FRANCESCA TINTI Current position: Contact information: Professore a Contratto Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Paleografia e Medievistica Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2 40124 Bologna (Italy) tel. +39 051 2097806 e-mail: f.tinti@unibo.it EDUCATION November 1996- March 2000 April-June1999 January-July 1998 PhD in Medieval Church History, Università di Padova (Italy) Title of thesis: Minsters e chiese locali. L inquadramento ecclesiastico delle popolazioni del Worcestershire (secoli X-XI). Supervisor: Prof. Grado Merlo; External supervisor: Prof. Janet L. Nelson Visiting Graduate Student, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Visiting Graduate Student, King s College London Supervisor: Prof. Janet L. Nelson 1995-1997 Diploma in Palaeography, Diplomatic and Archive Studies Archivio di Stato di Modena (Italy) 1993-1994 Diploma in English and American Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK), Erasmus Scheme Studentship 1990-1995 Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Bologna (Italy) 110/110 cum laude ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS August 2005-present Professore a contratto, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Dipartimento di Paleografia e Medievistica, Università di Bologna 2003-2005 Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Wolfson College, Cambridge (UK) 2000-2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, UK), working for the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) project (website: www.pase.ac.uk) 1
AWARDS 2005 Master of Arts, University of Cambridge 2002-2005 Junior Research Fellowhisp in Anglo-Saxon History, Wolfson College, Cambridge 1993-1994 European Union Erasmus Studentship (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK) The following institutions have awarded grants intended to facilitate the participation of young research students to international conferences: Assisi (Italy), Società Internazionale di Studi Francescani, February 1998 Spoleto (Italy), Settimana di Studio del Centro Internazionale di Studi sull Alto Medioevo, April 1999 Trento (Italy), Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, September 2000 RESEARCH GRANTS 2005-present Rientro dei Cervelli Award. Role: Principal Investigator Title of research project: England and Italy in the Early Middle Ages 2005 British Academy Research Grant. Role: Principal Investigator Title: Pastoral Care in the Diocese of Worcester, c.900-c.1100 ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL DUTIES Member Member Redazione inglese of Medioevo Latino (annual bibliographical bulletin based on the contents of a selection of the year's journals. Periodicals examined: English Historical Review, Midland History, Northern History, Oxoniensia, Records of Buckinghamshire, Southern History) International Advisory Group of the Liber Vitae of Durham Project (University of Durham, UK) TEACHING (in chronological order) 2001-2004 Supervisions in Anglo-Saxon History, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge 2004 Eight lectures on the Church in Anglo-Saxon England, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and Faculty of History, University of Cambridge 2004 Examination of MPhil thesis in Anglo-Saxon History, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge 2005 Four introductory lectures on the sources and historiography of British Political and Constitutional History, 380-1100, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge 2
2006 Survey course of lectures (30 hours) on English Medieval History (c. 400-c. 1500), Corso di studio in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Bologna 2006 Graduate course of lectures (30 hours) on Pastoral Care in Anglo-Saxon England, Corso di Laurea specialistica in Letterature e Filologie Europee Moderne, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Bologna 2006 Thesis supervision. Monica Sacchetti, Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Bologna. Thesis: Regine, monache e prostitute: la donna pellegrina dall Inghilterra a Roma nei secoli VIII-IX 2006-present Thesis supervision. Anna Ida Sollazzo, Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Bologna. Thesis: Il dibattito sulle origini dell organizzazione ecclesiastica in Inghilterra: questioni storiografiche e linguistiche CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS (in chronological order) Anglo-Saxon Minsters and Italian Pievi: Two Systems in Comparison. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 15 July 1997. Pastoral Care and Parochial Organisation in Worcestershire in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. Early Medieval Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2 July 1999. Capturing Data from Eighth-Century Sources. Some Examples from PASE work on St. Cuthbert. 36 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 3-6 May 2001. Bede s Historia Ecclesiastica and the PASE Database. An Exercise in Data Capturing. International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Helsinki, 9 August 2001. From Church-Scot to Tithe. Nature and Development of Church Dues Payments in Late Anglo- Saxon England. Research Seminar, Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham, 15 October 2001. The PASE Project and the Student of Anglo-Saxon England: Past, Present, and Future. Graduate Seminar, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 13 February 2002. Memory, Names and Miracles: Remembering People in Eighth-Century Anglo-Latin Narrative Texts. King s College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, Franks Day, 16 March 2002. Naming the Witness: A Prosopographical Analysis of Two Lives of St Cuthbert. King s College London, Second Annual Meeting of the PASE International Advisory Committee, 26 April 2002. Writers, Saints and Men of Blessed Memory in Eighth-Century England: Searching for a Pattern. King s College London, First PASE Colloquium, 27 April 2002. Sustaining the Clergy and the System: The Payment of Church Dues in Late Anglo-Saxon England. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 10 July 2002. Relations between England and Rome in the Early Middle Ages: the Evidence from the Papal Letters. Wolfson College, Research Colloquium, 5 November 2002. 3
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Project and the Liber Vitae of Durham. University of Durham, Durham Liber Vitae Project, 21-23 March 2003. Sources, Letters and Groups: The Development of the PASE Data-Entry Database. King s College London, Third Annual Meeting of the PASE International Advisory Committee, 25 April 2003. Facing Factoids. King s College London, Second PASE Colloquium, 26 April 2003. Anglo-Saxons from a Continental Perspective, 39 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 8 May 2004. Starting to use the PASE database. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 12 July 2004. (with Janet L. Nelson) 1066 and all that? Anglo-Saxon identity before and after 1066. Internationalen Kolloquium, Name und Gesellschaft, Mülheim an der Ruhr, 25 September 2004. Sources, People and Events: Deconstructing the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Database. Modern History Research Unit, Oxford University, Oxford, 18 November 2004. Four Rubrics in Cotton Tiberius A xiii, Charters Symposium, British Academy, 14 September 2005. Cotton Tiberius A xiii, fols. 1-118: the earliest English cartulary, Mediaeval Studies Research Seminar, University of St Andrews, 24 October 2005. Si litterali memorie commendaretur: archival memory and record-keeping in eleventh-century Worcester, Symposium in Memory of Patrick Wormald, St Hilda-s College, Oxford, 25-27 August 2006. ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES 2002 Four sessions on Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England held at the International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds, 8-12 July 2002) 2004 A Session on the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England, International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds, July 2004). PUBLICATIONS 1. Books Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England, edited by F. Tinti (Woodbridge, 2005). [reviewed in The English Historical Review 121 (2006), pp. 577-9] Sustaining Belief. A History of the Church of Worcester, c. 870-c. 1100, (Aldershot, forthcoming, 2007). 2. Articles Tra monasteria e minsters. Il dibattito storiografico sulle origini dell organizzazione ecclesiastica inglese, Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa, 36 (2000), pp. 495-522. The Anonymous Life of St. Cuthbert and the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England database: An 4
exercise in data capturing, Medieval Prosopography 22 (2001), pp. 127-40. From episcopal conception to monastic compilation: Hemming s cartulary in context, Early Medieval Europe 11.3 (2002), pp. 233-61. Dal church-scot alla decima: Origine, natura e sviluppo dei tributi ecclesiastici nell Inghilterra altomedievale, Studi Medievali 44 (2003), pp. 219-51. Le comunità delle cattedrali inglesi dei secoli X-XII nella recente storiografia, Quaderni di Storia Religiosa 10 (2003), pp. 9-38. Introduction, in Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England, edited by F. Tinti (Woodbridge 2005), pp. 1-16. The costs of pastoral care: church dues in late Anglo-Saxon England, in Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England, edited by F. Tinti (Woodbridge 2005), pp. 27-51. (with Janet L. Nelson) The Aims and Objects of the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: 1066 and All That?, in Name und Gesellschaft im Frühmittelalter. Personennamen als Indikatoren für sprachliche, ethnische, soziale und kulturelle Gruppenzugehörigkeiten ihrer Träger (Deutsche Namenforschung auf sprachgeschichtlicher Grundlage 2), ed. Dieter Geuenich und Ingo Runde (Hildesheim, Zürich and New York 2006) pp. 241-58. The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: Facts and Factoids, in Prosopography: Approaches and Applications. A Handbook, ed. K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (Oxford, forthcoming, 2006). Si litterali memorie commendaretur: archival memory and record-keeping in eleventh-century Worcester (forthcoming, 2007). 3. Reviews and reports Conference report of Medium-evo. Gli studi medievali e il mutamento digitale. First national workshop on medieval studies and the culture of IT, Florence, 21-22 June 2001, Journal of the Association for History and Computing 4.3 (November 2001), http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/jahciv3/notices/notices.html Review of Double Agents. Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania P., 2001), The English Historical Review 119 (April 2004), pp. 483-4. Review of Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, ed. by A. Thacker and R. Sharpe (Oxford University Press, 2002), Early Medieval Europe 12.3 (2003). Review of Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England, by Mechthild Gretsch (Cambridge University Press, 2006), The English Historical Review (forthcoming, 2006) 4. On-line publications The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (edited by Janet L. Nelson, Simon Keynes, David Pelteret, Francesca Tinti and Alex Burghart, 2005), www.pase.ac.uk [This is a comprehensive biographical register of recorded inhabitants of Anglo-Saxon England. It is accessible in the form of a searchable on-line database, and is intended to facilitate further research in many different aspects of Anglo-Saxon studies.] 5