Medieval English Studies Symposium 2011

Medieval English Studies Symposium 2011

MESS 2011 Conference Programme
10th Medieval English Studies Symposium 2011
DAY 1: Saturday 19th November 2011
10:00 – 10:30
Conference opening
(Room 3.1)
10:30 – 11:30
PLENARY I (ROOM 3.1)
Chair: Liliana Sikorska
Ad Putter (Bristol University)
The Metres of Middle English Romance
11:30 – 11:45
11:45 – 13:15
Coffee Break (4th Floor Hall)
Session 1a (Room 4.13)
Chair: Marcin Krygier
Session 1b (Room 4.14)
Chair: Tomasz Mokrowiecki
Ewa
Ciszek
(Adam
Mickiewicz
University)
Words Denoting „Land‟ in the Two
Manuscripts of Laʒamon‟s Brut
Minako Nakayasu (Hamamatsu
University School of Medicine)
Chaucer‟s Historical Present: A DiscoursePragmatic Perspective
Anna
Hebda
(Adam
Mickiewicz
University)
“You Shall Know a Word by the Company it
Keeps”: Measuring Synonymy in ME AngerWords
Agnieszka Wawrzyniak (Adam
Mickiewicz University, Kalisz)
Metaphors of Light in Middle English
Session 1c (Room 3.1)
Chair: Jacek Fabiszak
Rafał Borysławski (University of Silesia)
All that is Wrought is not Gold: Locating
Wealth in Old English Gnomic Texts.
Łukasz Neubauer (Koszalin University of
Technology)
The Lord and His Men: An Examination of
the Anglo-Saxon Social Structure Depicted
in The Battle of Maldon
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Agnieszka Gąszcz (University of Warsaw)
Light and Darkness in Metaphor in
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
13:15 – 14:45
14:45 – 16:15
Agnieszka Kocel (University of Warsaw)
Palatalization as a Non-Uniform Process
Affecting Grammatical Words: A
Comparison of Data from Dialectally
Identified and Unidentified Late Middle
English Texts
Jacek Olesiejko (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
Treasure and Spiritual Exile: The
Representation of Wealth in the Old English
Juliana in the Context of Anglo-Saxon
Monastic Culture
Lunch Break (own arrangements)
Session 2a (Room 4.13)
Chair: Joanna Kopaczyk
Magdalena
Bator
(Academy
Management Warsaw)
Boil vs. Seethe in Middle English
of
Rusinek
Marietta
(The
Catholic
University of Lublin)
The Semantic Field CAKES in Middle
English: A Historical Study
Marcin Krygier (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
Vernacularisation of the Lexicon in the
Wycliffe Bible
Session 2b (Room 4.14)
Chair: Ewa Ciszek
Session2c (Room 3.1)
Chair: Urszula Kizelbach
Chungmin Lee (Seoul National
University)
Middle English Negative Concord: How It
Competed with Negative Polarity.
Barbara Kowalik (University of Warsaw)
We Make Our Wealth Our God and Turn
Our Souls to Paupers: Images and
Symbolism of Poverty and Prosperity in
Robert Henryson‟s Fables
Andrzej M. Łęcki (Pedagogical University
of Cracow)
On the Evolution of Prepositional
Subordinators Expressing Negative Purpose
in English: The Cases of 'Enaunter' and
'For Fear That'.
Rafał Molencki (English Language
Institute University of Silesia)
Causal Subordinators in the Different
Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
16:15 - 16:30
Coffee Break (4th Floor Hall)
Anna Czarnowus (University of Silesia)
Honourable Slave Traders and Aristocratic
Slaves in Middle English Floris and
Blancheflour
Andrzej Wicher, (University of Łódź)
Chaucer‟s Embodiments of the Rich Man
(and Woman) as Variations on the Theme of
the Biblical „Dives‟
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16:30 – 18:00
Session 3a Room 4.13
Chair: Rafał Molencki
Session 3b Room 4.14
Chair: Magdalena Bator
Session 3c Room 3.1
Chair: Dagmara Krzyżaniak
Anna Antkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
Morphology and Etymology at an Interplay
–
French
Influence
on
the
Grammaticalisation of the Infinitival 'to'
Daniel Węgrzyn (University of Silesia)
Katowice Deverbal Suffixal Nominalizations
in ”Canterbury Tales”
Zofia Wąchocka (Jagiellonian University)
A Staf Ys Nou My Stede – The Carnal Side
Of Social Status in Medieval England in An
Old Man's Prayer
Jerzy Nykiel (University of Silesia)
Procliticization of the Definite Article in
Chaucer‟s English
Joanna Szwed-Śliwowska (University of
Warsaw)
In the Name of the Father… and the
Mother: Parental Figures in the Legend of
Robin Hood
Ireneusz Kida (University of Silesia)
Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec (Adam
Mickiewicz University)
(Breaking) the Law – Social Control, Selfhelp and Violence in The Tale of Gamelyn
Artur Bartnik (Catholic University of
Lublin)
The Genitive Case and Resumption in Old
and Middle English
Xavier Dekeyser (KU Leuven/Universiteit
Antwerpen)
The Gerundial Construction in a Diachronic
Perspective: Past and Present
Development of the þet þet doublets in
OE and its implications for annotated
corpus linguistics
18:00
Wine Party (Ground Floor near the Buffet Area)
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DAY 2: Sunday 20th November 2011
09:00 – 10:00
PLENARY II (ROOM 3.1)
Chair: Jacek Fisiak
Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
The Role of Contact in English Morpho-Syntatic Change: Factors Influencing Borrowing
10:10 – 11.40
Session 4a (Room 4.13)
Chair: Anna Hebda
Session 4b (Room 4.14)
Chair: Andrzej Łęcki
Session 4c (Room 3.1)
Chair: Joanna Maciulewicz
Kosuke
Kaita
(Ludwig-Maximilian
Universität)
The Use of ME 'Mune' in 'Ormulum' as a
Delineator of Systematic Shift of Modals
Joanna Kopaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
The Meanders of Spelling, or Another Look
at Middle Scots Vocalic <i>-Digraphs
Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz (University of
Warsaw)
On Some Representations of Mary
Magdalene in Middle English Literature
Monika Skorasińska (Adam Mickiewicz
University / University of Szczecin)
“I can discover all the unlucky manage of
this fatal brawl (…).” (W. Sh. Romeo and
Juliet, 3.1.). Can in Shakespeare and
Marlowe.
Tomasz Mokrowiecki (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
Acute Accents as Indicators of Vowel
Quantity:
Reconstructing
Homorganic
Cluster Lengthening in the Blickling
Homilies
Katarzyna Bronk (Adam Mickiewicz
University)
"I Am As Heuy ... As Ony Woman May Be":
Female Sexual Sinner in Mary of Nemmegen
(c.1518)
Anna
Cichosz,
Jerzy
Gaszewski
(University of Łódź)
The Verb-Second Phenomenon in the Old
English Bible and the Question of
Representativeness
Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup (University
of Szczecin)
The Legal Status of a Woman under Welsh
Medieval Law
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11:40 – 12:00
Coffee Break (4th Floor Hall)
12:00 – 12:45
PLENARY III (ROOM 3.1)
Chair: Liliana Sikorska
Hans Sauer (Ludwig-Maximilian Universität)
The Bayeux Tapestry
12:45 –13:00
Coffee Break (4th Floor Hall)
13:00 – 14:40
Session 5 (Work in progress) (Room 3.1)
Chair: Agnieszka Setecka
Patrick McCafferty (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Of Comets and Kings
Marta Frątczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Leaving and Reclaiming One‟s Human Body in Lucius or the Ass and The Romance of William of Palerne. Medieval
(Re)creation of the Ancient Literary Motif
Piotr Spyra (University of Łódź)
The “Poynt” of Pointing: The Epistemological Rationale behind the Pearl-Poet‟s Descriptive Style
Przemysław Górniak (University of Warsaw)
Sir Thomas Malory‟s Battle of Salisbury against the Background of the Battle of Towton
14:45
End of the Conference (Room 3.1)
MESS 2011 Conference Programme
Registration: 19-20th Nov from 8.30am
Room 4.18 (4th Floor)
Omnibus Book Sale: 19th-20th Nov (4th Floor)
Conference Venue: Collegium Iuridicum Novum
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Registration fees
Speakers and other participants: 200zł (including the banquet)
Students: 50 zł (plus 57zł if attending the banquet)
UAM Staff: 100zł (plus 57zł if attending the banquet)
Details for payment (if not on arrival):
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Bank Zachodni WBK S.A.
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