The Second Dartmouth History Institute was held May 29-June 2, 2018, on the theme of New Directions in Medieval Religious History. It was directed by Cecilia Gaposchkin and Walter Simons. For three days, new scholars workshopped chapter and article drafts, and discussed their plans for completing their book projects. They were joined in discussion by four senior historians and two editors at major university presses.
Directors:
The 2018 Institute was directed by Professors Cecilia Gaposchkin and Walter Simons.
Participants:
John Burden. Yale. Between Crime and Sin: Penitential Justice in Medieval Germany, 900-1200.
Andrew Collings. Princeton. The King Cannot Be Everywhere: Royal Governance and Local Society in the Reign of Louis IX.
Delfi I. Nieto Isabel. Barcelona. Communities of Dissent. Social Network Analysis of Religious Dissident Groups in Languedoc in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
Ella Kilgallon. Queen Mary, University of London. Creating a Space of Penance: Women of the Franciscan Third Order in the Cities of Central Italy.
Kevin Lord. Yale. The Imperial Heretic: Honor, Custom, and Law in the Last Medieval Conflict between Emperor and Pope.
Jennifer Lyons. Ph.D., Emory; now at Ithaca college. Crafting Marian Devotion: The Representation of the Theophilus Legend in Northern Europe, 9th-14th c.
Randall Pippenger. Princeton. Crusading as a Family: A Study of the County of Champagne, 1175-1225.
Hollis Shaul. Princeton. The Priors and the Prince: Carthusian Monasticism and the Experience of State Building in Angevin Provence, 1245-1385.
Justine Trombley. Saint Andrews. The Mirror Broken Anew: The Manuscript Evidence for Opposition to Marguerite Porete’s Latin Mirror of Simple Souls in the Later Middle Ages.
Luo Wang. Minnesota. The Gothic Saints and Their Mystical Songs: Performing Piety in Thirteenth-Century Liège.
Senior guests:
Sean Field, Professor of History, University of Vermont
Mahinda Kingra, Editor, Cornell University Press
Anne Lester, The John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochen Chair in Medieval History, Johns Hopkins University (as of July 1)
Lester Little, Professor Emeritus of History, Smith College
Miri Rubin, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London
Jerome Singerman, Humanities Editor, University of Pennsylvania Press
Biographies:
Sean Field, Professor of History, University of Vermont
Professor Sean L. Field received his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1992 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1997 and 2002. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the University of Vermont, where he teaches medieval European history and specializes in thirteenth and fourteenth-century topics around heresy and sanctity. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of eight books, including The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), and most recently a translation project with Lezlie Knox and Larry Field, Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome: The Lives of Margherita Colonna by Giovanni Colonna and Stefania (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017). His next book, Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians, is forthcoming with Cornell.
Mahinder Kingra, Editor in Chief, and Acquisitions editor for Medieval studies, Cornell University Press
Mahinder S. Kingra is the editor in chief at Cornell University Press and the sponsoring editor for books in medieval studies, classics, and literary studies. Before assuming this role in 2016, he was Cornell’s director of marketing for ten years and was previously associate editor and publicity manager at The Johns Hopkins University Press. He received an M.A. from Duke University in history in 1993 and a B.A. from Columbia University in 1989.
Anne Lester, Associate Professor of History at University of Colorado Boulder, shortly: the John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Chair in Medieval History Johns Hopkins University (as of July 1)
Anne E. Lester received her PhD from Princeton (2003) and is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. In July of this year she will take up the John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Chair in Medieval History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women’s Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne (Cornell University Press, 2011) and co-editor of five collections of essays and over twenty-five articles and chapters. Her research focuses on religion, gender, memory, materiality, connectivity, and premodern conceptions of empire and the state during the High Middle Ages. She has spent time as a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame (2004/5), a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ (2012) and has held an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship (awarded 2011/held 2013), and a Derek Brewer Fellowship at Emmanuel College in Cambridge. UK (2015). She is completing a book entitled Fragments of Devotion: Relics and Remembrance in the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.
Lester Little, Professor Emeritus of History, Smith College
Little writes: "My first steps on the road to the social history of medieval religion (unwitting steps of course) date from my college days: (1) the discovery that not only did I like European history, I found that it truly explained matters to me, (2) I spent my 3rd year in Paris, and (3) I read Weber's Protestant Ethic. Next stage was Princeton, unsure but not for long between R.R.Palmer's modern France and Strayer's Middle Ages. JRS was great in every way--no regrets--except that I had no interest in royal admin. Meanwhile I read much church/monastic history with--steady yourself--Norman Cantor! He then took a job at Columbia and I proposed a compromise topic with JRS: St. Louis and the Friars, which he gracefully accepted. I went to Paris in 60-61 and did a sadly weak but mercifully short diss., which I later "expanded" into an article. But that year turned out to be the most crucial one for my career, for I first heard of and started to read and very soon thereafter met M.-D. Chenu. The experience released in me every intuition I felt about how religious thought was influenced by society and encouraged me to pursue it in the context of the Evangelical Awakening. It was as if I were starting graduate school all over, because I had so much to learn. Five years later I was back in Paris, devoting my time mainly to translating Chenu's Theology in the 12th c., when I first heard of and started to read and very soon thereafter met Jacques Le Goff. Quid plura? Before 1960 I might not have known that I didn't know where I was going, but I soon understood that I had found my way, found all the encouragement that one could ask for, and realized how fortunate I had been."
Miri Rubin, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London.
Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. A historian of Europe of wide interests, she explores themes of religious culture in Europe, 1100-1600, to understand and develop new approaches to the study of social relations and issues of identity, community, and gender. She is the author or editor of about a dozen books, including Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge (1987), Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (1999), Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (2009), Thomas of Monmouth: The Life and Passion of William of Norwich (2014). She is currently completing a book on attitudes to strangers in medieval cities, based on her Wiles Lectures (Belfast 2017).
Jerome Singerman, Humanities Editor, and Acquisitions editor for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Jerry Singerman holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard, where he focused on medieval and early modern English and Romance topics. After teaching in the English Department of Bates College, he crossed over into academic publishing in 1983, first to the Johns Hopkins University Press, then in 1989 to the University of Pennsylvania Press, where he is Senior Humanities Editor with a portfolio of fields that range from late antiquity to the modern. He is a past recipient of the Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies of the Medieval Academy of America, and currently serves on the Academy’s Executive Council. At Penn, he is co-convener of the weekly Workshop in the History of Material Texts, a forum for thinking about the history of the book—and its future.
PROGRAM
Unless otherwise indicated, all workshop sessions take place in the Black Family Visual Arts Center.
May 29, Tuesday
5:00 PM: Welcome, Introductions, and Evening Reception. [Hanover Inn]
May 30, Wednesday 3
301 Black Visual Arts Center
8:15: Breakfast and coffee service, in conference room
9:00-10:30 John Burden. Yale. Between Crime and Sin: Penitential Justice in Medieval Germany, 900-1200 [Chair: Anne Lester]
11:00-12:30 Ella Kilgallon. Queen Mary. Creating a Space of Penance: Women of the Franciscan Third Order in the Cities of Central Italy [Chair: Sean Field]
Lunch Break (on our own)
2:00-3:30 Andrew Collings. Princeton. “The King Cannot Be Everywhere: Royal Governance and Local Society in the Reign of Louis IX” [Chair: Cecilia Gaposchkin]
4:00-5:30 Delfi Nieto Isabel. Barcelona. Communities of Dissent. Social Network Analysis of Religious Dissident Groups in Languedoc in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. [Chair: Sean Field]
May 31, Thursday
301 Black Visual Arts Center
8:15: Breakfast and coffee service, in conference room
9:00 AM-10:30AM Justine Trombley. Saint Andrews. The Mirror Broken Anew: The Manuscript Evidence for Opposition to Marguerite Porete’s Latin Mirror of Simple Souls in the Later Middle Ages. [Chair: Lester Little]
11:00 -12:30 Kevin Lord. Yale. The Imperial Heretic: Honor, Custom, and Law in the Last Medieval Conflict between Emperor and Pope. [Chair: Lester Little]
Lunch Break (on our own)
2:00-3:30 Hollis Shaul. Princeton. “The Priors and the Prince: Carthusian Monasticism and the Experience of State Building in Angevin Provence, 1245-1385.”[Chair: Sean Field]
4:00-5:30: Editorial Roundtable: on Publishing your dissertation book (Jerry Singerman (UPenn) and Mahinder Kingra (Cornell) (Open to all Dartmouth faculty) 041 Haldeman
Reception for Editorial Panel (Dartmouth faculty invited as well) Russo Gallery
June 1, Friday
301 Black Visual Arts Center
8:15: Breakfast and coffee service, in conference room
9:00AM-10:30AM Luo Wang. Minnesota. The Gothic Saints and Their Mystical Songs: Performing Piety in Thirteenth-Century Liège" [Chair: Walter Simons]
11:00-12:30 Jennifer Lyons. Emory. “Crafting Marian Devotion: The Representation of the Theophilus Legend in Northern Europe, 9th-14th c.” [Chair: Miri Rubin]
Lunch Break (on our own)
2:00-3:30 Randall Pippenger. Princeton. "On the Home Front: Women and Lordship in Crusading Champagne," which is taken from: Crusading as a Family: A Study of the County of Champagne, 1175-1225. [Chair: Anne Lester]
4:00-5:30 Roundtable discussion on current questions and future directions (Sean Field, Anne Lester, Lester Little, Miri Rubin).
This event was made possible with the generous support of the Department of History at Dartmouth College, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Dartmouth Ethics Institute, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, the Dartmouth Political Economy Project, and the Office of the Provost.