Anna Trumbore Jones
Assistant Professor
History

Phone 847-735-6087
E-mail trumbore@lakeforest.edu

Specialization
Medieval history (especially history of France)
Late Antiquity
History of Christianity
Ancient History

Education
PhD, Columbia University
MPhil, Columbia University
MA, Columbia University
BA, The University of Chicago

Courses Taught
FIYS 134:  Eve, Mary, Jezebel:  Women in Medieval Christianity
History 110:  World Civilizations
History 204:  Medieval History
History 211:  Roman History
History 248:  Crusade and Holy War in Medieval Europe
History 304:  Roman and Medieval Christianity
History 305:  Men, Women and the Other in Medieval Europe
History 314:  Charlemagne and his World
History 320: The European Reformations, 1250-1650

Books
John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones, eds., The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, Church, Faith and Culture in the Central Middle Ages series (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming 2007)

Articles
"Discovering the Aquitanian Church in the Corpus of Ademar of Chabannes," forthcoming in The Haskins Society Journal (2008)

"Lay Magnates, Religious Houses, and the Role of the Bishop in Aquitaine (877-1050)," in The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, pp. 23-43

"Pitying the Desolation of Such a Place: Rebuilding Religious Houses and Constructing Memory in Aquitaine in the Wake of the Viking Incursions," Viator 37 (2006), pp. 85-102

"Fragments of Devotion: Charters and Canons in Aquitaine 876-1050," in History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person, ed. Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)

"Les relations entre les évêques et les communautés religieuses en Aquitaine, IXe-XIe siècle," Annales du Midi 255 (Sept 2006), pp. 453-57

Book Reviews
Review of Religious and Laity in Western Europe 1000-1400: Interaction, Negotiation, and Power, ed. Emilia Jamroziak and Janet Burton.  Europa Sacra 2.  Turnhout; Brepols, 2006.  Forthcoming in The Catholic Historical Review

Review of Thomas Gergen, Pratique juridique de la paix et trêve de Dieu à partir du concile de Charroux (989-1250). Juristische Praxis der Pax und Treuga Dei ausgehend vom Konzil von Charroux (989-1250).  Rechtshistorische Reihe 285.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. Speculum 80.4 (Oct 2005)

Review of Claude Carozzi and Huguette Taviani-Carozzi, eds. Année Mille An Mil.  Le temps de l'histoire.  Aix en-Provence:  Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2002. Speculum 80.1 (Jan 2005)

Conference Papers
Jan 2008 "Where the Bishop is Known to Rule: Cathedrals in Tenth-Century Aquitaine."  American Historical Association, Annual Meeting 2008, Washington D.C.

Feb 2007   “Ademar of Chabannes and the Council of Limoges 1031.”  Medieval Intellectual History Seminar, Newberry Library

Nov 2006   “Discovering the Aquitanian Church in the Corpus of Ademar of Chabannes.”  25th Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, Georgetown University

May 2006 “The Bishops of Aquitaine and the Peace of God (989-1040).” International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University

April 2005 “Lay Magnates, Religious Houses, and the Role of the Bishop in Aquitaine (900-1050).”  Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting 2005, Miami Beach.

July 2004  “Religious Houses in Poitou in the Wake of the Norman Incursions.”  International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.  Part of panel organized by me, entitled Norman Consequences:  New Perspectives on the Aftermath of the Viking Invasions in France and Belgium.

May 2004  “Monks, Canons and Reform in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine.”  International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University

July 2003  “Ad Locum Sanctum, Ad Stipendia Fratrum:  Organization of Cathedral Lands in Tenth-Century Aquitaine.”  International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

May 2003  “Bishop Ebles of Limoges (944-ca. 977) and Ideals of Episcopal Behavior in Tenth-Century Aquitaine.”  International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University

October 2002  “Portraits of a Bishop:  Reconciling the Conflicting Images of Grimoard of Angoulême (991-1018).”  Yale University Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference

Awards and Honors
Spring 2007 Hotchkiss Fellowship, competitive one-semester leave – Lake Forest College

Summer 2006 Junior Faculty Grant from the Dean of the Faculty’s Office – Lake Forest College

Summer 2005 Junior Faculty Grant from the Dean of the Faculty’s Office – Lake Forest College

Summer 2004 Junior Faculty Grant from the Dean of the Faculty’s Office – Lake Forest College

Summer 2002 Mellon Foundation Interpretive Seminar in the Humanities – Huntington Library

2001-2002 Bourse Chateaubriand en Sciences Sociales, which allowed for a year spent in France doing archival research, based at the CESCM in Poitiers.

Summer 2001 History Department Summer Research Grant – Columbia University

1997-2001 President’s Fellowship – Columbia University

1996-1997 Richard A. Hofstadter Fellowship – Columbia University