An examination of gender, ownership, and memory in the imagery of the prefatory cycle of the Melisende Psalter (Egerton 1139).
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To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the Ninth Century CE. Rather than telling the story from a sin…
The Matter of Sanctity explores the role of material devotion in the construction and veneration of non-canonical saints in later medieval southern France. In particular, it examines the ways in which two lay religious movements—the beguines and the Beguins—utilized sacred matte…
This dissertation considers the idea of medieval Anglo-Scandinavian England as explored in artistic and literary remains dating from the immediate post-Conquest period up through the fourteenth century. Social and literary histories treating this era typically focus on Anglo-Nor…
Grief and the Cross: Popular Devotion and Passion Piety from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages , examines the earliest Christian devotions to the suffering Christ and lamenting Mary, referred to as Passion Piety. These devotions have traditionally been seen as a high medie…
Ramon Martí, a thirteenth-century Spanish Dominican, was a linguist, missionary, emissary, and scholar. He mastered Arabic and Hebrew, and composed Christian polemical works against Islam and Judaism. He traveled the Mediterranean world and interacted with the kings of Aragon, F…
In dissertation, I explore how late medieval Venetian merchants developed unique mentalities about space, geography, time, and trust in their sense of identity and community. The thirteenth to fifteenth centuries saw the advent of sedentary trade, wherein merchants lived abroad …
Castles—defined as the fortified residences of a militarized elite class—are a global, cross-cultural phenomenon rather than a historically particular development in medieval Europe. Pairing Niche Construction Theory (NCT) with the Lévi-Straussian concept of the House, this rese…
Since the discovery in 1996 of a first recension of Gratian's Decretum, there has been scholarly debate over whether the author of the first recension was the same person as the author of the second recension. The difficulties involved in the debate over the authorship of the De…
In the late Middle Ages, the Italian word fama had a wide semantic range that encompassed such vitally important topics as reputation, honor, community memory, and trustworthiness. In this dissertation, I examine how fama manifested within sodomy prosecutions in late medieval It…
Medieval French monk Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay teaches modern readers that the motivations and justifications for the thirteenth century Albigensian Crusade were thoroughly rooted in Christian Scripture. Rather than making a predictable attack on the Catholic Church, this disserta…
This dissertation is comprised of an historical examination of Peter Comestor’s preaching with critical editions of four sermons. In particular, this dissertation builds on the research presented in Peter H. Tibber's often overlooked thesis, “The Origins of the Scholastic Sermon…
One of the most unique features of the Old Hispanic Liturgy is the set of chant propers related to the sign of peace during Mass, designated as the prayers Ad Pacem. The texts of these prayers reflect some of the most important goals which Isidore of Seville and other Iberian cl…
This dissertation analyzes the representation and discourse on familial conversions in Latin saints’ Lives written between the fifth and the twelfth centuries in western Europe. Its aim is to broaden our understanding of medieval kinship, by revisiting the significance of the bi…
Bu çalışmada 1950 sonrası Türk resim sanatında kullanılan hayvan figürü betimlemeleri incelenmiştir. Özellikle 1950’den günümüze kadar olan süreç içerisinde eserlerinde hayvan figürü betimlemelerine yer veren sanatçılar ele alınmıştır. Bu kapsamda tez çalışmasının amacı, 1950’de…
This dissertation isolates a new development in Italian Renaissance art circa 1450-1550 where we are shown bodies at the point of death, caught on a threshold—not quite alive but yet to pass into a post-mortem peace. It takes as its starting point the work of the fifteenth-centu…
Esta investigación se desarrolla en el espacio conceptual que se abre entre tres disciplinas: la Historia de la lengua, la Sociolingüística y la Historia social. Se ha adoptado un nuevo enfoque, el de la Historia social de la lengua, cuyo objetivo es añadir una dimensión social …
Tras la conquista de Tenerife por los castellanos en el 1496, se implanta en la isla una nueva organización política, social y económica. Uno de los objetivos más importantes y apremiantes de la nueva sociedad es la organización de una estructura económica. Diversos estudios han…
This dissertation examines key examples of foliate carving from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, re-evaluating its historiographic context while refracting foliate decoration through the lens of climate in the medieval West. Looking to medieval ideas about plant life, weath…