Medieval Studies Student Colloquium
Accessibility in the
Middle Ages
20 Feb. 2016
Opening Reception 8:30 am
A.D. White House
Keynote Address by Jonathan Hsy
“Accessing Blind Lives: Multimodal Worlds, from John Gower to Daredevil”
1:00-2:30 p.m.
9:00 Relating Self and Other
10:30 Finding the Right Words
2:40 Transforming Texts
Patrick Naeve (Cornell),
“Bonaventure's Itinerant Visions”
Seth Hunter Koproski (Cornell), “Bysnewed
with Snowe, and Snakes Wythinne: William
Langland’s Dangerous Latin”
Caroline Gruenbaum (NYU), “Berekhiah haNakdan’s Mishle Shu’alim (Fox Fables) and the
(Im)Permeable Boundaries between Medieval
Jewish and Christian Literature”
Vanessa Jaeger (Binghamton), “Sir
Gowther and Richard Coer de
Lyon: The Potentially Abject”
Stephen Kim (Cornell),
“Chaucer’s ‘Envoy to Bukton [et
al.]’”
Paul Vinhage (Cornell), “Learning Latin
in Late Anglo-Saxon England between
Donatus' Ars Minor and Aelfric's Colloquy”
Jesse A. McDowell (NC State),
“Scribes and their Studiers: A Social
History of the Old English Boethius
Manuscripts”
Pichaya Damrongpiwat (Cornell), “‘No
charge for to telle’: The Story of Philomel
and the Cecily Chaumpaigne Release”
John Wyatt Greenlee (Cornell), “Mappae
Mandeville: Accessing and Teaching the
Geography of Sir John Mandeville's Travels”
Thanks to the Cornell Program in Medieval Studies, the Society for the Humanities, GPSAFC, the Cornell Library, and the Cornell
Departments of History of Art and Visual Studies, History, and English for their generous support and sponsorship.
"Blind Beggar," BL Royal 10 E IV, fol. 110