Medieval History
Anne F. Harris, associate professor of art history and director of the Women's Studies Program, received a student-faculty summer stipend to write curriculum for a new interdisciplinary course she will offer next year - The Ecology of Medieval Art.
Her motivation behind designing the course is to show students that Western culture, indeed human culture, is not self-contained. "The course is an attempt to make Medieval art less white and less European," Harris says. "As I looked at the courses I was teaching, I realized that they were consistently about a very self-enclosed Medieval Europe.
"Modern Western culture is influential but also deeply influenced by other cultures," she explains. "Looking at the Crusades, opened up the Middle Ages because it made me realize that not only did Christians go to Jerusalem, but there were Christians ruling in the Middle East from 1099 - 1291. There was a 200-year colonial period right in the middle of Medieval history."
Click here to read this article from DePaul University
- New Minor In Medieval Studies Programs Offered At U.s. Universities
Don't worry - medieval studies is a little more gender balanced!The University of Arizona and the University of Connecticut have both added a Minor in Medieval Studies to their program offerings for undergraduate students. The Daily Wildcat that the...
- Minnesota Professor Receives Funding To Research Medieval Religious Women In Germany
In the past year, Jennifer Deane, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota Morris, has received two grants: the University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid-of-Research and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, which fund...
- Job Announcement - Virginia Tech
The Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech invites applications for a one-year position in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Appointment to this position will begin in August 2010 and will carry the rank of Visiting Assistant...
- Cfp: Women In/and/on Books
CFP: Women In/And/On Books Special session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship International Medieval Congress Western Michigan University 13-16 May 2010 We invite papers considering the relationship of women to books during any...
- Medieval Europe Part 3: Of Kings And Killers Pt. 3-- Ignition Of The First Crusade
My other blogs are:http://religion-by-kyle.blogspot.comhttp://astronomy-by-kyle.blogspot.comChristians torturing Muslims and Jews by slicing open their stomachs while hanging upside down alive???Sons of Duke Eustace II of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine,...
Medieval History
The Ecology of Medieval Art - new course at DePaul University
Anne F. Harris, associate professor of art history and director of the Women's Studies Program, received a student-faculty summer stipend to write curriculum for a new interdisciplinary course she will offer next year - The Ecology of Medieval Art.
Her motivation behind designing the course is to show students that Western culture, indeed human culture, is not self-contained. "The course is an attempt to make Medieval art less white and less European," Harris says. "As I looked at the courses I was teaching, I realized that they were consistently about a very self-enclosed Medieval Europe.
"Modern Western culture is influential but also deeply influenced by other cultures," she explains. "Looking at the Crusades, opened up the Middle Ages because it made me realize that not only did Christians go to Jerusalem, but there were Christians ruling in the Middle East from 1099 - 1291. There was a 200-year colonial period right in the middle of Medieval history."
Click here to read this article from DePaul University
- New Minor In Medieval Studies Programs Offered At U.s. Universities
Don't worry - medieval studies is a little more gender balanced!The University of Arizona and the University of Connecticut have both added a Minor in Medieval Studies to their program offerings for undergraduate students. The Daily Wildcat that the...
- Minnesota Professor Receives Funding To Research Medieval Religious Women In Germany
In the past year, Jennifer Deane, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota Morris, has received two grants: the University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid-of-Research and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, which fund...
- Job Announcement - Virginia Tech
The Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech invites applications for a one-year position in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Appointment to this position will begin in August 2010 and will carry the rank of Visiting Assistant...
- Cfp: Women In/and/on Books
CFP: Women In/And/On Books Special session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship International Medieval Congress Western Michigan University 13-16 May 2010 We invite papers considering the relationship of women to books during any...
- Medieval Europe Part 3: Of Kings And Killers Pt. 3-- Ignition Of The First Crusade
My other blogs are:http://religion-by-kyle.blogspot.comhttp://astronomy-by-kyle.blogspot.comChristians torturing Muslims and Jews by slicing open their stomachs while hanging upside down alive???Sons of Duke Eustace II of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine,...