Courtney Booker

Research Interests

Research

Recent Conference Papers

“Forgetting and Remembering Handexemplare: Authors’ Copies as Evidence in the Twenty-First Century,” delivered at the “Environing Cultural Heritage: Sustainability in the Arts and Humanities” International Research Collaboration Workshop, Freie Universität Berlin, 20 August 2018

"Louis the Pious's Theater of Illusions: Re-stagings from Fichtenau to Dutton, and Beyond," delivered as part of the panel "Carolingian Civilization 25 Years Later: In Honor of Paul Edward Dutton, I," at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 5 July 2018

“Sacred Kingdom, Penitential State: A Short History of L’Augustinisme politique,” delivered at "The Sacral and the Secular: Early Medieval Political Theology" conference, Cambridge University, UK, 28 June 2018

“Machiavellitico praecepto: Learning from the Carolingians in Sixteenth-Century France,” delivered at the 44^th annual New England Medieval Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 7 October 2017

“Remembering, Forgetting, and Stealing the First French Text,” delivered to the Société des études médiévales du Québec, Université du Québec à Montréal, 5 October 2017

“False Hope and Real Fear in Nithard’s Libri historiarum,” delivered as part of the panel “Twelve Angry Carolingians III: Being Angry,” at the 52^nd annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 13 May 2017

“Sacred Kingdom, Penitential State: A Short History of L’Augustinisme politique,” delivered as part of the panel “Imagining Carolingian Empire(s),” at the 2017 annual Marco Symposium “Carolingian Experiments,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 24 March 2017

“By the Body Betrayed: Blushing in the Penitential State,” delivered as part of the panel “Flesh and Materiality,” at “The Material World of the Early Middle Ages” conference, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 8 October 2016

“Remembering, Forgetting, and Stealing the First French Text,” delivered as part of the “After Hours” discussion series, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 29 February 2016

“Hypocrisy, Performativity, and the Carolingian Pursuit of Truth: Tracing the Lineaments of a Lost Book,” delivered as part of the Princeton Medieval Studies lecture series “The Life of I: Biography and Autobiography in the Middle Ages,” Princeton University, 17 November 2015

“An Alleged Oratio of Boniface to Pippin in 751,” delivered as part of the panel “Texts and Identities, III: New Uses for Old Stories – Dealing with the Past in the Middle Ages,” at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 6 July 2015

“Iusta murmuratio: The Sound of Scandal in the Early Middle Ages,” delivered as part of the SFB VISCOM and FSP Gemeinschaftskonzepte series, “Identitäten und politischen Integration,” Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 7 May 2015