Constance Brittain Bouchard

Dept. of History, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-1902
(330) 972-7325
CBouchard@UAkron.edu
Home: 2006 Blair Blvd., Wooster, OH 44691 (330) 262-4730
Married to Robert A. Bouchard

 

Education
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 1966-1970
Phi Beta Kappa Cum Laude High Honors in History

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1972-1976
AM History, June 1973 Master's paper: "Patterns of Authority in French Monasteries: The Second Book of the Chronicle of Morigny"
Qualifying orals, May 1974 Fields: "Social and Economic Aspects of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance" (Karl Morrison); "Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700" (William McNeill); "Latin Paleography" (Braxton Ross)

PhD History, August 1976
Dissertation: "The Bishop of Auxerre in the Twelfth-Century: Spirituality and Administration" (committee, Karl Morrison, Julius Kirshner, Braxton Ross)

Teaching Experience
University of Chicago, Teaching apprentice in western civilization (spring 1976)
University of California, San Diego (extension division), Instructor in medieval history (1979-1981)
University of California, San Diego (Dept. of History), Visiting assistant professor in medieval history (winter-spring 1983)
University of California, Irvine, Visiting assistant professor in medieval history (winter-spring 1984)
San Diego State University, Lecturer in western civilization (fall 1985)
Kenyon College, Visiting assistant and visiting associate professor in medieval and modern history (fall-spring 1987-1988; spring 1989; spring 1990)
Oberlin College, Visiting associate professor in medieval history (fall 1989)
University of Akron, Assistant professor to Distinguished Professor in medieval history (fall 1990--present)

Awards
Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize, Medieval Academy of America, best first article on medieval history, for 1977
Berkshire Prize, Berkshire Conference, best article by a woman historian, for 1981
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Research, January-December 1982
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant, spring 1986
Kenyon College faculty development grants, 1987-1988, 1990
American Philosophical Society research grant, fall 1988
University of Akron faculty research grants, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2007
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1993
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, January-December 1995
Outstanding Faculty Researcher of 1997, University of Akron Alumni Association
Appointed Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, 2001
Ohio Academy of History, Outstanding Publication Prize, 2002.
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Member, 2002-2003

Professional Memberships
Medieval Academy of America: Councillor, 1989-1992; Fellow, 2001; life member
American Historical Association
Midwest Medieval History Association
Society for French Historical Studies; Pinkney book prize committee, 1999-2001
American Catholic Historical Association
Ohio Academy of History: Publications prize committee, 1990-1991, 2003-2004; Executive Council, 1993-1996

Editorial Board, French Historical Studies (1990-1993); manuscript reviewer for American Historical Review, Speculum, Medieval Prosopography, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, The Journal of Social History, Mediaeval Studies, University of California Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Penn State Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Catholic University Press, Oxford University Press, and Cornell University Press.

 

Publications

Books
- Spirituality and Administration: The Role of the Bishop in Twelfth-Century Auxerre
. Speculum Anniversary Monographs 5. Cambridge, Mass., 1979.
- Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198. Cornell University Press, 1987.
- Life and Society in the West, vol. 1, Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.
- The Cartulary of Flavigny, 717-1113. Medieval Academy Books 99. Cambridge, Mass., 1991.
- Holy Entrepreneurs: Cistercians, Knights, and Economic Exchange in Twelfth-Century Burgundy. Cornell University Press, 1991.
- "Strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. Cornell University Press, 1998.
An alternate selection of the History Book Club.
- The Cartulary of St.-Marcel-lès-Chalon, 779-1126. Medieval Academy Books 102. Cambridge, Mass., 1998.
- "Those of My Blood": Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia. University of Pennsylvania Press 2001.
Winner of the Ohio Academy of History, Outstanding Publication Prize, 2002
- "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted": The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought. Cornell University Press, 2003.
- The Cartulary of Montier-en-Der, 666-1129. Medieval Academy Books 108. Toronto, 2004.

Articles
- "The Geographical, Social and Ecclesiastical Origins of the Bishops of Auxerre and Sens in the Central Middle Ages." Church History 46 (1977), 277-295.
Winner of the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize
- "Laymen and Church Reform Around the Year 1000: The Case of Otto-William, Count of Burgundy." Journal of Medieval History 5 (1979), 1-10.
- "The Structure of a Twelfth-Century French Family: The Lords of Seignelay." Viator 10 (1979), 39-56.
- "Changing Abbatial Tenure Patterns in Burgundian Monasteries During the Twelfth Century." Revue Bénédictine 90 (1980), 249-262.
- "Remarques méthodologiques sur l'emploi de la statistique dans la démographie médiévale." Le moyen âge 86 (1980), 421-438.
- "Noble Piety and Reformed Monasticism: The Dukes of Burgundy in the Twelfth Century." In Noble Piety and Reformed Monasticism: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History VII. Edited by E. Rozanne Elder. Kalamazoo, Mich., 1981. Pp. 1-10.
- "The Possible Non-Existence of Thomas, Author of Tristan and Isolde." Modern Philology 79 (1981), 66-72.
- "Consanguinity and Noble Marriages in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries." Speculum 56 (1981), 268-287.
- "The Origins of the French Nobility: A Reassessment." American Historical Review 86 (1981), 501-532.
Winner of the Berkshire Prize
- "Property Transactions and the Twelfth-Century Cistercians." In Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History. Edited by John F. Sweets. Lawrence, Kas., 1984. Pp. 1-7.
- "Family Structure and Family Consciousness Among the Aristocracy in the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries." Francia 14 (1986), 639-658.
- "Knights and the Foundation of Cistercian Houses in Burgundy." In Erudition at God's Service: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History XI. Edited by John R. Sommerfeldt. Kalamazoo, Mich., 1987. Pp. 315-322.
- "Patterns of Women's Names in Royal Lineages, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries." Medieval Prosopography 9/1 (1988), 1-32.
- "The Migration of Women's Names in the Upper Nobility, Ninth-Twelfth Centuries." Medieval Prosopography 9/2 (1988), 1-19.
- "The Bosonids: Or Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age." French Historical Studies 15 (1988), 407-431.
- "Cistercian Ideals versus Reality: 1134 Reconsidered." Cîteaux 39 (1988), 217-231.
- "Merovingian, Carolingian, and Cluniac Monasticism: Reform and Renewal in Burgundy." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 41 (1990), 365-388.
- "Community: Society and the Church in Medieval France." French Historical Studies 17 (1992), 1035-1047.
- "Twelfth-Century Burgundy: The Great Unknown?" In Studiosorum Speculum: Studies in Honor of Louis J. Lekai. Cistercian Studies 141. Edited by Francis R. Swietek and John R. Sommerfeldt. Kalamazoo, Mich., 1993. Pp. 33-51.
- "Manorialism," pp. 438-440. Article in Encyclopedia of Social History. Edited by Peter N. Stearns. New York, 1994.
- "Advocatus/Avoué," p. 9; "Alleu/Allod," p. 27; "Anne of Kiev," p. 44; "Benedict, Rule of St.," p. 108; "Benedict of Aniane," p. 109; "Benedictine Order," p. 109; "Benefice (nonecclesiastical)," p. 109; "Bertha of Holland," p. 116; "Bruno," p. 153; "Burgundy," pp. 154-157; "Capetian Dynasty," pp. 165-169; "Carta caritatis," pp. 178-179; "Carthusian Order," p. 179; "Cistercian Order," p. 227; "Cluniac Order," pp. 239-240; "Consanguinity," p. 255; "Constance of Arles," p. 256; "Constance of Castile," p. 256; "Dijon," pp. 296-297; "Diploma," p. 297; "Eleanor of Aquitaine," pp. 316-317; "Family and Gender: Aristocracy," pp. 335-336; "Fief holding," p. 345; "Flodoard de Reims," p. 353; "Franche-Comté," p. 364; "Hughes de Cluny," p. 462; "Lineage and Inheritance," p. 551; "Marriage, Clandestine," p. 593; "Monasticism," pp. 627-632; "Nithard,"p. 666; "Nunneries," pp. 675-676; "Odilo," p. 682; "Odo," p. 682; "Orderic Vitalis," pp. 683-684; "Personal Names," pp. 721-722; "Robert le Fort," p. 806; "Robert of Molesme," p. 807; "Roi fainéant," p. 808; "Tournament," pp. 915-916; "Vikings," p. 956; "Widows and Widowhood," p. 975. Articles in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Edited by William W. Kibler and Grover A. Zinn (New York, 1995).
- "Burgundy and Provence, 879-1032." Article in The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 3 (1999), pp. 328-342.
- "The Cistercians and the Glossa Ordinaria." Catholic Historical Review 86 (2000), 183-192.
- "Forging Papal Authority: Charters from the Monastery of Montier-en-Der." Church History 69 (2000), 1-17.
- "The Medieval Heritage." Article in The Encyclopedia of European Social History. Edited by Peter N. Stearns. Vol. 1, pp. 131-141. New York, 2001.
- "Monastic Cartularies: Organizing Eternity." Article in Charters, Cartularies, and Archives: The Transmission and Preservation of Documents in the Medieval West, pp. 22-32. Edited by Adam J. Kosto and Anders Winroth. Tortonto, 2002.
- "Rural Economy and Society." Article in France in the Central Middle Ages, 900-1200, The Short Oxford History of France, pp. 77-101. Edited by Marcus Bull. Oxford, 2002.
- "Eleanor's Divorce from Louis VII: The Uses of Consanguinity." In Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons. New York, 2003. Pp. 223-235.
- "Serfs." Article in the World Book Encyclopedia. Vol. "S," p. 316. New York, 2003.
- "The Kingdom of the Franks to 1108." Article in The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 4 (2003), pp. 120-153. Edited by Jonathan Riley-Smith and R. Luscombe.
- "The Aristocratic Bishop: The Case of Hugh of Chalon." In The Bishop: Power and Piety at the First Millennium, pp. 37-49. Edited by Sean Gilsdorf. Münster, 2004.
- "Images of the Merovingians and Carolingians." History Compass 4 (Blackwell Publishing, 2006) [on-line publication, 15 pp.] http://www.history-compass.com/section.asp?section=7
- "'Feudalism,' Cluny, and the Investiture Controversy." In Medieval Monks and Their World, Ideas and Realities: Studies in Honor of Richard Sullivan, pp. 81-91. Edited by David Blanks, Michael Frassetto and Amy Livingstone. Leiden, 2006
- "Chivalry"; "Cluniac Order"; "Ecclesiastial Documents"; and "Tournaments." Articles in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. Edited by Margaret Schaus, Susan Stuard, and Tom Izbicki. New York, 2006.
- "The Carolingian Creation of a Model of Patrilineage." In Paradigms and Methods in Late Ancient and Early Medieval Studies. Edited by Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz. Pp. 135-151. New York, 2007.
- "Adhemar of Chabannes"; "Andreas Capellanus"; "Burgundy, Kingdom of"; "Flodoard of Rheims"; "Orderic Vitalis"; and "Thietmar of Merseburg." Articles in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork. Oxford, 2009 (in press).
- "Episcopal Gesta and the Creation of a Useful Past in Twelfth-Century Auxerre. Speculum 84 (2009), 1-35.

Papers
"An Auxerrois Family and Twelfth-Century Society." Given at the Second Ohio Medieval Conference (Cleveland, October 1975).
"Cluny, Cîteaux, and the Dukes of Burgundy in the Twelfth Century." Given at the Twelfth Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1977).
"The High Medieval Nobility: New or Old?" Given at the meetings of the Medieval Academy of America (Los Angeles, March 1980).
"The French Nobility in the Central Middle Ages." Symposium led at the French Historical meetings (New York, March 1982).
"Property Transactions and the Twelfth-Century Cistercians." Given at the meetings of the Western Society for French History (Riverside, November 1983).
"The Role of Women in the Spread of Reformed Monasticism in a Patriarchal Society: Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France." Given at the Seventh Annual Irvine Seminar on Social History and Theory (Irvine, March 1984).
"The Bosonids: or, Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age." Given at the meetings of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (Los Angeles, February 1985).
"Family Structure and Family Consciousness among the Aristocracy in the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries." Given at the workshop, "The Structure of the Aristocracy in Feudal Europe" (Gainesville, Fla., March 1985).
"Knights and the Foundation of Cistercian Houses." Given at the Twentieth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1985).
"Cistercian Ideals versus Reality: 1134 Reconsidered." Given at the Twenty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1987).
"Frankish Monasticism and the Background to Cluny." Given at the meetings of the Medieval Academy of America (Philadelphia, April 1988).
Written to be Ignored: Flavigny's Testamentary Formula and the Diplomatic Changes of the Ninth Century." Given at the Twenty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1989).
"No Secret Payment: The Symbolism of Gift and Countergift Among the Cistercians." Given at the meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies (Columbus, March 1990).
"Language, Symbol, and Financial Transactions Among the Twelfth-Century Cistercians." Given at the Midwest Medieval History Conference (Columbus, October 1990).
"Noble Action, Episcopal Function, and Monastic Reform in the Tenth Century." Given at the Twenty-sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1991).
"'Feudalism,' Cluny, and the Investiture Controversy." Given at the Twenty- seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1992).
"The Friendly Dead in the Era of Gregory of Tours." Given at the Twenty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1994).
"Castle, Town, and Wilderness: The World of Saint Norbert." Given at the symposium "St. Norbert and the Impulse for Reform" (St. Norbert's College, November 1994).
"Eighth-Century Transitions: The Evidence from Flavigny." Given at the Thirtieth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1995).
"Required Opposites: Women and Men in Twelfth-Century Thought." Keynote address at the Midwest Medieval History Conference (St. Louis, October 1996).
"The Friendly Compliance of Popes: The Forgeries of Montier-en-Der." Given at the meetings of the Medieval Academy of America (Toronto, April 1997).
"The Glossa Ordinaria and the Cistercians." Given at the Thirty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1997).
"The Sorceress and the Greyhound: Film in the Classroom." Given at the Thirty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1999).
"French Monastic Cartularies: Organizing Eternity." Given at the meetings of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique (Princeton, September 1999).
"Hugh, Count of Chalon and Bishop of Auxerre: A 'Mutator' of the Year 1000." Given at the International Bishops Conference (Chicago, October 1999).
"The Past as a Tool: Episcopal Biography and Bishops' Self-Definition." Given at the OSU Medieval Studies Symposium (Columbus, October 2002).
"Preordained Post-facto? Constructing a Royal Ancestry for the Carolingians." Given at the meetings of the Medieval Academy of America (Miami, April 2005).
"The Divine King Behind the Funny Stories of Notker the Stammerer." Given at the conference, Smiles and Laughter of the Middle Ages (Columbus, October 2008).

 

Book Reviews
Guy D. Barnes. Kirkstall Abbey, 1147-1539: An Historical Study. Speculum 60 (1985), 1041.
Jean-Pierre Devroey. Le polyptyque et les listes de cens de l'abbaye de Saint-Remi de Reims (IXe-XIe siècles). Speculum 61 (1986), 918-919.
Jacques Pycke. Le chapitre cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tournai de la fin du XIe à la fin du XIIIe siècle: Son organisation, sa vie, ses membres. American Historical Review 92 (1987), 116.
Robert-Henri Bautier, ed. Les origines de l'abbaye de Bouxières-aux-Dames au diocèse de Toul: Reconstitution du chartrier et édition critique des chartes antérieures à 1200. Speculum 63 (1988), 624-625.
Patrick Corbet. Les saints ottoniens: Sainteté dynastique, sainteté royale et sainteté féminine autour de l'an mil. Speculum 63 (1988), 645-646.
Adalbert de Vogüé. Community and Abbot in the Rule of St. Benedict. Speculum 64 (1989), 510-511.
George Ovitt, Jr. The Restoration of Perfection: Labor and Technology in Medieval Culture. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 25 (1989), 244-246.
Marie-Louis Auger. La Collection de Bourgogne (MSS 1-74) à la Bibliothèque nationale. Speculum 64 (1989), 650-651.
Peter Brown. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. Journal of Social History 23 (1990), 637-638.
James A. Brundage, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 26 (1990), 257-261.
Roland Carron. Enfant et parenté dans la France médiévale, Xe-XIIIe siècles. Speculum 65 (1990), 954-955.
Lothar Kolmer. Promissorische Eide im Mittelalter. American Historical Review 96 (1991), 856-857.
Carolyn Poling Schriber. The Dilemma of Arnulf of Lisieux: New Ideas versus Old Ideals. Speculum 67 (1992), 745.
Barbara Schamper. S. Bénigne de Dijon: Untersuchungen zum Necrolog der Handscrift Bibl. mun. de Dijon, ms. 634. Speculum 67 (1992), 1042-1043.
Pierre Bonnassie. From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe. American Historical Review 97 (1992), 1196-1197.
Janet L. Nelson. Charles the Bald. American Historical Review 98 (1993), 848.
Frances and Joseph Gies. Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages. Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 36 (1993), 188.
Geoffrey Koziol. Begging Pardon and Favor: Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France. American Historical Review 98 (1993), 1584-1585.
Kenneth R. Stow. Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe. Journal of Church and State 35 (1993), 911-912.
Maria Lahaye-Geusen. Das Opfer Der Kinder: Ein Beitrag zur Liturgie- und Sozialgeschichte des Mönchtums im Hohen Mittelalter. Speculum 69 (1994), 199-200.
Rodney H. Hilton. English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative Study. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24 (1994), 693-695.
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, ed. A History of Women: Silences of the Middle Ages. Journal of Social History 27 (1994), 829-831.
Ludo J. R. Milis. Angelic Monks and Earthly Men: Monasticism and Its Meaning to Medieval Society. Speculum 69 (1994), 843-844.
Lester K. Little. Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France. Journal of Social History 28 (1994), 437-439.
Bernard S. Bachrach. Fulk Nerra, The Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count. American Historical Review 99 (1994), 1671.
Barbara Harvey. Living and Dying in England, 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience. American Historical Review 100 (1995), 151.
Patrick J. Geary. Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Mellennium. American Historical Review 101 (1996), 462-463.
Megan McLaughlin. Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France. Speculum 71 (1996), 731-733.
Amy G. Remensnyder. Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France. Catholic Historical Review 83 (1997), 768-769.
Martha G. Newman. The Boundaries of Charity: Cistercian Culture and Eccle- siastical Reform, 1098-1180. Catholic Historical Review 83 (1997), 772-773.
Régine Le Jan. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle): Essai d'anthropologie sociale. Speculum 72 (1997), 1191-1193.
Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre, eds. Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages. Journal of Economic History (1998), 227-228.
Brigitte Pipon, ed. Le chartrier de l'Abbaye aux Bois (1202-1341). Speculum 73 (1998), 576-577.
Georges Duby. Women of the Twelfth Century, vol. 1, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others. The Medieval Review, June 1998.
Adriaan H. Bredero. Bernard of Clairvaux: Between Cult and History. American Historical Review 103 (1998), 861-862.
Shulamith Shahar. Growing Old in the Middle Ages. Journal of Social History 33 (1999), 975-976.
J. M. M. H. Thijssen. Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400. Church History 68 (1999), 688-689.
Dominique Barthélemy. La mutation de l'an mil a-t-elle eu lieu? Servage et chevalerie dans la France des Xe et XIe siècles. Speculum 74 (1999), 1028-1030.
Adriaan Verhulst. The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe. H-France, July 2000.
Christopher Harper-Bill, ed. Anglo-Norman Studies XX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference. Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire 35 (2000), 118-120.
Jean Flori. Croisade et chevalerie, XIe-XIIe siècles. Speculum 75 (2000), 456-458.
Theodore Evergates, ed. Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. Speculum 75 (2000), 688-689.
David L. Pike. Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 7 (2000), 288-290.
Constance Hoffman Berman. The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century France. The Journal of Religion 81 (2001), 119-120.
Alexander Murray. Suicide in the Middle Ages: The Violent Against Themselves. Journal of Social History 35 (2001), 751-753.
Michael Gervers, ed. Dating Undated Medieval Charters. Speculum 76 (2001), 1044-1045.
Mathieu Arnoux, ed. Des clercs au service de la réforme: Études et documents sur les chanoines réguliers de la province de Rouen. Catholic Historical Review 88 (2002), 111-112.
Leah Shopkow, ed. and trans. The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres. The Historian 64 (2002), 861-862.
Fredric L. Cheyette, Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours. American Historical Review 108 (2003), 899.
Lisa M. Bitel, Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100. H-Women, August 2003.
Walter Simons, Cities of Ladies: Beguin Communities in the Medieval Low Countries. Journal of Social History 37 (2003), 541-543.
Jeffrey J. Cohen, Medieval Identity Machines. The Medieval Review, January 2004.
Florian Mazel, La noblesse et l'église en Provence, fin Xe - début XIVe siècle. Speculum 79 (2004), 522-524.
Anke Kruger, Südfranzösische Lokalheilige zwischen Kirche, Dynastie und Stadt. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55 (2004), 355.
William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman, The Medieval World View. Speculum 79 (2004), 754-755.
Bruce L. Venarde. Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life. Catholic Historical Reivew 90 (2004), 527-528.
Adriaan Verhulst. The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe. H-France, January 2005.
Catherine Brown. Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism. H-France, February 2005.
Sarah Kay. Courtly Contradictions: The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century. H-France, March 2005.
Robert Morrissey. Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology. Speculum 80 (2005), 643-644.
Chrysogonus Waddell, ed. Narrative and Legislative Texts from Early Cîteaux; Cistercian Lay Brothers: Twelfth-Century Usages with Related Texts; Twelfth-Century Statutes from the Cistercian General Chapter. The Medieval Review, March 2005.
Sean Gilsdorf, trans. Queenship and Sanctity: The "Lives" of Mathilda and the "Epitaph" of Adelheid. Catholic Historical Review 91 (2005), 140-141.
Donald H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney, eds. France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades. Church History 74 (2005), 152-153.
Michel Lauwers, ed. Guerriers et moines: Conversion et sainteté aristocratiques dans l'Occident médiéval. Journal of Ecclesiastical History 56 (2005), 130-131.
Willemien Otten. From Paradise to Paradigm: A Study of Twelfth-Century Humanism. American Historical Review 110 (2005), 1583-1584.
Sara Risberg, ed. Liber usuum fratrum monasterii Vadstenensis. The Journal of Medieval Latin 15 (2005), 326-328.
Richard E. Barton. Lordship in the County of Maine, c.890-1160. Speculum 81 (2006), 141-142.
Albrecht Diem. Das monastische Experiment: Die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens. The Medieval Review, March 2006.
Richard Cusimano, ed. A Translation of the "Chronicle" of the Abbey of Morigny. Catholic Historical Review 92 (2006), 648-649.
Erin L. Jordan. Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages. H-France, December 2006.
Daniel Power, ed. The Central Middle Ages: Euope 950-1320. Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire 41 (2006), 539-541.
Jean-François Nieus. Un pouvoir comtal entre Flandre et France. Speculum 82 (2007), 220-221.
The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 1. Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire 42 (2007), 85-88.
Samantha Kahn Herrick. Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. H-France, November 2007.

Multi-Media Module
"Nobility and Chivalry in the Twelfth Century." Instructional module for "Exploring the European Past: Text and Images." Thompson Learning, 2003.

Occasional Pieces
"Reassessing the Value of the Job Register." Perspectives, the AHA Newsletter, April 1990, p. 21.
"The System of Using Scholarly Meetings to Interview Candidates for Faculty Jobs is Fundamentally Unfair." Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 1990, pp. B1-B3.
"The 'Lost Generation' of Scholars Can Help Colleges Avoid the Looming Faculty Shortage." Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 1990, pp. B1-B2.
"Classroom Isn't Only Work Time for Professors." The [Wooster] Daily Record, December 11, 1992, p. A4.
"Millennium Bug? Not Back Then." Akron Beacon Journal, February 27, 1999, p. A9.

 

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