AVISTA at Kalamazoo 2004 -- ARS PRACTICA

Ars Practica I: Wood

Steven A. Walton (Penn State), organizer

• Daniel Miles, "Norman Carpentry and Joinery in Britain"
• Walter Berry, "Wood in the Medieval Cloister: the case of Saint-Nazaire d'Autun"
• Dayna Crites, "Symbols of Spain: the Reception and Adaptation of Mudejar Wooden Roofs in Seville"
• A. Gordon McKay, "Centrally Planned Timber Frames of the Decorated Period"

Ars Practica II: Process & Production

Steven A. Walton (Penn State), organizer

• Michael Pinder, "Anglo-Saxon Jewellers' Tools: Some applications"
• Shana Worthen, "Craftsmen and their Spectacles in the Later Middle Ages"
• Robert Bork, "New Perspectives on the Compass as a Tower Design Tool"
• Steven A. Walton, "Holy Dovetails! St. Joseph and Woodworking in Late Medieval Illustration"

Ars Practica III: Workshops

Steven A. Walton (Penn State), organizer and presider

• Elizabeth Coatsworth, "Early Medieval Goldsmiths' Workshops: Ideal & Reality"
• Thomas F. Brunton, "Pumping Iron: Scandinavian Iron Smelting Workshops in the Early Middle Ages"
• Andreina Contessa, "Revealing Pages: The Production of MSS at the Catalan Scriptorium of Abbot Oliba from Ripoll (1008-1046)"
• Kevin Stone, "Behind it All: An Analysis of the Less Recognized Processes in Medieval Woodworking"

Ars Practica IV: Minting

Barbara Bowers (Ohio State), organizer and presider

Cosponsored with Numismatists at Kalamazoo -- With the generous support of Alan G. Berman, numismatist

• Coins, Metals, & the Medieval Mint - a hands-on demonstration workshop
  Frederick Fleischer, workshop leader

KALAMAZOO ROUNDUP 2004

Individual Papers

• Susan L. Einbinder, "A Proper Diet: Medicine and History in Crescas Caslari's 'Esther'" (session 339)
• Jean A. Givens, "Medieval Herbalism in Translation" (session 225)
• Vida J. Hull, "Common Clay: the Devotional Function of Terracotta Sculpture from the Rhineland in the Early Fifteenth Century" (session 290)
• Curtis Roberts-Holt Jirsa, "The Eoh and Juniperus as Keepers of Fire: A Study in Medieval Literary Botany" (session 607)
• Johanna Kramer, "Christological Imagery and Architectural Metaphor in the Old English Christ I" (session 607)
• Scott Lightsey, "Romance Bodies and Machines" (session 385)
• Heather E. Ward, "Digitizing Manuscripts in Trying Times" (session 563)

Art and Ideology in the Gothic Era: Architecture

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, organizer and presider

• Virginia Jansen, "'Let them not indulge in shoes with pointed toes': Reform Ideology at Salisbury Cathedral"
• Jane Carroll, "Typology and Topography in Late Medieval Nuremberg"

Dress and Textiles

Sponsored by DISTAFF -- Organizers: Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker

I. Creating Textiles

• Monica L. Wright, ""De Fil d'Or et de Soie": Making Textiles in Medieval French Texts"
• Eleanor A. Congdon, "Aragon/Catalonia, Venice, and Wool: Antonio Contarini's 1403 Brag"
• Miranda Howard Haddock, "Why Is Mary Tablet Weaving?"

II. Cloth Trade and Traders

• E. Jane Burns, "Saracen Silk and the Virgin's Chemise: Cloth Trade from East to West"
• Sarah-Grace Heller, "Drapers, Tailors, and Fripiers: Shopping for New (or Slightly Used) Clothing in Medieval France"
• Sharon Farmer, "Cloth of Gold and Saracen Almspurses: The Role of Paris in the International Cloth Market of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries"

III. Jewelry and Accessories

• Joanna Mattingly, "The Doney Ring: An Early Fifteenth-Century Gold Iconographic Ring from Cornwall"
• Tawny Sherrill, "The Jeweled Fur Piece of the Renaissance"

IV. Interpreting Archaeological Artifacts

• Niamh Whitfield, "Regalia in Ireland in the Hiberno-Viking Period as Described in The Wooing of Becfhola"
• Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, "A Set of Medieval Buttons Recently Excavated in Cork City, County Cork, Ireland"
• Anne Marie Haymes, "Nalbinding or Not?: Some structural differences between nalbinding and other non-woven textile techniques"

Human Economy and Natural Environment in the Middle Ages

Richard C. Hoffmann, session organizer

I. Natural Resources in Law and Custom

• John Howe, "Medieval Ecclesiastical Institutions and Resource Conservation: Churches and "Wilderness" in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
• Vicki Ellen Szabo, "Did you Catch my Drift? Hidden Harpoons and Disputed Drift Whales in Icelandic Laws and Family Sagas
• Tim Sistrunk, "The Right to the Wind in the Later Middle Ages

II. Management of Woodland Resources

• Ellen Arnold, "Stavelot-Malmedy's Forest Wilderness; a Study of Words and Meanings
• Richard Keyser, "Naming the Woods: The Organization and Administration of Woodlands in Southern Champagne (1150-1300)
• Péter Szabó, "Communis, Permissionalis, Glandinosa, Rubetum: Woodland Terminology in Medieval Hungary

III. Economy and Environment: Mutual Impacts and Changes

• Dolores Wilson, "The Environmental Cost of Medieval Cathedral Construction
• John Soderberg, "The Decline of Clonmacnoise: environment and the economics of cattle
• William I. Woods and Bailey K. Young, Jr., "Landscape Transformation: the Making of a Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium)

IV. Cultures, Consumption, and Consequences

• Kathy Pearson, "Land Management Strategies in the Laws of the Lombards and the Bavarians: A Brief Preliminary Overview
• Charlotte Masemann, "From Cabbage to Coriander: Garden Produce in Medieval Ghent and Lübeck
• Eric Klingelhofer, "Edmund Spenser's Diet at Kilcolman Castle

MAPS, TEXTS, AND TRAVELS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Natalia Lozovsky and Emily Albu, Session Organizers

• Magali Coumert, "Early Medieval Accounts of the Origins and the Migration of the Goths: Ancient Ethnography and Geography in the Service of a Barbarian Identity"
• Cullen J. Chandler, "Ars Gromatica Gisemundi: Geography and Culture in the Carolingian Spanish March"
• Charles R. Bowlus, "The Italienpolitik of the German Emperors: How It Illustrates Practical Geographical Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages"
• F. E. Romer, "Solinus and the Paradoxography of Empire: Vagaries of Geography in Late Antiquity"
• Emily Albu, "Imperial Geography and the Medieval Peutinger Map"
• Camille Serchuk, "Viewing Maps /Mapping Views in French Fifteenth Century Painting"

MEDICA  

Stars and Scalpels: Astronomy and Medicine in the Middle Ages

Organizer and Presider: Linda Migl Keyser  

• Elspeth Whitney, "Temperament, Gender and the Stars: Masculine and Feminine Types in Medical and Astrological Theory"
• Rebecca Zorach, "Thinking Diagrams: Medicine and the Mathematical Arts in Early Printed Books"
  Leah DeVun, "The Sky and the Still: A Fourteenth-Century Cure for the Apocalypse"                      

Stars and Scalpels: Astronomy and Medicine in the Middle Ages II

A panel moderated by Louise Bishop

• Piers D. Britton, "Astral Malefics and Ill-Humored Painters: Vasari on the Unhealthy Lives of the Artists"
• Caroline Proctor, "Health and the Heavens in the Regimens of Maino de Maineri"
• Michael Alan Ryan, "Astrology in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon: Heterodoxy, Proto-Humanism and the Quest for the Divine Order"

Pilgrimage and Architecture: In Honor of the Jubilee of St. James of Compostela, 2004

Organizer: John Dagenais, University of California, Los Angeles. Summary by Michael Hammer

Settlement in Celtic Lands- I

Organizer: John Bradley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

• Silas J. Mallery, "Understanding Prehistoric Religion: Theoretical Issues in the Archaeology of Ritual Sites"
• Valerie Dawn Hampton, "Norse Assimilation among the Celts in the Isle of Man"

Settlement in Celtic Lands II

Organizer: John Bradley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

• Margaret Murphy, "Medieval Dublin -- consumer city or agent of economic growth?
• Michael Potterton, "Feeding Dublin: archaeological evidence in the medieval hinterland
• John Bradley, "Borough and Town in Medieval Dublin

Settlement in Celtic Lands III

Organizer: John Bradley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

• Thomas Finan, "Religion on the Frontier:  Settlement in the Medieval Diocese of Elphin, 1200-1400
• Thomas Herron, "Planting Poetry in Munster:  Parr Lane's 'Newes From the Holy Isle' (c. 1621) and Edmund Spenser's *Faerie Queene* (1590)  

Stamps of Authority: Coins and Seals in the Middle Ages

Organizer and Presider: Susan Solway

• William W. Clark, "The Seal of Constance de France: Constructing Identity
• Wayne Sayles, "Classical Revival in Twelfth-Century Jazira: Religion-Humanism on Contemporary Coins
• Susan Ward, "Reflections of Coinage: The Imago Clipeus on the West FaŤade of Le Mans

Kathleen D. Nolan served as respondent to the papers presented in this session.

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