I am a historian of medieval Europe, although my reading and teaching interests extend both to the ancient and the early modern. My research focuses on medieval religious movements and communities, the emergence and application of the construct of heresy, inquisitorial procedures, and gender. I am also interested in lay female religious communities across and beyond the medieval centuries, and in the relationship between spiritual discipline, gender, and the social order.

Fall 2008 Courses:
History 1101: World History to 1500
History 3008: The Making of the Islamic World
History 3103: Medieval Europe

Other Courses Taught:
History 2001: Historical Methods: Schools, Rules, and Tools
History 3101: Renaissance and Reformation
History 3102: Early Modern Europe
History 3207: The Crusades
History 3210: Popular Religion, Heresy, and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
History 3704: Women in the Middle Ages
History 4110/4120: Senior Tutorial in History

Recent Publications

"Beguines" Reconsidered: Historiographical Problems and New Directions, Monastic Matrix , Commentaria 3461 (August 2008).

"Archiepiscopal Inquisitions in the Middle Rhine: Urban Anticlericalism and Waldensianism in Late Fourteenth-Century Mainz," The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 92, Number 3 (July 2006): 197-224.

"Soul Sorores: The Pastoral Care of Lay Religious Women in Wuerzburg," in Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Men, Women, and the Religious Life in Germany, 1100 - 1500 (forthcoming).

A Concise History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition, Critical Issues in History Series (Rowman & Littlefield), (under contract).

Review: Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, and Cary J. Nederman (Ashgate, 2005), in The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 93, No. 2 (April 2007): 398-399.

Review: The Monstrous Middle Ages, ed. Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills (University of Toronto Press, 2003), in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter 2007):

Medieval Links:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook

UMM Medieval Studies Research QuickStart

Monastic Matrix (scholarly resource for study of medieval religious women)

Medieval Academy of America

The Cloisters, Met Museum

NetSerf: Internet Connection for Medieval Resources

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Last Modified: January 3, 2008

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