History in the Comic Mode:
A Symposium in Honor of Charles T. Wood

International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
May 7-10, 1998

• Session I

  Joan and Richard and Ted and Alice: Celebrity Pedagogy in Medieval Studies
  Co-Sponsored by TEAMS and the Congregation de Silvescendo
  Presider: Robert Coolidge, '55 (Montreal)

  • Lights, Camelot, Action--How Old Should King Arthur and His Knights be in Arthurian Film?
    Kevin J. Harty (English, LaSalle)
  • Poor Richard? Defending Richard III as a Research Exercise
    Laura Blanchard (University of Pennsylvania Library)
    
  • Ladies of the Lake: Mythologizing Royal Women
    Maureen Fries (English, SUNY-Fredonia)
  • Imbibing Chivalric Teachings: Neo-Chivalry from Boyhood to Manhood
    Jonathan Good (History, University of Minnesota)

• Session II

  Cross-Dressed Teenagers: Approaches to Teaching Joan of Arc
  Co-sponsored by TEAMS and the Congregatio de Silvescendo
  Presider: James Carley (English, York University)

  • Seeing Double: Reflections in (and on) the Mirrors of Joan of Arc
    Ann W. Astell (English, Purdue University)
  • Christine de Pizan's Joan in Theory and Practice
    Deborah Fraioli (French, Simmons College)
  • Burning Issues in the Teaching of Joan of Arc
    (RealAudio file; requires free RealAudio player)
    Bonnie Wheeler (English, Southern Methodist University

• Session III

  Swindlers, Bunglers, and Outright Frauds
  Sponsored by the Congregatio de Silvescendo
  Presider: Walter Goffart '55 (History, University of Toronto)

  • Swindlers, Bunglers, and Outright Traitors 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)

• Session IV

  The Lighter Side of Fifteenth-century England
  Sponsored by Richard III Society and the Congregatio de Silvescendo
  Presider, Laura V. Blanchard (University of Pennsylvania Library)

  • One Summer at Middleham
    (RealAudio file; requires free RealAudio player)
    A. J. Pollard (Centre for Local Historial Research, University of Teesside)
    
  • Alchemists, Pirates, and Pilgrims: The Unconventional in Lancastrian Knighthood
    Gilbert M. Bogner (History, Ohio University)
  • Reporting the Wars: The Great Lancastrian Pie-Fight--A Cautionary Tale
    Helen Maurer (University of California at Irvine
  • Tales from the Cathedral Close
    A. Compton Reeves (History, Ohio University)

• Session V

  Evening Session
  Sponsored by the Society of the White Hart and the Congregatio de Silvescendo

  • Edward II: Piers Gaveston's Younger Brother
    Jeffrey Hamilton (History, Baylor University)
  • Will the Real Richard III Please Stand Up?
    Sharon D. Michalove (History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Have a Hart: A Slightly Boarish Rendition of Ricardian Retaining
    James L. Gillespie (The American University of the Middle East, Amman, Jordan)
    [The Congregatio de Silvescendo is pleased to be able to include this paper by one of the Society of the White Hart's founders, who was not able to be present at the symposium:]

• Session VI

  Chivalry Across the Centuries
  Sponsored by the Congregatio de Silvescendo
  Presider: Jeremy duQuesnay Adams (History, Southern Methodist University)

  • Half-Baked Babies: Chivalry and Miracles in Late Medieval Brittany: Stories from the Canonization of St. Vincent Ferrer Laura Smoller (History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
  • Froissart's 'Prison amoureuse': Reimagining Machaut's Epistolary Romance
    Barton Palmer (English, Clemson University)

• Subscription Banquet
  Photo gallery from the dinner
  
  
• Lagniappe
  "If Strawberries Were Ripe on June 13, Was October 2 Really Richard III's Birthday?
  Charles T. Wood's address to Richard III Society, American Branch scholarship award fundraising breakfast, October 3, 1993

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