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Tech Gets Medieval Symposium

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    Biology and Germ Warfare
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Spencer, Chrissy ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    Biological or “germ” warfare among humans is an ancient battle tradition. Medieval European writings reveal evidence of biological warfare, such as poisoning well water with human remains (1155, Italy), catapulting plague victims into a besieged city (1346, Siege of Caffa), or mixing the blood of lepers with wine for sale to the enemy (1495, Italy) (reviewed in Reidel, 2004). In a contemporary account of the Siege of Caffa, Italian notary Gabriele de’ Mussi asserted that plague victims were catapulted inside the city walls as a deliberate form of biological warfare. He also assumes that Italians fleeing Caffa by ship carried the plague to port cities in the Mediterranean, thereby initiating a deadly pandemic called the Black Death, which was either bubonic plague or viral haemorrhagic fever (Duncan and Scott, 2005), in Europe. de’ Mussi’s second assertion has received criticism from modern scholars (Wheelis, 2002; Duncan and Scott, 2005), who contend that there were many other more probable causes of the Black Death pandemic. Whether or not the Black Death had its roots in biological warfare, the consequences of the pandemic were far-reaching, and decimated the European population while also causing human evolution that has ramifications for infections in the HIV pandemic of this era.
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    Blacksmithing and Timber-Framed Houses: Pedagogy of Risk
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Crawford, T. Hugh ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    This presentation focuses on two forms of medieval technological practice—timber-frame construction and blacksmithing—and how teaching students to forge iron and chop timber is an invaluable pedagogical tool, especially in the literature classroom.
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    Neo-Medieval Fantasy in Video Games
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Pearce, Celia ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    This paper explores the prevalence of neo-medieval themes in video games and pose some potential reasons why these themes are so pervasive in modern-day, high-tech media.
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    Medieval Construction – Foundation of Today's Industry
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Bowen, Brian ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    A major transformation in the organizational framework of modern construction practices has interesting echoes of its medieval origins, which are relevant to understanding today’s challenges.
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    Opening Remarks
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Burnett, Rebecca ; Meyer, Kellie ; Utz, Richard ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
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    Tried and True Methods
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Madej, Krystina ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    This talk exemplifies how two modern teaching methods, conversational role-playing and practical application, were successfully premiered in 1000 AD by Aelfric of Eynsham, who wrote to help students learn Latin.
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    The Afterlives of Gawain: Illustration as Annotation in the Cotton Nero Ax Manuscript
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Haught, Leah ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    This presentation illuminates the relationship between text and image within one of the most-well known medieval tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, adding much needed information about the context of its composition and reception.
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    Your Mission is to Rescue Lorenzo di Medici: A Demonstration of the Pedagogical Potentials of Using Assassin's Creed II for Teaching the Italian Renaissance
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11-13) Madden, Amanda ; International Society for the Study of Medievalism ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Writing and Communication Program ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    Based on teaching in an undergraduate composition classroom during the Spring and Fall semesters of 2012, this presentation explores the pedagogical potentials of a game to bring alive for students the social and cultural world of the Italian Renaissance.