The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc.                                             May 2000
News & Notes from TEAMS

IN THIS ISSUE:

TEAMS Sessions at the Medieval Congress

This year's International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 4-7 at Western Michigan University), features several TEAMS-sponsored sessions on teaching the Middle Ages.

Teaching and Studying the Medieval Morality Play 
Session 164: Friday 10 a.m. in Valley III, Stinson Lounge 
Organizer: Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas A&M University 
Presider: Kevin J. Ruth, Newark Academy 

  • "Let Us Inne": Performing the Second Shepherd's Play in the Medieval Drama Classroom (Angela Jane Weisl, Melissa Filosa, and Robert Dakis, Seton Hall University) 
Teaching Middle High German Texts 
Session 250:  Friday 1:30 in Fetzer 2020 
Organizer: Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas A&M University
Presider: Kevin J. Ruth, Newark Academy 
  • Teaching Middle High German Texts to Students Who Don't Know Middle High German (Kirsten M. Christensen, University of Notre Dame) 
Teaching Medieval Studies Through Distance Learning 
Session 307: Friday 3:30 in Fetzer 2020 
Organizer: Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas A&M University 
Presider: Anita Pilling, John Cooper School 
  • Library Instruction for Medieval Studies (Scott Walter, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri—Kansas City) 
  • Research Resources in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Marti Alt, Ohio State University) 
Suddenly It Was the Middle Ages! Presentations on Medieval Studies to K–12 Students 
Session 364: Saturday 10 a.m. in Fetzer 2020 
Organizer and Presider: Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas A&M University 
  • The Middle Ages in Forty-Two Minutes (Kevin J. Ruth, Newark Academy) 
  • Sanitizing the Past: Medieval Heroes for Modern Readers (Rebecca Barnhouse, Youngstown State University) 
  • Using Medieval Hagiography to Teach the Medieval World View (Anita Pilling, John Cooper School) 
Teaching Medieval Music: Where is the "Early" in Early Music? 
Session 421:  Saturday 1:30 in Fetzer 2020 
Organizer: Bruce C. Brasington, West Texas A&M University 
Presider: Brad Eden, University  of  Nevada—Las Vegas 
  • Strategies for Teaching Early Music in Music Appreciation Classes ( Matthew Balensuela, DePauw University) 
  • Teaching Medieval Music through Performance (William T. Flynn, Emory University) 
  • Multimedia/Multidisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Medieval Music (Richard Bunbury , Boston Conservatory) 

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News and Notes Moves to Cyberspace

This issue of News and Notes, distributed at the Medieval Congress, is the last hard-copy issue to be printed. Henceforth, in order to save printing and mailing costs, News and Notes will appear exclusively on the World Wide Web at http://www.calvin.edu/~ksaupe/teams.htm. If you would like to receive email notification when new issues appear, please send a message to ksaupe@calvin.edu.  
 
Call for ideas: How do you use TEAMS texts in your classroom? If you're willing to share successful syllabi or teaching strategies with our readers, please contact the editor (ksaupe@calvin.edu).

New Publications from TEAMS

Middle English Texts Series:
  • The Assembly of Gods: Le Assemble de Dyeus, or Banquet of Gods and Goddesses, with the Discourse of Reason and Sensuality, edited by Jane Chance 
  • John Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine, edited by Karen A. Winstead

    • Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes, edited by Charles R. Blyth
Newly reprinted METS titles:
  • The Book of Margery Kempe, edited by Lynne Staley (third printing) 
  • King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure, edited by Larry D. Benson, revised by Edward Foster (third printing)
  • Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, edited by Thomas Hahn (second printing)
Forthcoming:
  • John Gower, Confessio Amantis (Prologue, Books 1 and 8), edited by Russell A. Peck with Latin translations by Andrew Galloway
Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions
  • Sovereignty and Salvation in the Vernacular, 1050-1150, introduced, translated, and edited by James A. Schultz 
During the Congress, all titles will be on display and available for purchase at the Medieval Institute Publications display table in Valley II.


TEAMS publications may be ordered from Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1201 Oliver St., Kalamazoo, MI 49008; by phone (616-387-8755), or by FAX (616-387-8750).

The complete MIP catalogue is online at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/mip/index.html.
 
News and Notes from TEAMS is published by The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc. 

We welcome articles, news items, letters, and announcements related to the teaching of the Middle Ages. Please send items for publication by August 15 or February 15.

Editor:  Karen Saupe 
Department of English
Calvin College 
3201 Burton SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
E-mail: ksaupe@calvin.edu

Past issues of News and Notes from TEAMS are archived on the TEAMS web site at http://www.calvin.edu/~ksaupe/teams.htm.