IMC 2009

I've started going through the programme for the 2009 International Medieval Congress, trying to figure out what I want to go to (always a difficult task, given that there are 29 parallel sessions!). Usually it's pretty easy to select 6-7 sessions in each slot that look interesting, and from which I have to pick just one, but sometimes I find a random paper or session title that catches my eye. Such as these:

* "Heresy and Early Gothic Portal Design" (a paper title)
* "Know your Enemy: How to Spot a Heretic" (the title of a session)
* The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (organizer of a session)

Hmm!

Tentative scheduled for Leeds

OK, here's what I think I'm going to do (check the full programme for abstracts and further info):

Monday 11:15-12:45
Brick and Tile in the Middle Ages

• "Luminescens Dating of Medieval Essex Brick"


• "The Origin of Ceramic Building Materials for the Early Medieval Church at Chipping Ongar, Essex: A Case Study of OSL Dating Applied to Building Archaeolog"


• "Roof Tile and Brick in Medieval York"

Monday 14:15-15:45
Cultures of Identity, II: Names, Signs, and Identity

• "Changing the Name, Altering the Spelling: Anglo-Saxons in the 10th-century Reich"


• "Names, Identity, and Interreligious Relations: Jews in the Late Medieval German Town"


• "Making and Marking Identity: Marks and their Use in Late Medieval Germany"


• "Reconstructing Narrative Identity Without Narrative Sources"

Monday 16:30-18:00
Reasoning with Heretics (this was an easy choice, since I'm the chair)

• "Right Belief and Right Knowledge: Epistemological Subversion in The Cloud of Unknowing"


• "Philosophers, Conversos, and the Jewish Campaign against Heresy in 15th-Century Spain"


• "Protego - proterreo: Pantaleon as Pagan Medicus, Healing Saint, and Heretical Magician"

Monday evening
"The Boar's Head in Hand Bring I": A Medieval Summer Feast (unfortunately jpgsawyer isn't assisting, as he was with last year's, so I won't get to see him, but the food should still be good!)

Tuesday 9:00-10:30
Still deciding between Medieval Urban Literacy III: Urban Air Makes you Free -- Law and the Professionals of the Written Word, Will Power: Sex, Politics, and Salvation in the Logge Register of PCC Wills 1479-86, Marriage and Gender in the 12th to 14th Centuries, I, and From Politics to Prosopography: Britain and Ireland in the 12th and 13th Centuries, I -- The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286.

Tuesday 11:15-12:45
Post-Conquest English Texts in Their Manuscript Contexts

• "The Manuscript Contexts of the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 383"


• "Post-Conquest Old English Charters"


• "The Manuscript Contexts of the West Saxon Gospels in CUL Ii.2.11"

Tuesday 14:15-15:45
Medieval Urban Literacy, V: Medieval Civic Archives and Civic Secrecy, I

• "Introduction: Keeping Secrets in Archives"


• "North Italian Communes and Secret Keeping"


• "Record Keeping in Flemish Towns"

Tuesday 16:30-18:00
Conserving the Heritage: Virtual and Real

• "Destroyed, Lost, and Rediscovered: The Manuscript Archives of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften -- A Centre-Piece for the Reconstruction of Manuscript Collections in Eastern European Libraries"


• "Drawing a Landscape with Charters and Archives: Parish Archive Support Strategies in Westfalia"


• "Manuscript Evidence for Medieval Latin Bestiary Ownership and Use"

Tuesday evening
Workshop on fingerloop braiding

Wednesday 9:00-10:30
Names and Networks in Northern Britain, I: Personal Names and Multiple Cultures in Northern Britain, 1093-1286

• "Gaelic Personal Names in Northern England in the Central Middle Ages"


• "Gaelic Personal Names in Medieval Scottish Charters"


• "The Romance of Naming in 12th- and 13th-Century Scotland"

Wednesday 11:15-12:45
Names and Networks in Northern Britain, II: Gaelic Names and Language Change in Medieval Scotland

• "Gaelic in Medieval Scotland: The View from Fife"


• "Gaelic in Medieval Scotland: Settlement Names in Mentieth"


• "Perambulating the Boundaries of Gaelic: Boundary Texts as a Witness to Language Change"

Wednesday 14:15-15:45
Logic and Heresy, I (this is the session I organized)

• "Abelard's Logic and Theology"


• "St Peter Damian and the Relation Between Logic and Religion"


• "Logic and the Condemnations of 1277" (not the originally scheduled paper; the original speaker had to cancel so I'm stepping in)

Wednesday 16:30-18:00
Logic and Heresy, II (organized by Stephen Read; I'm the chair)

• "Cum Petro: Peter Lombard's Sentences and Lateran IV"


• "The Nova Responsio: Logical Heresy in Roger Swyneshed's Obligationes"


• "Logical Theology or Theological Logic: What Happened Between 1400 and 1600?"

Wednesday evening
Stephen and I will be taking the train to York, where the York Early Music Festival is having an evening of 14th century music.

Thursday 9:00-10:30
Still deciding between Writing Communities in Town and Country, In Search of Contexts: The Bad Ones and the Good Ones in Late Medieval Religious Space, I, and Anglo-Scottish Warefare in the Late Middle Ages, I.

Thursday 11:15-12:45
Marches and Marchers: Land, Law, and Lordship, III

• "The fitzAlan Stewards: A Frontier Family at Dol, Shropshire, and Renfrewshire"


• The Beginnings of a Marcher Society: South-East Scotland Under English Occupation and Scottish Re-Conquest, 1296-1328"


• "Dubbing Knightss in the 13th-Century March of Wales"

I'm planning on live-blogging the sessions like hrj did for Kalamazoo, so I'll take votes from my readers on the sessions I'm undecided about. Any of them you'd like to hear about more than others?