The Medieval Studies Workshop is sponsoring two sessions at Kalamazoo this year.

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1.) Devotion and Reform in the Middle Ages (Session 545, Bernhard 212, Sunday 8:30 AM)

Organizer: Torsten K. Edstam, University of Chicago

Presider: Torsten K. Edstam

Soldiers in Battle and Monks in Convent: Devotional Language in Late Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Crusade Sermons

Monika Collins, Independent Scholar

Devotion and Reform in the Medieval Letter: The Case of Hildegard of Bingen

Christopher Fletcher, University of Chicago

Mental Prayer, Reform, and Anti-clericalism in the Anonymous De oracione mental (Biblioteca del Palacio Real MS II/795)

Daniel K. Gullo, Columbus State University

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2.) Images of Medieval Kingship (Session 578, Bernhard 212, Sunday 10:30 AM)

Organizer: Torsten K. Edstam, University of Chicago

Presider: Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago

Kings of Beggars: Royal Almsgiving in Medieval Europe

Ellie E. Fullerton, University of Chicago

Representing Kings and Queens in the Iberian Cartulary: The Liber feudorum maior

Shannon L. Wearing, New York University