The Haskins Society at Boston College

Monday, May 25, 2009

About the Haskins Society at Boston College Blog

This site has information about the 2009 Twenty-Eighth International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society–held this year from November 6 through November 8 at Boston College–and things to help you plan your trip to Boston. Below, you will find the conference schedule and registration information as well as descriptions of various conference events. There is also information on the site about the two conference hotels and weblinks to help you make your reservations. There is a place on the site, if you are interested in sharing a hotel room, to find a roommate. You will also find descriptions of local restaurants, drugstores, etc.

To read more, chose one of the "quick links" listed in the right-hand column or simply scroll down the page. In the left-hand column, you will find posts on various topics. In the right-hand column you will find weblinks to maps, driving directions and hotel sites, as well as suggestions, if you have a little extra time, for things to do in Boston.

Even if you cannot come in 2009, please plan to attend sometime between now and 2013, while the conference is still in Boston.

2009 Featured Speakers

Martin Carver is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. He has directed the excavations of some of the most important early medieval sites dug in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is the author of scores of articles, has edited a number of important collections of essays and is the author or co-author of Underneath English Towns: Interpreting Urban Archaeology (1987); Sutton Hoo: a Seventh-Century Princely Burial Ground and its Context (2005); Surviving in Symbols: a Visit to the Pictish Nation (1999); Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts (2008); and most recently Wasperton: a Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England (2009). He is Editor of the journal Antiquity.

Wendy Davies is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at University College, London and was Pro-Provost for European Affairs for the University. She works within and across the disciplines of archaeology, Celtic studies and history and has worked on rural communities and landholding in Wales, Brittany and Spain. She has edited several important collections of essays, and she is co-author of The East Brittany Survey: Fieldwork and Field Data (1994), A Breton Landscape (1997) and The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany = Les inscriptions de la Bretagne du haut moyen âge (2000). She is author of An Early Welsh Microcosm: Studies in the Llandaff Charters (1978); The Llandaff Charters (1979); Wales in the Early Middle Ages (1982); Small Worlds: the Village Community in Early Medieval Brittany (1988); Patterns of Power in Early Wales (1990); and most recently Acts of Giving: Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain (2007).

Paul Freedman is Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia (1983) and Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia (1991). His most recent book is Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (2008). He has also co-edited two important volumes––Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (1999) and Forms of Servitude in Northern and Central Europe (2005). He has most recently edited a volume entitled Food: The History of Taste (2007).

Conference Schedule & Suggestions for Panelists

Conference Schedule:

(You can download conference schedule, if you scroll down to the bottom of this post.)

Friday, November 6
9:00 am–11:15 Council Meeting
11:30–12:30 Lunch, Gasson 100

12:30–1:30 President’s Welcome & The C. Warren Hollister Memorial Lecture
Presiding: Bruce O’Brien, University of Mary Washington

Rural Servitude and Legal Learning in the Reign of James I of Aragon-Catalonia, 1213-1276
Paul Freedman, Yale University

1:30-3:00 SESSION I: Reinventing Narratives in History and Hagiography
Chair: Adam Kosto, Columbia University

Reinvention, Narrative, and Publicity: Rewriting Saints’ Lives in the Carolingian Period
Kristina Helmreich, Yale University

Narrative and Memory: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle(s), 937-55
Alaric A. Trousdale, University of Edinburgh

Classical Allusion and Moralizing History in William of Poitiers
Emily A. Winkler, Jesus College, Oxford

3:00-3:15 Tea break

3:15-4:45 SESSION II: Conflict and Piety in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Charters: The Possibilities and Limits of Diplomatic
Chair: Kate McGrath, Central Connecticut State University

Rent Payments, Feast Days, and Gifts to Saints in the Post-Conquest Anglo-Scottish Border Region
Linsey Hunter, University of St. Andrews

Hospitality and Gifts in Western French Charters
Tracey Billado, Seton Hall University

The Confession of a Forger: Guerno at the Council of Reims (1131)
Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan University

5:00-6:00 SESSION III: England and the Third Crusade
Chair: Emily Albu, University of California-Davis

Richard I’s Crusading Companions
Richard R. Heiser, Presbyterian College

William Longbeard, Trauma, and the Third Crusade
Alan Cooper, Colgate University

6:15 Drinks reception at the McMullen Museum of Art

Saturday, November 7

8:30-10:00 SESSION IV: Finding Justice in the Anglo-Norman World: Texts, Cases and Contexts
Chair: William L. North, Carleton College

A Text Grounded in Its Culture: Integrating Text and Image as a Method for Contextualizing the Norman Anonymous
James R. Ginther, St. Louis University

Bartholomew of Exeter and Roger of Worcester and their “Zeal for Ecclesiastical Justice”
Emily K. Wood, Clemson University

The Third Lateran Council and the Ius Patronatus in England
Joshua C. Tate, Southern Methodist University

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 SESSION V: Defining Status in Northwest Europe: The Count
Chair: Jeff Rider, Wesleyan University

Origo comitum: Narrating the Foundation of a Comital House
Nicholas Paul, Fordham University

Comital Marriages: How Valuable were Affinal Kin?
Richard E. Barton, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Counts after Death
David Crouch, University of Hull

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Department of History

1:00-2:00 Featured Speaker 2
Chair: Robin Fleming, Boston College

Four Windows on Early Britain
Martin Carver, University of York

2:00-3:30 SESSION VII: The Forgotten King: Harold Godwinson
Chair: John D. Cotts, Whitman College

The Value of Visual Representations of Harold Godwinson
Michael Lewis, The British Museum

Harold the Hero
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, University of Manchester

The Origins of Haroldian Nostalgia in Post-Conquest England
Martin K. Foys, Drew University

3:30-4:15 Tea break, hosted by the Catholic University of America Press

3:15-4:45 SESSION VII: Landscape, Architecture and Power in Early Medieval England
Chair: Michael Jones, Bates College

Landscape, Monuments, and the Construction of Social Power in Early Medieval Deira
Lemont Dobson, University of York

Architecture of Reform: Deerhurst Priory in the Tenth Century
Catherine E. Hundley, Georgetown University

Owning Churches Around the Time of Domesday Book
Carol Davidson Cragoe, Independent Scholar

7:30 Annual food, drinks & shop-talk party at Robin Fleming’s house (transportation provided)

Sunday, November 8

8:30-10:00 SESSION VIII: Defining Identity Across the Medieval Mediterranean
Chair: Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College

Saracen Kings; Norman Rulers of Medieval Sicily and the Anti-Islamic Critique
Joshua Birk, Smith College

Norman Identities in the Principality of Antioch
Alan V. Murray, University of Leeds

Medieval Apocalypticisms and Identity Formation: The Jewish Diaspora and the Siege of Jerusalem
Suzanne Yeager, Fordham University

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-11:45 SESSION IX: Problems in Foreign Policy: Vikings, Normans and Angevins
Chair: Fred Suppe, Ball State University

“In This Year Aethelwold Came Hither Over the Sea with All the Fleet he Could Get”: Consorting with the Enemy in Viking-Age Britain and Ireland
Michael R. Davidson, Wilkes University

Count Fulk V of Anjou and the Anglo-Norman Realm
Mark E. Blincoe, University of Minnesota

The Count of the Cotentin: Western Normandy, William of Mortain, and the Career of Henry I
Kerrith Davies, Christ Church, Oxford

11:45-12:00 Break

12:00-1:00 Featured Speaker 3
Chair: Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, London

Summary Justice and Seigneurial Justice in Northern Iberia, c. 1000
Wendy Davies, University College, London

1:00-2:00 Lunch & Roundtable, Department of History

A gentle reminder for those giving papers:
The point of giving a talk is as much about the questions and the conversation that arise during the Q&A period, as it is about the paper itself. Because of this, you are asked to stick closely to your allotted paper-giving time of 20 minutes. A 20-minute paper is generally a 10-page, 12-point-font typescript. Please be courteous to your fellow panelists and come prepared to give a paper of this length. Panel Chairs will be instructed (with, of course, a couple of minutes grace) to keep their panelists to time. We would all like to hear your conclusions, but will be robbed of the pleasure, if you have been dragged off the podium by your Chair.

For those needing AV equipment other than a microphone:
Please send your request, before November 1, to haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com. If you will be using PowerPoint, make sure, when you download your presentation onto a flash drive, to save it in the PowerPoint 97-2004 version, rather than as a .pptx.

Handouts:
You will need to bring copies of your handout with you to the conference. Eighty copies should suffice.

Download a copy of the conference schedule here.

How to Register for the Conference

The earlier you register, the less the conference will cost. In order to take advantage of the early-registration fees, we must receive your registration form by October 1. And, since this is our first year meeting at Boston College, early registration is much appreciated, because it will help facilitate our planning. But remember: whether you send in your registration form early or not, you must make your hotel reservation before October 6, 2009 in order to secure the special Haskins Society Conference rates. And, if we do not have your registration form by October 29, you will not be able to purchase a conference lunch.

To download the registration form, please go to the bottom of this post.

If you live in the U.S. or live abroad but have a U.S. bank account, please answer the form's requisite questions and return by snail-mail with a check made out for the appropriate amount. Make checks payable to "The Haskins Society at Boston College."

If you live abroad and do not have a U.S. bank account, answer the form's requisite questions and return by snail-mail without the check. You can pay, with U.S. dollars, at the conference itself. If we receive your registration form before October 1, you will be charged the early registration fee. If we receive your form after this date, you will be charged the late registration fee.

If you are a graduate student, thanks to the generosity of the Keefe Fund, you do not have to pay a registration fee. Nonetheless, you need to send us your registration form along with a check for the meals you plan to attend as early as you can.

Mail your registration forms & checks to:
Dr. Sally Shockro
Department of History
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Download a registration form here.

Getting to Boston & Boston College

Getting to and around Boston:
Boston Logan International Airport
Logan is not only the closest airport, but it is conveniently linked, by public transportation, to the conference hotels (see below).

Amtrak South Station
If you are coming from Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, Amtrak to South Station may be the best way to come to Boston. Again, South Station is linked, by public transportation, to the conference hotels (see below).

Driving in Boston
Tighten your seat-belts, put on your crash-helmets and pray. If you like slow-motion mayhem, an illogical road system, no street signs, lots of honking and shouting, and think of a red light as a suggestion, you will love driving in Boston. If you learned to drive in California, you will have a weekend-long nervous breakdown.

A T "Charlie Card"
Charlie Cards are T-passes. Fares on the T are $1.70 for a single journey, including all the way from the airport or the Amtrak station to you hotel. There are Charlie-Card machines in all the underground T-stations. Since these cards can only be purchased at underground T-stations (and cannot be purchased at above-ground stops), we suggest that you buy one when you arrive at your first underground station (since both conference hotels, Brookline and Boston College are all served by above-ground trains), and put at least enough money on your card to get you from the airport and back again. But if you plan to use the T at all during your stay, to go to restaurants or (if you are staying at the Best Western) to get to BC each day, you should purchase a Charlie Card with $5- or $10-worth of rides. You can also pay the T conductor for a single ticket, but you must have exact change.

Getting to Boston College:
For those of you staying at the Courtyard Marriott, there is a daily bus to and from the conference. Please gather outside the main entrance of the hotel at the following times:
(the first time = bus in the parking lot; second time in ( ) = bus pulling out of the parking lot)

Friday 10:30 (10:45) Marriot Hotel to Boston College main gate Comm Ave.

Friday 11:30 (11:45) Marriot Hotel to Boston College main gate Comm Ave.

Friday 7:30 (7:45) Boston College main gate Comm Ave. to Marriot Hotel

Saturday 7:30 (7:45) Marriot Hotel to Boston College main gate Comm Ave.

Saturday 5:30 (5:45) Boston College main gate Comm Ave. to Marriot Hotel

Saturday 6:45 (7:00) Marriot Hotel to 45 Grozier Road, Cambridge

Sunday 7:30 (7:45) Marriot Hotel to Boston College main gate Comm Ave.

Sunday 2:00 (2:15) Boston College main gate Comm Ave. to Marriot Hotel

For those of you staying at the Best Western Terrace, 1) you can walk to the Courtyard Marriott in time for the bus (a link to a map with the route between the two hotels is posted on the right-hand column of this site); 2) you can walk or drive (a link to a map of the route to campus and to a campus map can be found in the right-hand column of this site (allow 10-15 minutes to walk from the parking garage to the Burns Library); 3) or you can take the T, which is the easiest of the three options (be sure to take an outbound train, towards Boston College). Get off at the train-line terminus (the stop is called "Boston College"). Cross Commonwealth Avenue, and walk up the hill. (FYI, this is the "Heartbreak Hill of the Boston Marathon.). About halfway up the hill, you will see the main entrance to BC's Middle Campus. Enter campus. The first building on your right is the Burns Library.

Download these instructions here.

Conference Hotel Information

We strongly suggest that you book your hotel room early. November is leaf-peeping season in New England. It is also prime “Parent Weekend” time for many of Boston’s hundred colleges and universities. If you leave it to the last minute, you will not be able to find a hotel room. We have, moreover, secured special conference rates at two hotels, but in order to qualify for the rate, you need to book a minimum of thirty days in advance.

The main conference hotel is the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Brookline. It is from this hotel that the bus will pick up conference attendees going to Boston College each morning and returning from Boston College in the late afternoon. It is also within a hundred yards of a T stop, and, therefore, has easy access to public transportation from Boston’s Logan Airport and the Amtrak station. Finally it is located in the heart of the Coolidge Corner neighborhood of Brookline, and is a short walk from dozens of coffee houses, breakfast places, Irish pubs, and restaurants. We have a block booking of 50 rooms. The Haskins Society Conference rate is $189 per night. Parking is an extra $18.00 a day [If you scroll down, there is a section on this site to help you find a roommate, if you would like to share a room.] You must book before October 6 to get the Haskins Society Conference rate. On October 6, the price goes up to a whopping $269 a night.

N.B.: On 9/16 one society member who tried to book a room, was told that all the conference rooms were all taken. This is not the case. If you are told this, tell the person you are dealing with that the Haskins Society code for rooms with Queen-size beds may be inaccurate. The special Haskins Society code for a room with one king-size bed is HSSHSSB. The special Haskins Society code for a room with two queen beds is HSSHSSC. And rather than going through the Marriott website, we suggest that you call the hotel directly at (866) 296-2296 to book your room.

The second hotel is The Best Western Terrace Inn. This hotel is considerably less expensive at $130 a night, but is also, less, ahem, elegant (a massive understatement) and considerably less convenient. It is 1.3 miles from the main conference hotel and restaurants, and about the same distance to the Burns Library, at Boston College, where the talks will take place. The Best Western is a good alternative, though, for people who are driving to the conference. Parking is free, and although there will not be a bus service to the conference, you will be able to drive to Boston College, and park on campus each day, and you will be able to drive to Coolidge Corner, where most people at the Conference will be spending their evenings. If you do not have a car, you can take the T to Boston College from Commonwealth Avenue (be sure to take an outbound train.) If you scroll down a bit, you will find a place on this site to either volunteer a seat in your car, if you are staying at the Best Western, or to ask for a ride if you plan to stay without a car. We have block booked 20 rooms. Again, the price goes up, this time to $170, if you book after October 6.

For reservations, call or click on one of the hotel links in the right-hand column of this site. Be sure to tell them that you are with the Haskins Society.

Courtyard Marriott Hotel
40 Webster Street, Coolidge Corner
Brookline, MA 02446 USA
(866) 296-2296

Best Western Terrace Inn
1650 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02135
1-(617) 566-6260

How to Get to your Hotel from the Airport or the Amtrak station

How to get to the Courtyard Marriott Hotel

From Logan International Airport:
You can take a taxi. The price will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $40, and if you come during rush hour, your trip will not be any faster than it would have been had you taken the T, Boston’s underground and streetcar system, which costs $1.70.

T instructions for the Brookline Courtyard Marriott:
1. Take the Silver Line to South Station.
2. At South Station take the Red Line (towards Alewife) two stops to Park Street.
3. At Park Street, take the C train of the Green Line (towards Cleveland Circle) to Coolidge Corner. [Sit back and relax, until your train goes above ground. At this point, you should ask the conductor or someone sitting near you, to tell you when you have arrived at Coolidge Corner.]
5. When you get off the train, orient yourself. With your back to downtown Boston (the way you have just come) cross to the left-hand side of the street. Walk a short block, and you will see the Courtyard Marriott on your left.

T instructions from the Amtrak station at South Station to the Courtyard Marriott:
1. At South Station take the Red Line (towards Alewife) two stops to Park Street.
2. At Park Street, take the C train of the Green Line (towards Cleveland Circle) to Coolidge Corner. [Sit back and relax, until your train goes above ground. At this point, you should ask the conductor or someone sitting near you, to tell you when you have arrived at Coolidge Corner.]
3. When you get off the train, orient yourself. With your back to downtown Boston (the way you have just come) cross to the left-hand side of the street. Walk a short block, and you will see the Courtyard Marriott on your left.

How to get to the Best Western Terrace
From Logan International Airport:
You can take a taxi. The price will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $50, and if you come during rush hour, your trip will not be any faster than it would have been had you taken the T, Boston’s underground and streetcar system, which costs $1.70.
1. Take the Silver Line to South Station.
2. At South Station take the Red Line (towards Alewife) two stops to Park Street.
3. At Park Street, take the B train of the Green Line (towards Boston College) to Washington St. [Sit back and relax, until your train goes above ground. At this point, you should ask the conductor or someone sitting near you, to tell you when you have arrived at Washington Street.]
5. When you get off the train, orient yourself. With your back to downtown Boston (the way you have just come) cross to the left-hand side of the street. Walk a couple of blocks, and you will see the hotel on your left. (It is near the Gulf Station.)

From the Amtrak station at South Station
1. At South Station take the Red Line (towards Alewife) two stops to Park Street.
2. At Park Street, take the B train of the Green Line (towards Boston College) to Washington St. [Sit back and relax, until your train goes above ground. At this point, you should ask the conductor or someone sitting near you, to tell you when you have arrived at Washington Street.]
3. When you get off the train, orient yourself. With your back to downtown Boston (the way you have just come) cross to the left-hand side of the street. Walk a couple of blocks, and you will see the hotel on your left. (It is near the Gulf Station.)

There is a link with a map of the T system in the right-hand column of this site.

Download these instructions here.

Finding a Person with whom to Share a Hotel Room

If you would like to find someone willing to share a hotel room with you, please use the comment box at the end of the posting (if it is unopened, click the word "comment"). Tell us 1) your name, 2) your e-mail address, 3) in which hotel you wish to stay, and 4) whether or not you will have a car at the conference. Since the comment box will only accommodate five comments at a time, we will incorporate your details into the body of this posting within 24 hours, and erase them from the comment box.

When looking for a roommate, feel free to email people who have left their details.

When you have found someone with whom to share a room, please email us at haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com, and we will remove your details from the posting.

Postings of People who would like to share rooms:

Posting number one:
Sarah Delinger

I have reserved a room at Best Western Terrace Inn-double room and am willing to share with another female attendee.
no car at conference
contact:delinger@boo.net

Posting number two:

I have a reservation at the Courtyard Marriott for Friday and Saturday nights. I'd be glad to share with another female attendee. contact: paxtonj@georgetown.edu

If you are Staying in the Best Western Terrace Inn would you like to have or share a ride to the conference

If you are planning to stay at the Best Western Terrace Inn and have both a car and a spare seat or two; or if you are planning to stay there without a car, but hope to find a ride, please use the comment box at the end of the posting (if unopened, click the word "comment"). Tell us 1) your name, 2) your e-mail address, 3) and whether you are offering a ride or looking for one. Since the comment box will only accommodate five comments at a time, we will incorporate your details into the body of this posting within 24 hours, and erase them from the comment box.

When arranging rides, feel free to email people who have left their details.

When you have found a ride or filled up your car, please email us at haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com, and we will remove your details from the posting.

David Crouch will be staying at the Best Western, and wonders if anybody with a car, who can provide him with a ride, will be staying there as well. If so, please contact him at:

d.crouch@hull.ac.uk

Parking at Boston College

If you are driving to campus, go to the lower-campus gate on Beacon Street, located across the street from the T's Green Line terminus. At the main gate, tell the attendant you are with the Haskins Society Conference. You will be directed to the Lower Campus Commonwealth Ave. garage. Both this garage and a route to the Burns Library, where the conference is being held, are found on the Boston College map, in one of the links on the right-hand column of this site. Allow between 10 and 15 minutes to walk between the two.

Warning: Street Parking around Boston College is limited to cars with resident stickers.

Where to Eat

Brookline is divided into a number of neighborhoods. If you walk from the Marriott Hotel to Beacon Street (the major thoroughfare just around the corner from the hotel) and stand with your back to the hotel, it will be easy to orient yourself to these neighborhoods. Both the area around the hotel and the territory to the right is known as Coolidge Corner. The main shopping and eating in Coolidge Corner can be found to your right on Beacon Street and along Harvard Street, one block down from the hotel. When you reach the intersection of Beacon and Harvard, turn left on Harvard St. If, instead, you take a right on Beacon St., but then take a right on Harvard Street, and then walk for 10 or 15 minutes, you will enter Brookline Village. If, on the other hand, you take a left on Beacon Street and walk for 15 or 20 minutes, you will hit Washington Square. You can also take the T to Washington Square (be sure to take the outbound train, and ask the conductor to tell you when to get off). You can download a copy of this list, if you scroll down to the bottom of this post.

Coffee/Breakfast
Coolidge Corner
• Zaftigs Delicatessen (for the mother of all breakfasts!), 335 Harvard St., Brookline
• Peet’s Coffee and Tea, 285 Harvard St, Brookline
• Starbucks, 1655 Beacon St., Brookline
Washington Square
• Athans Cafe, 1621 Beacon St., Brookline
• Cafe Fixe, 1642 Beacon St., Brookline

Cheap & Cheerful [some entrees under $10; not all with table service]
Coolidge Corner
• Anna's Taqueria (Mexican), 1412 Beacon St, Brookline
• Dok Bua (Thai), 411 Harvard St, Brookline
• Rod Dee Thai Cuisine (Thai), 1430 Beacon St, Brookline
• Zenna Noodle Bar (Vietnamese), 1374 Beacon St, Brookline
• Super Fusion Cuisine (Japanese/Korean), 690A Washington St., Brookline
• Boca Grande (Mexican), 1294 Beacon St., Brookline
• Rami (Middle Eastern/Kosher), 324 Harvard St., Brookline
• Upper Crust Pizza (Pizza), 286 Harvard St., Brookline
Brookline Village
• T-Rex Taqueria (Mexican), 6 Cypress St., Brookline Village
• Family Restaurant (Turkish), 305 Washington St., nr. Brookline Village

Moderately Priced
Coolidge Corner
• Rani (Indian), 1353 Beacon St, nr Coolidge Corner, Brookline
• Zaftigs Delicatessen (great deli food), 335 Harvard St., Brookline
Brookline Village
• Matt Murphy's (pub with excellent food), 14 Harvard St., Brookline Village, (617) 232-0188
• Tashi Delek (Tibetan), 236 Washington St., Brookline Village
• Orinoco (Venezuelan), 22 Harvard St., nr. Brookline Village
• Pho Lemon Grass (Vietnamese), 239 Harvard St., towards Brookline Village
Washington Square:
• Roadhouse BBQ (pub with ribs and other good food), 1700 Beacon St., Brookline, 617-487-4290

Moderately Expensive
Coolidge Corner
• The Publick House (unbelievable selection of beer as well as food),1648 Beacon St., Brookline, (617) 277-2880
Brookline Village
• Pomodoro (Italian), 24 Harvard St, 617-566-4455 (reservations strongly recommended)
Washington Square
• The Fireplace (Italian), 1634 Beacon St, Brookline, (617) 975-1900 (reservations strongly recommended)
• The Washington Square Tavern (New American), 714 Washington St, Brookline, (617) 232-8989 (no reservations taken)
• Tamarind Bay (Indian, vegetarian friendly), 1665 Beacon St.

A short T-ride towards Boston
• Taberna de Haro (Tapas), 999 Beacon St, Brookline, (617) 277-8272 (no reservations taken, but you can call ahead and put your name on the list for a shorter wait)
• Elephant Walk (Cambodian), 900 Beacon Street, (617) 247-1500 (reservations strongly recommended)
• Jae's (Asian fusion), 1223 Beacon St., Brookline

Download a pdf of this list.

Thursday Night Gathering

On Thursday night many of us will gather, between 7pm and 11pm, at the Roadhouse BBQ. The Roadhouse has forty kinds of beer on tap (and about twenty-five more in bottles) and a wide selection of inexpensive food. To get to The Roadhouse BBQ from the Marriott, walk a few steps from the main entrance of the hotel to Beacon Street (the main thoroughfare just around the corner from the hotel). Either hop on the T and go outbound a couple of stops (in other words, in the opposite direction of downtown Boston), or walk 15 minutes to 1700 Beacon St (it will be on the far side of the street).

There will be a large, early contingent from Boston College at the Roadhouse from about 6:30 on. The establishment is a straight shot down Beacon Street from the Courtyard Marriott. If you are worried that no one will be there when you arrive, call (617) 417-2878, and we will let you know if a group from the conference is still there. If this is your first time at the conference, and you do not recognize anyone when you get to the Roadhouse BBQ, ask the receptionist or bartender for the Haskins Society, and you will be pointed our way.

Roadhouse BBQ, 1700 Beacon St., Brookline, 617-487-4290. You will find a map from the Marriott to the Roadhouse, under "directions," in the right-hand column of this site.

Invitation to the Haskins Society Friday Evening Drinks Reception

All attendees of the Haskins Society Conference are cordially invited to a drinks reception at 6:15 pm, held after the last session on Friday afternoon and generously provided by the Boston College Office of the Vice Provost. It will take place at the The McMullen Museum of Art, a short walk from the Burns Library.

On display will be a special exhibition of drawings from the The Becker Collection, which is comprised of hundreds of sketches by a number of artist-reporters who witnessed many of the battles of the American Civil War, and whose drawings were then published by the Illustrated Weekly.

Invitation to the Annual Saturday Night Haskins Society Food, Drink & Shop-Talk Party

All attendees of the Haskins Society Conference are cordially invited to our annual Saturday-night, come-early-and-stay-late, food-and-drinks fest. This is one of the conferences most cherished traditions (first hosted by Sally Vaughn in Houston and then by Bruce O’Brien in Georgetown). Everyone, especially first-time conference goers and graduate students, are not only welcomed but urged/cajoled/begged to come.

It will be held at Robin Fleming’s house in Cambridge. For those with cars, be sure to ask for a map. For those without cars, transportation will be provided from the Courtyard Marriott Hotel. Buses will leave promptly at 7:00 pm.

Come hungry & thirsty and leave your neckties and uncomfortable conference shoes at the hotel.

Exhibition at the Burns Library

All talks at the conference will be given in the Trustees Room, on the second floor of the The Burns Library, Boston College’s Special Collections Library. The Burns Library is home to more than 150,000 volumes and some 15,000,000 manuscripts. Three of the Burn’s most important collections contain material pertaining to Ireland, the Jesuits before 1773 and Jamaican and African ethnography.

During our conference the Burns will be hosting a special exhibition on incunabulae. The exhibit space is on the first floor of the Burns, where coffee and cookies will be served between sessions. We hope you will be able to take some time, during our breaks, to look at the exhibit.

Book News

Catholic University of America Afternoon Tea:
We are pleased to acknowledge that one of the presses displaying books at our conference, Catholic University of America Press, will be honoring a number of our members with recently published books–John Cotts, Jeff Rider, Alan Murray and Ruth Harwood Cline–by sponsoring our Saturday afternoon tea.

Recent Books:
We are happy to announce that the following books, written by our members and conference attendees, have recently appeared or are now in press:

• William M. Aird, Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy (c. 1050-1134) (Boydell: 2008)

• Emilie Amt and S.D. Church, eds., Dialogus de Scaccario, and the Constitutio Domus Regis (Oxford Univeristy Press: 2007)

• Mary Berg and Howard Jones, Norman Churches in the Canterbury Diocese (The History Press: 2009)

• Thomas N. Bisson, The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government (Princeton: 2009)

• Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Chrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuation (Oxford University Press: 2009)

• Martin Carver, Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts (Edinburgh University Press: 2008)

• Martin Carver, Catherine Hills, Jonathan Scheschkewitz, Wasperton: A Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England (Boydell: 2009)

• Elizabeth Coatsworth and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Medieval Textiles of the British Isles c. 450-1100: an Annotated Bibliography, BAR, Brit. Ser., 445 (Archaeopress: 2007)

• John Cotts, The Clerical Dilemma: Peter of Blois and Literate Culture in the Twelfth Century (Catholic University of America: 2009)

• Carol Davidson Cragoe, How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architecture (Rizzoli, 2008)

• Rees Davies, Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages, ed. Brendan Smith (Oxford: 2009)

• Wendy Davies, Acts of Giving: Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain (Oxford University Press: 2007)

• Kirsten A. Fenton, Gender, Nation and Conquest in the Works of William of Malmesbury (Boydell and Brewer, 2008)

• Robin Fleming, Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain (Penguin: in press)

• Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (Yale University Press: 2009)

• Mary Frances Giandrea, Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell: 2007)

• John Gillingham, The English in the Twelfth Century: Imperialism, National Identity and Political Values (Boydell, 2008)

• Judith Green, Henry I: King of England and Duke of Normandy (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

• Ruth Harwood-Cline, trans., The Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (Catholic University of America: 2009)

• Samantha Kahn Herrick, Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy (Harvard University Press, 2007)

Cynthia Neville, Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh University Press: in press)

• Bruce O'Brien, Conquering Babel: Translation in England from Alfred to the Thirteenth Century (University of Delaware: in press)

• Gale R. Owen-Crocker, The Four Funerals in Beowulf (Manchester University Press: 2009)

• Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Robin Netherton, eds., Medieval Clothing and Textiles, 5 (Boydell: 2009)

• Gale R. Owen-Crocker, ed., Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Exeter University Press: 2009)

• Alan V. Murray, The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (Ashgate: 2009)

• Jeff Rider and Alan V. Murray, eds., Galbert of Bruges and the Historiography of Medieval Flanders (Catholic University of America: 2009)

• Christine Senecal, Catherine Clay and Chandrika Paul, Envisioning Women in World History, vol 1: from Prehistory to 1500 (McGraw-Hill: 2008)

• Brendan Smith, ed., Ireland and the English World in the Late Middle Ages (Palgrave: 2009)

• Pauline Stafford, ed., A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c. 500-1100 (Wiley: 2009)

• Ian Short, trans., Geffrei Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis: History of the English (Oxford: 2009)

• Ralph V. Turner, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, Queen of England (Yale: 2009)

• Elisabeth Van Houts and Patricia Skinner, eds. and trans., Medieval Writings about Women in Secular Life (Penguin: in press)

• Sally N. Vaughn and Jay Rubenstein, eds., Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200 (Brepols: 2007)

• Alex Woolf, From Pictland to Alba: Scotland, 789-1070 (Edinburgh University Press: 2007)

• Suzanne M. Yeager, Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative (Cambridge University Press: 2008)

Book Sellers at the Conference

Three booksellers will be displaying their wares at the Haskins Society this year:
Boydell and Brewer

Catholic University of America

David Brown Books (a.k.a. Oxbow)

Brill

Information about Conference Prices

Graduate Student Registration Fees: Thanks the the generosity of the Keefe Memorial Fund, graduate students do not have to pay registration fees.

This Year's Registration Fees & Meal Prices: Because of the global economic crisis and the scarcity of travel funds, we have done what we can to cut costs at the conference. Thanks to the generous support of the Boston College Office of the Vice Provost, many conference expenses are covered by Boston College, and this helps keep the cost of registration fees down. We have also done everything we can to lower the price of the lunches. For two out of three of our lunches, we have chosen informal and reasonably-priced over tablecloths and table service. As a result, this year's registration fees and meal prices are $75 less than they were last year! Boston College is also hosting a cocktail party for the society on campus on Friday night and a food & drinks party on Saturday night, which defray some of the costs conference-goers have had in earlier years. All of this more than offsets the high-price of Boston hotels. Still, because hotel rates are high, we are doing what we can to make it easier for conference goers with travel-budget woes to share rooms.

Having a problem? Need something?

24-Hour Pharmacy:
CVS Pharmacy
1322 Beacon St
Brookline, MA 02445
(617) 731-4410

Copying, Office Supplies & Shipping:
Fedex Kinko's Brookline Coolidge Corner
1370 Beacon Street, Unit R2
Brookline, MA 02446
617-731-3100

Bookstore:
Brookline Booksmith
79 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 566-6660

Post Office:
1295 Beacon St
Brookline, MA
(617) 738-1649

Internet Connection:
Both the Courtyard Marriott and The Best Western Terrace Inn have free wireless for their guests, and the Marriott has computers, for guest use, in the lobby.

If you are having difficulties using local phones:
All local phone calls in Boston must include the area code. So, if using a local phone, please add a 1-(617) in front of every local, seven-digit phone number.

If you have questions about the program:
Please email John Cotts (cottsjd@whitman.edu).

If you have questions about the conference:
Please email Robin Fleming & Sally Shockro (haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com).

Extra Information

Bus Schedule

We have organized bus pick-ups between The Marriot Hotel and the Conference, and between the Conference and Robin Fleming's house (for our Saturday night get-together). The bus runs on a schedule. It will leave on time, so if you want to make it, don't be late!

Here are the pickup times (first time = bus arrives; time in ( ) = the time the bus will leave, followed by the location of the bus: