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March 28-30, 2008 The Cornell Conference on Medieval Poverty is taking place at the Statler Hotel on the Cornell University campus. The focus of the conference is poverty in the medieval West. We expect to make a real impact on this omnipresent —though often ignored—feature of medieval life and culture. To this end, the topics examined at the conference will include rural and urban poverty, ideology, serfdom, charity, monasticism, law, and literature. We will also include a look at the Late Antique legacy of poverty and the Jewish thought on poverty, and will benefit from the input of current thinking in development economics on poverty. We have allotted a generous amount of time for discussion, and envisage the conference as a true exchange of ideas. For additional details, please have a look at our schedule, below. There is no registration fee to attend the conference. We do, however, encourage you to register so that we can give the Statler Hotel an accurate estimate of the number expected to attend our conference sessions. So that we can ensure everyone’s comfort, be sure to mention any special needs you may have. If you are thinking about coming, please register. To register and/or to purchase meals, please go to our REGISTRATION FORM. We hope that you will be able to join us! * * * * * The conference is organized by Paul R. Hyams, Professor of History, and has been arranged by the office of the Medieval Studies Program, which has coordinated campus activities related to the Middle Ages since 1966. For various texts and thoughts accumulated for Prof. Hyams' graduate seminar on Poverty, see the following sites: http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/664/index.html, and especially the Discussion Themes and Bibliography. The Conference is sponsored by the Cornell initiative on Poverty, Inequality, and Development (PID). This initiative is a University-wide program to encourage interdisciplinary research across campus, and to project Cornell research in these areas to the global level. Further information can be found at their website: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty/. Additional support has been provided by the Department of History.
Schedule All regular sessions will take place in the Statler Hotel Amphitheater. Friday, March 28 9:00-9:20 Welcome Address by President Skorton 9:20-10:10 Brian Tierney, “The Medieval Poor Law after 50 Years” 10:20-11:30 Henry Mayr-Harting, “Voluntary Poverty and the Earliest Franciscans: Another Look” 11:40-12:50 Alan Cooper, “Poverty in a Time of Prosperity: England, 1200” Lunch… 2:00-3:10 Phillipp Schofield, “Approaching Poverty in the Medieval Countryside” 3:20-4:30 Sharon Farmer, “The Church, the State, and Urban Poverty” Saturday, March 29 9:00-10:00 Eliza Buhrer, "From Caritas to Charity: How Loving God Became Giving Alms" Jon Robinson, "Francis of Marchia on the Poverty of Christ and the Apostles" 10:10-11:10 Ada-Maria Kuskowski, "The Poor and Secular Courts in the Early French Coutumiers" TJ Hinrichs, “Medieval Poverty, a View from China” 11:20-12:30 Mark Cohen, “Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Lunch… 1:40-2:50 Ravi Kanbur, "Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty:An Economist's Approach" 3:00-4:10 Paul Hyams, “Serfdom Without Strings” 4:20-5:30 Miri Rubin, “Poverty and the Poor in the Medieval Landscape” Sunday, March 30 9:00-10:10 Andrew Galloway, “Visible and Invisible Need in 10:20-11:30 Albrecht Diem, “Monastic Poverty and Institution Forming:
Evidence from 11:40-1:30 Roundtable Discussion over Lunch, Taylor Room, Statler Hotel
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