Law and Culture in Medieval England

Exit Survey

Please complete this short survey, which includes some questions required by the National Endowment for the Humanities, concerning the summer institute "Law and Culture in Medieval England," hosted by Western Michigan University.

Institute Activities (for reference in answering questions 8 and 9):

Shoemaker: Thinking about Sanctuary, Thinking about the Ordeal
Rabin: Imagined Worlds of Wulfstan, Disputation for Fun and Profit
O’Brien: Creating a Code
Harrington: Law Words
Kamali: Nine Steps, Bracton on Homicide, Insanity on Trial
Saunders: Thinking through the Past
Berkhofer: The Cases of Drunken Dispute, Reckoning with Domesday, Recite a Writ
Schulman: Salic Law, Insults

1. Overall Assessment (required)

Summarize your overall assessment of the experience and the effect you anticipate it will have on your teaching and scholarship.

2. Specific Aspects Evaluation (required)

Evaluate specific aspects of the program, such as the directors, visiting faculty (if any), colleagues, topics, organization, discussions and activities.

3. Host Institution Evaluation (required)

Evaluate the host institution particularly with respect to hospitality, housing arrangements, the suitability of library facilities, and computer facilities.

4. Suggestions for Improvement (required)

Do you have any suggestions for improvements?

5. Future Programs

Suggest topics for future seminars or institutes, or names of potential directors (with contact information, if possible).

6. Virtual Delivery

Given that the institute was in virtual format, question 3 above does not apply as directly as it might. Please evaluate the virtual delivery of the institute, including its public website, use of learning management and meeting software, pre-session videos, and accessibility of digital university resources such as the library.

7. Text in Context

Please evaluate the "text in context" exercises (Presenting the Laws of Æthelberht, Exon Domesday, Textus Roffensis) and related materials in introducing medieval manuscripts for research and teaching.

8. Exercise Evaluation

Please indicate which of the activities (listed above) you found most useful and why. (You may be as selective as you wish in making your comments.)

9. Exercise Adaptation

Which of the exercises might you adapt for teaching or other purposes (and how)?

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The summer institute "Law and Culture in Medieval England" has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

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