The 32nd Meeting of
the Haskins Society
Boston College
October 25–27, 2013
Friday, October 25,
2013
12:00-1:15
Welcome and the C.
Warren Hollister Memorial Lecture
Presiding: William North, Carleton College
'Mores tuos fabricae loquuntur'. Building activity and the
rhetoric of power in Ostrogothic Italy
Maria Cristina La Rocca, Università degli Studi di Padova
1:15-1:30 break
1:30-2:30
Session 1: England’s
Troubles in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Chair: Tracey-Anne Cooper, St. John’s University
The Bishop’s Authority: The Legal Rhetoric of Wulfstan’s
So-Called Peace of Edward and Guthrum
Jay Paul Gates, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
A Franco-Danish Marriage and the Plot against England
T. Heebøll-Holm, The Saxo-Institute, University of
Copenhagen
2:30-3:00 coffee
3:00-4:30
Session 2: Texts and Identity
in the Early Middle Ages
Chair: Austin Mason, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sanctity and Authority in Bede’s Saints’ Lives
Sally Shockro, Merrimack College
A Hypothetical Slave in Constantinople: Amalarius’s Liber
Officialis and the Mediterranean Slave Trade
Shane Bobrycki, Harvard University
The Matrix of Bede’s Old Testament Exegesis: The Commentary
on First Samuel
Scott DeGregorio, University of Michigan, Dearborn
4:30-4:45 break
4:45-6:45
Session 3: Rethinking
Authority, Politics and Conquest
Chair: Richard P. Abels, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis
Regionality and conquest: revisiting the Norman Conquest of
the North
Aleksandra McClain, University of York
Politics, Sex and Violence in the Borders of the Bayeux
Tapestry
Howard Clarke, University College, Dublin (Emeritus)
Bertrada of Montfort in Chronicles and Charters: A Mirror
for Historians of Politics and Society in 11th- 12-Century France
Kimberly A. LoPrete, National University of Ireland, Galway
Contested Authority in England and the Afterlife of Thomas
Becket
Joseph P. Creamer, Fordham University
6:45 reception at
the McMullen Museum of Art
Saturday, October 26,
2013
8:30-10:00
Session 4: New
Perspectives on Violence in Medieval France and England
Chair: Belle S. Tuten, Juniata College
Did Orderic Vitalis Have a Concept of Violence?
Richard E. Barton, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Invention of “Evil Customs” and “Banal Lordship” in
Post-Medieval France
Tracey L. Billado, University of Staten Island
Royal Violence in England, c. 1066 to c. 1272
Stephen D. White, Duke University
10:00-10:30
coffee
10:30-12:00
Session 5: The
Twelfth-Century Church and its Troubles
Chair: Emily Winkler, Jesus College, University of Oxford
“A Flame in the North:” Bishop Ranulf of Durham and the
Progress of Clerical Reform in the Early Twelfth-Century English Church
William M. Aird, Edinburgh University
Follow the Money: Ecclesiastical Politics and Financial Fraud in Late
Twelfth-Century Paris
Mia Münster-Swendsen, Roskild University
The Religious Patronage of St Martin-le-Grand during the
Anarchy, 1135-1154
Joanna Lamb, The Catholic University of America
12:00-1:00 lunch (History
Department)
1:15-2:15
Public Discussion on
the State of the Haskins Society
Presiding: Chris Lewis, King’s College, London
As the society prepares to move to our fifth venue, we will
hold a general discussion on the ways in which we would like to shape the
conference and the society in the future, and discuss a variety of topics,
including 1) the chronological and geographical bounds of the society 2) the
role of interdisciplinarity, 3) areas that we do not now cover that we should,
4) the balance between papers and time for discussion.
2:15-2:30 break
2:30-4:00
Session 6: Legislating
the Other: Jews, Muslims, and Foreigners in Medieval European Legal
Sources
Chair: Christine Senecal, Shippensburg University
A Hermeneutical Feast: Interreligious Dining in Early
Medieval Counciliar Legislation
Gregory Halfond, Framingham State University
The Economic Regulation of Muslims in Medieval Sicily
Timothy Smit, Eastern Kentucky University
The Útlendisma∂r in Iceland––Merchants and Monsters
Jeffrey Hartman, University of Minnesota
4:00-4:30 coffee
4:30-5:30
Session 7: Curial
Imaginings: Representation and Critique of the Papacy and Curia in the Eleventh
and Twelfth Centuries
Chair: Jason Glenn, University of Southern California
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine...": Legitimacy,
Representation, and the Politics of Information during the 'Pravilegium' Crisis
1111-1116
William North, Carleton College
Ad limina apostolorum: perceptions of the papacy in German chronicles of the
early twelfth century
Thomas McCarthy, New College of Florida
7:30 Party at
Robin Fleming’s house
Sunday, October 27,
2013
8:30-10:00
Session 8: Chronicles,
Nationalities and Marches: Cistercian Historical Writing in Scotland and Wales
Chair: Constance Berman, University of Iowa
The View from Melrose: a Cistercian Chronicle’s Perceptions
of England and the English from the Anglo-Scottish Borderlands
John Reuben Davies, University of Glasgow
English Annalistic Sources in Welsh Tradition
Georgia Henley, Harvard University
Rethinking the Chronicle of the Princes
Owain Wyn Jones, University of Bangor
10:00-10:30
coffee
10:30-12:00
Session 9: Learning
and Authority in the Long Twelfth Century
Chair: Charlotte Cartwright, State University of New York,
Oswego
Fighting to be the Tallest Dwarf: Invidia in the
Self-Conception of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Masters
Corinna Matlis, Cornell University
The Originality of William of Newburgh
Michael Staunton, University College, Dublin
Charters and Hospitality in England during the Long Twelfth
Century
Paul Hyams, Cornell University
12:00-12:15 break
12:15-1:15
Session 10: Conflicts
and Depredation
Chair: Emily Albu, University of California, Davis
The Diplomatics of Depredation
Thomas Roche, Archives départementales of Nièvre
The Magna Carta conflict (1215-17) and the French
Daniel Power, Swansea University
1:15-2:15 lunch
(History Department)
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 October 15, 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.
You can download a copy of the conference schedule here.
