Publications
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Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery
(2024)
Medieval women were active in many performative activities, including plays and ceremonies performed in nunneries. This volume focuses on monastic performances and, in particular, on performances given in the English abbey ...
Fraternal Bonds in the Early Middle Ages
(2023)
The problem of fraternal relations in the early Middle Ages has not been hitherto studied in detail, especially in comparison with the multitude of studies dealing with the models of marriage, gender-based social roles, ...
The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program
(2024)
Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process ...
The Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program
(2024)
Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process ...
Animism, Materiality, and Museums
(2021)
Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit ...
John Miles Foley's World of Oralities
(2020)
This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral ...
Gender, Reading, and Truth in the Twelfth Century
(2020)
The twelfth century witnessed the birth of modern Western European literary tradition: major narrative works appeared in both French and in German, founding a literary culture independent of the Latin traditions of the ...
Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World
(2015)
This ground-breaking book brings together scholars from the humanities and social and physical sciences to address the question of how recent work in the genetics, zoology, and epidemiology of plague's causative organism ...
Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses
(2023)
This book is a collection of essays offering a wide range of approaches to teaching with commonplace books. In the medieval period and beyond, commonplace books promoted a blend of excerpting, memorization, creative writing, ...
The Museum as Experience
(2023)
Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. In the past few decades, however, humanized experiences—cultivated by curators, educators, artists, activists, and marketers alike—have ...