Kalamazoo Session 2019

New Approaches to Old Problems: Using Modern Technology to Investigate Medieval Material Culture

Organizer and Presider: Vibeke Olson (UNC–Wilmington)

  • “From the Square to the Scanner: Revisiting the Geometries of Reims and Metz Cathedrals Using LiDAR,” Rebecca Smith (Wake Technical Community College) and Robert Bork (University of Iowa)

  • “3-D Modeling and GIS Mapping of the Towers and Bell Towers of Medieval Rome,” Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College)

  • “To Divide the Light from Darkness: Architecture and Liturgy in the Churches of Norse Greenland,” Jess A. McCullough (College of St. Scholastica)

Medieval Ales Revisited: The Continuing Debate about Hops and Gruit

Organizer: Stephen Law (Medieval Brewer’s Guild/AVISTA)

Presider: George Brooks (Valencia College)

  • “Medieval Gruit Ales Revisited: New Theories about Old Beverages,” Susan Verberg (Independent Scholar)

  • “Microbial Susceptibility of Hopped and Non-Hopped Ales,” Mary Elizabeth Sullivan (University of Central Arkansas) and Ben Rowley (University of Central Arkansas)

  • “Hildegard’s Cerevisiarius: Replicating the Ales of Eibingen Abbey,” Stephen C. Law (Medieval Brewer’s Guild/AVISTA)

  • “The Gallic Origins and the Spread of Beer-Hopping,” Max Nelson (University of Windsor)

Buildings that Aren’t Churches: The Wider Field of Medieval Architecture

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 University Berlin)

  • “Biographies of Buildings: Unexpected Stories from Earlier Medieval Manors,” Katherine Weikert (University of Winchester)

  • “History in Stone: Visual Biography and Mythmaking in Ávila’s Medieval Walls,” Hannah Maryan Thomson (UCLA)

Archaeology and Experiment: Moving beyond the Artifacts

Organizer and Presider: Neil Peterson (EXARC)

  • “Working with Craftsmen: The ‘It Depends’ Dilemma,” Christina Petty (University of Manchester)

  • “Experiencing Viking Age Spinning Technologies,” V. M. Roberts (York University)

  • “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 (University College Dublin)