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Contributors CONTRIBUTORS GEORGE T. BEECH, professor emeritus of medieval history at Western Michigan University, has written on various aspects of Aquitanian his­ tory in the eleventh and twelfth centuries: rural society, aristocracy (stud­ ies of Duke William IX, the troubadour), monasticism, personal names, relations with England, Spain, and the crusader East, and the Conventum narrative of ca. 1030. He is presently completing a biography of William IX and a history of the eleventh-century Muslim kingdom of Zaragoza in Spain. CONSTANCE HOFFMAN BERMAN (Ph.D., University ofWisconsin) is a pro­ fessor of History at the University of Iowa. She has published four books: Medieval Agriculture, the Southern-French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians (1986), The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twe/fth­ Century Europe (2000), Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons if the Cistercian Order (2002), and with Judith Rice Rothschild and Charles W Connell, The Worlds of Medieval Women: Creativity, ltif/uence, Imagination (1985), as well as numerous articles, most recently "How Much Space did Medieval Nuns Have or Need?" in Shaping Community: The Art and Archaeology of Monasticism, ed. Sheila McNally (2001). She is currently at work on a number of projects including one on nuns and economic de­ velopment in medieval Rome inspired by a recent NEH seminar in which she was a participant. CONSTANCE BRITTAIN BOUCHARD received her BA from Middlebury College, and her MA (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) from the University of Chicago. She is professor of medieval history at the University ofAkron and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is the author of eight books on the medieval nobility and the church, including Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987); "Strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1998); and "Those 442 U)NTRll3UTOltS of My Blood": COllstntctillg Noble Falllilies ill Medieval Francia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2(01). ELIZABETH A.R. BROWN is professor emeritus of history of the City Uni­ versity of New York (Brooklyn College and the Graduate School). She has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Harvard University, New York University, and Yale University. She is a specialist in medieval and early modern French history, and her publications include works on French legal and institutional history, and the French monarchy and royal ceremonial. She is completing a book on the abbey church of Saint-Denis from the time of Abbot Suger through the present. JAMES A. BRUNDAGE, Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of His­ tory and Courtesy Professor of Law at the University of Kansas, is the au­ thor of ten books, including Law, Sex and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), and Medieval Canon Law (London: Longman, 1995), in addition to more than 250 scholarly ar­ ticles and reviews. RAGENA C. DEARAGON, associate professor of history at Gonzaga Uni­ versity in Spokane,Washington, holds her doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has published several articles on Anglo­ Norman social and prosopographical history, and is completing a mono­ graph on the Vere earls of Oxford. MARIE HIVERGNEAUX, a former student of the Ecole Normale Su­ perieure (E.N.S.) de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, agregee in history, is finish­ ing under the supervision of Professor Martin Aurell a doctoral thesis at the Universite de Poi tiers (C.E.S.C.M.) about twelfth-century princesses in Northern France and in Aquitaine. She has given papers on Eleanor of Aquitaine at international colloquia held at Thouars and Montpellier in 1999; her Montpellier paper is published in the Acts of the colloquium (2001). LOIS L. HUNEYCUTT holds her doctorate in medieval history from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is associate professor of his­ tory at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has published a series of articles on twelfth-century Anglo-Scottish queenship and is completing a monograph on Queen Matilda II of England (d. 1118). ANDREW W LEWIS is professor of history at Southwest Missouri State Uni­ versity. He is the author of Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Fa- CONTRIBUTORS 443 milial Order and the State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981; French edn., Paris: Gallimard, 1986), and numerous articles. He is currently completing an edition and translation of the chronicle and historical notes of Bernard !tier. JANE MARTINDALE is a life member of Clare Hall Cambridge. She taught English medieval history in the department of English and American studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, although her research was always focused on early medieval France. She has pub­ lished papers ranging on topics from the eighth to the thirteenth cen­ tury and some of these papers are collected in the volume Status, Authority and Regional Power: Aquitaine and France Ninth to TIvelfth Cen­ turies [London: Variorum, 1997]. PEGGY MCCRACKEN is associate professor of French at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Romance 0.[ Adultery: Queenship and Sex­ ual Transgression in Old French Literature (Philadelphia: University ofPennsyl­ vania Press, 1998), and co-editor, with Karma Lochrie and James A. Schultz, of Constructing Medieval Sexuality (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). EVELYN MULLALLY is an honorary senior research fellow in medieval French at the Queen's University of Belfast. Her current research interests are in Anglo-Norman, particularly in the type of French used in Ireland in the Middle Ages. She has recently completed a new edition and translation of a chronicle for the Anglo-Norman Text Society, "La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande" (previously called "The Song of Dermot and the Earl"), which is an account of the colonization of Ireland by Strongbow and Henry II, composed ca. 1190-1200. KATHLEEN NOLAN received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is as­ sociate professor of art history at Hollins University. She has published ar­ ticles on narrative in public sculpture in twelfth-century Be-de-France in The Art Bulletin, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and Studies in Iconography, as well as an essay on the tomb of Adelaide of Maurienne in Memory and the Me­ dieval Tomb, edited by Elizabeth Valdez del Alamo. She is currently working on a book about tombs of queens in France in the twelfth and early thir­ teenth centuries. TAMARA F. O'CALLAGHAN holds a Ph.D. in medieval studies from the Uni­ versity of Toronto and is assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Language at Northern Kentucky University, where she teaches English 444 CONTRIBUTORS literature and Latin. She is completing a modern English translation of Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de 1/'oie. MARGARET AZIZA PAPPANO, assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is currently completing a book-length study entitled The Priest's Body in Performance: Clerical Playing and Theatrical Space in the Medieval En:sland. JOHN CARMI PARSONS holds a Ph.D. in medieval studies from the Uni­ versity of Toronto. He is the author of Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England (New York: St. Martin's, 1995), and articles on medieval queenship and prosopography. He has edited Medieval Queenship (New York: St. Martin's, 1993) and, with Bonnie Wheeler, Medieval Moth­ ering (New York: Garland, 1996). He is preparing, with Kathleen Nolan, Capetian Women, to appear in the series The New Middle Ages, and Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe (London: London Books, 2003). MIRIAM SHADIS (Ph.D., Duke University) has written essays including "Piety, Politics, and Power: the Patronage of Leonor of England and her Daughters Berenguela of Leon and Blanche of Castile," in The Cultural Pa­ tronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash (Athens:University of Georgia Press, 1996), and "Berenguela of Castile's Political Motherhood: the management of sexuality, marriage, and succession," in Medieval Moth­ ering, ed. John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler (New York: Gar­ land,1996.) She currently teaches at Ohio University. She is preparing for publication her study, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Her Family: Po­ litical Women in the High Middle Ages. HEATHER J. TANNER holds her doctorate in medieval history from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her publications include articles on King Stephen's reign that have appeared in Medievalia et Humanistica, Majestas, and Anglo-Norman Studies, and she is a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography. She has completed a book on early me­ dieval politics and governance, entitled Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in northern France and England, c. 879-c. 1162. FIONA TOLHURST, associate professor of English at Alfred University, teaches medieval and renaissance literature. She has published articles on English and French Arthurian literature in Arthuriana and BBIAS, has edited a special issue of Arthuriana on Geoffrey of Monmouth, and co­ edited with Bonnie Wheeler On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries (Dallas: Scriptorium, 2001). CONTRIBUTORS 445 RALPH V. TURNER is retired Distinguished Research Professor, Depart­ ment of History, the Florida State University, Tallahassee. He took his doc­ torate in medieval history at the Johns Hopkins University and is a former Fulbright Scholar to France, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and former vice-president of the Charles Homer Haskins Society. His books include The King and his Courts: the Role of King john and Henry III in the Administration of justice, 1199-1240 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968); The English judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton c.
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