CONFERENCES
Conference
This year, in collaboration with Dr. Jill Averil-Keen of
the University of Minnesota and Mary Dzon of University of
Toronto, I have organized two conference sessions in honour
of A.G. Rigg, the first for the Annual General Meeting of
the Medieval Acadamy of America in April 2003, the second
for Kalamazoo, May 2003. David Townsend, Professor of Medieval
Literature at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University
of Toronto, will preside at Kalamazoo. Elizabeth Dachowski,
Associate Professor of History, Tennessee State University,
will preside at the MAA.
About A.G. Rigg:
George Rigg was born in Wigan, England and received his doctorate
from Merton College, Oxford, where he began his teaching career
as Lecturer in the English Language. After two years as Visiting
Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University,1966-68,
he came to the University of Toronto. He established the Latin
program at the Centre for Medieval Studies and has been maintaining
the standard there ever since.
George officially retired June 2002 but he is still teaching
and otherwise actively involved in the Latin and Editing programs
at the Centre for Medieval Studies. George has a very long
list of publications. In addition to numerous translations,
reviews, contributions to books, and videotapes (the latest
article is on "Historical Fiction in Walter Map"
in Scripturus vitam. Festgabe fur Walter Bershchin,
ed. D. Walz. Heidelberg, 2002) he has written the following
books:
A Book of British Kings 1200BC-1399AD, Toronto Medieval
Latin Texts 26 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
2000), pp.vii + 112.
(with F.A.C. Mantello) Medieval Latin: An introduction
and bibliographical guide (Catholic Univ. of America
Press, 1996), pp.xiv + 774. Reprinted 1999.
(with T. McGee, D. Klausner) Singing Early Music: the
pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages
and Renaissance (Indiana UP, 1996), pp. xviii + 299).
A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422 (Cambridge
UP: Cambridge, 1992), pp. xviii + 414.
Gawain on Marriage: the textual tradition of the De coniuge
non ducenda, with a critical edition and translation,
Studies and Texts 79 (Pontifical Institue of Mediaeval Studies,
Toronto, 1986) 104 pp.
(with Charlotte Brewer) William Langland: Piers Plowman,
the Z-version. Studies and Texts 59 (Pontifical Institue
of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 19863) pp. x + 137.
The Poems of Walter of Wimborne, O.F.M., Studies
and Texts 42 (Pontifical Institue of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto,
1978) pp. 349.
Editing Medieval Texts (English, French & Latin Written
in England (Garland: N.Y. and London, 1977) pp. viii
+ 128.
The English Language: A Historical Reader New York:
Appleton-Century-Croft, 1968) pp. xvi + 224. Translated into
Japanese, 1974.
A Glastonbury Miscellany of the Fifteenth
Century: a descriptive Index of Trinity College, Cambridge,
MS 0.9.38 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968) pp. viii +
161.
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Medieval Academy
of America: April 2003
The sessions at the MAA AGM will focus on Walter of Wimborne,
a poet and schoolteacher whose works George discovered strewn
across several centuries and gathered together into one edition,
clearly identifying his characteristic style and themes.
Anglo-Latin Grammar-School Education, In Honor of
A. G. Rigg.
Presider: Elizabeth E. Dachowski, Tennessee
Jenifer Sutherland. Centre for Medieval Studies, University
of Toronto, Canada.
"Walter of Winborne: Confessions of a Schoolboy's Whip."
Mary Dzon. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto,
Canada.
"The Impish Christ-Child in Walter of Wimborne."
Jill Averil Keen. Center for Medieval Studies, University
of Minnesota.
"Walter and His Boys: Evidence for a Thirteenth-Century
School at Wimborne
Minster."
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Kalamazoo: May 2003
This session seeks to represent a broader range of George's
interest in Anglo-Latin education.
Anglo-Latin Education in Honor of A.G. Rigg
Presider: David Townsend, Professor, University of Toronto
Paper Title #1: "Lessons from the Past" the Context
of the Latin Works of Bodley 3443
Presenter: Aidan Conti, Graduate Student, Centre for Medieval
Studies, University of Toronto
Paper Title #2: "To the boys whose whip I am: the dedications
of Walter of Wimborne"
Presenter: Jenifer Sutherland, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.
Paper Title #3: "The opus geminatum as curriculum text:
glosses to Bede’s Lives of Cuthbert"
Presenter: Carin Ruff, Professor, John Caroll University,
Ohio
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Leeds: July 2003
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