Robin Fleming
American historian of medieval Britain
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Robin Fleming is an American medievalist and a professor of history at Boston College. She was the president of the Medieval Academy of America for 2023-2024 and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. She has written several books focusing on the people of Roman Britain and early medieval Britain, using both archaeological evidence and written records.[1][2]
Robin Fleming | |
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| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (BA, PhD) |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellow (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medieval history |
| Institutions | Boston College |
| Doctoral advisor | C. Warren Hollister |
| Other academic advisors | Denis Bethell, Harold Drake |
Early life and education
Fleming received her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1977 and 1984.[2]
Career and honors
She has been the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2009–2010),[3] a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002–2003),[4] a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (2002),[5] a Fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard (1993–94),[6] and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1986–89).[7]
She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Royal Historical Society, the London Society of Antiquaries,[8] and the Medieval Academy of America.[9]
In 2022, she gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford on "Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain’s Dogs and People".[10]
She served as president of the Medieval Academy of America from 2023 to 2024.[11]
Bibliography
Books
- Fleming, Robin (2021). The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812252446.
- Fleming, Robin (2011). Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070. Penguin. ISBN 9780140148237.[12]
- Fleming, Robin (2004). Kings and Lords in Conquest England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521526944.
- Fleming, Robin (1998). Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052163038X.[13]
Selected papers
- Robin Fleming, "Monastic Lands and England's Defence in the Viking Age", The English Historical Review 100:395:247–265 (April 1985)