2007 Schedule

1:30-3:00 SESSION I: Material Culture and the Rewriting of Early Medieval British History
Chair:  Mary Frances Giandrea, American University

Buried Buckets: Ritual Behavior Before England’s Conversion
Austin Mason, Boston College

Rethinking the Synod of Whitby and Northumbrian Monastic Sites
Alecia Arceo,  Boston College

Political Innovation in a Forgotten Welsh Kingdom: Rethinking the Grand Narrative of Viking Age Britain
Robin Fleming, Boston College

3:15-4:45 SESSION II: Cultural Influences Between England and the Continent
Chair: David Spear, Furman University

Anglo-Saxon Synods from a Continental Perspective
Gregory Halfond, Framingham State College

The View of England from Flanders in 1127-28
Jeff Rider, Wesleyan University

Roman Law, French Custom, and English Folklore: The Bracton Treatise and its Sources
Thomas J. McSweeney, Cornell University

5:00-6:00 SESSION III: Historical Writing around the Year 1000: Approaches to the Work of Dudo of St. Quentin
Chair:  Nicholas Paul, Fordham University

Writing Latin History for a Lay Audience, ca. 1000: Dudo of St. Quentin at the Norman Court
Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota

Barbarian Customs, Frankish Rituals, and Carolingian Law in Dudo’s Historical Writing
Wojciech Falkowski, University of Warsaw

8:45–10:15  SESSION IV: Gender, Power, and the Family in Medieval Contexts
Chair:  Laura Gathagan, State University of New York at Cortland

Containing Virginity: Sex and Society in Early Medieval England
Thomas Crammer, University of Washington

Mourning the Family Eth(n)ic: Anglo Saxon Contexts
Kelley Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University

Family, Community, and Governance: The Articulation of Power in Antioch and Southern Italy in the Twelfth Century
Joshua C. Birk, Eastern Illinois University

10:45-12:15  SESSION V: Charters in Rhetoric and Social Practice in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France
Chair: Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan University

What Western French Church Disputes can Tell us about “Justice” between 1000 and 1200
Belle Tuten, Juniata College

The Use of Charters in Disputes over “Evil Customs” in Eleventh-Century Anjou
Tracy Billado, Seton Hall University

The Social Uses of Charters in Western France: Form and Function
Richard Barton, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2:15-3:45 SESSION VI: Medieval Frontiers Reconsidered
Chair:  Joanna Drell, University of Richmond

Towards Wendland: Vikings and Baltic Slavs
Blazej M. Stanislawski, Polish Academy of Sciences

An Internal Frontier? The Relationship Between Mainland Southern Italy and Sicily in the ‘Norman’ Kingdom
Paul Oldfield, Manchester Metropolitan University

Nationality, Loyalty and Identity in the Thought of Giraldus Cambrensis: The De institutione principis Reconsidered
Helen Steele, Northridge State University

4:15–5:45  SESSION VII: Reading Beyond the Lines: Decoding Texts and Images
Chair:   Shirley Ann Brown, York University

Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival
G. Ronald Murphy, Georgetown University

Reading the Twelfth-Century Peutinger Map
Emily Albu, University of California-Davis

To Sing in Your Sight: The Role of the Eadwine Portrait in the Eadwine Psalter
Catherine E. Karkov, University of Leeds

8:45–10:15  SESSION VIII: Royal Power from the Anglo-Saxons to the Angevins
Chair:  Judith Abbott, Sonoma State University

Some Reflections on the Politics of the English Kingdom, 939-946
Alaric A. Trousdale, University of Edinburgh

Royal Power and the Angevin Economy in England
David Bachrach, University of New Hampshire

The Household of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II’s Queen, 1155-1189
Ralph V. Turner, Florida State University

10:45–11:45  SESSION IX:  Saintly Oddities: Problems in Hagiographical Traditions
Chair:   William L. North, Carleton College

The Unsaintly Life of Bouchard the Venerable
Steven Fanning, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mutatis Mutandis: Literary Borrowing in the Vita B. Bernardi Tironiensis (the Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron) by Geoffrey Grossus
Ruth Harwood Cline, Georgetown University