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Marjorie McLean Oliver Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval History
E-mail: rebecca.slitt@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-6000, ext: 74365
Fax: 613-533-6298
Office: Watson Hall 227
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., Fordham University
Rebecca Slitt's work focuses on England in the period after the Norman Conquest, especially the culture of chivalry, the discourse of friendship and lordship, and the way that chroniclers shaped their stories.
HIST 250, The Middle Ages
"The Two Deaths of William Longsword: Wace, William of Malmesbury, and the Norman Past." Anglo-Norman Studies 35 (2012), forthcoming
"Acting Out Friendship: Signs and Gestures of Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Twelfth Century" Haskins Society Journal 21 (2009): 147-164
"Justifying Cross-Cultural Friendship in the First Crusade: Bohemond, Firuz, and the Fall of Antioch" Viator 38:2 (2007): 339-349
Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Anglo-Norman World, Fordham University, 2008
Works in Progress
"Jousts of War: Chivalric Performance and Military Practice"