Robin Fleming is a medieval historian and a professor of history at Boston College. She is the president of the Medieval Academy of America 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]}

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 recipient of awards honoring her groundbreaking research: Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2009–2010), ^[3] Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002–2003), ^[4] Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (2002), ^[5] Fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard (1993–94), ^[6] and 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 is serving as the president of the Medieval Academy of America in 2023-2024. ^[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)

References

External links

• Profile at Boston College