Cheyette Symposium Presenters
In order of appearance:
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Professor Emeritus, Brooklyn College
“Fred, Feudalism, and Me”
10:00 a.m.
Read by Nicola M. Courtright
Prof. of Art/History of Art, Amherst
Elizabeth A.R. Brown completed her graduate training at Harvard University, where she and Fred Cheyette studied under Charles Taylor, and taught for many years in the Department of History at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Professor Brown’s wide-ranging interests include the institutional and ideological history of the French monarchy, female power in the Middle Ages, and medieval historiography. In addition to her groundbreaking 1974 article “The Tyranny of a Construct: Feudalism and Historians of Medieval Europe”, she has published numerous monographs and edited volumes, including Politics and Institutions in Capetian France (1991), Customary Aids and Royal Finance in Capetian France (1992), and The Lit de Justice: Semantics, Ceremonial, and the Parlement of Paris, 1300-1600 (1994). A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, Professor Brown served as the Academy’s President from 2010 to 2011.
Geoffrey Koziol
Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
“F. L. Cheyette, W. H. Auden, and the Law”
10:30 a.m.
Geoffrey Koziol received his Ph.D. in medieval history from Stanford University, where he studied with Fred Cheyette’s Harvard classmate Gavin Langmuir. After teaching at Hamline College, he joined Harvard’s history department before moving to the University of California Berkeley, where he now is Professor of History. A scholar of northern European intellectual, political, and religious institutions, Professor Koziol’s research and teaching focus in particular upon the political development of the post-Carolingian world and the complex ritual, discursive, and documentary processes underlying it. He is the author of Begging Pardon and Favor: Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France (1992) and The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas (2012).
Paul R. Hyams
Emeritus Professor, Cornell University; Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford University
“A View of Property Possession & Ownership in Early England”
1:00 p.m.
Paul Hyams was educated at Oxford University. After receiving his Ph.D., he was a Fellow of Pembroke College for twenty years before moving to Cornell University, where he was Professor of History until his retirement in 2013. In addition to being, with Fred Cheyette and Peggy Brown, a leading “feudo-sceptic”, Professor Hyams also is a leading scholar of the history and practice of law in the Middle Ages, with a particular interest in criminal law, dispute settlement, and legal procedure in post-Conquest England. In addition to many influential articles, including “Trial by Ordeal” (1980), “The Charter as Source in the Early Common Law” (1991), he is the author of Kings, Lords, and Peasants in Medieval England (1980) and Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England: Wrong and its Redress from the Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries (2003). Professor Hyams is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in 2010 was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. In 2014, he was honored with a special issue of Reading Medieval Studies entitled Law's Dominion in the Middle Ages.
Stephen D. White
Candler Professor of Medieval History, Emeritus, Emory University
“Ceremonial Executions in England, 1196-1306”
2:00 p.m.
Stephen D. White received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he subsequently was a Junior Fellow (1971-74), Lecturer in History (1974-5), and Research Fellow in the Law School (1974-5). He taught medieval history at Wesleyan University until 1989, when he was named Asa G. Candler Professor of Medieval History at Emory University. Since retiring from the Emory faculty, he has returned to the Boston area, where he currently is a visiting professor in the Harvard History Department. Professor White, a scholar of French and English social, legal, and political history, was named an Honorary Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews, and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Among his many publications are Custom, Kinship, and Gifts to Saints: The Laudatio Parentum in Western France, 1050-1150 (1988), Feuding and Peacemaking in Eleventh-Century France (2005), and (with Elizabeth Pastan), The Bayeux Tapestry and its Contexts (2014).
Bailey K. Young
Distinguished Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University
“Fred and Archeology”
3:15 p.m.
Bailey K. Young completed his Ph.D. in early medieval archeology at the University of Pennsylvania, continuing his studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études IV in Paris before teaching at the Université de Paris IV, the Université de Lille III, and Assumption College. He currently is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, where he chairs the program in Medieval Studies and oversees the Walhain-St. Paul summer program in medieval archeology. A specialist on Merovingian material culture and the built environment, he has published extensively on early medieval funerary archeology and the post-Roman landscape, with a particular emphasis upon the fortified site at Walhain (Belgium), where he has led excavations for over a decade. Professor Young currently is working with French archeologist Isabelle Catteddu on revising and editing Fred Cheyette’s long-anticipated study of the transformation of the European landscape in the early Middle Ages, which will be published by Cornell University Press.
Last Updated: 30 Sept 2015 TLR