Education

Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1984

 
Fields of Interest

Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture

 
Academic Profile

Professor Fleming teaches courses on late Roman and early medieval history, the Vikings, ancient and medieval historical writing, and material culture. She writes on the political history of Viking, Anglo-Saxon, and Anglo-Norman England; early medieval material culture and osteoarchaeology; historical writing in the early Middle Ages; English law before the Common Law; Domesday Book; and nineteenth-century medievalism. She is currently working on the recycling of Roman material culture in Britain after Rome's fall. She has received grants or fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harvard Society of Fellows, the Bunting Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Royal Historical Society, and the London Society of Antiquaries.

In 2006 she received the first annual Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Mentoring Award.

View a list of dissertations written or being written under her supervision.

 
Representative Publications

• Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise c. 400 to 1070 (Penguin, 2010)
• "Acquiring, Displaying, and Destroying Silk in Late Anglo-Saxon England," Early Medieval Europe, 15 (2007), 127-58.
• “Bones for Historians: Putting the Body Back in Biography,” in Writing Medieval Biography: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow, ed. David Bates (Woodbridge, 2006), 29-48.
• “MacDomesday Book” (co-authored with Andrew Lowerre), Past and Present, 184 (2004), 209-32.
• “Lords and Labour,” in The Short Oxford History of the British Isles, vol. 3: Britain and Ireland in the Ninth through Eleventh Centuries, ed. Wendy Davies (Oxford, 2003), 107-38.
• Domesday Book and the Law: Society, and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (Cambridge, 1998)
• “Christ Church Canterbury's Anglo-Norman Cartulary,” in Anglo-Norman Political Culture (1997), 83-155.
• “Picturesque History and the Medieval in Nineteenth-Century America,” American Historical Review (1995), 1061-64.
• Kings and Lords in Conquest England (Cambridge, 1991)