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Telephone: (617) 552-8484 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 445 Email: robin.fleming@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1984
Fields of Interest
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England; material culture and historical archaeology; legal history; medievalism.
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 writing the second volume of the New Penguin History of Britain, in which she is attempting to write a narrative of pre-Conquest Britain based on the evidence of archaeology. 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 and the Guggenheim Foundation.
She received the first annual Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Mentoring Award in 2006.
For a list of dissertations written or being written under her supervision, please click here.
For a curriculum vita, please click here.
Representative Publications
- "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)