Stephanie Mooers Christelow
Professor - Medieval History, European History; Historical geography
BIOGRAPHY
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Landscape Studies
- Social Networks
- Medieval Courts and Elites
AFFILIATIONS
BOOKS, in progress
Elite Patronage and the Formation of Social Networks in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135: Land and the Political Process. In progress.
Landscapes of Poverty in Early Norman England, a book-length manuscript, three chapters of which are complete, investigating social and economic conditions in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
PUBLISHED BOOKS OR JOURNALS EDITED AND INTRODUCED
Remembrances: The Processes and Expressions of Memory, editor, Rendevous, 33:2 (Spring, 1999)
Kings, Saints and Parliaments co-edited with Sears McGee, RaGena DeAragon and Sandra
Piercy (Kendall Hunt: Dubuque, Iowa, 1997)
PUBLISHED ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC VENUES
As Stephanie Mooers Christelow:
“French Women in Early Norman England: The Case of Hawise of Bacqueville,” Conquests in Eleventh-Century England: 1016, 1066, edited by Laura Ashe and Emily Joan Ward, 242-262 (The Boydell Press, 2020)
“Anglo-Norman Administrations and their Historians,” History Compass, vol. 9 issue 7, 525-536; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00786.x/abstract
“The Fiscal Management of England under Henry,” Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World, edited by Donald Fleming and Janet M. Pope (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2007), 159-182.
“Names and Ethnicity in Anglo-Norman England,” Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales, edited by Dave Postles and Joel T. Rosenthal (SUNY Stony Brook) and David Postles (University of Leicester, UK), (Studies in Medieval Culture XLIV, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2006), 341-371.
“Chancellors and Curial Bishops: Ecclesiastical Promotions and Power in Anglo-Norman England, Anglo-Norman Studies, XXII (2000), 49-69.
Review article of K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, ed. Family Trees and the Roots of Politics (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1997), Medieval Prosopography, 20, (1999), 218-224.
“The Royal Love in Anglo-Norman England: Fiscal or Courtly Concept,” Haskins Society Journal (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1998), 37-52.
"Eleanor of Aquitaine (circa 1122-1204)," Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, ed. Joel T. Rosenthal (Garland Press, 1998), 273.
"Godwin, earl of Wessex," Ibid., 320.
"Harold Godwinson, king of England January to October 1066," Ibid., 340-1.
"The Division of Inheritance and the Provision of Non-Inheriting Offspring among the Anglo-Norman Elite," Medieval Prosopography 17 (Autumn 1996) 3-44.
"A Moveable Feast? Itineration and the Centralization of Government under Henry I,” Albion 28 (Summer 1996), 187-228.
"All the King's Men: Prosopography and the Santa Barbara School," Medieval Posopography ll (Spring 1990), 1-15.
As Stephanie (L.) Mooers:
"A Reevaluation of Royal Justice under Henry I of England," American Historical Review, 93 (April 1988), 340-358.
"Recipients of Royal Patronage," reprinted from "Patronage in the Pipe Roll of 1130," (below) in Wilkinson and Cantrell, The Normans in Britain: Documents and Debates, (London, 1987).
"Networks of Power in Anglo-Norman England," Medieval Prosopography (Autumn 1986), 25-54.
"Patronage in the Pipe Roll of 1130," Speculum, 59 (April 1984), 282-307.
"Familial Clout and Financial Gain in Henry I's Later Reign," Albion, 14 (Winter 1982), 268-291.
"Backers and Stabbers: Problems of Loyalty in Robert Curthose's Entourage," Journal of British
Studies, 21 (Fall 1981), 1-17.
PUBLICATIONS, BOOK REVIEWS
Review of William M. Aird, Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy: 1050-1134 (Woodbridge: The
Boydell Press, 2008), H-France, Vol. 12 (2012); h-france.net/vol12reviews/vol12no104christelow.pdf
Review of K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Continental Origins of English Landholders, 1066-1166 (COEL),
data base for Medieval Prosopography, 28 (2007)
Review of K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants (Woodbridge, 2003) in The Medieval
Review <TMR‑L@wmich.edu> (18 Sep 2003).
Review of Graeme J. White, Restoration and Reform, 1153-1165: Recovery from Civil War in
England (Cambridge: University Press, 2000), Comparative Studies in Society andHistory,
Volume 44:03 (July, 2002) 630-632.
Review of J. C. Holt, Colonial England 1066-1215 (London, 1997), Albion 30:4 (Winter, 1998),
663-4.
Review of Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995),
Speculum, (January, 1998), 628-629.
Review of Emilie Amt, The Accession of Henry II in England: Royal GovernmentRestored 1149-1159
(Rochester, NY, 1993), Speculum 72 (January 1997), 101-4.
Review of Richard Mortimer, Angevin England, 1154-1258 (Oxford, 1994), Albion 28 (Spring,
1996), 78-9.
Review of Hugh M. Thomas, Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs (Philadelphia, 1992), Speculum 70 (January 1995), 210-213.
Review of Michael A. Hicks, ed., Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England
(Gloucester, 1990), in the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association,
vol 13 (1992).
Review of Judith A. Green, English Sheriffs to 1154, Public Record Office Handbooks, No. 24
(HMSO, 1990), Medieval Prosopography, 12 (Autumn 1991), 123-127.
Review of Charlotte A. Newman, The Anglo-Norman Nobility in the Reign of Henry I
(Pennsylvania, 1988), Albion, 22 (Spring, 1990), 104-5.
Review of Peter W. Edbury and John Gordon Rowe, William of Tyre (Cambridge, 1988),
Speculum, 65 (July 1990), 658-659.
Review of Sally N. Vaughn, Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan: The Innocence of the Dove and the
Wisdom of the Serpent (Berkeley, 1987), Speculum, 65 (January 1990), 235-237.
Review of W. L. Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1066-1271 (Stanford,
1987), Speculum 64 (October 1989), 1049-1051.
Review of Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, Anglo-Norman Armory Two (The Institute of Heraldic and
Genealogical Studies, Canterbury, 1984), Speculum, 64 (January 1989), 178-9.
Review of Judith A. Green, The Government of England Under Henry I (Cambridge, 1986), Albion,
19 (Fall 1987), 395-6.