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…
Fourteenth-century Iberia was a complicated and intricate place of intertwining cultural and religious entities; this mingling is particularly evident in the architecture of the Kingdom of Castile. In 1364, Pedro of Castile began a new renovation on the Real Alcázar in Seville t…
Most approaches to the history of Mozarabs (Christians with lineal roots in Muslim-ruled Iberia) in Castilian Toledo are framed within linear narratives of assimilation, treating the fates of their communal linguistic, legal, and liturgical traits—that is, the use of Arabic, the…
This dissertation examines the geography of the slave trade, the role of slavery in the household, and the lives of domestic slave women in the Egyptian Jewish community under the rule of the Fatimid caliphate and Ayyubid sultanate. I juxtapose Hebrew and Judaeo- Arabic document…
My study begins by outlining the historical significance of medieval studies in African-American colleges and scholarly writing in the decades after the Civil War. Scholars have studied this period with respect to the myth of racial purity that pervaded white racial discourse at…
ABSTRACT During the Middle Ages, Jews, Christians and Muslims coexisted (often uneasily) on the Iberian Peninsula. These three religious groups were in a constant process of defining and preserving their identities, which were often constructed in terms of the relationships with…
The political economy and settlement systems of medieval Morocco witnessed major transformations between the ninth and fifteenth centuries A.D. Based on a recent theoretical framework, it was postulated that medieval Moroccan political economy changed from a reliance on agricult…
The classical literary tale of Thebes traces its origins and narratives to the Thebaid region of Upper Egypt and the Theban culture and language that flourished there in the Middle Kingdom period, ca 1500 BC, when the Theban scribal recension of the Books of the Dead were writte…
This dissertation argues that late medieval English literature depicts Rome and Italy with the same cultural anxieties found in works that imagine the Muslim world. Although partially Orientalizing Rome and Italy, however, the alliterative Morte Arthure, John Lydgate's Fall of P…
The historical sources on medieval Greek diet provide extensive information on the identity of foods consumed, but are less informative regarding the proportions in which they were consumed. Thus, there are a number of outstanding questions regarding diet in medieval Greece. The…
A multidisciplinary approach is utilized to assess the organization and use of ancient and medieval Near Eastern textual deposits. An elaborate survey of the published material in ancient Near Eastern studies and library and archival studies indicates a general and pervasive ins…
This dissertation addresses one facet of the significant but unanswered question of the relationship of men of learning to religious culture at the end of the Middle Ages. To do so, it considers the case of university-trained physicians, and brings into conversation facets of me…
This study investigates The Cloisters panel painting Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine assigned to the anonymous painter The Master of St. Augustine by Max Friedländer in 1937. Chapter one outlines the current state of research available on the panel. Chapter two reviews the…
This study examines how the combination between image, word, and space in the texts of Ramon Llull redefine the processes of reading, thus leading to a re-articulation of translatio and convivencia in the medieval canon. The terms translatio and convivencia have traditionally be…
This dissertation examines the architectural evidence in the ongoing debate surrounding the demographical and political value of the shifting Iberian frontier of the tenth through twelfth centuries. In particular, it seeks to problematize the current generalization of rural ston…
In the antebellum United States, the curse of Canaan functioned as one justification for African slavery. Some scholars claim that certain negative references to black skin color in rabbinic literature were repeated in medieval Christian sources and directly contributed to the a…
The expansion of western European culture along the Slavic frontier during the Middle Ages, first as a missionary movement, then as a program of settlement, colonization, and urbanization, is the subject of this dissertation. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries migrants—…
This dissertation examines aspects of the reception of Judah Halevi's Sefer ha-Kuzari in European culture and scholarship from the late Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. This “classic” Jewish theological treatise is an important example of medieval Jewish apologetic as…