Christopher Fletcher Employment Education Awards and Prizes

Christopher Fletcher
Chargé de recherche, CNRS
Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris - Université de Paris I
http://univ-paris1.academia.edu/christopherfletcher
[email protected]
Employment
20132010-3
2009-10
2009
2008-9
2005-8
2004-5
2003-4
Chargé de recherche CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
LaMOP (UMR 8589) - University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Researcher and project manager – ERC Project ‘Signs and States’.
University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Lecturer. University of Kent at Canterbury.
Visiting Tutor. Birkbeck College, University of London.
Lecturer. University of California summer schools.
Tutor for University of Cambridge colleges.
Drapers’ Research Fellow
Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
Lecturer. Queen Mary, University of London.
Visiting Tutor. Goldsmiths College, London.
Lecteur. University of Bordeaux II.
Education
1999-2003
1997-8
1994-7
D.Phil., Wadham College, University of Oxford
Thesis : Manhood, youth and politics in the reign of Richard II, 1377-99
Supervisor : John L. Watts, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Awarded 25/10/03.
M.Phil. in Medieval History, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Master of Philosophy. ‘Distinguished performance’.
B.A. (Hons) in Histoire, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Arts, First Class.
Awards and Prizes
2013
1999-2003
1998-1999
FWO (Flanders Research Foundation)
Pegasus-Marie Curie Postdoctoral Award, University of Ghent
AHRC (UK Arts and Humanities Research Council) 3-year doctoral scholarship
British Academy 1-year scholarship
Publications
Books
Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300-c.1500 ed. C. Fletcher, J.-P. Genet and J.L.
Watts, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2015.
Richard II : Manhood, youth and politics, Oxford University Press, 2008, 316 pages.
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Journal articles (refereed)
2012
‘Manhood, kingship and the public in late medieval England’, Edad Media: Revista de Historia, no.
13, pp. 123-42.
2012
‘Langue et nation en Angleterre à la fin du Moyen Âge’, Revue française d’histoire des idées politiques,
no. 36, pp. 233-252.
2010
‘La communauté anglaise face à l’étranger : La loi de marque, le bien commun et la dot de Lucia
Visconti († 1422)’, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales, no. 19, pp. 105-122.
2010
‘De la communauté du royaume au common weal : Les requêtes anglaises et leurs stratégies au
XIVe siècle’, Revue française d’histoire des idées politiques, no. 32, pp. 135-149.
2009
‘Afterword: Religious Thought/Political Action, 1200-1600’, with Ros Oates, Cultural and Social
History, no. 6:3, pp. 297-304.
2008
‘Morality and Office in Late Medieval England and France’, Fourteenth Century England, no. 5, pp.
178-190. Revised version published in French in Avant le Contrat Social, ed. Fr. Foronda.
2005
‘Manhood and politics in the reign of Richard II’, Past and Present, no. 189, pp. 3-39.
2004
‘Narrative and Political Strategies at the Deposition of Richard II’, Journal of Medieval History, no.
30:4, pp. 323-31.
Book chapters
2014
‘What makes a political language? Key terms, profit and damage in the Common Petition of the
English Parliament, 1343-1422’ in The Voices of the People in Late Medieval Europe: Communication
and Popular Politics, ed. Jan Dumolyn, Jelle Haemers, H.R. Oliva Herrer and Vincent Challet.
Studies in European Urban History 33. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 91-106.
2014
‘Rumour, clamour, murmur and rebellion: Public opinion and its uses before and after the
Peasants’ Revolt (1381)’ in La comunidad medieval como esfera pública, ed. H.R. Oliva Herrer,
Vincent Challet, Jan Dumolyn and María Antonia Carmona Ruiz. Seville: Universidad de
Sevilla, 2014, pp. 193-210
2014
‘ “Être homme” : Manhood et histoire politique du Moyen Âge. Quelques réflexions sur le
changement et la longue durée’, in Une histoire sans les hommes est-elle possible ? Genre et masculinités,
ed. Anne-Marie Sohn, Lyon: ENS Editions, pp. 47-66.
2011
‘The Whig interpretation of masculinity ? Honour and sexuality in late medieval manhood’, in
What is masculinity ? Historical Arguments and Perspectives, ed. Sean Brady and John Arnold,
Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 57-75.
2010
‘Virtue and the Common Good: Sermons and Political Practice in the Good Parliament, 1376’
in Charisma and Religious Authority, ed. Katherine Jensen and Miri Rubin, Europa Sacra, no. 4,
Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 197-214.
2009
‘Charles VI and Richard II: Inconstant Youths’, in Recording Lives in Late Medieval England, ed.
Virginia Davis and Julia Boffey, Shaun Tyas, pp. 85-101.
2006
‘Corruption at Court? Crisis and the theme of Luxuria in England and France, c. 1340-1422’, in
The Court as a Stage, ed. Steven Gunn and Antheun Janse, Woodbridge: Boydell, pp. 28-38.
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Articles addressed to a broader public
2013
‘Rouen: capitale commerciale’, L’Histoire : Les Collections, no. 59, April, pp. 62-4.
2013
‘De l’enseignement de... [l’histoire médiévale] en Angleterre’, internet site Ménéstrel.
2012
‘La Guerre de Cent Ans: Vue d’Angleterre’, L’Histoire, no. 380, October, pp. 58-61, repr. in La
Guerre de Cent Ans, ed. F. d’Almeida, Fayard, 2012.
Forthcoming articles
‘La force politique de la manhood : Le Boke of Noblesse de William Worcester’, Les vecteurs de l’idéel : La
légitimité implicite, ed. J.-P. Genet. Publications de la Sorbonne/École Française de Rome.
‘Sire, uns hom sui : Transgression et inversion par rapport à quelle(s) norme(s) dans l’histoire des
masculinités médiévales ?’, Micrologus : Revue de la Société internationale pour l’étude du Moyen Âge latin.
‘Les mots et les choses dans l’historiographie du parlement anglais de la fin du Moyen Âge’, in Consensus
et représentation : Actes du colloque tenu à Dijon, le 14-16 mars 2013, éd. J.-P. Genet et al.
‘Are there “constitutional” ideas in the rolls of the English Parliament, c.1340-1422?’, Des Chartes aux
Constitutions: Autour de l’idée constitutionnelle en Europe (XIIe-XVIIe siècle), ed. Fr. Foronda and J.-P. Genet.
Publications de la Sorbonne/École Française de Rome.
Reviews
‘Katherine Lewis, Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England’, Gender and History, forthcoming.
‘David Crouch, The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272 : A social transformation’, Le Moyen Age, 120:1 (2014).
‘Jenny Stratford, Richard II and the English Royal Treasure’, English Historical Review, 129:1 (2014).
‘Alison K. McHardy, The Reign of Richard II: From minority to tyranny, 1377-99’, The Mediaeval Journal, 4:1.
‘Irit Ruth Kleiman, Philippe de Commynes: Memory, betrayal, text’, H-France Review, 13 (Dec. 2013), No. 191.
‘W. Mark Ormrod, Edward III’, Revue Historique, 668 (2013).
‘James Ross, John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford, 1442-1513’, Revue Historique, 664 (2012).
‘Ian Mortimer, Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies’, English Historical Review, 127(2012).
‘Stephen Morrison and Aude Mairey, Dialogues et Résistances : Une anthologie de textes anglais de la fin du
Moyen Âge’, Revue Historique, 260 (2011).
‘J.R. Maddicott, The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327’, Revue Historique, 658 (2011).
‘Derek Neal, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England’, English Historical Review, 125 (2010).
‘Fiona S. Dunlop, The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity’, English
Historical Review, 124 (2009).
‘Nicolas Offenstadt, Faire la paix au moyen âge: Discours et gestes de paix pendant la guerre de Cent Ans’, Q-Med
[online medieval review, Queen Mary, University of London] (March 2008).
‘Lynn Staley, Languages of Power in the Reign of Richard II’, Medievalia et Humanistica, new series 33 (2007).
‘The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, 1376-1422, trans. David Preest with intro and notes by James
G. Clark’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 57 (2006).
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Research Activity (other than publications)
Software Development
2010-4
PALM (Plateforme d’Analyse Linguistique Médiévale).
A tool for corpus management and text pre-treatment (lemmatisation) dedicated to late
medieval texts.
Coordination of a team of three linguists and one software engineer developing this
software utility which makes possible the computer-aided analysis of texts in late medieval
Latin, Middle French and Middle English.
Conference Organisation
2014
‘Leadership, Authority and Masculinity: From Antiquity to the Contemporary World’, coorganised with Sean Brady and Lucy Riall (Birkbeck, London) & Rachel Moss (Corpus
Christi, Oxford), University of London Institute in Paris, 5-6 September 2014.
2014
‘Atelier PALM-Méditext’ co-organised with Jean-Philippe Genet, University of Paris I, 27-28
March 2014.
2013
‘The Poem and the Historian’ co-organised with Benoît Grévin and Aude Mairey at CNRS
LaMOP, Villejuif, 28 November 2013.
2013
‘Political Language: The Study of Terminology as a Tool in Social and Political History’,
co-organised with Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, London, 26 March 2013.
2011
‘The State of the Art in Corpus Linguistics and Semi-Automatic Lemmatisation in Medieval
English, French and Latin’, with Jean-Philippe Genet, University of Paris I, 18-19 May 2011.
2006
‘Religious Thought, Political Practice, 1200-1600’, co-organised with Ros Oates,
Manchester Metropolitan University, 20-21 April 2006. Selected proceedings published in
Cultural and Social History, 2009.
Academic Service/Administration
2011-
Co-editor of the Cahiers Electroniques de l’Histoire Textuelle, Laboratoire de Médiévistique
Occidentale, Paris I (CEHTL)
2010-
Member of the board of referees for Clio: Histoire, femmes et société, a journal of women’s
history and gender history.
2006-7
Secretary to the Governing Body, Pembroke College, Cambridge.
I have acted as a peer reviewer for the English Historical Review, Cultural and Social History and for Palgrave
Macmillan.
Invited Papers
2014
‘Are there « constitutional » ideas in the rolls of the English parliament, 1340-1422 ?’ at Des
Chartes aux Constitutions : Autour de l’idée constitutionelle en Europe (XIIe-XVIIesiècle), ed. François
Foronda and Jean-Philippe Genet at the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, January 2014.
2013
‘Un tournant « pragmatique » dans la culture politique anglaise, XIIIe-XVe siècle’ organised by
Jean-Philippe Genet at the École française de Rome, December 2013.
2013
‘Sire, uns hom sui : Transgression et inversion par rapport à quelle(s) norme(s) dans l’histoire des
masculinités médiévales ?’ at an international conference Féminité et masculinité altérées :
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Transgression et inversion des genres au Moyen Âge, organised by Eva Pibiri and Fanny Abbott at the
university of Lausanne, November 2013.
2013
‘Les langages du Parlement anglais’ at an international conference on the theme Consensus et
représentation, organised by Olivier Mattéoni, Jean-Philippe Genet and Dominique Le Page at the
university of Bourgogne, Dijon, March 2013.
2013
‘Langue, guerre et nation en Angleterre’, at a workshop Guerres, ‘Nation’, ‘Sentiment national’ à la
fin du Moyen Âge: Retour critique organised at the university of Paris I by Nicolas Offenstadt,
March 2013.
2012
‘PALM: A computer application for the semi-automatic lemmatization of late medieval texts
(Middle English, French, Latin)’ at the university of Frankfurt, April 2012, and the university of
Edinburgh, October 2012.
2011
‘Masculinity and political authority in the later middle ages’, seminar of Jörg Rogge, university
of Mainz, December 2011.
2011
‘King as king : king as man, the case of Henry V’, conference Le corps du prince, en l’honneur d’A.
Paravicini Bagliani, organised by A. Marchandisse et al., university of Liège November 2011.
2011
‘Looking for “key terms” in late medieval politics’ at the Leeds International Medieval
Conference, July 2011.
2011
‘The manhood of Henry V’ at Henry V: From prince to king, workshop organised by Gwilym
Dodd, university of Nottingham, July 2011.
2010
‘La force politique de la manhood : Le Boke of Noblesse de William Worcester’, at the international
conference on the theme La légitimité implicite, organised by Jean-Philippe Genet at the École
Française de Rome, December 2010.
2010
‘Manhood, kingship and the public in late medieval England’, at the conference Masculinity and
political leadership, organised by Lucy Riall and Sean Brady at Birkbeck College, London,
December 2010.
2010
Round table at the international conference The languages of political society, organised by Andrea
Gamberini and Andrea Zorzi at the Università degli Studi, Milan, October 2010.
2009
‘I clamour, you murmur, they rebel. Political discourse before and after 1381’, during the
international conference Signs and Voices of the People organised by Jan Dumolyn and V. Challet,
University of Ghent, November 2009.
2009
‘La masculinité et la politique du XIIe au XVIe siècle : comment réconcilier le changement et la
longue durée ?’, at the international conference L’histoire des hommes et de la masculinité organised
by Anne-Marie Sohn and Didier Lett at the École Nationale Supérieure, Lyon, June 2009.
2008
‘Établir le bien commun et les biens communs à la fin du moyen âge. Stratégies politiques et
rhétoriques dans les petitions anglaises, c.1350-c.1450’, at Le Bien Commun conference organised
by Franck Collard at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, December 2008.
2008
‘Some public spheres in the later middle ages: talking with and about the king, in the
international conference’, Espace public, opinion et communication politique à la fin du Moyen Age :
concepts, sources, historiographie organised by Vincent Challet and Hipólita Rafael Oliva at the
University of Seville, September 2008.
2008
‘Honour and reform: Religious morality as social contract in late medieval England and
France’, at Le Contrat Social, international conference organised by François Foronda at
the University of Madrid, April 2008.
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2007
‘The subordinate role of sexuality in late medieval manhood’ at University of Southampton,
October 2007.
2007
‘Youth and rule: Lay and ecclesiastical government in the hands of pueri and iuvenes’ (with Yann
Dahhaoui, University of Geneva) delivered at the Late Medieval European Seminar, Institute of
Historical Research, January 2007.
2007
‘The Non-Absolutism of Richard II’ delivered at the Late Medieval European Seminar, Oxford
University, February 2007.
2006
‘Governing manly passions: Moralists and the linguistic limits of manhood in late medieval
England’, delivered to the Cambridge Historical Society, November 2006 and to the Leeds
International Medieval Conference, July 2006.
2006
‘Morality and office in late fourteenth-century England and France’ delivered at Religions and
Politics, Anglo-American Conference, Institute of Historical Research, July 2006.
2006
‘Passion and politics at the courts of England and France, c. 1380-c.1420’, delivered at Courts
and Courtliness, London Medieval Society Winter Conference, February 2006.
2005
‘Political Representation in England, c. 1300-c.1550’, delivered at the University of
Germany, June 2005.
2005
‘Political Representation’, delivered papers on this theme as part of a collaborative AngloFrench project ‘Governing in Late Medieval England and France: Office, Network, Idea’,
Maison Française, Oxford, September 2004; Fontevrault, September 2005.
2004
‘Virtue and the Common Good: Sermons and Political Practice in the Good Parliament,
1376’ delivered at ‘Charisma and Religious Authority’ Conference, Queen Mary,
University
of London, July 2004.
2003
‘Can you clean your teeth like a man?’, delivered at UEA conference on ‘Political Language’,
November 2003, and at Gender and Culture Seminar, Oxford.
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Bielefeld,
Teaching
2012-13
Institut d’Études Politiques (‘Sciences Po’), Paris
- Preparatory lectures, seminars and tutorials for the Agrégation d’Histoire.
- Topic: ‘War and society in the British Isles, France and the borders of the Empire,
c.1290-c.1470’
2011-12
Université du Littoral, Boulogne-sur-Mer
& 2013-14 - ‘Power and society in Britain, 1066-1485’, new third-year course, all lectures and seminars.
2010-11
Université de Lille III
- ‘History of the Middle Ages, 400-1500’, first-year course, seminars.
2010-11
University of Kent at Canterbury
- ‘The Early Middle Ages, 400-1066’, first-year course, seminars.
- ‘The Hundred Years War’, first-year course, all lectures and seminars.
Birkbeck College, London
- ‘Rebellion, Tyranny and Dissent: England, c.1380-1430’, MA course, seminars.
2009
University of California
Summer School course: ‘The Black Death’, Junior Year Students, lectures and seminars.
2005-9
University of Cambridge
- Tutorials on British and European History, 1000-1500, for Pembroke, Jesus, Downing,
Christ’s, Gonville and Caius, Homerton, St John’s, Newnham, St Catherine’s.
- Faculty lectures on fifteenth century politics.
- Examiner for the Faculty of History, university of Cambridge in 2007-8 and 2006-7 for
first- and second-year examinations in British and European History (1000-1500).
2004-5
Queen Mary, University of London
- ‘The Black Death’, second-year course, all lectures and seminars.
- ‘Women in the Middle Ages’, second-year course, all lectures and seminars.
- ‘Reconstructing the Past: An Introduction to the sources of Medieval History’, first-year
course, seminars.
Tutorials for final-year dissertations.
Goldsmiths College, London
Seminars in French history for first-year students in European studies.
2003-4
Université de Bordeaux II
Lecteur in English. Département de Langues Vivantes Pratiques
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