2015 Haskins Conference


9:00-11:30	Business Meeting for Officers and Councilors of the Society
9:30	Registration Opens
10:00-11:00	New Research Forum Presiding: Austin Mason, Carleton College La Puissance du Choix: Women’s Economic Activity in Twelfth-and Thirteenth-Century Picardy Heather Wacha, University of Iowa A Social and Cultural History of the Court of King John Hugh Thomas, University of Miami Demographic Decline in the Early Middle Ages? The Perspective from the Crowd Shane Bobrycki, Harvard University Bagels and coffee provided

12:00-12:15	Welcome
12:15-1:15	C. Warren Hollister Lecture Presiding: Bruce O’Brien, Mary Washington College The Place of Henry I in English Legal History John Hudson, St. Andrew’s University
1:15-1:30	Break
1:30-2:30	Session 1 Rethinking Legal Change in the Central Middle Ages Chair: Laura Wangerin, University of Wisconsin, Madison Legal Traditions and the Common Laws of the Middle Ages Ada-Maria Kuskowski, Southern Methodist University The Fourth Lateran Council’s Prohibition on the Ordeal and Roger Bacon’s Belated Defense of Divine Proofs Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:30-2:45	Break
2:45-3:45	Session 2: Space and the Operations of Justice and Rule Chair: John Cotts, Whitman College As Saints See: Legal Spaces Defined through Visibility and Observance Adam Matthews, Columbia University How Bishops Used Their Halls and Chambers in Later Thirteenth-Century England Michael Burger, Auburn University, Montgomery
3:45-4:15	Tea/Coffee Break
4:15-6:00	Session 3 Norman Sicily, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Chair: Joanna Drell, University of Richmond The Normans in Africa and Ifrīqiyā Matthew King, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities The Lion and the Camel: The Mantle of Roger I and Siculo-Norman Relations with the Islamicate Mediterranean Robin Reich, Columbia University Were Sicily’s Norman Rulers Trying to Build a Mediterranean Empire? Sarah Davis-Secord, University of New Mexico North Africa and the End of Norman Sicily Timothy Smit, Eastern Kentucky University
6:15	Reception

8:45-10:15	Session 4: Agency and Gender in the Early Medieval Frankish World Chair: Patrick Geary, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Deviance, Violence, and Women in the Frankish World Martha Rampton, University of the Pacific Horror and Infidelity in the Stuttgart Psalter Matthew Gillis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Women as Agents through the Creation of Textiles: A Comparative Approach Valerie Garver, Northern Illinois University
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	Session 5 Women and Networks in the 12^th and 13^th Centuries Chair: Heather Tanner, Ohio State University, Mansfield Agnetes Dei : Agnès of Baudemont and Agnès of Briane as Monastic Patrons and Mediators Yvonne Seale, University of Iowa Re-Analyzing Aristocratic Women’s Role in Shaping Social Networks in Twelfth-Century England Hanna Kilpi, University of Glasgow Spinning Stories of Murder, Saints, and Bad Queens: Laying Claim to the Danish Throne in the Mid-Thirteenth Century Kerstin Hundahl, Lund University

12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-2:00	Featured Speaker Presiding: Richard E. Barton, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Blanche of Castile and the Culture of Death Lindy Grant, University of Reading
2:00-2:15	Break
2:15-3:15	Session 6 When Stones Speak: Text and Tomb in the Norman World Chair: Nicholas Paul, Fordham University Beaumont Tombs of Étival Abbey and the Construction of a Family Identity Robert Marcoux, University of Laval Funerary Epigraphy across Norman Europe: Written Commemoration of Death in Northern France, England, and Southern Itaty between the 11^th and 12^th Centuries Antonella Undiemmi, Università degli Studi, Padova
3:15-3:45	Tea/Coffee Break
3;45-4:45	Session 7 Manuscripts and Their Agendas in the 11^th and 12^th Centuries Chair: Marguerite Ragnow, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, James Ford Bell Library Lost Libraries and Monastic Memories: Purpose and Origin of Eleventh-Century Novalsea Miscellany Edward Schoolman, University of Nevada, Reno Hec est armorum finalis causa meorum: The Morality of War in the Twelfth-Century “Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus” Scott Bruce, University of Colorado
4:45-5:00	Break
5:00-6:30	Session 8 Digital Humanities@Haskins: Mapping and Modelling the Middle Ages Chair: Alex Knodell, Carleton College Urns in the Round? Re-imag(in)ing the Link between Anglo-Saxon Cremation Urns and Annular Brooches using Photogrammetry Austin Mason, Carleton College Re-envisioning the Past: Using SketchUp to Model Changes in Church Architecture and the Use of Religious Space Christine Bertoglio, Boston College The Oxford Outremer Map: The Possibilities of Digital Restoration Tobias Hrynick, Fordham University Follow-Up: Hands-on Digital Humanities Workshop

7:30	Party at William North’s House

9:00-10:00	Session 9 All in the Family: Medieval Siblings Chair: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University Emma, the Forgotten Sister? Half-Siblings and the Limits of Kinship in Tenth-Century Germany Phyllis Jestice, College of Charleston Masculinity and the Uses of Brotherhood: A Case Study from Late Medieval Brittany Cameron Bradley, Macalester College
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-11:45	Session 10 Meaning and Saints’ Lives in Early England Chair: Jana K. Schulman, Western Michigan University Legible Flesh in the Old English Life of St. Mary of Egypt Jill Hamilton Clements, Lindenwood University Episcopal Ideals in Alcuin’s Revised Saints Lives Kelly Gibson, University of Dallas The Power of Inventio: Eadmer’s De reliquis Sancti Audoeni and a Cross-Channel Solution to the Canterbury-York Dispute Bridget Riley, University of Toronto
11:45-12:00	Break
12:00-1:00	Featured Speaker Presiding: Laura Gathagan, State University of New York, Cortland “Goliath thought David rather boastful”: Royal Masculinity in Kingless Societies Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
1:00-2:00	Lunch