Session III

Swindlers, Bunglers, and Outright Frauds

Sponsored by the Congregatio de Silvescendo
Presider: Walter Goffart '55 (History, University of Toronto)

Left to Right:
Stephen D. White, Charles T. Wood, Kathryn Miller,
Richard W. Bulliett, Walter Goffert

• Liars, Bunglers, and Lawyers in Old French Literature
  Stephen D. White (History, Emory University)

• Resurrection, Impersonation, and Unjust Claims: A Poetic Mock-Debate on Missing Persons and Twelfth-Century Inheritance Law
  Kathryn Miller (History, Stanford University)

• Con Games and Social Piety in Medieval Islam
  Richard W. Bulliett (Middle East Institute, Columbia University