New Approaches to Old Problems: Using Modern Technology to Investigate Medieval Material Culture
Thursday 10:00 AM
Bernhard 209
Organizer and Presider: Vibeke Olson, Univ. of North Carolina–Wilmington
- “From the Square to the Scanner: Revisiting the Geometries of Reims and Metz Cathedrals Using LiDAR,” Rebecca Smith, Wake Technical Community College; Robert Bork, Univ. of Iowa [Abstract]
- “3-D Modeling and GIS Mapping of the Towers and Bell Towers of Medieval Rome,” Nicola Camerlenghi, Dartmouth College [Abstract]
- “To Divide the Light from Darkness: Architecture and Liturgy in the Churches of Norse Greenland,” Jess A. McCullough, College of St. Scholastica
Buildings that Aren’t Churches: The Wider Field of Medieval Architecture
Thursday 1:30 PM
Bernhard 209
Organizer and Presider: Maile Hutterer, University of Oregon
- “The Grand Master’s Palace in Marienburg: New Research on the Most Modern Palace of the Late Middle Ages,” Christofer Herrmann, Technische Univ. Berlin
- “Biographies of Buildings: Unexpected Stories from Earlier Medieval Manors,” Katherine Weikert, Univ. of Winchester
- “History in Stone: Visual Biography and Mythmaking in Ávila’s Medieval Walls,” Hannah Maryan Thomson, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Medieval Ales Revisited: The Continuing Debate about Hops and Gruit
Thursday 3:30 PM
Bernhard 209
Organizer: Stephen Law, Medieval Brewer’s Guild/AVISTA
Presider: George Brooks, Valencia College
- “Medieval Gruit Ales Revisited: New Theories about Old Beverages,” Susan Verberg, Independant Scholar
- “Microbial Susceptibility of Hopped and Non-Hopped Ales,” Mary Elizabeth Sullivan, Univ. of Central Arkansas; Ben Rowley, Univ. of Central Arkansas
- “Hildegard’s Cerevisiarius: Replicating the Ales of Eibingen Abbey,” Stephen C. Law
- “The Gallic Origins and the Spread of Beer-Hopping,” Max Nelson, Univ. of Windsor
Archaeology and Experiment: Moving beyond the Artifacts
Saturday 10:00 AM
Bernhard 209
Organizer and Presider: Neil Peterson, EXARC
- “Working with Craftsmen: the ‘It Depends’ Dilemma,” Christina Petty, Univ. of Manchester
- “Experiencing Viking Age Spinning Technologies,” V. M. Roberts, York Univ.
- “Modeling of the Thermodynamic Properties of Interior Processes within a Barrel Smelter Using Measurements of Exterior Temperature Gradients,” Robert Gissing, Conestoga College
- ” The Making and Breaking of Moulds: An Experimental Approach to Non-Ferrous Metalworking in Sweden,” Rachel Cogswell, Univ. College Dublin