2025
Conference
Program

(with suggestions below

for presenters)


(All Sessions: Lakeside Pavilion,

Coral Gables Campus, University of Miami)


   

Thursday, 13 November

  Pre-Conference Gathering at Bayshore Club Bar and Grill





 



Friday, 14 November

 

8:30-11:30

Business Meeting for Officers and Councilors of the Society (Meeting Room TBA)

9:00-11:00

Registration Opens

10:00-11:00

New Research Forum

Presiding: Nicholas Paul, Fordham University

Panelists:

        ♦ David Bachrach, University of New Hampshire
        ♦ Erin Jordan, Colorado State University
        ♦ Andrew Rabin, University of Louisville

Forum Presenters:

        ♦ Luca Barison, Georgetown University
        ♦ Adam McNeil, Saint Joseph’s University
        ♦ Trevor Wiley, Boston College

11:15-12:15

Boxed Lunch


12:15-12:45

Welcome


12:45-2:15

Session 1 — The Planning, Conduct, and Financing of Wars in the Long Twelfth Century:

Papers in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach

Chair: Richard Abels


“Military Intelligence and Campaign Strategy in Salian Germany: The Campaigns of Henry IV, 1074-1080”
        ♦ David Bachrach, University of New Hampshire

“The Logistics of the Siege of Milan, 1158-1162”

        ♦ Dan Franke, Richard Bland College

“The Revolt of 1173-74: the Pipe Rolls Perspective”

        ♦ Steven Isaac, Longwood University

2:15-2:30
Coffee Break

2:30-3:30

The C. Warren Hollister Lecture
 Paul Freedman, Yale University
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“English and Catalan Medieval Cuisines Compared: Studying Cookbooks”


Presiding: Hugh Thomas, University of Miami


3:30-4:30

Roundtable Session: Historical Cooking

Paul Freedman and Chef David de Coca


4:30-5:00

Virtual Maimonides Project Presentation

♦ Shai Cohen, Virtual Immersion Program, University of Miami

5:00-6:30

Session 2 — Royal Women: Queens, Patrons and Generals

Chair: Laura Gathagan, SUNY Cortland


“The Hospital de la Reina, Burgos: Male Appropriation of Eleanor Plantagenet’s foundation”

♦ David Peterson, Universidad de Burgos

“Reading the Queen’s Ledger: Eleanor of Castile’s Household Accounts, and the Material Traces of Literary Patronage in Late Thirteenth-Century England”

♦ Ashley Hood, Portland State University

“Anarchy and Anagogy in William of Malmesbury’s Historia Novella

♦ Jason Stubblefield, University of Tennessee

6:30

Evening: Hors d’oeuvres and Cocktails- Lakeside Pavilion


 

Saturday, 15 November

 

9:00-10:30

Session 3 — The Law and its Enforcers: Archbishops, Bishops and Legal Rhetoric
Chair: William North, Carleton College

“Bishop Ernulf and the making of Textus Roffensis

♦  Andrew Rabin, University of Louisville

“Toward a history of the crimen sacrilegii, ca. 1140-1260: Legal Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology”

♦ Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University

Diffamationes, Obligationes, and Instruments of Discipline in the Visitation Record of Archbishop Odo Rigaud”

♦ Frances Eshleman, Fordham University 

10:30-10:45

Refreshments


10:45-12:15

Session 4 — Pain, Penance and the Body

 Chair: Austin Mason, Carleton College


“Practicing Penance through the Liber penitentialis of Bartholomew of Exeter (d. 1184)”

♦ Alex DaCruz, Fordham University

“Quasi Parturiens: The Experience of Pain According to a Thirteenth-Century Miracle Collection”

♦ Alice Morandy, Princeton University

“Suffering Bodies in Life and Death: Viewing Twelfth-Century Last Judgment Sculpture through the Lens of Archeology”

♦ Nina Piper, Hunter College


12:15-1:15

 

1:15-1:30

Lunch

 

Announcements: The Bethell Prize/The Paul Hyams Mentorship Award

1:45-2:45

Featured Speaker

Paul Oldfield, University of Manchester 

♦♦♦♦

“Saints’ Cults in Palermo: Topography and Latinization (c.1130-c.1190)”


Presiding: Joanna Drell, University of Richmond 

2:45

Stand Up, Stretch, Roll the Head, Take a Seat :-)

2:45-4:15

Session 5 — To Have and To Hold? Political Culture and Crusade in the Latin East

 Chair: Hannah Ewing, Rollins College


“The Political Culture of the Latin East: The Life of Eschiva of Tiberias”

♦ Erin Jordan, Colorado State University

“After the Fall: A View of the ‘Life and Afterlife’ of Frankish Syria from Fourteenth Century Cyprus”

♦ Jesse Izzo, Columbia University

“Financing a Lancastrian Crusade: Edmund Crouchback and the Preparations for the Ninth Crusade, 1270-4”

♦ T. C. Kniphfer, Catholic University

“A Map for the Barons: The Oxford Outremer Map of Matthew Paris in a Crusading Context”

♦ Nicholas Paul, Fordham University

4:15-4:30

Break

4:30-6:00

Session 6 — Documentary Cultures of the Long Twelfth Century 

Chair: Mary Blanchard, Ave Maria University


“Untying the Gordian knot of what happened to Ekkehard of Aura’s Chronicle”

♦ T. J. McCarthy, New College of Florida

“William of Malmesbury’s Mountains: Italian Landscape and the Northern European Imagination”

♦ Benjamin Iago Gibson, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

“Making the Bible Courtly: 12th-century French Biblical Translations and the Emerging Socio-Cultural Identities of Northern French and Anglo-Norman Nobilities”

♦ Chiara Visentin, Cornell University

 

Sunday, 16 November


9:00-10:00

Featured Speaker

Alison Beach, University of St. Andrews

♦♦♦♦

“Word of Mouth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work”


Presiding: Jennifer Paxton, Catholic University

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15-11:45

Session 7 — Eleventh-Century Normans: Conquest and its Aftermath in England and Sicily

Chair: Robin Fleming, Boston College 


“Catching and Eating a Monster: A Fishing and Feasting Story from William of Apulia’s Gesta Roberti Wiscardi

♦ Daniel W. Morgan, North Carolina State University

“Charters and Local Society, 1000-1200”

♦ Hannah Boston, University of Lincoln

“London, 1066”

♦ Alan Cooper, Colgate University

11:45

Lunch





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 (or 15  minutes in some cases). 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 the prescribed 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 using A/V:

There is standard A/V provision in the Lakeside Pavilion – for example, the giving of PowerPoint presentations. If you have particular questions or requests, please contact Conference Director Hugh Thomas.


Handouts:

You will need to bring copies of any handout with you to the conference. Fifty copies usually suffices.


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