Sessions Sponsored or Co-Sponsored by the IMSSS

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Session 76, Tuesday, May 10, 9:00 a.m. EDT 

Medieval Sermon Studies I: Sermons in Eastern and Central Europe and the New World 

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society 

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame 

Presider: Jessalynn L. Bird 

The Diseased Ecclesia in Hussite Sermons and Pastoral Texts

Patrick Outhwaite, Rijksuniv. Groningen 

The Causes of Calamities in Late Medieval Silesia (A Case Study of Sermons Delivered by John Sculteti in Wroclaw)

Stanislava Kuzmová, Univ. Komenského v Bratislave 

Polish and Latin in a Medieval Preacher’s Work

Dorota Maslej, Adam Mickiewicz Univ. 

Preaching, Print, and Exegesis: Franciscan Sermons and the New World, ca. 1400–1570

Alexander Marx, Univ. Heidelberg

Session 90, Tuesday, May 10, 11:00 a.m. EDT

Biblical Exegesis and Preaching I 

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA) 

Organizer: Frans van Liere, Calvin Univ. 

Presider: Franklin T. Harkins, Boston College 

The Practice of Rumination in Bede’s Easter Vigil Homily

Aaron Scott Taylor, Univ. of Central Oklahoma 

The Use of Scripture in Innocent III’s Easter Sermons

Aaron Canty, St. Xavier Univ. 

Academic Rhetoric and Peter Damian’s Biblical Exegesis

John M. Howe, Texas Tech Univ.

Session 120, Tuesday, May 10, 5:00 p.m. EDT 

Medieval Sermon Studies II: Sermons and Saints 

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society 

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame 

Presider: Alberto Ferreiro, Seattle Pacific Univ. 

Edible Saints: A Genre Study of Sermons joyeux

Daria N. Akhapkina, Univ. of York 

“Sicut pater noster Antonius”: Minorites’ Self-Identities through the Lens of Sermons on Saint Anthony of Padua (Thirteenth–Fourteenth Centuries)

Eleonora Lombardo, Univ. degli Studi di Padova 

Help, Plea, Punishment: The Virgin Mary in the Italian Legends of the Late Middle Ages

Mario Sassi, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Session 133, Tuesday, May 10, 7:00 p.m. EDT

Biblical Exegesis and Preaching II

Sponsor: Society for the Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (SSBMA) 

Organizer: Frans van Liere, Calvin Univ. 

Presider: Frans van Liere 

Likeness Recalled, Likeness Denied: Isaiah in Aquinas’s Doctrine of Divine Similitude

Franklin T. Harkins, Boston College 

“A plague on your house”: Stephen Langton’s Inaugural Sermon and the Exegesis of the Ten Plagues

James R. Ginther, St. Michael’s College, Univ. of Toronto 

Knowledge and Preaching in Henry of Ghent’s Sermon for the Feast of Saint Catherine

Gustavo Barreto Vilhena de Paiva, Centro de Estudos de Filosofia Patrística e Medieval de São Paulo 

Session 166, Wednesday, May 11, 11:00 a.m. EDT 

Medieval Sermon Studies III: Women and Preaching 

Sponsor: International Medieval Sermon Studies Society Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame 

Presider: Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Harvard Univ. 

In-House Authority of the Female Voice: Some Remarks on Late Medieval “Preaching” Abbesses in German Observant Clarissan Houses

Bert Roest, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen 

Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534): Towards a Genealogy of the Visionary Sermon Pablo

Acosta-García, Heinrich Heine Univ. Düsseldorf 

Domenica da Paradiso (1473–1553) and Her Florentine Preaching on 1 Cor. 14:34

Adriana Valerio, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II 

Women and Preaching: Possibilities and Genres

Carolyn Muessig, Univ. of Calgary

Friday, May 13 11:00 a.m. EDT

Business Meeting International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

Session 350,  Friday, May 13, 5:00 p.m. EDT 

Saints and Sermons

Sponsors: Hagiography Society; International Medieval Sermon Studies Society 

Organizer: Jessalynn L. Bird, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame 

Presider: Lydia M. Walker, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 

The Virile Virgo: Saint Eugenia

Sarah E. Wolfe, Middle Tennessee State Univ. 

A Saving Grace: Locating the Early Cult of Saint Anne in the Sermons of Andrew of Crete and John of Damascus

Diana Myers, Univ. of Oxford 

A Paris Master and an Irish Saint: Saint Laurence O’Toole (d. 1180) as Confessor and Martyr in Jean, Cardinal Halgren (d. 1237)’s Vita S. Laurentii

Jesse Harrington, Irish National Institute for Historical Research, Univ. College Cork

Jacques de Vitry on Saint Nicholas: Hagiography, Relics, Artwork, and Sermons

Jessalynn L. Bird