Registration
To register, please visit the conference website at:
http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/conf_grad.shtml.
The registration fee is £10 for members of the Society for the Study of
Medieval Languages and Literatures and £15 for non-members. Those who wish
to register and at the same time become a graduate member of the Society with
all the benefits that offers (two years' membership, receiving the journal,
Medium Ævum, free of charge, and reductions on Society events and
publications) can pay the special rate of £25.
The fee covers the conference pack, coffee/tea, and the drinks reception.
Payment is either online via the website above or by cheque, made payable to
‘SSMLL’. Please send cheques to: Medieval Graduate Conference, c/o SSMLL,
History Faculty, Old Boys' School, George Street, Oxford OX1 2RL.
The Eighth Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference
Meat
Aspects & Approaches
There will be a conference dinner at a cost of £25, consisting of three courses
with wine; please register early as places are limited. To register, please send an
email to the conference organisers at [email protected], specifying any
dietary requirements. Payment is by cheque, sent to the same address as above.
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference is sponsored by
We are grateful for the support of
Lincoln College
University of Oxford
and
The Oxford Centre
for Medieval History
The Oakeshott Room
Lincoln Co!ege
13-14 April 2012
Friday 13th April
Saturday 14th April
9am–10am Registration
9.30am–11am Session Five: Meat and Murder
Chair: Mishtooni Bose, Christ Church College, Oxford
Frederika Bain (University of Hawaii at Manoa): Flesh-Makers: Butchers,
Executioners, and the Animal–Human Boundary
Matthew Chalmers (Worcester College, Oxford): Profaning the Eucharist:
Is the Basis for Early Medieval Stories of Jewish ‘Host-Desecration’
Based on a Need for Social Identity or On Conceptual Beliefs about the
Body of Christ?
Marco Prost (Jesus College, Oxford): The Lunch of the Poisoned Apple: Sin,
Intention and the Matter of Guilt and Tragedy in La mort le roi Artu
10am–11.30am Session One: Feasting
Chair: Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
Sheri Chriqui (St. Peter’s College, Oxford): The Semiotics of Meat:
Culinary Resistance and Conquest in the A!iterative Morte Arthure
Kit Kapphahn (Aberystwyth University): Knife into Meat, Drink into
Horn: Feasting in Welsh Arthurian Tales
Fiona Whelan (Wolfson College, Oxford): Food and feasting in Daniel of
Beccles' Urbanus Magnus
11.30am–12.30pm Session Two: Profane Food
Chair: Brian FitzGerald, Lincoln College, Oxford
Moshe Blidstein (University College, Oxford): How Many Pigs were there
on Noah’s Ark? An Exegetical Encounter in Eighth Century Syria
Anselm Oelze (Balliol College, Oxford): Paradisiac Vegetarianism: Some
Thoughts on the Consumption of Meat as Consequence of the Fa! in
Honorius Augustodunensis’ Elucidarium
12:30pm–2pm Lunch
11am–11.15am Coffee
11.15am–12.15am Session Six: Profane Food (II): The Anglo-Saxon Context
Chair: Thomas Birkett, St. Cross College, Oxford
Kristopher Poole (Independent Researcher): Horses for Courses? Exploring
the Edible in Anglo-Saxon England
Stefany Wragg (St. Cross College, Oxford): Eating Unclean Meat in the
Nowe! Codex
12.15pm–1.30pm Lunch
2pm–3.30pm Session Three: Ritual and Remains
Chair: Naomi Sykes, University of Nottingham
Henriette Kroll (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz):
Through Meat to Mentality: Archaeozoological Approaches to the
Avar Mind
Lee Ramsay (Wolfson College, Oxford): Rabbit Soup in Pre-Norman
Britain
Clifford Sofield (Queen’s College, Oxford): Animal Remains as Food in
Anglo-Saxon Placed Deposits
1.30pm–2.30pm Session Seven: Land of Plenty, Land of Want
Chair: Mark Williams, Lincoln College, Oxford
Rebeca Gualberto (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Drinking
Horns, Dishes of Viands, Golden Chalices and the “Holy Mete” to
Restore the Waste Land; Or the Grail Myth and its Sources, Revisited
Constanze Loesch (University of Bonn): Food and Food Supply in the Early
Medieval Rhinelands
3.30pm–4.30pm Session Four: The Word Made Flesh
Chair: Hannah Bailey, Jesus College, Oxford
Alex Paddock (Somerville College, Oxford): Visceral Echoes: Ruminatio
and the Ruminant Animal in the Old English Book
Stephen Pink (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford): ‘The Flesh of the Word’:
Preaching as Sacrament in the English Wycliffite Sermons and other
Writings
2.45pm–3.45pm Session Eight: Meat: Barbarous or Civilised?
Chair: Hugh Reid, Lincoln College, Oxford
Beatrice Mameli (University of Padova): Meat as a Sign of Civilisation in
the Love Fo!y of the Chivalric Hero
Lorna Moloney (NUI Galway): Exploration of the Medieval Gaelic Diet:
Meat, Aspect and Approaches
4.30pm–5pm Coffee
5pm–6.15pm Medium Ævum Annual Lecture:
Dr Naomi Sykes (University of Nottingham): The Rhetoric of Meat
Apportionment: Evidence for Exclusion, Inclusion and Social Position
in Medieval England
6.30pm–7pm Wine Reception, followed by the Conference Dinner.
2.30pm-2.45pm Coffee
3.45pm–4.30pm Prof. Eric Stanley (Pembroke College, Oxford):
Significant Meals
followed by closing remarks