Recent Scholarly Papers by Fordham Medievalist Grad Students, 2004-2006

Allison Clark, "Spaces and Relations: Female Hermits and Their Neighbors in Siena," Renaissance Society of America (2007); "Mendicant Images of Medieval Italian Lay Female Piety: Beguine, Tertiary, or Hermit?" Leeds International Medieval Congress (2005); "Spaces of Reclusion: Notarial Records of Urban Eremiticism in Medieval Siena," International Anchoritic Society (2005); “The Court of Heaven: Sculpted Saints in Medieval Art,” Gallery Lecture at The Cloisters Museum (2005); “Spaces of Reclusion: Urban Eremiticism in Medieval Siena,” American Association of Italian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill (2005); “Pilgrimage Narratives in Medieval Art,” Gallery Lecture at The Cloisters Museum (2005 );  “The Hagiography of a Sienese Dominican Friar: Medieval Saints in the Late Cinquecento,” Renaissance Society of America annual meeting (2004); “Medieval Relics and Reliquaries,” Gallery Talk at The Cloisters Museum (2004); “Visible Hermits: Urban Eremiticism in Medieval Siena" Columbia Medieval Guild Conference (2004).

Geoffrey Clement, O.S.F., “Imagines Belli Mediaevi,” Medieval Colloquium, St Francis College (2004).

Caroline Dunn, “Stealing Women in Medieval London,” Medieval and Tudor History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London (2006); “Abducted Wives and Adulterous Wives in the Common Law Courts of Later Medieval England,” Conference on Regional Variations of Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1650 in Helsinki (2006); “Love and Hate in Medieval English Abduction Prosecutions,” International Medieval Congress in Leeds (2006); “Remembering a Prior Engagement: Abduction, Adultery, and Self-Divorce in the Common Law Courts of Medieval England for the Durham University Medieval and Renaissance Post-Graduate Discussion Group (2005); “Bride-Theft and Wife-Theft in Late Medieval England: Alternative Strategies of Marriage Formation and Dissolution,” annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (2005); “’Taken Against the Will of Her Husband”: The Abduction of Wives in the Later Middle Ages,” Late Medieval England Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London (2005); “Captured Women or Captured Hearts? The Link between Abduction and Adultery in Medieval England,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (2004).

Heidi Febert, “Buckled, Wired, and Pinned: The Consumption of Metal Dress Accessories in Late Medieval England,” at the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in Boston (2006).

Morgan Franck, “Gendered Post-Colonial Discourse in the Mabinogi,” at the 25^th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium (2005).

Jay Gundacker, "'So the Saints of this Land:' a Hagiographic Crisis in 'Topographia Hibernica'" Annual Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society (2004).

Elizabeth Keohane, “A Pretender’s Guidebook to the Throne,” at the 7^th Annual North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill (2006).

Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, “Church Law in the Lombard Kingdom,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (2005).

Ken Mondschein, “The Science of the Sword: Camillo Agrippa’s Trattato di Scienza d’Arme and the Intellectual Underpinnings of the Scientific Revolution.” 52^nd annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco (2006) and at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst, MA (2006); “‘All that remains of the good ancient order of military honor’: The Military Revolution  and the Shift of the Chivalric Ethos to the Private Sphere,” at the 53^rd meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Miami (2006); “The Measure of Man, and Man as the Measure of All Things: Camillo Agrippa’s Treatise on the Science of Arms,”at the 51^st annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, UK (2005) and Annual Meeting, Federazione Italiana Scherma Antica e Storica, Verbania, Italy (2005); “The Pen and the Sword: Camillo Agrippa’s ‘Science of Arms.’ ” Sixteenth Century Society, Atlanta (2005).

Laura Morreale, “Preserving the Urban Landscape: A Rhymed Chronicle of San Gimignano,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (2004). 

Rebecca Slitt, “Fostering, Friendship, and Family in the Anglo-Norman Aristocracy,” Plymouth State College Medieval Forum (2006); “Justifying Cross-Cultural Friendship in the First Crusade: Bohemond, Firuz, and the Fall of Antioch,” Siena College Convivium Medieval Studies Conference (2006); “Brothers in Arms: Military Friendship in the Anglo-Norman World,” 5^th Annual NYC Medieval Studies Doctoral Colloquium (2005); “Acting Out Friendship: Signs and Gestures of Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Twelfth Century,” Haskins Society Conference (2004); “Breaking Faith and Friendship: The Ceremony of Diffidatio in Medieval Europe,” Medieval Friendship Conference at Queen’s University, Belfast (2004).

Michael Vargas, “Just Another Crisis: Demographic Survival and Administrative Reform in the Dominican Province of Aragon,” at the American Historical Association annual meeting in Philadelphia (2006); “Providential Rationalism: Max Weber in the History of the Medieval Order of Preaches,” at the conference on The Legacy of Max Weber, New School for Social Research (2006); “Under the Influence: Rebellious Youth and Intrusive Families in the Dominican Province of Aragon,” at the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill (2006); “The Conventual Prior in the Fourteenth-Century Dominican Province of Aragon: From Prelate to Middle Manager,” at the annual meeting of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (2006); “The Rehabilitation of Obedience: Administrative Science in the Fourteenth-Century Order of Preachers,” annual conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, SUNY, Binghamton (2004).

Laurel Wilson, “Sumptuary Law, Livery Rolls, and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century England,” 5^th Annual NYC Medieval Studies Doctoral Colloquium (2005).

Tomas Zahora, “Alexander Neckam’s Encyclopedias: Wisdom, Cosmos, and Dualists at the End of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance,” at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (2005).

Publications by Fordham Medievalist Graduate Students, 2002-2007

Nicolas Agrait, “The Experience of War in Fourteenth-Century Spain: Alfonxo XI and the Capture of Algeciras (1342-44),” in Crusaders, Condottieri and Cannon, ed. D. J. Kagay and A. J. Villalon (Leiden: Brill, 2002).

Allison Clark, "Spaces of Reclusion: Notarial Records of Urban Eremiticism in Medieval Siena," in Rhetoric of the Anchorhold: Place, Space and Body within the Discourses of Enclosure, edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy (University of Wales Press, 2007); “Charitable Bequests in Siena, 1300-25,” in The Medieval Town: A Reader, ed. M. Kowaleski (Broadview Press, 2006).

Caroline Dunn, “Contracting Marriage in York and Paris,” in The Medieval Town: A Reader, ed. M. Kowaleski (Broadview Press, 2006).

Ildar Garipzanov, “The Liturgy of Authority in the Carolingian World (751-877),” in Monotheistic Kingship,” The Medieval Variants (Budapest, 2003); “Fastigium as an Element of the Carolingian Image of Authority: The Transformation of the Roman Imperial Symbol of the Early Middle Ages,” in Majestas: Rulership-Souveraineté-Herrschertum 10 (2002).

Patrick Holt, entries on Columbanus, Ciran of Clonmacnoise, Brendan the Navigator, Thomas Aquinas, Dominic, and Raymond of Penafort for The Dictionary of Holy People, ed. Phyllis Jestice (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2002); “Reformation Ireland,” in The Reader’s Guide to British History, ed. David Loades (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002); book review of M. Michele Mulchahey, First the Bow is Bent in Study: Dominican Education before 1350,” Medieval Sermon Studies (May 2002).

Ken Mondschein, “Meme,”  And “Love, Western Notions of,” (with Vern Bullough) in The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Detroit: Gale Group, Inc., 2004); “Surpassing the Love of Women: Male Homosexuality in the Pre-Modern World," Renaissance 9:6 (2004); also book reviews for Renaissance (2004-2006) on such books as Norman F. Cantor, The Last Knight; David Carpenter, The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066-1284,Chaira Frugoni, A Day in a Medieval City; “Andre Jotischky and Caroline Hull, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World; Alastair Dunn, The Peasants’ Revolt; and Stephen Turnbull, The Art of Renaissance Warfare.

Rebecca Slitt, “Justifying Cross-Cultural Friendship in the First Crusade: Bohemond, Firuz, and the Fall of Antioch,” Viator (September 2007).

Jennifer Speed, “Emotion and Negotiation during the Reign of Jaume I,” in Negociar en la Edad media/Négocier au Moyen Age, ed. Maria Teresa Ferrer Mallol et al. Barcelona, 2005; “Women, Family Relations, and Inheritance in Aragon,” in The Medieval Town: A Reader, ed. M. Kowaleski (Broadview Press, 2006).

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