The Twenty-Ninth International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society was held this year from November 5 – 7, 2010 at Boston College. The conference attracted scholars from around the world who listened to more than two dozen papers. These papers dealt with a wide range of topics related to the Middle Ages, ranging in area from Portugal to Bohemia, and discussing such issues as women lords, captivity, ecclesiastical reform, historiography and warfare.
Medievalists.net was allowed to attend to report on the conference, where we observed and interviewed the people attending the conference.
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Video Interviews
Robin Fleming, one of the principal organizers of this year’s conference, gives her impressions of it went
Peter and Sandra of Medievalists.net give their thoughts on the Conference
William North, editor of The Haskins Society Journal
Chris Lewis, about the project “Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066”
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Richard Abels, who gave a paper entitled, “Representations of Warfare in the Morgan Picture Bible”
Katrin Sjursen, who gave a paper entitled “Weathering Thirteenth-Century Warfare: The Case of Blanche of Navarre”
Robin Fleming, on here paper “Recycling Rome after the Fall” and book Britain after Rome
Reports on Papers
We were able to attend the second and third days of the conference, and listened to many of the papers given. Here are our reports of the individual papers:
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Session 8: Lordship, History, and the Dominae of Northern France
The Twenty-Ninth International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society was held this year from November 5 – 7, 2010 at Boston College. The conference attracted scholars from around the world who listened to more than two dozen papers. These papers dealt with a wide range of topics related to the Middle Ages, ranging in area from Portugal to Bohemia, and discussing such issues as women lords, captivity, ecclesiastical reform, historiography and warfare.
Medievalists.net was allowed to attend to report on the conference, where we observed and interviewed the people attending the conference.
Video Interviews
Robin Fleming, one of the principal organizers of this year’s conference, gives her impressions of it went
Peter and Sandra of Medievalists.net give their thoughts on the Conference
William North, editor of The Haskins Society Journal
Chris Lewis, about the project “Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066”
Richard Abels, who gave a paper entitled, “Representations of Warfare in the Morgan Picture Bible”
Katrin Sjursen, who gave a paper entitled “Weathering Thirteenth-Century Warfare: The Case of Blanche of Navarre”
Robin Fleming, on here paper “Recycling Rome after the Fall” and book Britain after Rome
Reports on Papers
We were able to attend the second and third days of the conference, and listened to many of the papers given. Here are our reports of the individual papers:
Session 8: Lordship, History, and the Dominae of Northern France
Rebellion and the Countess, by Heather J. Tanner
Female Lordship in the 13th c. Picard Historical Documents, by Kathy M. Krause
Weathering Thirteenth-Century Warfare: The Case of Blanche of Navarre, by Katrin Sjursen – coming soon
Session 6: Hostages and Captive Taking in the High Middle Ages
Heroes, Fosterage and Hagiography: The Function of Fosterage in Medieval Irish Literature, by Lahney Preston-Matto
The Two Matilda’s: Treatment of Captives and Ideals of Queenship, by Colleen Slater
That’s No Way to Treat a Lady! Hostage or Captive: What’s the Difference?, by Annette Parks
Session 5: Historiography in the Salian Age
Cosmas on the See of Prague
Fruitolf Michelsberg’s Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg and the Preservation of Imperial Polemic
Session 4: Ideals of the Holy Man: Bishops and Abbots in France and England
Gerald of Wales and the Episcopal Ideal, by Matthew M. Mesley – coming soon
De abbatibus [of Mont-Saint-Michel] rubrica abreviata: Towards a New Edition, by Thomas N. Bisson – coming soon
Session 9: Texts, Rituals, and the Social Order
Badly Ordered: Walahfrid Strabo’s Vision of the Carolingian World in the Libellus de exordiis et incrementis quarandam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum, by Mary Zito
Lantfred’s Swithun and the Fundamentals of Reform: Educating Lay Pilgrims in Tenth-Century Winchester, by Christopher Riedel
See also our Facebook page for more pictures from the conference and the beautiful Boston College
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