In this dissertation I will consider how two 13th century theologians, William of Auxerre (1156-1231) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), explored the question, “Whether the same thing can be known (demonstratively) and (believed by faith)” (utrum idem sit scitum et creditum). B…
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Between 1200 and 1450, Alsace and Swabia saw a vast growth in the number of pious laywomen who pursued the vita apostolica in the secular world. Their appearance corresponded with rapid urbanization and the appearance of the Franciscans and Dominicans in the fledgling cities of …
The overall aim of this study was to employ a biomolecular technique - ancient DNA (aDNA) - to study two ancient diseases that were endemic in Europe (and therefore Britain) during the medieval period: tuberculosis and leprosy. In humans, the diseases are caused by M. tuberculos…
Saint Bernardino exerted profound influences on lay piety and both the image and trajectory of the Observant movement. While there have been numerous studies on Bernardino the preacher and the Observant movement as a whole, no study has shown how preaching to the laity could hav…
Los Grans Mals: Disasters and Civic Life in the Late Medieval Midi examines the many catastrophes that struck the cities of Marseille and Montpellier during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. During this era, southern Europe witnessed increasingly frequent episodes of…
The original narrative and purpose of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries on display at The Cloisters of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have been lost to time. Theories abound in an attempt to expound this lost narrative, including traditions of courtly love and the b…
This paper considers evidence for Queen Margaret of Sicily’s role in the construction and decoration of the Cathedral of Monreale, a royal foundation initiated c. 1172. For Margaret, support of Monreale was a means to counter the political ambitions of Walter Ophamil, Archbishop…
The historiography of the Fourth Crusade has neglected long-term macroeconomic developments and its influence on the Fourth Crusade within the Byzantine Empire and the Italian states of Venice, Pisa, and Genoa. It is well-established that the Venetians rerouted the crusading for…
While music from medieval and early-modern Europe has long been an object of digitally and computationally inflected musicological research, such efforts have tended to focus either on issues of musical style or on the publication of primary sources such as manuscript images, ma…
This thesis is a contribution to the study of late medieval English and French martial aristocratic culture. It uses transitional plate armor – a hybrid assemblage of iron, steel, leather, and cotton – and its representation as a point of analytical entry to understand what form…
This dissertation addresses the pursuit of legal remedy, both in theory and in practice, by those with access to the seneschal’s court in Gascony between the Treaty of Paris (1259) and the attempted confiscation of the duchy by Philip VI of France (1337) which sparked the Hundre…
The medieval development of the Augustinian doctrine of divine illumination, that God must illuminate the human mind in order to know certain intelligibles, has been heavily-studied by historians. Much of this literature follows older historiographical approaches separating the …
This dissertation examines the “memory economy” of church reform from the late ninth through thirteenth centuries. It argues that monastic communities and aristocratic households of the period used the human body as a touchstone for the discussion of memory as a key stake in the…
The Unicorn Tapestries are a set of seven tapestries, located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cloisters in New York, of Parisian design and woven in the Southern Netherlands in the late Middle Ages. It has baffled scholars for decades. These tapestries are shrouded in myster…
‘Afīf Ibn Mu’ammal was a Melkite Christian who in all probability lived in the 13th century C.E. He participated in the long tradition of Christian apologetics in the Arabic speaking world of Islam. His work followed the pattern of Christian responses to the challenges of Islam.…
The Credo is a liturgical and musical outlier among the movements of the mass ordinary. It is the longest text of the ordinary, was the latest addition to the mass, and is the locus of several odd musical phenomena, such as the proliferation of dozens of new monophonic settings …
In the first half of the twelfth century CE, Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) imagined and provided justification for a new way to fold violence into the life of Christian discipleship, through the Knights Templar. In between the First and Second Crusade (1095-1146), the Order o…
The field of forensic linguistics has burgeoned in the past several decades within a current-day framework of language use, ranging from dialectal analysis to legal language analysis in court cases, to trademark and authorship disputes, and more. When it comes to utilizing foren…
This dissertation examines how the counts of Champagne in northeastern France simultaneously ruled Champagne and the Iberian kingdom of Navarre from 1234 to 1274. Count Thibaut IV of Champagne (r. 1201-1253) inherited Navarre when his maternal uncle, King Sancho VII (r. 1194-123…