Early on she states: “The story we had for a long time was of a single, unified cultural group that emerged in the central part of Europe, migrated westward, and were finally all but pushed off the continent by conflict with Roman legions and Germanic tribes. She is head of the Honors Program at Catholic University and a good lecturer as well.

Paxton offers us 24 lectures and I found them both interesting and entertaining. I had meant to start The Celtic World and this seemed like a good time to push ahead. Patrick’s Day and invitations had been accepted, “wearing of the green” had been anticipated, thus my thoughts were turned to Irish celebrations. Jennifer is the daughter of well-known folk singer Tom Paxton. It examines how monastic historians shaped their narratives to project present polemical concerns onto the past. She is currently completing a book, Chronicle and Community in Twelfth Century England, that will be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Paxton’s research focuses on England from the reign of King Alfred to the late 12th century, particularly the intersection between the authority of church and state and the representation of the past in historical texts, especially those produced by religious communities. She lectures regularly on medieval history at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and has also been invited to speak on British history at the Smithsonian Institution and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. The holder of a doctorate in history from Harvard University, where she has also taught and earned a Certificate of Distinction, Professor Paxton is both a widely published award-winning writer and a highly regarded scholar, earning both a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities and a Frank Knox Memorial Traveling Fellowship. Jennifer Paxton is Professorial Lecturer in History at Georgetown University, where she has taught for more than a decade, and Visiting Assistant Professor of History at The Catholic University of America.

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