MEMS is sponsoring five sessions at the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (May 12-15, 2016)
Florin Curta is responsible for our involvement with these wonderful sessions (see below).
In addition, the Congress will host the following presentations by UF faculty and graduate students:
Session 53, Thursday, May 12 1:30
The Rightful Rulers: The Development of Royal Power in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon
Alana Lord, Univ. of Florida
Section 117, Thursday, May 12 3:30 PM
Oblivion and Invention: Charlemagne and His Wars with the Avars in the Medieval Hungarian Chronicles
Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida
Hope, Vision, and Legitimacy: The Rhetorical Use of Childhood in Gallus Anonymus
Matthew B. Koval, Univ. of Florida
Session 507: Sunday, May 15, 8:30 AM (MEMS session)
The Erotics of Marriage Jewelry in Byzantine Egypt
Ashley Elizabeth Jones, Univ. of Florida
Session 532 Sunday, May 15 10:30 AM
The Power of Things: Material Aspects of Power Networks in Post-Roman Gaul
Ralph J. Patrello, Univ. of Florida
Sponsored sessions:
Thursday, May 12, 10 AM, Session 13: Crusading and the Byzantine Legacy in the Northwestern Black Sea Region
Sponsors: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
Organizer: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Presider: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida
Between Byzantium, the Mongol Empire, Genoa, and Moldavia: Trade Centers in the Northwestern Black Sea Area
Laurenţiu Rădvan, Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
The Crusade in the Black Sea Region: Discourses, Projects, and Actions from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century
Ovidiu Cristea, Institutul de Istorie “Nicolae Iorga”
A Plan for the Annihilation of Mehmed II in Moldavia (1475‒1476)
Liviu Pilat, Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Warriors’ Corpses in the Moldavian Anti-Ottoman War of the Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries
Bodgan-Petru Maleon, Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Thursday, May 12, 1:30 PM, Session 79: The Medieval Balkans as Mirror: Byzantine Perceptions of the Balkans and the World Beyond
Sponsors: Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
Organizers: Mildred Budny, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence; Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida
Presider: Mildred Budny
“Wild Sprout Grafted into the Excellent Olive Tree of the New Israel”: Byzantine Views of the Bulgarians after Their Conversion
Kirił Marinow, Univ. of Łódź
“More Savages than Nature Itself”: The Image of the Nomads in the Byzantine Historiography of the Tenth–Twelfth Centuries and the Political Practice of the Constantinopolitan Court
Aleksander Paroń, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Wrocław
The Image of Peter I in Bulgarian Historiography: Interpretations by Petăr Mutafčiev
Jan Mikołaj Wolski, Univ. of Łódź
Byzantine Perceptions of the Bulgarian Economy as a Distorted Mirror
Elisaveta Todorova, Univ. of Cincinnati
Saturday, May 14, 10 AM, Session 355: Innovation in Identities, Innovation in Narratives: Literature in the Mediterranean Region in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Sponsors: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida; Centrum Ceraneum, Univ. Lodzki
Organizer: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida
Presider: Andrei Gandila, Univ. of Alabama–Huntsville
Identity in Statu Nascendi: The Case of the Early Constantinopolitan Authors
Andrzej Kompa, Univ. of Lodz
Evolution of a Genre, Evolution of an Identity: Barbarians in Latin Panegyrics of Late Antiquity
Adrian Szopa, Univ. Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Innovation in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Was the Chronicle of Synkellos and Theophanes Meant to Incite a Revolt?
Jesse W. Torgerson, Wesleyan Univ.
Sunday, May 15, 8:30 AM, Session 507: The Archaeology of Medieval Europe I: Non-monetary Uses of Coins
Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
Organizer: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida
Presider: Alan M. Stahl, Princeton Univ.
The Erotics of Marriage Jewelry in Byzantine Egypt
Ashley Elizabeth Jones, Univ. of Florida
Roots of Germanic Coinage
Aleksander Bursche, Univ. Warszawski
Money and “Barbarians”: Enhancing Social Prestige on Byzantium’s Northern Frontier (Sixth–Seventh Centuries)
Andrei Gandila, Univ. of Alabama–Huntsville
Sunday, May 15, 10:30 AM, Session 535: The Archaeology of Medieval Europe II: Medieval Colonization
Sponsor: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Univ. of Florida
Organizer: Florin Curta, Univ. of Florida
Presider: Andrzej Kompa, Univ. of Łódź
The “German Colonization” on the Southeastern Frontier of Medieval Hungary: An Archaeological Perspective
Maria Emilia Ţiplic, Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Sibiu
Networks of Colonialism: The Hansa in Northeastern Europe
Visa Immonen, Turun Yliopisto, and Joonas Kinnunen, Turun Yliopisto
From Muslim Almunias to Carthusian Domain: Suburban Landscapes of Northern Granada (Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)
Guillermo Garcia-Contreras Ruiz, Univ. of Reading