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MEDIEVAL PEASANTS REVISITED<br>
at the Huntington Library, San Marino CA<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2><b>Friday, May 16, 2008<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>8:30 Registration
& Coffee<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>9:30 Welcome Robert
C. Ritchie (The Huntington)<br>
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Remarks Piotr Górecki (University of California, Riverside)<br>
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Session 1 Big Picture I<br>
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Moderator: Robert C. Ritchie <br>
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Julio
Escalona (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)<br>
“Rethinking the Early Castilian Peasantry: A (mostly) Archaeological
Perspective”<br>
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John
Langdon (University of Alberta)<br>
“Wages
and Other Supplementary Earnings among the Medieval Peasantry:<br>
Some
General Thoughts and Ideas Occasioned by Building Evidence from Pre-Black
Death England”<br>
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Bas
van Bavel (University of Utrecht)<br>
“Agrarian Change, Property Rights, and Economic Growth:<br>
Regional Divergencies in Late Medieval Netherlands”<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>12:30 Lunch<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>1:30 Session 2 Big
Picture II<br>
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Moderator: Mary Robertson (The Huntington)<br>
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Christopher Dyer (University of Leicester)<br>
“Were
Medieval English Peasants Successful Cultivators and Managers?” <br>
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Aline
Durand (University of Provence/Aix–Marseille I)<br>
“The
Agrarian Systems in Southern France during the Medieval Period:
Stagnation, Evolution, or Revolution?”<br>
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Alfio
Cortonesi (University of Tuscia)<br>
“Agriculture and Stock-Breeding in Late-Medieval Italy: Aspects and
Problems of Coexistence”<br>
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<b>Saturday, May 17, 2008<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>9:00
Registration & Coffee<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>9:30 Session 3
The Law<br>
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Moderator: Brian Copenhaver (University of California, Los Angeles) <br>
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Phillipp Schofield (University of Wales Aberystwyth)<br>
“Peasants and the Law in Medieval England: New Directions or a ‘Return to
Maitland’?”<br>
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Teofilo Ruiz (University of California, Los Angeles)<br>
“Naming Peasants: Litigation, Memory, and Rural Society in
Thirteenth-Century Northern Castile”<br>
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James
Masschaele (Rutgers University)<br>
“Peasants, Property Rights, and State Formation in Medieval England”<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>12:30 Lunch<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>1:30 Session 4
Culture<br>
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Moderator:
Warren Brown (California Institute of Technology)<br>
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Paul
Freedman (Yale University)<br>
“Rustic
Saints”<br>
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Isabel
Alfonso (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)<br>
“Rural
Churches: A Religious Dimension of Peasant Struggles”<br>
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Piotr
Górecki<br>
“Diversity,
Diffusion, or Difference? Rural Groups in Medieval Poland”<br>
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Caltech Division of the
Humanities and Social Sciences and The Department of History, University
of California, Riverside.<br>
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<b>MEDIEVAL PEASANTS REVISITED Registration</b> <b>Form<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Name(s):
_____________________________________________________<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Address:
_____________________________________________________<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Email/Phone:
_____________________________________________________<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Affiliation:
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Conference registration and meals by
reservation only. No confirmation will be sent.<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Conference registration
fee 25.00<br>
(Graduate students free)<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Buffet lunch (May
16) 16.50<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Buffet lunch (May
17) 16.50<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Vegetarian (circle one) Yes No<br>
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Total ______<br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>Please return form and check payable to “The
Huntington”<br>
by May 9, 2008.<br>
Mail to Susi Krasnoo, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA
91108.<br>
Email:
<a href="mailto:skrasnoo@huntington.org">skrasnoo@huntington.org</a><br>
Phone: (626) 405-3432<br>
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