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Current and Recently Completed Dissertations
The following is a list of titles of current and recently completed dissertation
topics at UCSB involving the Middle Ages:
- Consuming Passion: Poetics of the Eucharist in Late Medieval England (Zia Isola, Advisors: L.O. Aranye Fradenburg and Michael O'Connell)
- Negotiating Life, Business and War in 13th Century Palermo (Mary Lampe, Advisor: Carol Lansing)
- Caring for the Blind in Medieval Paris: Life at the Quinze-Vingts, 1250-1500 (Mark O'Tool, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- Now She is Mary, Now She is Martha: the Beguines of Paris in Medieval Society and Clerical Imagination (Tanya Stabler, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- Miracle, Medicine and Magic: Healing Emotional Distress in Fourteenth-Century Mediterranean France (Nicole Archambeau, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- The Heart of a Man and of a Lion: Northern French Noblewomen as Medieval Military Commanders (Katrin Sjursen, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- Risking Desire: Chaucerian Representations of Erotic Love and the Pagan Past (Alexandra Cook, 2006, Advisors: L. O. Aranye Fradenburg and Carol Pasternack)
- The Editions and Content of the Crónica Troyana in Late Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Erin Marisa Rebhan, 2006, Advisor: Harry L. Sharrer
- For the Sake of the University of Paris: Jean Gerson, Theological Reform and Secular-Mendicant Conflict (1384-1429) (Nancy McLoughlin, 2005, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- Medieval Notaries: Family, Profession and Popular Politics in Thirteenth-Century Bologna (Brian Carniello, 2005, Advisor: Carol Lansing)
- Carpe Ecclesiam: Households, Identity and Violent Communication Church and State Under Edward I) (Andrew Miller, 2003, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- "Modor of Mercy/Empress of Helle": The Ambivalence of the Virgin in Late Medieval England (Katherine Koppelman, 2002, Advisor: L. O. Aranye Fradenburg)
- Soldiers and Settlers: The Knights Templar in Portugal, 1128-1319 (Jose Valente, 2002, Advisor: Francis Dutra)
- Woman as Heretic: Gender and Lay Religion in Late Medieval Bologna (Susan Snyder, 2002, Advisor: Carol Lansing)
- Dis-Orientation: Master-narratives and Counter-reading of Medieval Writings about Alterity (Eileen Fung, 2001, Advisor: L. O. Aranye Fradenburg)
- The Ecclesiastica Construction of Illegitimacy in the Middle Ages (Laura Wertheimer, 2000, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- Adolescence in Medieval Culture: The High Medieval Transformation (Fiona Harris Stoertz, 1999, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- Angels on the Edge of the World: Alterity and Identity from Aelfric to Chaucer (Kathy Lavezzo, 1999, Advisor: L. O. Aranye Fradenburg)
- The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Jennifer Hellwarth, 1999, Advisor: Carol Braun Pasternack)
- Shaping the Crown of Gold: Constructions of Royal Identity in the First Kingdom of Jerusalem (Deborah Gerish, 1999, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- Constructing Authorship in the Late Middle Ages: A Study of the Books of Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan and Jean Lemaire de Belges (Deborah McGrady, 1997, Advisor: Cynthia J. Brown)
- Power and Lordship in Maine, c. 890-1110 (Richard Barton, 1997, Advisor: Sharon Farmer)
- War, Gender, and Religion in Tenth-Century England: Struggles for Identity in Anglo-Saxon Texts (Janice Grossman, 1996, Advisor: Carol Braun Pasternack)
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