Twenty-Fifth Annual
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
(9-10 October 1998)

Friday, 9 October 1998
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
8:00 am - Registration, Vatican Film Library
     
8:30 am - Meradith T. McMunn (Rhode Island College): Sacred Iconography in Illustrated Manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose
8:50 am - Willene B. Clark (Marlboro College): Images of Theology and Ethics in the Medieval Latin Bestiary
9:10 am - Anne Rudolff Stanton (University of Missouri, Columbia): Lions, Tigers, and Bears: Marginal Stories for a Queen in Three English Prayerbooks
9:30 am - Discussion
     
9:50 am - Elizabeth Burin (Baltimore, MD): Patrons and Illuminators in Lyons: Shaping the Manuscript Market around 1500
10:10 am - Sherry C.M. Lindquist (Saint Louis University): Nationalism and Nostalgia in the Court of Charles VI: Text and Image in St. Louis Public Library, MS Grolier 50
10:30 am -  David O. Neville (Washington University): Giburc as Mediatrix: Illuminated Reflections of Tolerance in Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Graphische Sammlung Hz 1104-1105
10:50 am - Discussion
     
11:10 am - Xavier van Binnebeke (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden): Some Notes on the Library of Cosimo and Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici: A Codicological and Historical Research
11:30 am - Donald F. Jackson (University of Iowa): Out of the Ashes: Unburned Grimani Manuscripts
11:50 am - Discussion
     
12:00 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:50 pm - Norris J. Lacy (Pennsylvania State University): Perceval's Sister in the Prose Yvain
2:10 pm - Carleton W. Carroll (Oregon State University): The Knights of the Round Table in the Manuscripts of Erec et Enide
2:30 pm - Discussion
     
2:50 pm - W. Nicholas Knight (University of Missouri, Rolla): Manuscript Evidence for Shakespeare's Royal Performances, 1603-1613
3:10 pm - John F. Crossen (Indiana University): Reassessing the Apuntes geográficos of Francisco Javier Clavijero
3:30 pm - Daniel L. Schlafly, jr. (Saint Louis University): The Princess and the Publicist: Ekaterina Dashkova on Castéra's Vie de Catherine, Impératrice de Russie
3:50 pm - Discussion
     
4:10 pm - J.C. Marler (Saint Louis University): Editorship as Semantic Commentary: In Defense of Joseph Quint
4:30 pm -  Girard J. Etzkorn (Fairfield Glade, TN): Marcus of Orvieto's Liber de moralitatibus: A Critical Edition in Progress
4:50 pm - Harry Vredeveld (Ohio State University): From Manuscript to Printed Book: The Case of Erasmus's De conscribendis epistolis
5:10 pm - Discussion
     
6:00 pm - Reception, Cupples House (Adjacent to Pius XII Memorial Library)

 

Saturday, 10 October 1998
Knights Room, Pius XII Memorial Library

     
8:30 am - Judith K. Golden (University of Pittsburgh): Patronage and the Saints in a Devotional Miscellany, British Library, MS Egerton 745
8:50 am - Marshall Crossnoe (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Gerard of St. Victor (d. c.1320) on the Theological Habit: The Remarkable Testimony of Cod. Vat. lat. 1086
9:10 am - Jan Pendergrass (University of Georgia, Athens): The Use of Topoi in Jean de Pins' Epistolae mutuae (Nîmes, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 215)
9:30 am - Discussion
     
9:50 am - George R. Keiser (Kansas State University): Scribal Duplications: What they Reveal about Scribal Methods and Attributes
10:10 am - Charles J. Zabrowski (Gettysburg College): Significant Readings and Affiliations of Cod. Vaticanus Palatinus graecus 139 in the Septem adversus Thebas of Aeschylus
10:30 am - Ralph Doty (University of Oklahoma): Figures of Speech: Philological Arguments for and against Xenophon's Authorship of Cynegeticus
10:50 am - Discussion
     
11:10 am - Mary Hamel (Mount St. Mary's College): The 1430 Inventory of Lion, Sixth Baron Welles: Lincolnshire Records Office, Ancaster Deposit x/A/1.
11:30 am - Belinda A. Egan (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library): Late Medieval Tyrolean Library Practice: The Protocol in Neustift, Ms. 76
11:50 am - Discussion
     
12:10 pm - Luncheon, Knights Room
     
1:50 pm - Barbara Apelian Beall (Providence College): Discrepant Visual and Textual Evidence in the Codex Amiatinus: Observations and Implications for the Study of Insular Manuscripts
2:10 pm - Michael Batterman (Northwestern University): "This is the Bread of Affliction ...": Appropriating Emblems of Power for Visual and Gastronomic Consumption in the 14th-Century Illuminated Haggadahs from Spain
2:30 pm - Discussion
     
2:50 pm - Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University): Reading Ovid in Medieval France
3:10 pm - David Vila (Saint Louis University): Scribes and the Legacy of John of Damascus: Anthony of Mar Saba
3:30 pm - Thomas M. Capuano (Truman State University): The Recetario of Escorial, Monasterio, Ms. b.IV.34
3:50 pm - Discussion
     
4:10 pm - Jeanne Krochalis (Pennsylvania State University): The Numbers Game: Interpreting Indulgences for Fifteenth-Century Pilgrims to Rome
4:30 pm - Stephen E. Hayes (Hill Monastic Manuscript Library): The Suppression of Religious "Enthusiasm" in Late Medieval England: A Note on the Flyleaf Writings in Cambridge, Christ's College, MS 11
4:50 pm - Juris G. Lidaka (West Virginia State College): Sex and Religion: "The Tale of the Incestuous Daughter"
5:10 pm - Discussion