Check out all the cool stuff our faculty and students are doing!
Publications
Sara M. Butler, “Context Matters: Understanding Why Medieval Legislators chose to Regulate Women’s Pregnant Bodies.” Law and History Review. First View (20 Dec. 2024): Article
John B. Friedman, “Word into Image: Apocryphal Infancy Gospel Motifs on Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familía Nativity Façade,” Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 12.2 (Fall, 2023):215-255;
- “Reading Monstrous Peoples in Greece and Rome,” in Debbie Felton ed., The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024: 277-292;
- “Secretz d l’Histoire Naturelle[Merveilles du Monde], les,” In Routledge RRO Routledge Medieval Studies, June , 2023; and
- “Revisiting the Animal Wonders of London, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. XV” in Gale Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg-Hyer, eds. ,[ Daily Living 5] Animalia: Animal and Human Interaction in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024):184-205, and 322-326.
Presentations
Karin Flora, "Roman Goddess and Mary: Material Mediation at the Threshold of Contrasting Worlds,” at the 36th Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art as part of the conference they hold every four years. The theme for 2024 was “Matter, Materiality” and was held in Lyon, France.
Grants
Ohio State Professor Chris Highley and his research team have received a grant to develop "Shakespeare’s Theaterscape: Mapping London's Theater Districts, 1576-1642," an interactive GIS map that reconstructs London's theater districts during Shakespeare's era. Focusing on areas like Blackfriars, Fortune, Curtain, and Cockpit, the project aims to provide detailed street-level insights into the socioeconomic environments surrounding these theaters. By integrating data from archives and archaeological findings, the team seeks to illuminate the cultural and economic contexts of these districts. A prototype is scheduled for presentation at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in April 2025, with aspirations for future virtual reality experiences to further immerse users in Shakespearean London. For more information - Shakespearean London
