Faculty

• Jewish Life in the Middle Ages
• Jewish Studies 541 (Spring '96 semester)

• MUS 511 (Choral Literature)
• MUS 422/522 (Music of the Renaissance)
• MUS 403 (From Source to Performance I: 14th Century)
• MUSc 404 (From Source to Performance II: 15th & 16th Centuries)
• MUS 582 (Notation)

• "Scipione Dentice: Manneristic MadRIgalist", in Studi Musical. "Sambuca Lincea, enharmonic keyboard instrument," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society.
• Forthcoming books:
• The Western Choral Tradition
• Georgian Polyphonic Music.

FIELDS: Old English language and literature; Middle English language and literature; medieval spirituality (esp. female); virginity and marriage; sexuality from a theological perspective; early English and medieval drama

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Middle English, Old English, Latin, French

Courses:

• ENG 303 (Middle English Language and Literature)
• ENG 304 (Chaucer)
• ENG 308 (Arthurian Literature)
• corresponding graduate level courses (703, 704, 789)
• ENG 255 (survey of medieval & Renaissance English literature)

• “Fertility Myth and Female Sovereignty in The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell,” The Chaucer Review 39.2 (2004): 198-218.
• “Virginity and Prophecy in the Old English Daniel,” English Studies 87.2 (2006): 127-47.
• Virginitas. An Essay in the History of a Medieval Ideal
• The Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence (co-edited, with own essay on Walker Percy's Lancelot)
• various articles on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

BURNS, Thomas S.
Department of History
histsb@emory.edu

FIELDS: ancient and early medieval history; barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire and the resultant barbarian kingdoms.

Courses: Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval European History.

Selected Publications::

• The Ostrogoths: Kingship and Society (Wiesbaden, 1980)
• A History of the Ostrogoths (Bloomington, 1984)
• Barbarians within the Gates of Rome (Bloomington, 1994).
  
  
  

FIELDS: late medieval/early Renaissance Italian art and literature

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Italian, French, Latin

Courses:

• ARTHIST 243 (Early Renaissance Art & Architecture: 13th-15th centuries)
• ARTHIST 349 (Art and the City in the Age of Dante)
• ARTHIST 749 (History, Poetry Ritual and the Art of the Early Renaissance)
• ARTHIST 749 (Portraiture and Biography in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy)

• "The City's New Clothes: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Poetics of Peace," Art Bulletin 83 (2001)
• The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of San Gimignano, 1290-1320 (Princeton, 1998)
• "The Lady in the Council Chamber: Diplomacy in Poetry in Simone Martini's Maesta," Word & Image 14 (1998)
  
  

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FIELDS: 17th-century Spanish drama; 16th-century Spanish narratives; Renaissance theories of architecture and the arts; histories of marriage, sexuality & the law; representation and performance in narrative and drama

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Spanish and Italian

SPECIAL EXPERTISE: Familiarity with collections (mostly Renaissance, some medieval) in Spanish Libraries

Courses:

• SPAN 507B (Marriage, Sexuality and the Law; Problems of Authorship in Spanish Drama of the Seventeenth Century)
• courses planned for the future: "Saints & Sinners: Women & Literature in Spain Through the 17th century"
• "Spanish Mysticism and Literature"; "Spanish Drama of the 16th & 17th Centuries"

• Arquitectura y cuerpo en la figura autorial de Teresa De Jesús (1994)
• "The Queen's Too Bawdies: El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of Historicity," in The Pleasures of History. Reading Sexualities in Premodern Europe (forthcoming)
• "La función poética del 'Almario:' Alquimia y los procesos de figuración de lectura y escritura en La dama boba de Lope de Vega," Bulletin of the Comediantes 43 (1991)

FIELDS: Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Patristics, Literature, Theory

Selected Publications::

• The Life Of Macrina by Gregory of Nyssa, trans., introd. and notes, Toronto, 1987.
• Plotinus’ Theory of Matter-Evil and the Question of Substance: Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander of Aphrodisias, Recherches de Theologie ancienne et medievale, Louvain, 1996.
• Reading Plotinus: a practical introduction to Neoplatonism, Purdue University Press, forthcoming, 2002.
• Plato’s Dialectic at Play: Structure, Argument, Myth in the Symposium (under review) –with Elena Glazov-Corrigan
• Fourth-Century Views of Soul: Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa (for Ashgate, Press, UK).
  

HALL, Pamela M.
Department of Philosophy and Institute for Women's Studies
philph@emory.edu

FIELDS: Aquinas's ethics; ethics; moral psychology; feminist thought

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek, French

Courses:

• has taught graduate seminar on Aquinas and classes in ethics and moral psychology

Selected Publications::

• Narrative and the Natural Law: An Interpretation of Thomistic Ethics (1994)

HARTLE, Ann
Department of Philosophy

FIELDS: nature of philosophy; relation between philosophy and theology; political thought

SOURCE LANGUAGES: French

Courses:

• PHIL 789 (The Human Condition: Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau)
• Undergraduate Senior Seminar (Montaigne)
  

Selected Publications:

• The Modern Self in Rousseau's Confessions: A Reply to St. Augustine
• Chapter on Augustine in Death and the Disinterested Spectator
  

FIELDS: 12th-13th century theology and philosophy; medieval sexuality; philosophical and theological retrievals of the Middle Ages

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Greek--and the modern scholarly languages

Courses:

• "The Will from Augustiner to Scotus"
• "Negative Theology"
• "Christianity and Sexuality"

Selected Publications::

• Ordering Wisdom: Hierarchy of Philosophical Discourses in Aquinas (Notre Dame, 1986)
• Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (Chicago, 1997)
• Ethics of Sex (Blackwell, 2002)

Margariti, Roxani E.
MESAS
rmargar@emory.edu

FIELDS: Social and Academic History, Medieval Middle East; Mediterranean and Indian Ocean History; Urban History and Archaeology of Port Cities; Merchants and Social Networks; Shipbuilding Technology and Navigation

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Greek, French, Middle and Modern Standard Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, Classical Greek, Turkish, German.

Courses:

• NES 200 (Islamic civilization)
• various directed study courses on Quran, sacred biography in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Selected Publications::

• Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port. Chapel Hill, NC.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• “Aden,” Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Edited by J.W. Meri. New York and London, forthcoming.
• “Aden and Alexandria, Two Ports Compared: Trade and Society in the Maritime Entrepots of Medieval Islam,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Graeco-Oriental and African Studies (Chios and Oinousses, July 5-6, 2000), in press.
• “Navigational Encounters: Theory and Practice of Indian Ocean Navigation by Arabs Ottomans and Portuguese in the Beginning of the 16th Century,” Sailing Ships of the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Gulf. Vol. II. Athens, 2000.

MOREY, James
Department of English
jmorey@emory.edu

FIELDS: the medieval vernacular Bible; popular medieval religious literature; Latin Biblical commentaries; Dante

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Latin, Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, Old French

Courses:

• ENG 300/700 (Old English and Literature)
• ENG 301/701 (Beowulf)
• ENG 303/703 (Middle English Language and Literature)
• ENG 304/704 (Chaucer)
• English/Religion 387 (Special Topics)

Selected Publications::

• Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature (Illinois, 2000)
• "Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible," Speculum 68 (1993)
• "Legal and Spiritual Sanctuary in the Northern Homily Cycle and Piers Plowman B, XVII, 1-126," JEGP 93 (1994)
• "Adam and Judas in the Old English Christ and Satan," SP 87 (1990)

FIELDS: 20th and 17th century French Literatures, Medieval French Literature (Middle French Period), French Pedagogy

SOURCE LANGUAGES: French, Old French, Old Provencal, and Old Spanish

Courses:

• 20th Century French Literature
• 17th Century French Literature

Selected Publications::

• (a) A Critical Edition and (b) A Bilingual Edition (Middle French/ English) of the fourteenth-century French romance, Le Roman de Mélusine, by Couldrette.
• A Bilingual Edition of Jean d'Arras's Melusine or L'Histoire de Lusignan, Edwin Mellen Press, 2007
• A Bilingual Edition (Middle French/Moderm French) of Couldrette's Roman de Parthenay, Mellen Press, 2007.

• NES 200 (Islamic civilization)
• various directed study courses on Quran, sacred biography in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Selected Publications::

• A History of the Jews of Arabia (1988)
• The Making of the Last Prophet (1989)
• founding editor of Medieval Encounters (Brill, serial)

• HART 393/593 (Islamic Art)
• HART 739 (Medieval Art as a Bible for the Poor)
• HART 339/539 (History of Medieval Stained Glass)
• HART 400 (Medieval Symbolism)
• HART 231 (Early Medieval Art & Architecture)

Selected Publications::

• "Tam haereticos quam Judaeos; shifting symbols in the glazing of Troyes Cathedral," Word and Image 10 (1994).
• "Process and patronage in the decorative arts of the early Campaigns of Troyes Cathedral," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53 (1994).
• "Fit for a count: the twelfth-century stained glass panels from Troyes," Speculum 64 (1989), 338-72.

• HT 629 (Mystical Theology)
• CT 501 (Christian History and Thought I)
• HT 625 (Theology of Thomas Aquinas)
• HT 618/ES 618 (Ethics of Aquinas)
• RLHT 722 (Franciscan Theology and Spirituality)
• RLHT 721R (Seminar in Aquinas)
• RLHT 721S, RLE 720 (Ethics of Thomas Aquinas)

Selected Publications::

• Marriage in the Western Church (Leiden 1994)
• Food and the Body (Leiden 1999)

RUSCHE, Harry
Department of English

FIELDS: 16th Century styles in poetry; 17th Century English poetry; Shakespeare; Spenser

RUSTOW, Marina
Department of History
mrustow@emory.edu

FIELDS: The medieval Near East and Mediterranean, especially the world of the Cairo Geniza; heresy and power; the political culture of the courts at Baghdad and Cairo; document production, archives, genizot, and the afterlife of documents.

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew

Selected Publications::

• Heresy and the Politics of Community (2008)
• Forthcoming 2008 “Literacy, Orality, and Book Culture among Medieval Jews.” Jewish Quarterly Review.
• "Karaites Real and Imagined: Three Case Studies of Jewish Heresy.” Past and Present, no. 197 (Nov. 2007): 35-74.
• With Benjamin Hary: “Karaites at the Rabbinical Court: A Legal Deed from Mahdiyya Dated 1073.” Ginzei Qedem: Geniza Research Annual 2 (2006), 9–36
• Current book project: Patronage and Politics: Islamic Empire and the Medieval Jewish Community

STROCCHIA, Sharon T.
Department of History
sstrocc@emory.edu

FIELDS: Italian Renaissance; social history of fifteenth-century Florence; female religious communities in Renaissance Italy; gender and sexuality in early modern Europe; social history of medicine in premodern Europe

SOURCE LANGUAGES: Italian, late medieval Latin

SPECIAL EXPERTISE: Italian paleography, 14th-16th centuries; notarial Latin paleography, 1350-1550

Courses:

• HIST 190 (Medicine in the Age of Plague)
• HIST 306 (Italian Renaissance)
• HIST 487 (Love and Sex in Renaissance Europe)
• HIST 509 (Family, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe)

Selected Publications::

• Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence, forthcoming 2009
• "Savonarolan Witnesses: The Nuns of San Jacopo and the Piagnone Movement in Sixteenth-Century Florence," Sixteenth Century Journal (2007)
• "When the Bishop Married the Abbess: Masculinity and Power in Florentine Episcopal Entry Rites, 1300-1600," Gender and History (2007)
• Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence (1992)
• "Remembering the Family: Women, Kin and Commemorative Masses in Renaissance Florence," Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989)
• "'Learning the Virtues': Convent Schools and Female Culture in Renaissance Florence," in Women's Education in Early Modern Europe: A History (1999)
• "Naming the Nun: Spiritual Exemplars and Corporate Identity in Florentine Convents, 1450-1530," in Society and the Individual in Renaissance Florence (2002)
• "Sisters in Spirit: The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio and Their Consorority in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence," Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002)
• "Taken into Custody: Girls and Convent Guardianship in Renaissance Florence," Renaissance Studies (2003)

• Latin 320: Medieval Latin
  

Selected Publications::

• "The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses" (Princeton 1997).

• HART 729 L: (Tradition & Innovation in Late Antique Art)

• HIST 305 (Central Middle Ages [undergrad. survey])
• HIST 505 (Central Middle ages [grad. colloquium])
• HIST 585 (Central Middle Ages: Introduction to Sources)
• HIST 385x (Medieval France)
• HIST 385x (Law and Literature in Medieval France)
• HIST 385x (Medieval Law); HIST 487 (Chivalry)

Selected Publications::

• Custom, Kinship and Gifts to Saints . . . 1050 - 1150 (1988)
• "Proposing the Ordeal," in Cultures of Power, ed. Thomas N. Bisson (1995)
• "Stratégie rhétorique dans la Conventio de Hugues de Lusignan," in Mélanges Georges Duby (1992)

• PHIL 250 (survey of ancient and medieval philosophy)
• PHIL 300 (medieval philosophy)
• PHIL 480T (Roman philosophy)
• Graduate Seminars on Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus

Selected Publications::

• The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan, ed. J. M. M. H. Thijssen and Jack Zupko (2001)
• "Sacred Doctrine; Secular Practice: Theology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts at Paris, 1325-1400," in Miscellanea Mediaevalia 26: What Is Philosophy in the Middle Ages? (1998)

"What Is the Science of the Soul?: A Case Study in the Evolution of Late Medieval Natural Philosophy," Synthese 110.2 (1997)

Emeritus

BEIK, William
Department of History

FIELDS: French Social and Institutional History (16th & 17th Centuries)

Graduate Students

de Gruy, Karma
English Department
kdegruy@emory.edu

Research Specialties: Anglo-Saxon and Middle English literature; sexuality and religion

Howard, James
English Department
jwhowa2@emory.edu

Research Specialties: Medieval and Renaissance literature