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Workshops M.A. Theses Ph.D. Theses

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 |