Conference Programme

Day 1: Wed 3 June 

9:00 – 9:30 

Registration and coffee 

9:30 – 9:45 

Opening speech 

9:45 – 11:15 

1st panel room A (3 talks): 

Spiritual Journeys (part 1) 

Travel and Spiritual Transformation 

1st panel room B (3 talks): 

Navigating the Lexicon (part 1) 

1st panel room C (3 talks): 

General Session 1 

9:45 – 10:15 

Burns, Dermot 

Traversing the weye: movement, encounter, and the poetics of ‘Ye that pasen by the weye’ 

Wallis, Christine 

A Web of Words: Glosses for Weaving Vocabulary in John of Garland’s Dictionarius

Bin Sheik Alaudin, Muhammad Hameem     

Saintly Vernacular Doggerel: The Case of Kenelm and its Unkenneled Verse Form 

10:15 – 10:45 

Lancaster, Sarah 

A Big Ball of Wibbly Wobbly Timey-Wimey…Stuff! Navigating Providence in the Cursor Mundi 

Rose, Madeline 

Middle English Homography and Word Frequency at Scale: Challenges in Lexical and Semantic Tagging Across Corpora 

Gonschorek, Korinna  

Empress – Victim – Secular Saint. Florence’s Journey between Violence and Salvation in Le Bone Florence of Rome 

10:45 – 11:15 

Ruset Oanca, Monica 

Experiencing Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Vision in Pearl 

Mambelli, Gloria 

Language mixing and lexicography: A journey into the technical lexis of the manorial system 

Kanno, Mami  

Travel, Space, and Sacred Biography:  Osbern Bokenham’s Reconstruction of English Saints’ Lives 

11:15 – 11:30 

Coffee break 

11:30 – 12:30 

1st plenary: Prof. Sebastian Sobecki, University of Toronto, 

"The Role of Middle English Literature in the Context of Global Medieval Travel Writing" 

12:30 – 14:00 

lunch 

14:00 – 15:30 

2nd panel room A (3 talks): 

Spiritual Journeys (part 2) Travelling Within the Canon 

2nd panel room B (3 talks): 

Navigating the Lexicon (part 2) 

2nd panel room C (3 talks): 

General Session 2 

14:00 – 14:30 

Kelly, Anne 

Scots Eneados (1513), connection to De Consolatione Philosophiae 

Ayed, Rihab 

Travelling from one Semantic Field to Another: Overlapping Lexical Items in the Semantic Fields of MEDICINE and RELIGION in Middle English 

Lemburg, Flora Sophie 

The Balade of the IX Ladies Worthy – Worthy Women Travelling 

14:30 – 15:00 

Ruszkiewicz, Dominika 

Spiritual Modalities in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess 

Kern-Stähler, Annette and Flannery, Mary 

Searching for a Lost Language: Building a Middle English Lexicon of Disgust via Medieval Travel Writing 

Ruthenbürger, Carolina 

A Matter of Time? Narratological Observations on the Middle English and Low German Floire and Blancheflor 

15:00 – 15:30 

Simonin, Olivier and Silec Plessis, Tatjana 

Spiritual Knightly Itineraries: Comparing Percival’s Desert Island Trials and Gawain’s Moral Testing in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Merencio, Sandra 

Lexical Borrowing in Middle English Medical Writing: A Case Study on The Sekenesse of Wymmen 

Wojtyś, Anna 

Geoffrey Chaucer’s A Treatise on the Astrolabe: image, text and relation between the manuscripts 

15:30 – 16:00 

Coffee break 

16:00 – 17:30 

2nd plenary / round table: Dr. Daniel Sawyer, University of Oxford, 

"Teaching Middle English Poetry Now" 

17:30 – 19:30 

Reception Schloss Au 

Day 2: Thu 4 June 

9:30 – 11:00 

3rd panel room A (3 talks): 

Spiritual Journeys (part 3) Contemplative Journeys 

3rd panel room B (3 talks) : 

General Session 3 

3rd panel room C (3 talks) : 

General Sesssion 4 

9:30 – 10:00 

Karáth, Tamás  

‘Tyme, stede, and body’ in the Cloud-author’s spiritual work and Richard Methley’s reinterpretation 

Pratscher Lehecka, Pia 

The minim effect and its grapho-phonological consequences 

Molencki, Rafał  

The cyning > king syncopation in Old and early Middle English 

10:00 – 10:30 

Whitehead, Christiania  

Setting Aside Reason in Deguileville’s Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode  

Stenroos et al. (Merja Stenroos, Fatima Ghasemi, Fredrick N. Hansen, Xinmeng Lu, Takuya Takahashi, Kjetil V. Thengs and Synne Tungland ) 

The geographical variation of forms of THEM in late Middle English documentary texts 

Čermák, Jan 

Obsolescent derivational morphology and incipient typological change in the 12th century variants and annotations to homilies by Ælfric: the case of masculine n-stems 

10:30 – 11:00 

Zaggia, Lorenzo 

On Spiritual Tides: The Arca-Metaphor Through the Cloud-Corpus 

Thaisen, Jacob 

Graph Distribution in Late Middle English 

Newman, John G. 

The Athematic Root-Consonant-Stem Feminine Noun neaht/niht ‘night’ and the Spread of the s-Plural Formative: Analogy, Frequency, and the Maintenance of Zero Plural Marking in Medieval English 

11:00 – 11:30 

Coffee break 

11:30 – 12:30 

3rd plenary: Dr. Judith Huber, University of Munich, 

"Verbalizing Motion and Travel in Middle English" 

12:30 – 14:00 

lunch 

14:00 – 16:00 

4th panel room A (4 talks): 

Spiritual Journeys (part 4) Broadening the Gaze 

4th panel room B (4 talks) : 

General Session 5 

4th panel room C (4 talks) : 

General Session 6 

14:00 – 14:30 

Cui, Chen 

Polycentric World System and Christian Universalism: Restless Echoes between John Mandeville and Janet Abu-Lughod 

Kudo, Yoshinobu 

Peter Idley’s Instructions to his Son for Latin learning: Bilingual Idley in British Library MS Harley 172  

Volkonskaya, Maria 

From Armorica to Armenia: Rewriting the Origins of the Britons in the Later Versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 

14:30 – 15:00 

Denissen, Diana 

‘I got back to my own little place’: Travel, Monolingualism, and Homesickness in The Book of Margery Kempe and the Sister-Book of Master Geert’s House 

López-Martínez, Sergio 

A Knight’s Journey from Mallorca to England: Caxton’s Translation of The Book of the Order of Chivalry

Moghadassi, Fanny 

Multi-Scalar Mandeville,  A Spatial Approach to the Book of Sir John Mandeville 

15:00 – 15:30 

Onuma, Yu 

Mandeville’s Travels as a Guide to Mental Journey 

Alban-Barcia, Sara 

Sere, virtue and pomp: foreign lexicon in Prick of Conscience 

WAW-ME Team

Project report: Waxing and Waning Words: Lexical Variation and Change in Middle English

15:30 – 16:00 

Renevey, Denis 

In (Spiritual) Transit? Andrew Boorde’s Equivocal Journeys to Santiago da Compostella and Jerusalem 

Bhattacharyya, Syamantak  

Clouds, Darkness, and the Divine: Mystical Ascent in The Cloud of Unknowing and the King James Bible  

Harris, Anthony 

Towards a new context-based, configurable Middle English normaliser 

16:00 – 16:30 

Coffee break 

16:30 – 17:30 

Morris dancing 

18:00 – 19:00 

Apero 

19:00 - ?? 

Dinner 

Day 3: Fri 5 June 

9:30 – 10:30 

5th panel room A (2 talks): 

Historical Stylistics and Pragmatics (part 1) 

5th panel room B (2 talks) : 

General Session 7

9:30 – 10:00 

Pons-Sanz, Sara 

Identity, Agency, and Speech in Medieval English Romances 

Takahashi, Miwako 

Visuality in English Travel Writings from the Late Medieval Period to the Early Modern Period: Descriptions of Historical Buildings in the Holy Land 

10:00 – 10:30 

Timofeeva, Olga 

The Knight’s Speech: Status and Pronominal Address in Late Middle English Romances 

Tichý , Ondřej  

Tracing the Development of Countability in English: From Middle to Modern English 

10:30 – 11:00 

Coffee break 

11:00 – 12:00 

4th plenary: Prof. Margaret Connolly, University of St Andrews, 

"From Hand to Hand: Movements of Middle English Manuscripts" 

12:00 – 13:30 

lunch 

13:30 – 15:30 

6th panel room A (3 talks): 

Historical Stylistics and Pragmatics (part 2) 

6th panel room B (3 talks) : 

General Session 8 

13:30 – 14:00 

Cziganj, Natalia 

Mapping Travel and Devotion: Discourse Markers in Middle English 

Moretti, Lorenzo 

Understanding the variation between bare and to-infinitive complements with Middle English causative verbs 

14:00 – 14:30 

Jucker, Andreas and Seiler, Annina 

“liketh it your good ladyschipe to wete” The origin of courtesy request markers in Middle English 

Rybińska, Paulina  

Middle English dialectal differences on the level of phraseology: a corpus-based exploratory study of the semantic field of “Religion & Superstition" 

14:30 – 15:00 

Asián Caparros, Marina 

Semantic Nuance and Stylistic Function of Norse Loanwords in Havelok the Dane 

15:00 – 15:30 

Coffee break 

15:30 – 17:00 

7th panel room A (3 talks): 

Historical Stylistics and Pragmatics (part 3) 

15:30 – 16:00 

Critten, Rory 

Representing Speech in the Auchinleck Seven Sages of Rome 

16:00 – 16:30 

Bartnik, Artur 

Changes in Middle English Left-Dislocation