Day 1
9 am: Breakfast, welcome and opening remarks. R. Trilling (University of Toronto) and T. Major (Pontifical Institue of Medieval Studies)
9.30 a.m.–11 a.m.
R. Love (University of Cambridge): “Intertextual Paratexts: The Use of Glosses”
Coffee Break 11 a.m.–11.30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. Session 1
M. Reid (University of Toronto) “Early English Glosses on Prudentius and the Dialogic Architectonics of the Glossed Manuscript”
E. Thornbury (Yale University) “Grammar and Antigrammar in Tætwine’s Enigmata”
M. Cavell (University of Birmingham) and J. Neville (Royal Holloway, University of London) “Vice, Vice Baby: Adapting Anger in Aldhelm and Boniface’s Poetry”
Lunch 1 p.m.–2 p.m.
2pm. Session 2
J. McMullen and J. Pontillo (Indiana University) “A Synthetic Approach to Hiberno-Latin Influence in the Earliest Anglo-Latin Vitae”
J. Lorden (William & Mary) “Certain Forms of Truth: Bede’s Later Life of Cuthbert”
T. Revell (University of Oxford) “Gast onsende: Death and Intertextuality in Old English Hagiographic Poetry”
Coffee Break 3 p.m.–4 p.m.
4 p.m. Session 3
J. Fitzgerald (United States Naval Academy) “The Recumbent She-Wolf of the Franks Casket and procubuisse lupam (Aeneid 8)”
C. Rauer (University of St Andrews) “Evidence for Mercian Author Networks”
D. Evans (University College London) “The Reading of Wulfstan of Winchester”
Reception hosted by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 5:30 p.m.– 7 p.m.
Day 2
Breakfast 9 a.m.
9.30 a.m.
F. Leneghan (University of Oxford), "In their own tongue: Old English Prose and the Three Orders of Society"
Coffee Break 11 a.m.–11.30 p.m.
11:30 a.m. Session 4
S. Rowley (Christopher Newport University) “Bede’s Elemental Miracles: Fire and Air”
N. Guenther Discenza (University of South Florida) “Abundance as Strategy: ‘O qui perpetua’ in the Old English Boethius”
R. Upchurch (University of North Texas) “Ælfric’s Adaptation of the Story of the Bible: A Meditation on Hope”
Lunch 1 p.m.–2 p.m.
2 p.m. Session 5
S. Smith (Pennsylvania State University) “Serpents in the Text: Writing Failure in S 1439”
R. Stephenson (University College Dublin) “Conventional or Innovative?: The Apocalyptic Homilies of Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion”
L. Ostacchini (University of Oxford) “‘'One Neat Trick': Translating Miracles in the Old English Martyrology”
Coffee Break 3:30 p.m.–4 p.m.
4 p.m. Session 6
“Future Adaptations” (facilitated by R. Trilling and T. Major) invites all conference participants and audience members to reflect on what they have learned from the days’ proceedings, synthesize new ideas and perspectives, and offer thoughts about future directions for research and potential collaboration