Medieval History

Patrick Geary is co-PI of the European Research Council funded research project HistoGenes, which uses a combination of genomic, archaeological, anthropological, and historical methods to study over six-thousand burial sites in the Carpathian Basin between the fifth and tenth centuries.

Alison Locke Perchuk, past Member in the School of Historical Studies (2018-19), has authored the first interdisciplinary account of the Monastery of St. Elijah, built circa 1122-26 near Rome. It includes archaeological and historical readings of the monastery’s architecture, frescoes, and sculpture, with an eye toward epigraphy, liturgy, theology, memory, and landscape.

Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Bynum, Professor Emerita in the School of Historical Studies, has been published by Princeton University Press on September 29, 2020:

"Between the twelfth and the...

In 2020–21, Carissa M. Harris, Member in the School of Historical Studies and Associate Professor at Temple University, is exploring how anger became feminized in the late medieval English popular imagination, focusing particularly on the figure of...

To be bewildered is, literally, to be lost in the woods. Not lost in the beautiful and well-marked paths that wind through the Institute forest but trapped and disoriented in a dangerous place with the fear that you might never escape. The...

In 2019–20, Cord J. Whitaker, Member in the School of Historical Studies and Associate Professor at Wellesley College, is interested in the history and development of race and racism in medieval English literature.

To outsiders, the contentiousness, divisiveness, and downright un-neighborliness evident in the small Spanish town of Deza by the autumn of 1607 might well have seemed a tempest in a teapot. Those living in the newer Upper Neighborhood had been...

Giles Constable, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has authored Medieval Thought and Historiography (Routledge, 2017), examining how people in the Middle Ages thought and which attitudes they struck. This collection of studies...

Giles Constable, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has authored Medieval Monasticism (Routledge, 2017), a collection of his key articles on medieval monastic and ecclesiastical history, which provides a comprehensive view of...

Few twentieth-century historians deserve a full-scale biography more than Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963) on the basis both of “work” and “life.” More than fifty years after his death Kantorowicz remains one of the most influential of all medieval...