March 9, 2012

Reception/Registration

8.30am (Historische Sternwarte, Tagungszentum)

Welcome Address/Beginning of Sessions

9.00am (Historische Sternwarte, Tagungszentum)

Session I

9.10am Patrick Brenzel The Nun’s Priest’s Tale as Socio-Moral Satire

Speaker: Prof. Sebastian I. Sobecki (Groningen)

10.00am David Nisters (Leipzig) - Authorising Chaucer in Fifteenth-Century England

Speaker: Prof. Ursula Schaefer (Dresden)

Coffee Break

10.50am

Session II

11.20am Rory Critten (Groningen) - The King’s Historiographer: John Capgrave, Austin Identity and the Pursuit of Royal Patronage

Speaker: Prof. Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg)

12.10pm Eva Grädel und Kathrin Reist (Bern) - Disability and Martyrdom in John Foxe’sActes and Monuments

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Honegger (Jena)

Lunch Break

1.00pm

Session III

2.00pm Andre Mertens (Göttingen) - The Question of Ælfric's Rhythmical Prose

Speaker: Prof. Hildegard L. C. Tristram (Freiburg)

2.50pm Alina Markova (Dresden) - Wyclif’sche Bibel als erstes Übersetzungsprogramm

Speaker: Dr. Dirk Schultze (Rostock)

Coffee Break

3.40pm

Session IV

4.10pm Julia Crispin (Münster) - The Illuminated Manuscripts of John Talbot, First Earl of Shrewsbury

Speaker: Prof. Luuk Houwen (Bochum)

5.00pm Ulrike Ellguth-Malakhov (Jena) - Who Is Gawain? On Character Change and Development

Speaker: Oliver Bock, M.A. (Göttingen)

Discussion

5.50pm

End of Sessions

ca. 6.30pm

Dinner (Restaurant Bullerjahn)

7.00pm