Friday 5 January 2001
Session 1a : Language, Comedy and Conflicts
- Paul Price (Bristol), ‘A Case of Gender Conflict Avoided: The Magnanimous Cuckold in the Tale of Sir Corneus ‘
- Jeanelle Barrett (Tarleton State), ‘Sticks and Stones: The Conflict between Language and Sexism in Chaucer’s Humor’
- Mari Pakkala Weckström (Helsinki), ‘The Rise and Fall of the Faithful Wife; Chaucer’s Griselda and Dorigen seen through Dialogue’
Session 1b: Dynastic Struggles and Familial Relationships
- Kirsten McMillan , (Liverpool), ‘A Story of Conflicts: Marriage and Conquest in the Gesta Regum Anglorum ‘
- Natasha Hodgson (Hull), ‘Perceptions of Wives in Historical Narratives of the Crusades’
- Sue Niebrzydowski (Warwick), ‘Damned Dowagers: The Representation of Queen Mothers in Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale ‘
Session 2: Women and Clerical Culture
- Gillian Overing (Wake Forest) and Clare A. Lees (Oregon), ‘The Clerics and the Critics: Women and Rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England’
Saturday 6 January 2001
Session 3: Brothers in arms or Brothers at arms?
- Lachlan Mead (Oxford), ‘”Mon al hym one”: Conflicting Modes of Association and Violence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ‘
- Joseph A. Campana (Cornell), ‘Dorigen’s “Vitaille” Poetics’
- Janet Gilbert (Cambridge), ‘Sign of Social Stigma or Space for Female Sexuality? Aspects of the morena in the Spanish Traditional Lyric’
- Anke Bernau (Cardiff), ‘Matters of the Heart: Hermaphrodites, Hyenas and Metaphor’
- Jonathan Walker (Illinois), ‘”Trans-Discursiveness” and Transvestite Sainthood; or, How to make the Gendered Form fit the Generic Function’
Session 4: Masculinities: Strengths and Weaknesses
- Guy Halsall (Birkbeck), ‘The Ways of Warriors: Warfare, Violence and Masculinity in the Early Medieval West’
- Sharon Farmer (California), ‘Poor Men, the Stigma of Poverty, and the Burdens of Masculinity’
Session 5a: Regal Representations
- Catherine E. Karkov (Miami), ‘Art and Politics: Emma / Ælfygfu and the Image of the Queen’
- Katherine J. Lewis (Huddersfield), ‘Edmund of East Anglia and Henry VI: Virginity and the Conflicts of Saintly Kingship’
- Diana Dunn (Chester), ‘Margaret of Anjou, the Warlike Queen: the Making of a Reputation’
Session 5b: Place and Space
- Denise Ryan (Canberra and Leeds), ‘Herod’s Law: Sovereignty and Trespass in the Coventry Shearmen and Taylors’ Pageant ‘
- Helen Fulton (Sydney), ‘The Feminine Town in Chivalric Literature’
- Esther Ketskemety (York), ‘The Court, the Forest and the Symbolism of the ‘chasse’ in The Bear Hunt , a Late Fifteenth Century Burgundian Tapestry Design’
Session 6: Sexual Conflicts
- Nicola McDonald (York), ‘Violence and the Gender of Space in an Illuminated Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan Library M126)’
- Helen Cooper (Oxford), ‘Desirable Desire: Rethinking Female Sexuality’
Sunday 7 January 2001
Session 7a: Writers, Readers and Responses
- Emma Campbell (King’s College, London), ‘Separating the Saints From the Boys: Reading Gender Conflict in the Vie de Saint Alexis ‘
- Jacqueline Jenkins (Calgary), ‘”O blyssyd obedyence!”: Authority and Control in Bokenham’s Legendys of Hooly Wummen ‘
Session 7b: Policing Gender Roles
- Miriam Müller (Birmingham), ‘Violence and the Use of the Hue and Cry in the Fourteenth-Century Community; revealing Attitudes to Gender’
- Derek Neal (McGill), ‘Masculinity, Reputation and Conflict in the Law Courts of Late Medieval England’
Session 8: Conflicts in the Church Courts
- Jeremy Goldberg (York), ‘Gender and Litigation: the Evidence of the York Consistory in the Later Middle Ages’
- Shannon McSheffrey (Concordia), ‘Priests Behaving Badly: Clerical Sexual Misconduct in Fifteenth-Century London’
Session 9a: The Spectacle of Violence
- Merrall Llewelyn Price (Alabama), ‘Holy Violence: Felons, Martyrs, and the Virgin Mary’
- Robert Mills (Cambridge), ‘Battle of the Sexes? Punishment as a Hermeneutic in Medieval Martyrdom Iconography’
Session 9b: Women Writing Gender
- Lara Hinchberger (Toronto), ‘Reading Rebellion: Gendering the Revolt of Liudolf of Swabia in Tenth-Century German Histories’
- Wanda G. Klee (Marburg), ‘Violent (wo)men in Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre de la Cité des Dames ‘