TEMA-Sponsored
Sessions at Leeds 2006
Once again, the Texas Medieval Association will sponsor sessions at the International
Medieval Congress in Leeds, England. These sessions are open-submission, and
you do not have to be a TEMA member to participate in one. The three TEMA-sponsored
sessions scheduled for Leeds 2006, July 10-13, are listed below.
Session
224 – July 10 – 2:15-3:45pm
Royal Coronations
in England and Spain: Ritual, Drama, and Politics
Organiser:
Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
Moderator: Michael H. Gelting, Rigsarkivet, København
- Edgar the
Peaceable and the Coronation of 961Rogan Brunet, Department of History, Houston Community College Southwest
- Edgar the
- Claims and
Coronations of Kingly MenPatricia Torpis, University of St Thomas, Texas
- Claims and
- Coronation
or Regency: Gesture as Power Transfer in the Liber Feudorum MaiorEileen P. McKiernan Gonzalez, Department of Art, Berea College, Kentucky
- Coronation
Session
1009 – July 12 – 9:00-10:30am
The Politics of Royal Children: Potential and Actual
Organiser: Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
Moderator: Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
- All
My Children: The Questionable Parentage of Edward the Elder’s Youngest Sons
Lori A. Lehtola, Department of History, University of St Thomas, Houston
- All
- Las
Infantas: Medieval Spanish Royal Females
Debra D. Andrist, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University
of St Thomas, Houston
- Las
- King
for Lack of Adult Men of the Royal House: King Erik III of Denmark, 1137-1146
Michael H. Gelting, Rigsarkivet, København
- King
Session
1317 – July 12 – 4:30-6:00pm
Abbots, Jews,
and Other Christians Go to Court: Emotion, Drama, and Politics of Trials
Organiser: Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
Moderator: Patricia Torpis, University of St Thomas, Texas
- Preserving
its Patrimony: The Cases at Court of St Etienne, Caen
Priscilla D. Watkins, Houston Community College
- Preserving
- Drama in the
Courtroom: The Abbey of Bec at Court
Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston
- Drama in the
- Jews and Christians
in the 13th-Century English Courtroom
Frances Mitilineos, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago