2006 Schedule

1:30-3:00 SESSION I: Perspectives on Violence and Punishment
Chair:  Adam Kosto, Columbia University

Punishing Bodies and Saving Souls: Secular Justice in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Nicole Marafioti, Cornell University

Castration and Blinding, Political Punishment or Political Tool?  A Comparison of Evidence from High Medieval France, Byzantium, and Wales
Lizabeth Johnson,  University of Washington

Clerics and Violence in the Court Rolls of Richard I and John
Hugh Thomas, University of Miami

3:15-4:45 SESSION II:  Power, Revolt and Negotiation in Normandy
Chair: Robert Berkhofer III, Western Michigan University

Betwixt and Between: Waleran of Meulan and his Powerful Neighbors
Samantha Kahn Herrick, Syracuse University

Apology, Protest and Suppression: Representing the Surrender of Caen in the Historia ecclesiastica, the Roman de Rou, and the Chronique des ducs de Normandie
Charity Urbanski, University of California-Berkeley

An Overlooked Letter of Pope Innocent III to Rouen
David Spear, Furman University

4:45-5:45 SESSION III: Haskins’ Contemporaries Reconsidered
Chair:  Thomas N. Bisson, Harvard University

Marc Bloch and England: The Cambridge Lectures of 1938
Jacques Beauroy, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris and Darwin College, Cambridge

Ernst H. Kantorowicz and the Haskins School
John W. Bernhardt, San Jose State University

8:45–10:15  SESSION IV: On the Trail of Obscure Men I: The Role of the Less than Famous in the Anglo-Norman World
Chair:  Margaret Cormack, College of Charleston

‘Doctores sed mediocres’: Recuperating the Middling Mind in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Normandy
William L. North, Carleton College

Was There Such a Thing as a Minor Biblical Figure? The Case of Ruth: Foreign, Female, Fleeting
Julie Barrau, University of Paris-Sorbonne and Emmanuel College, Cambridge

An Archdeacon, a Dean, and an Archiepiscopal See: Pluralism and Idoneitas in the Electoral Practice of the Thirteenth Century
Jörg Peltzer, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

10:30-12:00  SESSION V: On the Trail of Obscure Men II: The Role of the Less than Famous in the Angevin World
Chair: Chris Lewis, University of London

Minor Courtiers of Henry II's Court
Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia

Robert of London, the Illegitimate Son of William King of Scots
Alice Taylor, University of Oxford

The Murder of Gilbert the Forester and his Companions
Hugh Doherty, University of Oxford

2:00-3:30 SESSION VI: Cultural Transmissions Across English Borders
Chair:  Sally Vaughn, University of Houston

From Pergamum to Jarrow: Classical Medicine in Anglo-Saxon Monastic Writings
Benjamin Pugno, University of Houston

Eye of a Needle: The Bayeux Tapestry, Byzantium, and the Anglo-Danish Tradition
Richard M. Koch, University of Hartford

Henry of Huntingdon, the Chronicle of Roskilde, and the English Connection in Twelfth-Century Denmark
Michael H. Gelting, Danish National Archives

3:45–4:45  SESSION VII: Visual Culture in the Norman World
Chair:  Samuel Collins, George Mason University

Reading  the Architecture in the Bayeux Tapestry
Shirley Ann Brown, York University

Norman Visual Culture and the Creation of a Norman Identity
Lisa Reilly, University of Virginia

4:45–5:45 SESSION VIII: The Vernacular Imagination in the Early Middle Ages
Chair:   G. Ronald Murphy, Georgetown University

Rulership and Kingship in the Heliand
Stefan Zimmers, Georgetown University

Visualizing and Verbalizing the Wonderful: Depictions of the Marvelous in the Beowulf Manuscript
Asa Mittman, Arizona State University

8:45–10:15  SESSION IX: Constructing Historical Narratives in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Chair:  Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

Discovering the Aquitanian Church in the Corpus of Adémar of Chabannes
Anna Trumbore Jones, Lake Forest College

Learning from Orderic Vitalis’s “Mistakes”: Relic Theft and Historical Method
Amanda Hingst, Washington University

Constructing an Angevin Crusading Past in the Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum
Nicholas Paul, Fordham University

10:30–11:30  SESSION X:  Conflict and Coexistence  in the Norman Mediterranean
Chair:  Joanna Drell, University of Richmond

The Uses of Naval Power in the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily
Charles D. Stanton, University of Cambridge

Muslims in the Eleventh-Century Chronicles of Norman Italy
Timothy Smit, University of Minnesota