#  Ph.D. dissertations in Medieval Studies, 1990-2016 

 



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The lists provided here offer a guide to the hundreds of dissertations on topics in Medieval Studies completed at Harvard University during the last three decades. Please inform [Sean Gilsdorf](mailto:gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu) of any omissions, errors, or necessary corrections.



 



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 [Rahim Acar](https://abb.marmara.edu.tr/cv/1629/rahim-acar) (NELC, 2002): *Creation: A comparative study between Avicenna's and Aquinas' positions*

 [Catherine Adoyo](http://harvard.academia.edu/AdoyoCatherine) (Romance Languages, 2011): *The order of all things: Mimetic craft in Dante's* Commedia

 [Panagiotis Agapitos](http://www.ucy.ac.cy/~gpagap.aspx) (Classics, 1990): *Narrative structure in the Byzantine vernacular romances: A textual and literary study of*Kallimachos*,* Belthandros *and* Libistros

 [Ahmad Ahmad](http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/Faculty/Ahmad.htm) (NELC, 2005): *Structural* *interrelations of theory and practice in Islamic law: A study of* Takhrīj al-Furūʻ ʻalá al-Uṣūl *literature*

 Aslıhan Akışık (History and Middle Eastern Studies, 2013): *Self and other in the Renaissance: Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Late Byzantine Intellectuals*

 Yasmine Al-Saleh (History of Art, 2014): *"Licit Magic": The Touch and Sight Of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls*

 [Dimiter Angelov](http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/bomg/angelov-dimiter.aspx) (History, 2002): *Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium, 1204-ca. 1330*

 [Diliana Angelova](http://arthistory.berkeley.edu/Faculty_Angelova.html) (History of Art, 2005): *Gender and imperial authority in Rome and early Byzantium, first to sixth centuries*

 [Zayde Antrim](http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1280228) (History, 2005): *Place and belonging in medieval Syria, 6th/12th to 8th/14th centuries*

 [Sinān Antūn](http://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/sa234.html%20%20%20) (NELC, 2006): *The poetics of the obscene: Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf*

 [Francesco Aresu](http://www.wesleyan.edu/romance/italian/faculty.html) (Romance Languages, 2015): *The Author as Scribe: Materiality and Textuality in the* Trecento

 Kirsten Ataoguz (History of Art, 2007): *The apostolic commissioning of the monks of Saint John in Müestair, Switzerland: painting and preaching in a Churraetian Monastery*

 [Sarah Axelrod](http://harvard.academia.edu/Sarahaxelrod) (Romance Languages, 2015): Umorismo *and Critical Reading in Boccaccio’s Vernacular and Latin* Opere ‘Minori’

 [Fatemeh Azinfar](http://ibexpub.com/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&cPath=14&products_id=279) (Comparative Literature, 1999): *Doubt, dissent and skepticism in the literary tradition of the medieval period*

 [Patrick Baker](http://www.uni-muenster.de/Mittellatein/baker.htm) (History, 2009): *Illustrious men: Italian renaissance humanists on humanism*

 [Timothy Baker](https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu//timothy-michael-baker) (Religion, 2015): *“Be You as Living Stones Built Up, A Spiritual House, A Holy Priesthood”: Cistercian Exegesis, Reforms, and the Construction of Holy Architectures*

 [Abigail Balbale](https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/abigail-balbale-.html) (History, 2011): *Between Kings and Caliphs: Religion and Authority in Sharq al-Andalus, 542-640 AH/1145-1243 C.E.*

 [Bridget Balint](http://www.indiana.edu/~classics/faculty/balint.shtml) (Classics, 2002): *Hildebert of Lavardin's "Liber de querimonia" in its cultural context*

 [Henry Bayerle](https://app.oxford.emory.edu/WebApps/Directories/index.cfm?fuseaction=v.viewprofile&thisuserid=625&bioNumber=1) (Comparative Literature, 2004): *Speakers in the Latin historical epics of twelfth-century Italy*

 Dianne Bazell (Religion, 1991): *Christian diet: A case study using Arnald of Villanova's* De esu carnium

 [Alexis Becker](https://faculty.ithaca.edu/abecker7/) (English, 2015): *Practical Georgics: Managing the Land in Medieval Britain*

 William Bennett (English, 1992): *Interrupting* *the word: Mankind and the politics of the vernacular*

 [Jessica Berenbeim](https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jessica.Berenbeim/) (History of Art and Architecture, 2012): *Art of Documentation: The Sherborne Missal and the Role of Documents in English Medieval Art*

 [Robert Berkhofer](http://www.wmich.edu/history/directory/faculty-profiles/berkhofer.html) (History, 1997): *Monastic* *patrimony, management and accountability in Northern France, ca. 1000-1200*

 [Persis Berlekamp](http://arthistory.uchicago.edu/facultystaff/berlekamp.shtml) (History of Art, 2003): *Wonders and their images in late medieval Islamic culture: "the wonders of creation" in Fars and Iraq, 1280-1388*

 Gabriella Berzin (Near Eastern Languages, 2010): *The Medieval Hebrew version of psychology in Avicenna's* Salvation *(*Al-Najāt*)*

 [Janna Bianchini](http://www.history.umd.edu/Bio/bianchini.html) (née Wasilewski) (History, 2007): Regina*: The life of Berenguela of Castile, 1180-1246*

 [Noël Bisson](https://gsas.harvard.edu/person/no%C3%ABl-bisson) (Music, 1998): *English* *polyphony for the Virgin Mary: The votive antiphon, 1430-1500*

 [Josiah Blackmore](http://spanport.utoronto.ca/faculty/blackmore) (History, 1992): *Fernão* *Lopes and the Writing of History in the* Crónica de D. João I

 [James Blasina](http://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/james-blasina) (Music, 2015): *Music and Gender in the Medieval Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria, c. 1050-1300*

 [Emmanuel Bourbouhakis](http://www.princeton.edu/classics/people/display_person.xml?netid=ebourbou&display=All) (Classics, 2006): *"Not composed in a chance manner": The epitaphios for Manuel I Komnenos by Eustathius of Thessalonike: text, translation, commentary*

 [Matthieu Boyd](http://fdu.academia.edu/MBoyd) (Celtic, 2011): *The source of enchantment:* The Marvels of Rigomer *(*Les Mervelles de Rigomer*) and the evolution of Celtic influence on medieval francophone storytelling*

 Nancy Breen (Celtic, 1999): *Towards an edition of* Di astud chirt ⁊ dligid

 [Benjamin Bruch](http://www.benjaminbruch.com/) (Celtic, 2005): Du gveras a.b.c/An pen can hanna yv d*: Cornish verse forms and the evolution of Cornish prosody, c. 1350-1611*

 [Christopher Cannon](http://as.nyu.edu/object/ChristopherCannon.html) (English, 1993): *The making of Chaucer's English: A study in the formation of a literary language*

 [Nicola Carpentieri](https://languages.uconn.edu/person/nicola-carpentieri/) (NELC, 2012): *The Poetics of Aging Spain and Sicily at the Twilight of Muslim Sovereignty*

 William Carroll (Germanic Languages, 1995): *Latin* *education and secular German literature: An analysis of Latin grammar instruction and its influence on middle high German poets*

 [Gary Cestaro](http://las.depaul.edu/mol/People/Italian/Cestaro.asp) (Romance Languages, 1990): *The whip and the wet nurse: Dante's* De vulgari eloquentia *and the psychology of grammar in the Middle Ages*

 [Kathryn Chadbourne](http://www.extension.harvard.edu/about-us/faculty-directory/kathryn-ann-chadbourne) (Celtic, 1999): *The otherworld procession in Irish and Welsh literature and folklore*

 Christina Chance (Celtic, 2010): *Imagining* *empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest*

 [Horacio Chiong Rivero](http://www.facebook.com/people/Horacio-Chiong-Rivero/1290197929) (Romance Languages, 2002): *Maker of masks: Fray Antonio de Guevara's pseudo-historical fictionalizations*

 [Jeffrey Cohen](https://english.asu.edu/content/jeffrey-cohen-dean) (English, 1992): *The tradition of the giant in early England: A study of the monstrous in folklore, theology, history and literature*

 William Cole (Romance Languages, 1991): *Romance to tragedy: A comparative study of the Tristan poems of Béroul and Gottfried*

 [Jonathan Conant](http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History/people/facultypage.php?id=1313151707) (History, 2004): *Staying Roman: Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in late antique North Africa, 400-700*

 Kassandra Conley (Celtic Languages, 2014): *Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600*

 [Alan Cooper](http://www.colgate.edu/academics/FacultyDirectory/ACooper.html) (History, 1998): *Obligation and jurisdiction: Roads and bridges in medieval England (c. 700-1300)*

 [Michael Cooperson](http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/people/faculty/cooperso/) (NELC, 1994): *The heirs of the prophets in classical Arabic biography*

 [Jason Crawford](http://www.uu.edu/dept/english/faculty.cfm) (English, 2008): *Personification and its discontents: Studies from Langland to Bunyan*

 [Barbara Croken](http://crokenenterprises.web.officelive.com/personal.aspx) (NELC, 1990): *Zabîd under the Rasulids of Yemen, 626-858 AH/ 1229-1454 AD*

 [Michael Cuthbert](http://web.mit.edu/music/facstaff/cuthbert.html) (Music, 2006): *Trecento fragments and polyphony beyond the codex*

 [Philip Daileader](http://www.wm.edu/as/history/faculty/daileader_p.php) (History, 1996): *The medieval community of Perpignan, 1162-1397*

 [Jennifer Davis](http://history.cua.edu/faculty/Davis/index.cfm) (History, 2007): *Patterns of Power: Charlemagne and the Invention of Medieval Rulership*

 [Robert Davis](https://www.fordham.edu/info/23704/theology_faculty/6804/robert_davis) (Religion, 2012): *The Force of Union: Affect and Ascent in the Theology of Bonaventure*

 [Anthony D'Elia](http://www.queensu.ca/history/people/facultyinstructorsalpha/delia.html) (History, 2000): *In praise of matrimony: Italian renaissance humanists on marriage and sexual pleasure*

 [Susan Deskis](http://www.engl.niu.edu/people_details.php?pid=14) (English, 1991): *Proverbial backgrounds to the sententiae of Beowulf*

 [Mark DeStephano](http://www.spc.edu/pages/1202.asp?item=1485) (Romance Languages, 1995): *Feudal* *relations in the* Poema de mío Cid*: Comparative perspectives in medieval Spanish and French epic*

 [Alnoor Dhanani](http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.asp?ID=100413&type=user) (History of Science, 1991): *Kalām* *and Hellenistic cosmology: Minimal parts in Basrian Muʻtazilī atomism*

 [Giorgio DiMauro](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~oip/study_abroad/giorgio.html) (Slavic Languages, 2002): *The furnace, the crown, and the serpent: Images of Babylon in Muscovite Rus'*

 [Saskia Dirkse](https://www.kg1.evtheol.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wissenschaftliche_mitarbeiter/dirkse/index.html) (Classics, 2015): *The Great Mystery: Death, Memory and the Archiving of Monastic Culture in Late Antique Religious Tales*

 [Rowan Dorin](https://history.stanford.edu/people/rowan-dorin) (History, 2015): *Banishing Usury: The Expulsion of Foreign Moneylenders in Medieval Europe, 1200-1450*

 [Carol Dover](http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/doverc/?PageTemplateID=144) (Romance Languages, 1990): *Nature, nurture and the hero: Narrating identity in the old French prose Lancelot*

 [Simon Doubleday](http://www.hofstra.edu/Faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=381) (History, 1996): *The Laras: An aristocratic family in the kingdoms of Castile and León, 1075-1361*

 [David Drogin](http://www3.fitnyc.edu/historyofart/David%20Drogin.htm) (History of Art, 2003): *Representations of Bentivoglio authority: Fifteenth-century painting and sculpture in the Bentivoglio Chapel, San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna*

 [Ivan Drpić](http://art.washington.edu/index.php?id=15&faculty=80) (History of Art, 2011): *Kosmos of verse: Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium*

 [Mary Dunn](https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/mary-dunn/) (Religion, 2008): *Sainte-Anne-du-Petit-Cap: The making of an early modern shrine*

 [Leslie Dunton-Downer](http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Leslie-Dunton-Downer/68232277) (Comparative Literature, 1992): *The obscene poetic self in Rutebeuf and Chaucer*

 [Koray Durak](http://hist.boun.edu.tr/koray.durak.php) (History, 2008): *Commerce and networks of exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East from the early ninth century to the arrival of the Crusaders*

 [Nadia El Cheikh](http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/histarc/Pages/elcheikh.aspx) (History, 1992): *Byzantium* *viewed by the Arabs*

 [Ahmed El Shamsy](http://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/el-shamsy) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2009): *From tradition to law: The origins and early development of the Shāfi‘ī School of Law in ninth-century Egypt*

 [Daphna Ephrat](http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/daphna-ephratE.html) (NELC, 1993): *The Sunni ʻulamaʾ* *of eleventh-century Baghdad and the transmission of knowledge: A social history*

 [Charlene Eska (née Shipman)](http://www.english.vt.edu/graduate/faculty.html) (Celtic, 2006): *An edition of* Cáin Lánamna*: An Old Irish tract on marriage and divorce law*

 Pauline Eskenasy (NELC, 1991): *Antony* *of Tagrit's* Rhetoric *book one: Introduction, partial translation, and commentary*

 Marilina Falzarano (Romance Languages, 1999): *Il volgarizzamento dei seitte salmi penitenziali di Simone Da Cascina*

 [Lianna Farber](http://english.umn.edu/faculty/profile.php?UID=farbe004) (English, 1998): *Legitimacy* *in late medieval England*

 [Feng Xiang](http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/lawen/3562/2010/20101217231212316468265/20101217231212316468265_.html) (English, 1990): *Chaucer* *and the* Romaunt of the Rose*: A new study in authorship*

 [Justine Firnhaber-Baker](http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/justinefirnhaber-baker.html) (History, 2007): Guerram publice et palem faciendo*: Local war and royal authority in late medieval southern France*

 [Timothy Fitzgerald](http://www.jmu.edu/mecm/profile_fitzgerald.shtml) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2009): *Ottoman methods of conquest: Legal imperialism and the city of Aleppo, 1480-1570*

 [Hugh Fogarty](http://www.ucd.ie/tlh/about.html) (Celtic, 2005): *A critical edition of the Middle Irish saga* Aided Guill meic Carbada ocus Aided Gairb Glinni Rígi

 [Sheryl Forste-Gruppe](http://inside.episcopalacademy.org/htm/units/upper/english/forste-grupp/sfghome.htm) (Comparative Literature, 1996): *Signifying* *acts: Writing in the Middle English romances*

 [Katherine Forsyth](http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/katherineforsyth/) (Celtic, 1996): *The Ogham inscriptions of Scotland: An edited corpus*

 [Elizabeth Fowler](http://www.engl.virginia.edu/people/ef4n) (English, 1992): *The contingencies of person: Studies in the poetic and legal conceits of early modern England*

 [Shirin Fozi](http://www.haa.pitt.edu/person/shirin-fozi) (History of Art, 2010): *The body recast and revived: Figural tomb sculpture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1080--1160*

 [Brian Frykenberg](http://www.museumofprinting.org/Library.html) (Celtic, 1994): *Poetry of Suibne Geilt and St. Mo-Ling from Brussels Bibliothèque Royale MS. 5100-04*

 [Bruce Fudge](http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/fudge18/) (NELC, 2003): *The major Qurʼān commentary of al-Ṭabrisī (d. 548/1154)*

 [John Gagné](http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/gagne.shtml) (History, 2008): *French Milan: Citizens, occupiers, and the Italian Wars, 1499-1529*

 [Sophia Georgiopoulou](http://www.kosmimata.com/) (Classics, 1990): *Theodore II Dukas Laskaris (1222-1258) as an author and an intellectual of the XIIIth century*

 [Kelly Gibson](http://www.udallas.edu/academics/undergrad/academics/majors/history/faculty) (History, 2011): *Rewriting History: Carolingian Reform and Controversy in Biographies of Saints*

 Clare Gillis (History, 2010): *Illicit sex, Unfaithful Translations: Latin, Old High German and the Birth of a New Sexual Morality in the Early Middle Ages*

 [Luis Girón Negrón](http://www.rll.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k68588&pageid=icb.page452820) (Religion, 1997): *Alfonso* *de la Torre's* Visión deleytable*: Philosophical rationalism and the religious imagination in fifteenth-century Spain*

 [Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas](http://artsfaculty.auckland.ac.nz/staff/?UPI=rgon003) (Romance Languages, 1990): *Predicación y Narrativa en Ramón Llull: De Imagen a Semejanza en* Blanquerna

 Jennifer Gordon (History, 2014): *Obeying Those in Authority: The Hidden Political Message in Twelver Exegesis*

 [Sara Gorman](https://www.jedfoundation.org/people/sara-gorman/) (English, 2013): *Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser*

 [Margaret Marion Gower](https://www.saintmarys.edu/academics/faculty/margaret-m-gower) (Religion, 2015): *The Heart of Peace: Christine de Pizan and Christian Theology*

 [Stefanie Goyette](https://www.stefanieagoyette.com/) (Romance Languages, 2012): *Indiscriminate Bodies: The Old French Fabliaux in Relation to Thirteenth-Century Medical and Religious Cultures*

 [Rachel Goshgarian](http://history.lafayette.edu/people/rachel-goshgarian/) (History, 2008): *Beyond the social and the spiritual: Redefining the urban confraternities of late medieval Anatolia*

 Jeffrey Gross (English, 1991): *"Such stuff as dreams are made on": The poetics of narrative voice in Chaucer's* Book of the Duchess

 [Rosemary Hale](http://www.brocku.ca/about/senior-administration/hale) (Religion, 1992): Imitatio Mariae*: Motherhood motifs in late medieval German spirituality*

 [Leor Halevi](http://www.vanderbilt.edu/historydept/halevi.html) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2002): *Muhammad's grave: Death, ritual and society in the early Islamic world*

 Cynthia Hall (History of Art, 2002): *Treasury book of the passion: Word and image in the* Schatzbehalter

 [Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch](http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/eh258/) (History, 1998): *Family, property, and power: Women in medieval Montpellier, 985-1213*

 [John Harkness](http://www.augsburg.edu/english/fac_listing.html) (Linguistics, 1991): *An approach to the metrical behavior of Old English verbs*

 [Kyle Harper](http://www.ou.edu/cas/classics/people/harper/index.html) (History, 2007): *Slavery in the late ancient Mediterranean*

 [Margaret](http://www.providence.edu/ENGLISH/Pages/faculty.aspx) [Healy-Varley](http://www.providence.edu/ENGLISH/Pages/faculty.aspx) (English, 2011): *Anselm's fictions and the literary afterlife of the* Proslogion

 [Erik Heinrichs](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/graduate-students/job-candidates-heinrichs.php) (History, 2009): *The plague cure: Physicians, clerics and the reform of healing in Germany, 1473--1650*

 [Eva Helfenstein](http://independent.academia.edu/EvaHelfenstein) (History of Art, 2012): *The Goblet of Philip the Good: Precious Vessels at the Court of Burgundy*

 [Georgia Henley](https://www.anselm.edu/faculty-directory/georgia-henley) (Celtic Languages and Literatures, 2017): *Monastic Manuscripts of the Anglo-Welsh March: A Study in Literary Transmission*

 [Samantha Herrick](http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty.aspx?id=6442451531) (History, 2002): *Imagining the sacred past in hagiography of early Normandy: The* Vita Taurini*,* Vita Vigoris *and* Passio Nicasii

 [Seth Hindin](http://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=731c2990-ab7d-e111-bd9e-000c293a51f7) (History of Art, 2011): *History and ethnic commitment in the visual culture of medieval Bohemia, ca. 1200-ca. 1420*

 [Elisabeth Hodges](http://www.units.muohio.edu/frenchitalian/node/75) (Romance Languages, 2002): *City views: Writing and the topography of Frenchness and the Renaissance*

 [Megan Holmes](http://www.lsa.umich.edu/histart/people/faculty/ci.holmesmegan_ci.detail) (History of Art, 1993): Frate Filippo Di Tommaso Dipintore*: Fra Filippo Lippi and Florentine Renaissance religious practices*

 [Katharine Horsley](http://www.katehorsley.co.uk/) (English, 2004): *Poetic* *visions of London civic ceremony, 1360-1440*

 [Gregory Hutcheson](http://louisville.edu/spanish/faculty/gregory-hutcheson.html) (Romance Languages, 1993): *Marginality and empowerment in Baena's* Cancionero

 [John Hutton](http://www.salem.edu/directory/john.hutton) (History of Art, 1992): *Rural* *buildings in Netherlandish painting, ca. 1420-1570*

 [Sarah Insley](http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page438315) (Classics, 2011): *Constructing a sacred center: Constantinople as a holy city in early Byzantine literature*

 Kathryn Izzo (Celtic, 2007): *The Old Irish hymns of the* Liber Hymnorum*: A study of vernacular hymnody in medieval Ireland*

 Angela Jaffray (NELC, 2000): *At the threshold of philosophy: A study of al-Fārābī's introductory works on logic*

 [Paul Jefferiss](http://www.rspb.org.uk/) (Celtic, 1991): *Literary* *theory and criticism in medieval Ireland*

 [Geraldine Johnson](http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/postholder/johnson_ga.htm) (History of Art, 1994): *In the eye of the beholder: Donatello's sculpture in the life of Renaissance Italy*

 [Aled Jones](http://bangor.academia.edu/AledLlionJones/About) (Celtic, 2011): Ol wrth ol attor ar eu hennyd: *Political Prophecy in the Earliest Welsh Manuscripts, c. 1250-c. 1540*

 [Lars Jones](http://www.fit.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?tracks=ljones) (History of Art, 1999): *Visio divina, exegesis, and beholder-image relationships in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Indications from donor figure representations*

 [Danielle Joyner](http://artdept.nd.edu/art-history/faculty/danielle-joyner/) (History of Art, 2007): *A timely history: Images and texts in the* Hortus Deliciarum

 [Jakub Kabala](https://www.davidson.edu/academics/history/faculty-and-staff/jakub-kabala) (History, 2014): *Imaginging Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish, Roman and Byzantine Concepts of Space and Power in the Slavlands, c.750-900*

 Kathryn Karczewska (Romance Languages, 1996): *In days of future past: Prophecy and knowledge in the French vulgate grail legends*

 [Dimitris Kastritsis](http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/dimitriskastritsis.html) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2005): *The Ottoman interregnum (1402-1413): Politics and narratives of dynastic succession*

 [David Keck](http://www.spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/faculty/keck.html) (History, 1992): *The angelology of Saint Bonaventure and the harvest of medieval angelology*

 Craig Kennedy (History, 1994): *The Juchids of Muscovy: A Study of Personal Ties Between Émigré Tatar Dynasts and the Muscovite Grand Princes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries*

 [Alexander Key](https://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/alexander-key-0) (NELC, 2012): *A Linguistic Frame of Mind: ar-Ragib al-Isfahani and What it Meant To Be Ambiguous*

 [Elaheh Kheirandish](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kheirand/) (History of Science, 1991): *The medieval Arabic tradition of Euclid's* Optika

 [Nuha Khoury](http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=185) (History of Art, 1992): *The* mihrab *concept: Palatial themes in early Islamic religious architecture*

 [Ji-Hyun Kim](http://faculty.bmcc.cuny.edu/faculty/fp.jsp?f=jpkim) (Romance Languages, 2005): *For a modern medieval literature: Gaston Paris, courtly love, and the demands of modernity*

 [Margaret](http://www.hss.nthu.edu.tw/~fl/faculty/kim.htm) [Kim](http://www.hss.nthu.edu.tw/~fl/faculty/kim.htm) (English, 2000): *Visions of theocratics: The discourse of politics and the primacy of religion in* Piers Plowman

 Bettina Kimpton (Celtic, 2006): *An edition of* Brislech mór maige murthemni

 [Irit Kleiman](http://www.bu.edu/rs/people/faculty-staff/french/irit-kleiman/) (Romance Languages, 2003): *Traitor, author, text: Four late medieval narratives of betrayal*

 † [Elka Klein](http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=2748) (History, 1996): *Power and patrimony: The Jewish community of Barcelona, 1050-1250*

 [Yaron Klein](http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/mela/faculty/) (NELC, 2009): *Musical* *instruments as objects of meaning in classical Arabic poetry and philosophy*

 Jennifer Knight (Celtic, 2011): *Self and society in early Irish literature*

 [Adam Kosto](http://worldhistory.columbia.edu/faculty/#adam_kosto) (History, 1996): *Making and keeping agreements in medieval Catalonia, 1000-1200*

 Thomas Kozachek (Music, 1995): *The repertory of chant for dedicating churches in the Middle Ages: Music, liturgy, and ritual*

 [Aden Kumler](http://arthistory.uchicago.edu/facultystaff/kumler.shtml) (History of Art, 2007): *Visual translation, visible theology: Illuminated compendia of spiritual instruction in late medieval France and England*

 [Demetrios Kyritses](http://www.history-archaeology.uoc.gr/en/staff/dep/Kyritses.html) (History, 1997): *The Byzantine aristocracy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries*

 [Justin Lake](http://euro.tamu.edu/people/faculty/j-lake.html) (Classics, 2008): *Rhetorical and narrative studies on the* Historiae *of Richer of Saint-Remi*

 [Christian Lang](http://www.uu.nl/hum/staff/CRLange) (Religion, 2006): *Executing* *justice in Sunnī Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljūqs (1055-1194 CE)*

 [Heather Larson](http://www.heatherharp.com/harper.html) (Celtic, 1999): *The Women's Voice in Gaelic Poetry*

 [Rena Lauer](http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/rena-lauer) (History, 2014): *Venice’s Colonial Jews: Community, Identity, and Justice in Late Medieval Venetian Crete*

 [Marc Laureys](http://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/personal/laureys) (Classics, 1992): *An edition and study of Giovanni Cavallini's* Polistoria de virtutibus et dotibus Romanorum

 [Eric Lawee](http://www.yorku.ca/lawee/cv.html) (NELC, 1993): *"Inheritance of the fathers": Aspects of Isaac Abarbanel's stance towards tradition*

 [Lisa Lawrence](http://www.r204beta.com/public/practice/biopage/aid/196/s/11) (Religion, 2002): *The Irish and the incarnation: Images of Christ in the Old Irish poems of Blathmac*

 [F. Dominic Longo ](https://www.mobiusleadership.com/practitioners/dominic-longo/)(Religion, 2011): *Spiritual Grammar: A Comparative Theological Study of Jean Gerson's* Donatus moralizatus *and Abd al Karim al-Qushayri's* Nahw al-qulub

 [William Layher](http://www.william-layher.org/) (Germanic Languages, 1999): *Queen Eufemia's Legacy: Middle Low German Literary Culture, Royal Patronage, and the First Old Swedish Epic (1301)*

 Anne Lea (Celtic, 1995): *Contextualizing the* Gorhoffeddau*: A Study in the Intellectual Background of Two Medieval Welsh Poems*

 Christine Lee (Comparative Literature, 2011): *Renaissance Romance: Redrawing the Boundaries of Fiction*

 [Isabelle Charlotte Levy](https://www.iijs.columbia.edu/new-page-1) (Comparative Literature, 2014): *The Poetics of Love in Prosimetra across the Medieval Mediterranean*

 Christina Linklater (Music, 2006): *Popularity, Presentation and the* Chansonnier Saint-Germain-des-Prés

 [Benjamin Liu](http://www.hispanicstudies.ucr.edu/people/faculty/liu/index.html) (Romance Languages, 1996): *Equivocal* *Poetics and Cultural Ambiguity in the* Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer

 [Yan Liu](https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/history/faculty/faculty-directory/liu-yan.html) (History of Science, 2015): *Toxic Cures: Poisons and Medicines in Medieval China*

 [Christopher Livanos](http://complit.lss.wisc.edu/?q=node/8) (Comparative Literature, 2001): *Greek and Latin traditions in the work of George Gennadios Scholarios*

 [Sally Livingston](http://humanities.owu.edu/livingston.html) (Comparative Literature, 2008): *Owning property, being property: Medieval and modern women shape the narratives of marriage*

 [Diana Luft](http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/welsh/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/luft-diana.html) (Celtic, 2004): *Medieval Welsh translation: The case of* Ymddiddan Selyf a Marcwlff

 Bernard Lumpkin (Comparative Literature, 1999): *The Making of a Medieval Outlaw: Code and Community in the Robin Hood Legend*

 [Amanda Luyster](http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/aluyster/) (History of Art, 2003): *Courtly Images Far From Court: The Family Saint-Floret, Representation, and Romance*

 [Evan MacCarthy](http://harvard.academia.edu/EvanMacCarthy) (Music, 2010): *Music and Learning in Early Renaissance Ferrara, c. 1430-1470*

 [Patricia Malone](http://harvard.academia.edu/PatriciaMalone) (Celtic, 2009): *"Entirely Outside the World": Rhetoric, Legitimacy, and Identity in the Biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan*

 † Laurance Maney (Celtic, 1999): *High-Kings and Holy Men: Hiberno-Latin Hagiography and the Uí Néill Kingship, ca. 650-750*

 [Craig Martin](http://www2.oakland.edu/history/fs_dir.cfm?ID=5595) (History of Science, 2002): *Interpretation and Utility: The Renaissance Commentary Tradition on Aristotle's* Meteorologica *IV*

 Fay Martineau (Divinity, 2006): *Envisioning* *Heaven with Faith, Imagination, and Historical relevance: Selected Writings from Early and Medieval Christianity*

 [Zachary Matus](http://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/faculty/zachary-alexander-matus) (Religion, 2010): *Heaven in a Bottle: Franciscan Apocalypticism and the Elixir, 1250-1360*

 [Maria Mavroudi](http://history.berkeley.edu/people/maria-mavroudi) (Byzantine Studies, 1998): *The so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and its Arabic Sources*

 [Anne McClanan](http://www.pdx.edu/art/profile/meet-anne-mcclanan) (History of Art, 1998): *Empress, Image, State: Imperial Women in the Early Medieval World*

 Nancy McKinley (English, 1991): *Poetry vs. Paraphrase: The Artistry of Genesis A*

 [James McMenamin](http://www.dickinson.edu/academics/programs/italian/Faculty/) (Romance Languages, 2008): *The Sequence "Beginning-Middle-End," Dante and Petrarch*

 [Joseph McMullen](https://english.indiana.edu/about/faculty/mcmullen-joey.html) (Celtic Languages and English, 2015): *Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes*

 [Lawrence Morris](http://web.mac.com/alc/English_Department/Lawrence_Morris.html) (Comparative Literature, 2002): *Veritas and literary fiction in the hagiography of the pre-Norman British Isles*

 Paula Molloy (Anthropology, 1993): *Cod, commerce, and climate: A case study from late medieval/early modern Iceland*

 [Alexander More](https://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/people/alexander-more) (History, 2014): *At the Origins of Welfare Policy: Law and the Economy in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (AD 1150-1350)*

 Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (Romance Languages, 1998): *Dante's Art of Reason: A Study of Medieval Logic and Semantics in the* Monarchy

 [Aisha Musa](http://www.colgate.edu/academics/FacultyDirectory/amusa.html) (NELC, 2004): *A Study of Early and Contemporary Muslim Attitudes toward Hadīth as Scripture with Translation of al-Shāfiʹī's* Kitāb Jimāʹ al-ʹIlm

 [Emire Muslu](https://explorer.utdallas.edu/editprofile.php?pid=13360&onlyview=1) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2007): *Ottoman-Mamluk Relations: Diplomacy and perceptions*

 [Erez Naaman](http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/naaman.cfm) (NELC, 2009): *Literature* *and literary people at the court of Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn 'Abbād*

 [Alexander Nagel](http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/faculty/nagel.htm) (History of Art, 1993): *Michelangelo, Raphael and the altarpiece tradition*

 Rae Ann Nager (Comparative Literature, 1990): *The* Poetria nova *as a Poetics: Geoffrey of Vinsauf's* Lex sit danda poetis

 [Nevra Necipoglu](http://hist.boun.edu.tr/nevra.necipoglu.php) (History, 1990): *Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins: A Study of Political Attitudes in the Late Palaiologan Period, 1370-1460*

 [Leonard Neidorf](https://nanjing.academia.edu/LeonardNeidorf) (English, 2014): *The Origins of Beowulf: Studies in Textual Criticism and Literary History*

 [Ingrid Nelson](https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/inelson) (English, 2010): *The Lyric in England, 1200-1400*

 [Mark Nevins](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/seminars/about/moderators/mark-nevins) (English, 1993): *The Literature of Curiosity: Geographical and Exploration Writings in Early Northern Europe*

 [Lena Norrman](http://gsd.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=norrman) (Germanic Languages, 2006): *Women's Voices, Power, and Performance in Viking Age Scandinavia*

 [Barnaby Nygren](http://www.loyola.edu/academics/finearts/art_history/faculty.html) (History of Art, 1999): *The Monumental Saint's Tomb in Italy, 1260-1520*

 [Joshua O'Driscoll](https://themorgan.academia.edu/JoshuaODriscoll) (History of Art, 2015): *Image and Inscription in the Painterly Manuscripts from Ottonian Cologne*

 [Lisi Oliver](http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/linguisticsweb.nsf/%24Content/Oliver?OpenDocument) (Linguistics, 1995): *The language of the early English laws*

 [Katharine Olson](http://www.bangor.ac.uk/history/about_the_school/staff/lecture_staff/katharine_olson.php.en) (Celtic, 2008): *Fire from heaven: Popular religion and society in Wales, c. 1400--1603*

 [Julie Orlemanski](http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/english/faculty/facalpha/orlemanski.html) (English, 2010): *Symptomatic subjects: Diagnosis, narrative, and embodiment in Middle English literature*

 [Ada Palmer](http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/palmer.shtml) (History, 2009): *Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance*

 [Cameron Partridge](http://www.blogger.com/profile/11730933611590305932) (Divinity, 2008): *Transfiguring sexual difference in Maximus the Confessor*

 [Stephen Partridge](http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/spartrid/) (English, 1992): *Glosses* *in the manuscripts of Chaucer's* Canterbury Tales*: An edition and commentary*

 [Gregory Pass](http://libraries.slu.edu/special_collections/home) (History, 1996): *Source studies in the early secular lordship of the bishops of Mende*

 [Jennifer Paxton](http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/paxtonj/) (History, 1999): *Charter and chronicle in twelfth-century England: The house-histories of the Fenland abbeys*

 [Bissera Pentcheva](http://art.stanford.edu/profile/Bissera%20Pentcheva/) (History of Art, 2001): *Images and icons of the virgin and their public in middle Byzantine Constantinople*

 Kristin Peterson (History of Science, 1993): *Translatio libri Avicennae De viribus cordis et medicinis cordialibus Arnaldi de Villanova*

 [Susan Phillips](http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/phil.html) (English, 1999): *Gossip's work: the problems and pleasures of not-so-idle talk in late medieval England*

 [Simone Pinet](http://www.arts.cornell.edu/romance/spanish/spanish_faculty/pinet.html) (Romance Languages, 2002): *Archipelagoes: insularity and fiction in medieval and early modern Spain*

 [Prydwyn Piper](http://oxford.academia.edu/PrydwynPiper) (Celtic, 2001): Mabinogi Iessu Grist*: An edition and study of the Middle Welsh translations of the apocryphal Latin*Pseudo-Matthaei evangelium

 [Amy Powell](http://faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/humanities/art_history/index.cfm?faculty_id=5553) (History of Art, 2004): *Repeated forms: Rogier van der Weyden's* Descent from the Cross *and its "copies"*

 [Francisco Prado-Vilar](http://ucm.academia.edu/FranciscoPradoVilar) (History of Art, 2002): *In the shadow of the Gothic idol: The* Cantigas de Santa Maria *and the imagery of love and conversion*

 [Debra Prager](http://germanrussian.wlu.edu/Debra%20Prager%20page.htm) (Germanic Languages, 2003): *Orienting the self: Encounters with the Eastern other in German narrative fiction*

 [Jennifer Pruitt](http://www.smith.edu/art/faculty.php) (History of Art, 2009): *Fatimid* *architectural patronage and changing sectarian identities (969-1021)*

 [Ghada Qaddumi](http://www.wccapr.org/web/?p=216) (NELC, 1990): *A medieval Islamic book of gifts and treasures: Translation, annotation, and commentary on the*Kitāb al-Hadāyā wa al-tuḥaf

 [Tahera Qutbuddin](http://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/qutbuddin) (NELC, 1999): *Al-Mua̓yyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: Founder of a new tradition of Fatimid Dawa poetry*

 [Lynn Ramey](https://my.vanderbilt.edu/lynnramey/) (Romance Languages, 1997): *Christians and Saracens: Imagination and cultural interaction in the French Middle Ages*

 Emmanuel Ramírez-Nieves (Comparative Literature, 2015): *Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew* Maqama

 [Chase Robinson](http://www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Provosts-Office) (History, 1992): *The early Islamic history of Mosul*

 [James Robinson](http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/robinson.shtml) (NELC, 2002): *Samuel Ibn Tibbon's* Commentary on Ecclesiastes

 [Nicolas Rofougaran](http://www.bentley.edu/about/directory/nicolas-l-rofougaran) (History of Science, 2000): *Avicenna* *and Aquinas on individualism*

 [Maria Roglieri](http://www.stac.edu/humanities/romancespages/roglieri.htm) (Romance Languages, 1994): *"Uror, et in uaco pectore regnat amor": The influence of Ovid's amatory works on Dante's* Vita nuova *and* Commedia

 [Panagiotis Roilos](http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65290&pageid=icb.page438227) (Classics, 1999): *Generic modulations in the medieval Greek learned novels*

 [Maria Romagnoli](http://www.artsci.uc.edu/collegedepts/english/fac_staff/profile_details.aspx?ePID=NzI3NQ==) (Romance Languages, 1996): *Andreas Capellanus: Issues of identity, reception and audience*

 [John Romano](http://medievalliturgy.com/medievalliturgy.htm) (History, 2007): *Ritual and society in early medieval Rome*

 [Elizabeth Ross](http://www.arts.ufl.edu/bio.aspx?PID=236) (History of Art, 2004): *Picturing knowledge and experience in the early printed book: Reuwich's illustrations for Breydenbach's* Pereginatio in terram sanctam *(1486)*

 [Gidon Rothstein](http://www.ou.org/torah/author/Rabbi_Dr_Gidon_Rothstein) (NELC, 2003): *Writing Midrash Avot: The Change That Three Fifteenth Century Exegetes Introduced to Avot Interpretation, Its Impact and Origins*

 [Leyla Rouhi](http://cflang.williams.edu/profile/lrouhi/) (Romance Languages, 1995): *A Comparative Typology of the Medieval Go-Between in Light of Western-European, Near-Eastern, and Spanish Cases*

 [Steven Rozenski ](https://www.rochester.edu/College/eng/people/faculty/rozenski_steven/index.html)(English, 2012): *Henry Suso and Richard Rolle: Devotional Mobility and Translation in Late-Medieval England and Germany*

 [Elisha Russ-Fishbane](http://wesleying.org/2012/04/18/judaism-and-islam-between-history-and-polemics/) (NELC, 2009): *Between Politics and Piety: Abraham Maimonides and his Times*

 [Stephen Ryan](http://www.dhs.edu/academics/ryan.aspx) (NELC, 2001): *Studies in Bar Salibi's Commentary on the Psalms*

 [Claire Sahlin](http://www.twu.edu/ws/sahlin.asp) (Religion, 1996): *Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy: A Study of Gender and Religious Authority in the Later Middle Ages*

 [Elizabeth Scala](http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/scalaed) (English, 1994): *Absent* *Narratives: Medieval Literature and Textual Repression*

 [Rebecca Schoff](http://www.ropesgray.com/rebeccaschoff/) (English, 2004): *Freedom* *from the Press: Reading and Writing in Late Medieval England*

 [Iklil Selcuk](http://bahcesehir.academia.edu/IklilSelcuk) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2009): *State* *and Society in the Marketplace: A Study of Late Fifteenth-Century Bursa*

 Mark Sendor (NELC, 1994): *The Emergence of the Provençal Kabbalah: Rabbi Isaac the Blind's Commentary on Sefer Yeẓirah*

 [Daniel Sheffield](https://nes.princeton.edu/people/daniel-sheffield) (NELC, 2012): *In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India*

 [Maryann Shenoda](http://www.complit.ucla.edu/people/faculty/mshenoda/) (History, 2010): *Lamenting* *Islam, Imagining Persecution: Copto-Arabic Opposition to Islamization and Arabization in Fatimid Egypt (969-1171 CE)*

 [James Skedros](http://www.hchc.edu/holycross/academics/faculty/skedros.html) (Divinity, 1996): *St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki: Civic Patron and Divine Protector (4th-7th c. CE)*

 Ewa Slojka (Comparative Literature, 2006): *The Pious Knight: Crusading Ideals, Purgatory, and Grail Romances*

 [Rachel Smith ](https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/theology/about/facultystaff/biodetail.html?mail=rachel.j.smith@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long)(Religion, 2012): *Exemplarity and its Limits in the Hagiographical Corpus of Thomas of Cantimpré*

 [Laura Smoller](http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/) (History, 1991): *History, prophecy, and the stars: The Christian astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420*

 Theoharis Stavrides (History, 1996): *The Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453-1474)*

 [Daniel Stein Kokin](http://www.theologie.uni-greifswald.de/organisieren/mitarbeitende-lehrstuehle/jp-juedische-literatur-und-kultur.html) (History, 2006): *The Hebrew question in the Italian Renaissance: Linguistic, cultural, and mystical perspectives*

 Gregg Stern (Religion, 1995): *Menahem* *Ha-Meiri and the second controversy over philosophy*

 [Kristen Stilt](http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/KristenStilt/) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2004): *The Muḥtasib, Law, and Society in Early Mamluk Cairo and Fustat (648-802/1250-1400)*

 [David Strain](http://admissions.ozarks.edu/academics/faculty/Detail.aspx?id=dstrain) (English, 1992): *Occasional* *poetics: The politics and poetics of fiction in Chaucer's* House of Fame*,* Parliament of Fowls*, and* Legend of Good Women

 [Anne Stone](http://web.gc.cuny.edu/music/faculty/stone.html) (Music, 1994): *Writing* *rhythm in late medieval Italy: Notation and musical style in the manuscript Modena, Biblioteca estense, Alpha.M.5.24*

 [Justin Stover](http://harvard.academia.edu/JustinStover) (Classics, 2011): *Reading* *Plato in the twelfth century: A study on the varieties of Plato's reception in the Latin west before 1215*

 [Carol Symes](http://www.history.illinois.edu/people/symes) (History, 1999): *The makings of a medieval stage: Theatre and the culture of performance in thirteenth-century Arras*

 [Emily Tai](http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/History/index.html) (History, 1996): *Honor among Thieves: Piracy, Restitution, and Reprisal in Genoa, Venice, and the crown of Catalonia-Aragon, 1339-1417*

 [Adena Tanenbaum](http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/tanenbaum8/) (NELC, 1993): *Poetry and Philosophy: The Idea of the Soul in Andalusian* Piyyut

 [Nathaniel Taylor](http://nltaylor.net/index.htm) (History, 1995): *The Will and Society in Medieval Catalonia and Languedoc, 800-1200*

 [Anne Thayer](http://www.lancasterseminary.edu/15341012314853980/site/default.asp) (Religion, 1996): *Penitence and Preaching on the Eve of the Reformation: A Comparative Overview from Frequently Printed Model Sermon Collections, 1450-1520*

 [Lucille Thibodeau](http://www.rivier.edu/academics/departments/default.aspx?id=2308) (Comparative Literature, 1990): *The Relation of Peter Abelard's* Planctus Dinae *to Biblical Sources and Exegetic Tradition: A Historical and Textual Study*

 [Jane Tolmie](http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/janetolmie.htm) (English, 2001): *Persuasion: Blood-feud, Romance and the Disenfranchised*

 [Timothy Tomasik](http://www.valpo.edu/foreignlanguages/faculty/tomasik.php) (Romance Languages, 2003): *Textual Tastes: The Invention of Culinary Literature in Early Modern France*

 [Deborah Tor](http://history.nd.edu/faculty/directory/deborah-tor/) (Middle Eastern Studies, 2002): *From holy warriors to chivalric order: The Ayyars in the eastern Islamic world, A.D. 800-1055*

 Nicolette Trahoulia (History of Art, 1997): *The Venice Alexander romance, Hellenic Institute codex Gr. 5: A study of Alexander the Great as an imperial paradigm in Byzantine art and literature*

 [Nicolas Trépanier](http://history.olemiss.edu/2011/11/18/nicolas-trepanier-assistant-professor/) (History, 2008): *Food as a window into daily life in fourteenth century Central Anatolia*

 [Elly Truitt](http://www.brynmawr.edu/history/faculty.html#truitt) (History of Science, 2007): *From magic to mechanism: Medieval automata, 1100—1550*

 [Ece Turnator](https://libguides.mit.edu/profiles/turnator) (History, 2013): *Turning the Economic Tables in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Latin Crusader Empire and the Transformation of the Byzantine Economy, ca. 1100-1400*

 [Raquel Ukeles](http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/Islam-Middle-Eastern/Pages/default.aspx) (Religion, 2006): *Innovation* *or Deviation: Exploring the Boundaries of Islamic Devotional Law*

 [Phillip Usher](http://phillipjohnusher.weebly.com/) (Romance Languages, 2004): *The Holy Lands in Early Modern Literature: Negotiations of Christian Geography and Textual Space*

 Claire Valente (History, 1997): *Generations* *of Revolt: Reform, Rebellion, and Political Society in Later Medieval England, 1258-1415*

 [Bruce Venarde](http://www.history.pitt.edu/faculty/venarde.php) (History, 1992): *Women, Monasticism, and Social Change: The Foundation of Nunneries in Western Europe, c. 890-c. 1215*

 [Paolo de Ventura](http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/italian/de-ventura-paolo.aspx) (Romance Languages, 2003): *Dramma e Dialogo nella* Commedia *di Dante*

 Marco Antonio Viniegra (History of Science, 2013): *Neoclassical Medicine: Transformations in the Hippocratic Medical Tradition from Galen to the Articella*

 [Nargis Virani](http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/faculty.aspx?id=24154) (NELC, 1999): *"I am the nightingale of the merciful": Macaronic or Upside-down? The* mulammaʻāt *of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī*

 [Alicia Walker](http://www.brynmawr.edu/hart/AliciaWalker.html) (History of Art, 2004): *Exotic Elements in Middle Byzantine Secular Art and Aesthetics, 843-1204 C.E.*

 Laura Wang (English, 2014): *Natural Law and the Law of Nature in Early British Beast Literature*

 [Jeffrey Webb](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/graduate-students/job-candidates-webb.php) (History, 2009): *Cathedrals of Words: Bishops and the Deeds of their Predecessors in Lotharingia, 950-1100*

 Jessica Weiss (Comparative Literature, 2003): *Herbert* *of Bosham's* Liber melorum*: Literature and Sacred Sciences in the Twelfth Century*

 Amanda Wesner (Music, 1992): *The Chansons of Loyset Compère: Authenticity and Stylistic Development*

 [Dan Wiley](http://english.siu.edu/facultyStaff.html#Wiley) (Celtic, 2000): *An Edition of* Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill *from the Book of Uí Maine*

 [Ryan Wilkinson](https://ambrose.edu/profile/ryan-wilkinson-phd-ma-ba) (History, 2015): *The Last Horizons of Roman Gaul: Communication, Community, and Power at the End of Antiquity*

 [Emily Wood](http://www.clemson.edu/caah/faculty-staff/facultyBio.html?id=630) (History, 2009): *The Execution of Papal Justice in Northern France, 1145-1198*

 [Jeffrey Woolf](http://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/Woolf/) (NELC, 1991): *The Life and Responsa of Rabbi Joseph Colon b. Solomon Trabotto (Maharik)*

 Annelies Wouters (Classics, 2003): *The Meaning of Formal Structure in Peter Abelard's* Collationes

 [Lisa Wurtele (née Karp)](http://independent.academia.edu/LisaWurtele) (NELC, 1992): *Sahl* *b. Hârǔn: The man and his contribution to* 'adab

 [Suzan Yalman](http://www.khi.fi.it/en/maaz/mitarbeiter/people/wissPersonal/wissM301/index.htm) (History of Art, 2011): *Building the Sultanate of Rum: Memory, urbanism and mysticism in the architectural patronage of 'Ala al-Din Kayqubad (r. 1220-1237)*

 [Hikmet Yaman](http://www.divinity.ankara.edu.tr/ogretimelemani_detay.php?kadro_id=112%5C%22%20data-mce-href=) (NELC, 2008): *The Concept of* Hikmah *in Early Islamic Thought*

 [Julian Yolles](http://southerndenmark.academia.edu/JulianYolles) (Classics, 2015): *Latin Literature and Frankish Culture in the Crusader States (1098-1187)*

 [Anna Zayaruznaya](http://www.princeton.edu/music/people/display_person.xml?netid=aaz&display=Faculty%20) (Music, 2010): *Form and Idea in the Ars Nova Motet*

 [Sarah Zeiser](https://scholar.harvard.edu/zeiser/home) (Celtic Languages, 2012): *Latinity, Manuscripts, and the Rhetoric of Conquest in Late-Eleventh-Century Wales*



 

 

 



###    Dissertations by Ph.D. - Granting Department  expand\_more  

 

***Anthropology***

Paula Molloy (1993): *Cod, commerce, and climate: A case study from late medieval/early modern Iceland*

***Committee on Byzantine Studies***

Maria Mavroudi (1998): *The so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine book on dream interpretation and its Arabic sources*

***Celtic Languages and Literatures***

Paul Jefferiss (1991): *Literary* *theory and criticism in medieval Ireland*

Kaarina Hollo (1992): *A critical edition of* Fled Bricrenn ocus loinges mac nDuíl Dermait

Brian Frykenberg (1994): *Poetry of Suibne Geilt and St. Mo-Ling from Brussels Bibliothèque Royale MS. 5100-04*

Anne Lea (1995): *Contextualizing the* Gorhoffeddau*: A study in the intellectual background of two medieval Welsh poems*

Katherine Forsyth (1996): *The Ogham inscriptions of Scotland: An edited corpus*

Barbara Hillers (1997): *The medieval Irish Odyssey* Merugud Uilixis meic Leirtis

Nancy Breen (1999): *Towards an edition of* Di astud chirt ⁊ dligid

Kathryn Chadbourne (1999): *The otherworld procession in Irish and Welsh literature and folklore*

Heather Larson (1999): *The women's voice in Gaelic poetry*

† Laurance Maney (1999): *High-kings and holy men: Hiberno-Latin hagiography and the Uí Néill kingship, ca. 650-750*

Dan Wiley (2000): *An edition of* Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill *from the Book of Uí Maine*

Prydwyn Piper (2001): Mabinogi Iessu Grist*: An edition and study of the Middle Welsh translations of the apocryphal Latin*Pseudo-Matthaei evangelium

Diana Luft (2004): *Medieval Welsh translation: the case of* Ymddiddan Selyf a Marcwlff

Benjamin Bruch (2005): Du gveras a.b.c/An pen can hanna yv d*: Cornish verse forms and the evolution of Cornish prosody, c. 1350-1611*

Hugh Fogarty (2005): *A critical edition of the Middle Irish saga* Aided Guill meic Carbada ocus Aided Gairb Glinni Rígi

Charlene Eska (née Shipman) (2006): *An edition of* Cáin Lánamna*: an Old Irish tract on marriage and divorce law*

Bettina Kimpton (2006): *An edition of* Brislech mór maige murthemni

Kathryn Izzo (2007): *The Old Irish hymns of the* Liber Hymnorum*: A study of vernacular hymnody in medieval Ireland*

Katharine Olson (2008): *Fire from heaven: Popular religion and society in Wales, c. 1400-1603*

Patricia Malone (2009): *"Entirely outside the world": Rhetoric, legitimacy, and identity in the biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan*

Christina Chance (2010): *Imagining* *empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest*

Matthieu Boyd (2011): *The source of enchantment:* The Marvels of Rigomer *(*Les Mervelles de Rigomer*) and the evolution of Celtic influence on medieval francophone storytelling*

Aled Jones (2011): Ol wrth ol attor ar eu hennyd: *Political Prophecy in the Earliest Welsh Manuscripts, c. 1250-c. 1540*

Jennifer Knight (2011): *Self and society in early Irish literature*

***Classics***

Panagiotis Agapitos (1990): *Narrative structure in the Byzantine vernacular romances: A textual and literary study of*Kallimachos*,* Belthandros *and* Libistros

Sophia Georgiopoulou (1990): *Theodore II Dukas Laskaris (1222-1258) as an author and an intellectual of the XIIIth century*

Marc Laureys (1992): *An edition and study of Giovanni Cavallini's* Polistoria de virtutibus et dotibus Romanorum

Panagiotis Roilos (1999): *Generic modulations in the medieval Greek learned novels*

Bridget Balint (2002): *Hildebert of Lavardin's "Liber de querimonia" in its cultural context*

Annelies Wouters (2003): *The meaning of formal structure in Peter Abelard's* Collationes

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis (2006): *"Not composed in a chance manner": The epitaphios for Manuel I Komnenos by Eustathius of Thessalonike: text, translation, commentary*

Justin Lake (2008): *Rhetorical and narrative studies on the* Historiae *of Richer of Saint-Remi*

Sarah Insley (2011): *Constructing a sacred center: Constantinople as a holy city in early Byzantine literature*

Justin Stover (2011): *Reading* *Plato in the twelfth century: A study on the varieties of Plato's reception in the Latin west before 1215*

 **Comparative Literature***

Rae Ann Nager (1990): *The* Poetria nova *as a poetics: Geoffrey of Vinsauf's* Lex sit danda poetis

Lucille Thibodeau (1990): *The relation of Peter Abelard's* Planctus Dinae *to biblical sources and exegetic tradition: A historical and textual study*

Leslie Dunton-Downer (1992): *The obscene poetic self in Rutebeuf and Chaucer*

Sheryl Forste-Gruppe (1996): *Signifying* *acts: Writing in the Middle English romances*

Fatemeh Azinfar (1999): *Doubt, dissent and skepticism in the literary tradition of the medieval period*

Bernard Lumpkin (1999): *The making of a medieval outlaw: Code and community in the Robin Hood legend*

Christopher Livanos (2001): *Greek and Latin traditions in the work of George Gennadios Scholarios*

Lawrence Morris (2002): *Veritas and literary fiction in the hagiography of the pre-Norman British Isles*

Jessica Weiss (2003): *Herbert* *of Bosham's* Liber melorum*: Literature and sacred sciences in the twelfth century*

Henry Bayerle (2004): *Speakers in the Latin historical epics of twelfth-century Italy*

Ewa Slojka (2006): *The pious knight: Crusading ideals, purgatory, and grail romances*

Sally Livingston (2008): *Owning property, being property: Medieval and modern women shape the narratives of marriage*

***Divinity School***

James Skedros (1996): *St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki: Civic patron and divine protector (4th-7th c. CE)*

Fay Martineau (2006): *Envisioning* *heaven with faith, imagination, and historical relevance: Selected writings from early and medieval Christianity*

Cameron Partridge (2008): *Transfiguring sexual difference in Maximus the Confessor*

***English Language and Literature***

Feng Xiang (1990): *Chaucer* *and the* Romaunt of the Rose*: A new study in authorship*

Susan Deskis (1991): *Proverbial backgrounds to the sententiae of Beowulf*

Jeffrey Gross (1991): *"Such stuff as dreams are made on": The poetics of narrative voice in Chaucer's* Book of the Duchess

Nancy McKinley (1991): *Poetry vs. paraphrase: The artistry of Genesis A*

William Bennett (1992): *Interrupting* *the word: Mankind and the politics of the vernacular*

Jeffrey Cohen (1992): *The tradition of the giant in early England: A study of the monstrous in folklore, theology, history and literature*

Elizabeth Fowler (1992): *The contingencies of person: Studies in the poetic and legal conceits of early modern England*

Stephen Partridge (1992): *Glosses* *in the manuscripts of Chaucer's* Canterbury Tales*: An edition and commentary*

David Strain (1992): *Occasional* *poetics: The politics and poetics of fiction in Chaucer's* House of Fame*,* Parliament of Fowls*, and*Legend of Good Women

Christopher Cannon (1993): *The making of Chaucer's English: A study in the formation of a literary language*

Mark Nevins (1993): *The literature of curiosity: Geographical and exploration writings in early northern Europe*

Elizabeth Scala (1994): *Absent* *narratives: Medieval literature and textual repression*

Lianna Farber (1998): *Legitimacy* *in late medieval England*

Susan Phillips (1999): *Gossip's work: The problems and pleasures of not-so-idle talk in late medieval England*

Margaret Kim (2000): *Visions of theocratics: The discourse of politics and the primacy of religion in* Piers Plowman

Jane Tolmie (2001): *Persuasion: Blood-feud, romance and the disenfranchised*

Katharine Horsley (2004): *Poetic* *visions of London civic ceremony, 1360-1440*

Rebecca Schoff (2004): *Freedom* *from the press: Reading and writing in late medieval England*

Jason Crawford (2008): *Personification and its discontents: Studies from Langland to Bunyan*

Julie Orlemanski (2010): *Symptomatic subjects: Diagnosis, narrative, and embodiment in Middle English literature*

Ingrid Nelson (2010): *The lyric in England, 1200-1400*

Margaret Healy-Varley (2011): *Anselm's fictions and the literary afterlife of the* Proslogion

***Germanic Languages and Literatures***

William Carroll (1995): *Latin* *education and secular German literature: An analysis of Latin grammar instruction and its influence on middle high German poets*

William Layher (1999): *Queen Eufemia's legacy: Middle low German literary culture, royal patronage, and the first old Swedish epic (1301)*

Debra Prager (2003): *Orienting the self: Encounters with the Eastern other in German narrative fiction*

Lena Norrman (2006): *Women's voices, power, and performance in Viking Age Scandinavia*

***History***

Nevra Necipoglu (1990): *Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: A study of political attitudes in the late Palaiologan period, 1370-1460*

Laura Smoller (1991): *History, prophecy, and the stars: The Christian astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420*

Josiah Blackmore (1992): *Fernão* *Lopes and the writing of history in the* Crónica de D. João I

Nadia El Cheikh (1992): *Byzantium* *viewed by the Arabs*

David Keck (1992): *The angelology of Saint Bonaventure and the harvest of medieval angelology*

Chase Robinson (1992): *The early Islamic history of Mosul*

Bruce Venarde (1992): *Women, monasticism, and social change: The foundation of nunneries in Western Europe, c. 890-c. 1215*

Craig Kennedy (1994): *The Juchids of Muscovy: A study of personal ties between émigré Tatar dynasts and the Muscovite grand princes in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries*

Nathaniel Taylor (1995): *The will and society in medieval Catalonia and Languedoc, 800-1200*

Philip Daileader (1996): *The medieval community of Perpignan, 1162-1397*

† Elka Klein (1996): *Power and patrimony: The Jewish community of Barcelona, 1050-1250*

Adam Kosto (1996): *Making and keeping agreements in medieval Catalonia, 1000-1200*

Gregory Pass (1996): *Source studies in the early secular lordship of the bishops of Mende*

Theoharis Stavrides (1996): *The Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453-1474)*

Emily Tai (1996): *Honor among thieves: Piracy, restitution, and reprisal in Genoa, Venice, and the crown of Catalonia-Aragon, 1339-1417*

Robert Berkhofer (1997): *Monastic* *patrimony, management and accountability in Northern France, ca. 1000-1200*

Demetrios Kyritses (1997): *The Byzantine aristocracy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries*

Claire Valente (1997): *Generations* *of revolt: Reform, rebellion, and political society in later medieval England, 1258-1415*

Alan Cooper (1998): *Obligation and jurisdiction: Roads and bridges in medieval England (c. 700-1300)*

Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch (1998): *Family, property, and power: Women in medieval Montpellier, 985-1213*

Jennifer Paxton (1999): *Charter and chronicle in twelfth-century England: The house-histories of the Fenland abbeys*

Carol Symes (1999): *The makings of a medieval stage: Theatre and the culture of performance in thirteenth-century Arras*

Anthony D'Elia (2000): *In praise of matrimony: Italian renaissance humanists on marriage and sexual pleasure*

Dimiter Angelov (2002): *Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium, 1204-ca. 1330*

Samantha Herrick (2002): *Imagining the sacred past in hagiography of early Normandy: The* Vita Taurini*,* Vita Vigoris *and*Passio Nicasii

Jonathan Conant (2004): *Staying Roman: Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in late antique North Africa, 400-700*

Zayde Antrim (2005): *Place and belonging in medieval Syria, 6th/12th to 8th/14th centuries*

Daniel Stein Kokin (2006): *The Hebrew question in the Italian Renaissance: Linguistic, cultural, and mystical perspectives*

Janna Bianchini (née Wasilewski) (2007): Regina*: The life of Berenguela of Castile, 1180--1246*

Jennifer Davis (2007): *Patterns of power: Charlemagne and the invention of medieval rulership*

Justine Firnhaber-Baker (2007): Guerram publice et palem faciendo*: Local war and royal authority in late medieval southern France*

Kyle Harper (2007): *Slavery in the late ancient Mediterranean*

John Romano (2007): *Ritual and society in early medieval Rome*

Koray Durak (2008): *Commerce and networks of exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East from the early ninth century to the arrival of the Crusaders*

John Gagné (2008): *French Milan: Citizens, occupiers, and the Italian Wars, 1499-1529*

Rachel Goshgarian (2008): *Beyond the social and the spiritual: Redefining the urban confraternities of late medieval Anatolia*

Patrick Baker (2009): *Illustrious men: Italian renaissance humanists on humanism*

Erik Heinrichs (2009): *The plague cure: Physicians, clerics and the reform of healing in Germany, 1473--1650*

Ada Palmer (2009): *Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance*

Jeffrey Webb (2009): *Cathedrals of words: Bishops and the deeds of their predecessors in Lotharingia, 950-1100*

Emily Wood (2009): *The execution of papal justice in northern France, 1145-1198*

Maryann Shenoda (2010): *Lamenting* *Islam, imagining persecution: Copto-Arabic opposition to islamization and arabization in Fatimid Egypt (969-1171 CE)*

Kelly Gibson (2011): *Rewriting history: Carolingian reform and controversy in biographies of saints*

***History of Art and Architecture***

John Hutton (1992): *Rural* *buildings in Netherlandish painting, ca. 1420-1570*

Nuha Khoury (1992): *The* mihrab *concept: Palatial themes in early Islamic religious architecture*

Megan Holmes (1993): Frate Filippo Di Tommaso Dipintore*: Fra Filippo Lippi and Florentine Renaissance religious practices*

Alexander Nagel (1993): *Michelangelo, Raphael and the altarpiece tradition*

Geraldine Johnson (1994): *In the eye of the beholder: Donatello's sculpture in the life of Renaissance Italy*

Nicolette Trahoulia (1997): *The Venice Alexander romance, Hellenic Institute codex Gr. 5: A study of Alexander the Great as an imperial paradigm in Byzantine art and literature*

Anne McClanan (1998): *Empress, image, state: Imperial women in the early medieval world*

Lars Jones (1999): *Visio divina, exegesis, and beholder-image relationships in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Indications from donor figure representations*

Barnaby Nygren (1999): *The monumental saint's tomb in Italy, 1260-1520*

Bissera Pentcheva (2001): *Images and icons of the Virgin and their public in middle Byzantine Constantinople*

Cynthia Hall (2002): *Treasury book of the passion: Word and image in the* Schatzbehalter

Francisco Prado-Vilar (2002): *In the shadow of the Gothic idol: The* Cantigas de Santa Maria *and the imagery of love and conversion*

Persis Berlekamp (2003): *Wonders and their images in late medieval Islamic culture: "The Wonders of Creation" in Fars and Iraq, 1280-1388*

David Drogin (2003): *Representations of Bentivoglio authority: Fifteenth-century painting and sculpture in the Bentivoglio Chapel, San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna*

Amanda Luyster (2003): *Courtly images far from court: The family Saint-Floret, representation, and romance*

Amy Powell (2004): *Repeated forms: Rogier van der Weyden's* Descent from the Cross *and its "copies"*

Elizabeth Ross (2004): *Picturing knowledge and experience in the early printed book: Reuwich's illustrations for Breydenbach's*Pereginatio in terram sanctam *(1486)*

Alicia Walker (2004): *Exotic elements in middle Byzantine secular art and aesthetics, 843-1204 C.E.*

Diliana Angelova (2005): *Gender and imperial authority in Rome and early Byzantium, first to sixth centuries*

Jenny Ataoguz (2007): *The apostolic commissioning of the monks of Saint John in Müestair, Switzerland: Painting and preaching in a Churraetian Monastery*

Danielle Joyner (2007): *A timely history: Images and texts in the* Hortus Deliciarum

Aden Kumler (2007): *Visual translation, visible theology: Illuminated compendia of spiritual instruction in late medieval France and England*

Jennifer Pruitt (2009): *Fatimid* *architectural patronage and changing sectarian identities (969-1021)*

Shirin Fozi (2010): *The body recast and revived: Figural tomb sculpture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1080--1160*

Ivan Drpić (2011): *Kosmos of verse: Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium*

Seth Hindin (2011): *History and ethnic commitment in the visual culture of medieval Bohemia, ca. 1200-ca. 1420*

Suzan Yalman (2011): *Building the Sultanate of Rum: Memory, urbanism and mysticism in the architectural patronage of 'Ala al-Din Kayqubad (r. 1220-1237)*

***History of Science***

Alnoor Dhanani (1991): *Kalām* *and Hellenistic cosmology: Minimal parts in Basrian Muʻtazilī atomism*

Elaheh Kheirandish (1991): *The medieval Arabic tradition of Euclid's* Optika

Kristin Peterson (1993): *Translatio libri Avicennae De viribus cordis et medicinis cordialibus Arnaldi de Villanova*

Nicolas Rofougaran (2000): *Avicenna* *and Aquinas on individualism*

Craig Martin (2002): *Interpretation and utility: The renaissance commentary tradition on Aristotle's* Meteorologica *IV*

Elly Truitt (2007): *From magic to mechanism: Medieval automata, 1100--1550*

***Linguistics***

John Harkness (1991): *An approach to the metrical behavior of Old English verbs*

Lisi Oliver (1995): *The language of the early English laws*

***Committee on Middle Eastern Studies***

Leor Halevi (2002): *Muhammad's grave: Death, ritual and society in the early Islamic world*

Deborah Tor (2002): *From holy warriors to chivalric order: The Ayyars in the eastern Islamic world, A.D. 800-1055*

Kristen Stilt (2004): *The muḥtasib, law, and society in early Mamluk Cairo and Fustat (648-802/1250-1400)*

Dimitris Kastritsis (2005): *The Ottoman interregnum (1402-1413): Politics and narratives of dynastic succession*

Emire Muslu (2007): *Ottoman-Mamluk relations: Diplomacy and perceptions*

Nicolas Trépanier (2008): *Food as a window into daily life in fourteenth century Central Anatolia*

Ahmed El Shamsy (2009): *From tradition to law: The origins and early development of the Shāfi‘ī School of Law in ninth-century Egypt*

Timothy Fitzgerald (2009): *Ottoman methods of conquest: Legal imperialism and the city of Aleppo, 1480-1570*

Iklil Selcuk (2009): *State* *and society in the marketplace: A study of late fifteenth-century Bursa*

***Music***

Amanda Wesner (1992): *The chansons of Loyset Compère: Authenticity and stylistic development*

Anne Stone (1994): *Writing* *rhythm in late medieval Italy: Notation and musical style in the manuscript Modena, Biblioteca estense, Alpha.M.5.24*

Thomas Kozachek (1995): *The repertory of chant for dedicating churches in the Middle Ages: Music, liturgy, and ritual*

Noël Bisson (1998): *English* *polyphony for the Virgin Mary: The votive antiphon, 1430-1500*

Michael Cuthbert (2006): *Trecento fragments and polyphony beyond the codex*

Christina Linklater (2006): *Popularity, presentation and the* Chansonnier Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Evan MacCarthy (2010): *Music and learning in early Renaissance Ferrara, c. 1430-1470*

Anna Zayaruznaya (2010): *Form and idea in the Ars Nova motet*

***Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations***

Barbara Croken (1990): *Zabîd under the Rasulids of Yemen, 626-858 AH/ 1229-1454 AD*

Ghada Qaddumi (1990): *A medieval Islamic book of gifts and treasures: Translation, annotation, and commentary on the* Kitāb al-Hadāyā wa al-tuḥaf

Pauline Eskenasy (1991): *Antony* *of Tagrit's* Rhetoric *book one: Introduction, partial translation, and commentary*

Jeffrey Woolf (1991): *The life and responsa of Rabbi Joseph Colon b. Solomon Trabotto (Maharik)*

Lisa Wurtele (née Karp) (1992): *Sahl* *b. Hârǔn: The man and his contribution to* 'adab

Daphna Ephrat (1993): *The Sunni ʻulamaʾ* *of eleventh-century Baghdad and the transmission of knowledge: A social history*

Eric Lawee (1993): *"Inheritance of the fathers": Aspects of Isaac Abarbanel's stance towards tradition*

Adena Tanenbaum (1993): *Poetry and philosophy: The idea of the soul in Andalusian* Piyyut

Michael Cooperson (1994): *The heirs of the prophets in classical Arabic biography*

Mark Sendor (1994): *The emergence of the Provençal kabbalah: Rabbi Isaac the Blind's Commentary on Sefer Yeẓirah*

Tahera Qutbuddin (1999): *Al-Mua̓yyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: Founder of a new tradition of Fatimid Dawa poetry*

Nargis Virani (1999): *"I am the nightingale of the merciful": Macaronic or upside-down? The* mulammaʻāt *of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī*

Angela Jaffray (2000): *At the threshold of philosophy: A study of al-Fārābī's introductory works on logic*

Stephen Ryan (2001): *Studies in Bar Salibi's commentary on the Psalms*

Rahim Acar (2002): *Creation: A comparative study between Avicenna's and Aquinas' positions*

James Robinson (2002): *Samuel Ibn Tibbon's* Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Bruce Fudge (2003): *The major Qurʼān commentary of al-Ṭabrisī (d. 548/1154)*

Gidon Rothstein (2003): *Writing Midrash Avot: The change that three fifteenth century exegetes introduced to Avotinterpretation, its impact and origins*

Aisha Musa (2004): *A study of early and contemporary Muslim attitudes toward Hadīth as scripture with translation of al-Shāfiʹī's* Kitāb Jimāʹ al-ʹIlm

Ahmad Ahmad (2005): *Structural* *interrelations of theory and practice in Islamic law: A study of* Takhrīj al-Furūʻ ʻalá al-Uṣūl*literature*

Sinān Antūn (2006): *The poetics of the obscene: Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf*

Hikmet Yaman (2008): *The concept of* hikmah *in early Islamic thought*

Yaron Klein (2009): *Musical* *instruments as objects of meaning in classical Arabic poetry and philosophy*

Erez Naaman (2009): *Literature* *and literary people at the court of Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn 'Abbās*

Elisha Russ-Fishbane (2009): *Between politics and piety: Abraham Maimonides and his times*

Gabriella Berzin (2010): *The Medieval Hebrew version of psychology in Avicenna's* Salvation *(*Al-Najāt*)*

***Committee on the Study of Religion***

Dianne Bazell (1991): *Christian diet: A case study using Arnald of Villanova's* De esu carnium

Rosemary Hale (1992): Imitatio Mariae*: Motherhood motifs in late medieval German spirituality*

Gregg Stern (1995): *Menahem* *Ha-Meiri and the second controversy over philosophy*

Claire Sahlin (1996): *Birgitta of Sweden and the voice of prophecy: A study of gender and religious authority in the later Middle Ages*

Anne Thayer (1996): *Penitence and preaching on the eve of the Reformation: A comparative overview from frequently printed model sermon collections, 1450-1520*

Luis Girón Negrón (1997): *Alfonso* *de la Torre's* Visión deleytable*: Philosophical rationalism and the religious imagination in fifteenth-century Spain*

Lisa Lawrence (2002): *The Irish and the incarnation: Images of Christ in the Old Irish poems of Blathmac*

Christian Lang (2006): *Executing* *justice in Sunnī Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljūqs (1055-1194 CE)*

Raquel Ukeles (2006): *Innovation* *or deviation: Exploring the boundaries of Islamic devotional law*

Mary Dunn (2008): *Sainte-Anne-du-Petit-Cap: The making of an early modern shrine*

Zachary Matus (2010): *Heaven in a bottle: Franciscan apocalypticism and the elixir, 1250-1360*

F. Dominic Longo (2011): *Spiritual grammar: A comparative theological study of Jean Gerson's* Donatus moralizatus *and Abd al Karim al-Qushayri's* Nahw al-qulub

***Romance Languages and Literatures***

Gary Cestaro (1990): *The whip and the wet nurse: Dante's* De vulgari eloquentia *and the psychology of grammar in the Middle Ages*

Carol Dover (1990): *Nature, nurture and the hero: Narrating identity in the old French prose Lancelot*

Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas (1990): *Predicación y narrativa en Ramón Llull: De imagen a semejanza en* Blanquerna

William Cole (1991): *Romance to tragedy: A comparative study of the Tristan poems of Béroul and Gottfried*

Gregory Hutcheson (1993): *Marginality and empowerment in Baena's* Cancionero

Maria Roglieri (1994): *"Uror, et in uaco pectore regnat amor": The influence of Ovid's amatory works on Dante's* Vita nuova *and*Commedia

Mark DeStephano (1995): *Feudal* *relations in the* Poema de mío Cid*: Comparative perspectives in medieval Spanish and French epic*

Leyla Rouhi (1995): *A comparative typology of the medieval go-between in light of Western-European, Near-Eastern, and Spanish cases*

Kathryn Karczewska (1996): *In days of future past: Prophecy and knowledge in the French vulgate grail legends*

Benjamin Liu (1996): *Equivocal* *poetics and cultural ambiguity in the* Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer

Maria Romagnoli (1996): *Andreas Capellanus: Issues of identity, reception and audience*

Lynn Ramey (1997): *Christians and Saracens: Imagination and cultural interaction in the French Middle Ages*

Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (1998): *Dante's art of reason: A study of medieval logic and semantics in the* Monarchy

Marilina Falzarano (1999): *Il volgarizzamento dei seitte salmi penitenziali di Simone Da Cascina*

Horacio Chiong Rivero (2002): *Maker of masks: Fray Antonio de Guevara's pseudo-historical fictionalizations*

Elisabeth Hodges (2002): *City views: Writing and the topography of Frenchness and the Renaissance*

Simone Pinet (2002): *Archipelagoes: Insularity and fiction in medieval and early modern Spain*

Irit Kleiman (2003): *Traitor, author, text: Four late medieval narratives of betrayal*

Timothy Tomasik (2003): *Textual tastes: The invention of culinary literature in early modern France*

Paolo de Ventura (2003): *Dramma e dialogo nella* Commedia *di Dante*

Phillip Usher (2004): *The Holy Lands in early modern literature: Negotiations of Christian geography and textual space*

Ji-Hyun Kim (2005): *For a modern medieval literature: Gaston Paris, courtly love, and the demands of modernity*

James McMenamin (2008): *The sequence "beginning-middle-end," Dante and Petrarch*

Catherine Adoyo (2011): *The order of all things: Mimetic craft in Dante's* Commedia

***Slavic Languages and Literatures***

Giorgio DiMauro (2002): *The furnace, the crown, and the serpent: Images of Babylon in Muscovite Rus'*