualifying Gender in Jacob’s Well, MS Salisbury Cathedral 103

Katherine Goodwin, Baylor Univ.

Preaching for Women? Female Patronage and Medieval English Sermons

Beth Allison Barr, Baylor Univ.

 

Session 366, Friday, May 14, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Medieval Sermon Studies IV: Index, Impact, and Interpretation

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Organizer: Holly Catherine Johnson, Mississippi State Univ.

Presider: Alberto Ferreiro, Seattle Pacific Univ.

Robert Rypon’s Second Sermon for Saint Oswald: Christ the Elephant with a Castle

Christine Cooper-Rompato, Utah State Univ.

Searching the Margins for Lions, Lilies, and Lust: The Use of Medieval Research Tools in Pastoral Manuscripts

Ariel Lee Brecht, Univ. of Saskatchewan

Mercantile Bargaining and Confessional Exchange in the Late Medieval Sermon Exempla Tradition

Nancy Haijing Jiang, Northwestern Univ.

Perspectives on the Medieval Franciscan Approach to Mary Magdalene: Preaching, Art, and the Vita Christi Tradition

Steven J. McMichael, Univ. of Saint Thomas

 

Session 442, Saturday, May 15, 3:00 p.m. EDT

The Preaching of Bishops and Secular Clergy

Sponsor: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages; International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Organizer:  William H. Campbell, Univ. of Pittsburgh–Greensburg

Presider: Evan Anslem Gatti, Elon Univ.

Dissemination of Knowledge through Pastoral Theology in the Carolingian Period (750–950 CE)

Michael Thomas Martin, Fort Lewis College

“Prelatus, more boni phisici, nunc purgat, nunc ungat”: An Episcopal Preacher’s Vademecum from Late Thirteenth-Century England

William H. Campbell

The Episcopal Household and Preaching in Thirteenth-Century England

Andrew Reeves, Middle Georgia State Univ.

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