Thursday, November 3
Many of us will be gathering for conversation, drinks and food at American Craft at 1700 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, 02446, 6:45 pm to 10 pm.
Friday, November 4
8:30 am–11:30 Council Meeting
11:30–12:10 Conference Registration Gasson Hall (all sessions will be held in Gasson 100)
11:30–12:10 Conference Registration Gasson Hall (all sessions will be held in Gasson 100)
12:15–1:15 Conference Director’s Welcome & The C. Warren Hollister Memorial Lecture
Presiding: Robin Fleming, Boston College
The Dynamics of Landed and Portable Wealth: Defining Elites in Northwest Europe from an Archaeological Perspective, between AD 650 and 1150
Christopher Loveluck, University of Nottingham
1:30-3:00 SESSION I: Christians in the Early Middle Ages: The Good, the Bad and the Confused
Chair: Michael Jones, Bates College
Regarding the Water: Landscapes of Conversion in Early Medieval England
Austin Mason, Boston College
Episcopal Liberty and the Council of Paris (556/73)
Gregory I. Halfond, Framingham State University
Hincmar and Anastasius: Lying, Treacherous Villains
Shane Bobrycki, Harvard University
3:00-3:30 Tea break
3:30-5:00 SESSION II: Eleventh-Century Landholdings and Landholders
Chair: Christine Senecal, Shippensburg University
The Monks of Fécamp and Their Ducal Patrons:
Transformations of the Eleventh Century
Transformations of the Eleventh Century
Lauren Mancia, Yale University
Context and Cultivation: The Formation of a Monastic Property Network in Eleventh-Century Brittany
Regan Eby, Boston College
Profiling English Landed Society in 1066
C.P. Lewis, Kings College, London
5:10-6:10 SESSION III: Putting Women Back in the Story
Chair: Emilie Amt, Hood College
The Flemish Evidence for the Gender of Weavers and the Boat Shuttle
Constance H. Berman, University of Iowa
Feudal Prerogatives and Female Vassals: Philip II’s Manipulation of Marriage
Erin Jordan, Old Dominion University
6:15 Viewing of the "Making History" exhibit, and drinks and snacks reception at the McMullen Museum of Art
Saturday, November 5
8:30-10:00 SESSION IV: Thinking about the Past in the Middle Ages
Chair: Mary Frances Giandrea, American University
Public and Private Audiences: Reflections on the Anglo-Saxon Archive of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in Suffolk
Sarah Foot, Christ Church, University of Oxford
Southern Italy and the Construction of the Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis
Daniel Roach, University of Exeter
The Genesis and Argument of Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum
Paul Hayward, Lancaster University
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 SESSION V: Warfare in the Mediterranean
Chair: Richard Abels, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis
The Myth of the “Invincibility” of the Norman Cavalry Charge in the Eleventh Century: a Comparative Analysis of the Battles of Hastings (1066) and Dyrrachium (1081)
George Theotokis, University of Notre Dame
Anonymus Vaticanus: Another Source for the Normans in the South?
Charles D. Stanton
Warfare in the Plain of the Po 1189–1226
John France, Swansea University and Charles Boal Ewing Chair, US Military Academy, West Point
12:00-1:00 Lunch, Department of History
1:00-2:00 Featured Speaker
Presiding: C.P. Lewis, King’s College London
“Those Five Knights You Owe Me from Your Abbey:” Organizing Military Service after the Norman Conquest: Evesham and Beyond
Howard Clarke, University College Dublin
2:30-4:00 SESSION VI: The Cistercians of Furness and Cross-Border Contacts
Chair: Frederick Suppe, Ball State University
Hagiography at the Frontiers: Jocelin of Furness and his Near Contemporaries
Clare Downham, University of Liverpool
Furness Abbey and Daughter Houses: Irish Sea Relations in the Twelfth Century
Fiona Edmonds, Clare College, Cambridge University
Plausible Fictions: Jocelin of Furness and the Book of British Bishops
Helen Birkett, University of Exeter
Helen Birkett, University of Exeter
4:00-4:30 Tea break
4:30-6:00: SESSION VII: Outsiders
Chair: Sally Shockro, Merrimack College
“Becoming More Like God:” Cultural and Symbolic Perspectives of Testamentary Manumission in Anglo-Saxon Society
Dave Wyatt, Cardiff University
Dave Wyatt, Cardiff University
Outlawry in Medieval England
Melissa Sartore, West Virginia University-Institute of Technology
Responses to Mental Illness in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Normandy
Elma Brenner, University of Toronto
7:30 Annual food, drinks & shop-talk party at Robin Fleming’s house, sponsored by Boston College (buses will leave from the Marriott Hotel at 7:10)
Sunday, November 6
8:30-10:00 SESSION VIII: Theology in its Cultural Context
Chair: Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College
The Theme of Lay Clænness in Ælfric’s Letters to Siegeweard, Sigefyrð and Brother Edward
Shannon Ambrose, Saint Xavier University
Shannon Ambrose, Saint Xavier University
Hugh of St. Victor and the “Secular Writings:” a Shift from Philosophical Ardor to Doctrinal Prudence?
Elisabeth Mégier, Visiting Fellow, Medieval Institute, Notre Dame
Premonita fueram: Twelfth-Century Intellectual Culture and Elisabeth of Schönau’s Visionary Works
Sarah Spalding, The Catholic University of America
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 SESSION IX: Crusades and Piety
Chair: Jennifer Paxton, The Catholic University of America
Laura Ashe, Worcester College, University of Oxford
Christian Society on the Second Crusade: Religious Practices in the De expugnatione Lyxbonensi
Susanna A. Throop, Ursinus College
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00-1:00 Featured Speaker
Presiding: Bruce O’Brien, University of Mary Washington
Godric of Finchale's Canora Modulatio: The Visual and Auditory Worlds of a Twelfth-Century ContemplativeMonika Otter, Dartmouth College
1:00-2:00 Lunch, 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. We support both PowerPoint and Keynote.
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.
