MESS 2006

MESS 2006
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
DAY ONE: Saturday, 25 November
9:00 - 9:15
CONFERENCE OPENING (ROOM 1)
9:15-10:00
PLENARY 1 (ROOM 1)
Hans Sauer (Munich) - Language and culture: How Anglo-Saxon glossators adapted Latin words and
their world
Chair: Jacek Fisiak (Poznań)
10:00 - 11:30
SESSION 1a (ROOM 1)
SESSION 1b (ROOM 2)
Chair: Piotr Jakubowski (Poznań)
Chair: Joanna Maciulewicz (Poznań)
Matti Rissanen (Helsinki) - From phrase to Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz (Warsaw) - Oral-formulaic
word: On the early history of lest
diction in three Middle English romances
Joanna Nykiel
(Katowice) - Old English Anna Czarnowus (Katowice) - Oriental despotism in
the Sowdone of Babylone
sluicing
Matylda Włodarczyk (Poznań) - More strenger Rafał Borysławski (Katowice) - Wordhordes cræft:
and mightier: Double comparatives in
Confusion and the order of the wor(l)d in Old
Late Middle English
English Gnomes
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30
SESSION 2a (ROOM 1)
SESSION 2b (ROOM 2)
Chair: Rafał Molencki (Katowice)
Chair: Agnieszka Setecka (Poznań)
Artur Bartnik (Lublin) - Determiners and Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun (Warsaw/Białystok) possessives in Old English
The unruly household in John Heywood's A
mery play betwene Iohan Iohan, the
Husbande, Tyb, his Wyfe, and Syr Iohan, the
Preest
Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (Helsinki) - On a “sub- Barbara Kowalik (Warsaw) – “On God Ureisun of
group” of temporal subordinators in
Ure Lefdi”: Some cultural and historical
English: Nominal expressions containing
implications of a mystical love-song
a preposition + the noun time
Anna Kamińska (Łódź) - The word order of Old Joanna Kazik (Łódź) - The beauty and the beast:
English and Old High German
Gender in Middle English carols
13:30-14:30 Lunch break
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14:30-15:30
PLENARY II (ROOM 1)
John C. Coldewey (Washington) - From Hyperion to a Satyr: Manuscript to print in Early English drama
Chair: Liliana Sikorska (Poznań)
15:30-16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00
SESSION 3a (ROOM 1)
SESSION 3b (ROOM 2)
Chair: Joanna Bugaj (Poznań)
Chair: Rafał Borysławski (Katowice)
Magdalena Bator (Poznań) - Scandinavian Liliana Sikorska (Poznań) - “3ef thow be not grete
loanwords beyond the Danelaw
clerk, loke thow moste on thys werk”:
Religious and secular guidance in William
Caxton's Book of curtesye and John Mirk's
Instructions for parish priests
Michael Bilynsky (Lviv) - Chronological Agnieszka Setecka (Poznań) - Alfred Tennyson's
homogeneity in the expansion of Middle
“Vivien” and “Guinevere”: A sensation story
in Medieval setting
English deverbal families
Anna Hebda (Poznań) - On the loss of the preconsonantal Middle English v
19:00-20:30 Wine party
DAY TWO: Sunday, 26 November
9:00 - 10:00
PLENARY 3 (ROOM 1)
Christine M. Rose (Portland) - Glossing Griselda in a medieval conduct book: Le Menagier de Parise
Chair: Liliana Sikorska (Poznań)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30
PLENARY 4 (ROOM 1)
Jerzy Wełna (Warsaw) - Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik and peripheral change
in Middle English consonants
Chair: Marcin Krygier (Poznań)
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11:30 – 13:00
SESSION 4a (ROOM 1)
SESSION 4b (ROOM 2)
Chair: Matylda Włodarczyk (Poznań)
Chair: Jacek Fabiszak (Poznań)
Matti Kilpio (Helsinki) - What time (that/as) Marcin Cieniuch (Poznań) - Layers of fictionality:
'when': A byline in the development of
Reading Victiorian medievalism in A.S.
English temporal subordinators
Byatt's Possession
Jacob
Thaisen
(Poznań)
Chaucer's Andrzej Wicher (Łódź) - The medieval character of
S.C. Lewis's Devil as he appears in The
“Canterbury Tales” yet again: How do
the fragments piece together
Screwtape letters
Hanna Rutkowska (Poznań) - Evidence for Władysław Witalisz (Kraków) - Blind Hary's The
Wallace and Mel Gibson's Braveheart: What
morphological restructuring in the
do medieval romance and Hollywood film
second person pronoun in early English
have in common
correspondence
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30
SESSION 5 (ROOM 1)
Chair: Jacob Thaisen (Poznań)
Katarzyna
Jędrzejewska
(Poznań)
Pseudonyms and nicknames in Celtic
languages
ElŜbieta Adamczyk (Poznań) - On the
(in)stability of the Old English weak
declension
Agnieszka Pysz (Poznań) - True or false:
Postposition of adjectives in Old English
15:30 End of conference
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