Peter Lionel Larson

Department of History

Kenyon College

740-427-5322

Email: larsonp@kenyon.edu

                                   

 

 

Employment

 

2004 –              Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval History, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

present

 

2002-2003         Teaching Assistant/Instructor, English Department Writing Program, Rutgers University.

 

2002                 Adjunct Instructor, History Department, Rutgers University.

 

1999-2003                  Graduate Fellow/Teaching Assistant, History Department, Rutgers University

 

1998-99            Casual Assistant for Cataloguing, Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Research Library,

Washington, D.C.

 

1996-1998         Graduate Fellow, History Department, Catholic University of America

 

 

Education

 

May 2004                     Ph.D. in History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersy, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

                                    Major Field: Medieval History (Britain)

                                    Minor Field: Global/Comparative History

                                    Dissertation: “Conflict and Compromise in the Late Medieval Countryside:

Lords and Peasants in Durham, 1348-1430”

                                    Dissertation Advisor: James Masschaele

 

June 2000                     M.A. in Medieval History, University of Durham, Durham, UK.

                                    Thesis: “Lordship and Township in Durham, 1388-1406”

                                    Thesis Advisor: Richard H. Britnell

 

October 1998                M.A. in Medieval History, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

 

December 1995             B.A. in History and Classics (Latin), College of William and Mary,

Williamsburg, Virginia.

 

 

Fellowships and Grants

 

Travel Grant, North-East England in the Late Middle Ages Conference, Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for North-East England History, 2002.

 

Rutgers University Ph.D. Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship, 1999-2003.

 

Research Bursary, Department of History, University of Durham, 1998.

 

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).

 

 

Work in Progress

 

Contributing editor in a new critical edition of British Public Record Office manuscript SC 12/21/28 (Survey of the bishopric of Durham under Bishop Thomas Hatfield) for the Surtees Society (Durham, UK), directed by Richard Britnell and Margaret Harvey.

 

Proposed critical edition of halmote court material to 1509 relating to the village of Billingham, County Durham, contained primarily in the Durham Cathedral Muniments Priory Halmote Rolls.

 

 

Conference Papers

 

“Writers, Rebels, and Heretics: ‘Bone Governaunce’ and the Limits of Rebellion in England, 1348-1417,” presented at the 25th Annual Warren I. Susman Memorial Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers University, April 2003.

 

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, Rutgers University, March 2003.

 

“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, Durham University, March 2002.

 

“Wealth and Geography in Northern England: Settlements between Highland and Lowland Zones in Medieval Northumberland,” presented at the 23rd Annual Warren I. Susman Memorial Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers University, April 2001.

 

Courses Taught

 

The Early Middle Ages, 300-1000

The Later Middle Ages, 1000-1500 (Spring 2005)

History of Medieval England, 410-1485

The Crusades (First Year Seminar)

Heresy and Magic in Medieval Europe (Spring 2005)