Monthly Archives: January 2022

Editors: François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France Nahir Otaño Gracia, University of New Mexico Cord J. Whitaker, Wellesley College For far too long, scholarly consensus held that race and racism were mainly Enlightenment innovations, datable to no earlier than the seventeenth … Continue reading →

Tori Schmitt My dissertation examines the early Gothic architecture and sculpture of the now destroyed abbey of Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont in Paris. Dismantled between 1793 and 1807, the abbey today counts among the numerous medieval churches destroyed in the French Revolution, long … Continue reading →

Alexandra Atiya My dissertation, “Economic and Spiritual Conflict in Medieval East Anglian Drama,” investigates the relationship between economic conflicts and dramatic forms in late-medieval morality and miracle plays. Focusing on the depiction of trade, labor rebellion, and corruption in plays … Continue reading →

Colouring the Archives: Race Formations in the Late-Medieval Florence Angela Zhang My project combines premodern critical theory with archival documents to explore the processes of race formation in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. I focus on the racializing processes involved … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America invites applications for the following grants. Please note that applicants must be members in good standing as of September 15 in order to be eligible for Medieval Academy awards. Summer Research Program for early PhD … Continue reading →

The Medieval Academy of America invites proposals for sessions at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia, January 5-8, 2023. Each year the Medieval Academy co-sponsors sessions at the AHA’s annual meeting. This year, we aim … Continue reading →

In honor of his 80th birthday, Dr. Joseph T. Snow was honored by a five-day conference in October 2021 at the National Library of Spain and the Complutense University of Madrid: Congreso internacional de Estudios Medievales Hispánicos en honor de … Continue reading →