罗宾-弗莱明 中世纪历史学家

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Robin Fleming
Medieval Historian | Class of 2013
Drawing on archaeological and textual sources to provide fresh insight into the social, economic, and cultural lives of inhabitants of late Roman and medieval Britain.


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Title
Medieval Historian
Affiliation
Boston College
Location
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Age
57 at time of award
Area of Focus
Classics, Late Antiquity, and Medieval Studies
Website
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Published September 25, 2013
ABOUT ROBIN'S WORK
Robin Fleming is a historian enriching our knowledge of life in Britain in the tumultuous centuries during and after the fall of the Roman Empire through an artful blending of archaeological and textual sources. In scholarship encompassing the end of the Roman occupation, the appearance of Germanic settlements, the conversion to Christianity, and the viking raids on Britain, Fleming supplements the fragmentary and elite-focused written record with comprehensive consideration of material evidence unearthed by archaeologists.

Drawing on physical remains as well as objects including brooches, buckles, coins, potsherds, and spears found in medieval cemeteries and settlements, Fleming is able to illuminate the everyday existence of the largely illiterate lower-elite and peasant classes. Her account of the early medieval period in Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise of the Middle Ages, c. 400–1070 (2010) brings to life the way people traded, worshipped, and commemorated their dead while also revealing the impact of repeated resettlement and urbanization.

Her recent work focuses on the centuries of economic collapse following the withdrawal of Roman power from the edges of its empire. Using climatological evidence, findings from smelting and burial site excavations, and metallurgical analysis, she details the dismantling of the stratified, urban society that began in the late fourth century as the raw materials and skilled workers needed to sustain the metal economy disappeared and the population was forced to rely on widespread scavenging and recycling of metal objects.

With her probing research and her ability to relate her findings with remarkable clarity, Fleming is changing the way historians view early medieval Britain and providing a framework for incorporating material culture into the writing of history.

BIOGRAPHY
Robin Fleming received a B.A. (1977) and a Ph.D. (1984) from the University of California at Santa Barbara. From 1986 to 1989, she was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, and she has been affiliated with Boston College since 1989, where she is currently a professor and chair of the Department of History. She is the author of Kings and Lords in Conquest England (1991) and Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (1998), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.



罗宾-弗莱明
中世纪历史学家 | 2013级
利用考古和文本资料，对罗马晚期和中世纪英国居民的社会、经济和文化生活提供新的见解。


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标题
中世纪历史学家
工作单位
波士顿学院
工作地点
马萨诸塞州栗子山
年龄
获奖时57岁
重点领域
古典学、晚期古代和中世纪研究
网站
罗宾-弗莱明
社会
叽叽喳喳
发表于2013年9月25日
关于罗宾的工作
罗宾-弗莱明是一位历史学家，他通过对考古学和文本资料的巧妙融合，丰富了我们对罗马帝国灭亡期间和之后几个世纪的英国生活的认识。在包括罗马占领结束、日耳曼人定居点的出现、皈依基督教和维京人对英国的袭击的学术研究中，弗莱明通过全面考虑考古学家出土的物质证据来补充零散的、以精英为重点的书面记录。

弗莱明利用实物遗迹以及在中世纪墓地和定居点发现的胸针、扣子、硬币、锅铲和长矛等物品，能够阐明大部分不识字的下层精英和农民阶层的日常生活。她在《罗马之后的英国》中对中世纪早期的描述。The Fall and Rise of the Middle Ages, c. 400-1070 (2010)》将人们的贸易、崇拜和纪念死者的方式带入现实，同时也揭示了反复重新安置和城市化的影响。

她最近的工作重点是罗马权力从其帝国边缘撤出后的几个世纪的经济崩溃。她利用气候学证据、冶炼和墓地发掘的结果以及冶金分析，详细介绍了始于四世纪末的分层城市社会的解体，因为维持金属经济所需的原材料和熟练工人消失了，人们被迫依靠广泛的拾荒和回收金属物品。

弗莱明的研究具有探究性，她能够非常清晰地讲述她的发现，她正在改变历史学家看待中世纪早期英国的方式，并为将物质文化纳入历史的写作提供了一个框架。

个人简历
罗宾-弗莱明在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校获得了学士（1977年）和博士（1984年）学位。从1986年到1989年，她是哈佛大学研究员协会的初级研究员，自1989年以来，她一直隶属于波士顿学院，目前是该学院历史系的教授和系主任。她是《征服英格兰的国王和领主》（1991年）和《多米斯塔书和法律》的作者。中世纪早期英格兰的社会和法律习俗》（1998年），以及许多文章和书籍章节。