Peter Lionel Larson
Department of History
740-427-5322
Email: larsonp@kenyon.edu
Employment
2004 – Visiting Assistant
Professor of Medieval History,
present
2002-2003 Teaching Assistant/Instructor, English
Department Writing Program,
2002 Adjunct
Instructor, History Department,
1999-2003
Graduate
Fellow/Teaching Assistant, History Department,
1998-99 Casual Assistant for Cataloguing,
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Library,
1996-1998 Graduate Fellow, History Department,
Education
May 2004 Ph.D.
in History, Rutgers, The
Major Field: Medieval
History (
Minor Field: Global/Comparative
History
Dissertation: “Conflict
and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside:
Lords and Peasants in
Dissertation Advisor: James Masschaele
June 2000 M.A. in Medieval History,
Thesis: “Lordship and
Township in
Thesis Advisor: Richard H. Britnell
October
1998 M.A. in Medieval
History, Catholic
December 1995 B.A. in History and Classics
(Latin),
Fellowships and Grants
Travel Grant, North-East
England in the Late Middle Ages Conference, Arts and Humanities Research Board
Centre for
Research
Bursary, Department of History,
Roy M.
DeFerraro Memorial Ph.D. Fellowship, Catholic University of America, 1996-1998.
Publications
Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside: Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1348 to 1430 /(Routledge, forthcoming 2006)
“Local Law Courts in Late
Medieval Durham,” to be published in Richard H. Britnell and Christian D.
Liddy, eds., North-East England in the
Later Middle Ages (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming in 2005).
Contributing editor in a new
critical edition of British Public Record Office manuscript SC 12/21/28 (Survey
of the bishopric of
Proposed critical edition of
halmote court material to 1509 relating to the
“Writers, Rebels, and
Heretics: ‘Bone Governaunce’ and the Limits of Rebellion in
Organized
panel “Oppression and Resistance in the Late Medieval England,” for the Mid-Atlantic
British Studies Conference, March 2003.
“The Bishop of Durham’s
Widows: A Failed Attempt at Seignorial Exploitation After
the Black Death,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic British Studies Conference,
“Local Law Courts in the
Later Middle Ages,” delivered at to the “North-East England in the Late Middle
Ages Conference,” organized by the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre
for North-East England History, Durham University, July 2002.
“Freedom and Serfdom in Late
Medieval Durham,” presented to the Medieval North East Seminar Group,
“Wealth and
Geography in Northern England: Settlements between
Courses Taught
The Early Middle
Ages, 300-1000
The Later Middle
Ages, 1000-1500 (Spring 2005)
History of Medieval
The Crusades (First Year
Seminar)
Heresy and Magic in Medieval