The Haskins Society at Boston College

About the Society

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The Charles Homer Haskins Society’s name commemorates and honors one of the United States’ most eminent medieval historians, Charles Homer Haskins (1870–1937). A major influence in American graduate education, he taught many fine students, some of whom taught senior members of this society. His work on the Normans, the twelfth-century renaissance, medieval science, and the rise of the university was seminal, and he effectively pioneered the study of medieval culture as an autonomous field. The Haskins Society is dedicated to the promotion of his many and varied interests, including, but not limited to Anglo-Saxon, viking, Anglo-Norman and early Angevin history, and the history of neighboring areas and peoples.

Although primarily a society of historians, the Haskins Society welcomes historically minded archaeologists, art historians and literature specialists, and encourages them to submit papers to our conference and journal, The Haskins Society Journal.

The Society holds its annual conferences in November at Boston College; additionally, it organizes and sponsors scholarly sessions at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan in early May of each year and at the Leeds International Medieval Congress each summer.

As an Affiliated Society of the American Historical Association, the Haskins Society organizes joint Haskins-AHA sessions at AHA annual meetings. The Haskins Society also cooperates closely with the Battle Conferences on Anglo-Norman Studies. The Society numbers more than 200 scholars, drawn from the United States and Canada, many from Britain, and others from France, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Australia, and elsewhere.

Our journal is issued annually.

Officers of the Haskins Society

Chris Lewis, President

Graham Loud, Vice President for Britain & Europe

Robert Berkhofer, Vice President for North America

Robin Fleming, Conference Director

Sally Shockro Associate Conference Director

W. Scott Jessee, Executive Secretary

Mary Frances Giandrea, Treasurer

Claire Dutton, Associate Treasurer (UK & Europe)

Kenji Yoshitake, Associate Treasurer (Japan)

Fred Suppe, Associate Treasurer

William L. North, Editor of the Haskins Society Journal

Carol Davidson Cragoe, Webmaster

Councilors of the Haskins Society

Bruce O’Brien (Immediate Past President)

Emily Albu

Richard Barton

Brendan Smith

Hirokazu Tsurushima

Laura Gathagan

Nicholas Paul

Denis Bethell Prize Competition 2011

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The Bethell Prize honors the memory of Denis Bethell, late of University College, Dublin, whose tragically early death deprived us of a good friend and a fine scholar. The purpose of the prize is to encourage the presentation of high quality papers at conferences sponsored by the Haskins Society and in Haskins sponsored sessions at other conferences, and the submission of such papers to the Haskins Society Journal.

The prize is US $400 (or the sterling equivalent) and publication of a revised version of the winning paper in the Haskins Society Journal for the year when the paper was presented. (Following standard academic practice, the journal editor may request that the author make further revisions prior to publication.)

Eligibility: All conference papers presented by junior

scholars (graduate students or non-tenured faculty)

who are Haskins Society members at any session

sponsored by the Society during the 12 months of the membership calendar year are eligible. Besides the

Haskins Society Conference itself, Haskins-sponsored sessions at the American Historical Association

conference, the annual conference of the Medieval

Academy of America, the annual International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, and the annual International Medieval Conference at Leeds are also eligible venues.

The author of the paper must present the paper in

person at the relevant conference and must be a

member of the Haskins Society. (Prospective

presenters may contact the Society's treasurer, Mary Frances Giandrea about membership at giandrea@comcast.net : note that the Society has a special

student rate.)

The judge for all papers submitted during a 12-month

cycle will be a scholar appointed by the Haskins Society Council.

Submission: Entrants for the prize have until the end of the calendar year in which their paper was presented at a conference to revise it into article format, and then send it to the Bethell Prize Coordinator. The author of the article must send one electronic copy of the article to the Coordinator as email attachment or on diskette, along with postal and e-mail addresses valid for the following year. At the end of the calendar year the Prize Coordinator will send the submitted papers to the Judge.

Judging criteria. The Bethell Prize Judge will evaluate the submitted papers according to their contribution to medieval scholarship and worthiness for publication. The Judge may offer suggestions for revision to authors and may pass such suggestions to the editor of the Haskins Society Journal.

Award. The winner of the Bethell Prize will be announced in the Haskins Society newsletter and on the Society’s website. If the winner is able to attend the next Fall's annual Haskins Society Conference, he/she will be congratulated then. The financial award and further details will be mailed to the winner.

Other papers entered for the prize besides the winner may be submitted to the editor of the Haskins Society Journal for consideration in the usual way.

Bethell Prize Coordinator:
Professor Emily Albu
Classics Program, University of California
One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 USA
emalbu@ucdavis.edu

2011 Conference Schedule and Suggestions for Panellists

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

The Fate of the Warrior’s Soul: Crusading, Chivalry, and the Formation of English Knighthood
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 Contemplative
Monika 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.

Our 2011 Featured Speakers

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We are pleased to announce our 2011 featured speakers.

Chris Loveluck teaches medieval archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He is the excavator and explicator of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Flixborough. More recently, with the support of the British Academy and the AHRC, he has worked with French and Belgian colleagues on a series of archaeological survey projects which seek to uncover the dynamics of rural societies in coastal Flanders and the Loire valley, and he is writing a book coming out of this work on northwest Christendom from the Carolingians to the Crusades. He is also working on a long-term project on Stavnsager-Ammelhede, a 150 hectare site in northeast Jutland, which may have been one of the earliest towns in Denmark.

Howard B. Clarke is Professor emeritus at University College Dublin. His work, which spans the whole of the Middle Ages and engages in both history and archaeology, has long been focused on towns, especially Dublin and Ireland's other urban communities. His voluminous publications on Dublin center on the topography of the medieval city, its ethnic composition and its ecclesiastical history. He has co-edited a series of influential volumes on comparative urban history and Ireland and Scandinavia, and has participated both as an editor and contributor to the Irish Historic Towns Atlas project. He has also written extensively on topics coming out of Domesday Book.

Monika Otter teaches medieval and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on Latin, French and English literature from England and northern France between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. She writes on historiography, saints' lives and romance as well as the complicated interfaces between these genres; the development of "fiction" as an idea and as a category of literature; women's literature and gender, and translation theory.

Conference Hotel Information

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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 (which is substantially less than the regular rates), you need to book by October 4.

The main conference hotel is the Holiday Inn Boston/Brookline. (N.B.: This is a different hotel than the one we have used the previous two years.) 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. The Haskins Society Conference rate is $129 per night. You must book before October 4 to get the Haskins Society Conference rate. When you book on-line or over the phone say that you are with Boston College Haskins Society or type in the conference code HKS. You will need to specify whether you want a "king" or "two double."

You can download the bus schedule here.

The second hotel (not the official conference hotel) is Best Western Terrace Inn. This hotel is $139 a night and considerably less convenient. It is 1.3 miles from the main conference hotel and restaurants, and about the same distance to Gasson Hall, 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. 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). There are maps to BC and to the main conference hotel in the right hand column of this site, under "Directions." As with the Marriott, the price goes up if you book after October 4.

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.

Holiday Inn Boston/Brookline

1200 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 277-1200
Best Western Terrace Inn

Boston, MA 02135

1-(617) 566-6260

Finding a Person with whom to Share a Hotel Room

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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) and in which hotel you wish to stay. 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 (the information will appear in gold letters), 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:

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

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This year, it will be held at Robin Fleming's house in Cambridge and is hosted by Boston College. A bus will take people from the Holiday Inn to the party, and we will organize group taxis to take you back to the hotel when you are ready to leave or the food/drinks run out. We will provide maps and instructions at the conference for those who plan to drive.

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

Thursday Night Gathering

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On Thursday night many of us will gather, between 6:45pm and 11pm, at American Craft, at 1700 Beacon Street. It is the same casual restaurant we have met at the last two years. American Craft has forty kinds of beer on tap (and about twenty-five more in bottles) and a wide selection of reasonably priced food. To get to American Craft from the The Holiday Inn, walk to the T-stop on Beacon Street. Hop on the T and go outbound (in other words, in the opposite direction of downtown Boston), and ride the T for approximately 9 minutes. Ask the conductor to tell you when you have reached Tappan St. The restaurant is on Beacon St., on the same side of the street as your hotel. There is a link to a map of this journey in the right-hand column of the website, under "Directions."

There will be a large, early contingent from Boston College at American Craft from about 6:45 on. If you are worried that no one will be there when you arrive, call my cell (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 American Craft, ask the receptionist or bartender for the Haskins Society, and you will be pointed our way.

American Craft, 1700 Beacon St., Brookline, 617-487-4290.

Where to Eat

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Brookline is divided into a number of neighborhoods. If you exit the Holiday Inn onto Beacon Street and stand with your back to Boston, it will be easy to orient yourself to these neighborhoods. The area .3 miles (500 meters) from the hotel (away from Boston) along Beacon Street and to the right, along Harvard Street, is known as Coolidge Corner. The main shopping and eating in Coolidge Corner can be found here. When you reach the intersection of Beacon and Harvard, turn right on Harvard St. If, instead, you take a left on Harvard Street, and then walk for 10 or 15 minutes, you will enter Brookline Village. If, on the other hand, you walk along Beacon Street, past the Harvard Street intersection and walk for 15 or 20 minutes, you will hit Washington Square. You can also take the T to Washington Square, catching it at any stop along Beacon Street (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)

• American Craft (New American), 714 Washington St, Brookline, (617) 232-8989 (no reservations taken)

• Tamarind Bay (Indian, vegetarian friendly), 1665 Beacon St.

A short walk or T-ride from the Holiday Inn 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

Invitation to the Haskins Society Friday Evening Drinks Reception

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On display will be a special exhibition of Making History: Antiquaries in Britain. Through objects collected by the Society of Antiquaries of London, the oldest independent learned society concerned with the study of the past, the exhibition traces milestones in the discovery, recording, preservation, interpretation, and communication of Britain's history. It explores beliefs current before the Society was founded in 1707 and reveals how new finds and technologies have transformed the ways scholars have written history over the past three hundred years. Assembled together are artifacts of international importance (including the Winton Domesday and a Magna Carta from 1225), detailed records of lost buildings and objects, an outstanding collection of English royal portraits from Henry VI to Mary I, and works associated with William Morris, Fellow and founder of the English Arts and Crafts movement whose country house, Kelmscott Manor, is owned by the Society. Alongside these are loans from the celebrated collection of the Yale Center for British Art including rare books, maps, and drawings by Samuel Palmer, Edward Burne-Jones, and Augustus Welby Pugin.

Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts

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Boston College's new Institute for the Liberal Arts is a generous supporter of the Haskins Society, and has made our society's five-year stay at Boston College possible. For more information on the Institute's plans, programs, and goals, please visit http://www.bc.edu/centers/ila/.

Recent Books by Haskins Society Friends and Members

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Recent Books:

We are happy to announce that the following books, written by our members, friends and conference attendees, have recently appeared or are now in press. If you click on the titles of any of these books and order them through Amazon, The Haskins Society will be paid a small commission, which we will use to keep the conference affordable for our graduate student members.

• 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)

• Cordelia Beattie and Kirsten A. Fenton, eds., Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan: 2010)

• Helen Birkett, The Saints' Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics (York Medieval Press: 2010)

• Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, When Ego was Imago: Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages (Brill: 2010)

• 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, Archaeological Investigation (Routledge: 2010)

•Martin Carver, The Birth of a Borough: An Archaeological Study of Anglo-Saxon Stafford (Boydell: 2010)

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

• Martin Carver, Catherine Hills, and 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, Britain after Rome (Penguin: UK, 2010; US, 2011)

• 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)

• M. Celia Gaposchkin, The Making of Saint Louis: Kingship, Sanctity and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages (Cornell: paperback edn, 2010)

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

• Paul Antony Hayward, ed., The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 373, 2 vols. (Tempe, AZ: 2010)

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

• Stephen Jaeger, Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music (Palgrave: forthcoming October 2010)

• Stephen Jaeger, Enchantment: On Charisma in Art, Literature, and Film (University of Pennsylvania Press: forthcoming January 2011)

• Karen Jankulak, Geoffrey of Monmouth (Cardiff: 2010)

• Katherine L. Jansen, Charisma and Religious Authority: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Preaching, 1200–1500 (Brepols: 2010)

• Katherine L. Jansen, ed., Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation (University of Pennsylvania: 2009)

• Edmund King, King Stephen (Yale: 2010)

•Janet S. Loengard, ed., Magna Carta and the England of King John (Boydell: 2010)

• Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137) (Four Courts Press: 2007)

• G.A. Loud, The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa. The History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick and Related Texts (Ashgate: 2010)
• Elisabeth Mégier, Christliche Weltgeschichte im 12. Jahrhundert: Themen, Variationen und Kontraste. Untersuchungen zu Hugo von Fleury, Ordericus Vitalis und Otto von Freising (Peter Lang: 2010)

• Cynthia Neville, Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh University Press: 2010)

• 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)

• Lahney Preston-Matto, Aislinge meic Conglinne/ The Vision of Mac Conglinne (Syracuse University Press, 2010)
• David A. Postles, Missed Opportunities: Religious Houses and the Laity in the English "High Middle Ages" (New Academia: 2009)

• Joelle Quaghebeur and Sylvain Soleil, eds. , Le pouvoir et la foi au Moyen Age en Bretagne et dans l'Europe de l'Ouest. Melanges en memoire du professeur Hubert Guillotel (Rennes: 2010)

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

• Philadelphia Ricketts, High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire: Property, Power, Marriage and Identity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Brill, 2010)

• 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)

• Charles D. Stanton, Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean (Boydell: 2011)

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

• Susanna Throop and Paul Hyams, eds., Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud (Ashgate: 2010)

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

• Belle S. Tuten and Tracey L. Billado, eds., Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White Feud, Violence and Practice (Ashgate: 2010)

• 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)

• Bruce L. Venarde, ed. and trans., The Rule of Saint Benedict
(Harvard University Press: 2011)

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

• David Wyatt, Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland 800–1200 (Brill: 2009)

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

Supporters of Our Conference

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We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship and generous financial and administrative support of the Boston College Office of the Vice-Provost and the Boston College Institute for the Liberal Arts.

We would also like to acknowledge the hospitality and aid provided by the McMullen Museum of Art and the Boston College Department of History.

Finally, we continue to be able to offset the cost of this conference for our graduate-student members with help from the Society's Keefe Fund, set up in honor of the much-missed Tom Keefe and supported with donations from our membership.

Call for Papers for the 2012 Meeting

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The Charles Homer Haskins Society will hold its annual meeting at Boston College in early November, 2012. The Society welcomes all paper proposals in fields and periods of the medieval past to which Charles Homer Haskins contributed, including but not limited to: Anglo-Saxon, viking, Norman, and Angevin history as well as the history of the neighboring peoples and territories. Proposals for complete sessions (three papers) and for individual papers will all be considered.

Please send a one-page abstract and c.v. to haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com. Proposals will be accepted between May 1, 2012 and June 1, 2012.

Papers by graduate students, untenured faculty and independent scholars are eligible for the Denis Bethell Prize. For details, please click the "Denis Bethell Prize" link in the right-hand column of this website.

How to Register for the 2011 Conference

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You can now register and pay for the Haskins Society Conference on-line.

We hope that many of you will take advantage of this payment system. The only people who cannot use the on-line system are graduate students or B.C. faculty who are not planning to buy any meals. Since neither of these groups will owe any money, the on-line system will not be able to handle their applications. Nonetheless, graduate students and B.C. faculty need to pre-register. So, instead of signing up on line, we would like you to fill out a hard copy of the registration form (which you can download), and mail it to us.

After using the automatic payment system, please be sure to print off a copy of the receipt for your records, since it will serve as your official proof of payment.

The web payment and check-out system can be found at the bottom of this page. Simply scroll down, and you will find the checkout system below this text box. Please chose the appropriate registration fee and meals, and add them to your shopping cart. Be sure to select any of the evening activities you plan to attend (there is no charge for these activities, but we would like to know for planning purposes).

If you prefer to use snail-mail and send a check, please go to the bottom of this entry and download the registration form. Fill out the form, make your check out to "The Haskins Society at Boston College" for the appropriate amount, and mail the form and check to:

The Charles Homer Haskins Society

c/o Professor Robin Fleming

Department of History
Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA

02467

Download a registration form here.

About the Haskins Society at Boston College Website

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This site has information about the Twenty-Ninth International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society–held this year (2010) from November 5 through November 7 at Boston College–and things to help you plan your trip to Boston. On this site you will find the conference schedule and registration material, and you will be able to sign up for conference activities and pay for registration and meals. The site also contains information about the two conference hotels and has web-links 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, click on one of the "quick links" listed in the right-hand column of the site. After you click a link on a particular topic, information on that topic will appear in the left-hand column. In the right-hand column you will also find web-links to maps, driving directions and hotel sites, as well as suggestions, if you have a little extra time, for things to do in Boston.

Getting to Boston & Boston College

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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

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.

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

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How to get to the Holiday Inn

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 Holiday Inn Brookline/Boston:

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). [Sit back and relax, until your train goes above ground.] At this point, you should ask the conductor to tell you when you have arrived at the Saint Paul stop, which you will now be near.

5. When you get off the train, orient yourself. With your back to downtown Boston (the way you have just come) cross to the right-hand side of the street. Walk 70 feet, and you will be at the entrance of the Holiday Inn.

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). [Sit back and relax, until your train goes above ground.] At this point, you should ask the conductor to tell you when you have arrived at the Saint Paul stop, which you will now be near.

3. When you get off the train, orient yourself. With your back to downtown Boston (the way you have just come) cross to the right-hand side of the street. Walk 70 feet, and you will be at the entrance of the Holiday Inn.

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.

Parking at Boston College

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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.

Having a problem? Need something?

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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).

Shameless Commerce Department

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The Haskins Society Conference site now has an Amazon search box at the top of the right-hand column of its web-page. If you initiate an Amazon search from this box and make a purchase, Amazon will send the Society a small percentage of the purchase price. Or, if you click through to Amazon on a specific title in our "Recent Books by Friends and Members" section and then buy that book, the Society gets a slightly larger percentage of the purchase price. Any money we earn from Amazon will be used to keep the cost of our conference low for our graduate student members.

So, in the future, please think of our site and its Amazon search box when you think of purchasing something from Amazon.

About the Haskins Society at Boston College Blog

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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.

Denis Bethell Prize Winners

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What follows is a list of Bethell Prize winners. The names of the judges for each year appear in parentheses. Until 1991, the Bethell Prize Essay was published in Albion; since then, it has appeared in the Haskins Society Journal.

2010 Thomas McCarthy, New College, Florida, "Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg and the preservation of Imperial Polemic" (Thomas Bisson, Harvard University)

2009 Kerrith Davies, Christ Church, University of Oxford "The Count of the Côtentin - Western Normandy, William of Mortain and the Career of Henry I" (Wendy Davies, University College, London)

2008    Sally Shockro, Boston College, “Bede and the Rewriting of Sanctity" (Daniel Powers, Swansea University)

2007    Austin Mason, Boston College, “Buried Buckets: Ritual Behavior before England's Conversion” (Peter Coss, Cardiff University, Wales)

2006    Charles Stanton, “The Uses of Naval Power in the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily” (Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University of America)

2005    Nicholas Paul, Fordham University, “The Chronicle of Fulk le Réchin: A Reassessment” (William Aird, Cardiff University, Wales)

2004    Peter Crooks, “'Hobbes', 'Dogs' and Politics in the Ireland of Lionel of Antwerp, 1361-6” (Richard Abels, US Naval Academy)

2003    Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Harvard University, "Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England"    (Robin Fleming, Boston College)

2002    Diana Korngiebel, Worcester College: "Forty Acres and a Mule: The Mechanics of English Settlement in Northeast Wales after the Edwardian Conquest" (Ralph Turner, Florida State University)

2001    Alan Cooper, Colgate University: "The Anglo-Saxon Law of the Highway"    (Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota)

2000    Shashi Jayakumar, Balliol College, Oxford: "Some Reflections on the 'Foreign Policies' of Edgar 'the Peaceable'"; and Jennifer Paxton, Georgetown University: "Forging Communities: Memory and Identity in Post-Conquest England" (Janet S. Loengard, Moravian College)

1999    John Cotts, UC Berkeley: "The Critique of the Secular Clergy in Peter of Blois and Nigellus de Longchamp" (Sally N. Vaughn, University of Houston"

1998    Laura Gathagan, City University of New York: "The Trappings of Power: The Coronation of Matilda of Flanders" (James J. Johns, Cornell University)

1997    Emily Albu, UC Davis: "The Normans and Their Myths" (C.P. Lewis, University of Liverpool)

1996    Robert Helmerichs, UC Santa Barbara: "Princeps, Comes, Dux Normannorum: Rollonid Designators and Their Significance" (Susan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London)

1995    Deborah Gerish, UC Santa Barbara: "The True Cross and the Kings of Jerusalem" (David Abulafia, University of Cambridge)

1994    Emma Cownie, University of Wales: "Religious Patronage at Post-Conquest Bury St. Edmunds" (Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School)

1993    Cary L. Dier, University of Houston: "The Proper Relationship between Lord and Vassal: Toward a Rationale for Anglo-Norman Litigation" (H.E.J. Cowdrey, St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

1992    Hugh Thomas, University of Miami: "Portrait of a Medieval Anti-Semite: Richard Malebisse Vero Agnomine Mala Bestia" (David Crouch, University College, Scarborough; University of Leeds)

1991    Robert Babcock, UC Santa Barbara: "Imbeciles and Normans: The Ynfydion of Gruffudd ap Rhys Reconsidered" (Robert L. Benson, UCLA)

1990    Ted Johnson-South, University of Rhode Island: "Competition for King Alfred's Aura in the Last Century of Anglo-Saxon England" (Emily Tabuteau, Michigan State University)

1989    Kimberley LoPrete, University of Chicago: "The Anglo-Norman Card of Adela of Blois" (Marjorie Chibnall, University of Cambridge)

1988    Donald Fleming, UC Santa Barbara: "Milites as Attestors to Charters in England, 1101-1300" (W. L. Warren, The Queen's University of Belfast)

1987    Lynn K. Barker, North Carolina State University: "MS Bodl. Canon. Pal. Lat. 131 and a Lost Lactantius of John of Salisbury: Evidence in Search of a French Critic of Thomas Becket"(Michael Clanchy, University of London)

1986    Mary Lou Ruud, UC Santa Barbara: "Episcopal Reluctance: Lanfranc's Resignation Reconsidered" (Peter Sawyer, Emeritus, University of Leeds)

1985    Michael E. Jones, Bates College: "The Historicity of the Alleluja Victory" (R.H.C. Davis, University of Birmingham; Merton College, Oxford)

1984    Sally N. Vaughn, University of Houston: "Lanfranc at Bec: A Reinterpretation" (Paul Hyams, Pembroke College, Oxford)

1983    Katharin Mack, UC Santa Barbara: "Changing Thegns: Cnut's Conquest and the English Aristocracy" (Robert Patterson, University of South Carolina)

Call for Papers for Haskins Sessions at 2012 Kalamazoo

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The Charles Homer Haskins Society invites paper proposals for its sponsored sessions on “Historical Awareness and Memorial in the Anglo-Norman World” for the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo held May 10-13, 2012.

The Society welcomes paper proposals in the fields and periods of medieval studies to which Charles Homer Haskins himself contributed. Although the conference is primarily a European history conference concerned with the years between the fall of Rome and the early thirteenth century, historically-minded literature, art history and archaeology papers are welcomed.

We welcome proposals both for complete sessions (of three themed papers) and for individual papers. Please send a paper abstract of no more than 300 words and a current c.v. to Prof. Robert Berkhofer at robert.berkhofer@wmich.edu. Proposals will be accepted until September 12, 2011; the 2012 sessions will be finalized in mid-September.

If you are unfamiliar with the Haskins Society and would like to get a sense of the Society, its journal, and other activities, please take a look at the Society’s website at http://haskinsatbostoncollege.blogspot.com/

Past Featured Speakers

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Over the last thirty years the Haskins Society Conference has been a venue for more than 800 twenty-minute-long scholarly presentations and almost 100 hour-long featured talks. Here is a list of featured speakers.

Richard Abels, U.S. Naval Academy

David Abulafia, University of Cambridge

Martin Aurell, University of Poitiers-CESCM

Bernard Bachrach, University of Minnesota

John Baldwin, Johns Hopkins University

Frank Barlow, University of Exeter

Dominique Barthélemy, University of Paris IV Sorbonne

David Bates, Glasgow University

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, NYU

Constance Berman, University of Iowa

Denis Bethell, University College Dublin
Thomas N. Bisson, Harvard University

Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Catholic University of America

Paul Brand, University of Oxford

Nicholas Brooks, University of Birmingham

R. Allen Brown, University of London
Jesse Byock, University of California, Los Angeles

James Campbell, University of Oxford

Martin Carver, University of York

Howard Clarke, University College Dublin

Fredric Cheyette, Amherst College

Marjorie Chibnall, Cambridge University

Marcia Colish, Oberlin College

Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Philippe Contamine, U. de Paris-Sorbonne

H.E.J. Cowdrey, University of Oxford

David Crouch, University of Hull
Rees Davies, University of Oxford

Wendy Davies, University College, London

David Dumville, University of Cambridge
Christopher Dyer, University of Birmingham

Paul Freedman, Yale University
Robin Fleming, Boston College

Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester

John France, University of Wales, Swansea

Mark Gardiner, Queen’s University, Blefast

Veronique Gazeau, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie

Walter Goffart, University of Toronto

John Gillingham, London School of Economics

Judith Green, Queen’s University, Belfast

Olivier Guyotjeannin, Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris
Bernard Hamilton, University of Nottingham

Richard Helmholtz, University of Chicago

Christopher Holdsworth, University of Exeter

C. Warren Hollister, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sir James Holt, Cambridge University

Paul Hyams, University of Oxford

C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Herbert Kessler, Johns Hopkins University

Simon Keynes, Cambridge University

Edmund King, University of Sheffield
C.P. Lewis, University of London

Graham Loud, University of Leeds

Christopher Loveluck, University of Nottingham

Henry Loyn, University of London

Maureen Miller, University of California, Berkeley

S.F.C. Milsom, University of Cambridge

Karl F. Morrison, Rutgers University

Janet Nelson, University of London

Monika Otter, Dartmouth College

Robert Palmer, University of Houston

Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University

J.R.S. Phillips, University College, Dublin

Dave Postles, University of Leicester

Susan Reynolds, University of London
Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola University Chicago

Peter Sawyer, University of Leeds

Eleanor Searle, California Institute of Technology
Richard Sharpe, University of Oxford

Robin Chapman Stacey, University of Washington

Robert Stacey, University of Washington
Pauline Stafford, University of Liverpool

Emily Tabuteau, Michigan State University

Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University

Elisabeth van Houts, Cambridge University

W.L. Warren, Queen’s University Belfast

Stephen White, Emory University

Patrick Wormald, University of Oxford

Book Sellers at the Conference

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2009 Conference Schedule & Suggestions for Panelists

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Conference Schedule:

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

Friday, November 5
9:00 am–11:15 Council Meeting

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

Francia and the History of Early Medieval Europe
Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester

1:450–3:15 SESSION I: The End of Roman Britain
Chair: Mary Frances Giandrea, American University

A.D. 410 and the Invisible Britons
Christopher A. Snyder, Marymount University

Recycling Rome After the Fall
Robin Fleming, Boston College

The End of Roman Britain: Roman Retrospectives
Michael Jones, Bates College

3:15–3:30 Tea break

3:30–5:00 SESSION II: Holy Violence: Theory, Practice and Representation
Chair: Emily Albu, University of California-Davis

Crusading as an Act of Vengeance and the Study of the Ideas of Crusading
Susanna A. Throop, Ursinus College

Belligerent Bishops and Armed Abbots: The Portrayal of Clerical Warriors and Defenders
Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M-Texarkana

Representations of Warfare in the Morgan Picture Bible
Richard Abels, The United States Naval Academy

5:15-6:15 SESSION III: Learning and its Reception in the Twelfth-Century "Renaissance"
Chair:W. Scott Jesse, Appalachian State University

The Reception of the New Natural Philosophy in Twelfth-Century England: the Case of Merlin
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, University of Reading

Did Portugal Have a Twelfth-Century Renaissance?
André Vitória,Universidade do Porto

6:30 Drinks reception at the McMullen Museum of Art

Saturday, November 6

8:30-10:00 SESSION IV: Ideas of the Holy Man: Bishops and Abbots in France and England
Chair: Jennifer A. Paxton, The Catholic University of America

Monk-Bishops in the Third Generation of the English Monastic Reform
Tracey-Anne Cooper, St. John's University

Gerald of Wales and the Episcopal Ideal
Matthew M. Mesley, University of Exeter

De abbatibus [of Mont-Saint-Michel] rubrica abreviata: Towards a New Edition
Thomas N. Bisson, Harvard University

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 SESSION V: Historiography in the Salian Age
Chair: William L. North, Carleton College

Cosmas on the See of Prague
Lisa Wolverton, University of Oregon

Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg and the Preservation of Imperial Polemic
T.J.H. McCarthy, New College Florida

Confronting the Past in Eleventh-Century Germany
David Warner, Rhode Island School of Design

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

1:00-2:00 Featured Speaker 2
Presiding: Paul Hyams, Cornell University

Objects as Subjects in Medieval Art
Herbert Kessler, John Hopkins University

2:30-4:00 SESSION VII: Hostages and Captive-Taking in the High Middle Ages
Chair: Tracey Billado, Seton Hall University

That's No Way to Treat A Lady! Hostage or Captive: What's the Difference?
Annette Parks, University of Evansville

Heroes, Hostages and Hagiography: The Function of Hostages in Medieval Irish Literature
Lahney Preston-Matto, Adelphi University

The Two Matildas: Treatment of Captives and Ideals of Queenship
Colleen Slater, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

4:00–4:30 Tea Break

4:30–-6:00 SESSION VII: Identity in Narratives of Conquest and Expansion
Chair: Belle Tuten, Juniata College

The Rise of Wessex Seen through Northumbrian Eyes
Karen L. Jolly, University of Hawai`i–Manoa

Politics and Portrayals: Ireland and the Normans in the Era of the Norman Conquest of England
Patrick Wadden, Exeter College, Oxford

The Castle in Conquest Narratives
Kim Kilmartin, Hertford College, Oxford

7:30 Annual food, drinks & shop-talk party at Valerie Ramseyer's house, co-sponsored by Boston College and Wellesley College (a walk or short-T-ride from the Marriott Hotel)

Sunday, November 8

8:30-10:00 SESSION VIII: Lordship, History, and the Dominae of Northern France
Chair: Laura Gathagan, SUNY-Courtland

Weathering Thirteenth-Century Warfare: The Case of Blanche of Navarre
Katrin Sjusen, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

Noblewomen and the Writing of History in Picardy and Flanders
Kathy Krause, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Rebellion and the Countess
Heather J. Tanner, Ohio State University

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-11:30 SESSION IX: Texts, Rituals, and the Social Order
Chair: John Cotts, Whitman College

Badly Ordered: Walahfrid Strabo's Vision of the Carolingian World in the Libellus de exordiis et incrementis quarandam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum
Mary Zito, The Catholic University of America

Relics or Gospels? The Evolution and Meaning of Swearing an Oath
Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College

11:30-12:00 Break

12:00-1:00 Featured Speaker 3
Presiding: Richard E. Barton, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

Norman Historians and William the Conqueror (1830–1945)
Veronique Gazeau, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie

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, 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.

Getting to Boston & Boston College

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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 and to and from Thursday night's restaurant. 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 $8- 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 Holiday Inn Brookline/Boston, 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 11:10 (11:25) Holiday Inn to Boston College main gate Comm Ave.

Friday 7:35 (7:50) Boston College main gate Comm Ave. to Holiday Inn

Saturday 7:35 (7:50) Holiday Inn to Boston College main gate Comm Ave.

Saturday 5:30 (5:45) Boston College main gate Comm Ave. to Holiday Inn

Sunday 7:35 (7:50) Holiday Inn to Boston College main gate Comm Ave.

Sunday 2:00 (2:15) Boston College main gate Comm Ave. to Holiday Inn

For those of you staying at the Best Western Terrace, 1) 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); 2) 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.

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

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How to get to the Courtyard Marriott Hotel

From Logan International Airport:

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:

1. Take the Silver Line to South Station.

2. At South Station take the Red Line (towards Alewife) two stops to Park Street.

From the Amtrak station at South Station

1. At South Station take the Red Line (towards Alewife) two stops to Park Street.

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

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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

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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

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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 Gasson Hall, 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

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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 (huge, delicious portions)

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:

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

Thursday Night Gathering

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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

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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

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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.

Book News

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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)

Having a problem? Need something? Would you like to contact us?

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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 Holiday Inn 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 Robin Fleming (robin.fleming@bc.edu).

If you have questions about the conference or would like to be added to our conference email list:
Please email Robin Fleming & Sally Shockro (haskinsatbostoncollege@gmail.com).