Cisterciensia at Kalamazoo Conference in 2019

We have put together a comprehensive list of all the talks at Kalamazoo which make reference to the Cistercian Order and closely related topics. The full program (220+ pages) for the 54th International Congress can be found here. Program information about the Cistercian papers presented in past years can be found here. 




Cisterician and Monastic topics at Kalamazoo (54th International Congress on Medieval Studies), May 9-12, 2019. Held at Western Michigan University.

THURSDAY, MAY 9 
10:00 am in Lee Honors College Lounge
Monastic Life: Ideals and Virtues
Presider: Marjory E. Lange, Western Oregon University
Une moine, une theologie sapientielle: Guillaume de Saint-Thierry
Denis Cazes, OCSO, Mount Saint Bernard Abbey (Leicester)
Humility in the Writings of Guerric of Igny
Paul E. Lockey, University of St. Thomas, Houston
Bernard’s De consideratione as a Model for a Libellus to Pope Leo X
James G. Kroemer, Concordia University Washington

1:30 pm in Lee Honors College Lounge
Studies on Aelred or Rievaulx and Bernard of Clairvaux Presider: Michael C. Voigts, Asbury Theological Seminary
The Little Foxes that Spoil the Vine: The Furtive Mind of Heresy, According to Bernard in the Sermons in the Song of Songs.
Cheryl Kayahra-Bass, Independent Scholar
Aelred as a Hagiographer
Ryzsard Gron, Archdiocese of Chicago
Clerical Vestments in the Writings of Aelred of Rievaulx
Chad Turner, Ferris State University
The Musings of St. Bernard in the Sermons of the Canticles (Sermons 181-186)
Luke Anderson, O. Cist., St. Mary’s Priory

3:30 pm in Lee Honors College Lounge
Honorary Panel for Father Luke Anderson Presider Marsha L. Dutton, Ohio University
“Love Itself is Knowledge”: Luke Anderson on Bernard’s ‘Rhetorical Epistemology’
Isaac Slater, OCSO, Abbey of the Genesee
Deus te deum vult facere: Searching for the Source of William of Saint-Thierry’s ‘Suspicious’ Opinions
Rozanne Elder, Western Michigan University, emerita
Likeness, Negotiable for Father Luke
Phillip E O’Mara, Bridgewater College, emeritus
FRIDAY, MAY 10 Lee Honors College Lounge

10:00 am in Lee Honors College Lounge
Medieval and Early Modern Cistercian Reform and Success: Legal and Economic Aspects
Presider: Stefano Mula, Middlebury College
The Economic Aspects of the Cistercian Order
Dr. Klaus Wollenberg, University of Applied Sciences, Munich
The Nomasticon Cisterciense and the Rediscovery of Cistercian Legislative Texts in the Early Modern Period
Alkuin Schachenmayr, O. Cist., Heiligenkreuz Athaneum, Austria
The 19th Century Monastic Revival exemplified at Notre Dame des Gardes
Jay Butler, North Carolina State University

1:30 pm in FETZER 1060
The Cistercian Carta Caritatis
Organizer: Joseph Van House O.Cist., Catholic Univ. of America
Presider: Joseph Van House O.Cist.
The Carta Caritatis and Its Purported Author
Alcuin Schachenmayr O.Cist., Pontifical Athenaeum Benedict XVI. Heiligenkreuz
The Carta Caritatis as an Engine of Innovation: The Example of the Cistercian Wine Industry
Jean A. Truax, Independent Scholar
Collegiality and Authority in the Charter of Charity
Philip F. O’Mara, Bridgewater College

3:30 pm in SCHNEIDER 1255
Twelfth-Century Monasticism
Presider: Joseph Rudolph, Fordham Univ.
Prospering the Holy Land: Praying for the Crusades in the Cistercian Houses of
the Papal States
Richard Allington, Christendom College
Handling Historical Disruption: Symeon of Durham and Gervase of Canterbury on the Degeneration and Re-Establishment of Monasticism at Lindisfarne/
Durham and Christ Church
Stephanie Skenyon, Univ. of Miami

3:30 pm in SANGREN 1730
In Honor of Richard Kieckhefer II: The Sacred
Sponsor: Medieval Studies Cluster, Northwestern Univ.
Organizer: Maeve Callan, Simpson College
Presider: David Collins SJ, Georgetown Univ.
Love and Sanctity: Beatrice of Nazareth and Her Biographer
John Van Engen, Univ. of Notre Dame
Unquiet Souls Revisited: The Troubles of Mystics with the Church Authorities in the Late Middle Ages
Gabor Klaniczay, Central European Univ.
Ave Ave Ave [Ave]: Bruder Hans and the Multilingual Poetics of Exuberance
Steven Rozenski Jr., Univ. of Rochester

FRIDAY, MAY 10 

3:30 pm in Fetzer 1040
Aelred of Rievaulx and the Dramatic 
Presider: Jean A. Truax, Independent Scholar
Aelred, Dialogue, and Inventing the Individual
Stephen J. Russell, Hofstra University
Listeners as Actors in Aelred’s Works
Marsha L. Dutton, Ohio University
The Performance of Doctrine in Aelred’s Narrative Writings
Marjory Lange, Western Oregon University

6:00 p.m. Committee for the Nomination of St. Gertrude as a Doctor of the Church
Gathering in Fetzer 1060

SATURDAY, MAY 11
10:00 am in Fetzer 1040
Bernard’s De consideratione and Its afterlife Presider: Isaac Slater, OCSO, Abbey of the Genesee
Considering Bernard in the Early Franciscan School
Aaron Gies, Independent Scholar
The Eccesilogy of Bernard’s De consideratione James DeFrancis, Mount Saint Mary’s University
Dante’s Bernard; The De consideratione Ronald Herzman, SUNY Geneseo

1:30 pm
Floral Metaphors in the Material and Spiritual Culture of Medieval Monasticism
Presider: Martha Krieg, Independent Scholar
On the Rejected Flower of Eden and Other Flowers
Rose Marie Tillisch, The Centre for Pastoral Education and Research in Denmark (FUV)
Prized Flowers or Discarded Fruit? Carolingian Reflections on the Sources of Monastic Education
Matthew Ponesse, Ohio Dominican University
Garden-Craft in the Writings of Aelred of Rievaulx
Jason Crow, Monash University
“The Wine that Gladdens the Heart of Man”: Wine and Viniculture and the Early Cistercians
Daniel Marcel La Corte, Saint Ambrose University

SATURDAY, MAY 11

10:00 am in BERNHARD 213
Episcopal Things and Ecclesiastical Spaces III: Brevia on Bishops and the Secular
Clergy in the Middle Ages (A Panel Discussion)
Sponsor: Episcopus: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Evan A. Gatti, Elon Univ.
Presider: Kalani Craig, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
Treasonous Bishops in Tenth-Century Germany, Laura Wangerin, Seton Hall
Univ. | Re-Presentation and a Theology of Images, Evan A. Gatti | Diego d’Acebo:
The Cistercian(ish) Bishop Who Helped Launch the Order of Preachers, Kyle C.
Lincoln, Kalamazoo College | Archbishop Thomas de Beaumes (1251–1263) and
Apocalypse Imagery at Reims, Jennifer M. Feltman, Univ. of Alabama

3:30 pm in Fetzer 1040 
Rewriting Cistercian Exempla between the End of the Twelfth and
the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century
Presider: Marsha L. Dutton, Cistercian Publications
The Scriptorium of Clairvaux and the Rewriting of Herbert’s Liber visionum et miraculorum clarevallensium Stefano Mula, Middlebury College
Exempla and Hagiography
Lawrence Morey, OSCO, Abbey of Gethsemani
Heed the Dead or Hew the Dead? Revenants in Cistercian Exempla and Icelandic Sagas
F. Tyler Sergent, Berea College

SUNDAY, MAY 12

8:30 am in Fetzer 1040
Saint Gertrude the Great: Orthodoxy, Originality and Universality of Her Doctrine Presider: Father Lawrence Morey, OSCO, Abbey of Gethsemani
Gertrude of Helfta’s Authorial Voice in the Liber specialis gratiae Ann Marie Caron, University of Saint Joseph
This is my Body: Orthodox Originality in Gertrude of Helfta’s Theological Anthropology and Eucharistic Theology
Ella Johnson, Saint Ambrose University
“Unite Yourself with His Family”: Gertrude of Helfta and Communion of Saints
Anna Harrison, Loyola Marymount University

10:30 am
Monastic and Early Scholastic Theology: More Likeness than Difference? Presider: Marvin Döbler, Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers
Bede the Proto-Scholastic? Theology and the Liberal Arts in Bede
John P. Bequette, Univ. of St. Francis, Fort Wayne
Monastic versus Scholastic Theology: The Inspiration of Jean Leclercq
Brian Patrick McGuire, Independent Scholar
Common Theories on Love and the Holy Spirit in the Monastic and the Early Scholastic Theology of the Twelfth Century
Aage Rydstrom-Poulsen, University of Greenland