SELIM 17th conference A Coruña 2005

PROGRAMME

 

THURSDAY, 29th September

 

09.30-10.00: Conference Welcome and Registration

 

 

10.00-11.00: Papers session:

PANEL 1

 PANEL 2
  • Nuria Bello Piñón & Dolores Elvira Méndez Souto (U A Coruña): “Complex Predicates in early scientific writing”
  • Mª Dolores Pérez Raja (U Murcia): "A Redefinition of Methodology on the Study of Scandinavian Borrowings in Middle English"
  • Carmen Mª Fernández Rodríguez (U A Coruña): “Honest Wives and Patient Language:The Franklin´s and the Clerk´s Tales”
  • Ricardo Sola Buil (U Alcalá de Henares): “Wit, wisdom and learning in Chaucer´s Canterbury Tales

 

 

11.00-11.15: Break

 

11.15- 11.45: Inaugural Session: Academic Authorities

 

 

11.45-12.45: Plenary Lecture: Prof. Donald Scragg (University of Manchester): Rewriting eleventh-century English grammar and the editing of texts

 

 

12.45-13.00: Break

 

 

13.00-14.00: Plenary Lecture: Prof. John Mckinnell (Durham University) “How was Everyman performaed?”

 

 

16.00 -18.00: Paper Sessions

 

PANEL 3 PANEL 4
  • Javier Calle Martín and Antonio Miranda García (U Málaga): “Postpositional Prepositions in Old English: a corpus-based study”
  • Piotr Jakubowski (Adam Mickiewicz U): "The status of n-plurals in medieval Anglo-Irish"
  • Agnieszka Pysz (Adam Mickiewicz U): “The (im)possibility of stacking adjectives in early English”
  • Cristina Suárez Gómez (U Illes Balears) : “Does word-order correlate with (non-)subordination? The case of relative clauses in early English” 

 

  • Maria Cesario (U Manchester): “Solar and lunar eclipses, comets, wind and thunder in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”
  • Laurence Erussard & Pria Young (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY): “Are Beowulf’s Swords “Just Swords”? A Freudian Reading of the Battle Scenes and their Consequences”
  • Mª José Gómez Calderón (U Sevilla): “Taming the Barbarian: Representations of the Viking Hero in Contemporary Popular Fiction”
  • Nils-Lennart Johannesson (Stockholm U): “The four-wheeled quadriga and the seven sacraments: on the Latin sources for the ‘Dedication’ of the Ormulum

 

 

18.00-18.15: Break

 

 

18.15-19.45: Paper Sessions

PANEL 5 PANEL 6
  • María Chacón Chacón (U Castilla-La Mancha): “EXISTENCE  And the Medical Verbal Lexicon”
  • María José Esteve Ramos (U Jaume I): “Keeping an eye” on medieval treatises: a linguistic survey of lexicon in ophthalmology texts”
  • Manuela Romano Mozo (U Autónoma de Madrid), Ana Laura Rodríguez Redondo & Eugenio Contreras Domingo (U Complutense): “Historical Phraseology: head and eyes in Old and Middle English
  • Francisco José Álvarez López  (U Manchester/U Vigo): “DCL, B IV, MS. 24: A Palaeographical and Codicological Study of Durham’s Cantor’s Book
  • Anunciación Carrera de la Red (U Valladolid): “Anglo-Saxonism in Modern English Translations of The Battle of Maldon (1826-1902)”  
  • Alice Spencer (U degli studi di Torino):  Dialogue and Eros: Some Notes on the Use of Dialogue in Medieval Love Literature”

 

 

FRIDAY, 30th September

 

09.30-11.30: Paper Sessions:

 

PANEL 7

PANEL 8

  • Josefa Fernández Martín (U Sevilla): "Women in the English Mystery Cycles".
  • Margarita Giménez Bon (U País Vasco/Euskal Herriko U): “How Dared a Woman Write?"
  • Marie-José Lemarchand (U Alcalá de Henares): “: "Who paintede the leon?": a Parallel between Chaucer´s Wife of Bath and Christine de Pizan´s Cupid”
  • Antonio José Miralles Pérez (UCAM): Geoffrey Chaucer’s Sir Thopas: Materials of Romance and History in the Portrait of a Fourteenth Century Knight
  • Isabel De la Cruz Cabanillas (U Alcalá de Henares): "Shift of Meaning in Animal Denominations: Some Cases of Narrowing and Widening"
  • Rosa Eva Fernández Conde (U Oviedo): “What can The York Cycle tell us about the second person pronoun?”
  • Mari Cruz Expósito (U La Laguna): "Standardization processes: the case of morphology in fifteenth century English"
  • Cristina Mourón Figueroa (U Santiago de Compostela): “Animal Imagery in the York Cycle”.

 

 

11.30-12.00: Break

 

 

12.00-14.00: Paper Sessions:

 

PANEL 9

PANEL 10

  • Ruth Carroll (U Turku): ”Lists in the Cely Letters”  
  • Mariann Larsen (U Complutense): "Iconic Aspects in Oral Verbal Forms"
  • Ewa Ciszek (Adam Mickiewicz U): “On competition between OE -estre and OF -esse in Early Middle English”
  • Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre (U Murcia): “Some Functions of Verbal Duelling in the Old English Poetic Hagiographies”
  • Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso (U Vigo): “From Frisia to Fisterra, or How to Produce an Alliterative Translation of Beowulf   into Galician”
  • Dolores Fernández Martínez (U Las Palmas de Gran Canaria): “A Critical Approach to the Study of Religious Ideology in Old English Discourse”
  • María Gabriela García Teruel (U Oviedo): “About King Arthur (2004), the “untold?” True Story that Inspired the Legend”

 

 

16.15-17.45: Paper Sessions:

 

PANEL 11

PANEL 12

  • Juan Manuel Castro Carracedo (U Salamanca): “A Preliminary Categorization of Prophecies in Middle English Romances: The Case of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
  • Rubén Jarazo Álvarez (U A Coruña): “Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d’Artur and its influence on Álvaro Cunqueiro journalistic corpus”
  • Inmaculada Senra Silva (UNED): “The Structural Development of the Rune Poems”

 

  • Francisco Alonso Almeida (U Las Palmas de Gran Canaria): “The construction of Middle English medical compilations"
  • David Moreno Olalla (U Málaga): “Personal Pronouns in Lelamour’s Herbal
  • Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez & Mª Victoria Domínguez-Rodríguez (U Las Palmas de Gran Canaria): Sixteenth-Century Glosses to a Fifteenth-Century Gynaecological Treatise: A Scientifically Biased Revision”

 

  

 

17.45-18.00: Break

 

 

18.00-19.00: Plenary Lecture: Prof. Luis Iglesias Rábade (University of Santiago de Compostela) “Middle English Prepositions: from Grammaticalisation to Idiomatisation”

 

 

19.00-19.15: Break

 

 

19.15: Asamblea

 

 

SATURDAY, 1st October

 

10.00-12.00: Paper Sessions:

 

PANEL 13

PANEL 14

  • Teresa de Jesús Marqués Aguado (U Málaga): “Old English Punctuation Revisited: The Case of the Gospel according to St. Matthew”  
  • José María Gutiérrez Arranz (UCAM): "Mimesis, Imitatio, Translatio, Discipuli Facienda" (!)
  • Eugenio Olivares Merino (U Jaén): "Beowulfo", Gothlandia"; Hródgar" and "Heoroto": 70 years of Beowulf in Spain.
  • Mercedes Salvador (U Sevilla): "From the Bestiary to the Monster Catalogue: A Comparative Study of the Exeter Book Bestiary and The Wonders of the East".
  • Abdullah Alger (U Manchester): “An Analysis of Punctuation and Speech Boundaries in 19th-21st Century Editions of The Wanderer
  • Andrew Breeze (U Navarra): “Bede's Ythanceaster
  • Rafael Portillo García (U Sevilla): “Death and the Dead in Medieval English Drama”
  • Fernando Reviriego González (U Alcalá de Henares): “Ireland and Wales: Two Views of Medieval Imperialism and Colonialism in the Works of Gerald of Wales”  

 

 

 

12.00-12.30: Break

 

 

12.30-13.30: Plenary Lecture: Dr Thomas Shippey (University of St. Louis).”Tolkien, Medievalism, and the Philological Tradition”

 

 

13.30: Conference Closing.