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Graduate Student Workshops

  The Center for Medieval Studies regularly sponsors graduate student workshops that cover a variety of topics of interest to graduate students seeking career and professional advice. Past workshops have treated such themes as how to put together an academic curriculum vitae; how to write an abstract for a scholarly conference; and a series on “Mammon and Me,” which invited past graduates to discuss non-university professions open to those with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the Humanities.  Beginning in 2006/07, the Center co-sponsored a series on “Teaching the Middle Ages” with the Graduate English Medieval Area Group, that includes the following workshop sessions:

 

Teaching the Middle Ages Spring 2008 Workshops

Wednesday, February 20, 3:15 p.m.  
Teaching Middle English Through Translations
 
Dr Catherine Batt  
FMH 416  

Wednesday, March 5, 3:15 p.m.
Teaching With Primary Sources
 
Dr Nicholas Paul  
FMH 416  

Wednesday, April 9, 3:15 p.m.  
Teaching the Middle Ages Through Contemporary Texts  
Dr Katie Little
 
FMH 416  

Thursday, April 24, 12:00 p.m.  
Teaching Devotional Literature
 
Dr Patrick Hornbeck  
DE 206

Previous Workshops:

Teaching the Middle Ages Fall 2006 Workshops

 

Recent Masters' Theses in Medieval Studies

"Because it contains nothing but the truth": Issues of Truth and Authenticity in The Travels of Marco Polo and The Travels of John Mandeville
By Rachel Liptak (2007)
Mentor: Suzanne Yeager
Reader: Richard Gyug

A Call for Paving: Pavage Grants and the Development of Street Paving in Medieval England
By Edward Harvey (2007)
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: Richard Gyug

The Good, the Bad and the Oral: A Re-reading of the Glosses of Caedmon's Hymn
By James Manning (2007)
Mentor: Martin Chase, S.J.
Reader: Mary Ramsey

Entering a Community of Consumption: Christian Identity and the Perception of “Jewishness” in the Cloisters Crucifixion Group Altarpiece
By Sarah Celentano (2007)
Mentor: Nina Rowe
Reader: Richard Gyug

An Apology for the Plimpton MS 284, Fragments of the Roman de la Rose
By Julie Fifelski (2007)
Mentor: Nina Rowe
Reader: Richard Gyug

"That They May Return to Their Former Works.”  Reform of the Catholic Church Through the Renewal of Traditional Catholic Practices According to Blessed Pierre Favre, S.J. (1506-1546)
By J. Patrick Hough, S.J. (2006)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Mark Lewis, S.J.

Bishops Kings and Kin: Canon Law in Gregory of Tours’ History
By Jessie Spressart (2006)
Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
Reader: Richard Gyug

Aquinas and Bonaventure: Two Medieval Theories of Divine Simplicity
By John Peter Spear (2006)
Mentor: Christopher Cullen
Reader: Joseph Koterski

The Unity of Augustine’s Search for True Happiness in The Confessions
By Kevin Lynam (2006)
Mentor: Christopher Cullen
Reader: Joseph Koterski

Bastards or Princes?  Hidden Illegitimacy in the Portraits of Anthony of Burgundy and Francisco d’Este
By Carolyn Salter (2006)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Libby Parker

The Reputation of Joanna I of Naples
By Ann Aisha Qureshi (2006)
Mentor: Daniel Smail
Reader: Richard Gyug

The Tangibility of Talk: Witness Testimony in the Canonization Proceeding of Peter of Luxembourg
By Kristin Uscinski (2006)
Mentor: Daniel Smail
Reader: Richard Gyug

Bringing Home the Passion of Christ: Eleventh-Century French Copies of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
By Kristin Canzano (2005)
Mentor: Kim Bowes
Reader: Nina Rowe

The Early Christian Sarcophagus: Christian Storytelling on a Pagan Stage
By Heather Burns (2005)
Mentor: Kim Bowes
Reader: Nina Rowe

Reading a Saint: The Case of St. Juliana of the Katherine Group
By Dawn Ritchotte (2005)
Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Reader: Katherine Little

The Word Incarnate and the Textual Authority of Women
By Morgan Franck (2005)
Mentor: Mary Erler
Reader: Marilyn Oliva

The Late Medieval German Pieta in Context
By Mary Halbach (2004)
Mentor: Elizabeth Parker
Reader: Nina Rowe

Sudden and Un-Glorified: Late Medieval Manuscript Evidence of the Obsession with Death
By Jordan Rosana (2004)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

Prelate, Lady, Jew: Two Letters Connecting Three Groups in Thirteenth-Century England
By Andrea Allison Lankin (2003)
Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Reader: Joseph Pearson

John of Gaunt's Urban Affinity in Fourteenth-Century Norfolk
By Louisa P. Wilson
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: Marilyn Oliva

History and Romance in Paris, Biblioteque Nationale, f. fr. 1450
By Denise Lynn Griggs
Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Reader: Thelma Fenster

Sex, Status, and Society: Gendered Morality in the Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Salisbury
By Katharine Brown (2003)
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: Marilyn Oliva

The Crib of Their Lord: Beguines, Mendicants, and Devotion in Fifteenth-Century Flanders
By Maureen E. Horgan (2002)
Mentor: Elizabeth Parker
Reader: Martin Chase

Peace, War, and Murder: Pre- to Post-Conquest Literary Women and Violence
By Kimberly Benard (2002)
Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Reader: Martin Chase

The Influence of and Legacy of the Spiritual Martyrdom of St. Columba of Iona
By Jennifer Scully (2002)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Joseph Lienhard

Foundress, Lover and Widow: Representations of Dido from Antiquity through the Middle Ages
By Abigail J. Weinberg (2002)
Mentor: Thelma Fenster
Reader: John R. Clark

Saints and the Social Order: An Examination of Alexander Barclay's 'Life of St. George'
By Melissa Gallup (2001)
Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Reader: Mary Erler

Emendations and Analyses of Oresme, Thabit, and Sacrobosco in Beinecke MS. 335
By Kristina Bohl (2001)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: Dominic Balestra

Pierpont Morgan Library MS M4 and Magdalene College, Cambridge MS Pepys 2011: The Scribe in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Manuscript Production
By Joanne Filippone (2001)
Mentor: Mary Erler
Reader: Elizabeth Parker

Reflections of Architecture and Religion in the Late Fourteenth Century Poem Patience
By Theresa O. Fleming (2001)
Mentor: Mary Erler
Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

Love Bound by Doctrine: Andreas Capellanus and the Codification of Romance
By Annika Farber (2001)
Mentor: John Clark
Reader: Thelma Fenster

Reflections of Cultural Attitudes in Didactic Techniques: The Stratification of Glosses in Beinecke MS. 332
By Janine Larmon Peterson (2001)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: M. Michele Mulchahy

Heaven, Earth, and the Terra Sancti Benedicti: Miracles in the Dialogi de Miraculis Sancti Benedicti by Desiderius of Montecassino
By Julian Hendrix (2001)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

Labourers Asserting Themselves: Labour Mobility in Post-Black Death Lincolnshire
By Daniel Bornstein (2000)
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: Daniel Smail

Conversio Militum: Knightly Piety in the Life and Letters of St. Bernard
By Jason Teves (2000)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Anne Mannion

Pierpont Morgan Library MS. 487: A Multi-Generational Family Book of Hours
By Christine Clark (2000)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: Elizabeth Clarke

A Liturgical Crib and Women's Spirituality in Fifteenth-Century Louvain
By Kimberly Samuels (2000)
Mentor: Elizabeth Parker
Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

Jousts of War: Chivalric Ritual on the Battlefield
By Rebecca Slitt (2000)
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: Dan Smail

Language Studies in the Curricular Reform of Roger Bacon
By George Pehrson (1999)
Mentor: Louis Pascoe, SJ
Reader: Richard Gyug

Wonders of the East: A Translation of Cotton Vitellius A.xv Text with Commentary
By Damian Fleming (1999)
Mentor: John Kezel
Reader: Martin Chase

Tradition and Innovation: Language and Procedure in the Disputing Activity of Bernard of Clairvaux
By Michael Morbach (1999)
Mentor: Daniel Smail
Reader: John Clark

The Audiences of Middle English Romances
By Katrin Sjursen (1999)
Mentor: Richard Horvath
Reader: Thelma Fenster

Context and Anthology: The MS Banco Rari 217 and Thirteenth-Century Italian Lyric
By Rob Vosburgh (1999)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: Attilo Motta

New York Public Library De Ricci ms. 60: The Production, Provenance and Use of a Late Medieval Book of Hours
By Heather A. Wightman (1999)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: Elizabeth Clarke

The Tomb of Ansurez: Its Cluniac Iconography Reconsidered
By Michael S. Carlin (1998)
Mentor: Joel Herschman
Reader: Elizabeth Parker

Ramwold's Reform: The Customary of St. Emmeram and the Gorze Movement
By Steven A. Schoenig (1998)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Louis B. Pascoe

Morgan M. 538 and the Use of the Vernacular in a 16th-Century Book of Hours
By Katherine Yeska (1998)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: John Clark

A Gendered Reading of the Medieval Romance: The Masculine Identity in Chretien, Malory, and Gawaine
By Ilan Mitchell-Smith (1998)
Mentor: Richard Horvath
Reader: Jennifer Goodman

Punctuation Systems in the Codex Egberti
By Andrew Barron Holmgren (1997)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: John Clark

Chaos and Order in Landulph Senior's Historiae Mediolanensis
By Suzanne Gillespie (1997)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: Daniel Smail

The Manuscript Culture of Bodley 130
By Sarah Hull (1997)
Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
Reader: John Clark

Categories of Description in the Liber Sancti Jacobi
By Suzanne J. Clune (1997)
Mentor: Daniel Smail
Reader: H. Wayne Storey

The St. Martial Trope Repertory: Sources in Historical Context
By Laura Morreale (1996)
Mentor: Richard Gyug
Reader: H. Wayne Storey

The Tin Industry of Early Fourteenth-Century Cornwall: Miners, Merchants, and Entrepreneurs
By Brian Klinzing (1996)
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: Danial Smail

The Dyestuffs Trade of Fifteenth-Century Southampton
By Claire E. Suplee (1995)
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: John Clark

Stavelot Triptych: A Medieval Art Object in its Liturgical and Spiritual Contexts
By Lawrence P. Milliken (1995)
Mentor: Elizabeth Clarke
Reader: Ewert Cousins

Margery Kempe's Familial Suffering: Earthly and Spiritual
By Claudine Gandolfi (1995)
Mentor: Mary C. Erler
Reader: John Clark

Empress Matilda: A Case Study in Female Rulership in the Twelfth Century
By Laura L. Gathagan (1994)
Mentor: Vincent J. Gorman
Reader: H. Wayne Storey

Gender, Marriage and Ale Brewing in Small Town and Village Communities in the East Midlands 1287-1312
By Kevin Larkin (1994)
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski

The Ethic of Intention of Abelard's Ethica and Its Influence on Concepts of Pure Love in his Romance with Heloise
By Dave Burokas (1994)
Mentor: Deal Hudson

St. Augustine and the Angels
By Louis DiGiorno (1994)
Mentor: Deal Hudon

O Flore Aulorita: A Study of the Narrative Sequence of the Last Days of the Virgin in Duccio's Maesta
By Pamela Shoemaker (1993)
Mentor: Joel Herschman
Reader: Ewert Cousins

Grosseteste and the Grisaille of Lincoln Cathedral
By Holly Hager-Gilbert (1993)
Mentor: Ewert Cousins

Following in the Footsteps of Christ: Humility and Grace in Dante and Giotto
By Susan Harper (1993)
Mentor: Ewert Cousins

Western Art and the Icon: Abstraction, Naturalism, and Symbolism
By Malgorzata Urbanek (1992)
Mentor: Ewert Cousins



Recent PhD Dissertations on Medieval Topics

Damsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England
By Caroline Dunn (2007)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski

Alexander Neckman's Encyclopedias: Work at a Juncture-Point in Medieval Intellectual and Social History
By Tomas Zahora (2007)
Ph.D. Dissertation – History
Mentor: Dr. Richard Gyug

Prosper of Aquitaine:  A Study of His Life and Works
By Alexander Hwang (2006)
Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology
Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J.

Prime Matter According to St. Thomas Aquinas
By Matthew Kent (2006)
Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy
Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J.

The Use of Maximus the Confessor's Writing on the Filoque at the Council of Ferrara-Florence
By A. Edward Siecienski (2006)
Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology
Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J.

St. Thomas Aquinas's Confrontation with Neoplatonic Thought in Three Commentaries and in the Treatise on Separate Substances
By John Stefancyk (2006)
Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy
Mentor: Joseph W. Koterski

Social Resources and Institutional Change in the Dominican Province of Aragon
By Michael Vargas (2006)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Richard Gyug

Of Ministers and Mistresses: Henry Bradshaw's Abbesses and the Hagiography of the Household
By Christina Carlson (2005)
Ph.D. Dissertation - English
Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

Monarchy and Military Practice During the Reign of Alfonso XI (1312-1350)
By Nicolas Agrait (2003)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Joseph O'Callaghan

Urban Lordship in England: Lay Seigneurs in the West Midlands and Welsh March, 1066 - 1348
By Steven Spishak (2003)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski

St. Elizabeth of Hungary and the Franciscan Tradition
By Lori Pieper (2002)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Richard Gyug

Aquinas and the Free Will Defense
By W. Grant (2002)
Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy
Mentor: Brian Davies

Aquinas on Human Survival After Death
By Silas Langley (2002)
Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy
Mentor: Brian Davies

Hospitality, Conviviality, and the English Gentry: Social Networks of the Landed Elite in Late Medieval Suffolk
By Elizabeth Kunz (2001)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski

The Power of Liturgy and the Liturgies of Power in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
By Louis I. Hamilton (2000)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Richard Gyug

Social Commentary in the Works of Theodulf of Orleans: A Study of Carolingian Humanism
By June-Ann T. Greeley (2001)
Ph.D. Dissertation - Classics
Mentor: John Clark

The Fontalis Plenitudo in Bonaventure as a Symbol for His Metaphysics
By Janet Kvamme (2000)
Ph.D. Dissertation - Theology
Mentor: Ewert Cousins

Lyrical Dialectic as Historiographical Discourse in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruni
By Gilmar Visoni (2000)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentors: W. David Myers; H. Wayne Storey

The Heart of Christ at Helfta
By Paul Zarowny (2000)
Ph.D. Dissertation - Theology
Mentor: Ewert Cousins

Transformation in the Thoughts of Martin Luther
By Peter Breitsch (2000)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Louis Pascoe, SJ

Sanctifying the World: Ritual Blessing and Lay Piety in Medieval Religion and Culture
By Derek Rivard (2000)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Richard Gyug

A Medieval Maritime Community in England: The Ancient Town of Winchelsea and the Cinque Ports
By David Sylvester (2000)
Ph.D. Dissertation - History
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski

The Doctrine of Transcendentals in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart
By Robert Dobie (2000)
Ph. D. Dissertation - Philosophy
Mentor: Joseph Koterski, SJ



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